Rumble Run Paladin Shrine Guide

Shirvallah's Grace is a Shrine that duplicates buff effects in a similar way to Djinni of Zephyrs. The Shrine can rapidly snowball out of control to become a huge minion that is almost impossible to kill. If you pick this Shrine, you will start your Rumble Run with the following 10-card deck:

Shirvallah's Grace is a high-value Shrine that will increase in strength over time as you play spells on your minions. It is important to do everything in your power to keep your Shrine alive, preserving any buffs cast on it. Healing spells can be very useful for doing this as they will also duplicate their effect if cast on a minion, doubling card draw in the case of Lay on Hands and Flash of Light.

When picking cards, you will want to regularly choose the Reinforce bucket to give yourself a good supply of buff cards, especially prioritising it when Spikeridged Steed is available. However, if you do not manage to pick up any copies of Immortal Prelate from this bucket, you should also try to pick up some minions from your deck or you will have no targets for your buffs. Minions from the Healing bucket, such as Zilliax, The Glass Knight, Crystalsmith Kangor, and Wickerflame Burnbristle, are all excellent pick ups and are perfect targets for your buffs. You can also look toward the Magnetic and Teambuilding buckets, which contain many minions that summon multiple bodies to give your more targets to buff.

When choosing Teammates after your second and fourth win, you should pick The Walking Fort whenever it is available. Its powerful ability allows it to truly live up to its name and is a perfect target for your buffs. If that option is not available, you can pick Blessed One, which should always yield a big amount of card draw due to the large number of buffs in the deck. Alternatively, you can pick up Lightchucker, which is just a solid removal tool in combination with Paladin's natural healing from cards like Truesilver Champion.

If you manage to defeat the first 6 bosses, you will have the ability to upgrade your Shrine. Favor of the Gods is one of the two best choices, which will go a long way to helping you protect your Shrine. Everlasting Devotion is also incredibly strong, and will allow you to triple up on your buff effects. This is the strongest choice if you have multiple Spikeridged Steeds where Taunt minions will not protect your Shrine. The third strongest buff for Shirvallah's Grace is Fortified Spirit. The consistent healing effect combined with Health buffs will make your Shrine almost unkillable outside of hard removal.

Shirvallah's Protection is an incredibly powerful Shrine that will continually provide your minions with Divine Shields if they survive damage, allowing them to trade over and over very efficiently. If you pick this Shrine, you will start your Rumble Run with the following 10-card deck:

Shirvallah's Protection offers immense value and will provide your minions with Divine Shields when they survive damage, subsequently allowing them to survive damage a second time. Taunt minions are a great way to force your opponent to trigger this effect, while also protecting your Shrine, so you should always try to keep at least 1 Taunt minion in play at all times. To ensure your minions are able to survive damage initially to gain a Divine Shield, you should try to use minions with a large amount of Health. Using high-Health minions in combination with the Shrine should allow you to generate immense value while controlling the board to grind down all bosses.

When choosing card buckets, you should look for minions that will gain great benefit from the Shrine. The hand-buff effects contained in the Teambuilding bucket will allow you to create a multiple big minions per card that will often be able to gain multiple Divine Shields. Saronite Chain Gang is a particularly strong choice from the buckets due to also having Taunt. The Self-Sacrifice bucket also contains a few choices in the form of Injured Blademaster and Damaged Stegotron as their self-damage Battlecries will immediately provide them with a Divine Shield.

After your second and fourth win, you will have the option to add a special Teammate minion to your deck. The Walking Fort should be your first choice if it is available as its effect will allow it to gain 4 Divine Shields from Shirvallah's Protection before it is finally killed. If it is not available, you can pick Lightchucker as a second choice as a solid removal tool when used in combination with cards like Truesilver Champion. Alternatively, you can choose Parading Marshal to provide consistent control entering into the mid game.

After 6 wins, you will have the ability to choose from a random selection of powerful Shrine upgrades. Favor of the Gods is excellent in combination with Shirvallah's Protection as it will provide great protection for your Shrine and force your opponent to go through all of your minions first, triggering many Divine Shields in the process. Alternatively, you can pick Pact with the Loa or Everlasting Devotion to maximise the uptime of your Shrine to allow you to make use of its effect as much as possible.

Shirvallah's Vengeance is a strategic Shrine that rewards you for damaging yourself by inflicting massive damage onto your opponent. If you pick this Shrine, you will start your Rumble Run with the following 10-card deck:

Shirvallah's Vengeance is a seemingly powerful Shrine whose high damage output can quickly dispose of early low-Health bosses. However, it will begin to struggle in the later stages of a Rumble Run where dealing 5 damage at a time becomes very insignificant. While your Shrine is alive, you should prioritise dealing damage to you in every way possible. This will usually involve Battlecries like Bloodclaw and Crystallizer, however, you still need to remember to continually hit enemy minions with your weapon as well. Cards like Mad Bomber have the potential to inflict huge amounts of damage, but will be very inconsistent. To add more consistency, you should try to manipulate the board before playing it, killing off as many minions as you can on both sides of the board to maximise the chance your Hero gets hit. As you will be dealing a not insignificant amount of damage to yourself, you should pay close attention to your Health, making full use of Healing effects as necessary.

When it comes to picking cards buckets, Self-Sacrifice should be your default choice. Picking cards like Bloodclaw, Missile Launcher, and Abomination will help you inflict significant damage. To complement it, you should also pick up multiple copies of the Healing bucket to make sure you have enough Health to keep damaging yourself. Picking up at least 1 copy of the Holy Arsenal bucket will also ensure you have enough weapons to consistently attack into enemy minions each turn. To round out your deck, you should try to pick up a few high-value minions, like those found in the Divine Legends bucket to help push through the last few bosses where your Shrine alone will not be enough damage to win.

When choosing Teammates after your second and fourth victory, Gloryseeker should be your first choice as it has a huge natural synergy with the Shrine. Alternatively, you can pick The Walking Fort to have some excellent protection for your Shrine. Lastly, Lightchucker is even stronger with Shirvallah's Vengeance as the additional healing needed to counter your self-damage will provide more opportunities to trigger its effect.

Once you reach 6 wins in a row, you will have the opportunity to choose from 1 of 3 random upgrades for your Shrine. Everlasting Devotion should be your first choice, allowing you to do double damage to your opponent every time your take damage. As bosses will heavily prioritise killing your Shrine, Pact with the Loa is also an excellent choice just to minimise the time you have to go without it. Lastly, Favor of the Gods can be picked just to provide your Shrine with additional protection.

After each victory, you will be offered a choice of 3 different card buckets that you can add to your deck. Each bucket contains 3 cards that fit a certain theme and will help shape your deck in different ways.

The table below contains a list of all the possible Paladin card buckets. The comments section contains further details of each bucket and when to choose them.