LEGEND - Veilbatross Priest
- Last updated Jul 16, 2020 (Pre-Expansion Nerfs)
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Wild
- 11 Minions
- 18 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Resurrect Priest
- Crafting Cost: 6900
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/9/2020 (Outland Release)
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I HAVE OFFICIALLY REACHED LEGEND WITH THIS LIST! COME SAY HELLO AT TWITCH.TV/POIMLOK. The inclusion of Albatross prevents non-duplicate decks from using Zeph and Straza and can also ruin the draw of any deck if you copy it enough! It's extremely strong right now! If you have any questions, post them in my Twitch chat when I am live (twitch.tv/poimlok) and I would be happy to answer them! If you would like to friend me through battle.net or Hearthstone, my tag is: Poimlok#11231 [NA]
UPDATE 5/12/20 - I hit Legend for May a few days ago and was going through updating some of my outdated lists. I have recently updated this list to what I am currently running in the meta. Teron Gorefiend creates some seriously whacky plays, especially when you copy him!
UPDATE 5/7/20 - Currently at Rank Diamond 3 post-reset. Piloting a list similar to this without albatross tonight as a test. Will update within 24 hours and post pictures and videos with results!
UPDATE 4/19- Removed an embalming for Breath. Breath slows DH more efficiently and romps a newly popular murloc paladin list! [4/19] Also helps slightly in rogue matchup. Helps against lock board flood, including carpet lock. And helps to slow Totem shaman.
I have now been told by 20+ people they have reached legend with this list.
I would like to mention that I started this climb from the lowest rank possible for a returning player (I believe that was Bronze 10) and have reached LEGEND!
At the time of writing this, I am the only person I've seen running two copies of Sethekk Veilweaver....
My question to you is.... WHY?! The card is absolutely insane.
A few quick tips....
1. Be patient with your spells- take your time every turn and seriously evaluate the turn. You can make some nutty plays if you take your time.
2. SHADOW MADNESS IS BROKEN. You will find yourself taking some lock, druid, and other crazy Primes that you shouldn't even be able to use. It also demolishes aggro and now that it costs 3 mana, it's so damn strong. You'll even find yourself getting the attack reducing priest spell off Sethekk and you can steal some mean stuff from other players.
3. Try to play several turns in advance and keep your dead minion pool to only the cards you want resurrected. Sometimes, this is inevitable. In some matchups, you won't even need to resurrect. A lot of your matchups will be reactionary and defensive.
4. Sometimes it's the right play to drop a Veilweaver on turn 2. But other times.... you should save him for a turn where you can drop 3-5 spells in a single shot with him on the board. He will repopulate your hand with priest spells faster than you think... and getting multiple copies of Soul Mirror from him pretty much gives you an auto-win.
5. This deck is not easy to play by any means. I am a legend player and I'm not sure how well a less-experienced player would be able to see the smart / patient plays.
6. Always remember that MAIVE, the 3/5 DH LEGENDARY, and Galakrond Lock running STRAZA WILL CATCH YOU OFF GUARD. It sounds silly but you need to always make sure you are well out of lethal range because these cards will catch you off guard and make you lose if you aren't expecting them.
7. DO NOT USE BOARD CLEARS UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. THIS IS IMPERATIVE.
Mulligan:
Most of the time you want to keep Smite, Penance, Sethekk Veilweaver, Holy Nova, Convincing Infiltrator (control), VARGOTH, Shadow Madness, Albatross
VARGOTH WINS GAMES. In a control matchup, you keep him every single time. In an aggro matchup, you keep him if you have one of the above cards for the early game!
Against aggro you should definitely keep Shadow Madness and Holy Nova
If you have questions message me, any suggestions appreciated and welcomed! Stay positive as Blizzard adds changes to DH so we don't discourage them from adding DKs and Monks! <3
Side note! - I am hosting a tournament on Friday, 4/23 at 9:30pm EST for followers/subs. First come first serve. 6 spots are left. No entry fee. Classic and Basic sets ONLY. No DH. NO HoF. Message me if you would like to participate. I will gift the winner of the tournament 15 packs from the set of his/her choice! More details at Twitch.tv/poimlok.
Check out this playthrough by Tommy Wave! Thanks for piloting!
Hey buddy! To be honest, you have some fair points- but one combination of cards that defies all reasoning is Vargoth + Mass Resurrection. This combination wins matchups alone.
Another is vs 90% of matchups, Vargoth turn 4 into Psyche Split on turn 5 is an instant win/concede. No one can do anything about it.
I'd say about 75% of the time, Vargoth is played to just simply be a 2/6 body AND TO BE ADDED TO THE RESURRECTION POOL.
Even if your death pool becomes garbage, if you Mass Res into a Vargoth, you have a filled board. These tips are particularly effective against Druid and Mage.
Vargoth + Nova wins games against aggro. Period. Vargoth on 4 against DH is also almost a taunt... it's a card that if not killed, could spiral out of control. If they kill it, oh well! He's in your res pool.
Vargoth + Madness is rare but effective. Especially against aggro like murloc paladin, carpet lock, some DH games.
Vargoth + Soul Mirror is the most broken thing in the game sometimes. Again, a rare play but still occurs every so often... and when it does, boy is it sweet.
Vargoth + Renew is pretty self explanatory, but 1 cost spell for 3, potentially 6, health and 2 random priest spells? Yes please! So strong my dude. Even if you aren't healing yourself or a minion this is a play!
Vargoth + Psyche Split in general is amazing, especially when you are cool with copying an enemy minion. I use Psyche Split on enemies more than I use it on friendlies, too. Keep in mind sometimes that is a play, even without Vargoth. Psyche MELTS druid taunts [Colossus]. Vargoth + Psyche = GG.
Vargoth should almost never be used with Smite or Penance unless the odds are strongly in your favor and losing the gamble won't set you back overly far.
Board control into Vargoth + Apotheosis is also not very frequent, but VERY effective.
I hope these thoughts all helped you understand the reasoning a little further. If you would like to see it in action, come watch me play some games at legend rank on twitch.tv/poimlok
I'd be happy to answer any other questions you may have! Best of luck! Dont give up!
Editing my Vargoth opinion a bit now. I didn't even realize what a Vargoth-Shadow Madness combo would do until it happened to me (with two Vargoths up by my enemy). Didn't even know that was the interaction. Nice.
Don't get me wrong. I love the deck. Anything that fucks over highlanders and just screws with people relentlessly is A+ in my book. If I am forcing aggro decks into 45 minute long games, I consider it a win even if I lose.
Hahahahah. I didn't take your posts negatively by any means. I completely agree. I love decimating HL's and I really enjoy a long, thought-provoking matchup! Glad you're finding out the secrets of the list <3
Good and fun deck. Sethekk Veilweaver is like magic.
Shadow Madness can steal the Libram of Wisdom.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you're enjoying it. Seems like you are potentially a high-rank player too! Fantastic. Thanks for playing and leaving a comment! <3
Just wanted to say I love this deck, easily more entertaining than Rez priest decks where you play to fatigue all day long! Just wanted to share my experience with this deck thus far.
First 10-15 games. Felt a lot of rage at loosing the majority of my games with this deck. I was not utilising Sethekk Veilweaver as well as I could have done, I kept using it at turn 2-4 and only get 1 or 2 spell chains off it, this was really punishing until I learnt to be patient, sometimes take a bit of punishment before I could unleash the full combo. Additionally to this, I also took too much risk in using Vargoth at bad timing, meaning aggro decks punished me a lot before I could do much. My mulligan game was okay from following the written guide to this deck but reading something and putting it into action are whole different things. I got really frustrated with this build and swapped back to my Rez deck for about 4 games, upon playing that deck I realised I was playing Rez priest much better than I had before and realised I must have been improving as a player so I tried this deck again and played about 15 more ranked games.
Last 15 ranked games - went from Rank Plat 10 to Rank Plat 3 - this was in a space of only a few hours. I can definitely see me getting to diamond and maybe legend with this. Thank you @PoimlokTTV for this deck, answering my questions on stream and responding to the comments. I'll update you on Diamond Achieving and Legend ;) The Unique thing about this deck is, it has the ability to be amazing in the right hands but absolutely terrible in -lowexperienced player's hands. For you are playing now and not getting the results you need try to play around Sethekk more mid to late game and use your Renew to generate board clear - it can be a MASSIVE life saver :)
Thanks!
Wow! I could not have said it better myself. This was a major reason why I included the skill component in my tips section. I think you are absolutely correct- in a less experienced/skilled player's hands, this deck is probably awful, lol. But learning to be patient, learning that it's ok to take a lot of damage sometimes, and learning just the general idea of this deck is very much worth the payoff. Granted, I promote my stream on this page because it directly benefits my stream, but I truly am also doing it to help anyone who gives this list a shot and does not fully understand how it works! I strongly encourage those who are not getting the results with this deck to ask me questions, whether that is through my stream, these comments, or through just a simple whisper in game. I'm so glad that you took the time to practice with it and are finally seeing the results!! Thank you so much for this in depth write up, I think it will help encourage a lot more players. Best of luck and you know I'm always here! <3
Cool deck. Played it from Diamond 5 to Diamond 1 one Star and then pushed back and forth between Diamond 2 and Diamond 1. Switched to Galakrond Warlock and got the last Stars to Legend but this deck helped a lot to get there thanks bro.
Awesome! Grats on hitting legend! <3 so glad this helped you get there. Thank you so much for the positive comment!
Beautiful deck! Absolutley love it. Im use old version of it, but made a small change. Just add gala for control matchups, i see author did that too.
Great deck but my opinion apotheosis do such small impact.
When opponent rage leave game with 20 albatrosses in deck is pure gold. Feels good ...
Haha! Thank you so much. I agree, the albatross sensation can be quite hysterical! xD
Apotheosis could be debated, but here are some major reasons I use it-
1. I'm within lethal range and just tossing it on a minion for a small amount of life gives me another turn to survive.
2. Apotheosis synergizes extremely well with Vargoth, Veilweaver, and Soul Mirror. Most people don't notice that you can simply Apoth an opponent's minion and then Mirror and board wipe, maybe keep an extra minion, AND gain life- especially if you put it on a bigger minion. It can be a big tempo play!
3. Apotheosis also has helped me just simply trade out minions efficiently at times, even if I don't get the life gain bonus out of it.
4. Turn 2 Sethekk into turn 3 Apotheosis is an instant GG against some decks. It's rare, but it happens, and it snowballs out of control for your opponent very quickly. Works very well against druid who quite literally needs a wrath turn 2 or they die lol
Thank you so much for using the deck and leaving positive vibes! Much love!
I'm 24-8 with the deck and Apotheosis has won me at least a quarter of those games outright.
Galakron without Kronx ? Seriously ? Destroyed in 5 turn by any aggro deck, impossible at all to reach legend with this deck... You do not even have any aoe except useless Holy nova ....
which aggro deck exactly, i have no problem agaisnt hunter / DH.
90% of the decks are aggro deck so winning percentage of this deck is 10% ... Useless, do not spent anything on it
Not true, I felt this until I figured out how to play with the deck better. You have everything you need to cope with aggro decks. I felt the same as you until I got better at using the deck.
Did you just tell me it was impossible to reach legend with a deck that I have streamed the last three days live and reached legend? I have no legitimate response for you, Okramz.
I'm at 75% win rate with 32 games, my dude. I have not lost to a single aggro deck. What in the world are you talking about?
This deck has some super funny combos if you get lucky! I'm loving it!
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS! LOVE IT! Thanks for sharing!