Any Combos in mind already? 
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Priests are getting some scary stuff. I sure hope that Blizzard makes it so cards can’t be reduced to 0 cost, because all these discount Priest cards could result in some game-breaking shenanigans.
I could see something like
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becoming strong with reduced costs
Compare that with new Warrior legendary, E.T.C…
Like, why is the Warrior one such a joke? 2 face damage? Not even behaving like a Pirate Canon?
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The only thing holding back priest is the lack of card draw which is probably why they thought this was OK.
Just be glad they don’t have Mind Blast anymore.
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What spells do they have in the standard set right now that people are scared of being discounted with palm reading again? Plus there’s no spell synergy cards like grave horror available to make you want to play it.
Maybe I’m missing something but this strikes me as a powerful card in a vacuum but not all that useful for priest in standard right now. It might be run because priest isn’t exactly proactive in the early turns anyway so they’ll have time to play it. Scary card in wild though.
As for the other two cards, they’re far from broken. One takes a full gala build which isn’t even viable right now and the other is trash that won’t see play.
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Indeed, Raza Priest can now otk faster. People will love it in wild:D
opena an old dusty chest, rummanage and takes out a glowing amber piece of jewelry
This is it, free dragon soul from KnC…our time had come, lets get the light elementals from ungorro and make some miracles happen
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Priest has Luminance that copies a minion and gives it divine shield. It costs 3 mana normally.
Also that 2 mana aoe + lifesteal spell (Ripple) that hits the enemy’s face as well.
And Malygos they can run in the deck and randomly generate too.
People managed to make the combo work even when Scholomance was first released.
But rather than meme otk, what’s “scary” (read: infuriating) is priest discounting their ultra powerful board clears that can steal the opponent’s tempo on the spot.
Other than plague of death and soul mirror, their board clears are already cheap. Most priests have stopped bothering with nova and breath because pyro does a better job.
Getting a one mana discount on Soul or plague doesn’t seem overly exciting to me frankly.
The other spells you mentioned are already cheap and aren’t run now because they aren’t any good. I haven’t seen anything that makes me think that’s going to change.
Finally, I couldn’t imagine a more useless class to run maly in than standard priest. Somehow I doubt we’re going to see a maly, double discounted holy ripple meta coming any time soon.
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You can get some big discounts on maly including Draconic Studies. The question is if they can get there with any consistency. I remember MarkMcKz made a Maly + Holy Ripple OKT meme deck. May be there will be enough pieces now?
Mirror and Plague are the ones I’m talking about obviously.
The fact that those can be randomly generated multiple times, including the legendary Mirror, is already obnoxious. And discounting them to cheat them out earlier is even more obnoxious.
That random plague on 8 when you have lethal set up would feel like an absolute rip-off. Mirror on 6 would feel godawful.
Basically priest just doesn’t want you to play the game and use minions. Very nice.
Soul mirror is a great card. Plague just isn’t right now since priest can’t follow up with anything to win back tempo. Even at 7 mana that’s not changing much. It’s not even run in priest decks now even is highlander which has the room to run it.
It might be more popular if stuff like deathrattle hunter becomes a thing but a one or two mana discount on it isn’t going to break the card.
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something tells me ther will be still a way with reduced minions and deathr
Uh huh. A great legendary spell that priest can spam and randomly generate multiple times because why not, not letting the decks that aim to play minions play the game as intended. Rogue, Priest and Mage are the same deck. Very “fun”. Priest is already obnoxious and they gave it more lol random let me tilt you generation with mana cheating on top of it. Spectacular.
We get it. You don’t like playing against priest. That doesn’t change the fact that this spell isn’t anywhere near the problem in standard right now that many people are suggesting on this forum. Frankly I’m amazed anyone is whining about priests given what I’ve seen released for demon hunter this expansion. Unless I’m badly mistaken, it’s going to dominate out of the gate again.
Also I don’t even disagree with you that what they’ve done to priest and mage isn’t fun for either the player or the opponent. Random card generation is way over the top in this game. It feels like crap when your opponent finds the perfect card and it feels like crap when you find useless junk. Sadly they ran out of good ideas for this class right around the time dragon priest rotated out of standard so don’t expect anything different. Nothing I’ve seen released for priest this expansion got me excited. Same as always… ranges from unplayable garbage to situationally powerful.