[68% Winrate] Priest Rank 4 to Legend.
- Last updated Jun 13, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Wild
- 15 Minions
- 15 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Control Priest
- Crafting Cost: 7700
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 6/9/2016 (Old Gods)
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Battle Tag:
Happydemon#2895
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
199
Hey all,
Have you ever been wondering how you can stand a chance against all those OP decks in the current meta? Feeling tired of losing every game against Shaman, Zoolock, hunter, tempo and other kinds of Warriors? If you can't beat them, just join them.
But wait, what if I told you guys that there is still hope left.
After tons of experimentating with all kind of control decks, I have found the ultimate cure for this aggro disease, that has been rulling the ladder for too long.
The deck looks a lot like the regular n'zoth deck, the difference is that this deck focus a lot more of clearing the board with all kind of 'decent' removal spells/combo's and removing the opponents weapons with cards like Harrison Jones and Acidic Swamp Ooze.
This Priest deck performs well against all kind of decks, can be a bit weak against combolock, but for the rest it can litteraly destroys the fastest face decks till even the greediest control warriors.
Proof of reaching legend with this deck at 09-06-2016
If there is a lot of interest in this deck, I might write a mulligan guide and give a few tips for some matchups.
Mulligan Guide
Keep against all classes Shadow Word: Pain, Museum Curator, Wild Pyromancer with coin and if you got Auchenai Soulpriest with Circle of Healing in your starting hand.
Popular Classes:
Warrior has three popular decks in this meta Pirate, Tempo, Control.
Against all these three classes, you want to have at least one Weapon removal card in your hand Acidic Swamp Ooze > Harrison Jones. Shadow Word: Pain is really good for those matchups, since it can easily remove an early Acolyte of Pain, Frothing Berserker and Bloodhoof Brave.
Against Control Warrior, you can also keep Shifting Shade. It's almost impossible to lose against Control Warrior with this deck, cause of the lack of cardraw and having Entomb will insure you to win the Fatique War. Just Remember, never play N'zoth before the Warrior plays his Golden Monkey, you don't want them to Brawl all your minions do you?, Also never have more than two minions of your own on the board.
Warlock has two popular decks, the renolock and the more common zoolock.
Zoo can be an easy matchup for this deck. Mulligan for Wild Pyromancer, Shadow Word: Pain and Excavated Evil.
Only use Shadow Word: Pain for Flame Imp, Imp Gang Boss and Knife Juggler. Till turn 5 you want to play passively and use your hero power as much as possible, Turn 5 you clear the board and at turn 6 you steal a decent minion with Cabal Shadow Priest. Try to keep Wild Pyromancer for their Forbidden Ritual.
Renolock is one of the worst matchups for this deck, Keep Shifting Shade in your hand, push for damage and try to go for an early N’zoth. Keep the pressure and hope that you can burst him down with Auchenai Soulpriest and Flash Heal.
Shaman has two popular decks, the Face Shaman and the Less Face midrange Shaman. Keep against both decks Shadow Word: Pain, Acidic Swamp Ooze and Excavated Evil in your starting hand. Try to use the same strategy as against Zoolock. If you got a decent starting hand, then you might want to hold on Shadow Word: Death for their Flamewreathed Faceless.
Against Hunter try to get Acidic Swamp Ooze and Shadow Word: Pain. This matchup really depends on, if you can get your early drops, Sometimes I even pick a 1 or 2 mana deathrattle minion from Museum Curator to stall the damage as much as possible. Most of my turnbacks were when I kept the board clear and stole a decent minion like Leokk with Cabal Shadow Priest. Also try to hold Auchenai Soulpriest and Circle of Healing for their Ultimate Huffer combo at turn 8.
Less seen Classes
Mage, Most of the mages on ladder play Tempo Mage, If you can deal with their early game minions than you can easily outheal their spell damage. Freeze mage is another story and is really difficult to win against.
Most druids play some kind of Cthun/Ramp. Against this class it doesn’t hurt to keep Shadow Word: Death in your Hand.
Palladin: Keep Wild Pyromancer, In case of he is playing the divine shield Palladin. When you are playing against N'zoth Palladin, just Entomb their best deathrattle minions and win the fatique game. Also Shadow Word: Death is a great card for the Ragnaros brothers.
Roque Keep Shadow Word: Death for their Tomb Pillager, Shadow Word: Pain for Violet Teacher and Shifting Shade for early pressure.
So, I have read a lot of comments regarding why this deck doesn't include Elise Starseeker. The biggest reason is that this meta is too fast for this card. Elise Starseeker is a decent 3/5 minion, but you don't really want to pay 2 mana for Map of the Golden Monkey but rather heal your Hero against aggro. Second you already have N'zoth as wincondition. Also there only exist 2 classes, who have the ability to counter his battelcry with Brawl and Twisting Nether. Just entomb her, when playing against a class with Elise Starseeker. Read Control Warrior in Mulligan section for more tips.
Edit: Over time I will expand this guide and give substitutes for some cards.
Edit: 13-06-2016 Swapped one Cabal Shadow Priest for Holy Fire. Really helps against Hunter and Roque Matchups.
Feel free to ask any questions.
Still ranking, highest now Legendrank 15 (12-06-2016)
Update: 12-06-2016: A lot of you guys asked me, if there was a video of this deck being played. Kiwiinbacon was so kind to make a showcase for this deck. If you found this video helpfull, don't forget to like it.
Tried this deck at rank 9 EU and failed miserably. I won only 1 game and managed to drop to rank 13. 2 Shadow Word: Death and 2 Entomb are pretty much useless against most decks (70%+ are tempo).
I would drop Wild Pyromancer too as the only combo is with Power Word: Shield.
I usually found myself with full hand of situationally great cards (pains, deaths, n'zoth, CoHs) but still unable to turn the game in my favor.
Probably the worst deck I have ever played. It completely gets rekt by agro if you dont draw auchenai + circle. Gets stomped by control warrior because you have no way to get rid of their armor. Loses to midrange decks too because n'zoth is too slow. Literally wins against nothing.
Good deck but it's a little bite toff to play it's me or not ?
This deck just can't win against hunters and freeze mages. A large portion of ladder right now consists of midrange hunters which really brings this deck down. Otherwise it works pretty well against every other deck. I didn't have Harrison Jones so I replaced him with Doomsayer to help deal with aggressive decks in the early game if I don't draw any other AoE's
i was smashing hunter with this.
laddering from 20 (just started this season) to 10 overnight i ran into about 5 hunters, most of them i won clearly and tidily
one of them resulted in a top deck battle when i was below 15 HP, involving an entomb on one of his highmanes and a flash heal my face
if you lose the joust and he curves out well you lose the game, but that's true for basically all classes against hunter.
Currently 11-2 with this deck. Awesome deck!
I feel the same way. I don't understand where everyone's coming from with their huge win rates. I feel like there aren't a lot of ways to clear a quickly building board. Most of the time my hand is just filled with dead cards that would be great in certain situations, but are usually bad in the moment because I don't have the proper cards to combo them with.
Not to be rude but there's no way on Earth you can be 50/50 against hunters with your deck over a significant number of games.
It is very similar to a lot of N'Zoth decks that people have been using for a while and the hunter match-up is a constant struggle.
dont listen to him hes like those youtube comments that advertise
Actually very weak against aggro, they can just kill you on turn 5 and 6, if you don't have your aoe, you are just dead. only have 20% win rate in past like 30 games, dropped to rank 12
I will say that it doesn't seem like Zoolock can ever beat this deck.
Pirate warrior wrecks this.
any shit deck gets legend on EU
deck get's stomped by control. His elise wins always
Such an inconsistent deck. 4-10 from rank 5 to 7.
I completely agree with Elise being SUPER slow and more so since your only card draw (from your deck) is PW:S. I have clerics to help speed things up, this must be a super topdecking prayer in a lot of matches :D Seem solid, just i have a similar deck and i know how badly u want to draw some cards sometimes and u have no way to do that but lucky topdeck to save the day :D
This deck get murdered by shammy. Unless you have both circles within first 8 cards, GG. Shammy can reload so quick, it's unstoppable.
Funny you say that. It's the opposite with me. I punish hunters.
Thanks for posting. I've enjoyed playing this deck, and so far it seems to be the only Priest deck able to stand up to the others. I swapped out Acidic Swamp Ooze for Eater of Secrets and it is working well. I would keep Holy Fire (in response to another comment). I've used it almost every game now for an extra burst.