https ://hsreplay.net/replay/DBvXg7DxqiSn9LybgK5qeh
Yeah, just take a look at this.
The deck is way too slow. Priest is way too slow.
45 damage is nothing against control warrior.
It’s not. You’re just bad. And it’s 90 damage with the hero. Git gud kid. Stop moaning about everything
It’s a meme deck. If it was any good, it would be a feels bad deck and it would get nerfed.
Let’s hope it stays terrible.
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I dont think it is actually. It’s decent
And all stats points to that it’s bad. You can think it’s decent all you want but you’re still wrong.
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Win % stats show it as meme tier.
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135 with Zola and Xyrella.
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You are reading the stats wrong. The deck has a low win rate not because it’s bad, but because it is very very complicated and hard to play. Therefore most people playing this deck get destroyed every time because they can’t play the deck right. In fact even the best players need more than 100 games to get comfortable with the deck, and even 100 games is still considered a “learning phase”.
If you take a look at the game linked up here, you will realize the player does not know what he is doing with the deck :
1st he toss the amulet in the mulligan, big mistake
2nd he plays illuminate early big mistake
Not gonna go through all the turns but you already can tell the basics of the deck are not mastered here. And he gets to the combo on 12 / 13 which is veeeeeeeeery slow, you want to get the combo between 7 and 10.
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Does the deck winrate gets better the higher in the ranks it goes?
Despite being a difficult deck to play, at top legend the deck still has a sub-50% winrate. I would imagine these players would be skilled enough to play the deck correctly. Right?
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i honestly dont understand how the stats are so bad. for me the deck performs quite well and most losses are because of quite obvious misplays, that i notice immediately. in my experience it might not be as consistentently good as most t1 decks but still far better than most people make it out to be.
You need either the Hero card or the Naga that gives you a golden copy to win against Paldin and Warrior
Cool comment.
Could you indicate a boar priest Guide for someone wanting to learn?
Eric Cartman says it’s good.
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Absolutely not. Like i said it takes a few hundred games to master the game, and i just think even at high legend most players didn’t play that many games with the deck. I saw nohandsgamer and meati playing this deck and they both explicitely said they were bad at the deck and just trying it out and trying to get better at it.
It’s just one of those decks where only a handful of players can play it right.
Even without the damage, how can you possibly not win a game where you have 10 mana and your opponent 1 for 3 turns? 
Can’t you use that rationale in defense of any deck’s low winrate?
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Well, no, you can’t. When you are talking about a deck easy to play, obviously you can’t argue that the low win rate is actually coming from the difficulty.
The general consensus is that win rate statistics are to be taken with a big grain of salt, especially for complicated decks. So when it comes to decks with a very high difficulty, you can’t rely on the statistics to decide wether or not the deck is good.
I’m a little skeptical. Take Anacrondra Druid for instance. This deck is considered to have a high skill ceiling. The deck performs better and better the higher you look on ladder. Anacrondra Druid performs best, then, unsurprisingly, at top legend where it’s about midway tier 2. I would think Boar Priest fits the same bill, but it doesn’t really show up much at top legend. Looking at the top legend meta in the past 3 days, Boar Priest is low tier 4. Wouldn’t we expect it to be doing better there, like other high skill decks?
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A bad deck with a high skill cap is still a bad deck.
From the 4/30/22 VS Podcast, about Boar Priest:
The deck does have a high skill ceiling, but it goes from a 35% winrate to a 45% winrate, which isn’t great.
VS is still saying that Boar Priest might improve at high ranks to become actually competitive when played well, but so far it doesn’t look like that is the case, since according to the most recent podcast, its performance is actually getting worse, not better:
While ZachO is keeping a close eye on the daily winrate of Boar Priest, its winrate is actually regressing right now and not getting better over time. Deck only makes sense right now at Top Legend, where it still has a bad winrate, and its performance at the Masters Tour was still subpar. Any talk that Boar Priest is the best deck in the format is irrelevant when it has a literal 5/95 matchup into Alignment Druid. If the deck ever gets popular, it will be super targeted with Alignment Druid.
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