New Priest Card Reveals - Bwonsamdi, the Dead & Spirit of the Dead
Two new Priest cards have been revealed by Dave Kosak. Come talk about the new reveal over on Discord.
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Earth, Air, Rain and Fire. Because those are the only thing a real troll desires.
As a Priest main and only priest player, I REALLLY love this !!! Insta craft for me
Hey, uh, quick question: what is the prize for winning the rumble in universe?
a cardback
Inb4 Weasel Tunneler reprint to give Quest Priest a THICC sendoff
I'm already imagining Deathrattle Rogue putting an army of those into opponent's deck via Cube + Necrium Vial + Umbra + Elekk shenanigans (although admittedly there are better things to put into opponent deck, like bombs).
This can make cloning gallery deck more consistent by reshuffling Velen ... if you draw him second time you don’t care much because second time it is a 1 mana...
you can now get 3 Velens on board for 6 mana 80 damage from 2 mind blasts OPOP...
idea is:
play two spirits, play and kill of your own Velen... shuffle to 1 mana copies into your deck... draw them or cloning gallery them for 40-80 damage depending on number of visions mind blasts.. eternal servitude and play them for 80 damage with just 2 mind blasts or 160 with triple Velen double radiant into 4 mind blasts.
How are you going to reliably play a spirit, play Velen, and kill off Velen in one turn or even two?
In terms of the big combos, that is where this combo falls flat for me. At the very least you need to play the spirit one turn and hope there is no APE, then play your big card and kill it the same turn
Still won't kill a druid tho
Reliably... well:
2 spirits, then Velen and death your own velen... The only problem that I see is that tempo wise it is horendous... so hopefully you survive until next turn in order to scream...
spirit, coin(from gargoyle) velen, death
(maybe a little impractical buuuuuuut)
I've thought about it too, plus possibilities of multiple quests with Shadow Visions which means a lot of Amara in a single deck
Amara, double spirit, Shadow Word Death combo. I like it. The Spirits and Bwonsamdi also could help with deathrattles.
his loa should have been ben brode
War Golem
Big Priest coming through!!!!
Yeah, 0/3 fits in Big Priest just great.
Yes, the 0/3 isn't exactly a big minion but you're not thinking of its effect, Trejser. Say you Spellstone to bring back four minions. If those four are Lich King, Velen, Leeroy Jenkins, and a Spirit of the Dead... that's pretty good! The Spirit still has stealth for 1 turn since that effect isn't a battlecry, and if your opponent kills any of the other three (or you trade in the Leeroy immediately, which is the only reason I used him as an example) then you get a 1 mana copy of those big guys back into your deck.
This is of course assuming your opponent is unable to do something like Hellfire, Psychic Scream, or similar.
Bwonsamdi, the Dead certainly explains how you might get value out of Surrender to Madness - fill your deck with cheap minions, play it to buff them, draw them with Bwonsamdi, and then drop them for huge late game plays. That seems way too involved and slow to make Surrender to Madness work, but that certainly doesn't diminish the cool factor of the Loa and Spirit. Spirit of the Dead seems very powerful in combination with Reckless Experimenter and any cheap deathrattle minions, and if you can get enough minions into your deck you can build up a decent draw for Bwonsamdi, the Dead.
While Surrender to Madness seems likely intended to combo with these cards (spirit, trade off a bunch of minions, surrender to madness, this giving you a hand full of buffed minions and potentially being able to drop a ton of stats on the board), I question how valuable the +2/2 is by turn 10.
More interesting to me is, what combos are possible by making a minion one cost? Can you reliably make that minion one cost with the spirit?
Either way, the legendary is potentially good enough on its own, force your opponent to deal with the threat (especially if inner fire combos exist, easy to get a seven health minion up to 30) while drawing a few cards.