Hearthpwn

Being a Rogue main and not be able to play this is painful.

Soon, you will be mine soon....

 powerful, fun to play deck with a lot of cool interactions. suffers against aggro hunters a bit, but still it's a big pleasure to play this rogue! thx for a deck!

Two hundred games later, and I made it all the way up to rank #6 for September. The horrors that this deck is capable of summoning are terrifying to behold. Army of the Dead in particular can win a game on the spot, as can a well-timed Necrium Vial.

This deck is great! I've got a 70%+ win rate right now with 20 games played (currently at rank 14 - so things could change). I made a few adjustments to the deck list from my own experience. 

Remove 2x Cavern Shinyfinder - while it's an increased chance to get Necrium Blade is nice, I found that this card got in the way of Kobold Illusionist more than anything. 

Replace with:

1x Bloodmage Thalnos - some extra card draw or a damage bump to clear the board. 

1x Deranged Doctor - a great heal and an 8 mana body.

I haven't had this much fun with a new deck in quite a while. Giving Big Priest a taste of its own medicine is extremely refreshing. It's got a bit of a learning curve, but I'm enjoying the climb so far. There are a few cards in the deck I'm not *quite* sure how to best use that I've been tempted to slot out, but I'm gradually beginning to see their purpose. Not auto-playing Barnes on curve has been a hard lesson to learn, for one thing. :P 

Great deck overall - thanks a lot!

Amazing deck. Thanks for the share.

I honestly do LOVE this deck.. its extremely fun to play...  yet i dont really know the strat behind it.. other then to win  :)

at start.. what are the best cards to muligan for?  i just want to understand it better.. because i think it does have potential.  

I like how Cavern Shinyfinder has an inherent 99% probability to be the chosen target of Barnes and Y'Shaarj

This deck is truely elegant and surprisingly effective. It kills controlldecks efficiently and counters surprisingly well an amount of aggrodecks due to its surprise-effects.

It carried me constantly from rank 9 to 5 with a very high win rate. Its only weak to odd paladin, rogue and even shaman

Can this deck work without Sonya Shadowdancer and Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound?

in my experience the biggest combo builds around [card]Kobold Illusionist[/card], [card]Necrium Blade[/card][card],Silver Vanguard[/card] and the 8 mana minions like sneeds, arthas, kelthuzad and ragnaros.

The other stuff just enhanceses that combo. Especially [card]Sonya Shadowdancer/card] was often a dead hand, at least in my personal hand, she causes some ridicoulus situations, though.

Maybe you can replace her with a second [card]Necrium Vial [/card] or Vanish

I think Sonya Shadowdancer is a bit of an overkill win more card and she isn't great to pull off Barnes. Necrium Vial is bad IMO and I found that Belcher was a much more consistent way to survive aggro. Dane later adjusted this deck to use 2 Sludge Belcher, Baron Rivendare, 1 Mad Scientist, and 1 Cavern Shinyfinder and I think it is the better for it. I won one game in particular where all I had to do was outlast one hyper-buffed mech from Mech Pally, the endless wall of Belchers was my win condition.

what did he cut ?

Nice deck!
Love to kick Big Priest ass with it :D

Why no N'zoth?

Dont have umbra, shredder and sonya. So I put double cube and thalnos. Fun effect :)

N'Zoth is really bad to get from your mana-cheat mechanics, dont put him in this deck.

Cool stories from rank 10 

Great deck. Took out the preparations for Gruul and a Deranged Doctor. 

I find I run out of 8 costs often, and Deranged Doctor has saved me quite a bit on burn decks. 

Fought against it, scary deck indeed! Was Priest and Hunter, both losses.

I won first two games with this, although won't last much longer as game will adjust to find a deck to screw me with.  Anyway, this is a fun deck, something different from Odd, Maly, etc.  Most opponents don't see it coming. Dane's decks are fun to play.