70% WR - Elephant Priest! One of the most Wacky...
- Last updated Nov 19, 2021 (Deadmines)
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Wild
- 12 Minions
- 18 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Clone Priest
- Crafting Cost: 5240
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 11/19/2021 (Deadmines)
- Supersenter
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Battle Tag:
Supersenter#1293
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Total Deck Rating
154
Deck Overview: (Twitch.tv/supersenter) - 70% WR (19-8)
I’m a Priest main with over 1700 Priest wins and over 10000 total wins in Hearthstone. I’ve posted several decks this expansion, and do full guides on every deck I post. Check out the guide below. This deck is a ton of fun!
Mulligan Guide: Generally you are looking for your early game minions that discover/draw. If you are playing aggro, then you may want removal like Holy Smite. If you're playing control, then you may go for some value cards like Gift of Luminance with a Sethekk.
Always Keep: Pandaren Importer, Sethekk Veilweaver, Wandmaker, Enthusiastic Banker, Nazmani Bloodweaver, Venomous Scorpid
Sometimes Keep: Holy Smite (aggro), Gift of Luminance & Palm Reading (Control).
General Deck Strategy:
Previously we have seen Priest have a solid "discover" control deck that ran Sethekk Veilweaver + Nazmani Bloodweaver. This is very similar to those old decks, but with a significant improvement... ELEPHANTS! Also, almost no one is running silence; you only need to be careful against Priest/Mage.
The general win con in this deck is to constantly have minions on the board, all of those minions discover you a ton of spells or draw cards. Control your opponent with all of your discover spells ( be very smart about which spells you choose). While doing this, you should be trying to discount your spells in had, and hopefully discounting Elekk Mount + Gift of Luminance or Psyche Split.
This deck does well against pretty much everything in the meta right now, and I think it can beat just about every type of deck.
Against Aggro: Don't be too greedy. Playing Sethekk on 2 is a great defense. Use a gift of luminance on 3. The key is to make value plays, stay alive. If you can play an Elekk Mount, you most likely win. If you can create a copy of a minion that has Elekk Mount, then you definitely win. I've maybe lost to aggro twice.
Against Quests: Against Quests you mainly want to understand their gameplan, and play according to it. Play more control oriented against Pirate Warrior. Play super aggro against Mage and Warlock.
Against Control/Big Warrior/Big DH: These games are super fun. Play for value, and make a ton of Elephants. It's not uncommon to have 5 minions on the boards that all summon an elephant. Take your time, discount combo cards, and go crazy.
Card Choices:
If you have any questions about card choices or replacements. Post them in the comments and I will get back to you within a day most likely.
Replacement for Soul Mirror ?
thats a hard one.
maybe that elefant who copys spells. or another condemn.
but get soul mirror if you wonna play priest imo.
Yea Soul Mirror is a pretty major card in this deck. try to discover it off Pandaren importer if you can. I guess the best thing would be another Venomous Scorpid for more discover.
Great deck, I changed 1-2 cards, so much value against control decks, can keep up with aggro most of the time.
Thanks man! I'm at a 64% WR across 60 games now. Sitting at D2 now, taking it Legend!
Replacement for Drek’ther?
Here's really not important, just playing him for the event mainly. He is really good though because he usually pulls one sethekk or nazmani. I would just replace him him with a venomous scorpid, or a rally.
Did my own version of your deck with Rally! and some more replacements and its doing well.
I originally had Rally in this deck, but it's just too inconsistent with no 1 drops and some bad 2 drops. I replaced the Rallys, and the WR of this deck exploded. I think Rally is actually really bad/unnecessary in the deck. Drek'Thar does the same thing, raise dead gets you more minions, and rally can be discover pretty easily if you really want it.
That is why i did replacements, for sample instead of Pandaren goes Watchpost, - wandmaker +reliquary and more. I know Reliq shuffeling its prime might screw your drekthar combo, but you dont have to play it first round. Point is that Rally! is almost as good as drekthar (instead of 1, 2 or 3 cost minion you have 4/4 with no effect). Imagine ressurecting reliq, sethekk and bloodweaver every turn till your opponent doesnt have board removal, 12-3 so far.
True is rn im playing just wild, didnt fully noticed how far did meta change since seed ban so i might do a lot of changes.
Btw, i call it Ress priest - mini version.
Would you mind Posting you deck code here, I love the look of this deck but I play wild and your mini res priest sounds so fun, thanks
Ressurect Priest - Mini Version - Hearthstone Decks (hearthpwn.com)
Here you go, brother!
Very enjoyable deck to play, 5-2 so far at Diamond 4. Haven't played priest for a while so no thoughts about additions/replacements as yet but I'll keep an eye on things as I continue to play. Thanks for the idea and the write up, much appreciated. ;-)