Psychic Scream is match-winning if played after Shadow Essence as it makes all the resurrect spells useless and the only way out is to draw the 2nd Shadow Essence fast...
That's the thing. Shadow Essence cheats out a 10-drop on t6, or a 9-drop that cheats out a 10-drop. You can try to counter it with Albatross, but they can just let it live until they play the first Shadow Essence. Also, while Terrorguard Escapee does mess up the Rez pool, this doesn't matter too much as the deck is not a pure Rez priest. You still need to kill the minion(s) originally summoned from Shadow Essence and then you've only messed up Resurrect, but there is still Eternal Servitude
So the deck is slightly favored vs aggro, and more than slightly favored vs slower decks. Sounds like a tier 1, borderline broken deck to me. I think it is only a matter of time until this deck defines the meta in the sense that decks that counter it will rise in popularity and tech cards that counter it (such as Terrorguard Escapee and Zul'Drak Ritualist) will start showing up in some decks
I started playing this deck and it seems insanely strong. It has lots of removal to survive vs aggro and it destroys the greedy slower decks. I even cut Psychic Scream as it is too slow (by the time you have the mana to play it you should have cheated out already 1-2 big taunts) and added a bit more early game removal and Sphere of Sapience (not only helps you draw what you want, but just as importantly helps you NOT draw what you don't want)
I lost easily once to a Mill Rogue, but this is not a serious meta deck. I am not sure which decks actually beat BIG priest...
Psychic Scream is match-winning if played after Shadow Essence as it makes all the resurrect spells useless and the only way out is to draw the 2nd Shadow Essence fast...
Well, the good thing about teching in Albatross is that you have some sort of counter for all the Reno decks too;)
That's the thing. Shadow Essence cheats out a 10-drop on t6, or a 9-drop that cheats out a 10-drop. You can try to counter it with Albatross, but they can just let it live until they play the first Shadow Essence. Also, while Terrorguard Escapee does mess up the Rez pool, this doesn't matter too much as the deck is not a pure Rez priest. You still need to kill the minion(s) originally summoned from Shadow Essence and then you've only messed up Resurrect, but there is still Eternal Servitude
So the deck is slightly favored vs aggro, and more than slightly favored vs slower decks. Sounds like a tier 1, borderline broken deck to me. I think it is only a matter of time until this deck defines the meta in the sense that decks that counter it will rise in popularity and tech cards that counter it (such as Terrorguard Escapee and Zul'Drak Ritualist) will start showing up in some decks
I started playing this deck and it seems insanely strong. It has lots of removal to survive vs aggro and it destroys the greedy slower decks. I even cut Psychic Scream as it is too slow (by the time you have the mana to play it you should have cheated out already 1-2 big taunts) and added a bit more early game removal and Sphere of Sapience (not only helps you draw what you want, but just as importantly helps you NOT draw what you don't want)
I lost easily once to a Mill Rogue, but this is not a serious meta deck. I am not sure which decks actually beat BIG priest...
is cheating out just Colossus enough to win? No Lich King or Ragnaros or something?