Hello there,
In light of the new expansion and my special snowflake handlock deck being outclassed by the new meta decks, I tried to get a resurrect priest going because I have the most cards for that. Here is the current deck list I’m using:
experiment
Class: Priest
Format: Standard
Year of the Dragon
2x (0) Forbidden Words
2x (0) Silence
2x (1) Inner Fire
2x (1) Northshire Cleric
2x (1) Power Word: Shield
1x (2) Divine Hymn
2x (2) Divine Spirit
2x (2) Injured Tol’vir
1x (2) Shadow Word: Pain
1x (3) Shadow Word: Death
1x (4) Archmage Vargoth
2x (5) Convincing Infiltrator
2x (5) Mass Hysteria
1x (6) Damaged Stegotron
1x (8) Catrina Muerte
2x (8) Mosh’Ogg Enforcer
2x (9) Mass Resurrection
1x (9) Plague of Death
1x (9) Ysera
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It must be said that I initially had 2x Mountaingiants instead of the clerics. If it can be worked around somehow, I’d rather keep the giants. Priest lacks drawing power and in many scenarious I’ve lost games because the second massresurrection wasn’t drawn in time. I enjoy having ysera in that deck, aswell. And I’m wondering whether it is worth crafting a second plague of death (amazing card in control match ups and the new quest druid). Also, quite uncontent with both shadowwords. Somehow they’ve been of limited use.
Would appreciate solid advice and suggestions.
PS: I’ve got all but three cards (namely 2x witchwood grizzly and zilleax) from this deck list but didn’t face much success
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You want to keep your rez pool as pure as possible, so Northshires are dangerous indeed. Especially since they can’t guarantee a card draw.
Your early game is almost entirely reactive now, letting your opponent choose the trades. I’d kick out the Northshires and replace them with Injured Blademasters. They might die easily, but they can generally take 2 minions with them to the grave. If you can make them stick around with heals and a PW:Shield, they can provide great value. On top of that, they rez as a 4/7. I’d keep the Shadow Words, so you can keep their board relatively cleared in the early game. Maybe go for 2 SW:Pain. Just don’t cast it with Vargoth in play.
Yeah, by now I swapped the clerics. In tricky situations even the card draw didn’t help.
As of now I’ve got the giants instead of the clerics. Usually I have a pretty decent handsize with this deck and they come into play around turn 5-6 on average.
What I’ve noticed is that I struggle especially against murloc paladin. Usually the game is finished before I can resurrect.
Apart from the clerics, any further suggestions? Dropped from rank 9 in the previous season all the way back to 15 and I’ve realized that I’ve lost against a fairly decent amount of quest druids aswell.
Would you say the resurrect priest I’m playing is viable enough in the ranked ladder to reach at least rank 10?
You could include Holy Ripple to kill off some murlocs, but it would almost always have to be coupled with Vargoth if you want it to decently deal with a wide board. Giants on T5/6 are also too late against murlocs. If you can’t contest the board early on, you’re dead.
It’s possible, but it won’t be easy I think. After an expansion the ladder is usually filled with either very aggressive decks or control decks with tremendous late-game power. Your deck can’t handle both of those.
If you want to handle aggro decks, you need more early minions so you can actually reach 9 mana, but it will affect your rez pool, weakening your late-game.
If you want to handle control decks, you have to keep your rez pool as pure as possible, making your early-game nearly non-existent.
For decks like yours, it seems very hard to find a middle ground where you can reliably survive against aggro, while also keeping your late-game power against control.
Having vargoth and the ripple both in hand when facing aggro decks just isn’t a constant thing. In general, I feel like priest is just not my class, exactly. I’ve won a couple of control match ups and it did felt satisfying to pull off the divine spirit + inner fire combo but it still feels kinda awkward playing that deck.
It certainly may be a future side-kick deck but as for now I feel like I should continue my special snowflake Warlock which is pretty unique. Even at lower ranks (13-15 range) the vast majority of decks are either quest shaman or quest druid.
After seeing your hsreplay in the other thread I even entertained the idea of switching over to wild as I have the amazing key card bloodreaver guldan and tons of other cards from the year of the raven. I kinda miss those times.
But the idea of facing big priests mainly isn’t very enticing. Even back then when it was standard I’ve had trouble against big priest.