Thoughtsteal Tuesday anyone? …
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I have a question for the priests out there, what is the advantage of running thoughtsteal over a strong pair of cards of your choosing? Other than the fact you sometimes get the rofl luck and get a awesome card, you also could wind up with a bunch of pretty shit cards. Is it just having the card advantage? Are the priest class cards that bad?
This thread always reminds me of the next wing opening up, so thanks for that. Can’t wait to outRNG some priests later. 
The warrior class-challenge-card was so godlike, the new batch couldn’t possibly be better…right?!
MostSome decks/archetypes counter themselves. Against Midrange and Control you have a good chance to draw strong cards for later in the game, making it possible to design your deck to have more answers for early aggression. That’s the gist of it I believe.
I’d say the card advantage is the main thing, you are basically extending your deck by 1 card, which helps when games go so long you deck yourself. Also, the opponent has no idea what you’re gonna get, so they can’t play around it. Sometimes you end up with shitty cards, sometimes you end up with good cards. And also, yes, priest is pretty much considered the weakest class (and why they got one of the strongest naxx minions). I’d also say, it’s fun. Being able to gorehowl with priest, or drop a fire elemental, is just plain fun. Its like bending the rules, which in and of itself can lead to crazy interactions.
Funny story with priest, I was like rank 18 and made a priest deck to beat Baron, and then accidently queued up for ranked play… oops. Played it out, priest mirror, and we ended up going through the entire deck. I ran thoughtsteal, he didnt… end of the game I had 2 more creatures on the board and he had no way to clear them, so I won! yay for raid decks lol
I hope you’re not under the impression that priests are still weak post-naxx.
Nope, pre-naxx. Which is why they got so many good cards in naxx!
Dear diary,
semester break is boring. Tried to play HS on the US server today.
They thougt it was a cool idea to have a maintenance when I wanted to play there, silly guys.
Later this evening I could create my account, played a few AI games to get my free arena run. Result:
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Please don’t ask me how I got so far with that deck, please don’t. Got some gold for the 2nd wing of Naxx, soon.
We’ll meet again, Loatheb. Wait for it.
Weather was rainy and cold today. Starting ladder climb maybe tomorrow, looking forward to it!
Huntermidrangedeck lacks 2 flares,1 Owl and Loatheb.
[e] Ok, hunter magic revealed:
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I see two copies of Starving Buzzard, UtH and Freezing trap. Dude.
I used to think thoughtsteal is shit, but then in Control mirror matches, the priest’s opponent often has useful tools that would likely benefit the priest. MOST NOTABLY DRUID WHERE EVERYTHING THEY HAVE IS GOOD AND WOULD LIKELY BENEFIT THE PRIEST MORE THAN THE DRUID :mad:
but yeah it’s pretty good for them to have in late game, mostly shit unless lucky in early game. Depends on the matchup mostly.
1 Buzzard, 2 doggies, 14 games, 0 combos.
But hey, Webspinner gave me The Beast once. It did 0 dmg and the opponent played that shitheaddwarfBGH instantly.
[e] Oh, and I don’t like traps at all in arena, the other cards were just worse.
Went out of steam pretty early w/o the combo, lack of card draw, lucky topdecks helped a lot.
But some of those matches were pure comedy.
coined turn 2 mad scientist/turn 2 faerie dragon into freezing trap on their turn 4 yeti would probably make your opponent throw their tablet across the room.
There is a Webspinner, pretty safe to say you run double combo.
Opened a pack, hovered over the cards to see 2 epics and a rare. Has to be something good, right? Another pit lord, a hungry crab, and a blade fury for me to dust. Bleh
Man, so much hunter hate in ranked. Got my first hate message in a long time, complaining how I got lucky with my card draws; I was 10 cards left and hadn’t pulled one unleashed yet.
Im not even running secrets hunter lol
Also a lot of early conceeds, just people sick of hunter I suppose
the game is telling you to run demon lock
Tried out Kolento’s naxx priest. It’s oddly aggressive for a priest that is. It’s sorta like Zoo but with super chunky minions and combos all over the place.
I fucking love Kel’Thuzad! I stuck him into my control paladin deck and if one of your minions die and are then revived by redemption Kel will resurrect another copy of that minion at the end of the turn!
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Welp. He’s certainly going in my control paladin’s deck as well.
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LOL at having Kel’thuzad on the field and a hunter trying to get through a sludge belcher. Tries to kill the 3/5 and the 1/2 taunt and Kel’thuzad resurrects both of them at the end of the turn. Best card.
Kel’Thuzad is so good that he even manages to turn the paladin hero power into something useable since they get a chance to survive until they can make an impact 