Velen's Miracle [OTK Rez Priest]
- Last updated Nov 24, 2018 (Boomsday)
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Wild
- 12 Minions
- 18 Spells
- Deck Type: None
- Deck Archetype: OTK Priest
- Crafting Cost: 9000
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 10/10/2016 (Yogg Nerf)
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"Not all those who wander are lost"
Disclaimer:
I restored the list to its old concept, with adjustments up to Un'Goro. This was meant to be a fancy Priest in the era of Unicorn Priest, when the class seemed to have no efficient archetype in the meta.
I repeat, this list is OBSOLETE.
OLD Description (keeping for nostalgia)
- Resurrect Priest is a good Midrange deck, its flaw probably being consistency.
- Priest generally lacks burst, while classic OTK Priest lacks early and midgame.
- Prophet Velen feels underwhelming as classic class legendary.
This deck aims at fixing all 3 points above, by adding good midgame and excellent cycling through resurrection, which in turn allows for a reliable combo burst through Velen.
The final combo with Prophet Velen + spells can do 10, 20, 24, 28 face damage, depending on how many cards you manage to include in the combo.
Add Bloodmage Thalnos and it's OTK.
Full OTK is hard to pull, but a much more likely 20 damage for 3 cards is often enough to suddenly finish off your opponent, who will be utterly surprised by such a burst from a Priest (since Velen is quite unused and underestimated these days).
General Mulligan tips
ALWAYS keep:
- Loot Hoarder, Injured Blademaster, Shadow Word: Pain, Holy Smite. Also Acolyte of Pain is a good keeper.
- Resurrect if you already have one of the minions above.
- if you expect aggro/zoo, also keep 1x Excavated Evil / 1x Holy Nova (NOT both).
NEVER keep high cost cards, plus:
- Power Word: Shield and Mind Blast. These are low cost cards, but are needed later.
Strategy
- The minimum objective is to stall early and midgame. You have removals, aoe, and sticky minions through resurrection mechanics (Injured Blademaster above all).
- Try to spare Holy Smite for combo (2x with Velen equals 8 damage), but use them to clear if necessary.
- Cycle with Loot Hoarder, Acolyte of Pain and Polluted Hoarders and Resurrect them for both board presence and more cycling.
Pay attention not to mill yourself! - Try to enchain Resurrect, Onyx Bishop, Barnes with best possible chances to get what you need most.
THIS POINT IS CRUCIAL (see below). - Drop Emperor Thaurissan ONLY if you have in hand Prophet Velen and/or Mind Blast too.
- COMBO Prophet Velen + Mind Blast + Mind Blast equals 20 damage to face in one turn. 28 with +2x Holy Smite.
Sometimes all you need is just a mind blast alone, sometimes you need the full combo.
Most of the times the 20 damage combo is more than enough.
NEVER drop Velen without lethal combo.
Resurrection Guidelines
It is FUNDAMENTAL to enchain minion summoning and Resurrection at best, in order to maximise chances of obtaining what is best for you.
- Resurrect and Onyx Bishop work on your pool of dead minions. A resurrected minion that dies again, appears MULTIPLE TIMES in the Resurrection pool.
In other words, it has a higher chance to be resurrected AGAIN later.
Resurrection is kind of a chain, be careful on what you play, what dies and WHEN. - Barnes will NOT summon a copy of something which is already in your hand.
- Resurrection works on dead copies summoned by Barnes: summoning a useless copy (Onyx Bishop) will more likely ruin the resurrection chain.
EXAMPLES:
- Injured Blademaster dies. You Resurrect it. It dies again, together with a Loot Hoarder: your resurrection pool now effectively contains TWO blademasters, even if it was the same that died twice.
This means that in a further resurrection, blademaster has 66% to come back, against 33% of the hoarder. Even if you played just 2 minions, total amount of deaths is 3 and that's what counts. - You use Barnes while you have both your Onyx Bishops in your deck, you have chances to evoke their copy. The copy dies and it becomes a target for Resurrection. It is a decent body, but a bad target for your strategy (see also case 1).
- You use Barnes while Onyx Bishops have already been used or are in your hand. The summoned copy will correspond to another minion in your deck, which in turn will be a better Resurrection target (sylvanas, blademaster, cycle cards).
Options
Depending on your meta, switching 1x Holy Nova for an additional 1x Holy Fire might help countering single target, if you are facing a small number of zoo/flood decks.
Shadow Madness is also a good option, but that might trample over your resurrection chain.
- Arcane Giant: the deck contains enough spells to make them a good option. Possibly in place of Loot Hoarder if you find the latter is inefficient in Resurrect chains.
- Yogg-Saron, Hope's End: with 18 spells, Yogg can be a desperate last stand button even after the nerf.
- N'Zoth, the Corruptor: counting resurrections, this deck contains quite a good number of deathrattles.
Gameplay
Here's some gameplay, kindly provided by Fur0:
There, I hope both deck and guide are useful to you. Thanks to those who will give it a +1!
Why no Shadowreaper Anduin?
No real reason.
It was there in the previous version. I removed it because i think the main weakness of Big Priest is early game, and DK is lategame only.
But it is a great card, and the deck may be indeed better with it!
Hey, i'm looking for more info about this deck... i saw Disguised Toast playing a similar OTK Big Priest, but with Barnes and Maly combo for more consistency. here is the link to the video:
The Malygos version is possibly harder to play, because you have no defensive tools like Statue or Lich. Yes, you have nasty combos and it is probably even more powerful overall, but i feel it is excessively vulnerable to Aggro/Tempo.
No card draw in a combo deck, and the otk is useless against druids and quest mages. And of course no Barnes makes this even slower than big priest.
Clearly, you do not believe in Miracles.
But, seriously, this deck was born in the Unicorn Priest Era. It is not meant to carry you to high ranks.
It is meant to be surprisingly fun and somehow effective to play. It was more Midrange then, and OTK now, but the point is the same.
Btw, Shadow Visions and Lyra the Sunshard are card draw. As well as Shadow Essence.
Ofc, feel free to tweak and have fun with it.
Well, i'm honoured that you tried it in legend.
I have no idea of the meta there, but yes, the full OTK combo is unlikely to happen, and if it is the only chance to win, then you're likely to lose.
That is why i added other sources of damage, so that the average game plan is just a final burst, not a full OTK.
Anyway, yes, as i said, this deck is made to be fun & viable, not competitive.
PS: if you have some tweaks that could improve the deck performances, while maintaining the plan, i'll gladly add them!
Good luck with this deck past rank 10. You basically need to hope for the perfect draw of Pint Size Potion and Shadow Word Horror. If you don't get it, you're dead by 7th turn right after you manage to get off a Dragonfire Potion or Shadow Essence.
Don't waste your time.
499 out of 500 people running this bullshit OTK Priest. Same people playing Pirate Warrior last Season. How come Blizzard always creates one utterly OP deck every Season so even people with 0 braincells can win in this game. One Word for blizzard devs and people playing such decks: Disgusting!
facing a lot of agro so -1PoM, -1 PWS, +1 Horror, +1 GHP
I am runig a deck very similar with the esception that I don`t have Velen or Lich King. Might try crafting Velen to see how it works.
If you like Priest, Velen is definitely a safe craft.
Nice and interesting deck. Fun to play and I can practically hear them mumbling, "F'n Priests!"
This is my version, rly fun.
It is a mid / late game option. But i'm not sure she synergises well with the deck, as she doesn't directly contribute to defense, nor to offense.
It's a value card. Maybe replace Sylvanas or Barnes.
Lyra absolutely belongs here my good man. This deck is literally packed w/spells and late game in fatigue, Lyra can win the game for you. This is a late game deck all day long.
I dont really see what Barnes is doing in h... Oh. Nevermind !
Didn't even need the combo for that one :
this deck is very funny heheheh thank's
Is update at least in progress? I want to know ur opinion about new cards. Which one should I craft?