Cultist Control
- Last updated Aug 23, 2014 (Naxx Launch)
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Wild
- 16 Minions
- 14 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 4760
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 10/17/2013 (Beta Patch 3937)
- Tehstool
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Total Deck Rating
846
This deck has had a major overhaul since I last updated it (Janurary 5th!).
After some testing, this deck is outdated and inferior to: http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/87443-week-5-priest
Mulligan
Generally you are going to want to mulligan for your Dark Cultist, Injured Blademaster, Circle of Healing, Wild Pyromancer, Holy Smite, Northshire Cleric, and sometimes keeping a Power Word: Shield if your hand can support it. You also sometimes want the Auchenai Soulpriest and/or Shadow Word: Death
Against aggro you will want to mulligan for more anti aggro cards. So Circle of Healing + Auchenai Soulpriest, Wild Pyromancer, Power Word: Shield, Holy Smite, Dark Cultist, Injured Blademaster, etc.
Against control and midrange you are going to want to mulligan for the Dark Cultist, Injured Blademaster, Auchenai Soulpriest, Wild Pyromancer, Power Word: Shield, Holy Smite, Circle of Healing, and possibly keeping a Shadow Word: Death depending on the matchup.
Early to End Game
This just consists of making smart trades to control the board.
Card Changes
- I am currently debating on whether or not I should use 2 Azure Drakes and 1 Cabal Shadow Priest or 2 Cabal Shadow Priests and 1 Azure Drake. I will have to test this out more when the Dark Cultist comes out.
- I am also debating on adding a Sludge Belcher or two.
- A Mind Blast or a Silence can be switched in for an Azure Drake and/or Loatheb depending on the meta.
- I think a Shadow Word: Pain could be good in this deck.
I had a 75% win rate with this deck after 11 matches then I started to face Paladins now I'm at 61% and it feels like I just can't win the match against them, the game usually goes on until the last 5 or so cards but I lose the game. Any tips for a Paladin match or is that just one of the things this deck is weak to?
I think the deck is probably just weak to paladins because of the low minion count. I'd say that this new deck fares pretty well in the current meta (used it to get to rank 3 so far from 25): http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/87443-week-5-priest
Thanks for your comment, and I'm glad the deck worked out!
would this work without sylvanas?
Sylvanas is really good for priest. It would be hard to replace her.
I feel that the deck would be worse without her in it, but I'd say that you can probably use any good 6 drop to replace her if you do not have her. So another cabal, a sunwalker, cairne (even though I don't like him in priest), argent commander, and even a boulderfist ogre or a temple enforcer could do.
those sound like good replacements, do you think a faceless manipulator could possibly work also instead of sylvanas? also how is this deck working in the ladder right now?
Yeah a faceless could work, especially with rag in the deck. I'd also say that I've had better matches with a modified version of Zetalot's priest deck which you can find here: http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/89664-zetalots-deathrattle-madness-regularly-updated. I feel that that deck works really well.
The most notable change that I made was that I switched out cairne for harrison because of all the hunters.
Thanks for the help dude, I really like priest decks and wish I could find a really stable one that I can use. Only problem I'm running into using these decks is that the only legendary I will consider dusting is my golden leeroy because I'm really bored of extremely aggro decks and hunter. So at this moment it seems like the only thing I can get to work in a priest deck is probably rag + loatheb or something.
I was thinking of copying a deck that amaz has listed as a work in progress but I'm honestly lost in what I can do to try and climb ladder with priest.
That deck is also pretty good. If you are missing the legendaries I still think you could have some success with Zetalot's deck.
Ok, thank you so much for your feedback and for your time. Keep up the awesome work :) I'm gunna mess around with a few of these decks I can create and see which one works best for me, also do you know how well these do against hunters?
In my experience you need a good start in order to beat them, which is why I said Zetalot's deck was better because it is easier to get a good starting hand. I'd say it fares pretty well for not being designed to be an anti hunter deck.
is there anything i could use to replace the cairne in that?
Anything that we previously discussed. So any good 6 drop or possibly a faceless if your options are limited. If you have harrison then he'd probably be ideal.
I think he can be good against aggro decks, but I still don't know how good he is overall. I don't think he is so great versus hunter for example. With that being said, I do not know if I want him in the deck or not.
He is pretty hard to fit in right now so I'd probably say you can replace thoughtsteal for him. You could switch out loatheb too, although I really like him for the other matchups.
what do u think about Zombie Chow, bro? maybe swap with Holy Smite..
I think Zombie Chow and Holy Smite are both good cards. I don't think you could switch them because you often use Holy Smite to finish off a minion or for other purposes the Zombie Chow doesn't fulfill. I think the only cards that you can really take out of this particular deck with some success are: Northshire Cleric, Thoughtsteal, or in some rare cases Holy Nova. If you really want to put him in, I'd say probably the cleric in this case because it's a minion. Otherwise I don't think he fits this decks playstyle that much.
I am also currently experimenting with a more minion based priest deck that uses the Zombie Chow. If it works out, I should be releasing it soon.
Here is the more minion based priest deck that I feel Zombie Chow fits better in:
nice!!
This deck is great been winning some games, but seems to lose if you fall back during turn 1-3,the problem seem to be running into farie dragon,as power word :pain does not work on the and the clerics can not trade. Very annoying knowing you will lose the game on turn 1
I didn't know people were still running this deck. This deck is outdated. I would say Amaz's deck would be better.