Tommy J’s Heroic Nightbane – F2P Cheap/Low Cost Priest

Tommy J generously allowed us to host his decks and guides using (mostly) Basic cards to take down One Night in Karazhan Heroic bosses. Be sure to check out his YouTube Channel.

So Nightbane was simply about being able to play around some classic legendaries that often got buffed on the turn they were played. Since one of the buffs the boss has is Ancestral Spirit (give minion Deathrattle: Resummon this Minion), it can mean certain conventional board clear (for example Fireball) becomes slightly worse, which leaves the harder removal, which with basic cards are Polymorph, Hex and Mind Control. Since Priest also has Shadow Word: Death I opted to go with it, however I’m sure a Mage or Paladin Deck would also deal with this boss fine (infact, I would imagine any deck that has a lot of the newer cards would have absolutely no issue with this fight).

The general strategy is just maintain board control as best you can. The boss has a ton of hard removal, such as Deadly Shot, but no AoE that I noticed, so flooding the board with smaller minions can be great. This also helps you to counter Ragnaros and Sylvanas to an extent since they are less likely to kill/steal something big with a few smaller minions on the board. Try to use Mind Control on buffed minions only, unless you don’t have another option.

Mulligan

Mind Control, Shadow Word: Death and any minion that has a battlecry to summon a second to soak some removal.

Cards to Add

Thoughtsteal, Mindgames, any strong cards you have.

Cards to Remove

Northshire Cleric is fairly useless – the only time it would see play is if you play it and then. Gurubashi Berserker is also average.