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Paladin

Mysterious Blade (5)
-I think it's pretty easy for Paladins to almost always have a secret on the board. With Gen/Baku leaving it means that playing a weapon on 2 or 3 is suddenly a better play and a Firery War Axe stat line a lot of the times for the old cost just hast to be good. Even if it's not as good in Paladin as in Warrior, Paladin is also losing Unidentified Maul which I think this card replaces in all decks that ran it.

Call to Adventure (2)
-the only real use I can see for this is immortal prelate and I'm not convinced that's going to be a real deck with Spikeridge leaving. You can do some pretty bad things by like fishing out low cost minions in other decks like Squire, that 1/3 rush minion, 1/2 divine shield lifesteal, etc. But that's a slow play.

Desperate Measures (3)
-If non played secrets activated secret keeper this would be a 5 card. I do think though that just the value of being able to play 2 secrets with 1 card (even if they are Paladin secrets) is pretty good and just from a resource standpoint and will most likely see play because nothing else is going to really fill the role.

Nozari (2)
-Tree of Life on a stick. I honestly can't really see this card doing a lot right now. There is some potential for it to be the Uther Replacement in Holy Wrath Paladin, but this just seems very awkward to play in a lot of situations.

Duel! (1)
-This is more notable because it's another form of combo disruption. Obviously, a card you need to somewhat build around. I think it's a little too matchup dependent and the variance is just too high to see play over a lot of the other combo disruption we've seen in the set.

Commander Rhyssa (5)
-A big pusher for secret Paladin. Aggressively stated, curves right into bellringer, can be used to help protect early boards. I think secret paladin will be at least tier 2 and this will be in every secret paladin deck.

Bronze Herald (1)
-At the moment I don't think dragon paladin has enough payoff to be a real deck. Yeah it has that 2/2 that can be a taunted shielded minibot and some like neutral stuff (like crowd roaster) but it lacks the stuff that the previous dragon paladin has (like Consort etc). This card itself is poorly stated but is really used to help get a curve play on 4 and maintain a dragon in hand.

Dragon Speaker (1)
-If you can get this off with like 2 dragons (like from Bronze Herald) this is pretty good. 3? It's really good. But you also need dragons that are like medium stated. Like to even get to this point you probably have to play your early game. In a good matchup you can just get big minion value and out pace your opponent over time, but arena strategies like this have not been a thing in constucted for years.

Never Surrender (3)
-I think there are just a lot of cases where this just screws over your opponent. Like lets say you are facing a mage and they try to frost bolt a Rhyssa. You just laugh at them. Consecrate a board? You also laugh at them. Yeah there are ways to play around it and is not always that good, but that's true for like all Paladin secrets. The potential value for the 1 mana is really high. I actually don't think this will see play in every secret paladin and will be largely like a spot card for certain matchups in like specialist.

Lightforged Blessing (1)
-I think the applications where this helps you over say removal or just playing something else where this gets you to a point where the healing you get from the life steal is worth it are few and far between. I don't think prelate is good enough for this to be run.

Paladin Takeaways
-Look for secret paladin to be a force. Even with divine favor leaving, Subject 9 and other ways to simply cheat secrets remain.

-Dragon paladin probably still needs a few more tools to be a viable deck.
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Updated: July 27th, 2016.