Frank “Fr0zen” Zhang and his line-up was a talking point leading up to Last Call Americas. Here’s the deck that started it all.
For the last several majors, Priest was a no-show. The class has remained the bottom-most tier for the longest time, with its new toys from Karazhan in [card]onyx bishop[/card] and [card]priest of the feast[/card] doing little to remedy its appalling state. When it was used, Priest was nothing more than a niche, cheese pick, made to counter one particular style of play – which, granted, is sometimes enough in Conquest format – but never really established itself as a class to be regularly considered.
Thus, when Luminosity Gaming’s Fr0zen revealed his line-up for the most important tournament of his career, the Last Call Invitational for the Americas, the buzz was out. There was a Priest among his chosen lists, and what a list it was.
For a short time after Karazhan got released, [card]resurrect[/card] Priest was a thing. The deck would summon and resummons value cards like [card]injured blademaster[/card] over and over again in hopes of exhausting the enemy resources. It worked for the short time before Shaman was all over the place again.
Fr0zen’s deck, inspired by Pirest expert Zetalot, is nothing like that. It doesn’t run many resurrect effects. It lacks finishers besides what it can [card]entomb[/card]. It tops the curve with double [card]mind control[/card], a card which hasn’t seen play since it was nerfed to 10 mana years ago.
This list didn’t win the tournament. In fact, it faced round 1 elimination. Then again, it’s a Priest list which was considered for one of the biggest events of the year, so why not try it, even for one day?
All decklists from Last Call AM are available here.
