Priest is your most healer and control based class in Hearthstone. Their decks have been hit or miss over the years, but every once in a while they rise to the top! We take a look at the best Priest decks you can play with in the Academy of Scholomance expansion. The class has new things to play with, so there will be new options to integrate into the Standard or Wild ladder.
The Priest class is one that has had quite a few ups and downs over the course of Hearthstone. Unfortunately, it's generally leaned further into the bottom category, with many metas with the class struggling to find a foothold. However, there were some power moments for Priest, especially around the Highlander Priest combo decks which eventually got hit with nerfs. Dragon Priest has also been a popular archetype that has been in and out of the meta depending on the expansions that were part of Standard. Big Priest was another archetype that found success and caused a lot of controversy. He continued to wreak havoc on poor Wild players who could be beaten in round four by a Barnes in the curve! This deck has since been nerfed, bringing relief to fans of the eternal format.
Best priest decks for Scholomance Standard
The best decks for Priest in the meta right now are Galakrond Priest and Resurrect Priest! This is before the Scholomance meta, so there will be changes in the coming weeks. Priest has some pretty cool cards in the set, so we'll take a look at how the decks work.
The new decks below are theory for the new expansion for now, but once it's released we'll update the list with tested decks for you to try!
Theorycraft: Thief Priest
It's a pretty fun deck that will let you use a lot of your opponent's deck against them! Mindrender Illuscia being one of those crazy cards that Priest got, you'll be trading hands and decks with your opponent until the end of your opponent's turn. This will probably give them a pretty bad turn if you play it early, or you might use some of their important cards on your turn, messing up their game plan! Brittlebone Destroyer is another card quite interesting, if your health changes the turn you summon it, you can destroy a minion of your choice. It's a very good suppression with a body behind that is still quite powerful.
Director Kel'Thuzad finds a place in the deck to use a card like Shadow Word: Death to not only remove a minion, but also put it on your side to punish your opponent! Initiation is used in the same sense, you can potentially remove a minion and summon a new copy on your side.
Credit to RegisKillbin for the list featured below.
| Paladin | Neutral |
|---|---|
| 2x - Sungill imprisoned | 2x – Oracle Grimscale |
| 1x – Make mummies | 2x – Murloc Tidecaller |
| 1x - Murgur Murgle | 2x-Murmy |
| 1x – Sir Finley of the Sands | 2x – Bluegill Warrior |
| 2x - Underlight fishing rod | 2x – Fishflinger |
| 1x – High Abbess Alura | 2x – Licensed Adventurer |
| 2x – Tip the Scales | 2x – Coldlight indicator |
| 2x – Murloc Warchief | |
| 2x – Felfin Navigator | |
| 2x – Fish Flyer |
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Before expansion: Galakrond Priest
Galakrond Priest is a fairly standard deck built by Galakrond that uses a lot of Invoke cards and puts them into one deck. It reminds me of the Dragon Priest of old, where you would throw in all the dragon and dragon synergy cards and come out with a really good deck.
| Priest | Neutral |
|---|---|
| 2x – Disciple of Galakrond | 2x – Shield of Galakrond |
| 2x – Renew | 1x – Kronx Dragonhoof |
| 2x – Penance | |
| 2x - Pee-voile seat fence | |
| 2x – Shadow Word: Death | |
| 2x – Thought Steal | |
| 2x – Apotheosis | |
| 2x – Breath of Infinity | |
| 1x – Madame Lazul | |
| 1x – Mindflayer Kaahrj | |
| 2x – Shadow Madness | |
| 2x – Weaver of Fate | |
| 2x – Temporal Rip | |
| 1x – Galakrond, the Unspeakable | |
| 1x – Soul Mirror | |
| 1x – Murozond the Infinite |
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Before Expansion: Resurrect Priest
| Priest | Neutral |
|---|---|
| 2x – Renew | 1x – Archimage Vargoth |
| 2x – Penance | 2x – Bad Luck Albatross |
| 2x – Breath of Infinity | 2x – Bone Spectrum |
| 2x - Rune grave | 2x – Defender of Khartut |
| 2x - Sacred New | |
| 2x – Psychopomp | |
| 2x – Convincing Infiltrator | |
| 1x – Galakrond, the Unspeakable | |
| 2x – Skeletal Dragon | |
| 1x – Soul Mirror | |
| 1x – Catrina Death | |
| 2x – Mass Resurrection | |
| 2x - Death Plague |
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Best Priest Decks for Scholomance Wild
Wild can be a bit tricky to predict, so here's a look at some decks that have done well on the Wild ladder. You'll find that Wild's meta doesn't fluctuate as much as Standard does when a new expansion is released. This usually only happens if a particular Standard deck is very dominant. Normally, you'll notice that only the most powerful cards in the set find their way into decks.
Avant l'expansion: Wild Highlander Priest
Highlander Priest has been one of the strongest decks in Standard for quite some time. This version of the roster that is played in wild stacks in a group of strong dragons that Priest has had over the years, then adds lots of other strong Priest cards to create a pretty solid control-based deck.
| Priest | Neutral |
|---|---|
| 1x – Forbidden words | 1x – Bloodmage Thalnos |
| 1x – Scale Cleric | 1x – Rat sale |
| 1x – Northshire Cleric | 1x – Novice Engineer |
| 1x – Madness Potion | 1x – Zephrys the Great |
| 1x – Twilight Whelp | 1x – Gluttonous Ooze |
| 1x – Penance | 1x - Kazakus |
| 1x – Shadow Visions | 1x – Drake azur |
| 1x – Shadow Word: Death | 1x – Grand dragonnet |
| 1x – Spirit Lash | 1x – Reno Jackson |
| 1x – Breath of Infinity | 1x - ghost rôdeur |
| 1x – Duskbreaker | 1x – Reine-dragon Alexstrasza |
| 1x – Mass Dispel | |
| 1x – Spawn of Shadows | |
| 1x-Agent drakonide | |
| 1x – Mass Hysteria | |
| 1x – Raza the Chained | |
| 1x – Dragonfire Potion | |
| 1x – Psychic Cry | |
| 1x - Dark Anduin |
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