Tommy J’s Heroic Terestian Illhoof – 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 I actually really liked this boss – it had a set of unique mechanics that I thought were great. Unfortunately, with purely basic cards a little bit of RNG is required, since the easiest way to win this is to steal one of the Icky Imps, and the only way to do it is with Mind Vision. However, if you have a few of the Cards to Add I’ve listed below, it will get a lot easier.

So I wouldn’t normally recommend this, but if you’re truly set on using just basic cards, either due to the challenge or not having any of the cards to add, it may be worth just restarting until you get Mind Vision early once you’ve gotten used to the fight.

The one card the boss has that I found can make this fight very difficult, particularly for a Priest, is Kil’krek. If he is summoned and you don’t have an immediate answer, it can be quite the task to recover from the damage he is able to deal.

I found that the AI in this fight is a bit off. For example, when I was playing him Ilhoof buffed his imp to 4/4 using Demonfire, and I had a 2/2 imp on the board. He decided to attack mine instead of face. He also at various times in the fight used spells on the Icky Imp (such as a soulfire), and also ran his own minions at my own Imp despite it instantly respawning. Also, during my game the boss decided not to attack a 3/1 Sen’jin Shieldmasta I had up, despite the fact he 4 imps on the board. He did attack it with an Imp Gang Boss on his next turn though (It was asleep that first turn) so it’s possible he just doesn’t want to hurt himself by killing off his imps once he’s below a certain threshold. Thankfully I would have won the fight despite this, but I guess this is another boss that you can cheese by playing taunts to an extent.

Mulligan

Mind Vision! Your ideal first turn is to steal an Icky Imp (Heroic), and this is your way to do it. Aside from that, just early/cheap plays.

Cards to Add

Firstly, cards that steal/summon enemy minions such as Shadow Madness, Mindgames, Cabal Shadow Priest. Cult Apothecary can give some massive heals if needed, and then taunts such as Abomination, Deathlord, Cyclopian Horror or even an Unstable Ghoul. Explosive Sheep, Coldlight Seer and Shadow Word: Horror can also provide some much needed board clear for some burst damage straight to the boss.

Cards to Remove

The Avian Watcher shouldn’t be in the deck and only is because I misread the card (thanks to /u/Darkflashez). Northshire Cleric is fairly average, as are Oasis Snapjaw and Gurubashi Berserker. I would remove them in that order.