So I have this friend who plays a big priest, but with maly, velen, and vargoth, and 2x mind blast… I’ve seen the build here and there while climbing the wild ladder, but I am really not sure how to deal with it.
With normal Big Priest, I would just attempt to out-draw them and reach mecha-c’thun (I play lock atm). But with spell-burst decks, they only have to get lucky once with their spell stone, and it’s over…
Short of making a gimmicky deck that just stuffs their gy with bad minions, I am not sure what to do.
That’s called Gallery Priest.
It can’t deal with Beast Hunter, Pirate Rogue, Even Shaman and other faster decks.
It eats Mecha’Thun because of Psychic Scream.
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Well, it isn’t the scream that gets me. It’s the sudden mind blast damage.
Basically the goal is to rez velen, vargoth and maly and then cast one mind blast at 20 damage, repeated because of vargoth, to win the game in one turn.
What type of Mecathun-lock are you playing? Combo-control, Full on combo, Reno etc
You could try teching in Tinkmaster and try and transform one of their combo pieces to make the spells tones less dangerous. You’ve also got Brann and Zola with Gnomeferatu, And demonic project If you feel like playing it risky. You’ve also got Geist to take away their 1 mana 2 damage spells as well as all the other 1 cost spells priest play like PW: Shield, and saboteur to cast a random spell from their hand and hopefully hit something vital, but I wouldn’t reccomend him as you can screw your self over so many more ways then you can help yourself win.
Warlock has plenty of ways to combat combo decks like gallery priest, so If you tech in the right stuff and learn the certain matchups that are giving you trouble, you should be set
I guess combo control.
I’ve tried tinkmaster before, but the trouble is, most games he just sits in my hand… With kingsbane rogue and odd pally on top of the meta, he doesnt see much use. The other thing is, when I do end up in a match up vs a spell-burst type of deck, I usually have more minions than the other player on the field, so it makes it really awkward to play him at all.
I could craft and try gnomeferatu, but Zola is a bit out of my dust range : /
Zola is far from necessary as long has you have Brann, but I would highly reccomend crafting her in the future if you have the dust and don’t want to craft much else.
As for Gnomeferatu, as she is currently one of the best combo disruption cards available, I would definitely craft her if you have the dust.
If you wanna join the discord and post your list so we don’t have to spam this topic, I’ll drop the link here.
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Alright. I just joined. Didn’t know there was an official HS discord…
Of course. But the screams slow you down to a crawl to get to Mecha’Thun.
I wouldn’t bet on Gnome, she’s not reliable against Gallery. Project can be more reliable but you can’t run it with Mecha’Thun, Treachery is the most reliable counter but it takes up a lot of slots in the deck.