Hearthpwn

Hi all,

So my only legendary pulled from my 63 packs on launch day was the good old Herald Volazj and I can't for the life of me figure out what to do with him. He seems so weird that someone will be able to figure out a good useful deck with him in it, which is why I didn't dust him for something I'd use more often. Does anyone run him, and how is he most effective? 

I haven't used much of him yet, but I would think deathrattle priest might be a good use? He's tough to use because, particularly with the larger deathrattle minions, they need to spend a turn on the board to make this useful, and if they're spent more than one turn untouched on board, chances are you've already won the game. Very interested to see someone use him effectively in a deck.

Ultimately it's only useful with Deathrattle and aura-type minions like Sylvanas Windrunner, Blood of The Ancient One and Ysera. I think there's just not enough other priest cards to currently synergize with Herald. 

You could try my fatigue priest list with Herald Volazj, it's clearly not the best deck but it's really interesting to play.

Also, Ragnaros, the evil one.

Its a combo card.  Priest is basically a combo class now so Volazj is just in there to create little mini-combos for some extra value.  I dont think its a legendary to build a deck around, more of a complimentary card to add some combos into a deck.

Hmmm.....I probably already know the answer, but does hit fit into any sort of a priest C'Thun people think? It doesn't seem like there are enough minions that are not battlecries to be really effective....something like doubling a Brann Bronzebeard to milk Beckoner of Evil or Disciple of C'Thun OR getting double pings on Twilight Elder or Hooded Acolyte if you can get some heals off before they die. I dunno, seems like a lot of work for probably a minimal amount of extra buffs. 

Doubling Brann is unlikely since he usually gets removed the turn he is played.  I think you need a simpler combo on a stickier minion.

Look at my signature, I run him in my Deathrattle Priest deck and like him so far.

 Well, shadowmaster of rogue is a better card, you can use battlecry and it's sooner and not even a legend.

Yes, herald can be use with all board. But really, I wouldn't count on this hitting two good minions without you already won.

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Look at my signature, I run him in my Deathrattle Priest deck and like him so far.

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Look at my signature, I run him in my Deathrattle Priest deck and like him so far.

 I've seen your deck a couple of times since I opened him, and it is something I am aspiring to making....once I have like all of those legendaries. I have some collecting to do. But the deck looks amazingly fun! 

I got one in a pack on opening day, and made a C'Thun priest deck... because, opening day, and C'Thun, and new legendary.  It works well, there's some synergy with several of your minions, but it's not a very strong card standing by itself.

Hold on to him. We might see some good deathrattle minions in the next expansion + Priest might get that buff that they desperately need right now. I've tried him out in N'Zoth Priest too and he definitely has potential, the problem is that there isn't a lot of stuff to curve into him with. Acolyte is a fine target and so is Loot Hoarder (though a bit awkward in Priest) the rest of the options are pretty much garbage. Shifting Shade  gets traded into with a small minion and then you get a useless card out of the deal and Twilight Summoner doesn't fit into a class that can't follow it up with a full board clear but has to rely on staying ahead on board, since it has to wait till turn 6 before it can trade into something useful an that's too big of a tempo loss. Plus it's gonna be tough to keep the 1/1 alive until Herald comes down anyway. 

Zetalot was playing this on stream with good success, you can replace Cairne and Black Kinight with two corrupted healbot for more N'Zoth power: