Rich Roast

This is a deck I’ve been playing during the Embers of the World Tree mini-set. This is a very slow value/control priest deck (my favourite) which features a unique and exciting win-condition.

The win-condition of this deck centers around three cards: Marin the Manager, 

, & Narain Soothfancy. The plan is to play Aviana on a free turn, play Narain to get the Fortunes in hand, and play Marin to get Tolin's Goblet. Then, using the fortunes to see the top card of your deck, you are trying to use Tolin’s Goblet to pull one of Malorne the Waywatcher, Zarog's Crown, The Ceaseless Expanse or in some cases, Marin the Manager. Then, since Aviana discounts all cards to (1), you can play an absurd number of copies of the targeted card for some absurdly high-tempo and high-value turns in the hyper-late game. 

The deck’s game plan is to contest the board as a midrange deck to create a safe turn for Aviana, then stall using Repackage, Shield of Askara, and the Imbued Priest Hero Power until you can play Tolin’s Goblet to pull a high-value card.

Some more nuanced tips about this deck: 

This deck has some pretty efficient drops it can put down if it draws well, so you can sometimes win through tempo if the opponent doesn’t contest the board enough. If you draw Marin the Manager too early to setup the value engine, don’t be afraid to play Marin for Wondrous Wand to hunt for the other two pieces of the engine. Xavius can help tutor for these as well. Similarily, don’t be afraid to play Malorne the Waywatcher on curve. You usually will not get the discount anyways since the deck only runs four imbue cards. In this deck the imbue serves a less central role, and exists more to fill empty turns or spend remaining mana while waiting to draw the value engine. Sometimes it will be good to use one of the fortunes to play a card earlier or copy a card. For example, you can play a fortune on 9 to get Aviana out a turn earlier, play one to copy a Zarog’s crown if you don’t have Tolin’s Goblet yet, copy Malorne etc.. It can basically be used as a mini version of the value engine to either maintain board pressure or help survive.