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UltimaterializerX posted...

From what I hear, the meta is dominated by Mysterious Challenger again.

Ehh...no doesn't look like Mysterious Challenger is all that popular.

Going by HSReplay, Secret Paladin is the 7th most popular Paladin deck (behind more popular decks like quest paladin and holy wrath paladin). HSReplay also has it as a tier 2 deck (whereas tip the scales paladin is still tier 1, for instance).

There's also a version of highlander paladin floating around that runs one copy of Mysterious Challenger (some builds of highlander paladin aren't running Mysterious Challenger at all, though). But either way, it's highlander--they only have one copy of the card. (Highlander is probably the strongest deck running Mysterious Challenger, though).

I'm not expecting Mysterious Challenger to do that much when the dust settles--nobody plays that card in wild, and secret paladin and highlander paladin were garbage decks in standard before they brought back the wild cards. Mysterious Challenger is like...a 6 mana 10/10, it's strong, and that might be impressive except Druid has a 5 mana 10/10 (Oasis Surger), I don't think Challenger's going to single-handedly carry weak archetypes, but maybe it can make them into tier 2-3 decks or something.
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