LogFAQs > #904936854

Board-centric isn't what I what I have in mind when I think of control decks. If you're a board-centric "control" deck, that's midrange. Zoo is the best example of this (specifically TGT-era demonzoo). You bring up Steed and Tirion, but those are just insane value cards that have historically been played in most Paladin archetypes. They've become too slow for aggro now, but that's fine. I think Paladin needs more stuff like this and Tarim that are just good to push it to slower strategies.

Its pure control tools have always kinda sucked. Equality wants you to have board or weapons to trade up, or use a 2-card combo for a clear (bad for card advantage). Same for power setting cards, they're best used to protect your own board and value trade. Pally card draw is also a little underwhelming.

Not saying all decks have to fit neatly into class archetypes, but it just seems more natural to me. And the game could stand to work on midrange more since it's become really polarized between aggro and control with some combos. But maybe after Shamanstone it's not a good idea.
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DPOblivion was far more determined than me.