Hearthpwn

You can silence the statlines back.  That makes most of the targets either good for their stats or a cheaper version of their effect.

You're right, I should really try Supreme Abyssal.  I originally assumed it would just be too expensive, but if I feel like I can run Jepetto, that's not really the problem.  I still worry about investing 8 mana + a silence into a single minion, but the upside is huge.

Greetings everyone,

Looking for a way to successfully play priest that doesn't lead to long, grindy games?  I just took this silence priest homebrew to Legend from the very bottom of the ladder super fast (62% win rate to Legend 2167).

Gameplay video from the end of the climb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qEu3wzMMqc

I used a similar deck last season, but feel like this one is really refined now, and performing well against the meta.

The deck is fast and fun with the average game taking 9.1 turns.  The deck guide above has things like strategy, mulligans, card choices, and stats from last season.  Here were the hero matchup winrates this season

Demon Hunter    19/29    65.5%
Priest:                    11/15    73.3%
Hunter:                  7/15      46.7%
Druid:                    7/12      58.3%
Warrior:                 6/10      60%
Rogue:                   6/7        85.7%
Mage:                     5/7        71.4%
Shaman:                3/6        50%
Paladin:                 3/5        60%
Warlock:                0/2        0%

Notably strong against Demon Hunter Priest, Rogue, and Mage.  The only bad matchup against a popular deck was Highlander Hunter (4/11, 36.4%).

Any suggestions or have you tried something similar?  If you give a shot let us know how it goes.  Good luck to everyone!

Greetings everyone,

Looking for a way to successfully play priest that doesn't lead to long, grindy games?  I just took this silence priest homebrew to Legend from the very bottom of the ladder super fast (62% win rate to Legend 2167).

Gameplay video from the end of the climb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qEu3wzMMqc

I used a similar deck last season, but feel like this one is really refined now, and performing well against the meta.

The deck is fast and fun with the average game taking 9.1 turns.  The deck guide above has things like strategy, mulligans, card choices, and stats from last season.  Here were the hero matchup winrates this season

Demon Hunter    19/29    65.5%
Priest:                    11/15    73.3%
Hunter:                  7/15      46.7%
Druid:                    7/12      58.3%
Warrior:                 6/10      60%
Rogue:                   6/7        85.7%
Mage:                     5/7        71.4%
Shaman:                3/6        50%
Paladin:                 3/5        60%
Warlock:                0/2        0%

Notably strong against Demon Hunter Priest, Rogue, and Mage.  The only bad matchup against a popular deck was Highlander Hunter (4/11, 36.4%).

Any suggestions or have you tried something similar?  If you give a shot let us know how it goes.  Good luck to everyone!

I really miss Northshire Cleric.  I used to play a lot of Combo Priest.

I ended up giving Octosari a shot and really like it.  I've added him to the list.

I thought about Octosari in, but I don't own it, and it seemed a bit speculative to pay 1600 dust for.  Let me know how it goes.  hopefully it doesn't just get silenced, morphed, or stolen.

I miss Inner Fire too, although more for the combo deck version.  I think the strength of this deck is that it outtempos aggro and midrange decks. Control decks are problematic of course, but without some good card draw for priest, it's tough.

Running out of cards is definitely the weakness of the decks, but Priest just doesn't have good access to card draw anymore.  I tried to mitigate it in a couple ways, and Galakrond wasn't too bad for instance, but ultimately everything I tried just took away from consistency on turns 1-5, and I felt I was better of leaning into its strength of getting a really fast snowballing start than to try to help with the longer game.