My World Champion winning Zhanna deck

[Armoek]

Cheers.

I think 20 games to practice is an understatement for any priest deck (unless you already play them). I would say it takes at least 50 games for someone to learn how to play reliably with priests if they haven't played them before. This looks so much like top Tier Amber decks of old

I agree with this, priest requires a large amount of match up knowledge and great game sense. It also probably has the highest skill cap out of the strong heroes.

[Raphael Majere]

Extremely well written deck post, clearly explained, my hats off to you, iClipse.

Truly a champion deck, matched with your champion playing skills = real winner combi! Thanks for sharing!

[Caitlyn0]

only THE World Champion can get away with posting his deck outside of the strategy forum... awesome, haha

i really dont have anything to say. just looking at the deck list says it all. with her ability, its perfect

[azrae1]

Congrats on the win Iclipse. Too bad (for me ) that I couldn't squeeze in to the bracket (so close) but if I did I would have been the other player with a Zhanna deck (I gave my deck to GDC and was about to play BlueJet as a replacement for Finneri when he suddenly appeared).

The big difference with my Zhanna deck is that it revolves around Ghostmaker and makes use of Earthen Protector rather than Raven. It's a bit more defensive than your deck as it had several Smites and curse. I'm wondering though if one of the tough matchups you mentioned would be another Zhanna/Priest deck? Can't tell with the results as you didn't face any at all.

[danae]

only THE World Cahmpion can get away with posting his deck outside of the strategy forum... awesome, haha

i really dont have anything to say. just looking at the deck list says it all. with her ability, its perfect

Good thing you pointed it out. Now moved. I'll give him an infraction for it as well just to show that we don't favor champions.

@IClipse - Congratulations. Glad my expectation was met. It just goes to show priests are OP!!! Of course you know that as the World Champion, there will now be such high expectations of you in any other tournament you might join.

[jacqui]

The key to any great deck is simplicity. I would probably cut the resurrection for added consistency. But then again, I don't know how badly that would affect certain matchups as compared to having a dead draw in others.

[painful_smile]

I've watched a lot of your WC games with this deck and analyzed it a lot.
You said in your OP, that this deck has no winnable matchups but thats not true.
After long play testing I found out something that completely destroys this decks. I know in the actual meta its not often played but as we all know, Hunters can be really strong.

But this deck has absolutely no counter to a t1 Into the forest drop.
I know the odds for getting ITF on your starthand are only about 50-56 per cent, but it can and will happen.
So maybe if you can try to tweak your deck and tech against this obvious weakness, this deck can be really monster deck.
But at the moment, I think its just to dangerous to play it.

[BDK16]

What happens with a turn 1 ITF drop?

[Maty78]

First congrats, as a die hard priest player since the first release of this game I loved watching your games and seeing you take it all the way, iClipse. Thanks for sharing this deck!

[veauxx]

I love how people who didn't win the championship come on here and rip on the championship deck. The deck is consistent and solid, and obviously was made with the meta in mind. If it wasn't he wouldn't of won. So to all those who have taken the time to come here and criticize when he did everyone a favor by not only posting it but giving in depth explanation I would say put up or shut up. Obviously you can take a posted deck and figure out a way to counter that deck, however your special counter deck will probably be destroyed by other more common decks and is therefore pointless.