The point is that Naaru can be used on Blademaster, to deal damage (Auchenai), to cheap heal yourself and gives you a potential threat. Its very versatile.

I'm testing some modifications and you might like it, if you want two sludge. Will try to post it in a few hours.

But, you can take off one Thoughtsteal to put Sludge.

If you use Shadow Madness to steal Dark Cultist and just use the effect, its not a good play. You spend 4 mana to kill a drop 3 and get +3 life (which will make you fatigue probably). If you kill Injured (its hard to see a 4/3 Blademaster on the board), then your opponent played it wrong.

The best use for Shadow Madness in my opinion is against Warriors, since they really need their acolytes/unstables. But Warriors on top ranks never drop acolyte w/o whirlwind/deathsbite, so it loses some value.

Against Rogues its good too, since they use some minions with 3 HP. Anyway, just not worth having it for unique situations, IMO.

First you play slowly and not you put pressure? Sorry, put you put pressure on a ANTI-AGGRO Priest playing slowly? That's don't make any sense. lol

Handlock? if you are facing many, add Lightbomb and Big Game Hunter in the place of both Dark Cultist. It would be enough. If its demonlock, add Vol'jin and Holy Smite.

De nada! O único problema da Lightbomb é que pra um removal single/dual target ela é cara (e machuca seus minions) e contra aggro ela é MUITO lenta e, normalmente, acaba não matando muitos minions (Yeti, Snowchugger, Mechwarper, etc..). O maior valor dela vai ser contra Warlock mesmo  - Nesse quesito anti-aggro é que entra o Dark Cultist (normalmente troca 2-1 e tem efeito), mas se der pra segurar sem ele, é bom trocar. Abraços!

I swapped Slyvanas with Cairne, it works well for me!

Its a good replacement, but i still preffer the other two that i recommended (Gaslowe and Toshley) because they're stronger against Silence, since the Priest doesnt have too much silence targets. But Cairne is a good board presence with a lot of value.

Glad that you liked it!

Hi,

First of all this is a great deck! I played 20 matches with it in the last two days and managed to get a 65% win rate.

Among the games I lost, 3 of them were against Mech Mages, but I won all four of my games against Hunter. So I'm not quite sure what's the problem there, maybe it's just my hand was particularly bad when I played against those Mages...

Besides that, the stats have shown a really good prospective against the current meta.

Great job on reaching legend and thanks for sharing the deck!

Thanks!!

Well, against Mech Mages you should mulligan for Wild Pyromancer, activators (shield), Zombie Chow, Northshire..

If you can, drop Injured+Circle on turn 2/3. Try to always be prepared for a Annoy-o-tron and try to clean the board before turn 4, so Mages can't drop Blastmage.

In other words, try to stay alive as much as you can. If you get the control of the board, drop Loatheb. Its not a good idea wait for Antonidas to drop him, since you may lose until there.

ATM i'm working on some modifications for a faster (and stronger) start, since IMO dark cultists are not really doing the job.

Probably will update tomorrow, if i got some time do test on ladder.

First of all, kudos for getting to legend with a Priest deck.

This seems to be a very solid deck against aggro, but I would like to see some stats against control. I'm using a Priest too, and I was having a lot of trouble against midrange-control (Pally, Warrior, Handlock). I found a solution cutting out some anti-aggro cards (as I feel I have enough of them to win against aggro anyway with Holy Nova, Wild Pyromancer, Aurchenai+Circle, etc.) like Zombie Chow and Light of the Naaru to include 2 Shrinkmeister and combo them with Shadow Word: Pain (2), Shadow Madness (2) and Cabal Shadow Priest (1). That way you can actually steal their threats, like Ysera, Sneed's or Antonidas (plus Mind Controlling the big threats). I would like to hear your thoughts about Shrinkmeister, as you clearly have a lot of experience with Priest.

Also, Voljin is a very nice removal not only with Holy Mite on turn 6+, but with Aurchenai on the field (turn 7+), Holy Nova (turn 10+) or Aurchenai+Light of the Naaru (turn 10+), I don't get why you don't include it if you say that your plan is to get your enemy to run out of resources. Could you expand a bit on that?

I'm in a hurry now, but I will try to answer all of your questions..

I don't like Shrinkmeister. One, because you will need more than one card to use it, so its a dead card in the early turns, and it's a weak body on mid/late game alone. Two, its because usually against Paly, Handlock, etc.. they already have the board, so using 6 mana to steal one minion (its hard to get a 2-1 with shrink+madness against those two classes) is not that good. 

Stealing Ysera, Sneeds, Antonidas.. Is a good think, but again.. you will need 3 cards for that (two for ysera) and quite a lot mana, which reduces your room for other cards and options in the same turn. If you have the board, you can use MC, if you dont, a 8 mana play is amazing for stealing a threat, 2x 3/2 and 1x 4/5, but its very unique situation that hardly happens on top ranks (rank 3 - legend).
I would like to have Madness+Shrink in my deck, they're good, but i dont have room for both of them (and they usually are only good together). You can use them instead of Dark Cultist, but you'll lose a lot of board presence, since Shrink dies to a drop-1 and Madness is conditional, and you'll be having more trouble against aggro, who are infesting the metagame.

About Vol'jin, i actually have two priest decks (the one listed, and one with 2~3 changes) and i switch them according to the meta.
The second one have + vol'jin, holy smite, velens chosen (testing) and - 1 zombie chow, -2 dark cultist. Its working fine, against aggro and against control (even against paladin, who usually is a hard matchup for my Priest).

I didn't updated the list because i need more testing with it before posting, but i think its better, since dark cultist isnt doing its job against mid-ranges (damn those piloted shredders) and we have a lot of mid range decks out there.

Thanks for the questions! Please reply, so we could improve the deck!

Interesting deck, very similar to mine... i'm trying velen's choosen right now, i don't have a solid opinion about it yet... what do you think about that card? Sometimes you can do some really good trades and it also works as a pyro + nova effect ... 

Actually, can i add you on hs so i can watch some of your games? That would be nice :)

*EDIT* Acabei de perceber que tu é brasileiro também, lol

Hahaha, e aí cara.. beleza?

O problema do Velen's Choice são dois: Silence e Removal. Você tem poucos alvos de silence no deck (Priest em geral não tem muitos) e se você bufar um minion mais forte, ele tomará removal.

Em geral, vejo o pessoal dando Velens em Northshire no early game, o que torna um drop insano.

Em relação ao Holy Nova, acaba se tornando uma jogada MUITO lenta, e não vejo a necessidade de um holy nova de 4 de dano (shredder, muster+quarter, etc.. em geral tem apenas 3 de vida).

Talvez retirando um Dark Cultist ou Thoughtsteal ele seja bem viável, afinal, contra aggros um drop 1 zombie + drop 2 coin e velens é praticamente um auto-win.

Vou testar hoje, depois posto algo aqui! abraços

Opa, pode assistir sim, Aluado#1356 no servidor das américas!

Yes, i'm testing the deck w/o Dark Cultist AND Chows ATM and running one Velen's Chosen as a replacement of one of the Cultists. Looks good, specially against Druids and Paladins.

Will try a bit more and see what happens. 

Why not replace zombie chows with light bombs

Because there are more aggro decks than control decks, and Lightbomb don't have great effect against aggro. We don't see Handlock anymore. But you can add a Lightbomb if you're facing a lot of strong controls, the problem is that is pretty much slow and you will need a Circle to heal your own minions, and it doesnt kill many big 'fashion' threats (Ysera, Sneeds, Kel Thuzad, etc..)

Congratulations for getting on hearthpwn's main page.

Guys, I got rank 3 to 1 last season with this deck. The only reason I didn't get to legend was that I ran out of time. Deck works amazingly well right now. You just need to mulligan properly and get a little luck when thoughtstealing against control.

It should work...

Sorry, my english is not that good and maybe its because of that, but.. i didnt get your comment. You're saying that you need tons of legendaries to work like other control decks out there? I not saying that those decks are bad, pretty much the opposite, but you don't need all of them, specially in a anti-aggro deck. If you're trying to play without ANY legendaries, you can, but it wont be as good as the list.