I don't think the cabal shadow priest combo is real, considering Pint Sized+ Cabal has been in standard forever for 2 less mana and with no required dragon synergy and yet hasn't really seen any play. I imagine this card will be like Tol'vir Stoneshaper, very good in its own right but the lack of a tribal tag and general awkwardness with the activator will make the card tough to play. Also no way in hell will Dragon Razakus be a thing (in standard at least), simply not enough good dragons and it requires to many deck slots to work.
In the short term, I imagine that Control Dragon Priest will be pushed out of the meta by the decks which are currently pushing all value-oriented strategies out of the meta - if Dragon Priest is going to be "a thing" immediately after K&C launches, it will have to be Midrange, and it will have to be consistent enough, and fast enough, to dodge the single copy of Psychic Scream that Razakus will run. Having played about one thousand games with Dragon Priest and Dragon Warrior - both MR builds - I think the sweet spot is eight dragons. Less than eight, and the dragon synergy cards have difficulty triggering on curve, which is a huge penalty for any MR deck which is simply trying to curve out. Netherspite Historian is already a 3-drop which requires Dragons in hand in order to trigger - I suppose you often won't want to play Twilight Acolyte on curve, so it might not really be an issue. But you often won't want to play Duskbreaker on curve either (or can't play it, if it doesn't trigger), which might be too many cards that aren't really optimal plays on curve for an MR deck. The new card is certainly playable, but I suspect that piecing together a good DP list will be more difficult that many people assume. Twilight Acolyte is more of a control card, and value-oriented decks might not be particularly viable until rotation eliminates Jade Druid and Razakus in the spring.
If it didnt have the Dragon stuff, would be a good card. Sucks,
Because Dragon Priest isn't a thing and definitely won't be even stronger with the inclusion of Duskbreaker? What? Raza Priest may still be better for the next few months but then it's gone, and Dragon Priest is going to be immense value when it does. Point is, the card clearly does not suck.
I don't think the cabal shadow priest combo is real, considering Pint Sized+ Cabal has been in standard forever for 2 less mana and with no required dragon synergy and yet hasn't really seen any play. I imagine this card will be like Tol'vir Stoneshaper, very good in its own right but the lack of a tribal tag and general awkwardness with the activator will make the card tough to play. Also no way in hell will Dragon Razakus be a thing (in standard at least), simply not enough good dragons and it requires to many deck slots to work.
But more cards that do similar things increase consistency and this works with ANY creature. Instead you need two pint sized potions to steal a lich king or a Tirion.
True.. its also very bad early game, weak stats and its offen a dead card in your hand also.
Aggro going to be a thing now, still.. When raza priest and jade druid exist, there wont be a meta with alot of control decks. We're going to face another aggro meta, there raza priest and jade druid will be the closed control decks. This card is wont do the trick, not in this meta. I look forward to next expansion, when jade and raza wont exist.
I actually think this card isn't even weak without the clearly abusive combos that can be pulled off with it. Compare and contrast to the Aldor Peacekeeper. That's a card that sees play in later game paladin decks, whenever they show up, at least a fair amount, if not always an auto include. It's a good card basically, if not a great one. Now, in compassion, this card leaves the enemy on 2 attack instead of 1. Which is relevant, a little bit. On the things you want to hit with this card, 2 attack isn't really a big deal compared to 1 most of the time, but sometimes you're forced to play the aldor on turn three for tempo and if you have to put this on a 1 attack minion you'll be sad. But most of the time this is going to be better. It's going to have better stats then aldor, often much much much better stats. It's a three mana threat in it's own right sometimes. So I actually think on the whole, on a basic level it's actually better then aldor peacekeeper, an already good card, but the really crazy part about it is that in addition to being just a basically good card in it's own right is that it has massive potential for abuse because it's in the priest class that can do a lot of work depending on enemy minions attacks. So... Good card on it's own+potential for massive value and op combos? This card is honestly pretty insane.
This is quite strong. Up until now, wild Dragon Priest has been using Kabal Talonpriest along with Brann as the only 3 drop minions, this seems like the obvious replacement for Talonpriest.
What? You decide to give priest a vol’jin except it targets health and u need a dragon, plus u can play two copies? Can’t wait to get absolutely f*cked by this new dragon priest.
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I don't think the cabal shadow priest combo is real, considering Pint Sized+ Cabal has been in standard forever for 2 less mana and with no required dragon synergy and yet hasn't really seen any play. I imagine this card will be like Tol'vir Stoneshaper, very good in its own right but the lack of a tribal tag and general awkwardness with the activator will make the card tough to play. Also no way in hell will Dragon Razakus be a thing (in standard at least), simply not enough good dragons and it requires to many deck slots to work.
If this was a hunter card it would cost 9 mana and require a mech in hand :P
Looks really good in priest.
In the short term, I imagine that Control Dragon Priest will be pushed out of the meta by the decks which are currently pushing all value-oriented strategies out of the meta - if Dragon Priest is going to be "a thing" immediately after K&C launches, it will have to be Midrange, and it will have to be consistent enough, and fast enough, to dodge the single copy of Psychic Scream that Razakus will run. Having played about one thousand games with Dragon Priest and Dragon Warrior - both MR builds - I think the sweet spot is eight dragons. Less than eight, and the dragon synergy cards have difficulty triggering on curve, which is a huge penalty for any MR deck which is simply trying to curve out. Netherspite Historian is already a 3-drop which requires Dragons in hand in order to trigger - I suppose you often won't want to play Twilight Acolyte on curve, so it might not really be an issue. But you often won't want to play Duskbreaker on curve either (or can't play it, if it doesn't trigger), which might be too many cards that aren't really optimal plays on curve for an MR deck. The new card is certainly playable, but I suspect that piecing together a good DP list will be more difficult that many people assume. Twilight Acolyte is more of a control card, and value-oriented decks might not be particularly viable until rotation eliminates Jade Druid and Razakus in the spring.
This is pretty good in Wild. Imagine running this with Potion on a enemy Sylvanas.
War weapon
meta-defining, rip pala buff before expansion come to relese.
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Considering that Dragon priest ran at least 2 of Wyrmrest Agent and Blackwing Corruptor and sometimes also Blackwing Technician , I am not concerned that Twilight Acolyte is not a Dragon himself but Needs one. With Twilight Drake , Duskbreaker and Drakonid Operative you have already 6 Dragons. Add 2 Book Wyrm , Primordial Drake , Cobalt Scalebane , Bone Drake and/or a lategame Dragon and you have plenty of activators. Which are all viable choices (maybe Bone Drake not...).
Make Priest g
reat againeven greater!When I first read the card's text, somehow understood that it was "swap [...] with another friendly minion's", and thought "meh".
Then realized it actually was any minion's, and my jaw dropped.
Why Blizz, why?!?
Absolutely OP card. It's a major swing. Not only can you kill or MC the enemy opponent, you will drop a 3 mana X/4 on the board.
Priest will have 3 T1 decks in Highlander, Big and Dragon Priest and Quest Priest will be T2.
Looks like it's time to skip the expansion.
Dragon priest is back! 8/10
if you can target it on enemies this card will be nerfed in 1 month
Let me change your mind!!!
Strong and very versatile card.
I actually think this card isn't even weak without the clearly abusive combos that can be pulled off with it. Compare and contrast to the Aldor Peacekeeper. That's a card that sees play in later game paladin decks, whenever they show up, at least a fair amount, if not always an auto include. It's a good card basically, if not a great one. Now, in compassion, this card leaves the enemy on 2 attack instead of 1. Which is relevant, a little bit. On the things you want to hit with this card, 2 attack isn't really a big deal compared to 1 most of the time, but sometimes you're forced to play the aldor on turn three for tempo and if you have to put this on a 1 attack minion you'll be sad. But most of the time this is going to be better. It's going to have better stats then aldor, often much much much better stats. It's a three mana threat in it's own right sometimes. So I actually think on the whole, on a basic level it's actually better then aldor peacekeeper, an already good card, but the really crazy part about it is that in addition to being just a basically good card in it's own right is that it has massive potential for abuse because it's in the priest class that can do a lot of work depending on enemy minions attacks. So... Good card on it's own+potential for massive value and op combos? This card is honestly pretty insane.
This is quite strong. Up until now, wild Dragon Priest has been using Kabal Talonpriest along with Brann as the only 3 drop minions, this seems like the obvious replacement for Talonpriest.
What? You decide to give priest a vol’jin except it targets health and u need a dragon, plus u can play two copies? Can’t wait to get absolutely f*cked by this new dragon priest.