New Priest Common: Embalming

Wow, only 1 mana! So many shenanigans to be had!

Goes great on the 5 mana DR destroy random enemy minion.

Hell, this goes great with anything especially if you have the new legendary on board so that the minion comes back with 7 health.

I also like the idea of being able to play this after playing cloning gallery so i can pick the minion.

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Reborn doesn’t stack with itself as far as I know.

But Reborn + the Deathrattle each separately summon a copy, which is how you get two from Zerek, Recurring Villain etc.

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Can a minion have Reborn twice as how Twinspell works, or is it like Divine Shield?

I believe that it’s like Divine Shield.

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Been a bit, but I believe I saw one of their comments on Reddit that it works like DS.

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Ok, thinking about this card more I’m certain it will be in nearly every deck if not all. The value is too good.

Even if you cast this on a cheap minion or a cleric it is good enough value simply because of the stats. You could also cast this and then sacrifice the minion and then heal it.

That 1 mana is going to produce minion stats and board presence.

5/5 card imo.

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Probably x2 deathrattles. It’s the only op thing they can do to make it playable.

There is some good targets for this so maybe. Priest can do 18 from hand with this and Leroy+smite to kill it lol. This is one of the few interesting cards releaved thus far.

I wonder if Shadowy Figure will make an impact thanks to this. It’s one thing to copy a deathrattle minion, it’s another to copy a deathrattle Reborn minion.

With every new Priest card revealed I think the same thing. Unlike previous sets I actually like everything I’ve seen so far. Embalming is my least favorite of the reveals, but it’s not bad and I can see it being playable. Compared to stuff like cloning device, power word: replicate, unsleeping soul or surrender to madness this is a refreshing change. But Priest needs a win condition to be viable. In Rise of Shadows Priest’s story was “die in the early to mid game because you can’t hold a board”. So far it’s story in Seekers is shaping up to be “survive early game with tempo deathrattles and then die in the late game because you don’t have a finisher”.

Everything feels like its riding on the quest, and I’m skeptical about quests in general because of their mechanics. At least running a zoo archetype ensures early game consistency, but if the quest doesn’t provide some kind of zoo finisher it’s just going to run out of gas when the board clears start happening. Without shadow visions divine fire is naturally inconsistent, and none of the neutral options so far (Mechathun, Nomi, Obelisk, High keeper Ra) are particularly appealing. So what’s zoo priest supposed to be trying to achieve? How does it close out a game? The High Priest Amet double divine spirit topsy boar combo is cute, but it’s also 9 or 10 mana and 5 cards, and it gets blocked by a single taunt so it becomes 6 or 7 cards if you need to add silences to get through a wall or two. Any more than 2 walls and it gets blocked outright. That’s not consistent enough to call it competitive without some serious jankiness.

This new card is pretty busted as far as I’m concerned.

I already know of a possible turn 3 otk with it.

Care to elaborate?

Only for my closest two friends online at the moment. It’s for wild. I’m sure others can figure it out though. Don’t want to give away my secret just quite yet.

I’m currently working on another crazy use for it.

Lol you can complete old priest quest on turn 2 with coin with this.

Not sure if that really matters though… you just need to get it done by turn 5 or so and you’d be fine against aggro.

Hakkar Priest is one step closer to being resurrected from the grave. May Big Priest die and from it’s ashes Hakkar rise!

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too dramatic?

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It’s never too dramatic sir! My Hakkar Wild Priest will go on!

Incoming cloning gallery and embalming onto my hakkar! mwahahaha

(and if the new quest priest gets is awesome…you could run both and complete the old one fast) a man can dream, can’t he?

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And I’m talking about standard.

In standard it is still an amazing card. It’s probably one of the best revealed priest cards so far. There is a lot you can do with it.

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