Tempo priest

Hey everyone!

I've created this tempo priest list mostly to try and find something new while also revisiting some old favorite cards and combos aaannddd it worked surprisingly well.

I've climbed with a 6-star bonus from bronze 10 to plat 10 over my first day facing mostly hunters and paladins with occasional touches of priests and mages.

I've won most of my matches, around 80%, against both hunters and paladins (unfortunately I didn't have innkeeper installed during the climb to provide sufficient proof), although none of these matchups feels one-sidedly favored. It boils down to understanding when and how you can stick a minion and safely buff it up for favorable trades, which can easily snowball into a victory in these matchups.

Against hunter, you have to keep in mind that they can play Dwarven Sharpshooter and then remove 2 health minions with the hero power. If they tempo it out turn one you should try to hold back a little and play a minion alongside a health buff minion to contest it, otherwise, you just waste a minion. Basically the same principle applies against paladins, they will usually have a 1 drop into a buff card like Hand of A'dal or Libram of Wisdom so avoid playing something into their turn two, which can't survive this. If you are the first though just go for tempo, your best play 95% of the time is just a one drop into Power Word: Feast. This just wins every trade on turn two and leaves you with a juicy boy on the board.

Against control decks just go for tempo. If possible try to drop big threats when you know they are going into a slow turn like, turn 4 for druid, when they want to play Overgrowth. By big threats, I mean High Priest Amet, Sethekk Veilweaver, Lightwarden and Archmage Vargoth.

Some card combos and tips for every matchup:

• [card]Archmage Vargoth + Raise Dead: hand refill in exchange for 4 health and a threat development at the same time.
• Injured Tol'vir revived by Psychopomp: If you see this in your hand against agro/tempo deck it might be the best course of action to hold on to some minions to not pollute the graveyard. Especially if you have the coin to play it on curve on turn 2 and 3.
• You can increase the damage of your Lightwarden by healing your opponent's face with your hero power.
• If you have multiple minions on board, try to spread your buffs so one silence or hard removal from your opponent doesn't lose you the game. If you don't have to protect a high priority minion, you should buff minions without text for the same reason. The point is to present your opponent with a decision as though as possible in terms of what to remove.
• Silence rules against paladins! Try to get more from Renew and don't waste it! Try to wait for the turn 5 Blessing of Authority.

Possible card inclusions:

• Reliquary of Souls: Great early game card that gives you a big minion for the late game. The lifesteal synergizes well with Lightwarden. I didn't include it mostly because I don't have the dust for it. Cut a Kul Tiran Chaplain or Renew to include.
• Power Word: Shield: Sounds good on paper to win early trades also nice synergy with Sethekk Veilweaver and Devout Pupil. Cut Kul Tiran Chaplain or Renew or maybe both Beaming Sidekick for 2 copies.
• Inner Fire: for possible burst damage with high health minions, which you are going to have quite a few of.
• High Abbess Alura: I don't think that this deck runes enough spells to include this when the four mana slot is crowded already.

Changes:

• Replaced Beaming Sidekick with Power Word: Shield it feels a lot better. Less junk in the graveyard and better early game synergy.

Edit:

• Reached plat 5 without any star bonuses only playing this deck.