[S37] 74% W Rate - Rank 20 Legend - Purify Priest
- Last updated Apr 12, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)
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Wild
- 14 Minions
- 16 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Silence Priest
- Crafting Cost: 5100
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/8/2017 (Un'Goro Launch)
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Hello All!
So once I reached rank 5, I decided to explore more decks. I came across a silence priest in ranked and I thought, hey, I'll make my own! Sooo few games later, i climbed from rank 4 to Legend in a short amount of time. This is my first deck that I'm sharing on here and I hope you guys will enjoy it!
I went 37-13 from rank 4 and to Legend 22 currently. From the stats, you can see that the deck is really strong against Shaman (mainly Elemental Shaman). The deck is also strong against Taunt warrior. Pirate Warrior is a hit or miss, depending on your starting hand. Quest rouge is an issue if they complete the quest and play it by turn 4 or 5.
It's hard to pinpoint if the other person is aggro or control in the current meta, so mulligan based on aggro.
You want a combination of the following cards in your starting hand for the most part:
- Northshire Cleric
- Humongous Razorleaf
- Ancient Watcher
- Acolyte of Pain
- Silence
- Kabal Talonpriest
If you know you're against a zoo like classe like Warlock, Druid(new aggro druids), or Pally (new murloc pallys), then you would want to try to aggressively mulligan for Circle of Healing and Auchenai Soulpriest combo to clear their board in the early game and win by them having used all of their resources early on.
If you have coin, keeping Purify and Ancient Watcher is a very strong combo.
Check out my Twitch Channel, hit the follow button, and catch me playing it sometime!
https://www.twitch.tv/level_9001
EDIT:
So the meta is always changing and I decided to change a few cards to the current version i'm running.
Changes:
-1 Acolyte of Pain
- 1 Sunfury Protector
- 1 Bittertide Hydra
- 1 Auchenai Soulpriest
- 1 Kabal Songstealer
+2 Shadow Visions
+1 Lyra the Sunshard
+1 Embrace the Shadow
+1 Mass Dispel
Explanation for changes:
Shadow Visions is a great card and adding two of these has allowed for the other deck changes. Shadow visions allow you to dig for situational cards based on the current board state. You can create another Divine Spirit for when you need a bigger taunt or Embrace the Shadow for when you have Circle of Healing but no Auchenai Soulpriest and need to clear the board.
Shadow Visions also creates the ability to have more potential Silence in your deck, which allowed for room to take away - 1 Kabal Songstealer and - 1 Sunfury Protector (because more minions will be used as big threats instead of defensive targets.
Mass Dispel is specifically teched in for Taunt Warrior. Many times there are multiple taunts in the away and the combo is in hand, so Mass Dispel helps with that. It also helps to free up the other silences in order to save those for your own minions and not have to use them on the enemies.
Lyra the Sunshard is a great card to get more situational cards and because of all of the cheap spells in the deck, it tends to get a lot of value.
If you want to see me play a few games with the new updated deck, I have made a highlight video from a stream I did!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/134696942
Also, shout out to kiwiinbacon for making a showcase video of the original version! Check it out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN-pQuHuRFI&feature=youtu.be
How is this deck vs hunter?
the worst matchup
oof. Hunter is infesting the ladder atm too. Might just craft this deck for fun anyways tbh.
My winrate against Hunter with this deck is 3-1 so far. Unfortunately, I'm 1-4 against Warrior though, and the 1 was pretty lucky.
is purify not standart deck card anymore, as i can't pick or choose it?
Purify is standard, it's from One Night in Karazhan. You probably don't have the expansion or haven't finished it.
Guys i dont have lyra , a replacement?
Lyra is pretty unique, so if you don't have it, it might not be worth synnergizing the deck around spells so much, but that's just me. I don't have Lyra either, so I want to see what other people say.
Went to check this site for this deck after got a row of losses from it.
this deck is really fun to play if it connects. I got about 30 games with 50% winrate at rank 13. It's frustrating if you do not draw a "combat minion" that the deck plays around in the first 5 rounds, but only your battlecry minions you do not actually want to buff up. And it's terribly frustrating if you get smashed by control decks in the first 7-8 rounds because you do not draw a single useable minion, because this deck has effectively only 12 minions (you can't count Faceless Shambler as it's a kind of useless 1/1 card without another minion out)
Maaan, you play bad
Guys, I have no Purify. Will it play if I swap it with Ironbeak Owl ?
Honestly, it is pretty essential in this deck. I would invest in the Expansion.
If you can't scrape together 80 dust, you are not ready to face any opponent but the Innkeeper.
Any room for Barnes? seems like he works well with silence
any replacement for -Bittertide Hydra ?
I run this same deck -2 Purify - Bittertide Hydra + Kabal Songstealer +2 Wild Pyromancers. The Pyros really help in generating card draw and clearing small minions.
(Currently at rank 9. I've run this deck from rank 18 with roughly a 65% winrate.)