There’s a reason why “The Light shall burn you!” and the mythical Unicorn Priest deck turned into a meme. Unfortunately, the way Classic Hearthstone’s Control Paladin exhausted the opponent’s resources is no longer the sort of deck type the developers want to support, so you’ve got a massively overbuffed Charge minion to finish off the game instead. There is almost never a workable Paladin deck that relies on a mechanic other than buffing cards, making them extremely one-dimensional-so much so that sometimes people don’t even want to play its good decks even when the stats suggest it to be a good choice. In many ways, Paladins’ plight is similar to Priests’, and it’s no wonder they were the other class whose evergreen set had to be completely reimagined over the course of the game’s lifespan. Combo decks have historically been limited for the class and the defensive Hero Power means that any aggro deck needs a significant amount of help and likely involves Pirate synergies and big weapons. This doesn’t leave Warriors with many options. Again, Team 5 no longer wants to promote control decks that are based on resource exhaustion, and should anything close to that playstyle come up, the nerf hammer comes down hard, as we’ve seen in Voyage to the Sunken City. Pressing the Armor Up! Button is a miserable feeling. If there’s a red-headed stepchild of Hearthstone, Shaman has to be the one. And that’s before thinking of comedy archetypes like Frost Shaman, introduced and forgotten on a dime by the developers. Overload is a boring mechanic and Elementals are the most vanilla tribe. What is Shaman in Hearthstone, exactly? 25 percent RNG rolls on the Hero Power, Evolve shenanigans, and Nature spells? At least Wrath of Air Totem is gone, along with all those game-deciding rolls (and the inexplicable cards like the original Lightning Storm and Crackle). Where will Death Knight belong on this list? Only time will tell. Some have aged well, some less so- here’s how they all stack up against one another. From Mage to Warlock and beyond, we all have our favorite flavors of Hearthstone classes, and though their competitive viability ebbs and flows across the years, their design and gameplay styles couldn’t be more different.
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