New Priest Card Reveal: Mana Geode
A new priest minion has been revealed on Inven Global.
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i'm edging toward awesome. before there was Northshire Cleric, but now theres also this new Mana Geode.
if you can play it on 2 crystal, you could buff it next turn using Power Word: Shield, then hero power to heal it back up again, while also building your board at the same time.
But the build i usually play is this one
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/613079-thijs-new-resurrect-priest
not sure if polluting my graveyard with a bunch of 2/2 crystals is a good idea (since the strategy for a res priest deck is to res something good.
It would be literally useless with 1 health
there a bunch of stuff that can deal 3 dmg on turn 2. in that sense it's not that OP if it's dealt with early on, without giving the opponent a chance to buff it up with Power Word: Shield.
That said, i'm thinking that as good as this 2 cost minion is, it may backfire in certain res priest decks. So maybe in other priest decks that are less reliant on ressing may benefit more ?
Finally. Solid priest 2-drop. This is beautiful. [cries happy tears]
That solid two drop that priest has always been lacking. Never thought I'd see the day. Brings to tears to my eyes.
Mini Pyro Patron, has some potential.
Though a 2/3 body isn't that great and mostly dies against a 3 drop or higher, if aggro priest were a thing in standard more people would understand its value. I'm a Wild player and play aggro priest in Wild and have gotten rank 3 with it (Season 31, October '16), so believe me it's a thing right there. If you play this against a Secret Paladin on curve to compete with his Shielded Minibot you're going to outpace him probably which is game winning in this match-up. I think this minion is great against any other minion heavy deck like aggro, tempo or face in that way.
Of course it immediately dies if you play it against mages, control warriors, or midrange shamans. But it is this minion that dies or another good minion. That's just the way of the game. On top of that i tech in a Power Word: Shield just just for those cases, or if i'm lucky i play 2 one drops on turn 1 just to outpace my opponent. I mean, you're having a great start if you can play 3 minions and your opponent can only remove 1 in that amount of time. Although this can be seen as negative tempo, but let's not get too much into the technical details :P
What i don't like about this card is that it only triggers when you heal the minion itself where Shadowboxer triggers at any heal at all (with Circle of Healing it's a really great card). So in Wild it's definitely not going to replace Shadowboxer. So on a synergy level this card only restricts you which isn't good. But the fact that it creates more board presence on turn 2/3 might actually be better and can even make up for the 1 damage that Shadowboxer inflicts on those turns.
So in general it's not going to be your best tempo card. But if you're having a bad starting hand with several 3+ cost minions and only this one, opposed to a hand full with 1 and 2 drops, this card might actually save you and give you the tempo you would normally need if you're playing an aggro kind of deck.
Can you share the aggro priest deck, please?
Thanks
In this new meta the people is playing cards that was catalogued as trash in the past
This and Kabal Talonpriest
By The Holy Light!
aggro priest here we go!
I think more midrangey priest it's gonna be
Will not see play. Doomsayer is much better in control. Too many other good cards in dragon. Maybe in reno if that turns out to be good but the anti synergy with shadow makes it tough.
Fits in a way of midrangey priest
Let's now spam "Rogue is left behind class" to get uber rogue buff in 2017
It is a continuous threat that can be played way early in the game. This can easily draw a removal or an AoE out from your opponent that could been used for your bigger threats.
If this draw a brawl for example. You are free to drop two 0 mana 8/8 if you are feeling cocky.
Shadowboxer also was a 2/3 for 2 but didn't see much play. Not sure if this will either, the effect might be different but that of shadowboxer was fine. The main reason why I think this wont see mich play is because there is no velen's chosen, that card alone would make this card awesome. So unless priest gets a good buff card, it wont be great.