Can’t wait for a bunch of rogue card nerfs to occur thanks to Skyla’s sins 
Can’t wait to get a bunch of nothing burger thief rogue support next expac and then lose the one viable archetype we have in 2025!
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Eh, there’s a weapon rogue deck that’s spiking in play now that looks pretty damn absurd. Luckily it really can’t survive being targeted, but while rogue is a low play rate, you can absolutely demolish some folks with it.
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In a meta where 30% of the players are mages who can repeatedly summon 4 freezing minions, a weapon rogue can’t compete. (it wasn’t do well against anyone who can fill the board anyway.)
Infinite lifesteal… but everything nowadays can put out 30+ damage in a turn if they put their minds to it. What a time to be alive
Even with mage being this popular, the deck is still tier 1 solidly. The mage has to high roll or the rogue can just flatten them.
The deck can’t really stay tier 1, it’ll cause people to start running double vipers and glacial shards if it tries to take over. Or DK starts using crusher again like it did to counter shopper DH.
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Yeah, I summoned 12 elementals and froze a Weapon Rogue for 8 turns straight and I was still at 2 health and barely survived.
I can’t imagine what that deck does to decks that CAN’T freeze them.
Yeah, I just had a match vs Jalex where I got off a turn 5 tsunami, but still would have died is not for a freeze I got off of primordial glyph in his 2x 3/3s
I was at 4 health on turn 6… And they were frozen on 5
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Pretty funny that rogue mana cheat is now too slow compared to druid/mage…tells you a lot about the game design these days
On the other hand casino rogue has been a thing for far too long (since the days of jackpot rogue cheating out scourge on turn 4) and will not be missed…at least until they nerf mage and druid and rogue is fast enough to casino highroll again.
Regardless of rogues position in the game nerf sonya into unplayability and perhaps rogue can have some design space back to create fun and playable cards.
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Decks with many taunts and keeping the board full does fine.
That lifesteal spamming drink doesn’t care about most taunts. A rogue is swinging infinitely, he can also clear them. There’s only so many taunts you can play before you take a 15 damage sword to the face
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Just play wild. Rogue is fine there. And?
It has been a long time coming for Rogue.
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It’s actually the best class in the game. It’s just being played out of Mage.
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Well boohoo
First of all, its not true. Rogue in general requires skill, its maybe the least played but not the worst.
Second of all, so what? Is it written in stars that it has to be the best class or what? All classes have to be the bottom at some point.
I’m guilty of not doing it myself, but I’m not seeing many people run viper these days.
Speaking of rogue, I had to do daily, and as usual instead of taking the path of least resistance, I ran 2 copies of espionage and a lot of draw.
Lost all 3 games, but as a glutton for punishment, I queued a forth… and then I somehow won precisely because the RNG paid off.
DK had the handbuff 5 drop on 5, then triggered it twice with yodeler on 6, and then did mini+deathgrowl to proc it another 3 times, followed by a 11 attack hollow hound healing him to full?
Yeah except I just happened to pull (among other things in previous turns) the shaman mega windfury, AND ra-den. Even when his hound cleaved, it kill ra-den, so now I had TWO mega windfuries on the board (aka lethal on their own) 
The RNG giveth. The RNG taketh away.
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weapon decks are not only boring, but also easily counterable the moment they get popular.
The reason the playrate for it is still low is because it just isnt fun to play
rogue is the most boring class to face in any game since the beginning of times, i will never feel sorry for any rogue players. I remember inviting them to groups in wow and then kicking them outside of the instance 
Idk in what dimension y’all living, lol, VS has Weapon rogue as the strongest deck in the game right now, and my experience supports that
I’ve had problems against it since the update on all my decks
Ofc, it’s not always a reliable sign of a deck being broken, but right now, it might be
You’re not gonna go far if you tech against that one deck, which is what makes it brutally efficient in lower ranks (including mine)
Not where I live, lol.
Running a Viper in deck right now wouldn’t be the worst thing to have. There’s several good targets for weapon destruction right now. Also VS always misses overheal priest as the best deck in the meta simply because most players cannot play it correctly.
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This is true, but none of those get wrecked nearly as much as weapon rogue does
In this highroll-y meta, idk, I think destroying weapons might be too slow