Hearthpwn

Bullshit deck without the Inner Fires. Makes no sense.

you don't NEED Shadow Word: Pain for the rod, just use Silence on it so it can't attack and try to build up your board. You really need to get lucky that he doesn't get a bunch of his 3 mana 5/5s early on but other than that as long as you either silence or kill the rod off entirely you should be just fine. Also, add Inner Fires.

Replaced both mass dispels with 2 inner fire's and was much easier. 

Second try was successful:

Kill the Staff with Shadow Word: Pain and silence it.
Then try to build up a big Deathloard, heal it up and kill him slowly.
Keep your Mass Dispells for his taunts.

ste 1 silence rod, step 2 pain rod. step 3 get out your lightbringer and deathguard. step 4 win. great deck, took 4 attempts :)

Well, it took me about 15 restarts to finally draw Shadow Word: Pain by turn 2, but luckily i also had Silence in that go around.  I then proceeded to be incredibly unlucky and drew no minions and only minion buffs for the next 6 turns, and got absolutely worked.

After another 8 restarts i finally got the needed combo a second time, and this time got a Deathlord in turn 5.  The boss then promptly annihilated the Deathlord, i ran out of cards in turn 7, and got absolutely worked.

After another 5 restarts i got the needed combo for the third time, and he slowly whittled my Deathlord down while i drew constant mass dispels an no heals or buffs for the Deathlord, and got absolutely worked.

After another 7 restarts to get Shadow Word: Pain but no Silence, i held my ground with a Deathlord for enough turns to get the Silence, and buff up the health of a Lightwell, then got absolutely worked.

This went on for many, many hours - you get the idea.
Shadow Word: Pain and Silence is a great combo for dealing with the Rod of the Sun, but unless you are incredibly lucky, this deck as-is has a tough time dealing with the boss after the rod is dealt with.

For the love of all that is good and holy (Priest joke intended) get rid of the Dark Cultist and put Inner Fire x2 in this deck immediately and save yourself the headache of praying (Priest joke intended) for the exact right draws.  But still be prepared to restart a lot as you MUST have Shadow Word: Pain and Silence by turn 2 to stand a chance.

(I believe according to the standard of comments on this site, this counts as 'Got it first try!')

 In the end it took me about 3-4 tries with the Inner Fire / Dark Cultist swap, and i did it without ever drawing Silence, just Shadow Word: Pain and a buffed and Inner Fire'd Deathlord

Thanx man!!! =D

I tweaked this a little bit:

Removed: 1x Mass Dispel, 1x Holy Fire
Added:  1x Inner Fire, 1x Purify

Easy-peasy win, as long as you understand what to mulligan for and how to buff for this kind of strategy. (I didn't even have Phaerix pass his turn at all and still did fine.) Takes a little RNG, but the win conditions are obvious enough and easy enough to set up that you can just bail and retry if you have bad luck in your first few turns.

No Inner Fire?

- 2 [card]Silence[/card] + 2 Inner Fire = easy win

Thanks! Here some changes I made: ADD: Excavated Evil and Loot Hoarder  REMOVE: Mass Dispel and Holy Fire

Can't wait to slam Purify in this deck, will work wonders to silence the staff AND draw a card ;)

Excelent deck bro ; first try

First try, thanks mate :)

2 hours worth of tries later...

First try!!

Took me about six tries because I kept drawing Deathlord too late.

First try thanks

Great deck. So easy that it was almost boring ;) Thanks.