Hearthpwn

Any chance of updating this? Seems like it would be nice with Justicar Trueheart

I'm not 100% sure about 2x Shadow Word Death in this as you mostly want to mind control the big threats. I went for a 2nd Shadow Madness instead to help with board control in the early game, seems to be working out quite well, shadow madness on mad scientists so hunters don't get free secretes gives you decent tempo and I've lost count how many times I've instantly regained board control using them on Belchers. 

I also also added in a shrinkmeister to combo with the added Shadow Madness and removed one Cabal Shadow Priest, running 2 was gumming my hand a little too often early game. I still haven't made great use of him yet, twice in about 8 games he was good the rest of the time a dead card. I'm considering Recombobulator as that has utility in with Shadow Madness and for re-rolling late game mind controlled targets but again not sure how often those kind of opportunities unfold. Both options seem highly volatile in a deck that's already quite volatile. Perhaps a Holy Smite would be the more stable choice, you can never have too many triggers for the pyromancers but a poor late game draw in most circumstances. 

Overall I'm not finding the loss of one Shadow Word Death and one Cabal hurting at all, previously I had several games where all 4 of those cards were in hand and none were playable. 2 x Light Bombs and 2 x mind control means you'll pretty much dominate the late game decks like Handlocks and Wallet Warriors. 

This style of priest is pretty much an auto loss against oil rouge though, there's nothing to steal without leaving yourself wide open and even if you heal every turn they'll still destroy you. You simply can't get threats on the board early enough, and when you do (Dr Boom and Ysera are about all you really have that they can't kill cheaply) they'll just get bounced with saps. If you're hitting a lot of these change decks asap.

Could you give me an example of a card to switch out for a Holy Smite?

Tried it out thinking there was no way it would work well.  Glad to say I was very wrong.  I am on a 5 win streak and going. Very solid deck against aggro, control, you name it.

So, I recently conceded down to 20 in order to get easier wins with priest (trying to get golden hero). I know, it's kind of a cheap thing to do, but whateves. 

Anyway, I climbed from 19 to 14 so far with no losses. Such a fun deck. Good stuff!

This explains some of the priests running Ysera lately .. lol

i added 2 deathlords. great synergy with lightbomb in most time :)

and helped allot vs. rush decks

This deck will get completely wrecked by aggro unless you get a god starting hand. I'd recommend getting rid of the Holy Fires as you already have plenty of removal and adding some Blademasters or Cultists in the mix. 

Goodluck. 

I think I lost maybe 10% of games against aggro hunters warlocks and mages, played more than 30 games. Holy fires are actually the best way to ensure the survival against these kind of decks. Try using it before judging!

man this deck is a counter aggro beast. under 2% of hunter-/mechmage laneups should be loses. but i struggle with rouge. to much burst and the card they play are hard to counter

I tried this last night and went 7-6. I really wanted this to be awesome, but honestly it's not better than any of the other control priest decks I've tried lately. Yes, I did beat all 3 Mech Mages I faced, which was nice, but lost to pally and combo druid. Also 2 MC is bad, as inevitably you end-up with 1 in your hand early.

Damn, Only have one Lightbomb. Any suggestion for replacement?

It's going to be hard to replace, maybe another Holy Nova if you want another AOE. I think a Shrinkmeister might be a good card just for it's synergy with Shadow Madness, Shadow Word: Pain and Cabal Shadow priest, but it's not perfect.

So, I'd actually look at Faceless Manipulator as a replacement for the second Lightbomb. It can be an 8 mana Mind Control when paired with Shadow Word: Death to kill the card you just copied. I realize it's not AOE, but it's something I really like to run in my priest decks as another way to steal their toys.

Or Vol'jin! Same reason as listed above. Steal health, kill them. 

Really they say damn only one lightbomb and ask for replacement ideas. So you are an asshole and hope that they are trolling go die under a bridge you troll.

it's a mistake not running zombie chow IMO

agreed i'd cut a light bomb + sw:p for double zombie chow

I like how his decks are influenced by arena experience.  It makes me think I should play arena even though I usually get under 3 wins.  Double Mind Control seems crazy but it you have to think outside the box to push the envelope and smash the paradigm [/cliches]

Someone wasn't able to use this deck and put -1 vote on every comment lolz