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I think you guys are being terribly narrow minded if you think of this as ONLY a cheaper version of Auchenai + Circle.  It allows a temporary flexibility where you aren't left unable to heal yourself when your opponent doesn't kill off your Auchenai.  It lets you play the combo WITHOUT nearly killing a 3/5 minion (Auchenai...don't forget, Auchenai is in fact a minion that can attack....).  It's just another tool in Priests' bag, may not be an auto-include two of, but it's a tool. 

 That would be true if priest was looking for "tools."  But we need some damn cards we can actually make a deck with that's not control or dragon priest.  Volazj is conditional upon having compatible creatures on board.  Horror needs none of your creatures on board with them having multiple 2<attack minions on board.  Vol'jin needs a high health enemy minion on board, and you need a way to hit it for 2 health after you spend his mana cost.  Entomb requires you to be playing a with and against a control deck.  Lightbomb requires they have multiple minions with > attack than health.  SW:D and SW:P both require specific attack values. This now requires you to have heal spells in your hand that you don't mind expending to their face or creatures, guaranteeing that you lose card advantage unless you hit 3+ with a CoH.  

At what point does priest just get a damn card that plays well by itself?  The good decks in Hearthstone are good because they are great in most matchups, and not JUST this or that matchup.

are you on acid? BGH Shadoflame is 7 mana.
If you know anything of priest you would know that we mostly struggle on early aggression,when sometimes we lose by turn 6.A great way to counter that is getting a turn 2-3 board clear so please stfu and keep playing pokemon.

Paladin doesn't seem to mind using two cards on their board clear (Equality + Consecration)

Quote from Duck91 >>

The Auchenai Soulpriest effect, for half the mana, but no 3/5 body on the board, and it's only for 1 turn
Would either fit into a Control or Combo priest, but not too excited about it in all honesty

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Quote from SchruteBucks >>

I think you guys are being terribly narrow minded if you think of this as ONLY a cheaper version of Auchenai + Circle.  It allows a temporary flexibility where you aren't left unable to heal yourself when your opponent doesn't kill off your Auchenai.  It lets you play the combo WITHOUT nearly killing a 3/5 minion (Auchenai...don't forget, Auchenai is in fact a minion that can attack....).  It's just another tool in Priests' bag, may not be an auto-include two of, but it's a tool. 

 That would be true if priest was looking for "tools."  But we need some damn cards we can actually make a deck with that's not control or dragon priest.  Volazj is conditional upon having compatible creatures on board.  Horror needs none of your creatures on board with them having multiple 2<attack minions on board.  Vol'jin needs a high health enemy minion on board, and you need a way to hit it for 2 health after you spend his mana cost.  Entomb requires you to be playing a with and against a control deck.  Lightbomb requires they have multiple minions with > attack than health.  SW:D and SW:P both require specific attack values. This now requires you to have heal spells in your hand that you don't mind expending to their face or creatures, guaranteeing that you lose card advantage unless you hit 3+ with a CoH.  

At what point does priest just get a damn card that plays well by itself?  The good decks in Hearthstone are good because they are great in most matchups, and not JUST this or that matchup.

 Do you also not play control priest?   Much like Excavated Evil, you probably aren't playing SW: Horror on a board where you have a bunch of your own minions that would die (cmon, when does control priest ever have a board full of minions?).  Entomb is fucking solid on its own and not JUST good in control vs control (you could probably put one copy in any priest deck ever and it would be better off...).  SW:D/P are you really complaining about Embrace the Shadow because SWD/P have certain conditions?  

sorry that priest requires a little bit of planning and not just "battlecry: deal 10 face damage and destroy all enemy minions. 6/50 taunt divine shield for 5 mana."  

all decks have bad matchups; this isn't exclusive to priest.  control priest is entirely capable of getting to legend. 

Not sure how to judge a card that could be either meta-defining and dust-it depending on the spells you have in hand. 

A deck has to be made and tested with it.

Agree to disagree I suppose.  You think the card is absolute crap and Blizzard consistently shits on the Priest class;  I think it's another tool, probably not 2x in every deck, but certainly useful, and Priest is consistently able to hit legend.  

Quote from MadNomad1 >>

 Considering how you need more cards to make this combo work than the double health inner fire combo, it is a terrible idea to make a deck like that. 

Sometimes it is just better to have Auchenai Soulpriest's effect for two mana less. Will say it's playable but not an exciting card, especially when zombie chow is going to be out of standard mode. 

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Combos super well with Reno Jackson

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