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Control Priest 83% WR (UPDATED)

  • Last updated Feb 19, 2024 (Anniversary Patch)
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  • 17 Minions
  • 22 Spells
  • Deck Type: Ranked Deck
  • Deck Archetype: Control Priest
  • Crafting Cost: 16120
  • Dust Needed: Loading Collection
  • Created: 1/11/2024 (Winter Veil Buffs & Nerfs)
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Hello! Want to share my deck I was playing to Legend with 62% winrate this season. Previous season deck was with 83% winrate and could be found under the spoiler. The deck has lost 20+% winrate because of OP warlocks and warriors. But I've tried my best to keep it up!

Overview

This deck variation has common control base plus a couple of very good replacements, that help a lot.

  • Armor Vendor - good 1-mana drop, helps vs aggro and otk
  • Crimson Clergy + Fan Club - amazing 1-mana drop, helps vs aggro + lots of draw + heal
  • Shard of the Naaru - must-have vs Token Druids
  • The Light! It Burns! - cheap and effective removal
  • Creation Protocol - very flexible and powerful card. You can get Rat vs OTK, Aman'Thul or Ignis vs Control, Crimson Clergy for lots of draw, etc.
  • Dirty Rat - amazing card vs Odyn, Sif, Taddius etc. Use it wisely and be prepared to remove pulled minion
  • Power Chord: Synchronize - very flexible card. Copy Aman'Thul or Ignis vs Control, buff and copy Armor Vendor or Crimson Clergy vs aggro, Rat vs OTK, or even enemy Titans!
  • ⭐Gold Panner - one of the dark horses of this deck. Amazing card, it helps vs aggro, and give a huge boost to draw! Control decks sometimes struggle with draw, so this one really helps
  • ⭐Benevolent Banker - Thrive in the Shadows with good 2/4 body. Moreover sometimes you can steal something useful from the enemy deck like Symphony of Sins or Blackrock 'n' Roll
  • Cathedral of Atonement - very good draw tool + useful buff. Sometimes you can even buff an enemy target to draw or easy kill with The Light! It Burns!
  • Holy Nova - helps a lot vs aggro, especially vs Token Druid
  • Cannibalize - hard-removal + heal. Can be combined with Crimson Clergy for additional draw
  • E.T.C., Band Manager - contains Rustrot Viper vs Ignis weapon mostly, Steamcleaner vs Plague DK and Theotar, the Mad Duke vs OTK. There is an idea to add Fizzle instead of Viper. It can be used for making infinite with Power Chord: Synchronize, but I haven't tried it out
  • Ignis, the Eternal Flame - one of the wincons. Try to roll for armor vs OTK, summon 8-mana vs Control. Sometimes you want to create 5-mana or even 1-mana weapon, depends on a situation
  • ⭐Invasive Shadeleaf - one of the dark horses of this deck. Very good and flexible control tool. Can trade with 2 middle minions or 1 big, helps a lot in midgame
  • ⭐Swarm of Lightbugs (optional) - one of the dark horses of this deck. Can help vs aggro. Sometimes enemy players get scared of this tiny bugs for some reason and start to trade with them. Can be replaced with Astalor, Flint Firearm or Cult Neophyte (good vs Token Druid and Excavate Rogue), or Lightbomb
  • Clean the Scene + Harmonic Pop + Whirlpool - standart control aoe tools
  • Aman'Thul - one of the best Titans. Puff pesky deathrattles, summon taunt with lifesteal, or copy something like Blackwater Behemoth for huge heals
  • Blackwater Behemoth - strong life saver and control tool. Most of times don't use it when the enemy player has no minions on the board

FAQ

  1. What's inside ETC? - Rustrot Viper, Steamcleaner, Theotar
  2. Why no Love Everlasting? - most of the times I included this card it did nothing. It's clunky 3-mana do-nothing card. Moreover when it's active it pushes you to make unoptimal turns and use spells to maintain the effect only. It could be good only with Svalna
  3. Why no Svalna? - too greedy for the meta. Even control match-ups winnable without it. Free from Love Everlasting as a side-effect
  4. Why no Reno? - the Reno variation seemed to me not so consistent as this one. Second copies helps a lot sometimes and easier to be found
  5. Why no <minion's name>? - every minion in this deck is strongly helpful, no need to add something else because of Creation Protocol messing
  6. Control Priest is so boring, why not <deck's type>? - I'm really tired of Control Priest to be honest. I've tried a lot of decks like Automatons, Ogres, Infinite, Reno, but only this one shows such a high winrate. So if you want to climb the Ladder and reach Legend, this deck is the best choice

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Overview

This deck variation has common control base plus a couple of very good replacements, that help a lot. I've made a couple of replacements since the last season because of new marvelous meta: two Armor Vendors was replaced with Astalor and Shadow Word: Ruin. Check the further info why.

  • Crimson Clergy + Fan Club - amazing 1-mana drop, helps vs aggro + lots of draw + heal
  • Shard of the Naaru - must-have vs Token Druids
  • The Light! It Burns! - cheap and effective removal
  • Creation Protocol - very flexible and powerful card. You can get Rat vs OTK, Aman'Thul or Ignis vs Control, Crimson Clergy for lots of draw, etc.
  • Dirty Rat - amazing card vs Odyn, Sif, Taddius etc. Use it wisely and be prepared to remove pulled minion
  • Power Chord: Synchronize - very flexible card. Copy Aman'Thul or Ignis vs Control, buff and copy Armor Vendor or Crimson Clergy vs aggro, Rat vs OTK, or even enemy Titans!
  • Astalor NEW! - added because of Brann Warrior. If you manage to play it and use Whirlpool, their Astalor will be destroyed as well. In other cases it's a good control/pressure tool with a little help to survivability.
  • ⭐Gold Panner - one of the dark horses of this deck. Amazing card, it helps vs aggro, and give a huge boost to draw! Control decks sometimes struggle with draw, so this one really helps
  • ⭐Benevolent Banker - Thrive in the Shadows with good 2/4 body. Moreover sometimes you can steal something useful from the enemy deck like Symphony of Sins or Blackrock 'n' Roll
  • Cathedral of Atonement - very good draw tool + useful buff. Sometimes you can even buff an enemy target to draw or easy kill with The Light! It Burns!
  • Holy Nova - helps a lot vs aggro, especially vs Token Druid
  • Cannibalize - hard-removal + heal. Can be combined with Crimson Clergy for additional draw
  • E.T.C., Band Manager - contains Rustrot Viper vs Ignis weapon mostly, Steamcleaner vs Plague DK and Theotar, the Mad Duke vs OTK. There is an idea to add Fizzle instead of Viper. It can be used for making infinite with Power Chord: Synchronize, but I haven't tried it out
  • Ignis, the Eternal Flame - one of the wincons. Try to roll for armor vs OTK, summon 8-mana vs Control. Sometimes you want to create 5-mana or even 1-mana weapon, depends on a situation
  • Shadow Word: Ruin NEW! - really helps versus Sludge warlocks with their huge minions on turn 4, as well as with Rainbow deathknights.
  • ⭐Invasive Shadeleaf - one of the dark horses of this deck. Very good and flexible control tool. Can trade with 2 middle minions or 1 big, helps a lot in midgame
  • ⭐Swarm of Lightbugs (optional) - one of the dark horses of this deck. Can help vs aggro. Sometimes enemy players get scared of this tiny bugs for some reason and start to trade with them. Helps versus Sludge. Can be replaced with second Shadow Word: Ruin or Lightbomb
  • Clean the Scene + Harmonic Pop + Whirlpool - standart control aoe tools
  • Aman'Thul - one of the best Titans. Puff pesky deathrattles, summon taunt with lifesteal, or copy something like Blackwater Behemoth for huge heals
  • Blackwater Behemoth - strong life saver and control tool. Most of times don't use it when the enemy player has no minions on the board

FAQ

  1. What's inside ETC? - Rustrot Viper, Steamcleaner, Theotar
  2. Why no Love Everlasting? - most of the times I included this card it did nothing. It's clunky 3-mana do-nothing card. Moreover when it's active it pushes you to make unoptimal turns and use spells to maintain the effect only. It could be good only with Svalna
  3. Why no Svalna? - too greedy for the meta. Even control match-ups winnable without it. Free from Love Everlasting as a side-effect
  4. Why no Reno? - the Reno variation seemed to me not so consistent as this one. Second copies helps a lot sometimes and easier to be found
  5. Why no <minion's name>? - every minion in this deck is strongly helpful, no need to add something else because of Creation Protocol messing
  6. Control Priest is so boring, why not <deck's type>? - I'm really tired of Control Priest to be honest. I've tried a lot of decks like Automatons, Ogres, Infinite, Reno, but only this one shows such a high winrate. So if you want to climb the Ladder and reach Legend, this deck is the best choice

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