Hearthstone Midrange Paladin S19 #1 - The Middle Way to Enlightenment

Witness as Strifecro uses Midrange Paladin to reach Rank 1 EU. Also Kolento guest stars.
vs worldpeace (Paladin)
vs Kolento (Warrior)
vs Fenoom (Paladin)
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Video Edited By: Fran “FrancyCakes” Kang
Graphics By: Pablo “Dusturn” Lorenzana

[@TheStrongestBaka]

Man, that boosted paladin hero power is like having an army of dreadsteeds.

[@hansfabiankoeger8657]

Can you please add recording date to the description?! Would be really nice. Cool video Strife, go on like this.

[@BenjiiiiiPS3]

always shocks me how consistently nice strifey is

[@白海塔]

Picks name Worldpeace -> plays Mysterious Cancer.

[@__sigh]

lmao i died

[@Br8kz]

feel like this video was an ad for Justicar lol

[@Genemesis]

+Br8kz I feel like playing Justicar now

[@Br8kz]

+Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis lol you and me both

[@Temessong]

+Br8kz me too but i dont have it lol

[@Br8kz]

+Chained Wolf me too :( i wish i did lol

[@TransAm20000Wr]

I got it heheeheh

[@darkdowngrade]

Dang it... The last match actually screamed for a Deathwing since you played BGH right before...

[@TheFireflyGrave]

+darkdowngrade That would have been a hilarious way to miss out on the #1 ranking.

[@TheReaper002]

+TheFireflyGrave He would most likely still win, just because the opponent has no way to deal 5 damage after using deathwing, unless he gets Leeroy after using Deathwing then it would be truly hilarious.

[@sleepymandragora1392]

all comments on this video: 1) 16:20 missed lethal! 2) KOLENTO! 3) no Tirion? 4) gratz #1!

[@jmbtsang]

Loved the miss lethal interlude. Those are always a fun interruption.

[@Egordon2222]

Definitely one of the most underrated HS streamers out there, love your videos :D

[@Phuriscrane]

Love that editing you are doing now bra. Classic on that missed lethal.

[@3xceed]

16:20 missed lethal

[@jelleversteeg9706]

+Exceed NSS

[@johnnyborbon5085]

Extended BM

[@Hopesedge]

+Exceed 16:49 Learn to watch the full video before commenting.

[@3xceed]

Sean Bevan Nu, then I would have forgotten.

[@zealous944]

+Sean Bevan learn to fuck yourself and you might not be frustrated AND lonely

[@jonathanroberson122]

Nice Strifcro! Always nice to see Midrange Paladin at the top.

[@qjtrinh]

You're the best, StrifeCro! Awesome prize at the very end of the video.

[@bbonkers6083]

Strifcro is back to his best, always wrecking with midrange paladin!

[@riosurya6503]

consistent videos. yay! well played, fran.

[@irongaordon]

Seeing Kolento loose (and rage quit) is always a pleasure. GG !

[@Mainline100]

what do you think about tuskarr jousters? really good against aggro when it actually matters and a good body against control with an added bonus once in a while

[@FajitaBandit]

best decks tend to have as least RNG cards as possible, i think the +2/+2 doesn't bring enough to make it better than non-RNG healbot

[@crewz86]

Kolentos face, nice Idea. Also a great Video

[@-fazik-3713]

Extended BM versus Kolento :P

[@wtfbaaasa]

Kolento face was pure gold

[@michaeldavis932]

@Strifecro, why don't Paladin lists play equality/ wild pyromancer combo anymore? I know it is reserved for control lists and this isn't one but just in general. What made that combo lose value?

[@michaeldavis932]

Also, for this deck list in particular, why only one murloc knight?

[@LordLoss93]

+Michael Davis Equality/pyro has negative synergy with muster for battle. And the 1 murlock knight because it's slow and he prefers the tempo 4 drop in shreder. Hope i helped :D

[@michaeldavis932]

+LordLoss93 Yeah, that does help. Thanks!

[@Astagion]

Hello +StrifeCro I have 1300 of arcane dust and I don't have Justicar Trueheart. You recommend me create it, I wait or replace it? P.D: In the image of the decklist, don't are Tirion.

[@Mainline100]

+Santiago “Santiale17” Alemany No, craft something else. Justicar is too obscure

[@SillyPutty125]

+Santiago “Santiale17” Alemany If you really enjoy playing paladin (and/or control warrior), then she's not a bad craft. It depends on what you have already crafted. I would put Justicar in the same category as Barron Geddon, Mal'Ganis, Rhonin, Vol'jin, and probably Sneed's Old Shredder. They are all strong cards, but only work in 1-2 decks.

[@Astagion]

SillyPutty125 I don't play Warrior in none of their variants.

[@SeiShinCasios]

mal ganis does not fit in this list at all, he is the backbone of nearly every viable warlock deck and if you want to play warlock, he is a must have. he is like grom, tirion or archmage for the class legendaries. justicar on the other hand is more of a "tech" card, only viable in a few decks/situations, more like the other cards you mentioned.

[@SillyPutty125]

+SeiShinCasios Malganis is not essential in either handlock or malylock, but I'll concede that it is more of a standard include than the other legendaries I listed. Let's replace Malganis with Al'Akir or Bloodmage Thalnos.

[@SkyStarJaMeS]

How to make for a stream(twitch OBS) that showed deck tracker as at StrifeCro?

[@Astagion]

Update (Ref: www.twitch.tv/strifecro/v/18694404): -1 Antique Healbot -1 Sylvanas Windrunner +1 Mind Control Tech +1 Sludge Belcher

[@chriiins]

Murloc Knight into Murloc Knight, Shredder into Explosive Sheep into another Shredder ropping Patient Assassin and then Bloodmage Thalnos hit with Avenge. Like, what

[@KarenTookTheKids364]

Missed the lethal against Kolento if I'm not mistaken? Owl, double Consecration...... Regardless, gg's well done on #1

[@TheTukkia]

Can I run this deck without any legendaries? I mean, no justicar, sylvanas or Dr. Boom. What can I put instead?

[@Gentraf]

Nice Kolento thingy!

[@sleepymandragora1392]

missing justicar and tirion, can craft one. which should i take? tirion is one of the strongest legs, but justicar really helps in later games (also its a neutral leg)

[@davidwyatt940]

+A Lazy Bear I guess it depends on what decks you run. Justicar can swing around into 2-3 different decks atm (midrange Pally, Control Warrior, and sometimes Priest), while Tirion of course is limited to Pally only so if flexibility is the goal, Justicar is the likely better craft, though she is fairly slow(but her value is immense). Don't get me wrong, Tirion is insanely good in certain situations, but I find him less-and-less useful as time goes by. Most decks run silence nowadays, and every deck with silence in it saves it for Tirion when they face Pally making him a pretty bad play the majority of times. Still, when the opponent has no answer for him, he is a game changer, but then again, the same can be said for many cards. Personally, I like Justicar better than Tirion even in Pally, which is by far my most played class as she is virtually guaranteed to get value and she dominates the long-game like no other.

[@sleepymandragora1392]

David Wyatt yea crafted justicar, mainly because shes a neutral card and i slightly changed my deck to be a bit faster (but added a second murloc knight cause I love him and hes great mid and late-game), so a card that supports my late-game is great to have. I noticed that this season there are a lot of different decks but less AOE over all. i think the time for Midrange has come (mainly pala and shaman)

[@nosequenickponerm]

I just paused the video at 16:19 to say that he missed lethal. OK now going back to watching the video.

[@NiblicGames]

16:20 had lethal with equality, consecrate, consecrate

[@Hopesedge]

+NiblicGames 16:49 Learn to watch the full video before commenting.

[@zealous944]

+Sean Bevan learn to fuck yourself and you might not be frustrated AND lonely

[@kezzako2]

+Dark Steel lmao right, you should look at yourself first

[@Br8kz]

that missed lethal at 16:17 XD lol it's ok though all of your plays before it were still more than likely better than any play i would have made.

[@Sabesaroo]

Why would a Control Warrior use Shield Block to draw instead of gain armour?

[@adamvifrye2690]

16:17 missed lethal.... owl, double consecrate, all face. 7 from minions. 4 from consecrate. adds up to 10 mana.:

[@adamvifrye2690]

lol i say before i see the thing ahahhahah sorry guys.

[@matheusrdgsf]

+adam frye Yp

[@orsolodo1625]

Also equality double consacrate and all face was lethal

[@phamtasticbaby6124]

+adam frye same

[@laurosantana1477]

2:42 '' Ah FODA-SE ''

[@victorbaptista5088]

+Lauro Santana hahahaahahaah

[@pogchamperinokripperino5281]

+Lauro Santana EU OUVI AQUILO E VIM NA HORA VER SE ALGUEM JA TINHA COMENTADO ISSO LUELUELUELUELUELUE ele disse we'll do this ou foda-se mesmo? h4h4h4 tinha um F ali não é possível

[@YoshiSohungry]

why isn't it the fishing tournament?

[@SultanElsfordGame]

Strife, in video strange decklist. (U have Tirion,but it doesn't exist in the list.) Can u write deck list please?

[@Hurricane0039]

Nice work dude

[@tufoop]

Congrats to #1 :D

[@CorsairJoshua]

Rank 1 boys!

[@Brainstorm67]

gg for rank 1 keep on the good stuff :p

[@Poifix]

Wait, what... No sludge beltchers? And wtf is coghammer doing in Midrange paladin?

[@TerminalM193]

Oh shit I just realised strife was playing kolento in the warrior match up.

[@zhuzhupet69]

Haven't watched the whole video yet, but why no Tirion?

[@kawaiarinokripperino9719]

Do you really think there is a Midrange/control pally deck without Tirion. It's in the deck but not sowing on the deck tracker

[@trysephiroth007]

+zhuzhupet69 Tirion didn't fit in the window because of so many one of cards.

[@qmares]

gratz

[@nalege07]

grats on rank 1

[@pablobgr]

Strifecro you killed worldpeace! you are such a bad guy!! ;)

[@obnoxiousjumper279]

+Paolo Diadlo he cured cancer by killing peace...he's a dark hero

[@jyashin]

16:41 missed lethal:Silence the taunt, go face, double consecrate

[@jyashin]

+jyashin nvm he found it himself.

[@hansfabiankoeger8657]

16:25 You missed lethal: Equality consecrat consecrat would have been enough.

[@tomhargrave5613]

Dude thanks for this deck, I'm 5-0 with it so far, beating 2 face hunters, a secret pala, tempo mage and patron warrior, if that's not worth a Sub I don't know what is!

[@engladtur]

wait you have 2 Quartermasters? The decklist only shows 1.

[@leof.2695]

+engladtur It shows 2

[@obnoxiousjumper279]

+engladtur it shows 1 when u have 1 in hand

[@realthoo]

tuskar 5 drop not good enough for healing couse of rng ?

[@SproutFarms]

9 minions that are 3 or lower. I guess it's hard to get a good joust

[@aleksei5172]

+Thomas Sin Chances of winning a joust are less than 50% in most cases. For example, against both midrange hunter and tempo mage tuskar wins about 45-50% jousts. Only against face hunter chances are about 70-75% Here is a simple script calculating chances by the Monte-Carlo method: jsfiddle.net/pma358mj/1/

[@davidwyatt940]

+Thomas Sin I tried using him extensively when TGT was first released in mid-range pally. He sucks, quite frankly. I really wanted him to work, but he just doesn't. He seems to be an anti-aggro tool that will work out better than a Healbot, yet he just doesn't meet the criteria for a healing card in an aggro-heavy meta. He loses jousts all the time, even against face hunter due to the minions that pally tends to run. Losing the healing joust vs. aggro is likely game-over, and he isn't really needed against control, and even if you do, good luck winning a roll vs. control anything. If jousts were tweaked so that the player of the joust minion won ties, he would be far more viable and I would likely run him over Healbot. Long story short, there really is no room for RNG when it comes to healing in this game. When he hits, he's great. When he doesn't, he makes you seriously wish you had played a Healbot instead.

[@realthoo]

thanks for the answers. yeah i think so to, he is a great body, but when you need the healing and you dont get it, its over

[@HimariHimatsu]

Also why can i only see 29 cards in the decklist?

[@-fazik-3713]

+Alexander Markström Tyrion is a Ninja.

[@baazarafa]

+Alexander Markström because the last card is always the same.

[@ubererhs2898]

you cant see tirion cos the list has so many one ofs that the last card doesnt fit

[@ricardosievert9363]

The video has 2 dislikes, I bet one of them is Kolento :D

[@LuffyAndMe]

Omg that Kolento face x)

[@nelsonperezurrutia5081]

Why Harrison before Loatheb ?

[@covalencedust2603]

As weird as it sounds, I honestly think that this kind of a paladin is better than secret paladin because midrange paladin is very good against secret paladin and overall, I get like 50% winrate with secret paladin and nearly 70% with midrange paladin wich is probably because half of the ladder is secret paladin.

[@motpotter]

15-1 at high legend! Wow, that just shows me how much I suck :(

[@philiptran5187]

Why no Terian Not sure if that's how it's spelled but yea, why?

[@naruto00nix]

24:10 why not just hero ability + healbot? could get much more value from quartermaster the turn after : )

[@raffabetoneira2666]

kolento com 8 de vida deu um trabalho pro strife kkkkkkk,ele sempre sobrevive nesses momentos

[@conorfleury4387]

No Tirion Fordring?

[@Pninety]

NICE BM

[@burunduke55]

16:14 lethal?

[@HimariHimatsu]

+ Barry Qwerty yup

[@paw101]

+ Barry Qwerty Silence Belcher and double consecration all minions face is 11 dmg 10 mana.

[@SuperJuiceman11]

@7:45 better to keep chow at 2 health? ?

[@danil8663]

Better to silence chow for lethal next turn

[@yeldepooter160]

I want this hearthstone bakkkkk

[@Max-kv8uw]

doesn't strifecro have golden paladin eu?

[@der-meister8692]

how can i change sylvanas please ?

[@sebased3911]

16:14 missed lethal, silence face, double concecration

[@IHeartScream]

With Patron being obliterated form the meta, I suggest taking out harrison and one truesilver for two BoK, otherwise a solid decklist

[@AaronTheC]

True silver is too good, better than bok possibly.

[@whoplygobly271]

Why healbot over the joust card?

[@SproutFarms]

For consistency. 9 minions that are 3 mana or lower.

[@lucien-rhd6323]

Missed Letal vs Kolento at 16:30 :)

[@matheusrdgsf]

16:17 missed lethal Equality double consacration and face.

[@TerminalM193]

Why no tirion?

[@SomeDerpyGuy]

Can someone tell me an OK mulligan for the legendaries xD? I dont have any of them, and it will be a while till i can craft them

[@elementalgreen]

Why no Tirion in this decklist?

[@ubererhs2898]

there are so many different cards that tirion didnt fit in the list, it is in the deck

[@SonikChaos]

+MineB0T the list was so long that tirion couldn't fit on the screen

[@SteezSteeve]

29 cards? the last one is tirion? can someone help me please >.

[@owchh]

Yes the last one is tirion

[@andydong2419]

Get wrecked Kolento!

[@vik7135]

cool

[@jeffersonlee2053]

how can i donate?

[@nikkinikolow8344]

16:12 Leathel dude :)

[@teleute69]

16:18 you failed me... :(

[@hangman505]

why no Tirion Fordring?

[@HimariHimatsu]

+hangman505 he is there, but hiding it seems (count the 29 cards)

[@peterkoster3438]

LOL that kolento...

[@Miroveyou]

That outro is such a trap

[@HardyWiz]

Justicar heropower is so insane against control warrior

[@davidwyatt940]

+HardyWiz It is insane against Priest as well. After you deal with their Nova/Lightbombs, the improved hero power wrecks them.

[@MatheusMiller]

kolento?

[@sintoxx]

u are playing vs kolento xD

[@leocroneborg3280]

two miissed lethal one at 16 20 and one just before kolento conceded

[@lazybeastz182]

no tirion?

[@ewixie]

LOL! VS KOLENTO

[@triminac]

16:30 MISSED LETHAL

[@LhynkalTheFool]

MISSED LETHAL LOL

[@paolomuccilli9420]

u could use equality+consacratio+consacration to have lethal vs kolento that turn ^^ 2 chance

[@HimariHimatsu]

+Paolo Muccilli or just owl

[@paolomuccilli9420]

Alexander Markström i know ^^ it was only anther possibility

[@joespicer6635]

He knows don't need to repeat it 😂

[@borRIING]

y teh no tenrin?

[@BronZZeLotus]

Missed lethal at 16:46

[@poatrykdas]

why no tirion

[@triminac]

Oh he realized whoops

[@drderekk]

6:56 Dr. Chow

[@Bloxxertildeath]

decklist doesn't have tirion