Super Budget Elemental Priest[UPDATED]
- Last updated Aug 2, 2017 (Quest Rogue Nerf)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 10 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Control Priest
- Crafting Cost: 720
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 7/30/2017 (Quest Rogue Nerf)
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Battle Tag:
Hideaki#2964
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Total Deck Rating
155
Hi everyone!
First, I am sorry for my English, but I hope you will understand me.
My name is Hideaki. I create a very cheap and funny deck for beginners and f2p players.
I tried to imagine that I was new, I didn’t have much dust to spend, but I want win.
Priest is interesting class. He can do good trades and healing your minions. His spells are strong and control.
This deck contains mostly basic and common cards, so it’s for new players. I added two rare cards because we need Tol'vir Stoneshaper and Servant of Kalimos for our elemental synergy. You can reach easily rank 15 but if you understand deck mechanic you will be much more effective (rank 10 maybe).
Deck basic
This deck is control-combo.
We have strong and value minions like Tar Creeper, Chillwind Yeti, Lightspawn, Tol'vir Stoneshaper, Servant of Kalimos and Boulderfist Ogre. These minions have value. We need value. Other cards are buffs for our minions – Divine Spirit, Power Word: Shield. Removals – Shadow Word: Pain, Shadow Word: Death. Heal Holy Nova and Northshire Cleric for drawing cards.
How to play this deck
First, we need a good mulligan. The best mulligan is, when we can play card every turn. Yes, Boulderfist Ogre is a good card, but we can’t play this card before turn 6. We need an early drop. Ideal mulligan is Fire Fly or Northshire Cleric, River Crocolisk, Igneous Elemental or Tar Creeper. Remember, good start is everything!
Second. Very important are good trades and board clearing. We want to have always minions on board. Board must be ours! We have lot of removals and minions buffing. Enemy play minions, we remove them and fill board with our cards.
Third is our Elemental mechanic. We have a lot Elementals – Fire Fly, Igneous Elemental, Tar Creeper, Lightspawn and Servant of Kalimos. These Elementals have a synergy. Tol'vir Stoneshaper gets taunt and divine shield and Servant of Kalimos discover another Elemental. Try to use this synergy.
Fourth. We have a good combo – Lightspawn and Power Word: Shield, Divine Spirit (or both). With this deck is possible make 36/36 Lightspawn but 10/10 from one Divine Spirit is good too.
Card explanation
Fire Fly – this card has good value. Solid 1-drop and give us another Elemental – Flame Elemental. Good for Elemental synergy.
Northshire Cleric – basic Priest card. We need many cards. Keep this minion alive.
Power Word: Shield – great buff. We need keep our minions alive and this spell will help us. Great synergy with Lightspawn, Tol'vir Stoneshaper and Tar Creeper.
Divine Spirit – same as Power Word: Shield. Great buff. Use it on our important minions.
River Crocolisk – solid 2-drop with great stats
Shadow Word: Pain – good removal
Igneous Elemental – good 3-drop with two Flame Elemental in deathrattle
Shadow Word: Death – great removal. Use for removing big minions and taunts.
Tar Creeper – value this card is incredibly. Strong taunt and elemental. We can use it in our elemental synergy.
Chillwind Yeti – our best 4-drop
Lightspawn – one of our key card. Keep this card in safe and try to make combo with Power Word: Shield or Divine Spirit.
Tol'vir Stoneshaper – another key card. Nice combo with other Elementals.
Holy Nova – AoE healing/damaging spell. Great with Northshire Cleric.
Servant of Kalimos – synergy with Elementals. Try to play this card after elemental minion.
Boulderfist Ogre – our strongest drop
Can i replace yeti with priest of the feast?
I got Shadowreaper Anduin as my free DK, how could I use it on this deck?
Anduin DK Is primarily focused around small cost combos, whereas this is based around elemental control combo. The problem I found with anduin is that it works really well in decks with specific cards such as raza. It only works slightly well in others, dealing about 4 mana 4 damage per turn and requiring lots of reload long term. In this deck you'd probably replace a card such as boulderfist as to not ruin the theme or the mana curve of the deck. Anduin will do you well in removal and survivability, but not much else.
TLDR Anduin DK is best for kazakus based, but could work with firefly and servant.
Stonehill Defender is a must in any budget deck. Discover in general grants access to cards you may not otherwise have and it's just a huge value in a priest deck in general. That along with Servant of Kalimos make the value core of most good budget decks. I know they're rare and "ultra budget" or whatever has a problem with them but they're requirements if you want to get past 20 on the ladder for <1600 dust.
Agree
Needed a quick preist deck for this quest. Thanks!
Oracle have terrible stats for this tempo (aggro?) minion-based deck, but u can think about replacing River Crocolisk for some elemental synergy.
Hello guys!
I am glad that someone is making these budget versions of decks for newer players and free 2 play players.
I am free 2 play my self but it has been a long time since I played a really low cost deck and I forgot how challenging it can be.
Here is a video of me playing the deck and not having luck I would say. First two matches were against other priests and they just outvalued me with their expensive cards. Then I got match versus pirate warriror, where I got a bit salty and switched the crocolisks for something more useful - golakas. After that I was matched versus aggro druid... well, see for yourself.
Overall it did not work for me that well, but I definitely think you can climb with it. Thank you for your attention and see you later! :)
Why no Radiant Elemental? It is common!
It's a river croc with an upgrade and the Elemental tag. I don't see why it wouldn't be included either
This deck works really well but have to suggest at least 1 Inner Fire for some cheeky wins
Hey, thanks for making this! I recently invested in a budget elemental mage deck, despite the fact priest is my favorite class. I luckily have all of the cards on the list already. Can't wait to try it out!
UPDATE:
Played a few games with a modded version of this. Got Lyra twice in the same game from Servant of Kalimos.
10/10 would play again
Holly shit, Hideaki Anno is still genius
+1 inner fire + 1 Stormwatcher for a funny surprise 64 damage burst in 2 turns.. XD
edit:
I removed the 2 rivercroc for radiant ele, 2 yetis for 2 shadow visions and 2 Ogre for ^
Upvoted because I appreciate the effort people put into making budget decks constrained to only 1 or 2 sets, which makes much more sense for beginners who are too busy opening Classic packs or "the latest set" and who won't get cards from older sets other than by crafting them (and one should avoid crafting commons in general).
Nice, and thank you.
I have a serious problem with any list that includes river croc. It is quite simply bad.
There are 2 common replacements with exactly the same stats, but with an upside: radiant elemental (which is an elemental!), and armani berserker.
Other budget replacements are many: volatile elemental, stubborn gastropod, mad bomber, loot hoarder. faerie dragon, dire wolf alpha, and acidic swamp ooze.
For slightly more dust there are several rare 2 drops which would never be a bad choice to craft: sunfury protector, wild pyromancer, and knife juggler.
Any of these cards would be a serious upgrade. Against slower metas i would suggest the gastropod, and agianst faster metas i would suggest wild pyro or mad bomber.
You forgot Golakka Crawler which is basically the same, but with a situational upside.
you are absolutely correct. my mistake for overlooking it.
While I agree with you in concept, I think it's important to create budget decks using the free classic cards-- it gives a more realistic crafting cost for a beginner that has only opened a handful of packs. You're right, those cards have the same statlines and situational (or better) effects.
tl;dr: I think river croc is a very good PLACEHOLDER in a beginner / budget deck. It's free for all players and everyone is guaranteed to have it.