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New Priest Minion - Soulburner Varia
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A new Legendary Priest Minion, Soulburner Varia, has been revealed!
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A new Legendary Priest Minion, Soulburner Varia, has been revealed!
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Its just an okay card. Not something I expect to bring shadow priest back into the meta, nor do I think its sufficiently interesting for people to even want to play shadow priest.
You'll very nearly never get a situation where you have a ton of undead on board and your opponent casually decides to do nothing to them, allowing you to get value. There's also no chance they dont just kill this thing first before your board. At very best you get value out of 2 minions. I cant see this being better than High Cultist Basaleph even at 5 mana.
Honestly I think Undead Priest is still meta even without this new addition. VS rates it at tier 2 and I've piloted it to Diamond 6 on a 6-star bonus this month.
That said, rating the new card is pretty hard. I can see your argument, but on the other hand you usually want to hold the upper hand on the board for the first 2-4 turns, so there is potential here imo. The most important use case would probably be the necessity of trading your stuff into taunts, that actually becomes an advantage with Varia in play. Too bad she probably won't trigger on her own death because of the "after" wording.
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Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres, hpmor.com
Very good card.
Shadow priests can easely run this to generate value or burn. Also they can Undying Allies before playing this, just to make it even stickier.
Also with this card, Control priests can easely return to the undead package for even more value and generation.
RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.
Of the few shadow priest Ive seen I havent lost to any of them, even when Ive clearly mulligan for control priest. I really feel that priest really suffers from losing Voidtouched Attendant and the nerf to basaleph.
But the worst problem with shadow priest is that its passe. No one is interested because the deck is weaker than it once was and uninteresting. Had team5 made this card 1 or 2 mana it might at least be exciting, but at 3 Im afraid its way too slow to gain value or burn.