A new Paladin card has been revealed by Antony Giusto of Navegando en Videojuegos for the United in Stormwind expansion - First Blade of Wrynn!
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Its a handbuff support card in an expansion where the only handbuff card revealed so far is Prismatic Jewel Kit
Unless there more methods to do this other than Invigorating Sermon, Im just not that optimistic about the rush part. As it stands its a strong minion on its own, being a 3/5 divine shield in a class where board control is relevant.
Probably see play in a sermon deck, or some form of theoretical divine shield midrange paladin. Or just jam this in all paladins, because divine shield on 4 is just too powerful in a follow up to something like Blessing of Authority
There is Overlord Runthak as well, but that's only one card in a deck and you wouldn't be able to get rush turn 4. That curve problem applies to Sermon as well, unless you coin the Sermon.
There could be a meta curve issue as well: Goody Two-Shields is one of the best current Paladin cards, so often you'd want to play a spell on turn 4 instead of a minion.
The base minion isn't terrible, but it has competition in that slot from Kazakus, Golem Shaper, so unless you are playing other 4-drops like Sermon already, I don't see this getting included.
It's true that you'd be likely to land Blessing of Authority, but you are spending 2 turns and 9 mana on that, which seems risky when cheap answers like Devolving Missiles and Coerce are around. Hunter is also getting more Poisonous cards, although we don't know yet if those will be meta.
It's probably good in Wild, where you can handbuff it on turn 1 or 2.
Honestly though, if they print enough cards that become heaps better by just getting +1/+1, Invigorating Sermon will probably see play and would be the only thing needed to activate the entire deck. At that point you wouldn't even need a huge amount of hand/deckbuff.