Priest is your more healer and control based class in Hearthstone. Their decks have been hit and miss over the years, but now-and-again they rise to the top! We’re taking a look at the best Priest decks you’ll be able to play with in the Scholomance Academy expansion. The class got some new stuff to play with, so there’s going to be some new options to bring into Standard or Wild ladder.
The Priest class is one that has had quite a bit of ups-and-downs over the span of Hearthstone. Sadly, it has usually leaned further into the down category, with many metas with the class struggling to find a foothold. However, there have been times of power for Priest, particularly revolving around combo Highlander Priest decks that eventually got hit with nerfs. Dragon Priest has also been a popular archetype that has been in-and-out of the meta depending on what expansions were part of Standard. Big Priest was another archetype that saw success and caused a lot of controversy. It went on to wreak havoc on poor Wild players that could get beaten on turn four by an on-curve Barnes ! That deck has since been nerfed, which has relieved fans of the eternal format.
Best Priest Decks for Scholomance Standard
The best decks for Priest in the Scholomance meta right now are the Highlander Galakrond Priest and Tempo Buff Priest decks! Galakrond was having a lot of success in the past, but an interesting new deck that uses the old school Inner Fire is becoming popular.
BoarControl’s Tempo Buff Priest Deck
While the old Inner Fire Priest had some stronger buffing potential, this new version of the deck appears to be functioning rather well. Stick a bunch of minions in the deck with high health, drop in some buff spells, and then use Inner Fire to make a big minion!
Paperninja’s #3 Highlander Galakrond Priest Deck
Galakrond Priest is a pretty standard Galakrond built deck that uses a lot of the Invoke cards and puts them into one deck. It reminds me of Dragon Priest of old, where you’d just shove in all the dragons and dragon synergy cards and come out with a pretty good deck.
Resurrect Priest Deck
If you were playing Resurrect Priest prior to the new expansion then you can continue playing it and find some success with it on the ladder. There’s no real great new additions to the deck currently from Scholomance.
Galakrond Priest Deck
Galakrond Priest is a pretty standard Galakrond built deck that uses a lot of the Invoke cards and puts them into one deck. It reminds me of Dragon Priest of old, where you’d just shove in all the dragons and dragon synergy cards and come out with a pretty good deck. Scholomance has brought it a few new cards, but they don’t drastically change the way the deck is played.
Best Priest Decks for Scholomance Wild
Wild can be a bit difficult to predict, so here’s a look at some decks that have been successful on the Wild ladder. You will find that the meta of Wild doesn’t fluctuate as much as Standard does when a new expansion is released. This generally only happens if one Standard deck in particular is very dominant. Normally, you will notice that just the most powerful cards out of the set find their way into decks.
Wild Highlander Priest
Highlander Priest was one of the strongest decks in Standard for a period of time. This version of the list that is played in Wild piles in a bunch of the strong Dragons that Priest has had over the years, and then adds a lot of the other strong Priest cards to make a pretty solid control based deck.
Scholomance hasn’t done much to infiltrate the deck, you will find Mindrender Illucia in the list now, but she isn’t a must have card.
