Phoenix’s Endgame Control Priest (Season 29 – Standard)

Class: Priest - Format: kraken - Type: control - Season: season-29 - Style: ladder

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Mulligans

Priest has never been good. Until maybe Karazhan. Screw PurifyAfter priest received Priest of the Feast , it got me thinking about how this priest could actually be good. This deck is mostly my own creation. It does pretty well against everything in the current meta except Call of the Wild, some warrior decks, and Mill Rouge.


Update  (8/22): -2 ressurect, +2 Divine Spirit

This helps improve the survival of many early game cards. You can use in really well on Arcane Anomaly.

Mulligan Guide and Strategy

Arcane Anomaly Northshire Cleric Shadow Word: Pain Lightwarden  are your usual mulligans cards. If you know they are playing a relitively fast deck, get Doomsayer Excavated Evil orHoly Nova . These are really helpful, and you may want to mulligan an entire hand for one.

Play Strategy

The main idea of this is to use cards like Shadow Word: Pain Shadow Word: Death and Entomb to kill their large minions, Excavated Evil Holy Nova Doomsayer or Shadow Word: Pain to kill their smaller minions. Along the way, try to use anything to chip away slowly at their health in any way possible.

In the beginning, use cards likeLightwarden Northshire ClericandArcane Anomaly to slow down their board. Use them only to go face, or make extremely favorable trades. Remove anything they have in play, its okay if you have nothing either. Don’t worry about your life total unless you have less than 15. Just stall the game until then.Darkshire Alchemist will help as a Flash Heal midgame.Priest of the Feast is really helpful when you drop below 15. Combo it with a flashheal makes it a much better Antique Healbot. Remember to hold onto a removal in case of C'Thun

Forbidden Shaping can be used to spend mana in the early game. Although, my personal preference for this is probably at 8 or 9 mana. Justicar Trueheart is best on turn ten, where you can heal once, then use the upgraded hero power.

After an amount of time, try to force the opponent to be top decking and without anything in play. They should have about 10 cards in their library. (You wont believe the effectiveness of all the removal). Afterward, play Arch-Thief Rafaam or Ragnaros the Firelord. For Arch-Thief Rafaam, be careful that they might have an Excavated Evil  that you have given them. With either, you want to deal as much damage as you can, hopefully killing them soon (Maybe even from fatigue)

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Substitutions

As a playing with missing many key cards myself, I understand that most players won’t have all the cards listed here.

Relevant Cards (Sorry, no links)

  • Any card in this deck
  • Small Minions: Loot Hoarder, Abusive Sergeant (If you want more aggro)
  • Midgame/ Lategame Minions: Elise Starseeker, Alexstrasza, Harrison Jones, Ysera, Deathwing (Either one), Nafarian, Any really big minion
  • Spells: Thoughtsteal, Shadow Madness, Mind Vision, Holy Smite, Holy Fire, Divine Spirit, Resurrect, Inner Fire

Combos and Synergies

They are all pretty obvious.

Priest of the Feast, Yogg-Saron, Hope's End  and Arcane Anomaly + Spells. Flash Heal is best.

Lightwarden and Northshire Cleric + Healing. Duh.

Have fun.

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  1. BattleshipPower
    August 21, 2016 at 2:50 PM

    Seems pretty nice. Tho Resurrect can fuck you up with summoning Doomsayer.
    And i would like to see 2x Holy Smite.
    But still nice deck, will try it out for sure !