Hearthstone: Anti Aggro (Priest Constructed)

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9 жыл бұрын

Trump tinkered a deck together to counter Mech Mage while also having a decent shot at Druid which were the most prevalent ranked decks on the last day of the season.
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@L3SSTH4NL33T 9 жыл бұрын

that anti-aggro pep talk was pretty epic

@santisinferno 9 жыл бұрын

21:44 he doesn't attack whit the 4/6 :o

@SoolDeen 9 жыл бұрын

Playing around Molten Giants Kappa

@Laban6112 9 жыл бұрын

Sool Deen But later he said it was a mistake =/

@santisinferno 9 жыл бұрын

Sool Deen Laban6112 Oh, sorry, my english is really limited, I didn't understand what he said.

@SoolDeen 9 жыл бұрын

It's ok

@Milenos 9 жыл бұрын

Playing against molten giant is a thing against Warlock, not Rogue these day.

@Hailfire131 9 жыл бұрын

It seems like everybody has Dr. Boom, but me.

@Evengusy 9 жыл бұрын

Same with me, never get any good legendaries.

@israellatham 9 жыл бұрын

Evusy got one her name is Gazlow best legendary in the game...

@AColdPotato 9 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you pretty much have to save up dust or be extremely lucky. They say it is a 1% chance to get a legendary in a pack, and that % goes way down if you want a specific one.

@havocgr1976 9 жыл бұрын

I dont have it too relax, got 4 legen and all 4 are crap ones ;p

@thegamingmind1245 9 жыл бұрын

Evusy I got Velen, Captain Greenskin and King Mukla. In about 4-5 months of active ladder climbing. Granted Greenskin is really cool in a Pirate rogue deck, of which I only miss the 2 epics.

@masterplusmargarita 9 жыл бұрын

I swear the first 2 minutes of this video are the longest Trump's been that energetically excited about anything since I've been watching him.

@AstonAndrew 9 жыл бұрын

trump's evil laugh at 15:57

@TheDinkleberger 9 жыл бұрын

"How dare you draw that card that I drew from your deck" Such poetry... 21:08

@Galbix 9 жыл бұрын

15:01, what a play :D i almost always forget the possibilty of vol'jin being able to target friendly minions. good note to keep in mind when playing priest.

@murgurbo123 9 жыл бұрын

With all those imps spawning at 15:55 I was just on my ass laughing xD

@aBodizeR 9 жыл бұрын

Awesome video man keep it up!

@H4mmerfall 9 жыл бұрын

I read the title and was like "aggro priest omg! trump's finally going to try and make an actually new deck!" but then it was like "ah.. nvm"

@TheCookiezPlz 9 жыл бұрын

25:40 Shadow sadness

@Laban6112 9 жыл бұрын

"Shadow word: madness" :D

@henryfrazer7373 9 жыл бұрын

Priest is my favorite class! So happy trump played it!

@Hideyoshi219 9 жыл бұрын

That game against zoo was so good. Mad me smile.

@NikiliteGamer 9 жыл бұрын

AHH It actually happened! Using Vol'Jin on your own minion was the RIGHT PLAY FOR ONCE

@PerkSystem 9 жыл бұрын

"I feel like stylin'" Trump is an undercover gangster.

@iridian 9 жыл бұрын

That second game was highly amusing :)

@RecallFPS 9 жыл бұрын

great vid :)

@galenstone9097 9 жыл бұрын

The sexiest, sweetest Asian American I have ever seen on YT and a damn fine HS player to boot..

@ryanash778 9 жыл бұрын

That Violett Teacher looked amazing in his deck - maybe he should have included one or two of those.

@ryanash778 9 жыл бұрын

***** I know i is difficult to cut anything from a priest deck. It's just because the card worked soawesome in that one match where hw stole it. Maybe if people manage to play around shadowmadness and cabal shadow priest better, than they do now, one of those can be cut in the future.

@bawzzzz 9 жыл бұрын

Is it just me or is the 2nd game "discards all cards" shocking ? That looked like a really strong openning hand.

@nonstantine 9 жыл бұрын

this deck is the new meta. Sjow climbed to like level 7 in a day with something similar the beginning of this season.

@StefandeJong1 9 жыл бұрын

Well... 27 out of the 30 cards are in 99,9% of all other priest decks... So I wouldn't really call it something "You came up with" the only additions are Shadow Madness and Holy smite. Does this directly qualify as 'anti-aggro'? This is the exactly the thing that I don't like about hearthstone. To do even somewhat well, 3/4 of your deck will always be from net-decks, leaving nothing up to the imagination (ever after GvG launch). This is my opinion, I don't really care if people don't agree...

@tehking111 9 жыл бұрын

Top net decks dont really play priest and i dont think light of naaru, smite, two thought steals and shadow madness and then circle is like an eeeeh maybe too.

@TheHackedGamer 9 жыл бұрын

Your opinion is wrong.

@MrDaleox 9 жыл бұрын

You're half right. He most probably didn't get this decklist from the web, but It's basically the old priest deck with naaru and voljin. What he 'came up with' was the idea of putting this deck back into practice due to the current meta. That's not something a net deck does for you, they're usually a day or 2 late so that the creator can get to legend first ;)

@KillerandUndertaker 9 жыл бұрын

Sounds like card games to me :p

@StoutKen 9 жыл бұрын

27/30 of the other cards are run in average on other decks, but not always together. This reminds me of the anti-agro priest deck he ran over the summer vs hunter and zoo a lot though

@oOoGranDoOo 9 жыл бұрын

I Actually love playing priest but i always miss some cards to fulfill at 100% my deck. I am missing sylvannas voljin and BGH, any tips on cards that can fill up and do as great as those? I could fill it myself but i'd like some outer opinion. Cheers

@HeavenlyDemonicKid 9 жыл бұрын

If you feel that you encounter a lot of large minions that could be killed by BGH, then I suggest Shadow Word: Death as a replacement. As for Sylvannas and Vol'Jin, I would probably put in Ysera and Ragnaros.

@SameTieStudios 9 жыл бұрын

Mini Goat I agree with Mini Goat, SWD is a good substitute for BGH and Ysera and Ragnaros are solid legendaries all round. For something a bit closer to the cost of Sylvannas and Vol'Jin, you might consider Cairn Bloodhoof. Also a damn solid card.

@MrDaleox 9 жыл бұрын

Thinking non-legenday though, probably the new 6-drop mechs that spawn a 4-drop on death or even an MC tech.

@XDJani0 9 жыл бұрын

Use sw:d instead bgh, loatheb instead vol'jin and you can use a mindcontrol instead of sylvanas or pretty much any high-eng legendary you have. You could also add more late-game options instead of 1 sw:d/bgh, 1 naaru and 1shadowpriest. It also works perfectly. I play boom, ysera and a mindcontrol over 6 mana.

@XDJani0 9 жыл бұрын

***** Ofc it's rare. No aggro runs her. :P

@ImTheSlyDevil 9 жыл бұрын

wow that druid game in the end.

@TheBattleDemon 9 жыл бұрын

"My answer against handlock is a really low win rate" -Trump, 2015

@thepianoist 9 жыл бұрын

I don't understand why every druid runs Shade of Naxxramus. It's like, ONLY druids, but every single one! Why? There's no synergy in their deck for it that other decks don't have.

@philo- 9 жыл бұрын

Doesn't need synergy. Three mana 5/5-8/8 is good on it's own, which it is in a druid.

@thepianoist 9 жыл бұрын

Okay but why druid? Can anyone give me a real reason for it to be in every druid deck ever?

@philo- 9 жыл бұрын

Stephen Anderson it fits well in the druid deck, especially ramp in some cases. Druid can afford to put down a shade on turn two or three more han other classes can by dropping druids and swipes. They don't really care. You can't do that in mech mage, you need turn three to drop minions that will attack. Things like that.

@joergio6 9 жыл бұрын

Stephen Anderson its a pretty slow card for most decks, but in druid is awsome because you can afford to drop it since you have things like innnervate and wild growth, plus its a big burst of dmg if it just sits there and you use it on top of fon+sr

@TheAlmightyVox 9 жыл бұрын

No synergy? Innervate? Savage Roar?

@TerryBowl 9 жыл бұрын

Love this deck

@redmancalvin 9 жыл бұрын

The amount of stealing that went on in this series,maybe Rogues can learn a thing or two from this Priest.

@SpitefulAZ 9 жыл бұрын

mid range warlock player had an awesome screen name; shout outs to GOT reference!

@xIronwafflexx 9 жыл бұрын

That holy nova top deck!

@HOV2131 9 жыл бұрын

Priest is by far my least played class so this seems rational. I had never considered the synergy of Light of the Naaru with Auchenai Soulpriest. It's a better holy smite that summons a minion so long as the spell doesn't outright kill the target. Very cool.

@DudeBronkster 9 жыл бұрын

It summons a Lightwarden even if the target gets killed. I guess that's because technically everything below full health counts as damaged.

@massivepileup 9 жыл бұрын

Of all the decks this one might have the nastiest use for Chow with those aurchenais.

@Nickiller15 9 жыл бұрын

What a play!!!!!!

@SchubertAloysius 9 жыл бұрын

The damned stand ready.

@user-mc3hl5pf9t 9 жыл бұрын

15:09 what a crazy laugh

@retardno002 9 жыл бұрын

Watching this I realised that I've never heard a Sludge Belcher attack before.

@dandalf6256 9 жыл бұрын

KZfaq subtitles are hilarious! Turned them on by accident and had to leave them on!

@dandalf6256 9 жыл бұрын

Vol'Jin is "unplayable Jim" Lol.

@hollolito 9 жыл бұрын

Is adding a "Gazlowe" to this deck be a good idea ? maybe replacing one cabal shadow priest ?

@defrte 9 жыл бұрын

15:10 Trump reacts :)!

@M0mentum11 9 жыл бұрын

That second game was ridiculous. The RNG loved trump.

@user-ic3yp9yc4q 9 жыл бұрын

No.RNG just don't like zoo.

@M0mentum11 9 жыл бұрын

I was mainly saying that his draws were fantastic for the situations he was in, I mainly play magic and I call that topdecking but I think in HS it is called RNG.

@sunnyyang3259 9 жыл бұрын

Is the second game Trump's first ever BM? :o

@kockashernyo 9 жыл бұрын

Had literally the same deck in my mind for the past day, but I also fit lightbomb in :)

@vpacheco04 9 жыл бұрын

matthew connolly -1 smite maybe?

@XDJani0 9 жыл бұрын

vicces, hogy már priestként is bgh-el kell játszani a sok dr. boom miatt

@kockashernyo 9 жыл бұрын

Yeah -1 smite :)

@jespervines2853 9 жыл бұрын

I think you should run dr boom, since its such a good card. Maybe indtead of 1 smite?

@byAquov 9 жыл бұрын

anything you can replace voljin with in this deck?

@TehRealAceaway12 9 жыл бұрын

Light of the Naaru - Sandstorm

@Domasiukas 9 жыл бұрын

Can I replace the bottom 3 cards with Boom, Alex and Holy Fire ? :D

@Dranzel 9 жыл бұрын

Damn mech mage has driven trump to insanity.

@TheUniversalSC 9 жыл бұрын

hey people of youtube, i have all these cards except Vol'jin. any ideas as to what card would be a good replacement?

@PhiIipz 9 жыл бұрын

-2 light of the naru + 1 holy nova + 1 shrinkmeister and you have the priest deck i have been running since gvg came out

@eihnxanderstorm 9 жыл бұрын

priest needs a presence in meta. All classes should be present but good luck playing shaman consistently without a hard fix to their hero power.

@mitraTentus 9 жыл бұрын

How can I replace the both legendaries and the second cabale?

@holyflygon 9 жыл бұрын

with this amazing deck to counter druid and the current meta handlock will have a comeback which is great for me b/c i love handlock

@dxdiego0 9 жыл бұрын

I remember when trump say Oh a priest free win. XD

@sinephase 9 жыл бұрын

So much possible tech possibly - Trump, 2015

@bnzxbcadsk 9 жыл бұрын

Hey Trump, how about running Ysera? Is she forgotten due to the new meta established by GvG?

@Mejoree113 9 жыл бұрын

9 mana is way too slow for a deck like this which is primarily focused against anti-aggro, trump already talked about the curved topping at 6 mana. Ysera works in a slower control priest that has limited ways to end the game, but would also run rag, dr boom etc.

@felix.bengtsson 9 жыл бұрын

0:48 to skipperino trumperino kapparino

@byAquov 9 жыл бұрын

Please play this deck more often

@psansu2 9 жыл бұрын

15:59 (draw holy nova) (evil laugh)

@manssjoblom4524 9 жыл бұрын

Skipperino trumperino 3.04

@TheMrBandiman 9 жыл бұрын

21:45 Playing around Molten Giant, are we?

@LolaliciousSmiley 9 жыл бұрын

Those evil laughs. HAaHahHAhhahahah

@RkeyNirun 9 жыл бұрын

Why did you both toss and not play northshire cleric 11:20? It's one of the best turn one plays in my opinion.

@JavierBacon 9 жыл бұрын

it is not a turn one play. Occasional exception when you have power word shield, or when you know you're facing something stupid like a mill deck. Generally, there need to actually be minions to heal before playing cleric is the right move.

@RkeyNirun 9 жыл бұрын

I always feel locked when priests play a northshire turn 1. It feels like my only options at that point are to either coin out a 3/2 or do nothing.

@JavierBacon 9 жыл бұрын

Sounds about right... Cause getting your 2 attack minion out is SO CRITICAL against a priest

@RkeyNirun 9 жыл бұрын

I think it is critical if you are a rush deck. I guess he couldn't know for sure if it was zoo or handlock though, but I don't know if that is a reason for not keeping it in mulligan.

@JavierBacon 9 жыл бұрын

Fair point, the turn 1 northshire is pretty good against something like mech mage rush or shaman, maybe other priests... But most of the time it isn't going to hurt your opponent to wait until they have 3 damage to deal with your 1 attack minion. Especially in arena.

@dontyoudare61 9 жыл бұрын

Anyone else thought the picture for the video is a bit phallic :X

@nonokraan6567 9 жыл бұрын

Ur gay

@PyroBlastOne 9 жыл бұрын

So, i have a similar deck but run Cairne in it... but everytime i play him i get the feeling hes too slow for the current meta. Am i right or is it just me?

@calvinli9151 9 жыл бұрын

I've stopped running Cairne in my decks for a while now, with the popularity of silences and Aggro decks, it's usually too slow.

@MaravillaDeFamilia 9 жыл бұрын

Priests rules!

@wecwecewc6654 9 жыл бұрын

3:20 honest trailer ;)

@jelleversteeg9706 9 жыл бұрын

Can someone tell me what kind of deck the druid has? ((first game), and sorry for my bad english)

@Dacha1997 9 жыл бұрын

Ramp druid It uses cards like wild growth and innervate to get out big threats and legendaries out early

@jelleversteeg9706 9 жыл бұрын

Danilo Djokic I knew that, I ment what variant of ramp? :D

@BestInSlotGaming 9 жыл бұрын

Jelle Versteeg Ramp Druid has less variance than 99% of decks out there. The Wild Pyro is just a weird tech choice, an anti-aggro one I assume.

@AnimeVampire234 9 жыл бұрын

shadowform with priest, the mana cost should be majorly reduced to make the card even worth it. i mean... lol come on How many people actually use Shadowform in constructed? Trump even believes it's a bad card when Soulpriest pretty much is a limited time Shadowform e.e makes me sad.

@havocgr1976 9 жыл бұрын

I agree but my main problem is when you shadow form you lose half your class card synergies, you cant go back to healing.

@AnimeVampire234 9 жыл бұрын

havocgr1976 yes but that means you cna make a COMPLETELY different type of priest deck :D you can pretty much be like.. a more interesting type of Mage but doing 2-3 damage for 2 mana! So much value for a control or rush deck, i would make a very... Thief like Control deck. i heard stuff about Blizzard giving each class a list of new hero powers to select from after you unlock it. maybe we'll see an uprising in Shadowpriest when that happens. But we still need the two Hero classes that are missing :P Our monk and DK before blizzard even does that. So here's hoping one day shadow priest will be a thing.

@ricardo2092 9 жыл бұрын

Flora

@cyfi90 9 жыл бұрын

Flora the thing is if you make your deck synergize with shadowflame, what happens when you don't draw it? You are just a bad priest playing cards that don't work with your hero power.

@andrewfrank18 9 жыл бұрын

Shadow Priest was a thing when Hearthstone was in Closed Beta but whenever you add more cards to a card game the meta shifts with it. A lot of decks are either Mech because of GvG or some form of Druid. I myself run an Aggro Mech Shaman with Mech synergy and very few non-Mech cards. The advantages of Soulpreist is that yes you can deal damage with it but its also a minion on the board and if the meta calls for it you need minions on the board. A lot of the preist synergy comes from healing and that's why Shadowform is bad at the moment because the meta in constructed is like I have said very heavy on aggro/mech decks. Also I always run in most of my decks at least a BGH because Dr. Boom is a hugely popular card right now.

@ghostrath 9 жыл бұрын

U probably should play northshire cleric if ur the first player it usually forces the coin from him to deal with it and if its zoo the current meta then u might even get a 2/1 freebie or just make him pass all together kinda shows u dont play 2 much priest this is very effective specially against lock and druid because of the fear u might buff it out of killing range and start drawing cards very early

@AHouse181 9 жыл бұрын

I guess there are a lot of comments about how you didnt atrack with the injured, but by not attacking you actually missed lethal next turn

@Spironic 9 жыл бұрын

epic Trump fail at 21:40

@Nic3Guy112 9 жыл бұрын

So if you swap Sylvanas for a mind control what should be reasonable to swap for Vol'Jin?

@JavierBacon 9 жыл бұрын

Mind control really defeats the purpose of an anti-aggro deck. Wouldn't make that swap. Probably replace them with other 5-ish cost cards like... well can't really think of anything that good. Loatheb and a Temple enforcer?

@Nic3Guy112 9 жыл бұрын

Tried to rebuild the deck as good as I could, replaced vol-jin and sylvanas with loatheb and dr. boom

@Pivopija94 9 жыл бұрын

16:12 Why not power word shield before holy nova?

@Sabakinno 9 жыл бұрын

I think shadow word: pain is much better choice than holy smites(specialy when u not own vojin), same us secound SW: death instead of BGH. I use Kolento idea of not including injured blade masters. Instead u use shade of naxxramas and sec holy nova. Also u add two shrinkmeisters and u can exchange one circle on silence. silence works with pyromancer and disallow to use secrets on scientists and spawn hienas, etc.

@jpchris96 9 жыл бұрын

the whole point of this deck is anti-aggro, so you replace the injured BM for shade? That slows the whole deck down. also, most of the time holy smite is exactly what he needs as he will be killing low health creatures.

@Sheepton 9 жыл бұрын

What is dead can never die

@durkadur27 9 жыл бұрын

I don't know if it's just me but my Mech mage deck has a really hard time with Druid decks. half half with warlocks and hunter.. and just dies to warrior and paladin

@jamesmason7761 9 жыл бұрын

Under 301 club, oh my goodness

@heavykrogan 9 жыл бұрын

buenas barajas saludos desde argentina capo!

@kidsrangesucks 9 жыл бұрын

Missed damage at 21:50 he forgot to attack with injured blademaster

@Hnguyen811 9 жыл бұрын

What kind of chair is trump using?

@damiandearmas2749 9 жыл бұрын

i'm pretty sure at 4:00 he could have cleared the board and have his blade master survive...

@BestInSlotGaming 9 жыл бұрын

How?

@BestInSlotGaming 9 жыл бұрын

I think I'd take Trump's remaining board state and not risk it over that play though. The chances of the bombs killing the Blademaster aren't -that- low really.

@Formulka 9 жыл бұрын

21:43 Y U NO attack with the blademaster? :(

@janherfs3063 9 жыл бұрын

cause he is injured

@bonehunterstj 9 жыл бұрын

Missed lethal with that as well

@Eddiexx4 9 жыл бұрын

Jan Herfs Holy shit that made me laugh out loud..

@OttoAster 9 жыл бұрын

Missed lethal against rogue there :3

@ramatios 9 жыл бұрын

OMG missed 4 damage at 21:44 :(

@denesclaudiu1810 9 жыл бұрын

Greyjoy's get crushed like they always do ,no surprise there :P

@DivineBanana 9 жыл бұрын

"Stylish finish" fancy way of saying "BM" lol also why no dr. boom in this deck? Is he not good enough to warrant in this deck, or Is it better to keep your curve at a max of 6

@philo- 9 жыл бұрын

It's the only thing that would get BGHed and it looks like seven mana would be a bit much for what he's trying to do with this deck. Aside from that, Dr. Boom doesn't do anything on that turn, like cabal, so some times an agro can just ignore Dr. Boom with a good board and hit you for fifteen, then you could be really screwed.

@I_THE_ME 9 жыл бұрын

Shrinkmeister + Shadow Priest combo?

@matthewbasnett7594 9 жыл бұрын

Has Trump ever made it to number 1? He seems so determined to get there and I'm wondering if he's done it before

@TheJTV100 9 жыл бұрын

@furicuri3 9 жыл бұрын

I only saw him once getting to rank 2.

@Naedox 9 жыл бұрын

Do you think there's the possibility that this deck can also stop the Huntards?

@kawaiarinokripperino9719 9 жыл бұрын

Most good deck can now stop huntards

@FilipeProKiller 9 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the club about ''301+ club jokes'', how funny are you?

@lecharles3214 9 жыл бұрын

WaPow!!!

@JavierBacon 9 жыл бұрын

Around 7:30, would playing the pyro first not have cleared the board and buffed the shit out of his lightwarded?

@TheAmberFang 9 жыл бұрын

Double Thoughtsteal seems kind of odd for an anti-aggro deck

@cruciointheface43 9 жыл бұрын

What is aggro and control? I am new at this game

@kawaiarinokripperino9719 9 жыл бұрын

Agro = a fast deck that contain low mana cost minion control= your first job is to kill all enamy minion and never go face untill you've killed all enamy minion

@deusdotexe7683 9 жыл бұрын

That guys answers aren't that correct. Afro is focusing on chopping down your opponents health as fast as possible while control is more about maintaining a an advantage for a longer game and then finishing things quickly as soon as they feel it is safe.

@xTonicWaterx 9 жыл бұрын

Where did he get the non.golden cabal from?

@chunkygorillas 9 жыл бұрын

maybe he finally crafted one

@xTonicWaterx 9 жыл бұрын

but that would be so much lost value D:

@pfvyuigvyhuhu6253 9 жыл бұрын

He doesn't have a second regular one, so he uses the golden.

@xTonicWaterx 9 жыл бұрын

Steveguy Bobsworth did you even read? lol

@uallandme 9 жыл бұрын

awww, trump got himself a normal cabal, R.I.P golden cabal she was good to us.

@stwida91 9 жыл бұрын

Trump. The bottom left corner or your right hand (when palm is facing you) is definitely red. Probably from using a mouse all day long on a hard surface. Protect that shit, It's your career! Use a comfy mouse pad!

@NitramViHermannia 9 жыл бұрын

why not include Gazlowe? :D

@JamesMcCormickIV 9 жыл бұрын

I don't really think Priest is the best choice against Mech Mage. Mech Mage has a TON of 4 attack minions which are the bane of Priest. (Piloted Shredder, Yeti, Azure Drake, Tinkertown). It's not the CRUSH them victory he wants. I generally mulligan pretty hard for the 4 attack minions vs. Priest and removal for the Northshire/Injured Blademaster. (Frostbolt, Mad Scientist, Tinkertown/Piloted Shredder). He's right about Mech Mage and Ramp/Combo Druid being all over the ladder. It does create a real problem. Both control War and Handlock are the strongest they've ever been, yet are in a weird place because of the strength of Druid and Mage. (They get rocked by them). I really think this is a result of the loss of Undertaker and agro in general. Mech Mage is really the only agro deck left that's competitive. And Combo Druid is the only wombo combo deck left. What's missing from the meta that would keep these decks honest is a strong mid range Hunter and old Miracle Rogue. Sadly, Hunter has seen so many nerfs 1) to their card draw 2) to their wombo combo 3) to their agro, that it's no longer a threat. Rogue is facing a similar fate, and for very similar reasons--lack of card draw, not fast enough in the early game--Rogue also has the problem that it takes too much face dmg to do what it does, although Rogue does fairly well against Mech Mage (if it doesn't take too much face dmg clearing the early stuff). The problem is midrange decks are largely dead. Blizzard gave Control decks a TON of ways to combat agro, making Control much stronger and quicker to react. With the Undertaker nerf, Blizz has pretty much eliminated the threat of most agro decks, but left Control with all its faster acting tools and massive backend benefits (Even as strong as Hunter was--hit turn 6 against Priest or War, and you were dead). This means a bad start for Control doesn't get punished. It also means that the slot where midrange thrives is between turns 4 to 6 -- which is tiny. (Midrange used to be the champions of turns 4-9). P.S. Mech Mage is much stronger than any Hunter Undertaker deck was. It counters more decks. It's just not as fast or as easy a win as the Hunter decks were when those were favored. (It's also not as fast as Zoo). But it's way, way stronger against everything in a way Hunter and Zoo weren't. P.P.S. I do believe if there was a true Shadowform Priest, it would combat Mech Mage pretty hard. (A very aggressive, spell dmg Priest). There's just not enough cards to support it.