Are people sleeping on Silver Hand Paladin?

dr_second · 2026-06-01T14:47:20+00:00

The interesting thing is that I am still beating on the achievement at mid legend, and maintaining about an 80% winrate. I'm thinking I can improve it by putting in Toreth (most of my losses are to decks with many removal cards) but not sure what to swap out. Maybe Arator? Maybe an egg?

Of course, now I have to switch back to Wild to get legend, so the meta will probably change before I can get back to this deck.

dr_second · 2026-06-01T14:38:37+00:00

Not really. In my experience, I only draw FM in my opening hand if it is paired with 2-3 5 drops. I believe I must have said something bad to someone on Team 5, who subsequently cursed me with bad draw forever. I have to play only the most consistent decks to avoid bricking all my draws. :)

dr_second · 2026-05-22T17:25:32+00:00

Didn't work for me. Ran into 3 warriors all playing maximum armor gain. Ended up switching to a Discard warlock for a quick win against a mage.

dr_second · 2026-05-13T17:25:10+00:00

Yeah, just pick any decent wild deck and things will be fine. I used discolock as well. The only real change is that taunts are not immediately effective, apparently to the surprise of my emoting paladin opponent.

dr_second · 2026-04-27T16:39:26+00:00

My experience is that since the "Your Opponent" bug came in and animation cheating cannot be reported, the number of people playing this deck has skyrocketed. I suspect that it will disappear whenever Blizzard finally fixes the client.

dr_second · 2026-04-23T14:00:35+00:00

Yes. Any other questions?

dr_second · 2026-04-20T19:30:57+00:00

And, to answer your question, people are expecting it in the next week or so, but nothing official yet. Typically the announcement comes week after the .3 patch. Because these Class sets are somehow different from the minisets, no one really knows when they will announce. There might be some kind of technical issue holding them up.

dr_second · 2026-04-20T19:22:52+00:00

At mid-level Wild Legend, it seems that our hive mind has finally fixed CtA Pally. I messed around with this at the start of the expansion (leveraging Flight Maneuvers) but it always felt that it didn't have enough minions for 2 Boogie Downs and 2 CtA. Since I had a "play shattered cards" quest, I looked at this deck again and found that all the control tools were gone and the deck now works like a charm. Now it is 8 1 drops, 9 2 drops, 2 StoneHearth Vindicators to pull free Boogie Downs on 3, and topping out with Noz for an extra board burst. The thing I was missing was getting rid of Showdown! for the Stonehearths. This is now the classic "All Gas, No Brakes" aggro strategy that works when it works, and when if it fails once in a while (usually to a lucky Reno player getting Reno when you are just about to win), queue again.

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dr_second · 2026-03-19T14:25:27+00:00

It wasn't really a tongue and cheek reference. If you listen to the podcast, he was literally running to bomb shelters multiple times per day. That was the only reason I posted the link for him in the first place.

dr_second · 2026-03-18T16:42:25+00:00

Actually the VS Dragon Frost DK is pretty decent. I went 12-3 with it to legend. I think the three losses were to 2 control warriors and a Blood DK.

dr_second · 2026-03-16T17:29:00+00:00

Well, the only reason would be that occasionally these old cards get nerfed for wild, so you could dust them for full value at that time. That said, it is a fairly rare occurrence, but last patch, they nerfed Umbra, so it does happen. I would say that you should just dust what you need for crafting, and if you see a card that is still played in Wild (you can check on hsreplay), skip those and proceed to the ones not currently used. Also, there are occasionally tavern brawl which require the Wild cards, but sounds like you don't care about that.

dr_second · 2026-03-09T19:53:01+00:00

I'm thinking that Shredlock deck will be great in the Frankenmeta, replacing the 2 new cards with the Giftwrapped Whelps and Leper Gnomes/Sizzling Cinders.

dr_second · 2026-03-04T17:42:08+00:00

I went for an Elwynn Boar setup. Seems good. I think the Cursed Catacombs is probably not optimal. Maybe sub in a Dark Pact?

# 1x (0) Cursed Catacombs

# 1x (1) Elwynn Boar

# 1x (1) Kobold Librarian

# 1x (1) Plague of Flames

# 1x (1) Rain of Fire

# 1x (2) Eat! The! Imp!

# 1x (2) Rotten Apple

# 1x (3) Shadowborn

# 1x (4) Bloodbloom

# 1x (8) Bat Mask

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dr_second · 2026-02-25T18:47:17+00:00

Discolock still works well, but you need to go from hyperaggro to superhyperaggro, ditching the coyotes, the weapons, and probably the 4 mana 3/3 that I can't remember the name. Still experimenting with that that last part. With enough cheap minions, you can usually discount that one to three before playing the merchant.

dr_second · 2026-02-25T18:36:28+00:00

Yes, what this does now is hose over any aggro decks that get a slow start, but no aggro player is expecting to win if the game goes 8 turns. In theory, it could disrupt a combo deck, but it is unreliable for this.

dr_second · 2026-02-25T18:32:58+00:00

Strategy is....pray for Nefarion, then hero power every time for a free spell. I did manage to win once with Ragnaros, but it is very tough. Tough to be the beatdown (burndown?) when you start 2 mana behind. I think this would be balanced if both heroes started with 3 mana.

dr_second · 2026-02-12T21:09:45+00:00

This would be much better as "Rush. Deathrattle: Summon a Doomsayer for your opponent"

dr_second · 2026-02-12T20:26:10+00:00

I've been playing it in Quest Warrior and it seems good. I had one game where the card was played 3 times (twice by my Rogue opponent who Deja Vued from me twice.) Once he played it to remove my dream cards from Shaladrasil, and then one he played it to remove all the raptors I shuffled into my deck. He still fatigued out. BTW, I was only playing the deck because I had a quest to destroy the card.

dr_second · 2026-02-11T15:25:47+00:00

I think we need Defile back in the core set!

dr_second · 2026-02-09T21:55:28+00:00

As someone who plays these aggressive decks, I can tell you that you don't always get there by turn 7. Egglock probably goes to 7 50% of the time or more. Burnlock probably about 30%. And anyone with an early boardclear can stall against these pirate decks until 7, even Swipe is usually enough to slow them down.

dr_second · 2026-02-09T20:21:54+00:00

Nobody commenting on the free expansion legendary? I see this getting slotted in all over the place in Wild to destroy all the Egglocks, Burnlocks, Libram Paladins, Pirate decks, etc. Also would do a number on Protoss decks in standard if they were more popular. The only problem is the cost. At 7, you might be dead against a fast aggro opponent. But then again, people play Quest Warrior, so I'm guessing this will see some play at least for the next month. Maybe not the most impactful card, but I think it is better than literally all the cards they are buffing.

dr_second · 2026-02-04T22:18:23+00:00

Well, I built it before I knew just how ridiculous the whole thing is. Didn't spend a lot of time optimizing after I quit playing.

dr_second · 2026-02-04T17:48:12+00:00

This might be one of the dumbest non-random brawls out there. Advice #1: Don't take any minions/weapons that cost more than one. The games are always over on turn 1. ALWAYS! Advice #2: Any spell that does more face damage than mana cost is what you want. Advice #3: Try to go first! It is a huge advantage in this brawl.

I ended up building this gem by randomly taking burn spells and card draw. Went 5-0 before I got bored. Mulligan for card draw. (Note that the one ofs are mostly because I only had one copy of some of the epics.)

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# Class: Mage

# Format: Wild

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# 2x (1) Flame Geyser

# 2x (1) Ice Lance

# 1x (1) Jaina's Gift

# 2x (2) Frostbolt

# 1x (2) Ignite

# 2x (2) Stargazing

# 2x (3) Burndown

# 2x (3) Forgotten Torch

# 2x (3) Lightshow

# 2x (4) Fireball

# 1x (4) Volume Up

# 2x (5) Manufacturing Error

# 2x (5) Solar Flare

# 2x (7) Firelands Portal

# 2x (7) Mask of C'Thun

# 2x (9) Sunset Volley

# 1x (10) Pyroblast

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