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Some weird thing happened in my game just now. I was playing warlock and my opponent was priest. He stole my mistress of pain using a cabal shadow priest. He also has an auchenai soulpriest on the board. He attacked one of my minions with the mistress of pain, then his life total started going down from 28 to -3 and lost the game. What the fuck just happened lol

Yet another person who didn’t know.

Yeah, if you have Auchenai Soulpriest and Mistress of Pain on your board and Mistress of Pain deals damage, you auto-lose the game. It’s not a bug.

As with all healing effects, in combination with Auchenai Soulpriest the Mistress of Pain will instead deal damage to the controlling player.[2] However, in the case of the Mistress of Pain, the damage dealt as a result will be counted as damage dealt by the Mistress, meaning that her effect will trigger again and again until the controlling hero is destroyed.[2] This is not a bug.[2]

Daaaaaaayum.

Yup, Mistress of Pain is actually a really strong tech card because of this reason.

And definitely one of the reasons Cabal Shadow Priest is seeing reduced play.

Hold up, that’s like saying fire elementals are seeing reduced play because nerubian eggs exist. Cabal shadow priest is still godlike, especially great in the meta with all the mechs with 2 or less attack, the possibility of nabbing a 2 attack minion from shredder/skygolem, and shrinkmeister plays.

Priest has just yet to find a consistent deck that works in this meta. Furthermore it’s a very specific situation of having a auchenai and mistress on their board, and leaving a mistress of pain alone when you have auchenai on the board and shadowmadness/cabal in hand isn’t gonna lose you games. It’s a 1/4 that can be buffed but otherwise a fairly low threat minion.

HOWEVER, a priest could somehow have a shredder in play, either stolen cabals/thoughtsteal/shadow madness/etc… or mech priest, and then a mistress of pain can pop out. If your opponent is knowledgeable and notices you have those two on your board, they could simply attack it with a minion/weapon for the win. Now that is a pretty dire situation that can actually happen.

LOL. That’s hilarious

Brian Kibler was playing mech mage priest around rank 3 today pretty consistently lol

Well even with Mech Mage running around with a ton of targets you’re seeing a lot of Priests bringing Cabal down to 1 if not out of the deck entirely.

It just sucks being a Priest player. You can’t do much of anything outside of a VERY specific meta. Priest is either ridiculously broken…or simply not consistent enough to compete and honestly I don’t think it’s possible to strike a balance for the class.

Maybe you can run this deck now http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/169859-legend-holy-4000-deck-guide

I like it, only missing the sky golem and volgin. Shouldn’t be hard to obtain. Thanks.

Now tell me how it feels

Are you spamming Sorry too?

That deck looks fun! Plus I’ve been wanting to use my reaper!

Foe Reaper is such a cool concept for a card.

Anyone else notice Trump’s teachings appearing on the battlenet signin? Pretty damn impressive that his videos are advertised like that.

Mid range warrior may be my new favorite thing. It’s still control oriented, but more pro active. Bomb lobbers and shredders.

The wallets are already sighing in delight.

Cryoh and I were just devising new Warrior decks and they both turned into midrange by accident.

I really like the concept, especially since I still lack like six cards for cash $$$ Warrior.