Wall Priest has nothing to do with Malygos. Aside that, who says Wall Priest will be the only viable priest deck? You don't even know which cards will be released next expansion. There are different classes who use multiple decks.
Wall Priest probably won't be viable anymore because Shadow Visions is rotating out. Divine Spirit isn't consistent without it.
Quote from www.vicioussyndicate.com: "The clock is ticking. If you are a big Priest fan, enjoy it while you can. There’s a danger that this is the last month the class will be competitive for a long time."
The basic priest set has nice tricks for control purposes. Shadow Word: Madness and Mass Dispel are greatly underrated and can swing a game. And for not being always effective in what it captures, it is amazing to see ragequits from using card copying techs like Thoughtsteal.
Unfortunately, Hearthstone generally isn't control vs. control, and aside from getting lucky with Inner Fire and a really big health minion on the board, they don't have a fast victory condition in the default set.
So comes the need for big mass removal vs. aggro, so comes the need for victory conditions, etc.
Somehow I am putting my hope on Princess Talanji, which I have found out to be very powerful on my quest priest deck. Quest archtype will ofcourse be dead but maybe some new type will be evolved around Princess Talanji and i.e. Seance and hopefully few new cards that we do not know yet.
Donais: There's lots of other candidates. We talked about cards like Malygos, which we talk about every year. We decided not to go with Malygos again, because of all the new decks that he creates. An important thing in card games is to have different types of decks. Not every type of deck should be medium-sized minions fighting. There needs to be small minions, big minions, and there needs to be some Malygos decks and other tricky decks that have different game plans. That's what makes card games interesting.
'There needs to be some Malygos decks.' For what reason? Doesn't there need to be Alexstraza decks, or Ysera decks? That Malygos stays is prime example of catering into the wishes of the target audience, demanding besides aggression, easy fix OTK. Card design politics circles around keeping the meta polarized.
That means Wall priest will remain viable which denotes bleak perspective for new viable archetypes in the priest department. Therefore, don't see any ' very good' priest cards cards coming in.
I do not see wall priest viable without rezzes, both of them will be gone... the power of the wall priest was anyhow capability of rezzing key minions or huge taunt wall, again and again untill one of the high health minions will survive one turn to put out finishing combo.
I mean, every single class will lose significant amounts of their core sets, because the rotation takes out the most powerful sets in Hearthstone history. The only class that will sort of survive this, with a semi-realistic deck still, will be Paladin, whose Odd-Paladin and Even-Paladin certainly will be able to survive the onslaught.
I mean, every single class will lose significant amounts of their core sets, because the rotation takes out the most powerful sets in Hearthstone history. The only class that will sort of survive this, with a semi-realistic deck still, will be Paladin, whose Odd-Paladin and Even-Paladin certainly will be able to survive the onslaught.
I mean, every single class will lose significant amounts of their core sets, because the rotation takes out the most powerful sets in Hearthstone history. The only class that will sort of survive this, with a semi-realistic deck still, will be Paladin, whose Odd-Paladin and Even-Paladin certainly will be able to survive the onslaught.
I mean, every single class will lose significant amounts of their core sets, because the rotation takes out the most powerful sets in Hearthstone history. The only class that will sort of survive this, with a semi-realistic deck still, will be Paladin, whose Odd-Paladin and Even-Paladin certainly will be able to survive the onslaught.
Genn and baku are rotating
Look at Captain Foresight over here, correcting somebody two months after the original comment, omegalul.
I mean, every single class will lose significant amounts of their core sets, because the rotation takes out the most powerful sets in Hearthstone history. The only class that will sort of survive this, with a semi-realistic deck still, will be Paladin, whose Odd-Paladin and Even-Paladin certainly will be able to survive the onslaught.
You forgot Odd Warrior, most of it's core cards are from this years sets.
Why are people claiming wall priest will be good? All of the resurrect mechanics rotate out along with Oakheart and tar creeper. Plus forbidden words will make quick work of a 2/14 minion.
I mean, every single class will lose significant amounts of their core sets, because the rotation takes out the most powerful sets in Hearthstone history. The only class that will sort of survive this, with a semi-realistic deck still, will be Paladin, whose Odd-Paladin and Even-Paladin certainly will be able to survive the onslaught.
You forgot Odd Warrior, most of it's core cards are from this years sets.
well, baku is going to the hall of fame, so you can say that odd warrior is going to rotate to wild next expansion
Wall Priest has nothing to do with Malygos.
Aside that, who says Wall Priest will be the only viable priest deck?
You don't even know which cards will be released next expansion.
There are different classes who use multiple decks.
This is the problem with taking turns. Everyone thinks it should be their turn again.
Free to try and find a game, dealing cards for sorrow, cards for pain.
Wall Priest probably won't be viable anymore because Shadow Visions is rotating out. Divine Spirit isn't consistent without it.
Quote from www.vicioussyndicate.com:
"The clock is ticking. If you are a big Priest fan, enjoy it while you can. There’s a danger that this is the last month the class will be competitive for a long time."
Objection!!!
I miss the good old control priest deck that didn't have a win condition.
I also miss those days :)
Win conditon was to force your oponnent out of cards in his hand/deck. Nowadays even Hunter has a reliable draw/resource generation mechanic.
Objection!!!
Forbiden words is quite a good card, let's see which other 9/8(we might be back to 1 legendary per class) cards priest gets
Big Priest still to strong !!!
Just leave standard
The basic priest set has nice tricks for control purposes. Shadow Word: Madness and Mass Dispel are greatly underrated and can swing a game. And for not being always effective in what it captures, it is amazing to see ragequits from using card copying techs like Thoughtsteal.
Unfortunately, Hearthstone generally isn't control vs. control, and aside from getting lucky with Inner Fire and a really big health minion on the board, they don't have a fast victory condition in the default set.
So comes the need for big mass removal vs. aggro, so comes the need for victory conditions, etc.
Seance does not steal, it copies...
Somehow I am putting my hope on Princess Talanji, which I have found out to be very powerful on my quest priest deck. Quest archtype will ofcourse be dead but maybe some new type will be evolved around Princess Talanji and i.e. Seance and hopefully few new cards that we do not know yet.
I do not see wall priest viable without rezzes, both of them will be gone... the power of the wall priest was anyhow capability of rezzing key minions or huge taunt wall, again and again untill one of the high health minions will survive one turn to put out finishing combo.
Genn and baku are rotating
This!
He made that post BEFORE Blizzard announced it
Objection!!!
Look at Captain Foresight over here, correcting somebody two months after the original comment, omegalul.
It also loses baku, which is arguably a pretty good card in that deck.
Gwen and Baku will rotate out
Why are people claiming wall priest will be good? All of the resurrect mechanics rotate out along with Oakheart and tar creeper. Plus forbidden words will make quick work of a 2/14 minion.
well, baku is going to the hall of fame, so you can say that odd warrior is going to rotate to wild next expansion
You're right! my bad :)