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A slower, conditional Zilliax. It's not a bad comparison considering Zilliax was probably the perfect card the game has ever seen. Gonna be an excellent utility tool for Pure Paladins.

This is gonna be hard-countered by Bomb Warrior though, assuming it's still a meta deck by the next expansion. An 8-mana do-nothing 7/5 will be horrible. 

Can't envision Dude-adin being in Standard any time soon, and Even Paladin hasn't been good in Wild since the Call to Arms nerf. Dude-adin's viability in the coming months in Standard depends entirely on how much support THIS expansion brings it, so I'm not optimistic. 

Should Dude-adin and/or Even Paladin rise to the occasion, this will almost cetainly see play.

Awesome, extra pure support, and it has all the things I need at 8 mana - a minion that will heal me, remove an enemy minion, and stick around for next turn.

Shirvallah for 8 mana and taunt. Alright, sure. You just run it in Pure Paladin, and thats it. Can be generated by the 7/7 which I can foresee to be a very rare problem. What a boring legendary, I’m disappointed honestly.

This should have come out in Ashes instead as it makes better sense flavour-wise and expansion-wise. Liadrin’s effect could have come out in this one instead as like a ticket-master legendary or something.

All of the support for Dude-adin would have to come from this expansion, and I'm not terribly optimistic that it'll introduce nearly enough to make it a viable archetype.

If I'm wrong, then this card would fit that deck quite well.

Auto-include in Pure Paladin.

Okay, so after all the dust has settled from my eyes, this card is strong, very strong even. But it may not be the killer card that finally brings pure pally to, say, tournaments.

Its main power is actually that it can trade the same turn you play it, heal for 7 and stay on as a defensive taunt. But realistically though, pure pally has never been short of healing, and certainly never short on defensive plays with Libram of Hope and Devout Pupil basically ruling the roost. There's also the new cards; Hammer of the Naaru and Carousel Gryphon which is defensive as well. Plus, it cost 8, and so competes for space with Tirion Fordring. Can this really sub for tirion? I'm more than a little skeptical.

Also, there's the main problem of pure pally being both extremely predictable, and not really all that great higher up the rank where most players generally play around pure paladin well enough.

In short, its a very strong card. But its never going to be anywhere near the levels of Lady Liadrin so there's some reason to pause for thought.

Yeah it's losing the 4 mana 4/2 that equips a truesilver and the 7 mana 7/7 that gives you 5 paladin cards. The latter doesn't matter a ton since it's only a 1-of if even, but the 4/2 is one of the strongest cards of the deck so losing it will definitely weaken the archetype. 

All that being said, this isn't the first time an almost rotating theme gets support at the last second, most notably with the Kabal getting highlander support the expansion before Reno rotated. There's always a chance Paladin can stumble upon enough class cards to make this thing relevant again in standard, or it'll just get more support, who knows to be honest.

IWould like to see a solid Pure Highlander Paladin come to life. This would be great in it along with the Naaru weapon. 

As the resident Zilliax hater, this card bears too much resemblance to that robot so I already am not a fan of this card and refuse to change my stance on it at all in the future.

All that being said, this card can clearly be incredibly good in pure paladin, Zilliax with +4+3 for only 3 more mana seems great. The biggest issue though is just whether its still worth to run pure paladin over pen paladin, which has shown to be the much more dominant over the last couple of weeks. I'm hesitant to say that this card alone will give pure the extra push to be better than pen, given that both already have fairly decent aggro matchups, but it's nice to have more of an incentive to go the 'lesser' build now.

And just like that, High Exarch Yrel is now a real card :D Guess I can stop making my own versions now...

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Is this a powercreep to Mindflayer Kaahrj?

Not really it is better since it silences though but Mindflayer is unique because it doesn't just give you a 4/4 version of it.

I don't have mindflayer so this will be a good new replacement for me

If your minion has worst than 4/4 stats you probably would if not then it would be pointless unless thats the only play you have but then you probably already lost.

well previously there was BlizzCon Timing to be considered which is not an issue this time around.

The thing I'm surprised about is that they are adding Pure Pally support now when the other Pure cards will rotate out before this.  So unless there are more Pure cards planned this minion might be the only Pure card in standard for all next Hearthstone year.

"Silence a minion, and become a 4/4 Unsilenced copy of it." 

only at low ranks anyway... so not that big of a deal

Well I mean, Pure Paladin is strong going into the set, already has a couple cards that look good in it, I see no reason why it won't continue being Tier 1 or 2.  Also, man, the Paladin legendary characters are feeling really out of place.  Turalyon doesn't make a ton of sense in Scholomance, let alone as a professor, and Yrel has little to nothing to do with the Faire or the Old Gods in general.  At least the Silver Hand Recruits look like theyre at the Faire to have a good time, she does not look happy at all.   If anything I would have thought Outland to be the place for her character, but oh well.

Not bad.  Not a big fan of pure paladin build because it limits a lot what cards you can use.  I prefer No duplicates because you have to use even more variety of cards. 

Well come next year, isn't Pure pally losing some important cards? I mean I like the idea of Pure pally, but if you don't maintain it, it will die in the next year.

This thing is just unreal. It gains 4 keywords by simply playing your standard pure pally.

Its already tough enough to bring them down with all the librams in there, and now there's this. The only drawback of this card is in fact that it can only exist within a pure pally build, so no Old gods shenanigans. Within that core though, pure pally is looking very strong, especially given what we have seen so far.

Well Paladin is at the top again

Well this will see play in one deck and only in standard probably, but it will be good there...

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