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I repeat, this list is OBSOLETE.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!
Exactly. Maybe i should go for another deck, since Karazhan seems very important in this deck. Thanks!
This deck is hilarious!! I don't know about how viable it will be in higher ranks once I get there, but I've climbed from 19 to 13 only losing twice. Most of the time I don't even pull off the combo, I end up whittling them down and just drop the prophet followed by 1 mind blast, or just drop both mind blasts for 10 dmg. Most of the time 20 dmg with the two mind blasts is more than plenty at the point that I have them available in hand.
Remplacement for Velen ?
None.
This deck is capable of winning without Velen sometimes, but without him it's just not the same deck.
You could try with Malygos, but thenpulling the burst is more complicated.
haha i was joking^^ , rly rly nice deck i changed one Polluted Hoarder for harrison and one nova 4 mana(dont remember the name) and alexstrasza instead of the two holy nova , works a lot better i think because holy nova is pure shit atm
people who bump there own deck on other peoples pages are just cheeky.
your modifications are crap i hope my english was good this time.
Hey guys, is it time to craft Bloodmage Thalnos ? I have 4.5K of dust and I own all important legendaries except Malygos. Thoughts?
hh i opened him 4 times, 1 was golden :D
Pretty cool deck! I used -1 Polluted Hoarder +Harrison Jones for the meta!
Thoughts on Northshire Cleric instead of the acolyte?
Unreliable as card draw. It would also likely ruin resurrection chain.
Loot Hoarder should do.
Hard against Reno Mage
against any deck with loads of survival.
yet you have tools to push for damage from the very beginning (you need a bit more luck than usual with mulligan).
If you find you are consistently beaten by such decks, you could try and replace Ragnaros the Firelord with Alexstrasza.
Do you think there could be space in this deck for a Malygos?
You could try, but i think malygos does NOT fit this deck.
Because the deck is meant for a decent midgame + burst. Not just otk.
There could be some gimmicky situation where you get crazy combo with malygos, but it would generally make your strategy more complicated.
It was indeed the pleasure of the challenge.
Being helpful is a pleasure. :)
awsome! :)
Well, I guess I'll give a try to the fat dwarf myself. If it's good against aggro, then maybe we could remove one of the 4 aoe in the deck...
This deck feels helpless vs miracle rogue what would you remove for 2 auchenai and 2 circle?