Spreadsheet: 0-Cost Cards
Category: Other (A-Tier)
Internal Category Tier: A-Tier
Tier 4
This card is so ridiculously frustrating.
Every time my opponents play it against me, it is amazing. Playing it to an empty board is excellent, as is playing it to a contested board. You get a 5/5 body that hits hard and bullies demon tokens, and you get two human tokens that can pump your damage to 7 a turn (from a 0-cost card) or chump block. So, it can theoretically chump block your big 1-cost champion for three turns, and the 5/5 body means at least one chump block is effectively guaranteed, if needed. The three bodies you get make you resilient to targeted 0-cost removal and, since War Priest is a 0-cost champion, it is incredibly resilient to bounce effects (AoE bounce in particular). This is a card that is deceptively powerful (or at least it initially deceived me as to its power). And yet, I still continue to draft cards over it and then get frustrated when it bodies me, like Thought Plucker.
Moving into constructed, it is a solid addition to human tokens since Secret Legion and Demonic Rising immediately weaponize it, as will Ambush Party, Rise of the Many, and Bold Leader. It can also theoretically just chill on an empty board whether before gold is spent or as a follow-up start after a board clear (following your opponent’s next gold expenditure of course). War Priest might be decent in other constructed decks as well, but it is currently difficult to fit a bunch of 1-cost Good cards into non-Good decks, and there is a bunch of competition for 0-cost cards for Good decks.