NEW PALADIN LEGENDARY!! Dude Paladin is back!? | Castle Nathria Review #3

[@DarkUmbrus]

Sadly, they called Stewart "Stewart le steward" in French. Big missed opportunity as the official wow french translation of steward is "regisseur" so we could have a card named "Regis le Regisseur" :(

[@tristanlynn9009]

This is the best comment.

[@0Gumpy0]

Well now in my mind he will be called Regis the Regisseur

[@alan_ogic]

Well, we also use steward in France, but yea, missed opportunity right here

[@savitaterhaar9380]

He would be named "Stewart le regisseur" thoo....

[@DarkUmbrus]

@@savitaterhaar9380 And that would be even more sad. Missing puns like that :(

[@lautaromigue6403]

Pally is the best class for infusion since they can always summon a silver hand recruit, so this being a thing is more probable

[@lamlam-bw7ev]

shaman can summon totems too

[@Knuttonj]

​@@lamlam-bw7ev But 3/4 of the totems all but rely on the enemy killing them to trigger an infusion whereas as long as they have something, you can always trade SHRs If shaman infusion is powerful, nobody kills the totems unless they have to. You can't do that for Pally, especially with dude pally buffs

[@lamlam-bw7ev]

@@Knuttonj the opponent will be forced to kill the totems if shaman has any totem synergies which I hope they have

[@hidadsek9671]

I think the Shaman will likely use the Piranha engine to trigger Infusion rather than the totem. They are cheap, have high attacks and Rush. Hero power does not matter much in the grand scheme of things IMO

[@josemariavacaredondo8975]

Demon Hunter also, DH has a lot of ways to make tokens. Especially the 2/1 that summon bats when attacking with the hero.

[@dikardvondoom3574]

As a lover of Odd Paladin and someone who tried to make Questline Paladin work for a long time, these cards are exciting.

[@GDonor]

Same. I'm curious to see if this deck does work if it is with or without the quest.

[@GDonor]

@@BushSage Trust me, I know. Been trying to make it work ever since.

[@LucasDantasCosta]

I like the gruesome idea of this chef-related theme and the Dude mechanics implying the recruits being eaten around the mansion, like smol anima snacks

[@pepe8106]

Hey i never think about that.....

[@RaulDiaz-mp8ms]

I also like the thought that the stewart being a suspect because he messed with the food, either via poison or it was too holy for the vampire.

[@jjrothan]

Don’t forget sinful sous chef if it’s perfectly into the quest line, giving you two different 1 cost cards to get the quest rolling, plus extra dudes for after the quest reward. I hope this package can finally give that quest line some heat.

[@jakecarlson3709]

3 quest procs if you split up the dudes. It could be enough of a bump to get the pally line back into the meta

[@jeezuhskriste5759]

Having played Dude Paladin a lot because the quest was my first legendary, that is the most important part of the card. My played winrate for First Day at School was probably like 10-15% higher than the deck winrate because it gave 3 activations of the quest. This card is very good for the deck.

[@mrchof4875]

I'm just most excited to see different stuff from paladin, even if it's not me that's playing it

[@greggp4840]

Worth noting that Sinful Sous Chef is going to be a core card for questline - three pings on the quest by itself (over two parts sure), plus if you get it later it's still valuable with the synergies.

[@lordcheesus1013]

Yesssss! Finally, more dude support for pally! Not only have we finally getting more pure pally support in recent sets but dude pally too? Bout time it was a great time to be alive as a pally player. Paladin's been overdue for some much needed love and support, glad it's finally getting it.

[@micahturner8297]

Agreed, now I’m curious if the location for Paladin will have dude support.

[@ppalm]

There was dude support 2 sets ago… it sucked but it was there

[@catqueensina]

Wild dude pally is going to be so much fun.

[@IvanGarcia-ke3lo]

After the rotation, the quest is just unplayable. Before you were able to summon 2 5/3 with DS every turn

[@christianmarx3249]

are you kidding? paladin is always there favorite class

[@Chr0nic1er]

Not going to lie, I want to see Stewart the Steward in the Making Mummies quest (wild). I love the quest (its fun) and the idea of just increasing your silver hand recruit until it becomes an "ancient one" is hilarious.

[@renxiangyak]

But won't it be harder to do so since you need to add summon sliver recruits cards plus it will only be the first sliver recruit that's get buffed

[@superdude227]

Note that Sinful Sous Chef would be a 1 cost card that generates two 1 cost cards that you could use to progress 2 parts of the pally questline (since you can't use the same 1 drop for each part)

[@crasykengoru6450]

With the dude pally quest, this could be fun. Also Stewart is adorable and i hope he will see play. If you get the effect early and keep it throughout the game, it will be very good value

[@StoryBearKuma]

God I really want to see quest paladin in duels with these new dude support cards. That hero power where you summon one and add one to hand would help flood the power with high power minions.

[@FattyZee]

I know its a really small thing but theres such a big disconnect between the last 2 cards in terms of what they look like art wise and name wise vs the actual board effect, seems really strange to me as HS has always been pretty good with landing the flavour of cards

[@lutingchen8958]

Another comment here mentioned that they might have been going for the "spooky" theme that the recruits are being eaten around the mansion

[@Mumpley1]

It's not immediately obvious but creatures in the Shadowlands sustain themselves with anima from living souls, so it looks like the implication is the silver hand dudes are supposedly being served as food

[@chipchippahson]

So glad to see they are printing dude cards. It's my favorite archetype in Paladin and I want to see it be a tier 1 Deck.

[@hellfrozenphoenix13]

This is crazy fun! In a perfect curve, you have Sou Chef that then gives 2 dudes to infuse Biggun, and turn 3 you already get Stewart, so if they kill Stewart, you make a 2/4 that makes one 3/1 with Divine shield then an INSANE 6/4 with Divine shield on turn 4. Punishes your foe for daring try and clear, just some crazy scary potential.

[@anhvuha7958]

If they dont clear you just crash into their board anyways. Pretty busted 🤗

[@gasmith1959]

Return of silver hand paladin and evolve shaman in the same expansion? This is darkmoon faire 2.0 and I’m here for it.

[@Rex-ru5ns]

I really hope dude paladin finally works, one of my favorite decks

[@jeikure9078]

Sinful Sous Chef also gives you up to 3 procs of the paladin quest, since silver hand recruits are 1 drops.

[@SuddenReal]

Just remember when to play them. If you play the dudes at the same questline, you only get one proc instead of two.

[@jeikure9078]

@@SuddenReal That is why I said up to 3 procs.

[@VerbalLearning]

I wonder how Steward works with extra deathrattle triggers, i imagine it stacks the buff rather than the effect applying to your next two summons but does the Silver Hand Recruit then have two copies of the deathrattle on it when summoned? If so you could probably do some funky deathrattle shenanigans in paladin, probably only in wild but still.

[@pillinjer]

Based on previous times multiple minions drop at once (eg mech Decks) each minion is summoned separately. So the first Silver Hand Recruit gets all the buffs and the second is summoned normally.

[@satibel]

If you can duplicate it, you're summoning a 2 mana 7/7 or 10/10 every turn.

[@jonasherman9195]

Sinful sous chef is also amazing in the quest because it cares about Silver hand recruits and counts for 3 quest proqs (if 1 of the Silver hands is played in part 2 or 3)

[@PZMKSD]

Ayyye I thought it would be up tomorrow naaah you on the grind

[@Osric24]

Agreeing with folks glad to see dude paladin is getting support. Loved Questline paladin before standard rotation, eager to play it again!

[@schumerus6786]

I see the Stewart the Steward and I think Odd Paladin in Wild. The card gives your regular 4 Recruits on board snowball trade effects each turn or just a good buff each time

[@GDonor]

I want this to make the Pally quest viable. Dude/Odd Paladin is my fav archetype for Paladin and I was genuinely upset how disappointing it was on UiS release

[@UnableToucan]

I love my rowdy boys. Props my favorite deck type to play in wild other than desthrattle hunter. So excited that they are back!

[@mosbby4135]

Sinful sous chef reminds me of firefly, both are 1-drops that add 1-drops in hand. Seems like a generally good card in most tempo paladin decks.

[@arthursb42]

baron to duplicate stewarts effect sounds fun, if not very good :) maybe even a faceless or two to stack up more

[@satibel]

I think 7/7 or 10/10 is good enough. Though in wild it might work with umbra. Making summonings 5 silverhand recruits into 4/4 7/7 13/13 25/25 49/49

[@trokolisz3702]

Steward the steward could be pretty fun with double deathrattle trigger, and you can always tempo summon it, you just need a silver hand with the buff when you start multiplying the deathrattles (Fun, not good)

[@AK96ist]

Sinful Sous Chef helps quiet a lot with the questline

[@anthonyohler2029]

So are infuse cards going to work like corrupted cards? In the sense you could possible repeat an infused card without having to infuse it again.

[@maximchahal578]

I still don't really get how infuse works, do your own minions have to die or does it count your opponents minions as well?

[@ghoulofmetal]

I wonder what happens if you summon several silver hand recruits after playing steward

[@montanapoint0457]

need to get the next custom card review in so we can see some custom card ideas for the new expansion!

[@mattd824]

Im really happy were getting more quest/dude paladin support, really sad to see quest warrior get buffs early in stormwind and other questlines get passed up.

[@siegfried1422]

Paladin will also probably have the easiest time activating infuse since their Hero power summons a dude that will die to infuse their cards

[@arthurroth3147]

Could Stewart be good in duels with the deathrattle treasures and stuff like ancient reflection.

[@thunderstruck560]

Stewart is so much tempo. Buffet biggun too. sinful sous chef is 2 cards for the pally quest. Somebody on the team really wants that questline to see more play.

[@jakecarlson3709]

3 if you split the dudes

[@ryanyeo7090]

sous chef is a smaller, arguably more powerful drygulch jailor which saw alot of play so it looks like an auto-include

[@moisesolaez2754]

Would these cards synergize with vilefin inquisitor or am I wishful thinking 🤔

[@necro6471]

Imagine this with the questline done and spiritsinger umbra and maybe baron rivendare. Boom day at the fair

[@hurtsaa196]

Sinful sous chef is damn great for Quest Paladin

[@kevinyu7624]

Most decks have starfish now, I’m wondering whether Stewart will have its value?

[@dariusjankauskas2640]

The sinfull sous chef is a modern take of the drygultch jailer. Aint nothing bad about it

[@tmon3y777]

Odd pally in wild gonna get a lil more nuts!

[@banryuu7778]

Sous Chef alone completes a single step of the Paladin Questline. Two copies completes two steps. If Questline Paladin is ever going to work, that card would be it.

[@fynale2049]

if we get stewart the steward I hope we get mikanikos or sika my top 2 stewards from shadowlands

[@wolfhowl983]

Well, with Stewart the Steward it is definitely clear that the expansion includes cards inspired by the whole of the Shadowlands. :P Druid will probably get at least a few Ardenweald ones then.

[@markozafirkovski1234]

Nah stewart is a guest in the castle like the other legendaries

[@MooseWarrior100]

the sous chef looks like such a nice fit into questline pally, getting up to 3 ticks of progress off of one card, like c'mon.

[@gorgeouszan]

Stewart is pretty good just on it's own, even not in a Dude deck. Pretty much just turns your hero power into 2 man summon a 4/4 which isn't too shabby.

[@roman_pr]

Sous Chef is just hilarious. Remember the very same card from “Cobolds & Catacombs”?

[@jakecarlson3709]

Dry gulch jail or was 2 mana for a 1/1 and it gave you 3 dudes to hand. It was actually worse

[@colinbrown74]

Wait… the Steward isn’t Mikanikos? *flips table*

[@Alin4209]

Great card! 1.Play stewart 2.Silence 3.Surrender

[@bobhihih]

Will Stewart revive quest paladin? I hope so

[@hurtsaa196]

Dragonrider Talritha is written all pver Steward. You draw it on curve its kinda good , if you dont its bad

[@jakecarlson3709]

Talritha needed a dragon in hand. This doesn’t. I think that may make enough of a difference to get stew into a deck

[@popamarianalexandru8159]

Sinful Sous Chef is pretty good in a meta where there's Mutanus

[@thedragonknight3600]

You think Stewart plus Renethal and all the quest paladin stuff like Lorthraxian would make something amazing?

[@jakecarlson3709]

I think lothraxion rotated. Isn’t darkmoon gone?

[@thedragonknight3600]

@@jakecarlson3709 Oh right crap

[@thedragonknight3600]

@@kenpazaraki5781 Dude I'm just openly speculating, no need to shout

[@Zarcasi]

The lady in the buffet biggun card reminds me moira bronzebeard

[@locogato3488]

Stewatd with Baron Rivendare in Wild will be so powerful.

[@moonstew]

With all these old archetypes coming back here's hoping for zoolock and discard lock to make a return.

[@myself2noone]

Infuse will probably be better on Pally anyway with the hero power.

[@monkeystrive7501]

We need some jade support unless they forget about them

[@getsometea]

Maan i am hyped for silverhand pally already!

[@iamspikefire]

i am PUMPED for these cards

[@superbaas8822]

Casual reminder, you can faceless manipulator a Stewart buffed dude to get two buffs going. Unfortunately Starfish is also in the format.

[@Fabrissable]

With name like "Stewart the Steward", judging by how creative they are, I'll be honestly not surprised if they show card called "John Heartstone"

[@jasmeralia]

Is Lothraxion still in Standard, or did he rotate?

[@Axolo118]

Darkmoon, its rotated

[@iftruethenbig]

is it Dude, Paladin is back or Dude Paladin is back? I'm down to call my deck dude paladin cause thats funny.

[@Mechulus]

Cube paladin is going to crack off.

[@Dooferification]

I already love stewart

[@Cyb3r_Sloth]

Stewart+redemption? Sounds good to me

[@monkaeyes]

Buffet Biggun I feel is one of the largest fails in flavour in the entirety of hearthstone. How on earth does that card art relate to silver hand recruits, or any of the next few silver hand buff cards.

[@VSMartins398]

Im reluctant with the infuse keyword, It feels useless with non minion based class like mage but paladin, thats special. And this legendary looks overpowered but if you have a board full of silver hand recruits, one of them has the deathrattle, it will not transfer the stats to another recruit. You HAVE TO SUMMOM

[@SuddenReal]

But Mage gets their minions with the Volatile Skeletons, so it'll be interesting to see how that goes.

[@alexcaffri9091]

Buffet Biggun could be good in even paladin

[@Guffermaskinen]

Reminds me alot of dragon rider talritha, almost the same just with dudes instead

[@simonbas6]

Stewart the Steward really just takes Dragonrider Talritha from DoD out back and kills her dead

[@Shaalertft]

Would be good outside questline but Cariel exists

[@mezcla191]

Zola Stewart then you can get 7/7 SHR minions

[@TheOneWhoReportsForDuty]

Are you ready for this? Reporting for duty! Reporting for duty! Reporting for duty! Reporting for duty!

[@dejan5584]

I like how paladin is geting more cards that are not aggro

[@nova8445]

If they don't make a "Stewart the Steward's Stew" card, I'mma be disappointed.

[@Foolery99]

Time for a 40 card dude deck in wild

[@ThePoolo12]

there is no way you want the pala gero power whrn you have the cariel hero card

[@nickelodeann]

Prediction: Infuse midrange paladin will be busted. They can really take advantage of the new mechanic.

[@cyrus6236]

The paladin card is gonna be so good now that everyone runs starfish!

[@pimpchimp5182]

Why is rogue always one of the last reveals it's infuriating

[@Neo-ln4pk]

YEAH. Give me dudes!

[@mamlamamla4003]

New Legendary gives +3/+3 Repeating of course! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I'll see myself out.

[@penguin4313]

And he is 3 mana so he will be revived by dual class

[@honeybadgerspvp]

There ain’t no way they are all 4 star cards

[@signofastorm]

zoo pala is real!

[@tiekedeljung4614]

They are 2 star at max, these cards wont see any play

[@marvinschaff6]

ooookaaayyy wild is broken again woohoo thx odd paladin.... and by the way the name of this card ...

[@akifaiman7388]

Look at that value, odd pally worthy

[@WOWb13]

A deathrattle card exist* Every streamer: Silence exist, so, that card is sh*t!!

[@baerthegamer3366]

Reporting for DUDE-ING!!

[@FawnFiona432]

Stewart is very cute

[@grungemuffin1990]

Paladin hero power has been useless for a while.. nice to see it

[@Katanagatari-b2o]

Sus chef red is sus

[@christianmarx3249]

im sure priest gonna have the worst winrate again

[@Legion-j]

This wither will be trash cards for dust or op meta breaker… as always