OTK QUEST PRIEST

LoL what?!

On the competitiveHS subreddit, players were discussing using test subject and topsy turvy to do some crazy, broken priest stuff. I like broken stuff. like priest stuff. So let’s do it!

Basically, you want to have 9 mana and 7 cards in your hand. The cards are:

2x Radiant (or a vivid nightmare)

1x vivid nightmare

1x test subject

1x stonetusk boar

1x divine favor

1x topsy turvy

The idea is that you play out all the creatures, and keep cycling your buffs on the test subject so that you create multiple copies of divine favor, then you buff the bear and create more buffed bears with vivid nightmare copies and swing for 64-128 damage. If this is hard to understand, russellgoke made a very clear table.

The great thing about this combo is that it doesn’t matter what the board state is. If its full of taunts, you throw the boards into the taunts to clear them and then OTK face on same turn. If the board is clear, you just create four 16-attack boars and call it a day! The bad thing about this combo is that it relies on 7 cards and 9 mana. And that’s why I’ve gone with this quest build!

WHY DEATHRATTLE?

Because we need to draw 7 specific cards, getting through the deck as quick as possible is important. We can’t spend too many resources on board wipes and there just aren’t that many available slots in the deck. By playing the quest and deathrattle draw minions, we can relatively easily get ourselves a completed quest by turn 6, and buy us a couple of more turns to draw out the combo completely. Bloodmage, loot hoarder, dead ringer and twilight’s call are all good at that. You are even able to spend 1 test subject or a copy of topsy turvy early in order to draw a few more cards with power word shield shenanigans. We’ve added shadow visions as a way to tutor for missing combo pieces or toolbox type answers. 1 sandbinder in deck to find a radiant elemental should you be missing it.

The difficult thing here is that you can’t run too many deathrattles as you want dead ringer to get you a test subject if it can. However, since we are playing the quest, if it gets you another deathrattle its at least getting another card draw engine which helps complete the combo faster.