The Payload Podcast Ep. 66: Mei the 4th be with you.
by JR Cook - 7 years ago show comments
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I roll a priest unless I have to do dailies. This is a good walk through. It amazes me how many times I can play dead (start using heals and not summoning minions) at 5-10 health and my opponent pulls out a Ysera without ever thinking of my MC. It usually ends in a rage quit.
Yah, that happened to me once with my Tirion and then I got wise to it. I am not playing anything remotely good until I see two Mind Controls, haha.
Not a bad little bit here…..If you need some info on what post nerf hunter is going to look like come find me on the ManaGrind ts3
I use mainly a priest and one thing is I don’t even bother with MC. Inner fire plays or light spawn plays are just as effective and holding onto shadow word:death for the nastiest minions do just fine for me.
The early inner fire play is underrated. EG, lightwell/inner fire. If i am playing it early, there is no need for burning divine spirit or even power word, because a 5/5 with a 3 heal can be devastating, and onnly cost 2 cards and 3 mana. If it gets removed, not a huge loss. If not, it takes sometimes to turn 5 or 6 to drop a minion capable of dealing with it, and in the mean time I am going to dominate the board, nuke your face and play other utility minions. Aside from that, I save inner fire plays for late game in place of MC. making, say, a senjin sheildmasta into a 20/20 taunt or even a lightspawn play into something beastly like 20/20 or 36/36.
MC is very useful and annoying to opponents(especially with the anger attached to that specific card) but it is not as big a threat as me dropping insane 20/20 taunt creatures after you burn removal on other cards. Mages and Shamans beware save those polymorphs and hex’s because I promise you that Lord of the Arena, or Fen Creeper is far from the scariest thing I can drop. I purposely pick big targets for those kind of cards, stuff that is common knowledge to use it on. In most decks, that is true, in my deck it is a decoy.