Pavel's Dragon Priest - Winter Championship 2017
- Last updated Mar 16, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
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Wild
- 22 Minions
- 8 Spells
- Deck Type: Tournament
- Deck Archetype: Dragon Priest
- Crafting Cost: 3760
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 3/17/2017 (Aggro Downfall)
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First off, that deck is designed to be an OTK. If you haven't won the game by turn 11, you probably lost.
Second off, the amount of value you can amass with this deck is insane (aside from the Book Wyrm perhaps, but that can be substituted) so if you lose to an Aviana Kun Brann C'thun Combo or whatever Aviana Kun combo, its probably either your own fault, or you got really really unlucky.
I haven't run into a C'thun OTK deck myself, but from experience (I rode this deck from rank 14 to rank 10 after Jade Druid and Token Druid stopped working as well as it did) I can tell you that facing most decks, you are favored.
When I played jade druid and token druid, it was impossible to make any ground. They would often have 3 minions on the board by turn 3 (dat curvestone) with at least two of them having boosted stats from a normal minion at that mana cost. Tie in the fact that they traded quite easily with my minions and could fucking heal, I basically needed a Christmas miracle to win. That's what made me switch (because if you can't beat em, join em)
The only decks that you have a higher chance of losing to is Reno Mage (I think I have a 1 - 3 record against them) Jade Shaman (the matches are always close for me) and pirate warrior (you either have a good opening hand or you don't). Mirror matches are a bit awkward, so you just want to pray that you have more total health than them when it comes to minions on board.
I would disagree with the turn 11 win or die arguement. This de aims to outvalue and is very efficient and dragging a game out. Pulling things like Ysera, more Dragonids are very good at doing so from the netherspite as well as getting good quality minions/spells from your opponents deck. But yes the rest I agree with, as I even used your insanse value arguement to argue that playing the long game is also a viable solution.
I also disagree with your assessment of matchups. Reno mage is all about value as is this deck. So I would say its 50-50 depending on the draws from dragonid. (Always save brann for at least 1 dragonid, but better for dragonid + netherspite).Slightly faveroured against Jade Shaman imo, and pirate warrior just shits on you unless you have a perfect draw and he draws dead. If you cant stablize the board but turn 3-4, then you have nearly 0% chance of winning. I can normally tell by turn 2 by my hand and his board who will win.
I see no mention of this being a 100% winrate. I don't think there is any deck in hearthstone that has a 100% winrate. And if there was one everyone would be running it, hence its not 100% anymore. And giving a "funny" counterargument to a none existent argument has no real point in my eyes. And also your first argument stating that it has no chance to win against OTK druid is also false. You later clarified that you meant god draw OTK druid. But seriously if your laddering with a deck that can't win with god draw mode activated then you are going something very wrong or your deck is just complete garbage and why play it. So if your argument is Dragon Priest is complete garbage you are stating something that can be disproven with numbers. Calling a tier 1 deck rubbish...
So by quoting the president of America: "You are false news" -Trump
PS adding a text emote to the end of your comment will neither make it funny nor correct
I think you may be playing wrong as this deck is favoured against Jade Druid. This deck can easily outvalue druid and once you have board control druid has limited removal to regain it.
What is this decks matchup against Renolock?
I have a slight positive winrate against them. Depends if they can get board control. Don't extend into portal, slyvannas shadowflame etc.
Amazing and effective deck, i used Jade shaman to rank 10, this deck from 10 to 7 with 75% (9-3) and still climbing!
This deck has like 0% chance to beat jade druid
Deathwing from Netherspite Historian
Druid has no answer
Win.
Did you say double Deathwing with [card]Brann Bronzebeard[/card] ?
priest had to get to board fast & win before the big jades, druid cant kill the hight health minions & with the preist heal "swip cant kill them"
or the very other way around
dragon priest is favorable in this matchup.
Actually dragon priest is favoured against Jade druid. You most be doing something wrong. I'm using the same deck to climb ony with to holy novas. (Don't have dragonfire). I'm currently rank 3 and went from 15-7 without a lose. I always like it when the opponent is druid. 1 it's not pirate warrior which just annihilates you and two this deck has a 70+% winrate against it. Control the board and outvalue your opponent with Dragonid Operative and netherspite. Look for Dragonid from netherspite and big threats from his deck. If druid loses the board then they have limited removal and can't really fight back. Play around Drake + swipe and leave pain for 3/6es