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Hey all,

I have made the following otk priest deck. Due to the amount of removal I'm generally able to get to the latter turns. However I haven't figured out yet what could make the deck better. Any suggestions are more than welcome:

This seems like half a res priest deck, and half a otk priest deck.  i would say pick one or the other, and gear the deck towards that strategy.

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This seems like half a res priest deck, and half a otk priest deck.  i would say pick one or the other, and gear the deck towards that strategy.

 Well I might have called the wrong archetype but it is actually an otk deck. What part did you see as resurect priest? I only have one taunt that is not helping in the combo and that one I found crucial for survival. Everything else is to stick a velen of maly on the board and copy it with vivid nightmare or cloning and hit the opponent. 

I theocrafted a deck for fun. Use all mass cards 2x and copy whatever is possible.  Guess it´s fun but not shure if good enough.

Well I have been unclear on the subject, but the goal is to have a velen, maly or even sometimes the archmage on the board and do an otk with mind blast.

As mentioned thethe bigg problem is staying alive and haven't been able to optimize the list, which is which I ask for feedback :-)

Edit: I have been thinking on adding gipetto but no idea if that would be ok, it will clutter the ress pool quite a bit. But a 1 mana velen and maly will probably win you the have on the spot

Why Lazul Scheme? 2 card slots I dont see you gaining anything from them. Im really curious.

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Why Lazul Scheme? 2 card slots I dont see you gaining anything from them. Im really curious.

 It combos amazingly with topsy turvey. Next to thaot it makes forbidden words and shadow word: pain have more targets. And you can also use it to hold out one more turn to set a high att minion to 0 attack.

Lazul scheme basically makes it possible to kill a minion when you play one many big mana cards when needed.

I just tested jepetto and removed the taunt and pulled both velen and malygos for an otherwise lost game against a secret pally. Will remain testing it.

you can t play otk deck today without Joybuzz. You can t combo velen+maly or velen+velen plus other spells for 30 damage. That's mean - it's greedy deck who wants survive 2 of your combo piecese on board. That's 2tk. And this deck can't survive aggro, even Res priest with a lot of taunts can't and has bad wr against them, your deck without taunts and heals is worse.

As said above - remove res package and add joybuzz, or remove otk package and add taunts for res.

I added joybuzz (as mentioned above) but kept the rest of my minions. This way it seems less like a one trick pony to me. I have won a lot of times by just rolling the archmage and mureuta from mass resurrect. If I would just have joybuzz, velen and maly the deck can far too easilly 

Convincing Infiltrator should probably be Zilliax.

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Convincing Infiltrator should probably be Zilliax.

 Yeah I was really struggling to make that decission. In the end I figured I had enough heal so infiltrator would stop more damage on average. And infiltrator felt better to pull from res effects. If that's allatrue, no idea. Just my idea ;-)

I now replaced infiltrator with joybuzz to see how it works. However it leaves the deck with 0 taunt/survival other than spells and makes for a worse resurrect. But tutoring 2 minions has to be good in this deck.

I need more testing to know if this is good enough to survive sort of consistently upto t5 though.

And please keep up any improvements. Really interested to read all of them!

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One Holy Nova should probably be cut for Zilliax. You already had 2 Mass Hysteria, so you had enough board clear.

 Yeah seems likely. I don't want to pollute my res pole too much, but not getting to the late games doesn't help ;-) I'll play a couple of games more to see how it goes but if I face too much agression I'll try out your advice, thanks.

Well from not polluting my ress pool to a more combo oriented deck. I now have added taunts and removed some/most of the single target removal.

I don't always otk now, but I can at least win vs all the druids I'm facing, most decks are not able to hande a big board of minions on t9 (mass resurrect) while removing their threats.

Vargoth is a really strong addition. Great with resurrect, but also vivid nightmare/5/5 clone card gives you 4 of them... And vs slower decks you can still do an otk when lucky enough ;-)

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One Holy Nova should probably be cut for Zilliax. You already had 2 Mass Hysteria, so you had enough board clear.

 Yeah seems likely. I don't want to pollute my res pole too much, but not getting to the late games doesn't help ;-) I'll play a couple of games more to see how it goes but if I face too much agression I'll try out your advice, thanks.

 If you're facing decks where this matter (aka Control Warrior) just don't play Zilliax.

 Yeah that's what I'm doing now with the deck highlighted above. I think this deck is good enough to have a positive winrate and allows for great board swings. Depending on the matchup you might not want to play your taunts so that is something to keep in check. Although one taunt, especially infiltrator is generally nice to have to protect you other res minions

The deck I'm running is the same as 2 posts above and it does good on cutrent rank (r7 now) with a positive winrate. The winrate is lower as it could be because I didn't reset when starting this iteration of the deck. I have only been able to play around 30 games so could give u guys the matchup stats but those will most likely be inflated

This is the deck: