Template:High Priest Thekal strategy
This card is a powerful inclusion in any Paladin deck that runs healing. By converting almost your entire Health to Armor it allows you to "overheal" with healing cards that could often go to waste if you have little opportunities to take damage, whether if it's from being ahead on board or lacking a weapon and enemy minions to trade into. With Thekal, you can get a much earlier head start in getting the full value out of heals, which is especially relevant for cards that synergize with healing such as 
Lesser Pearl Spellstone and 
Zandalari Templar. In addition, as a vanilla 3-mana 3/4 it has solid base stats that can fit into curve easily.
In Wild, this card lets you play free Molten Giants as early as turn 3 without any downsides incurred. It can also be exceptionally powerful with 
Reno Jackson, converting all your health into armor, then allowing Reno to restore your health back to maximum.
One should be very cautious of playing High Priest Thekal if they expect the opponent to have a 
Platebreaker, which can outright lose the game for them if they haven't gotten the chance to heal off most of the converted Health afterwards.
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