OurResurrect Priest Deck List Guidewill walk you through everything you need to know on this potentially viable archetype in the Rise of Shadows expansion! Priest has had a history of reviving their minions, and Blizzard seems to be giving them incentive to continue down this path. With this guide we’re going over mulligans, card choices, substitutions, and detailing how best to play this list to victory!
There’s been some forms ofResurrect Priestfloating around for a while now, and while Big Priest is pretty problematic in Wild there’s room in Standard for a more fair version of that deck. This archetype will be looking to stack big taunt minions and force your opponent to chew through them. You, however, will be able to bring them back to life with the various resurrection cards we will have in our deck. We should be able to finish our opponent with some Inner Fire shenanigans.
Resurrect Priest Deck List for Rise of Shadows
Resurrect Priest is currently the class' best option in the meta right now. The following list is the most popular of what’s being played on the ladder at the moment.
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Resurrect Priest Mulligan Guide
We don’t have a ton of early game cards that we actually want, but there’s a couple of standouts. We’re mostly looking for mid-game cards in this slower meta.
Situational Keeps
Resurrect Priest Play Strategy
The name of the game is getting big minions with high health onto the board that generally have a downside, and then resurrecting them so they comeback with full stats. Cards likeHench-Clan Shadequill,Witchwood Grizzly,Damaged Stegotron, andMosh’Ogg Enforcergenerally fit this bill. If we can stick some of these, then we can usually win with a big combo turn featuringInner FireandDivine Spirit!
Early game is all about just holding off our opponent as much as possible. This can be done with spells likeForbidden Words,Shadow Word: Pain, andShadow Madness. After we’ve gotten to about turn four is when we’ll start being able to potentially play some minions of our own. If you’re playing against a faster deck, then you’re able to’t afford to be super greedy with stuff likeArchmage Vargoth. Play it down, and see if it survives. At the very least, you’ll be keeping yourself from losing too much health. The fact of the matter is, we’re not super sad if we lose a minion like him because we’ll likely be able to resurrect it in the later game.
Mass Hysteriais one of our better cards for getting us back into the game at this point. There’s a very good chance we can clear off the majority of our opponent’s board with it.
We’ll be hoping we’ve at least had a couple of taunts put into our pool by the time we end up playingCatrina Muerte. If one of your high health taunts pop out, then there’s a good chance she’ll survive to the next turn. If we can get multiple triggers from her, then we’ll know we’re in good shape. BothWitchwood GrizzlyandDamaged Stegotronare going to be the most common minions we’ll be bringing back.
If we’ve survived to the late game, then that’s whenMass Resurrectionbecomes a huge card. Not only will we be bringing back huge minions, but we could get a double cast of it if we’ve brought back Vargoth from the dead.
Against aggressive decks, we’ve likely stalled long enough at this point that they are running out of gas and staring down a taunt wall. If that’s the case, then the game is usually over at this point. Against control, however, we might need some extra firepower. That’s whereInner FireandDivine Spiritcome into play. If we stick one of our big minions, then there’s a good chance we can combo it with these cards and push for lethal. This will be one of the common ways we’re able to finish off slower decks.
Resurrect Priest Card Choices
We’re going to need some more juicy large minions to resurrect and some ways to stabilize the board in the early game that aren’t small minions. We don’t want to dilute our resurrection pool with weak creatures.
Resurrect Priest Card Substitutions
We don’t want too many minions that don’t server our purpose in our deck because they will muddy up our resurrection pool.
