I realise that priest isnt the best deck in the game but …
They have to be the most frustrating class to play against, there is something incredibly unfair about how they can generate infinite cards from their own class , steal your minions no matter what it is and just steal cards from your deck.
Im constantly thinking things like, ill play around soul mirror , ok its been played, oh theyve randomly generated 2 more. Or I cant play this because they probably still have wave and kabal and they will just steal it so I will wait till theyve used it, ahh theyve just stolen my entire archetype from my hand and deck so now they’re playing it against me with the answer to it if I play it back at them sitting in their hand.
They definately need to be put in check somehow, maybe by buffing some cards and completely changing others so they have a more pronounced archetype. I want to say the stealing cards from your deck and hand mechanic needs to just disappear, they can keep infinite card generation but keep it in their class. I actually really enjoy the new random generation matches and with the exception of plagiarize which can be played around the other classes dont actually get cards from your deck.
Am I way off with this or do others share my opinion?
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To be precise, priests don’t steal your cards, they clone your cards. And from what I understand, various priest archetypes statistically are demonstrably not at an unreasonably high winrate. 
I can, however, appreciate the frustration you’re feeling. It can put a bad taste in your mouth to have your cards replicated and used against you! 
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The only time i bring my homebrew Mr Steal Yur Gurl deck to ladder is when ladder gets a bit too face/dps race for my tastes. So dont hate the player, hate the meta.
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Surely face dps are the reason those priests dont have a good winrate, they are the king of control your only chance is to try out tempo them
Priests don’t really have high win rates in this meta, but I agree that they are pure rng and probably the least fun to play against besides mage. The “stealing” they do is just copying, so it isn’t inherently overpowered or broken, more just annoying.
Agree completely, Resurrect Priest has barely gotten support this year (the whole archetype save Raise Dead is set to rotate) and there’s like 0-2 cards each (mostly 0) for zoo, pure healing/quest, silence, combo. Buff and clone could go somewhere. But at this rate, enjoy your 100% steal and dragon control priest Standard meta around the corner.
The way things are heading, Standard Priest will be isomorphic to Mage soon, except instead of mostly random spells and spell damage it’s mostly stolen cards and removal.
Playing Wild feels better every week though.
We copy learn the godamish word now already C O P Y we do NOT steal your cards we copy them and by the time if i may play it better than you thats just sad lad…
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That’s exactly what a thief would say!
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Perhaps the good people at blizzard lack the ability to come up with a decent shadow priest design, with some crossover with warlock.
I miss shadow priest. I actually played priest back when shadow priest was a real thing.
One thing I don’t understand is why the devs thought priest shouldn’t have card draw after adjusting priest’s burst damage. But the resources generation they have now is apparently “fine” when it’s not fine at all given the high quality of priest’s kit and those resources being random make them infinitely more infuriating to play against. Like, okay, the opponent must keep track of 3 extra copies of wave of apathy and 2 extra murozonds and whatever incredible value generator raise dead brought back during the game while the priest just giggles.
Card draw is far better to play against than this.
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They did make it clear tho they dont want shadowpriest to be a thing…
They don’t want shadow priest to be a thing but they do want theft priest to be a thing. What’s the rationale?
The rationale is that shadowpriest has an actual game plan and finishing move vie mindblast or other damage effects where is thoughtsteal priest is borderline meme any competent player picks anything else before thoughtsteal so they made sure u cant just get an enemy near death than finish them with mindblast where as most other class still can lethal from hand…
Random card gen in general has no place in competetive scene cuz its a 0 skill mechanic you either highroll every time or u dont there is no inbetween on the other hand discover gives more flex for the right answers.
but is great for those of us who only play for fun
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A priest stole my virginity, but I liked it.
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Absolutely i love it cuz i can combine cards together from other classes to make wonky stuff and that gives me a lot of enjoyment even if it’s not efficient.
i miss azalina in standard !
I recycled this quote by Selwynn from just a few weeks ago, it sums up how I feel about the class.
Playing the long attrition game whilst board clearing and stealing your opponents deck takes absolutely zero skill, there’s nothing you can do about it unless you have a one turn win condition up your sleeve like Mecha’thun, Uther or Timewarp, plays which in themselves feels like cheating, and end up demoralizing your opponent.
The 0 cost Raise Dead spell hasn’t helped much.
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