Their argument was that on the turns you did play it from hand, it would make up for all the other times that you pulled it with Call. That means that you could potentially hit turn 4 and pull 2 vanilla 2/2s (one mana cheaper than a Grey Ogre (and just as useless) to you long-timer MTG people) along with another random minion and get nothing out of it other than pulling 6/6 in stats across three minions for 4 mana, which is still really good, but hardly mindblowing. The downside in this situation- and people strenuously argued that this was OK on CompetitiveHS -is that Gargoyle is dependent on its Battlecry, which doesn't occur if he's pulled with Call. That's why Righteous Protector, Dire Wolf, and Loot Hoarder are all present, as they've been standard since Kobolds introduced Call. all but Odd), you kind of have to base the early game around the best card in the game: Call to Arms. In fact, the current version of Even uses no Witchwood cards except Genn and the current version of Murloc uses only Nightmare Amalgam. Of course, the three utterly dominant decks for Paladin in the current meta are Even, Odd, and Murloc, all of which use almost no Witchwood cards, other than the requisite Genn or Baku. I just did it because so many people were convinced that Gargoyle was a THING for Paladins in this set. Now, why would one base an entire deck around a not overly-impressive 2-cost 2/2? I dunno. Anyway, I assumed that everyone else must be tuned into something obvious and I decided I'd make a deck to see what I was missing.ĪAECAZ8FBsUEkAe5wQKy6QK36QLh8AIM+wHPBtkHyssC48sC+NICydMC1uUC+ewCuPIC/vMC3oIDAA= But you can play Protector on turn 1 and get the benefits (something having to hit it twice before it dies nobly) no matter what's in your hand. That's not to demean Protector, which has been one of Paladin's most played cards in all archetypes since Knights. You get nothing but a vanilla 2/2 if you don't have a dragon in hand. After all, you look at it and you can see that it's basically just a larger version of Righteous Protector and, not only that, but a conditional Protector. People raved about it on CompetitiveHS and I was roundly criticized and, of course, downvoted for suggesting that the card might not be all that. Cathedral Gargoyle was one of the more hyped cards for Paladin in The Witchwood, but either it just isn't going to measure up in Standard or the meta will have to change quite a bit. That's a statue joke, get it? See, they're usually made of stone and can't fly.
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