Hearthpwn

I think there's a lot of wishful thinking here. I have at least 1,500 ladder wins with Priest Burst/OTK decks and even more loses than that. Usually with a lot more card draw than this and less pieces to get in hand and none have ever been consistent. From early days Alex to say Azure > 2x Mind Blasts > Holy smite to using Brann > Shadowbombers as part of a combo to the newer Velen> EtS > Flash Heals > Mind Blast all proc'd down etc. Fun yeah, consistent enough to climb easily past 9-10, no.

This seems way more convoluted than previous OTKs imo. Of course I'm going to immediately run a deck with Karakus/Raza/Beardo when it comes out. But I'm still pretty sure something like this will have a hard time working even 40% of the time past rank 12. You get a couple or even one key card stuck at the bottom chances are you're gonna lose, especially with only 1 of everything.

I do think a new Raza/Reno deck can do alright though. But imo it'll be with Shadowform or a deck that runs both forms, more board clear, value out of inspire minions, instead of looking for the more normal OTK approach. Could still put up some big damage using Beardo with 2-3 dmg Mind Spikes and a bunch of cheap spells. Karakus is good for that 1 mana spell that can help in that on the fly or even more so with emperor.

Raza will have more value in using Shadow Forms than Justicar and heal. Being able to freely ping for 2/3 damage every round just seems much stronger most the time, considering Priests heal spells/minions and having Reno.

Raza the Chained.

Can play a nice hybrid Reno deck carrying both Forms and CoHs with this. still same old problems but something to help work with at least for fun.

Really like this card. Love shadow forms and this will help make some deck ideas much more consistent.

I've played nearly this exact deck for at least 100 matches on ladder. In this form usually I'll carry either Bloodmage or 1 Embrace the Shadows over the Smite. It's not a great deck. In almost all cases you need to mulligan for Circle of Heal 1, and a Soulpriest/EtS 1a. Getting the whole IBM, resurrect, 4 cost minions thing is ok, verse more control or midrange, but most Aggro and combo decks are just going to ignore it and try to catch you out knowing that this type of deck has little draw. 

As as someone above mentioned the alternate to this is to forgo the combo wipe and run Pryos. In my opinion it's more consistent and the Pyros work well with Resurrect. Then the smites go in and maybe a second Flash Heal. Usually I'll leave out either a bishop or a shade and take another Entomb. I find this usually works better in most cases except vs certain decks like Beast Druid where the former can take out a Warden on a Tiger T6 if you manage to have held bloodmage, CoH and Soulpriest/EtS.

I'm here too. Under my game name (shadowpriest on the Bliz forums).

The rarities are right.

Empower: Rarely good.

Disarmament: Epically bad.

 Darkness Ascended: Legendarily bad.

Only buying with gold. There is nothing pressing that really want and I definitely don't need the card back in my collection that reminds me of how they screwed Priest with the release.

Barnes and Huntress to play in my Yogg deck are the only two I have any interest in in potentially being useful now.

Most likely choose not to show Priest and Shaman cards as they'll demo with those classes.

At this point, if the next rotation happened tonight, there would be more legendary dragons than non-legend neutral dragons.

Huge Toad spits and says "Meh".

Power Word: Testicles.

+2 cost for +2 health minus Spell Power compared to Velen's Chosen? Is this a joke? 

This + Soulpriest would just damage you..

Way slow. Warrior maybe. 7 mana for a mage for 3/2 & 3/3 minions vs a flame strike? No thanks. Turn 9/10 Priest with pyro, pw:s and another 1 or 2 mana spell In hand? Priest already be dead by then.

Hi, new here, playing since open release on OSX.

I think it's important to have a class or 3 you enjoy playing otherwise what's the point of playing? That said everyone is different. Some people only seem to find enjoyment in winning. And some people enjoy experimenting, and some just enjoy playing even if they lose a bit or even a lot. No matter the case, I think it is important to have a class or classes you prefer. Because its a game, and at its core it should be fun!

 That said I enjoy 1st mage and 2nd priest. Those are the 2 I have the most fun playing, and trying to troll the top meta hands whatever they are month to month. My next favorites are Druid and Rogue. And actually all my best arena runs have been with these latter two. Priest I've have very little luck with in arena as it really is the hardest to pull off outside of constructed. Mage, I've probably ran 15 times arena and just been unlucky. At least 5 times not even getting the option of a single fireball/flame strike/pyro blast and 8 times only the option for 1 of these. Just bad luck. Makes it hard to play your hand when you're trying to build around getting 1/2+ of these cards. So usually Druid and rogue for me in arena.