OurHearthstone Secret Paladin Deck Guidetakes a look at some of the best options for this deck in the Rise of Shadows expansion. Our guide features information on mulligans, play strategy, card choices, and substitutions for if you are missing some of the main deck cards!
WhileSecret Paladinhad reigned over Hearthstone for a period, it took a backseat once some of the strong secrets were rotated out of Standard. While many people thought the deck would terrorize Wild, this was actually not the case and the deck largely has no real impact in the format. There’s been a couple of versions that have floated around in Standard since, but it looks like Blizzard could be intent on bringing it back in Rise of Shadows.
Secret Paladin Deck List for Rise of Shadows
Secret Paladin isn’t doing too bad at the moment, but there’s a lot of refining of the meta left to go. Below you’ll find the most popular list for the archetype. We’ll be updating the rest of the guide very soon!
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Secret Paladin Play Strategy
We’re really hoping to get off to a good start, because our secrets will hopefully keep our minions alive on board. If we can get a Secretkeeper going, or we get a buffed Sunreaver Spy in the early game then we’re on the way to a potential victory. While we’re an aggressive deck, we’re mostly looking to use our weapons to keep the board free of minions. We want our minions to survive, because they are either being buffed by secrets, their effects, or triggering things by playing secrets.
We’re aggressively trying to hold the board in the early game, so take trades where our minions can survive for the most part. Use thatMysterious Bladeto take down minions, andSunreaver Spyhas a great stat line for trading against early minions if we got it buffed. We want our opponent to be looking to attempt to trade into us so they are triggering our secrets and buffing our minions.
Once we start racking up some secrets, and widening out our board a bit is when we can be a bit more aggressive. Again, we don’t want to be trading our minions because our secrets only really work well if our opponent is killing our minions. UseBlessing of Kingsas quickly as possible to get a beneficial trade or protect a minion from dying.Truesilver Championis another card that lets us protect our board, so be sure to utilize it on anything that stands in your way.
As we get deeper into the game, we’re going to start needing to really ramp up the damage. This is whereCaptain Greenskinbuffing up our weapon can be beneficial to us, we can use it for some more damage to the face.Subject 9gives us buffs for a late gameSecretkeeper, and forces our opponent to have to trigger a bunch of secrets. Finally, we have the ultimate finisher inLeeroy Jenkinswho should be able to put the game away if we were able to chip enough health away from our opponent in the early and mid-game!
Secret Paladin Card Choices
While a lot of great aggressive Paladin cards have rotated out of Standard, we still can find enough stuff elsewhere to put together a pretty strong aggressive deck.
