Hearthpwn

So paladins have two alt heroes, Mages have two...Shaman, Rogue and Priest have one each....

At what point will druid get Hamuul Runetotem or Warrior get someone like Arathor, since Varian is already a card.

I play priest almost exclusively so quite naturally so I tend to despise rogues, to the point where I tech heavily against them. But nothing is worse than a bad mulli against aggro, regardless of class. Aggro/tempo warrior. Aggro druid. "Midrange" aggro/token shaman. Murloc aggro or midrange paladin. Secret/tempo mage. Quest rogue even feels like an aggro deck at times. Hyena hunter. If you biff your mulli against these decks it's pretty much over, often even if they draw worse than you do.

A shaman with god tier topdecks is also one of the most frustrating things I've encountered, even after they've lost trogg and totem golem. Sustain - check. Burst/reach - check. Board control/wipes - check. Tempo swings - check. Fits in one archetype? Check. Shaman is still one of the most versatile and punitively stupid classes to beat right now. It's honestly not that I've lost too much against them compared to other classes, I think, but that each fight seems so unnecessarily difficult and tedious. The salt floweth, but I care not. Fite me.

Honestly, I like both of the new animations. Deathwing now basically recreates the WoW cataclysm cinematic which is awesome compared to the generic "flame AoE" other cards like ravaging ghoul has. Like seriously, Deathwing isn't gonna just let some punk ass common 3 drop be on his level. I like the extra...flare.

I don't get why people are complaining about thalnos - it's excellent and fitting for the card if you've ever seen bloodmage thalnos in the MMO. In life thalnos was a dalaran mage who studied blood magic, a controversial school of magic based around fire, compared to the frost and water magic most dalaran arcanists studied. It makes sense that his entrance effect echoes the fire and arcane he studied, touched with the shadows of undeath.

But more importantly, and something I don't think I've seen anyone else mention, is that it also telegraphs to new players that thalnos is a card to pay attention to. Leaving a thalnos alone when your opponent is playing tempo deck (like rogue or mage) is a bad idea because they can utilize the spell damage to great effect. A lot of new players seriously underestimate how dangerous unanswered spell damage is in the right hands.

Sherazin is the best of the three, but you seriously don't have enough combo pieces to activate him repeatedly. Boogeymonster just gets a 2 to 1 trade at most with no way to sustain his health total and keep him rolling.

The drawback (ha) of the darkfisher is pretty bad in some cases, but he's also an extremely well statted two drop that you're severely lacking. Arena is strongly centered around curve and above average card quality, so I would consider him first above the other two, personally.

My second golden legendary. Just as useless as the first one I got (cap'n greenskin).

Playing this against aggro when they don't have the board to trade into it is game-winning on its own. It doesn't last long against other decks, but if it's used well it can generate a LOT of valuable card cycle for priest spells that may be useless for the current stage of the game such as pain or potion of madness that can become deaths, dragonfires, CoH, thoughtsteal etc.

It really is a very unique and powerful card for priest. It's what northshire wished she could have been.

Quote from LionelKane >>

Your early game is really weak. I'm pretty sure you can't play priest in the current meta, without Wild Pyromancer and cheap spells.

I've been playing a variant of Kibler's Midrange Lyra priest for a bit and have found it to be a really solid deck. Through the course of playing the deck I've noticed that from time to time I'm faced with the choice of picking Malygos from my Ambers to great effect because it synergizes with both nova and dragonfire potion for INSANE clears against jade archetypes. My opponents seem to disregard the card because, on average it either inconveniences them to deal with it or they think that priest can't utilize its spell damage. 

I know malygos typically isn't played because it's such a heavy card but I thought I would mention it to see what people thought about the possibility. 

Medivh is a solid win condition, especially when running something like shadow visions where you can seal the game out with 3x Amber against heavier control decks. They only have *so* many ways to deal with 4 turns of eight drops. With medivh, priest is the new ramp druid in that respect. It's even respectable with something like dragonfire or holy fire, which also serve as removals/tempo swings for you.

Hogger, Doom of Elwynn

Another card that spawns minions.

Shifting Shade. Such a poorly statted card, but I tend to gravitate to them whenever I make a rattle deck.

Edit:typo

I tech nozdormu kappa

Axe Flinger

Another card that triggers when damaged.

Primordial Drake

(Depicts the Time-Lost Proto Drake from the Storm Peaks in WoW)

Another Battlecry Taunt minion.

I would consider looking at Corrupted Seer as a possible alternative if you find you need the effect. The fact it doesn't target murlocs can be very crippling though.