I ' m 75 % sure this isn ' t real magic . <| sep |> This is misleading as fuck . Control Paladin was only good with N ' zoth only because the meta hadn ' t settled on top of the fact that N ' zoth flat out loses to priest . Before then it was only good for two weeks thanks to Kolento and then naxx hit and it was waaaaay too slow . Anyfin is as mediocre as dragon priest currently is and priest has and always will be a way better option for dragon decks specifically cause of it having a twodrop same with Warrior both dragon decks straight up outclass paladin ' s dragon decks . And aggro paladin was always overrated , it was good for all of two weeks than everyone realized they had to just play their hand and paladin couldn ' t use divine favor for a reload . I ' ll give you that midrange and secret paladin were tier 1 decks at one point , but so we ' re dragon priest with light bomb and death rattle priest which was a viable tier 2 deck plus prenaxx priest was tier 12 The only reason paladin is being ignored for weakness is because of the supreme hatred of secret paladin . That deck doesn ' t exist and everyone is sympathetic to paladin as well .