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Priest is strong. After a rocky start to the Saviors of Uldum meta, the class settled into a world-beating combo deck. With a focus on healing and buffing minions with cheap spells, the deck boasts explosive openings and devastating finishers. The power of the deck can render it frustrating to play against. It feels like…
Combo Priest was one of the few affected archetypes in the recent nerf patch. The reverting of Extra Arms to three mana eliminated the power of Northshire Cleric on turn one into Extra Arms on two. Bwonsamdi, the Dead has filled in the role of replacing an Extra Arms in Combo Priest decks. This, along…
The Rise of Mech event was unique in Hearthstone history. It’s the first time since Beta where cards were explicitly buffed. Two cards from every class from the Boomsday expansion. But with the most recent balance changes, Blizzard reversed two of the most impactful changes. With the remaining cards largely limited in impact, was this…
The Hearthstone developers worry about Priest. In particular, the Divine Spirit/Inner Fire combo. This simple, Classic combination threatens huge damage from any Priest minion that can stick with high health. The play is simple: stick a large-health minion to the board. Then, double its Health twice with Divine Spirit and turn that into attack with…
Each class in Saviors of Uldum will be receiving 10 new cards to play. Of course, only so many will see play in viable meta decks. Some classes are receiving a lot more help than others, in what appears to be an attempt to bring more balance to the game. Let’s see what the big…
Two drops aren’t what they were. When it comes to efficiently making a pro-active play on turn two, chances are you aren’t playing a two-cost card. Either you’re coining a three drop, playing a one drop or two, or just hero-powering and calling it a day. Sure, you might tempo out the odd Sorcerer’s Apprentice…
Saviors of Uldum Quests all provide a hero power reward, with some being much better than others. This is much like past Quests, though it feels like all Quests should be playable considering their Legendary status. You sacrifice a card in the ddeck, and a card in your opening hand in order to play them.…
The Hearthstone team have revealed a new combo similar to playing the Old Blood of the Ancient Ones in order to summon The Ancient One. This time we have Highkeeper Ra, who must be summoned by having seven Mogu Cultists on board. When Highkeeper Ra is somehow summoned, he is a 20/20 that does 20…
This month is seeing a couple new additions to the Hall of Fame in Hearthstone. As the removal of cards from the Evergreen set pile up, the Hearthstone team have decided to add a handful of new cards to keep the set at a standard number. The Hall of Fame and new Classic cards see…
Out of all the Boomsday buffs coming in the Rise of the Mech update, one stands out. Extra Arms, the proto-Twinspell Priest buff, will soon be 2 mana rather than 3. This is huge.The card goes from a flexible (if low-tempo) value tool to a terrifyingly efficient buff in a class best suited to take…
With its powerful Year of the Mammoth cards rotating, Priest is in a pretty bad spot. Without Psychic Scream, Shadow Visions, Radiant Elemental or Shadowreaper Anduin, the class sorely lacks in utility and removal. This has been reflected in the 2019 world championships, where only one player brought a Priest deck. Unfortunately, this proved unwise,…
Archmage Vargoth is a great teaser for the upcoming expansion. Efficiently statted, and with a powerful unique effect, Vargoth is good in virtually any spell-oriented deck. But while Vargoth is great with even straightforward effects like Shield Slam or Cinderstorm, there are some truly unique and absurdly potent synergies with cards from the Year of…
We are just a week away from the release of the Rise of Shadows. Every class Legendary with the exception of one Shaman Legendary has been revealed now. This time reveals Legendaries for Druid, Rogue and Priest. They are Lucentbark, Tak Nozwhisker and Catrina Muerte. Lucentbark A Druid class Legendary minion, Lucentbark looks to be…
Another week closer to the release of the Rise of Shadows, and four new cards have been revealed. This includes the Priest Legendary minion Madame Lazul, Warlock spell Rafaam’s Scheme, as well as the two Warrior cards Omega Devastator and Improve Morale. All of these cards might be low impact on the meta. Madame Lazul…
As we get closer to the Rise of Shadows, we see new cards being revealed nearly every day. The newest cards revealed are a couple of class Legendary minions and a spell. We will take a look at how Swampqueen Hagatha, Oblivitron, and Lazul’s Scheme could impact the meta. Swampqueen Hagatha A new Shaman Legendary…
The latest nerf patch in Hearthstone heavily target cards that are a part of the “Evergreen” sets, Classic and Basic. Having the Evergreen sets allows these cards to always be in the standard rotation and help give new players the identity of each class in the way they play. Future Evergreen card nerfs are more…
Since the release of Rastakhan’s Rumble, there have been two nerf patches. These nerfs resulted in a gradual slowing down of the meta to more control based decks. Priest has slithered its way back to the top of the meta and the Wall Priest archetype has quickly become one of the most popular decks. What…
Priest is far from the strongest class, but compared to how it was before the Year of the Mammoth, it’s been a remarkable success story. However, Priest is about to lose those same cards that brought it to the highest tiers of both tournament and ladder play. Can Priest survive the upcoming rotation? Un’goro: Priest,…
The Winter Playoffs are fast approaching and the meta has started to settle. The Monthly Master Cup was the last major competitive tournament to be played before playoffs. Let’s take a look at the January competitive meta and the decks most likely to show themselves in the next few weeks of playoffs. Hunter 14 of…
Over the weekend, Tempo Storm hosted the Hearthstone Specialist Showdown. We got a look at what class experts think are the best deck archetypes within their class. We got to see how certain classes directly interacted with each other over the course of multiple games and with different tech inclusions. Some players decided to focus…