Thaddius’ hero power swaps every minion’s health and attack, which is fairly innocuous for a heroic hero power. He also starts with Stalagg and Feugen on turn 2, which actually isn’t much of a problem. I aggressively mulligan’d for Equality in my Paladin deck and they were defeated easily (they don’t summon Thaddius again). After that it’s a normal duel. Here’s my deck:
- Humility x 2
- Goldshire Footman
- Equality x 2
- Holy Light x 2
- Annoy-o-Tron
- Explosive Sheep
- Nerubian Egg x 2
- Shielded Minibot x 2
- Unstable Ghoul x 2
- Muster for Battle
- Gnomeregan Infantry
- Consecration x 2
- Hammer of Wrath x 2
- Piloted Shredder x 2
- Bolvar Fordragon
- Feugen
- Sludge Belcher x 2
- Stalagg
- Avenging Wrath
- Emperor Thaurissan
In my winning game, I had the Emperor Thaurissan out from Turn 6 for maybe 5 turns, a 2 mana 14/7 Bolvar Fordragon in my hand, and my own Stalagg and Feugen. Obviously it was a very easy win once I was able to control the board.