I played with Rogue quite extensively when this current expansion first dropped.
Now, just a little side note. I don’t netdeck. I play with all the cards and find what works myself. I will go through dozens of iterations of each of my decks, rooting out the weakest cards and replacing them with cards that have greater synergy. And I do much more, like tuning a deck to be “faster” or “slower” depending on how the meta is working out.
That said, again, I played with Rogue quite extensively when this current expansion first dropped. For the life of me I just couldn’t figure out how to make it work. I tried tempo, I tried aggro and I tried zoo. Then I tried to go with the theme they were pushing with the quest and the support cards for the quest.
None of those worked. We are talking about hundreds of games here people, not just sitting down one night and trying to play around. I really wanted Rogue to work, especially the Quest version of the deck, because it seemed like such a cool idea.
But it doesn’t work. I just played against a rogue who, like me, was trying to make the quest work. And they just can’t hang.
In the end, what a Rogue ends up with, the majority of the time, is a hand full of useless cards. Sure, sometimes you can get lucky and get a couple really good cards and you might pull off a win. But that is not the majority of the time.
Honestly, I really feel bad for Rogues, or people who are stuck with Rogue because those are the cards they ended up with.
Hey, I haven’t looked at the Rogue stats for the last few weeks, does anyone know who Rogues are beating? Are they consistently beating anyone at all? They aren’t beating Shamans, I know that much, as my own win rate with my Shaman against Rogues is 75% after 60 matches(45-15). And I have a difficult time imagining them beating Hunters consistently.