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In style of the late Big Priest Decks, I finaly built a deck variant which I tried to realize in the past expansions a few times but it never worked out too good. Now with the new cards it turns out to be really strong and fun. It is still gimicky but when you got your draw you absolutely surprise your opponent. Use Prophet Velen and Malygos early summons and revives with Eternal Servitude. Apart from Malygos, Velen and Barnes this deck plays no other minions. This deck dedicates a 100% to this plan, which makes it pretty unique in regard to minion big priest. Late game Shadowreaper Anduin helps you out for the finishing line and provides some nice value with Velen.

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Viability

TheEnclase lately came up with a somewhat similar idea and while I am a lowrang scrub that used this deck in the past days to climb a bit he used it / a variant quiet successfully on legend. So its safe to say that this is a fun to play deck (it really fucking is, you will have a BLAST) that is viable in the current meta. It also DESTROYS jade. I mean really, this Deck is so freaking fun and joy if you mock your opponents with board clear + full heal and drive theminsane. 

Even though the deck from TheEnclase is a bit different you should really try out this variant, it plays different. Give both a shot!

General Gameplay

It has huge control, burn and heal potential. Hope for Barnes / Shadow Essence to get some early Velen or Malygos and combo it with your Spirit Lash / Mind Blast / Holy Nova and Eternal Servitude for some surprising insane burn.

Some Replays:

Yes this is low rank shit stuff but you can see the general deck idea and what is so fun about this deck. Replays got anything from 1hp full heal board clear to insane face burst in two rounds, some Jade board clear with 14dmg Holy Nova (couldve gone for 40dmg mind blast combo the same turn but its just so satisfying to clear a jade board full of 11+).

vs Jade druid (14 holy nova / 40dmg mind blast on hand)

vs. Highlander Priest (with like twelve fullheal combebacks)

another Jade

Tips:

Of course having Velen / Malygos on your hand is a no-go, so toss them. Try to save your coin, try to not play Barnes or Essence on curve but pool some Mana Crystals / Coin for an immediate combo. You can easliy eat quite a lot of face damage and clear the board with 10 life total and heal you up to 30 at the same time, so try to develop a feeling how far you can go - provided you got a combo on hand.  Against aggro use whatever you can to keep the board clear, do not pool your spirit lash / nova for combo if you can clear early and deny buffed up low minions. You will survive and dish out some insane face burn in the long run anyway, so play it safe and control hard.

You usally go hero power on your first few turns, eat face damage and control/aeo. Use Greater Healing Potion, Shadow Word: Horror and Dragonfire Potion to keep yourself alive. Stall the board until you can find your Barnes to get your gameplan running. Let your oponent overextend a bit and come back with Malygos + Spirit Lash / Holy Nova. Continue to outlast your opponents until you got your mind blast combo, try to play for Velen + Malygos on board + 2x mind blast or just go face with holy fire early, use some 20dmg mind blast with 2x servitude (for velen + maly) + 1x mind blast.

You will usualy make it just fine into the later turns with your control / heal potential, so dont sweat it.

Why no Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound

Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound was part in one stage of my deck but I decided to toss him out since I think the deck plays more well without him. For once it plays more proactive since he summons at round end and gives you no chance to profit from your Barnes / Shadow Essences (since he also draws them directly from your deck on board). So if you go Barnes -> Y'Shaarj -> Malygos and your oponent steals / hexes / polymorpsh Malygos its usually GG. Basically it has an additonal chance to fuck up your gameplan but at the same time of course has the potential to snowball and has some insane body. You need to decide for yourself. For a version with Y'Shaarj, check out TheEnclases variant of this deck. -> Link

Possible Burn Combos

While having Malyogs + Velen (or any other combo with them two) at the same time on board is insane, you don't really need it to win games. One of them is usally enough to handle most situations.

Velen

Velen alone is not too good as a board clear but it can end up in some pretty good face damage. You can use it pretty well with anything that heals or with mind blast / holy fire. Using it with holy nova or spirit lash is still okay board damage with some good heal but you should prefer to use them with malygos.

Malygos

Obviously insane +5 spelldmg. Mostly with spirit lash it will clear the enemy board and get you healed to full from very low life total. If you can, try to save your coin for hard casting Malygos at 10 mana together with spirit lash (or together with mind blast), this is also the reason why going second is ultimately preferable with this deck and makes you so much stronger.

Card Substitutes

Mostly Shadow Essence has a high chance to end up as a very dead and costly card. If the stars align and you play your barns before and get to keep your Malygos and Velen in Deck for some time (or better yet got Velen out of your deck) it is a really strong ultimate card to play twice. But I think you could change one of it out versus another Pint-Size Potion or Mass Dispel (depends on your opponents, it cycles and help you to survive versus aggro buffed up minions long enough) or one Shadow Word: Pain. 

You can also substitute out Mass Dispel for either of above mentioned. I got Mass Dispel as a tech card mostly against Warriors and their Rage-Effects, Armorsmithes, etc.

Currently I am strongly concidering to go for another Pint-Size Potion again.

Mulligan:

Barnes is the Keeper but I would not hard mulligan for it. Also Shadow Word: Horror (+ Pint-Size Potion if you got horror), Shadow Visions (since it helps you to adapt very well to the situation) and Spirit Lash. While barns will ensure your gameplan the other stuff will make sure you will last some initial face aggro. Against aggro don't shy to keep and use Holy Smite  (tho its some cheap 7dmg burn with malygos, or 14 with malygos and velen) and definitely keep Dragonfire Potion. Concider keeping Eternal Servitude if you think you got enough to survive, most of the time I also keep greater healing potion since I know I can stall the enemy with it until I draw some spirit lash / Malygos to clear his overextending board and heal me full again to come back. 

I usually go for early heals, trying to stay mostly at 25+ hp, dont fret about not using Greater Healing Potion as early as between 18-21 hp, given you planed ahead for some combo board clear, you can cast it just fine!

Usually you hope for Malygos from Barnes or Shadow Essence. If you hard played Velen or got him on hand already early it makes your game also much smoother since you can calculate with Malygos from your other Essences or Barnes, which is just a much better outcome in terms of spell followups (mostly). Velen + Holy fire for 10dmg face 10dmg selfheal is quiet nice though.

Weaknesses

Of course Mages are not our friends since their secrets can fuck up us pretty good. Try to bait their spell secrets with coin, holy fire or pint-size or whatever. You should not risk to hard play Velen / Malygos unless you can ensure iminent victory, because having them mirror imaged is usually GG for you. Also try to not show your gameplan before you can ensure lethal, he probably will feel safe at 25+ hp and maybe not cast ice block. Not an easy matchup tho, also I think Exodia Mage usually has easy GG against you.

Against priest 4/12 Malygos Mind Control from  opponent can fuck you hard unless you still got your pin-sized (most probably not), since you probably will not be able to remove it.

Dragon priest is a very hard matchup, you will have a hard time to clear his dragons, he can steal your velen and counter hard, you strongly rely on pint-size / horror and spirit-lash combo.

And of course, if you dont draw barnes / servitudes, get early Maly on your hand (Velen is alright) or get Barnes via Shadow Essence it sucks hard.

Version History / Changes

v1.1

out: 1x Binding Heal

in: Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound

v1.2

out: 1x Mass Dispel / 1x Pint-Size Potion

in: 1xShadow Word: Death / Shadowreaper Anduin

v1.3

out: Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound / 1x Binding Heal

in: Prophet Velen

v1.4

out: 1x Binding Heal

in: 1x Shadow Word: Death

Last Words / Deck Idea

My original hope was to make this deck popular and get some 15 minutes of fame because I'm a lowrank pleb nonstreamer. Now that TheEnclase came up with the similar idea this dream died but I'd be glad would anyone have my version in mind and toss me some credit should a variant of this deck see any play on streams, this would make my day <3