New Priest Spell - Plague of Death

Extremely unfun, very bad idea to implement something like this

At least it isn't 7 mana!

This is obviously a pretty great card. Priest just needs to figure wtf it's doing at 10 mana. Also, at turns 1 through 9 mana.

It's Twisting Nether but with a silence effect. Which makes it better because Deathrattle and Reborn effects won't activate then. 9 mana is steep but it guarentees the board will be completely cleared. 

Another card for my Board-Clear priest deck in wild.

great board clear, thats what priest needed!!!! 9 mana is still a lot so dont know if priest survives until then(needs more tools for that)

Nice, another AOE for 30 card AOE deck...how about a solid AOE in classic and not one every expansion?

This seems disgusting. Fair enough though, for 9 mana it has to be. 

Well, it could be useful, if priest manages to survive until turn 9. In standard, since the class lacks good AoEs (with the only exception of Mass Hysteria), this would be warmly welcome. In wild however priests are better off casting cheaper spells like Lightbomb or Psychic Scream (which can also shuffle worthless trash in the opponent's deck and ruin their next draws). Plague of Death doesn't let you do much on the same turn, so I think this shouldn't be ignored. Not to mention, deathrattle is part of priest's identity and you can hinder your own gameplan. It is balanced and fair imho, so I want to appreciate this aspect.

So if priests can live long enough in standard this is obviously a great control tool.  Will help bundles with Conjuring Mages and an army of magnitized mechs.  Also really screws over the rez pool for paladins with Endless Army.  Been wanting a silence/destroy effect on a card for a while.  An entire board clear is even better.

And this is the Year of the Dragon's board control spell for Priest. Every rotation Team 5 need to print one because the only tool in the Basic set is Holy Nova (that is crap) and Priest always need a tool like that.

The card seems pretty fair for its cost, that puts it as a late game control tool against big board with deathrattle and the new reborn keyword. For Standard it will probably see some play (if Priest will see some play, at last) but on Wild I agree with Kovachut: there are far better tool with a cheaper mana cost.

Best board clear in game. Wonder why they printed something like this. Seems kind of unfair to me a 100% full board clear at 9 mana is powerfull for control orientated priests. Now just nerf barnes already in Wild though!

Unless Priest gets good enough endgame finishers, this is probably just another annoying removal that delays the game.  Fatigue decks typically have been the weaker brand of Control....we'll  have to wait and see what else is coming. 

The only thing this card has over Psychic Scream is that it doesn't make you lose in fatigue. This card is pretty damn good. That just shows how absolutely broken Psychic Scream is.

I doubt this card will be a big issue in standard given that Mass Hysteria is still around but I'm a little worried that priest will reach a critical mass of premium removal in wild and fatigue priest will become a thing.

I like control and I like priest, but playing board clears for 15 turns straight sounds unappealing from either side of the table.

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Unless Priest gets good enough endgame finishers, this is probably just another annoying removal that delays the game.  Fatigue decks typically have been the weaker brand of Control....we'll  have to wait and see what else is coming. 

This. Priest getting a decent board clear is cool, but it still doesn't have any sort of finisher or edge over other slow decks.

Was only a matter of time til something like this happpened.

Priest still doesn't have a gameplan and a lategame boardwipe doesn't really support any of the current playstyles, but I guess it's something to work with

Beware N'Zoth Decks xD

Love it!!

Just solid removal, if control Priest makes an impact in the meta, this could have a part in it.

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Nice, another AOE for 30 card AOE deck...how about a solid AOE in classic and not one every expansion?

Exactly this. That's what I've been thinking for a long time.
As long as Blizzard keeps working like this, they need to keep bringing AOE's for priest. Otherwise Priest is nothing. Just look at their current state.

I kinda like it - sure it is slow but i guess Priest can survive until turn 9 - decent card!

Those poor beasts on the art though, BibleThump

OH YESSSSSSSSS! MAKE PRIEST GREAT AGAIN

Why is the card art showing quick sand? Either this should be renamed to sinkhole of death or quicksand of death OR the art should show something more plague-y.

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So Priest just got a better Twisting Nether. Nice. The silence is huge.

It's an excellent card that's fairly priced.  Now the question is whether Priest can actually survive long enough to use it.

Black Hole in Yu-Gi-Oh was banned fairly early on in the game's life and this card is better than that. That should say something. This is just the priest version of warlocks getting Godfrey on top of having Defile already (IE Priests did not need yet another expensive F-You full board hard removal option).

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Beware N'Zoth Decks xD

This is why I run both Shadowstep & Togwaggle's Scheme in my wild N'Thun Reno Rogue list. If you don't go as greedy as you can with control rogue you will almost always lose those attrition control matches against priest & warlock

Mage:

• Strengths: Spells (big and small), damage spells, Secrets, board clear
• Limitations: Minion swarms
• Weaknesses: Healing, Taunt, minion buffs

Priest: 

• Strengths: Healing, narrow but powerful spells, copying, single-minion buffs, Deathrattle
• Limitations: Card draw
• Weaknesses: Face damage spells, multi-minion buffs

So according to Blizzard's logic, this card should've been a Mage card.

But for some weird reason Priest and Warlock are not only getting better board clears, but also more board clears.
The name of the card would suggest it's a Warlock card (Plague of Death).
Priests are anti dead and the art doesn't fit the card name as well -I don't see a plague (a disease).

All in all, this shouldn't be a Priest card but a card used AGAINST Priest, Priest already has the most and best board clears at the moment and for that I give it a 1/5.

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Mage:

• Strengths: Spells (big and small), damage spells, Secrets, board clear
• Limitations: Minion swarms
• Weaknesses: Healing, Taunt, minion buffs

 

Priest: 

• Strengths: Healing, narrow but powerful spells, copying, single-minion buffs, Deathrattle
• Limitations: Card draw
• Weaknesses: Face damage spells, multi-minion buffs

 

So according to Blizzard's logic, this card should've been a Mage card.

But for some weird reason Priest and Warlock are not only getting better board clears, but also more board clears.
The name of the card would suggest it's a Warlock card (Plague of Death).
Priests are anti dead and the art doesn't fit the card name as well -I don't see a plague (a disease).

All in all, this shouldn't be a Priest card but a card used AGAINST Priest, Priest already has the most and best board clears at the moment and for that I give it a 1/5.

You're trying to reason with Blizzard and their failure of either strictly sticking to class identity, or abandoning it altogether. Blizzard doesn't understand logic in this case

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Nice, another AOE for 30 card AOE deck...how about a solid AOE in classic and not one every expansion?

Pretty much this.

They should get Holy Nova buffed once and for all and call it a day with all this BS.

Either Priest is supposed to have consistent board clears, or it is not.

Adding nukes each other expansion does not feel good for Wild purposes, and makes no sense for Standard either.

I give them that this is (9), and typically you need efficient AoE much earlier than that, but still...