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Shimmering Light - Rank Climbing Priest

  • Last updated Jun 13, 2014 (Live Patch 5506)
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  • 17 Minions
  • 13 Spells
  • Deck Type: Ranked Deck
  • Deck Archetype: Unknown
  • Crafting Cost: 6760
  • Dust Needed: Loading Collection
  • Created: 4/28/2014 (Live Patch 5170)
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Welcome to Soulbound's Guide to Expert Level Priest. Here we will be Discussing Priest in Rank Leveled Play and go through some Specific Card Choices and how the Meta works. 

  • Pros 
  • Priest is incredibly versatile, more so than other classes 
  • Getting into a Late Game Match will usually be in your favor.
  • Priest is Infamous for the amount of Control it has.
  • Turtle your way to victory (Heal, till the late game)
  • Hard to counter a Priest
  • You are cool for not being Meta
  • Cons
  • You need certain card draws, don't get some? GG.
  • The best cards are usually the most expensive to craft
  • Minions with 4 Attack will counter you... *Sobs Quietly*
  • Can be killed before you establish a board presence.

Introduction

First a little into me and Soulbound in General. Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I go by the Name Lux and I am the Owner of Soulbound, an Infamous Deck Building team with some of the Best Players in the world. I have been playing Hearthstone since the closed beta. Although I personally spent most of my time playing casual being far to busy to sit down and dedicate time to rank play I have a large knowledge of the Meta and what works and what doesn't.

So no more delays this is Soulbound's Expert Leveled Rank Priest Guide. This will be a long detailed guide and since Soulbound releases not everyone has the fastest internet I will put stuff in Spoilers.

Now on with the show

About this Deck and Priest in General.

Although there are a huge amount of different Priest styles, Ancient Watcher Style decks are the most common and regarded as the best out there, This deck is a mix between Ancient Watcher (Often seen in Handlock) and a Circle of Healing deck. The idea of this deck is to Control the Board, Put up those Early game Ancient watcher and get ready to clear the board setting up for your Damage dealers like Ragnaros, Since you will want to be able to hold your own against Control Decks such as Handlock Alexstrasza is there to pull that victory from your opponent.

Main Strategy - Control

The aim with this deck is to set up board control early in order to shut your opponent out and get the game to the late game, Where your cards will naturally excel we do this by putting taunts on Ancient watchers and keeping them alive. We can also use our Board Wipe spells such as Soulpriest + COH or Holy Nova in order to keep the board clear.

As you progress to the late game you want to make sure that your opponent keeps any big threats off the field such as Ragnaros etc, You can do this Via Mindcontrol, SW:D or Faceless Manipulator and RNG it.

You will want to out last your opponent so all those Hunters using tracking will cry when they run out of cards.

Win Condition -

This Priest Deck win condition is mainly focused around board control and to keep a board presence in order to get to the later game where your deck will excel , We use Ragnaros and Cairne for Damage dealers and Ysera for late game sustain and Card Pull.

Mulligan Strategy-

There are two Mulligan Strategy for This deck.

 

Cards you generally want to keep: (Method 1) - Early Game Board Presence
Circle of Healing

[card]Power Word: Shield[/card]

Northshire Cleric

Injured Blademaster

 

Cards you generally want to keep: (Method 2) - Early Game Taunt

[card]Power Word: Shield[/card]

Northshire Cleric

Ancient Watcher

Sunfury Protector

 

Cards you don't want to keep:

Auchenai Soulpriest
Shadow Word: Death

Holy Fire

+ Most other Big Minions

Yeti is Ok.

Popular Combos - 

Some of the popular combos of this deck include:

[card]Ancient Watcher[/card]+ Sunfury Protector+ Power Word: Shield For that Early Game Taunt Wall.

 

Northshire Cleric Injured BlademasterCircle of Healing  For that Super Yeti of a Card + Card draw.

 

Auchenai SoulpriestCircle of Healing For that Buffed Up Board Wipe

 

Cards to Swap or Consider-

Although there are many small tweaks you can make to this deck the most Viable ones in my Opinion are

 

Adding some silence (I am currently running one silence against Cairne Bloodhoof

 

Adding a Big Game Hunter to replace a Shadow Word: Death - Although a Bit risky unless the Meta Shifts to a lot of Handlock and Druid Play.

 

Running into a Lot of Early game Aggro/Zoo? Change the Chillwind Yeti for Wild Pyromancer and watch the world burn with that for Wild Pyromancer  + Power Word: Shield

 

If you have any more Personal Message Me. 

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