The irony is, that the Hero card is too slow for Handbuff paladin. The HP might be the best for that kind of deck in theory, but in the reality you want to finish the game around T8-9 as a midrange deck and the hero won’t support this strategy.

It’s not about the mana curve but the playstyle. By this logic, Clown druid with tons of 7-8-9-10 mana cards should be a control deck, but we all know it is not.