Theorycraft: Yogg OTK with Resurrect Priest

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The Combo

You can get around Yogg's new Battlecry by summoning him without playing him from hand. In Priest, you can do that with Caelia Menethil, who resurrects your highest-cost minion that died this game. When you rez Yogg, he doesn't end your turn, so you can immediately activate two of his abilities.

We can do this multiple times by summoning a copy of him. Priest can easily do this with Schism. We don't even need to un-shatter it—we just need the copy half.

But it gets better! One of Yogg's abilities makes your next spell cast twice, and we can activate two Yogg abilities per turn. So, we can play Caelia for 6 mana, activate Yogg's double-cast, then play Schism for 4 mana. Now, we've got three Yoggs that can each immediately throw a Pyroblast at our opponent's face, for a 10 mana 30 damage OTK.

Potential Problems

This combo has a few potential problems.

First, Our Lord and Savior Yogg has to actually die in order to be resurrected. Our opponents can prevent his glorious return with Hex or Cursed Chains. And we can't just play him then kill him ourselves, because when you play Yogg, Yesus takes the wheel.

Or can we? Yogg's Battlecry also gives you another turn. If we have 11 mana from Ysera, we can play Doomsayer, then play Yogg. At the start of the bonus turn, Yogg will immediately die—along with the opponent's entire board. His prophet foretells his return: the end is coming!

The other problem is that, even with Doomsayer, Yogg might use our combo pieces on the bonus turn. He could play Caelia or transform our Schisms into random spells that cost 3 more.

I don't actually have a solution for this. But hey, what's a Yogg deck without a little risk?

Variations

Against Thief Priest or an opponent with some armor, we can do a 40 damage OTK for 14 mana by casting an additional copy of Schism. Just make sure the first one isn't recombined, so Yogg doesn't become Elusive and therefore untargetable by the second copy.

In theory, we can get yet more copies of Yogg by giving him Reborn with Haunt and copying him with Specter Specialist. We could even blow up our own Yogg with Slime 'Em, then on a future turn, resurrect him with the Ectoplasm for only 3 mana. Maybe you put both versions in your deck for redundancy. These are good cards, anyways, considering we'll probably run Soothsayer.

I'm not sure if this is actually competitive. Control Priest looked solid in the theorycraft stream. And copying/resurrecting Old Gods will probably be powerful, because that was powerful with Titans. But putting Doomsayer in your deck does sound like a meme.

The better version of this deck might just play C'Thun instead. You don't get the double cast, but Caeliea + Schism makes two C'Thuns that can both deal 21 to all enemies. They can each deal 15 to a minion first to potentially clear the path for an OTK.

But the advantage of the Yogg version is that you get to Praise Yogg.

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[u/Abyssya]

Praise Yogg!

[u/blanquettedetigre]

I'd love to play this, but other classes like Rogue with Aya, Druid with ramp and Merithra, even Paladin with end of turn effects or Warrior with Setesh will give their fate to Yogg sooner than Priest

[u/SnooMarzipans7274]

Cook!