Hearthpwn

Hey, everyone.

I've been playing HS since a bit before TGT and have been enjoying the content a lot until recently. I've gravitated toward Rogue as my favourite class, but I had began to warm up to Priest when Trump did his GvG F2P run with the class. I started to understand the strengths and weakness in the world with sticky minions and Dr. 7 every which way we turn. Now, we're in a different environment. Lots of fast decks, and combo-y, mid-rangy style decks born from a limited card pool. Unfortunately, the priest decks haven't changed much before standard and after. People just slapped Excavated Evil in place of Lightbomb and that was that. Unfortunately, we still see this deck really hit or really miss, depending on the reactive draws.

The point of this post: I've been exploring a more proactive priest, despite the feeble and janky tools give to the class. I'm interested in some thoughts. The hardest matchup right now is zoolock (turns 1-3 is basically 15 damage to the face every game), but I've been able to outplay Token Druid and various warrior decks (except Worgen Combo Warrior). Thoughts?

http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/602434-pogchamp-token-priest

I am happy to see this and encourage you to continue. Most priest players are stuck in the past and if you show them a deck with some different cards they will laugh at you haha.

Anyway, in my decks I don't have problem with zoo, I run doomsayer, shadowform and excavated evil which is also a great card vs shamans and dragon warriors.

Holy Nova is not good in this meta, what I would suggest is to remove shadow word pain, 2 novas and the ooze and replace them with 2 doomsayers and 2 excavated evil.

Thanks for the positive words. I'm thinking hard about it, and I might just give that variation a whirl. It's not too big of a change, and might make a difference in the long haul. I'll come back with my findings. The only thing I don't like is the EE, which doesn't really jive with the Violet Teachers. It would literally be a dead draw if I'm ahead on board, but want to maintain it.

I'm using reno n'zoth buff priest with Fjola and Eydis and I'm pretty happy with it.

You are welcome.

I see you point, I was like teacher has 5 health, that should be OK with excavated evil but all the 1/1s will die.

I didn't try the deck yet, so when teacher is on board and you are in control, how good was holy Nova? Did you feel like you needed it or you were doing OK in that position? 

If you can create a consistent teacher board in most games, then in that case I think something like power word tentacles (1 of that card, two is a dead draw) would work will, no?

I think you should take out silence since i dont see any synergy for it in the deck and i think its a pretty bad card overall, i would rather run a second entomb due to the fact that you rarely want silence a low value minion (like fiery bat) and it doesnt work with fjola.

Otherwise i think divine spirit is a little bit out of place, there are no real cards which have high enough HP to run it (why even Inner fire with those minions)
I think to improve this deck get rid of silence,divine spirit and inner fire to get Auchenai and Circle of healing in your deck they would help a shit ton against Hunters (with Call of the wild who all have only 4HP) and zoolocks which primarily run 3-4hp minions like imp gang boss, also circle of healing allows for better trades and synergizes with Nordshire cleric

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I think you should take out silence since i dont see any synergy for it in the deck and i think its a pretty bad card overall, i would rather run a second entomb due to the fact that you rarely want silence a low value minion (like fiery bat) and it doesnt work with fjola.

Otherwise i think divine spirit is a little bit out of place, there are no real cards which have high enough HP to run it (why even Inner fire with those minions)
I think to improve this deck get rid of silence,divine spirit and inner fire to get Auchenai and Circle of healing in your deck they would help a shit ton against Hunters (with Call of the wild who all have only 4HP) and zoolocks which primarily run 3-4hp minions like imp gang boss, also circle of healing allows for better trades and synergizes with Nordshire cleric

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I think you should take out silence since i dont see any synergy for it in the deck and i think its a pretty bad card overall, i would rather run a second entomb due to the fact that you rarely want silence a low value minion (like fiery bat) and it doesnt work with fjola.

Otherwise i think divine spirit is a little bit out of place, there are no real cards which have high enough HP to run it (why even Inner fire with those minions)
I think to improve this deck get rid of silence,divine spirit and inner fire to get Auchenai and Circle of healing in your deck they would help a shit ton against Hunters (with Call of the wild who all have only 4HP) and zoolocks which primarily run 3-4hp minions like imp gang boss, also circle of healing allows for better trades and synergizes with Nordshire cleric

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Quote from Gamefighter3000 >>

I think you should take out silence since i dont see any synergy for it in the deck and i think its a pretty bad card overall, i would rather run a second entomb due to the fact that you rarely want silence a low value minion (like fiery bat) and it doesnt work with fjola.

Otherwise i think divine spirit is a little bit out of place, there are no real cards which have high enough HP to run it (why even Inner fire with those minions)
I think to improve this deck get rid of silence,divine spirit and inner fire to get Auchenai and Circle of healing in your deck they would help a shit ton against Hunters (with Call of the wild who all have only 4HP) and zoolocks which primarily run 3-4hp minions like imp gang boss, also circle of healing allows for better trades and synergizes with Nordshire cleric

 Thats is what he is trying to change in priest, adding a second entomb and the COH combo will make it another control priest deck with violet teacher as a replacement for late game cards like sylvanas and ragnaros.

I see that you are running 2 inner fire. What is the purpose of that in this build? There's not too much in the deck to hit with it to get value, so is it there to use on opposing minions?

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I see that you are running 2 inner fire. What is the purpose of that in this build? There's not too much in the deck to hit with it to get value, so is it there to use on opposing minions?

Could a mod give this the "standard" tag? I forgot to tack it on :)

Any new updates on the deck testing?

You can try Grim Patron in this. Buff it, slam it into something, heal it... tokens everywhere. Yes, it's slow, but it could work with PW: S and Divine Spirit.

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Any new updates on the deck testing?

Updated list:

So, I decided to take out the Azure Drakes and Sunfury Protectors for Priest of the Feast and Arcane Anomaly. Both of these cards are like the Violet Teacher: they interact heavily with spells. Both from your deck and what you thoughtsteal. It seems to be doing really well so far. That 3hp sets the finish line way ahead for face-race decks like tempo mage and zoolock and anything that's not control Shaman.

*Karazhan

'Hoooooooooooooo leeeeeeeeeeee nooooooooooo vaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh' - Hobbs

Finally, someone starts realizing the real amount of decks Priest can have! Back before Ben Brode was trying to encourage players to branch out with Priest, I had ideas for Yogg and Token Priest even before those were things. Priest has just as much potential as any other class for greatness right now, Savjz reached Top 10 legend with it and there was even a guy who got Top 5 with an AGGRO PRIEST. Keep up the good work!

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Finally, someone starts realizing the real amount of decks Priest can have! Back before Ben Brode was trying to encourage players to branch out with Priest, I had ideas for Yogg and Token Priest even before those were things. Priest has just as much potential as any other class for greatness right now, Savjz reached Top 10 legend with it and there was even a guy who got Top 5 with an AGGRO PRIEST. Keep up the good work!