1.5 Jericho GodSmack

[Keaven]

Oh wow. Had a few matches yesterday. You able to win any with this deck? lol

[Fuzer]

Keaven, you did not?

[Keaven]

Keaven, you did not?

Not a single one. Even struggled against the AI lol.

[jonathan strange]

i think its a pretty good deck, won a few battles using it, though i got rid of kris and replaced him with healing touch

[ahmet476]

Oh wow. Had a few matches yesterday. You able to win any with this deck? lol

Keaven, this deck looks good imo. Probably you're playing it wrong or were extremely unlucky.

[psychobabble]

Sorry, but I'm with Kaevan. With no tidal wave, this deck just rolls over and dies to so much. Moonstalker + oggy? Gravebone + fatties? Infernal Gargoyle? Mind control? Logan? Yo don't have good answers to these things and the EP combo takes way too long to set up, especially if/when it gets disrupted by some of the above things. And you have no effective way to deal with threats if you don't set up the combo. Speaking of way to long to setup, deathracing mages/zaladar also pwn this, and I can't see why Zhanna isn't a better platform for the deck for that reason (plus, with relying on protectors so much, especially ones that jump in an out of the graveyard in ideal situations, are cripple effects really such a threat? Jericho's ability doens't even work on anklebraker cripples, which i'm not sure if it's a bug or not). You have zero healing ability here, mages can fairly easily put up some early pressure and just go for the throat while you fiddle around setting up the late game combo - oh, and that combo can be very effectively countered by supernova too, which kills your EP but leaves aeon alive; until he gets ice bolted to death that is.

Anyway, sorry if I sound too harsh, but I don't see how the pieces in this puzzle fit together to make a winning deck. I'm no stranger to late game type priest decks, I played a fair bit of zhannax in 1.29; I don't think that 8 slots dedicated to poor direct damage spells is better than 4 to a card which can actually deal with the worst threats that will get played against you.

[ahmet476]

Didn't notice there were no TWs. Caitlyn, what's your defense? :P

[Caitlyn0]

its called ice storm and smite (you can use an ice storm and a smite in the same round or 2 ice storms, i do it all the time) plus aldon and KP. plus ghostmaker bringing back the EP to use again. i wanteda priest deck that doesnt use Tidal Wave... most of the time you are using it defensively when you will lose without it. but if you feel more comfortable with TW, then take out 1 smite and 1 ice storm and add 2 TW.

and here is a question, why is it so hard to get the EP/protector wall going? i was doing this in 1.29... people are now doing it with lance using EP and Aeon...


and you can use Zhanna instead. ive been doing a lot work on theme decks lately with interchangable heroes. whether you use Jericho or Zhanna, its still a GodSmack deck

[ahmet476]

its called ice storm and smite (you can use an ice storm and a smite in the same round or 2 ice storms, i do it all the time) plus aldon and KP. plus ghostmaker bringing back the EP to use again. i wanteda priest deck that doesnt use Tidal Wave... most of the time you are using it defensively when you will lose without it. but if you feel more comfortable with TW, then take out 1 smite and 1 ice storm and add 2 TW.

and here is a question, why is it so hard to get the EP/protector wall going? i was doing this in 1.29... people are now doing it with lance using EP and Aeon...


and you can use Zhanna instead. ive been doing a lot work on theme decks lately with interchangable heroes. whether you use Jericho or Zhanna, its still a GodSmack deck

Fair enough.

I think because more people are aware of the epic combo now, that's the issue. When they see Aeon hit the board, they expect EP next turn and try to deal with Aeon before EP comes in.

[Caitlyn0]

maybe... but if you control the game early with brigette in the way, they cant do much about it