Mass Hysteria isn't reliable in that you can't be sure which minions survive. Brawl at the very least ensures only one minion survives. In many cases you might be able to setup the board so that Mass Hysteria has a higher chance of getting a good result but it remains RNG on what attacks what. And that makes it unreliable. The opponent can also partially work around it by playing minions with specific attack and health numbers. Brawl will always clear except one minion.
I do not understand why you compare (rank) these two cards. The other is available for Priest the other for different class. Mass Hysteria can even be better than Brawl with full board clear, not a single of you own minion dying. There are randomness in both. Maybe Brawl will leave up the one minion in full health you would liked to have die. Cards are different, they are for different classes. Certainly Mass Hysteria is good board control for wide boards, Priest have other tools for one single target removal.
The issue with Silence Priest (that I can see so far) is that you'll be painfully dependant on getting the right cards in your hand. What if your Silence cards aren't in your hand? What if the cards that need Silencing aren't in your hand? You'll have a whole bunch of cards in your deck that are dangerous or useless to play on their own.
Isn't this issue with most of the decks? I see that there are plenty of cards in silence priest deck to play even if you do not get like turn 1-2 best plays in the begining.
Donais: There's lots of other candidates. We talked about cards like Malygos, which we talk about every year. We decided not to go with Malygos again, because of all the new decks that he creates. An important thing in card games is to have different types of decks. Not every type of deck should be medium-sized minions fighting. There needs to be small minions, big minions, and there needs to be some Malygos decks and other tricky decks that have different game plans. That's what makes card games interesting.
'There needs to be some Malygos decks.' For what reason? Doesn't there need to be Alexstraza decks, or Ysera decks? That Malygos stays is prime example of catering into the wishes of the target audience, demanding besides aggression, easy fix OTK. Card design politics circles around keeping the meta polarized.
That means Wall priest will remain viable which denotes bleak perspective for new viable archetypes in the priest department. Therefore, don't see any ' very good' priest cards cards coming in.
I do not see wall priest viable without rezzes, both of them will be gone... the power of the wall priest was anyhow capability of rezzing key minions or huge taunt wall, again and again untill one of the high health minions will survive one turn to put out finishing combo.
Somehow I am putting my hope on Princess Talanji, which I have found out to be very powerful on my quest priest deck. Quest archtype will ofcourse be dead but maybe some new type will be evolved around Princess Talanji and i.e. Seance and hopefully few new cards that we do not know yet.
I do not understand why you compare (rank) these two cards. The other is available for Priest the other for different class. Mass Hysteria can even be better than Brawl with full board clear, not a single of you own minion dying. There are randomness in both. Maybe Brawl will leave up the one minion in full health you would liked to have die. Cards are different, they are for different classes. Certainly Mass Hysteria is good board control for wide boards, Priest have other tools for one single target removal.
Isn't this issue with most of the decks? I see that there are plenty of cards in silence priest deck to play even if you do not get like turn 1-2 best plays in the begining.
I do not see wall priest viable without rezzes, both of them will be gone... the power of the wall priest was anyhow capability of rezzing key minions or huge taunt wall, again and again untill one of the high health minions will survive one turn to put out finishing combo.
Somehow I am putting my hope on Princess Talanji, which I have found out to be very powerful on my quest priest deck. Quest archtype will ofcourse be dead but maybe some new type will be evolved around Princess Talanji and i.e. Seance and hopefully few new cards that we do not know yet.
Seance does not steal, it copies...