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Frankenstein's Priest - Crushing Meta!

  • Last updated May 12, 2016 (Old Gods)
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  • 17 Minions
  • 13 Spells
  • Deck Type: Ranked Deck
  • Deck Archetype: Control Priest
  • Crafting Cost: 8160
  • Dust Needed: Loading Collection
  • Created: 4/28/2016 (Old Gods)
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    EU

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Welcome to my Franky Priest, the Frankenstyle deck!

Intro

Hi everyone! I always loved to play priest and had great fun with the "dragon priest", with the "Zetalot priest" and all other kind. But to be honest, I never had such a blast playing priest than with this deck! It crushes the meta, a lot more stable than every other C'Thun's decks and punishes hard the SmorC Shaman.

If you look at C'Thun's decks, the moment you play C'Thun is a blast, often a win. But to get there you have to play with average minions to buff your C'Thun. This deck allow you to play with very powerfull minions from the begining and have the same crazy finish with N'Zoth, the Corruptor. I actually never lost after playing it.

Strategy

The strategy is quite straightforward, it's all about controlling the board, making values plays, playing your Deathrattle cards and then finishing off with N'Zoth, the Corruptor. For those that are familiar to priest, you will find all the actual ways of playing it, with the draws and the common priest mechanics. I will not go through it now but I can of course write an in-depth guide if requested.

Card Choices & Key Plays

In this section, I will explain why I picked some cards over others and give tips/answers on how to use those cards. Do not hesitate to ask anything in the comment section if you would like to know something else or more details on my choices. 

Why 2 Shadow Word: Death and 2 Entomb ?

Two words, Face Shaman. Shadow Word: Death is the best way to deal with Flamewreathed Faceless so if you are facing Shaman, I would go for a hard mulligan for Shadow Word: Death. And Entomb will give you lots of power against C'Thun control decks.

Why Embrace the Shadow?

I find this card very usefull and reliable in many situation. VS Aggro you always wait for your combo Auchenai Soulpriest and Circle of Healing to clean the board. This is one more way to combo the Circle of Healing. But I also often play it in combo with Flash Heal to remove big minions. 2 Mana for Embrace the Shadow, 1 mana for Flash Heal and 2 mana hero power allows you to hit a target spending 5 mana for 7 dmg.

Why 2 Excavated Evil and no Holy Nova? 

Well I think that WOG and C'Thun decks makes you face more 2 drops with 3 health. And as priest lost Lightbomb, I've the feeling that you need good AoE and 2 dmg it's not enough. It's often either you clean the board or you loose. So I find Excavated Evil more reliable.

How to use Wild Pyromancer?

This card is really usefull in 2 ways. If you are facing an aggro deck, I would use the combo Wild Pyromancer + Power Word: Shield to clean the early minions' board and keep it under control. If you are facing mid/control deck the best use of it would be Wild Pyromancer + Northshire Cleric and you play any spell to trigger the Wild Pyromancer, then Circle of Healing for drawing a lot of cards and take big asset on the game.

Why not adding more Deathrattle minions?

Simply because you dont need it. Trust me, the turn your will play N'Zoth, the Corruptor, the game will be done. I believe that the deck is a lot more stable like that.

Cards replacement

Here I will talk more about the possibility of changing/Tricking the deck and replace some cards to adapt it to the meta.

Deathrattle cards 

If you miss some of the deathrattle cards in the deck, here is a list of all deathrattle cards playable in standard. It will also give you an hint on what you can get from Museum Curator. Again I can write a in-depth guide about statistics if requested.

Last updates

30th of April: I took one Wild Pyromancer out and put an Abomination, I feel like it's important to have a taunt and this card provide one more AoE against aggro. When you play N'Zoth, the Corruptor it feels good to have a taunt to protect your other minions.

30th of April: I took the Twilight Summoner out. I think it's a good card but a bit slow, didn't have enough impact the turn you play it. I added one more Entomb because I needed more hard removal against C'Thun Warrior, C'Thun Druid and C'Thun Priest.

Youtube Video

Thanks to Shissan for a cool video with this deck! 

What do you want? 

You want your Deathrattle minions to die! So you can bring them back to life! Play with no fear of death! It's ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE!

Hope you will enjoy playing it and sorry for my non-first-language-english.

Have Fun!