Derrick enters the Happy Hearthstone Deck Battle Arena ™ high off the rush of winning a 12-game Arena run. But can his Power Paladin deck finally bring an end to the legendary win streak of Dan’s Beastmaster Hunter deck? Let’s find out!
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Hello!
- Derrickis on the show this week
- Topic: The Power Paladin deck
- Reasons to be happy this week
- Happy Hearthstone’s one-year anniversary!
What is a Deck Challenge?
Once a month, we do a Deck Battle. Basically, guest hosts bring on their favorite deck onto the show, and break it down for you, telling you what cards they put in it, how it works, and why they like playing it.
Then, they put their decks to the test and do battle against me in a best-of-3-series, live on the show. Each time, I’m going to be using the current Reigning Champion Deck of the show — the last deck a guest host brought onto this show and won with.
Right now, Dan’s Hunter Beastmaster deck is the reigning deck. So I’ll be using it!
But, of course, Derrick brought his own deck to fight with. He also put together a full deck list, along with some great commentary for the deck that he’s going to be playing today — so you can recreate that one too.
Past Deck Battles
Hunter Beastmaster vs Warlock Swarm
Hunter Beastmaster vs Secret Mage
Hunter Beastmaster vs Muhammad Ali Shaman
The Deck
- The Power Paladin: Use the potential of strong buffs and dangerous minions to force the opponent to play reactively.
- How it wins: Puts too many dangerous minions on the board, consistently, for the opponent to rely on removal. If they let even one stick on the board, you can buff it up and end the game quickly.
Five Key Cards
- Blessing of Kings: Strong buffs that can add surprise value to high-threat minions.
- Faceless Manipulator: We’re going to be adding a lot of buffs to our minions, which gives us plenty of good targets for this guy.
- Sword of Justice: An amazing card in every Paladin deck.
- Windfury Harpy: A minion like this has innate threat that can snowball into a bomb, with or without buffs added onto it.
- Guardian of Kings: This guy sits with your monstrous curve-toppers at the top of the deck list to help secure the win at the end.
Full Deck List
You can get more insight into the deck by reading Derrick’s guide, which goes through every single card with full explanation and advice, but here’s the simple deck list with no commentary (ordered by mana cost), if you’d rather just try it out yourself.
Creatures
- 1x Acidic Swamp Ooze (2 mana)
- 1x Argent Protector (2 mana)
- 1x Dire Wolf Alpha (2 mana)
- 1x Ironbeak Owl (2 mana)
- 1x Acolyte of Pain (3 mana)
- 1x Demolisher (3 mana)
- 1x Flesheating Ghoul (3 mana)
- 1x Harvest Golem (3 mana)
- 2x Ironfur Grizzly (3 mana)
- 1x Razorfen Hunter (3 mana)
- 1x Shattered Sun Cleric (3 mana)
- 1x Silverback Patriarch (3 mana)
- 1x Chillwind Yeti (4 mana)
- 1x Spellbreaker (4 mana)
- 1x Faceless Manipulator (5 mana)
- 1x Venture Co. Mercenary (5 mana)
- 1x Windfury Harpy (6 mana)
- 1x Guardian of Kings (7 mana)
- 1x Ysera (9 mana)
- 1x Deathwing (10 mana)
Spells
- 1x Blessing of Might (1 mana)
- 1x Blessing of Wisdom (1 mana)
- 1x Sword of Justice (3 mana)
- 2x Blessing of Kings (4 mana)
- 1x Consecration (4 mana)
- 2x Hammer of Wrath (4 mana)
- 1x Avenging Wrath (6 mana)
Sideboard
In case you don’t have some of the ideal cards, here are some quality back ups and alterations you can make that keep with the same theme and strengths of the deck.
- 1x War Golem (7 mana)
- 1x Stormwind Champion (7 mana)
- 1x Ravenholdt Assassin (7 mana)
- 1x Truesilver Champion (4 mana)
The Defending Champion Deck
Dan’s Hunter Beastmaster Deck, which relies on lots of Beast minions and solid removal spells to rush the opponent down.
The Beastmaster Deck has reigned supreme for 5 months, and has beaten 3 other decks before this episode.
The Duel!
Josh’s perspective
Post-Duel Commentary
- Who won
- Obligatory bragging session
- Challenger Deck: How well did it perform?
- Defending Deck: How well did it perform?
- Best moments in the matches
- The Happy Hearthstone Champion Ceremony(tm)
Community
- Richard: “What is your favorite card to use that is not considered ‘cool’ in the current or previous meta?”
- iTunes Review: Gaxx78, BlackEntropy
Card of the Week
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