New Priest Spell - Elekk Mount

[Hearthstone Card (Spikeridge Steed) Not Found] came back as a priest spell. Hmm honestly i'm not sure what to think about it. It seems good SOMETIMES when you get it from random generation, but it doesn't seem good enough to run in your deck... Wait the only deck i see this getting play is in N'Zoth, God of the Deep Priest decks, ONLY if the Elekk is a beast minion. (Which i'm like 99% sure it is.) 

In wild i don't see it getting any kind of play, Ress/Big priest prefers big minions with additional effects (Deathrattles, etc.) and Reno priest will never run it, because it just messes things up for them. 

Way too expensive, even with Priest's mana discounts. If these mounts are included in any deck, they need an insane effect, or be cheap.

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Way too expensive, even with Priest's mana discounts. If these mounts are included in any deck, they need an insane effect, or be cheap.

When Spikeridged Steed was revealed the ppl said the same: "too expensive", and that card is similar.

It's a good target for discover effects and maybe in a hardbuff list.

Exoensive and vulnerable to silence/transform effects. The hunter one is better with immediate effect

The problem with a Spikeridged Steed in Priest vs Paladin is that Priest doesn't have the endless supply of Silverhand Recruits. Obviously it is big pile of stats for the cost, but if the mount cards become too popular, I can see Secret Rogue rising to the top by punishing with Blackjack Stunner.

Priest can go hard into the late game and they tend to use small value oriented minions that can enjoy and extra buttload of stats. It's not a great card to add to decks, but with all the generation priests have access to, I believe we'll end up seeing a lot of this card.

This card is certainly interesting because its basically a stronger Spikeridged Steed and in a class where card discounting is relevant.

But it suffers from the fact that it requires priest to actually stick minions on board, which is an ask for a class that barely plays for tempo.

Still, this card absolutely crushes aggro decks, and without a silence will likely slow the game so much against midrange that priest simply wins from there. I take it that the Elekk is a beast as well (because why wouldn't it be) so that's one more reason to run it. For that reason this one gets high marks from me, but taken down a peg because priest is not really a class that plays for tempo.

Probably too slow but that's a lot of stats. 

I'll experiment for sure but I think that takes too much set up. Power Word: Fortitude probably keeps the high end spell slot for now.

I kinda like this one. Priest can discount spells and therefor this could come down earlier in the game. Even if Not it is pretty ok for 7 Mana.

The only thing i want to know is what stats the Elekk has that gets summoned? is it also a 4/7 ? 

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I kinda like this one. Priest can discount spells and therefor this could come down earlier in the game. Even if Not it is pretty ok for 7 Mana.

The only thing i want to know is what stats the Elekk has that gets summoned? is it also a 4/7 ? 

Yes, the Mount has (so far) always the stats of the buff. nd the effect.

This card is so much better than Spikeridged Steed and only for 1 mana more. Also with all of priest's mana cost reductions and infinite card generation, this spell will be quite difficult to deal with. Might even warrant running silence or more transform effects 

Noone'S going to actually run it, but it'S going to ruin your day anyways because "created by".

At least it should weaken Control Priests early game discover options (while still keeping the long game strong for obvious reasons)

It's an amazing buff but really slow. It rely on mana discounts in order to make very useful.

With the ways to reduce costs for minions, this could be used.  Although in a very niche deck

Great stats for the cost - with the spell focused cards of Forged in the Barrens and it's miniset it fits right in. Taunt makes it playable.

This card is definitely playable, but whether or not anyone actually plays it is a different issue. The only deck I could envision this being utilized in is a midrange deck with N'zoth, which may be a thing, but probably not. Maybe some kind of buff priest? But that also doesn't feel very realistic. 

It isn't a bad card, but I don't expect it to be played.

The Elekk this card leaves behind is a beast, so maybe N'Zoth decks would consider running this. Stats aplenty on this card, but we're not living in 2016 anymore, meaning that a 7 mana card without any synergy will not see play on ladder.

That's a huge buff. It's also pretty expensive, but big spell discounts seem to be Priest's thing nowadays.

I won't include it in my priest control decks, but I'm sure I'll be prying to discover this with Pandaren Importer in mid-late turns.

I like that it is upgraded from Spikeridge Steed. I'm not sure I like that it just pushes control priest a little more. I think if Priest has any minions on board to stick this on at turn 7 or later they will probably already be in a good position to win the game.

I like big buffs and i cannot lie. Very playable in control, not sure if good enough for contructed. Great in Arena and to discover!

5 stars because it will be discovered and makes me want to quit the game

Spikeridged steed says hello. However we are in meta with decent amount of transform effects.

2 stars because you'll discover this and sometimes use it

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Exoensive and vulnerable to silence/transform effects. The hunter one is better with immediate effect

Almost anything is vulnerable to silence tho ... so I guess there's that.
Its a slow defensive tool for a class that didn't needed to stall the game any further

Spikeridged Steed on steroids. Needs a minion heavy deck to be reliably good, but minion heavy makes me want to play Darkbishop Benedictus. Maybe it would fit in a N'zoth Priest, although those already have Venomous Scorpid for their beast slot.

Too slow, in wild, big priest has much better stats and aggro has often won by turn 7.

Will be needed in the quest deck as a good 7 drop you an play almost any time.

Huge buff and really annoying if your opponent manages to play this mount andyou have to deal with it, twice. Really fits well into the feelsbad about the Priest class.

If this is what Priest is doing, I'll be highly annoyed. Seems slow, though. 

A shame that it's so costly. But the effect is basically a better [Hearthstone Card (Spikeridge Steed) Not Found] for 1 more mana.

I think you might want to run this for various reasons

too expensive.

Very good in arena.

A nice 7 mana slot for the questline, since it also provides a good defensive tool which that deck will surely need to get to its end goal

I don't like such an expensive buff card when cards like Devolving Missiles are very playable right now. You lose so much value on it if they hit.