Beatings Available [S14 Legend Mech Priest + De...
- Last updated May 21, 2015 (Blackrock Launch)
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Wild
- 23 Minions
- 7 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 3520
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 5/21/2015 (Blackrock Launch)
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Battle Tag:
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Total Deck Rating
666
Introduction
Yo guys, I'm back with another masterpiece. Well, maybe not a masterpiece but it's an unique deck which brings a lot of fun into your constructed game. The main reason why I actually tried this deck is Upgraded Repair Bots attacking emote 'beatings available'. After a few failed attempts with Wild Pyromancer being in the deck due to possible spare parts synergy I came up with a semi viable list, but the winrate was not high enough. The final addition I made to the deck was Mind Blast which helps you to win games where your opponent manage to get back the board which is the case pretty often. I also had a Lightbomb in at first, but I figured the single Holy Nova was enough since you generally want to maintain board control with your minions.
But why mech priest and not mech mage or any other mech variant? I'm not saying that mech priest is better than any of the other mech decks, but it has advantages that other classes can't provide.
1.) Priest can heal minions or himself on demand, which is pretty important against face hunter. I had a lot of mech mage games where I could't win against face hunter because of missing face health. I still run one copy of Antique Healbot, because the hero power itself only negates the hunters hero power.
2.) Hihger health on your mechs is actually a pretty big deal. Casting early Power Word: Shield on your mechs, specifically Mechwarper not only helps against board clears like Hellfire etc., but it also lets your Mechwarper live against Fiery War Axe which is huge. The priest exclusive Upgraded Repair Bot is also very good to allow your 4 attack mechs to get some extra hits in. What's also quite hilarious is that you can buff your mechs health up to 11-14 pretty easily which allows you to do some heavy burst damage if you manage to get a Reversing Switch.
3.) The early aggression provided by the mechs followed by impactful midgame tempo plays with Shadow Madness and Cabal Shadow Priest leads to a very dynamic gameplay which is often pretty one-sided. If you can maintain board control and curve into your tempo plays you usually win the game on the spot.
The curve tops with Dr. Boom, because he is always good to have :p
Good against: Druid, Hunter, Control Warrior & Paladin
Weak against: Bad early game draws & Handlock
Card choices
1x Power Word: Shield, 1x Shadow Word: Death & 1x Dark Cultist
I decided to run only one of each of these due to limited card slots. I would love to run another Power Word: Shield, but I can't seem to fit it in. Dark Cultist and Shadow Word: Death are both fine at one. I wanted to have at least one removal against bigger minions and Dark Cultist is a great midgame minion to have.
1x Annoy-o-Tron & 2x Shadowboxer
Annoy-o-Tron is very good against aggro, but I don't want to run 2 since it is weaker against Patron Warrior. I decided to run double Shadowboxer because I wanted to have a decent amount of 2-mana mechs since those are the most impactful ones if you can spam them with Mechwarper. The discount on the 3 and 4- mana mechs are usually not that impactful except if you play them on curve.
1x Antique Healbot
Even though the priest can already heal himself with his hero power, I still want to have at least one extra source of healing against all sorts of aggro or even to get out of combo range against a druid. Also it is a mech so it benefits from the overall synergy of the deck.
Mulligans
Since this priest deck doesn't have any control elements, there is a genral rule for all mulligans. Always keep Northshire Cleric and Cogmaster. If you have the coin you also want to keep Mechwarper and a 2-mana mech. Also keep Power Word: Shield if you have the coin. Always put everything back that costs 3 mana or more, playing on curve is the most important thing with this deck. It's much better to coin out a 2-mana minion on turn 1 if you don't have a 1-drop. The only exception is if you happen to get a 1-drop along with double 3-drops that are good on curve and if you have the coin, then you can keep all of them.
Card replacements
2x Cabal Shadow Priest & 1x Dr. Boom - There are all sorts of minions that are good in these spots, even though you can't 'replace' the impact that both of these cards have. You can try Loatheb additional mechs like Mechanical Yeti or Annoy-o-Tron or even an Azure Drake. If you have Sylvanas Windrunner you can also use her.
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That's it for now, if you liked it leave a +1 or comment with all your hate if you've lost with this deck :p
Follow me on twitter @TimmusGG for all sorts of hearthstone related things and other rant.
Best regards
Legend Proof
I understand that but in the current meta it's difficult with out having removal to back it up. ;)
Here's a crazy thought, what about Prophet Velen in this deck, since he can double the damage of Mind Blast?
Also, what cards would you consider replaceable in this deck, things you can sub-out for meta-dependent cards like Lightbomb?
If you were missing a single cabal shadow priest, would you replace it with either a piloted sky golem or with a sylvanas?
Love the deck btw.
Would it be better to replace Cabal for a Sylvannas?
Great deck! I won many games using double Mind Blast.
I changed some cards and I think it´s working pretty well:
-2 Cabal +Vol'jin +Mechanical Yeti
-1 Shadow Madness +Loatheb
I have the Cabals, but they got stuck on my hand for several turns sometimes. Vol'jin is great against Druid, Ysera and Giants.
Hey guys im still thinking of trying out this deck and with that, I thought maybe using alchemist as a tech card? for additional win condition?. since you have high health minions, this might be very good.
Thanks! I've been looking for a Mech priest deck. I'll try it out (even though I'm only around the 13-15 range in rank right now) and give you my feedback! :D
this deck doasnt seem to have enough card draw only one card serves as direct card draw
Hey thanks for a different type of Mech Priest deck I like the idea of the mind blasts for extra burst damage :p ! This deck is really strong and that's how I feel about mech priest in general and I think the added burst makes mech priest even scarier! Here's some gameplay if y'all want to see the deck in action :D !? ENJOY!!!
Thanks :3 ! I try!
Saying "I guess one holy nova is fine" is not enough lol.
One AoE spell is suicide. You can't control the board with just your minions.
Agreed. Also i can't see how this boy is dealing with card draw... I had to change to dragon priest for that drake...
2x Shadow Madness and lots of early minions, this deck shouldn't struggle for board.
Really fun and enjoyable deck.
pure bullshit
I find this deck fails more than it succeeds, mainly because it seems to lack A LOT of control options. There is no way to adjust opponent attack values to take advantage of different minions. A lot of 3/4 attack minions that can't really be dealt with. I think Crazed Alchemist would fit better in this deck so help compensate for the lacking of control options. Not saying there aren't any, but more times than not, the opening hands are bad. The lacking of taunts really hits this deck hard. I just lost to Warrior Control because of no way with dealing with the Grim Patrons. So unless I am playing this wrong, there is something wrong with the deck. Maybe throw up a few vids to show how the deck is supposed to work.
I replaced 1 shadowboxer with annoy-o-tron and it works great. Also I think you're perceiving this deck in wrong way. It is not typical Control Priest where you win in late game by stealing their creatures and huge board clears (lightbomb). It is like Mech Mage - you begin control the board and when you're lost it - you're almost done. This deck does not need AoE spells because of value minion trades and sometimes agressive playstyle. And the same with the card draw - you don't need big card draw possibilities because just of fact that your minions doesn't die in trades with minions of opponent.
Also, I just win Grim Patron Warrior just because of poor early game that is almost nature of all Combo decks.
what for dark cultis? i dont have time for getting gold for shitty adventure, when i dont have cards and im playing arena so i dont have it
Naxx was is still the best adventure has some core required cards in this meta.