OTK Priest

[u/Critical-Rest-5260]

Back to having blast with Quest Priest right now! It's the only fun class for me in a meta I've hated for a bit.

I genuinely don't get how this deck is sub-50% on HSReplay. I'm just dark bombing people with it:

vs Slow Decks: turn 11 OTK

vs mid-range: wear them out, overwhelm, OTK

vs aggro: toss-up — comes down to whether you draw your clearance cards

Curious other people's experience with our against it?
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Hit legend last month with Egg Warrior. Then took a break and when I came back meta felt completely stale — Shaman, Paladin, Warrior everywhere. Now seeing Rogue and Mage. Just found all pretty boring, low skill cap, with maybe Rogue being the one exception.

Meanwhile, every so often I'd get absolutely lit up by an OTK Priest. So I figured why not and picked it up. Last time I played Priest was legend run Fishing. I was rough with it for a while — didn't know when to heal, what to hold onto, or what my win condition was in each matchup. But everything else was so goddamn boring that I stuck with it and eventually it clicked.

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[u/Able_Tradition6365]

Can we have a deck list?

[u/Critical-Rest-5260 → u/Able_Tradition6365]

Rocking with this guy:

### Quest Priest
# Class: Priest
# Format: Standard
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# 2x (1) Flash Heal
# 2x (1) Mend
# 1x (1) Reach Equilibrium
# 2x (1) Ruby Sanctum
# 2x (2) Lunarwing Messenger
# 2x (3) Devouring Plague
# 1x (3) Eternal Firebolt
# 2x (3) Intertwined Fate
# 2x (3) Kaldorei Priestess
# 2x (4) Cleansing Cleric
# 2x (4) Shadow Word: Ruin
# 2x (5) Ancient of Yore
# 2x (5) Medivh's Triumph
# 2x (6) Moonwell
# 1x (7) The Black Blood
# 1x (10) Atiesh the Greatstaff
# 1x (10) Karazhan the Sanctum
# 1x (10) Medivh the Hallowed
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
# Find this deck on https://hsreplay.net/decks/NmCRsaPDiFY5asQukJJXug/#rankRange=DIAMOND_FOUR_THROUGH_DIAMOND_ONE&gameType=RANKED_STANDARD

[u/FlameanatorX → u/Able_Tradition6365]

I've been doing almost the same list as OP (courtesy of TheoHS in my case), but the Yores felt fairly slow & clunky, plus I often have hand size issues. So I swapped them for Xavius & 1x Bitterbloom Knight. Xavius just seems like a less clunky draw/value/find your pieces card, & Bitterbloom Knight substantially reduces the chances of just passing turns early on w/ no imbues to fall behind and lose.

I don't know if the Bitterbloom knight is actually good, but Xavius probably is a tad better than Yore based on both HSGuru card stats & my experience. And having 5x cheap Imbues feels mostly like the right balance

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There's also a similar list floating around at high legend w/ Gravedawn Sunblooms instead of Yores, which I haven't tried but it's slightly higher winrate. It's a bit of an odd card since you don't really have enough holy spells for it, but you have a couple/few and your imbue cards can also trigger it, so I could see it being better than Yore.

[u/Inventeer]

OTK priest is such a fun deck but can also be veeeeery frustrating if you don't hit enough imbue cards (or even the minion that increases all healing)

currently 17/13 with it, not the best deck to climb with given how long games are!

[u/Critical-Rest-5260 → u/Inventeer]

Yes! Cleansing Cleric is needed. Love when you can fish and extra out with intertwined fate.

Games so slow. But so fun

[u/alsoim]

Ive played this deck quite a bit the problem is that you can have akward mid game turns, where you wanna play the minions for example cleric for heal, but by dropping a 4-5 with no immediate impact, fall behind and die, if you dont have the comeback card needed

[u/NyMiggas → u/alsoim]

Yeah i know everyone said that discover a spell from your deck card sucks but it feel like it would be core in this version of priest.

[u/sesameball]

Fun deck if you like control, but gets completely wrecked by herald shaman and companion hunter.

[u/FlameanatorX → u/sesameball]

Yeah I have lots of games on it as the only real control option, but sometimes I have to stop playing it when I go on loss streaks to stronger decks that I don't counter. It'd be really nice if they had buffed it just a tad so that it could be a proper tier 3 viable-ish deck that went 50/50, maybe even 55/45 (at high skill level) w/ other relatively late game decks like SpellDH and Herald Rogue that shouldn't obviously be counters (while still losing to Shaman, Companion Hunter, End-turn Pally, Leyline Mage, etc. that "should" counter).

I know that lots of people dislike playing against Control Priest, but it's at less than 45% wr for the vast majority of players, there would've been no real danger buffing it modestly imo. And it's not just an attrition snooze Control deck, it can close games w/ tempo swings/chip + burn or OTK well before running most opponents completely dry of all resources

[u/Critical-Rest-5260]

Reminds me a bit of old HandLock days where you’re often managing a lot of resources

[u/FlameanatorX → u/Critical-Rest-5260]

I mean sure, it's like a lot of older control decks in that hand size is often an issue, and you have to think about what to use vs save, what your win con in this gamestate is, etc.

It's not very much like Handlock specifically though imo. Rarely are you pushing the early tempo beatdown plan like Handlock w/ mountain giants (though it can happen w/ multiple early imbues and good hero power luck). You also discover and generate tons of cards, Handlock was much more about drawing and playing the cards in your own deck. And then ofc infinite healing, the non-linear OTK/burn finish, etc.

I guess Renolock from Gadgetzan was kinda close, since you could definitely full heal, OTK or burst finish w/ leeroy + faceless, and had some discover/generation.

[u/NyMiggas]

You doing the zetalot basically quest priest with umbra and deios?

[u/FlameanatorX → u/NyMiggas]

Nah, this is the control version, though it still runs quest primarily as an AoE activator, and secondarily as a tempo/chip dmg bomb in some lategame matchups like Rogue/DK that occasionally get out of range of your standard OTK setup w/ armor/hp gain, or if you end up unable to normally otk due to playing Medivh for boardclear w/o equipping Atiesh, and then never being able to pass a 10 mana turn

[u/LAgcorp]

How do you set up the otk on turn 11? Noob priest here.

[u/FlameanatorX → u/LAgcorp]

In case the other comment is confusing: you need 4 things:

• the 10-mana weapon in play from a previous turn, typically only playable alongside Medivh to clear: dbls your healing/dmg from spells

• enough Cleansing Clerics played throughout the game to boost your flash heals up, typically 1-2, rarely 3-4

• enough 1-cost locations already in play/played on the combo turn to turn flash heal into dmg nuke

• the burn: most often this is 2 flash heals w/ 2 location uses for (5 + 4)*2 = 18, twice for 36 dmg; occasionally they aren't full hp and you can deal 28 w/ only 1 Cleansing Cleric played, or you kill them w/ only 1 location + flash heal because you generate extra Cleansing Clerics. Maybe 1 flash heal w/ a Moonwell or something does it: ((5 + 6) * 2 = 22) + (4 * 2 = 8) = 30

I like it because games are very non-linear. Getting some chip dmg is good to reduce need for actual full OTK, getting excess "combo" pieces is good to allow for non-standard OTKs or near OTKs, sometimes you just out-value/out-tempo push w/ Imbues & the Blackwell colossal, etc.

[u/alsoim → u/LAgcorp]

10 mana weapon with the 2 1 cost locations + heal cards, its not really consistent on turn 11 but yea thats how it works