[Rank 5 to LEGEND] Lyra Miracle Priest
- Last updated Apr 16, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)
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Wild
- 17 Minions
- 13 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: OTK Priest
- Crafting Cost: 3680
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/10/2017 (Un'Goro Launch)
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Battle Tag:
InfernO#2774
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Hey Hearthpwn, I'm infernO 24 years old italian player for Team Prophecy. I made this decklist with my friend RickM 23 years old player for team DMTK Brawlers.
We wanted to build a meta broker list to climb ladder with an Elemental based Priest with Divine Spirit + Inner Fire combos.
We both achieved legend from rank 4 and 5. This deck is not that easy and direct to play, so we made this guide to explain how to use it perfectly.
Table of contents:
-Gameplay;
-Mulligan;
-Questions;
-Replacements.
Gameplay:
First of all this is kind of Midrange Priest that generates a good board using the elemental sinergy. Is not a deck to play on curve, because you have to optimize the Elementals chain in order to activate their effects. Thanks to Radiant Elemental, Shadow Visions and Lyra the Sunshard it's easy to find out pieces for the combo.
Mulligan:
Generally you have to mulligan for the early game, which is Northshire Cleric, Fire Fly, Radiant Elemental and if you already have one of these you can also keep Power Word: Shield and with the coin Kabal Talonpriest.
Against aggro decks is recommended to hard mulligan for Tar Creeper also (with Fire Fly and the coin you can also keep the Tol'vir Stoneshaper).
Questions:
-Isn't Lightspawn a good value card with Divine Spirit and the Elemental sinergies?
I think Lightspawn is way too slow card and easily tradable because it has always its attack equal to the health and could be weakened by removals and easily traded by the opponent's board.
-Is there any sense to play this deck without Lyra the Sunshard?
Actually Lyra is a very good card, more than we thought at the start, because priest has such nice spells which cost very low that can help you cycle well with Radiant Elementals, she can easily help you to comeback lost games with nice picks (like Gadgetzan Auctioneer). She's also an elemental!
-Why no Ozruk? With that many elementals in the deck, Ozruk plus Inner Fire would just win?
Ozruk costs is way to high, and many times you won't have his body on the board for more than 1 turn since it can easily be removed from all the single target removals (like Hex, Execute, and so on).
-How does this deck perform against taunt warrior?
Against taunt warriors you need to be fast pushing face damage, using Divine Spirit and Inner Fire in the early game, in way to find out lethal using Lyra in the midgame.
Also you can beat taunt warriors using Potion of Madness on their 2-6 or 2-7 taunts to buff them with your spells and otk them!
Deck Replacement:
If you face many pirate warriors and generally aggro decks:
-1 Blazecaller
-1 Shadow Word: Death
+1 Tortollan Shellraiser
+1 Potion of Madness
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Im currently using another Potion of Madness instead of Power Word Death, so should i switch blazecaller for dragonfire potion?
Shadow word *
How do you manage without a board clear?
You can do a lot of good trades early by buffing you minions with health, which can sustain you quite well. So you don't really need board clear, and if there a lot. Use one of the inner fires and just start going face so they are forced to trade. Its is of cause easier if you use one of your taunt units for that.
Replace at least one Tol'vir Stoneshaper with Priest of the Feast for an emergency healing tool that can absolutely screw decks like secret mage, lots of shaman decks, and aggro warrior. If you can blast heal 15 or so health in a turn, lots of decks simply don't have the sustainable power to keep burning you down.
Also, you may want to take out a Fire Fly and put in an Eater of Secrets. I find that this deck is disrupted by Ice Block in a serious way, and this is a really good way to give mages a false sense of security. They are careless letting you buff because they think that they are protected and will OTK you next turn, and they rarely anticipate this card being played.
Finally, I put in a Stormwatcher just to make my opponents soil themselves on turn 7 from the threat of a fully boosted windfury minion. I actually find that this works really well in mirror matches, as priests don't have many good direct options to deal with a 4 attack minion after you control the board.
Interesting, Stormwatcher instead of what?
Sadly, I don't have a Blazecaller but you could sub out the Tortollan Shellraiser.
Getting a 32/32 windfury on turn 8 is just horrifying for your opponent, particularly against druids that don't run hard removal and cancer rogues.
Live to turn 8 vs rogue? I think not.
I actually have managed it a couple times. If you keep the board clear and get lucky with Dragonfire Potion off Lyra, you can get into the late game even with quest rogues and priests.
If only they made this card--one can only hope:
Great deck Solid if you know how to mulligan and play it to its full potential.
i made the worst possible decision crafting this deck lol. fun or not this deck cant win against other meta decks. either you draw the otk combo or you lose basically.
You're not playing it right then, I'm on like a 7 game win streak at rank 4 now, I've beaten pirate warriors, midrange paladins, control mages, discolocks. I haven't even needed or had a massive otk game yet so you don't lose if you don't get to do some big otk turn.
Sounds like you're trying to play this deck in an OTK innerfire style. That's now how its supposed to be played.
Read the guide once more and try again this time.
Can't say there is any other deck I've played where an overall losing record was still actually fun. No way I can climb ladder with this currently but I'll have fun with it at each milestone level for sure
Just fought against mirror on rank 9, I lost but that was satisfying match. Both of us topdecking, and my op won with good draws fron lyra, (my lyra give me crap). But my main deck mass dispel really help against mirror match up.
Thanks for sharing this deck I have been having a lot of fun with it. as a new player im not sure if ive made the right call but made the below changes
-1 Shadow Word: Death +1 Thunder Lizard and -1Blazecaller +1 Stormwatcher
when the expansion hit, I got only Lyra out of packs; so I was trying out a lot of stuff with Priest...Stormwatcher was very fun :D (the more refined version of Lyra Priest is better, but still, you can have fun in the lower ranks AND win quite a lot :))
I like this deck very much. The problem is, once you lose board, you´re almost done. No chance vs Murloc Pala e.g. - so wouldn´t it make sense to add a Dragonfire Potion instead of Blazecaller !?
Fun deck for all Priest players!
I'm running with - wait for it - Mass Dispel in this bad boy and it works a treat; adds card draw and deals with a lot of overpowered minions, especially taunts.
Can anyone help me with this deck combos? I cant seem to win anygames, im new with pries, iam rank 15 atm and i cant win any matches