Purple in Grandmasters

Has anyone else been blown away by Purple's Paladin deck at Grandmasters?

OTK Wrath + infinite Da Undatakar

so much love to any pro who brings such an out there deck to a competition

Dog went down 2-0 uhhh

really recommend checking out Purple's matches.

haha, of course, thanks for the correction and apologies

I don't think it's that out there, just a smart and slightly overlooked pick.  It's been around since a month or so ago when people brought it to grandmasters.  It's favored against Mage which is the majority of the field.  It doesn't do well against warrior but with so many mages you don't expect a lot of warrior.  The undertaker side deck is solid against warrior but it's still warrior favored if they play it a certain way.

The problem was that now with Luna's Pocket Galaxy, even mage's bad matchups become super winnable if you draw that card.  That card has pushed that deck over from being one of the strongest decks in the meta with a high skill cap and some highroll potential, to a high skill cap deck with the highroll potential of easily winning any matchup.  

Pocket should probably go to 6.

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Has anyone else been blown away by Purple's Paladin deck at Grandmasters?

OTK Wrath + infinite Da Undatakar

so much love to any pro who brings such an out there deck to a competition

Dog went down 2-0 uhhh

really recommend checking out Purple's matches.

OTK/ Undatakah paladin is not actually that rare in specialist format.  The main weakness of OTK paladin is warrior, but if you hit one, you can just use your Undatakah secondary deck.  You don't mind losing your 1st game because your 2nd and 3rd games will be extremely favored

Paladin is actually so not rare, that people were bringing tertiary decks teched with 3 mana 3/4 battlecry make your face immune to spells one turn at one point.  Warriors with anti mech/silence heavy packages are common too

ah, cool, i didn't know about that, thanks for the update. I do follow the tournaments somewhat regularly, but the Paladin presence hasn't caught my eye before, which I why I thought it to be more rare than it apparently is. 

But yeah, it was a pleasure watching Eddie play it, carefully considering each move, although at the same time felt bad for Dog just having to witness the OTK working out perfectly (their first match was more of a gamble from Eddie). 

here's the link if somebody wants to see it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kct1PS3oLYY