Dragonlord Raza Priest 70-30 (23 to 5)
- Last updated Aug 13, 2017 (Frozen Throne)
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Wild
- 21 Minions
- 8 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Reno Priest
- Crafting Cost: 12200
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 8/13/2017 (Frozen Throne)
- Kibler
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This deck does pretty well in almost every matchup; I imagine well refined aggro Paladin/Druid will eventually beat it but those decks aren't quite there yet so those matches are roughly even. Completely destroys Control/Combo Priest/Mage/Warrior, has a slight advantage against control lock. Hardest matches are Pirate Warrior (only played 5, went 3-2) and Jade Druid (6-4, very difficult to play for both players). Surprisingly tempo/evolve Shaman is kind of scary but had a winning record against them as well. Against priest always keep Anduin/Raza because you won't lose to control and Reno priest is a tossup based on who draws and plays those cards first. Went 12-1 en route to Rank 5 from rank 8 today, last 7 matches were all against control/aggro murloc paladin and pirate warriors (all won), didn't think that would be where my win streak would come from but evidently the deck fares better in those matchups than I thought. Hunter is a strange matchup, haven't really gotten a feel for it except to say that the new hunter hero power usually sucks if it costs two mana but is pretty amazing with Raza. Won matches as thoughtstolen DK Warrior/Warlock/Hunter/Shaman, so good deck if you want to see more emotes. Keeping LK in your opening hand is pretty good in some matchups a la Dr Balanced. Only played 2 or 3 rogues, seems kind of bad for the rogue player but no idea.
Maybe it's because it's early in the meta, but I climbed quite a few ranks with this in one night. Went on a 9 game winning streak. Awesome deck.
For the record, Kibler confirmed on the "Light Shall Burn You" Hearthstone priest group on Facebook that this isn't his deck and he didn't post it.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/150117245461814/permalink/299565860516951/?comment_id=299910817149122&notif_t=group_comment&notif_id=1502743452513278
The deck looks great! I have a few questions on some card choices.
Why Acherus Veteran? Has it proven itself useful?
I'm guessing Faerie Dragon is there to enable Dragon synergy and defend the board early. How critical is early board presence? Wouldn't another, beefier dragon give better results?
Why Devour Mind and no Thoughtsteal? Isn't it a little clunky?
How comfortable do you feel not playing weapon removal? Have you tried making room for it?
Why no Netherspite Historian? Should the deck run a few more dragons if it wanted to add it in?
Acherus does well as a solo 1 drop and the buff is quite useful on any low attack minion, also any 1 drop can eventually be played for a free 2 damage ping. Faerie Dragon is just a good hard to remove 2 drop on top of synergizing with the dragons. Devour Mind is not really a tempo or look for answers play, its just a way to generate cards in the late game; more cards = more pings, average cost of a thoughtstolen card is fairly low. You could cut devour mind for a good 3/4 drop or something but Thoughtsteal wouldn't be particularly useful if played on turn 3 most of the time; I imagine thoughtsteal and devour mind perform similarly (thoughtsteal might be better now at high ranks due to the large number of very aggressive decks, but a good tempo minion (or possibly the lifesteal whirlwind) would still be better) but having both in your deck is not a good idea. Netherspite Historian just isn't very good right now, also this deck doesn't have enough dragons to justify it; Bone Drake effectively serves the same purpose but actually has a good body.