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Zetalot's Standard Control Priest (May 2016, Season 26)

Posted by: EvidentPublished: May 10, 2016Updated: October 16, 2026Dust: Dust5,420Rating: 0.4/5 (205 votes)

Class: PriestFormat: StandardType: ControlStyle: LadderSeason: Season 26Player: Zetalot

Priest Cards (23)

Neutral Cards (7)

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Deck Description

Priest lost a lot of tools in Standard, cards like Zombie Chow, Deathlord, and Lightbomb all exited the format and left a pretty large hole for the class.

Update: +1 Forbidden Shaping, +1 Shadow Word: Pain, +1 Acidic Swamp Ooze, +2 Thoughtsteal, -1 Embrace the Shadow, -2 Holy Champion, -1 Harrison Jones, -1 Hogger, Doom of Elwynn

36 Comments

  1. alex

    replacement for hogger?

    1. Evident

      Second Holy Nova.

      1. Bling

        would Regular Hogger work at all?

        1. Evident

          It could work, but you could also try Ragnaros or second Holy Nova instead.

    2. sarlo

      golden monkey

  2. Promachos

    Replacement for Harrison? I can't use Loatheb anymore xD!

    1. Evident

      Second Holy Nova.

  3. Rich

    instead of hogger?

    1. Evident

      Second Holy Nova.

  4. Boolbashka

    Can i replace Entomb with something?

    1. Evident

      Second Holy Nova and maybe a Holy Fire. You'll struggle with this deck without Entomb.

  5. Setherial

    Replacement for Harrison and Hogger?

    1. Evident

      Holy Nova for one. If you have Cairne Bloodhoof that could work for you, or you could just try a Shadow Word: Pain.

      1. Setherial

        Thanks Evident. I'll try with second Holy Nova and a big minion like Ysera or Rafaam instead of Hogger. Maybe even Ragnaros. :D

    2. Fistouille

      Ooze and Ysera

  6. Jack

    Can I switch out Harrison for a lightbomb?

    1. Evident

      Not if you want to play Standard.

  7. John

    Any ideas for thoughtsteal?

  8. Crokan

    I run a deck simmilar to this but with more aoe
    - hogger
    -2 holy champion
    -1 darkshire alchemist
    -1 cabal shadow priest

    +2 excavated evil
    +2 cyclopian horror
    + confessor paletress

    its been testing ok for now any thoughts?

  9. Moxxy

    There aren't enough low mana cards in this deck for it to be viable.

    1. LighterThief

      You realize this is Zeta's deck? Pretty sure he can make a viable Priest list

    2. PioMoggo

      When has Priest EVER played low mana cost cards? (Excluding Circle Heals, Flash Heal. Cause you don't play those early.)

  10. Loser

    Does Cabal even find decent targets in Standart?

    1. G.Wild

      nope

      1. Bearded Atheist

        Here's the decks that are popular that have decent targets: Any C'Thun deck, Zoolock, Renolock, Aggro and mid-range Shaman, Aggro Paladin, Deathrattle Rogue, Tempo Mage, Dragon Priest, Any Priest, Any Warrior, Summoning Stone Druid, Any Hunter. So there's more then a few targets, and PLENTY of decks being played with good targets.

  11. XaviFan

    Not enough Spell to clean the board, can't handle zoolock. I guess we need Excavated Evil.

  12. Rainman

    This deck is a catastrophy...

  13. Iscah

    This deck is quite decent. I would recommend putting in an Excavated Evil and cutting one Thoughtsteal though. Currently it seems like you'll come up against aggro twice as often as control, and Thoughtsteal is a pretty poor card against Shaman/Zoo. 3 Mana to put a Tunnel Trogg and an Eternal Sentinel or Possessed Village and Darkshire Councilman in hand is nearly useless when you're getting face'd.

    The Darkshire Alchemists and Flash Heals are huge in this deck and nearly as important as the AOE.

  14. rokolix

    I dont have enough dust and ı can only craft 1 legendry.Should ı craft justicar or slyvanas ?.If ı craft one of these,replacement for other legend ???

    1. Evident

      I'd do Sylvanas since it works so well in many decks. Justicar you could go second Holy Nova.

      1. Faber

        Replacement for forbidden shaping?

        1. Evident

          Excavated Evil might work.

  15. NightmareLight

    Zetalot can make any priest deck viable... Even in this meta

  16. Anthonik22

    Any replacement to Entomb???

    1. Evident

      Second Pain and maybe Elise Starseeker. Entomb is pretty tough to replace.

  17. TwistedLight

    Any advice on replacing adventure cards ?

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