I played a lot of games with this deck already, think I'm pretty close to 60 wins. Can't say I'm super successful with it, but it's fun and at least I'm not losing ranks ^_^ So just want to share some good vibes.
Played a game against a very smart control warlock today. When I equipped the Twig he must've realized that I was playing some combo deck and decided to burn my deck with Rin. At first I was like, 'Oh shit! I need to do something really fast!'. But suddenly I realized: 'Hey, I've got Tog and a Naturalize in hand ...' and started to bluff by taking my turns pretty slowly and emoting from time to time. So the warlock was sure he was doing the right thing and by the time he played Azari, I had 11 cards left in the deck. I gave him a couple of seconds to bathe in his joy before naturalizing Azari and swapping the decks :D Stole 12 cards from him. I would've payed some money just to take a look at the guy's face haha
By the way, I changed Spellbreaker for Ixlid. Didn't find many good targets to silence. Ixlid and then Prince Taldaram on something gives you some awesome value. Also found a nice 10 mana combo with it: Nourish -> Ixlid -> Arcane Tyrant for some board presence.
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Its easy, you add the new ramp, this card and melon. You cut tyrants, optionally twig 1 branching. You dont include Floop. This new maly druid will be so obviously to build that we will see the optimized list on day 2 after release. I call it. Druid will get nerfed 100% again, cause this deck will be just too easy.
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Flametongue Totem, Bloodlust and Sea Giant would like this card.
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Dollmaster Dorian synergy. Would need a little bit more support, but could become nuts in later expansions.
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Rly good card. Kinda Defile-safe too. Could bring Blood Knight back in the meta.
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^this
Each class with cheap buffs wants this minion so hard. Will be a pain to deal with. As said, trades for 2 cards minimum and will lead to many awkward turns to be made my opponent.
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A deck doesn't necessarily have to be known to the public or in the tierlist while still being legend ready.
To your list: I like your techs, but youre rather low on draw. Especially with a more minion heavy approach on Maly Rogue and even more with Striders in it i think 1 Sprint deffo should be in. How did it work out for you, were you never missing draw? Also, could you provide stats, please?
I am mentioning the "minion heavy thing" cause i cut the Sprints from my other Maly Rogue list (in favor of BC draw cards and Shadowsteps), which goes just for combo with Kobold Illusionist and Umbra, cause in that type, due to higher amount of combo cards to be drawn and also higher dependency on the combo, the hand is often too jammed for Sprint. Shouldnt be the case in your deck.
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A card like this is not printable. The effect is too powerful to cost less than 6-8 mana, cause it can be combined too easily with draw mechanics. So, what they would do if they would print something along that line is making the body big enough to fit the high mana cost. Nothing breaks the game like cards with spell like effects and low cost. There have been some in the game, but they have all been removed or changed. The size of the body is completely irrelevant for combo cards, cause you reap the result instantly this turn, the body will neither attack or trade or anything. So, alibi statline like this to further lower the cost is just obv. abuseable.
Edit: Reading some people really suggest making it 1-2 mana.. :D
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The point is that the spellstone version of Velen priest is prone to any sort of addition to your ressurect pool: Poly effects, Leeroy, Raptorgirl. Second downside is an overly late spellstone due to itself or shadow being hidden in bottom. Third downside is general lack of draw and being overly dependent on drawing your few DR minions early. Sure, Scream will save your ass often enough, yet i am certain that this is not the most optimal build yet.
Dont get me wrong, i like the deck and it can be really effective. It is just a really RNG dependant one amongst the combo decks, due to lacking draw. I think Velen priest is one of the decktypes with the biggest potential in the meta right now, just the lists developed so far are all lackluster in one way or the other.
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Great deck idea, man! Wish you good luck refining it, but deffo worth a shot.
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Token Druid is quite even. Its all about Swipe/Plague management. Taunt Warrior is quite easy too, apply board pressure, Twig into Maly or draw deck and deal 15 with Tog Natu. Even Lock is easy too. Miracle is even. Odd Pally is easy. Dont see the problem, really, you must make misplays if you got that much trouble in those MUs.