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Hello, everyone.  Walloficecream here a.k.a Balzack on Hearthstone.  I've been playing Magic: The Gathering since 1994 and consider myself a master player and brewer.

The title of this deck is dedicated to TurboKitty3000.  Who is TurboKitty?  TurboKitty is a Magic: The Gathering player who, during the MTGO 3.0 days, created two decks all about value. Neither based on control nor aggro nor combo, these decks showed that as long you had 10 more cards than the opponent, either in play or in hand, the opponent would  concede. These two decks are named BorosKitty and AzoriousKitty, built to stay for the long haul until the opponent ran out of gas. He played Magic for a living, so serious that he was crotchety, because he was part of the few who took Magic: The Gathering Online so seriously that a one-day downtime could effect his income.  That's right, playing for profit. That's called "going infinite."

Why Value Priest?

Priest should be fun because Hearthstone should be fun.  Brian Kibler of Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone fame has shown that Mass Dispel is more powerful than what's given credit for it.  Being able to Dispel 3 0/2 totems is devastating to Shaman. Turn 3 Brann Bronzebeard needs to be Dispelled because turn 4 Kazakus is a headache. There's some wisdom and playing these oft underused cards. 

This isn't in the meta?

The point of rogue decks (the archetype, not the class) is to gain a big knowledge advantage over your opponent; knowledge of what he or she is playing, and he or she doesn't know what you're playing.  This causes more mistakes to happen on the opponent's side, especially early-game. Although few rogue deckbuilders have made it to the big-time, Conley Woods as a notable example, there's enough that it causes deckbuilders everywhere to keep brewing.

Thoughts on deck construction:

You can think of this deck as a "hand-priest."  Typical hand sizes are 9 or 10 cards for much of the game.  The mana base is greedy. Having an 8/8 for 8 mana versus two 4/4s for 4 mana each is like having the 8/8 read "draw a card" because it's two cards down for them versus one for the 8/8.

Deck Strategy:

Northshire Cleric: Having a greedy mana base means that the Northshire Clerics are there more to mop up small minions than to draw cards. Rarely, it draws 3 cards from a Holy Nova.

Museum Curator: Everybody keeps picking huge legendary dragons with these Museum Curators.  Why?  If Chillmaw belongs in the deck, put Chillmaw in the deck! This deck has enough beef as it is. Grab an Infested Tauren, Harvest Golem, or whatever's on curve.

Shadow Word: Pain - In the deck to buy time.

Brann Bronzebeard: Brann synergizes with Museum Curator, Talonpriest, and Azure Drake. Because there's so many cards in your hands at times, can combo with two Museum Curators pretty regularly. But, if he needs to be a bad 3-mana creature, he can do that.

Talonpriest - This is new Tech and I'm not sure it belongs in the deck, but it makes Brann Bronzebeard live more. This could be Temple Enforcer if the deck wasn't already so greedy.

Shadow Word: Death - There's no room for 2 Entombs because there's already so much beef. It's a cheap removal spell.

Thoughtsteal, Medivh, Ysera, Confessor Paletress, Shifting Shade, Justicar Trueheart - This is the deck's archetype.  Don't mulligan Thoughtsteal.

Mass Dispel -  A cantrip at worst. At best, I've seen it dispel two Doomsayers at once, so Freeze Mage ain't got nothin' against this card. Dispel takes down totems like a boss, and removes Taunt.

Final note:

Acidic Swamp Ooze will hit the board like a sack of bricks versus Priest because they don't think we play Medivh. Laugh at them. Maniacally.  This deck is good vs. Priest match-ups, as Dragon Priest mirrors are frustrating. The deck is semi-competitive, but like the commenters have written, it's meant to play versus friends or at below rank 10.

Fini!