Arena Quest 1: Continuing the Paladining

Hi Everyone,

So I managed to get around to completing my first arena run. As you might guess from the hour and twenty runtime, it went better than expected. I hope you enjoy.







** Spoilers **
Overall, I was extremely  happy with the draft. Picking up double consecrate and double humility allowed me to pull out that combo several times to great effect. Even the secrets I picked up pulled their weight significantly harder than I expected they would.

Several of the games I made some fairly horrific mistakes as you might note (and I noted several times immediately after making them), but hopefully we can all learn from these mistakes, which has the added bonus of not costing you guys an arena run.
That last game though was an exceptional showing by the rogue player, thoroughly impressed by how badly it destroyed me.

Arena Quest 1: The Paladining

After a few weeks of getting to know things in constructed, it's time to take the dive into Arena.
I decided to go with Paladin, I've heard them to be a strong pick, and here's a link to the deck I ended up with (Hearthpwn.com)

The deck appears to have a reasonably good curve, with a mix of creatures and spells all the way up, 2 consecrations and 1 hammer of wrath should help keep the board clear, and there's some fairly solid taunts in there with 3x Fen Creeper and 1x Sunwalker towards the top of the curve.

Here's how match 1 played out.

** Spoilers **
In the end this one went rather well. My opponent used up his quality removal early on to get rid of creatures which just didn't matter all that much while trying to go all out, and ran out of steam much too soon. By the time I dropped Fen Creeper, he was already in topdeck mode, and didn't appear to have any significant way to fight back any further.