I’ve been playing against a handful of Secret Rogues in Legend lately. They seem…strong. Fast. They stick to the board well, interact with the opponent well, generate value too. I’m largely unfamiliar with it, and maybe I just suck at playing against it, but they usually destroy me if I don’t have a great start.
So uh, how come I see people suggesting it needs a buff? It’s functional and fluid. Seems to have everything it needs.
I’m curious, what deck are you playing? It is quite a mid deck tbh. It is largely favored against Blood DK because it can disrupt everything they do and starve them out of resources with gravedigger (I think that’s the name of the minion).
But otherwise it doesn’t really do much. Apart from a bunch of secrets, it only has the miracle shell. It pulls a few cocs, maybe 1 or 2 colossals if they run Azshara. An Astalor maybe. It doesn’t really have much of a game plan other than disruption and there’s only so much it can do to actually punch your face. It is not really a strong deck imo.
I don’t think it should be buffed either tho. It is toxic as hell and there are much better things rogue could be doing than this.
The game is rigged. you’re not facing real “people” most of the time. Then… you are… occasionally. They nut draw, you think you’re doing something wrong, repeat. Blizz algos.
I have only come across 2 secret rogues. I honestly would have expected to see a lot more than that. I’m also in Legend.
In a way, the lack of paladin secrets kind of hurts secret rogue. They were a good cheap way to fish for secrets. Whiffing on secrets and having to pay 2 or 3 mana for something that isn’t terribly useful in the current situation is its downfall. Can still be rather annoying though, specially if they can keep bouncing the secret generator back into their hand.
It doesn’t really matter which deck I’m playing. Each time I run into them I just so happen to have some very bad mulligans. I’m sure I don’t need to say more about that.
I just didn’t really see any glaring weakness with what was being played. With a better mulligan for me I’m sure I can beat them with various decks. Just observing how different what people here talk about vs what you actually see in game.