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What rogue deck do you think will dominate the ladder? Tempo? Miracle? Or maybe even Mill?

1) Priest won't be the best class, because Rogue takes that spot.

2) A spell-less Hunter deck or one with a few specific minions will turn out to be surprisingly viable (as in: "not meme" tier)

3) Druid will fight Rogue for that top spot in terms of class strength. How often did we see that already: Everyone talks about everything else besides Druid, but at the end Druid turned to be the best or at least 2nd best class. I see the same happening again this time around.

4) Because the last one kinda belonged to 1), here is another one: Zola the Gorgon will only see very niche play.

Not Priest, but Rogue will be the best class after the release of this expansion - 2nd might even be Druid.

With Kobolds, there will be tools to fight Razakus effectively, especially The Darkness. This is the main reason it will be able to surpass Priest, besides the fact that Rogue's new cards are very good. Temporus might be very effective at the start, but only until people figure out how to counter it. At that point, Temporus won't be played too much anymore.

Psychic Scream is very busted, but it - and the rest of the Priest cards - won't be enough to make Priest the very best class in this era. Druid also got a scary amount of options for Ramp-ish, value-oriented builds we need to be careful about. The problem with Priest though is that it got a whole lot of really good, maybe even broken cards, but the syngery between them is questionable at times. And a final goal in the game plan could be missing every now and then...

On the one hand you got your Dragon package, which mostly leads to a player to making a board-centric deck. Then you get a tool like Duskbreaker that can damage your board in rare cases as well, as it is a card best used when lagging behind. Psychic Scream helps you out alot when trailing or needing to stall time, but doesn't go along too well with a classic Dragon build or a minion-focused deck that utilizes that new 3 mana 2/4 and Cabal Shadow Priest. We get Dragon Soul while not having a comparable pool of cheap spells to Rogue, which might make the card pretty bad or at least inconsistent - Psionic Probe is not helping enough in that regard.

Long story short, Priest got tools here and there, but nothing completely refined besides the "usual culprits" in Razakus und Dragon builds, which can be countered quite well. 

Priest will be able to build pretty broken decks, but all of them will be countered to the max. Metas don't shift super quickly usually, which means that Razakus will be played ALOT at the start. That means, Priest players will build decks that react to the meta other than act once we leave the "try-out stage", in order to be able to get huge win rates, which will be very possible. These types of decks never are tier 1, but a solid tier 1.5 at best. 

The common HS player will fear Priest the most, but Priest won't be the best class in terms of win rates.

Although this is nothing too special, I like it. In general, this set has spit out lots of fun cards that could see some niche-use. Keep it up!

When you look up the definition of "Playable" in the dictionary, a picture of this card is what you will see.

It is actually very good, but why would someone run this at the end?

Maybe Evolve Shaman, but other than that?

It can be solid, but I guess this won't see too much play.

Your signature fits perfectly here.

Tbh, I see potential here. The key is to run a few precisely selected minions. That is made easier by the fact that Recruit is now a thing. That mechanic allows you to tutor your few minions and therefore generate more consistency.

From the Cabal Shadow Priest page (newest one):

I expected at least a little bit more - well, last attempt to get this going, because I found this comment regarding Gnash pretty funny:

Macropod#2218

EU

Trade only? Yes :D

Hey! The deck in my signature sucks slightly more than the rest! Don't tar all decks with the same brush!!1!!1!!

I am using it in the deck you see in my signature and it helps alot against Warlock and Taunt Warrior, while it occassionally helps against Highlander. It basically depends on whether it sticks on the board in that matchup. After he used his Potion and Kazakus spell, you are good to go. Everywhere else he is a solid body for keeping tempo.

I think it is ok, but the comment better be really good then - or find someone else who wants to post it ^^

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