9/4 Priest [China]
- Last updated Jan 2, 2016 (Explorers)
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Wild
- 15 Minions
- 15 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 5020
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 9/22/2014 (Naxx Launch)
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Battle Tag:
Mart#1602
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Total Deck Rating
1000
NiHao and welcome to "Let's have some fun by stealing all you have"
This priest deck has seen some popularity over on the chinese servers due to its alternative playstyle that also includes a lot of fun. It's called the 9/4 priest, because it includes 9 cards that steal the opponent's minion as well as 4 spells that steal the opponent's cards. You like that, little thief!
About Me
Hello party people! I am Mart23 and a dedicated shaman player... or so I thought. You can find my popular Shaman deck here: Shaman Showtime. If you want to practice shaman and priest matchups feel free to add me ingame on the European servers. My battleTag is Mart#1602.
Deck Changes
Over the last couple of days I have tried out a slight adaption to deck to deal with the early aggression just a bit better. The changes made were [date: 9/29]:
- +2 Wild Pyromancer (swapping out 2x Shades)
- +1 Holy Nova (dropping a single Shadow Word: Pain)
A lot of interesting suggestions have been made in the comment section below. Some of them supported the theme of the deck, some focussed more on the possible stronger decklist. I'd like to thank you for your ideas. Reason why I do not change the decklist as drastically as some of you have implied is because the deck already does well in the current meta. If you change too much of it you should probably just stick to either the Control Priest deck (Amaz, Kibler, ...) or Zetalot Deck.
Deck Breakdown
Let's have a look why this deck is so different from the usual priest we see on the ladder at the moment.
The Glorious 9:
2x Mind Control Tech : That little guy prevents aggro decks from rushing us down while establishing a board.
2x Shadow Madness : A midgame card to trade opponent's minions efficiently. Why would your minions do the dirty work, eh?
2x Cabal Shadow Priest : Good body and sometimes huge value. It's all about weakening their board.
1x Sylvanas Windrunner : Arguably the best midgame control card in this game. Great synergy with Shadow Word: Death for 9 Mana, if needed. Amaz would be proud.
2x Mind Control : The way to deal with lategame powercards such as Tirion.
The Fancy 4:
2x Mind Vision : Theoretically a weaker version of Thoughtsteal, but then again i only costs 1 Mana.
2x Thoughtsteal : This card can really turn the tides in some matchups like Shaman.
In order to stay alive against aggro and midrange decks, the following cards complement the decklist:
2x Sen'jin Shieldmasta : 5 health for 4 mana is a safe drop most of the times.
2x Sludge Belcher : Super sticky minion that often leads to awkward enemy trading.
2x Holy Fire : With so many 5 health minions out there at the moment just a great way to deal with it and heal at the same time.
Mulligan
Generally said, the first thing to consider when you mulligan is whether the opponent plays some aggro deck or not. In most cases you are better off when you mulligan for early removal/aoe. If you face a warlock for example, try to get a Wild Pyromancer and also keep a 1 mana Spell. If you have the coin, keep it fpr the pyro! In addition, having one Shadow Word: Pain can come in handy. However, only use it for the Knife Juggler or Dire Wolf Alpha. It's usually very strong to play a Mind Control Tech (if he has 4 minions obviously) and follow up with a Shadow Madness the next turn. Usually that's when you start to stabilize.
Against Control decks, the basic Northshire Cleric + Shield combo is just as strong as in any other priest deck. However, with no Blademaster or Dark cultist in this deck, you will play much slower (one could say more reactively) overall. Against Warrior I like to keep 1 Mind Control Tech and hope for a steal on the Armor Smith or Acolyte of Pain. Since the games are slower, Thoughsteal is a reasonable play on turn 3.
I think Auchenai Soulpriest has a better body.
Can i Replace Recombobulator with something?
Amazing deck! 100% win against control warrior!:D
Reviving a classic for quests. I love this deck. =)
Any thoughts on revising this for TGT? Perhaps a Convert or Power Word: Glory?
Have a few questions
1. Is this deck still viable with the release of tgt.
2. In the part where you mention the glorious nine. It said 2 mine control techs. But in the deck list only one. Did u replace something for it?
it said the changes were made at 9/29. It's either I'm very stupid or u mistyped it. Doesn't 9/29 mean sept 29. And you made this deck in 2015 which is the current year which mean u mean sept 9,2015. So am I stupid or something
This deck is hilariously bad, I don't think I've ever seen a priest deck this trash
Avoid
Deck still seems viable even in current meta. Only a few minor changes necessary.
-1 Mind Control Tech
-1 Shadow Madness
+2 Shrinkmeister
Proceed.
Is this really viable to you? I always lose control early on if I don't draw removal spells and the Northshire cleric is worthless since it has no impact on board.By the time I play a taunt I pretty much lost all the board control.
The creator of the deck was brilliant, and the deck itself is of great fun.
But many players has blackened its name by saying too many 'thank you' when using a stolen card (at least that's what happened in China). I don't know if it's also the same in other countries.
I love this deck.. so fun to play.. and still rocking.. went 15-2 last night rank 15 range.. ;)
I'm also playing it everyday since the release in September. I got 350 ranked wins overall only with this deck, it helped me to reach rank 4 last season. But i switched some cards out:
- 2 Sen'jin Shieldmasta (Cause there are other good ways to get into the lategame)
- 1 Mindcontrol Tech (I think one MCT is enough cause the enemy doesn't have 4 minions everytime on the board)
+ 1 Shrinkmeister (Works well with Cabal Shadow Priest, Shadow Madness, SW Pain)
+1 Recombobulator (Works well with Shadow Madness, when you can't get your Shadow Madness target into death by trade.
+1 Kezan Mystic (No need for explain, just more stealing possibility)
a) This is from an older, different meta. b) Do you even priest? :P
I don't know if anybody has brought this up yet, but what are thoughts on using Leeroy Jenkins, so you can force the issue with Mind Control Tech? Worse comes to worse there are not many cards that Leeroy can't remove either if you end up grabbing one of his 1/1 whelps.
8 mana combo with a 50-40% chance of getting 1/1 whelp?
I think I like leeroy better as a finisher, and this isn't an aggro deck, so I don't see him fitting too well.
I had a ton of fun with this deck and got from 16 to 12 with no losses, but now I've hit a wall going up against aggro hunter and warlock. :/ it feels like I have to rely on specific cards like mind control tech, wild pyro, shadow madness, holy nova, etc and if I don't have them in my hand I'm pretty much screwed. especially since I can't play most of my minions until turn 5 and by then it's usually too late anyway.
I think more AOE might help so I was thinking about swapping Sylvanas Windrunner with another Holy Nova since I haven't been getting much use out of her. either that or Mass Dispel to bring the cost down. what do you think?
just wanted to know with what can i replace a cabal :D
Cabal is probably one of the best priest cards.
came up against this deck last night, so annoying that most of the cards the dude played were mine! hate this deck, lol
If you're hating your mirror match, and so does your opponent, you're doing it right.