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The advantage of "Priests can heal themselves to undo the self damage!" is completely moot when you really shouldn't be spending mana healing yourself in these kinds of decks. Same goes to Shadowbomber. 

Why are so many people treating this card as a guaranteed 2/4 with taunt? Also, you are forced to roll Dragon Priest....with neutral costed minions that are balanced for all classes to use. To bad Priests didn't get the Consort. That would have helped things a lot.

Too slow, weak body/terrible stats, doesn't interact with any Priest mechanics, and then there's that whole random legendary thing. If you're going to spend 9 mana on a drop, it has to do something that turn. No one plays high mana for good stats, and if you're missing out on battle cries, then you may very may be just paying 9 mana for stats that don't affect the board. 

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Can we just take a minute to think about how OP Flash Heal OTK Priest is going to be? Auchenai, prophet velen and some flash heals (maybe some mind blasts). Hit it all with Thaurissan  and BAM OTK. All you need is a card draw engine with pyro + Acolyte of Pain + Circle w/ northshire. It's pretty doable considering patron warrior is insane and revolves around the same idea.

A lot of Warrior cards in Patron decks are versatile enough to be used by themselves. Taskmaster can ping a 1 drop on turn 2. Frothing can be dropped on 3. It also helps that they have weapons that can 2 for 1 all day long. If you are at a bad spot, you can burn a whirlwind and battle rage and not be set back considerably. Priest OTK cards do not have that versatility. Flash Heal will not get you out of a jam. Velen will be a dead card in your hand if you do not have the combo (if he dies after dropping it, you lose your win condition). You need Soul Priests for any of the heals to work (You can spawn a board of Patrons without Warsong if you must). These instances of flexibility are crucial for how Patron can just react and stall against so many deck types. For Priests, you either have a specific combo in your hand or you don't, and if you don't you lose because you end up wasting your OTK cards to stay alive or in the instances of Mind Blast...nothing.

"Slower" Hunter decks will emerge..that will still somehow be able to outdamage other classes doing their best impression of aggro.

With weapons and a 3 mana mini consecrate, they'll be able to keep your minions off the board while their minions....go face.