Stancifka's Obsidian Rage
- Last updated Aug 18, 2017 (Frozen Throne)
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Wild
- 5 Minions
- 25 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Thief Priest
- Crafting Cost: 8260
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 8/18/2017 (Frozen Throne)
- StanCifka
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Hello everyone, I am here with another deck guide, and this time it's a really funny one, as I really like to bend the rules of Hearthstone :) Allow me to present you the Obsidian Rage Priest!
This deck is all about cheating a big minion into play and reviving it as soon as you can. As such, there are very few minions in the deck to ensure that you get what you need with Barnes and Shadow Essence. So you just try to stall for a while with your spells, and as soon as you can you go for some huge minion, which should then kill your opponent quickly.
Pirate Warrior is the worst matchup for this deck as you have a hard time preventing rush damage that he is capable of, but other aggro decks are fine, as dealing with the board is your strong suit. You especially want to play against Shaman or Taunt Druid, as you just cheat a big taunt minion to play early and they have a hard time dealing with that.
Against control your best bet to win is to play Y’Shaarj, Rage Unbound as many times as you can, and usually they won’t have answer to it for the third time or so. If they still somehow manage to clear your board, then you must get as much value as you can from Thoughtsteal and Devour Mind to beat them.
If you could choose one card that would always start in your hand, it would be Barnes. Drawing him is insane, and is the single best card in the deck by far to get. Other than that you can keep Shadow Essence in most matchups as it is your main gameplan, but if you think they will be hyper aggressive then you might have to toss it. Shadow Word: Pain and Shadow Visions are also good keep basically no matter what, and I keep Mind Vision most of the time as well. Thanks to aforementioned deck restriction this card had to make the cut, and it helps you to do anything in the early game as they should have some cheap cards in hand after they mulligan.
Against aggro you are looking for Potion of Madness, and Holy Smite is also good, especially if you are on the draw.
Against control you can keep Eternal Servitude as the card is great and game will go quite long. Thoughtsteal is also a good keep, especially on the play.
And just a small bonus to wrap it up, you should keep Shadow Word: Horror versus Shaman and mulligan it when you play against anything else.
I really dug deep to find any playable spells, so I don’t think there is much you can change there, but if you figure out something then sure let me know. Where you get to make the choices is you minion combo package.
I know I said that Barnes is the best card, but theoretically you could cut him as it greatly improves your Shadow Essence as you will always hit something good. I think that Barnes compensates for this with him being super strong when drawn, but I just wanted to let you know that this could be a possibility.
After that there is only Y’Shaarj, Rage Unbound that has to be in the deck, and all the others are optional. Obsidian Statue is real huge brick wall against aggro, but if you are playing versus control all the time, you could just switch one of them for Ysera.
The Lich King can also be removed from the deck if you don’t have him or feel like you have too many big targets in the deck, and I have played for a long time with this deck with Devour Mind in his place.
That's all I have for you today guys, hope you enjoyed my article! I really recommend that you try this deck, it’s very good and so much fun. As always, don’t forget to see the Youtube video if you are interested in some gameplay, and if you liked the deck, then Youtube subscribe is greatly appreciated. See you next week with another deck guide!
Cheers
Stancifka
I could use some suggestions playing this deck, if anyone is kind enough to help.
First, let me say I saw this deck a while back, didn't have Y'Shaarj, and was missing dupes of some cards like Shadow Essence, but decided to try a modified version with Bone Drake, Skelemancer, and a few other additions. I went from rank 16 to rank 12.
With that success, I decided to craft Y'Shaarj and the other cards I was missing. I haven't crafted Lich King, but am using Y'Sera as a replacement, which I think is fine.
Since then I've tanked back to rank 15, losing far more often than I win. I seem to be having some bad RNG issues. I am sure I am also making misplays, like playing Barnes against a Priest on turn 4, which seems like a good move, but he stole the Y'Sera I got, killed it, and proceeded to make like 5 more Y'Seras against me over the course of the game. It was horrible. Since then I'm afraid to play Barnes in the mirror. Help!
Ok, I'll give you the quick version. Currently playing the list card-for-card at Rank 5.
Don't try to replace anything in this deck. Especially the cards that summon, like Shadow Essence. That's how you win since you only run 5 minions in the deck.
Also, imo Ysera is bad because you want taunt 1/1's from Barnes, especially if you're lucky enough to coin him on 3. Eternal Servitude/Shadow Essence into Ysera isn't that great because if you need to stop damage, gain life or kill stuff on board, your opponent doesn't care about it and will keep SMOrc'ing. 5/5 Lich King or Statue DEMANDS an answer.
But anyway, the main point is to stay alive until T6, chances are you'll have Dragonfire or Essence by then. Use your Shadow Visions wisely. Save removal against faster matchups, save cards that summon against slower matchups. Against Pirate warrior just concede lol. Not really but I don't see you winning that more than twice outta ten. Barnes on 4 and Servitude on 5 is GG in most cases. Don't be afraid to play Barnes against the mirror. Because if he has it he's gonna do it to you either way, you'd rather him do it now while you might have a chance to bounce back from it, instead of letting him keep it to seal his victory later in the game.
Ysera isn't bad. I have a very similar version of this deck that I've played from rank 5 to 1 and it doesn't include any of the stealing cards, but it includes Y'Shaarj, Ysera, Lich King, and Statue. Ysera is good because it is hard for other priests and druids to deal with due to its massive HP and when you resummon it you get another card.
I have it instead one Dragonfire Potion and you can get a lot of value
I have experiemented with Lyra and while it is good, if you are running into Jade druids it hurts the deck. That's because barnes will sometimes summon her and decreases your chance of getting Y'Shaarj with can usually give you an instawin vs super control decksif you can keep resummoning Y'Shaarj.
It's not broken enough coming off of Barnes or when rezzed, so it probably would hurt the consistency of the deck (which is already its Achilles Heel).
Singleton C'thun variant here!
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/916700-razazakusthun-meta-breaker
That's not a variant. That's not even remotely the same deck. C'thun would be dumb for this deck.
BEST DECK EVER!! Never had so much fun... lol
LUL so cancerous shite
AIDS priest.
Rank 10, sitting on 15-16. Too draw and RNG dependent in my opinion
Went 5-5 in ten games. Feel like I couldn't ever draw a Shadow Essence. I almost always drew Barnes though which is almost an auto win if you have Eternal Servitude in your hand. If you draw Lich King and Y'Shaarj early you're screwed. Pretty fun deck. Maybe after some tweaking it could be better.
7/10 would play again.
People talk about a deck being "cancer." This one has so many unfair combinations and abilities that essentially cheat ... as the author himself stated. I don't mind losing to genuinely good gameplay. I do mind losing to cheaters.
I keep getting matched up against people playing this deck and every game they pull off Barnes and Eternal Servitude combo for a turn 5 The Lich King or Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound.
I'm sure if I played this deck it would take me 10 losses in a row to finally pull that off
What a great deck! I have been playing it for 2 days and it's such a long time since I had so much fun!
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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!
this deck is much worse in ranked than EZ big priest. Yeaa it is fun but not good
Am I only unlucky with this deck? Played it 7 times. Got Barnes before turn 6 only two times. On 5 other plays managed to play Shadow Essence, and Barnes comes out of Shadow Essence 3 times. :(