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-> Elise the Trailblazer, the five mana card that ruins your chance of top decking board clears and requires an additional 2+X mana to affect the game, is good against the likes of pirate warrior and Aggro druid, who finish the game on t6 regularly and can threaten lethal as early as t4

Seems legit.

Not to be rude, but when you title a deck "anti-aggro," you have to accept that outvaluing control decks is just not something you will be able to indulge in. The solution would be to surprise them with Combos. A few inner fire or holy spirit here and there, and you will have a solid chance of victory without shitting on your WR vs aggro. 

So you're saying remove one card from your deck that apparently "ruins your chance of top decking board clears" but can singlehandedly high roll you to victory against control and replace it with a minimum of 2 combo cards that also ruin your chances of top decking a board clear and also effectively ruin your Shadow Visions for accessing more board clears in the spell card pool?

Damn dude how is StanCifka is the Global Games?? When we have deck building genius like you here, you should be there instead of him!!

First, Elise is a t5 card that requires an additional amount of 2 + X mana to affect the game, essentially being an 8+ mana card that chokes up your hand two times and some more if you are unlucky; the top deck thing is just the cherry on top, not the main meat. 

Second, Holy spirit doubles the health of your minions; this is especially useful when you consider Tar creeper over there, allowing you more trade vs aggro while functioning as a combo piece in control matchups. Meanwhile, Elise just sits on your hand vs aggro and is RNG dependent vs control, and while you might say they both are, Elise is more for obvious reasons. 

Third, Inner fire functions the same, except it helps priest vs aggro by upping the ATK of his minions. It looks useless at first, but when you look at priest's cardpool, you notice his minions suffering from low ATK, which makes trading more troublesome than it needs to be. Inner fire remedies that. 

Fourth, I am not interested in the competitive scene. Just voicing out my questions, doubts, and suggestions. Please stop projecting your personality into my text; it is giving me second-hand embarassment. 

Good day.

You still didn't really address the huge downsides of running Inner Fire and Divine Spirit in your deck. Which it just turns out there are more negatives of running the Divine Spirit/Inner Fire combo than just running one Elise the Trailblazer.

The main reason I'm trying to get you to understand is that Elise is costing you ONE card from your list, whilst the Divine Spirit/Inner Fire costs you a MINIMUM of two, but for the sake of actually consistently getting the combo versus control lets say you run 1x Inner Fire and 2x Divine Spirit which is now three cards. BTW you haven't really said which cards you're replacing for a minimum 3 card combo, which may hurt the decks anti aggro ability if you go cutting out cards for a 3/4 card combo against control. This is the biggest issue, having 3/30 cards in your list being mediocre or fairly useless against aggro, and while you've highlighted situations where the Divine Spirit/Inner Fire combo can shine against aggro, the problem is in practice these scenarios are fairly uncommon, Divine Spirit + Tar Creeper is probably the most applicable but thats a two cards combo that stalls your opponent but doesn't impact the board, how exactly do you plan to win if the aggro deck conserves their resources? We've seen that decks like Pirate Warrior can pretty effectively play an attrition game by drawing out their weapon charges on enemy minions and then using their own board to push repetitive damage. So having board clears is probably one of the most important thing against aggro right?

And it is here we find the biggest benefit of running Elise again over the Inner Fire combo, its that it's ONE card from your list, oh and its not a spell. As StanCifka stated in the video Auchenai Soulpriest + Circle of Healing is crucial to the deck as it clears the enemy board, but it's a two card combo, not a two card combo to stall their board, but destroy their board. Getting this combo is a lot more difficult if you're running 3-4 more spell cards and reduces the likelyhood of getting the other crucial board clear Dragonfire Potion. Also having a board clear that is combo reliant and then drawing other cards such as Inner Fire and Divine Spirit that require specific board states and are also relatively combo reliant? Yeh, you're gonna find you have alot of dead cards in your hand at which point I'd much rather have a 5 mana 5/5. You also didn't highlight the issues of top decking Inner Fire and Divine Spirit which is interesting because you did with Elise, which I find odd considering Inner Fire and Divine Spirit are pretty situational and also make top decking Shadow Visions less likely of pulling a board clear.

I'll also quickly mention here the cards aspect if we were going to go with your decklist. Inner Fire and Divine Spirit is NOT consistent even decks that revolve around the combo such as Silence Priest need to run extra card draw in order to get it consistently versus control. At which point it may be too late to recover on board. Elise gives you versus control:

1) A 6 in 1 card

2) A 5 mana 5/5

3) Shadow Visions pack value

4) One card further from fatigue

All at the cost of one deck slot that is bad versus aggro.

The main gripe people have with your comment is that you say 'outvaluing control decks is just not something you will be able to indulge in.' But using one deckslot of Elise outvaluing control is much more viable than commiting 3-4 deckslots for the Inner Fire combo you may or may not draw when you need. Also it is a bit ridiculous for you to say this deck isn't 'anti-aggro' when 27/30 cards in the list are tuned for aggro and you're proposing adding an assortment of cards that make the deck even worse against aggro.

TLDR; The less amount of cards to commit to beating control the better right? this obviously because drawing anti aggro tools is important. Elise is bad versus aggro but its 1/30 cards in your list, Inner Fire/Divine Spirit is situational, making it a little less than bad versus aggro but is 6/30 cards in your list (makes Shadow Visions also a bad topdeck and pulling board clears is less consistent).

Kibler's been playing this deck for a long time now on his stream.  Nothing really new here.

What people don’t realize is that priest is already probably the best anti-aggro class even when playing dragons. I even teched in a Greater Healing Potion and that has won me multiple games. I don’t see why taking most all the value out of an already anti-aggro class is a good idea.

Pointing out a mistake is worth 30 upvotes?   

I don't get how this deck is supposed to win? I mean against aggro you can control them to death and heal. But how do you win against othet decks? What is the win condition?

Shuffle the packs and Vision the packs, or use Lyra to get a lot of value

Pity all these anti-aggro decks foucs on Lyra the Sunshard, or I would have tried one. FTP life is rough in this way.

I feel you man Lyra is one of the only Legendaries being played that I dont own and I dont know about crafting it so soon before the new expansion :/

It's not like the other expansion is going to have it rotating out.  

I didnt mean it that way, I meant that I barely play Priest at all and I dont feel its worth crafting just to try the deck plus we have a new expansion coming so it might not be played anymore :P

I love Lyra and Elise priest, it's my favorite archetype, but this deck is too slow for aggro, won't help you most of the time, you need more early game and it's too little value against control mage, control war, jade druid, big druid and medivh priest. 

Good for tournament play, but not good enough in today's horrible meta.

I'm the complete opposite :(

So many control matchups for me and barely any aggro.

Do like the deck though, works decently

I'd love to play against control. I'm stuck at wild rank 6 just because there is (srsly!!) 90% cancer matchups and I'm not willing to play it too... Don't know why but after quest rogue nerf aggro became worse...

I agree with you on IBM. I always enjoyed using both IBM and Injured Kvaldir for massive draw with cleric (and I still do in wild!). Auchenai + Circle is also insane AOE and nobody expects it anymore.

You might replace Auchenai Soulpriest with Embrace the Shadow.  As for Elise the Trailblazer, StanCifka recommends Free From Amber as a viable replacement for most cards in this deck.