Showing posts with label Rogue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rogue. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Hearthstone Rogue MechAggro

One of the more interesting features of Hearthstone is the daily quest system, where each day you are randomly assigned a quest worth between 40 - 100 gold pieces (with a pack costing exactly 100, just to give some sense of economy). Because the vast majority of these quests involve winning a certain number of games with a particular class, this system essentially incentivizes you to create a decent list for each of the nine heroes. That way, no matter what your daily quest is, you at least have a good shot at completing it in the casual room in a relatively short period of time.

As such, I am always on the lookout for competitive decks that do not require a major investment in cards and/or do not involve Legendary minions, since most of those remain out of my reach. One such deck I recently discovered from Hearthstone pro Kolento is a decklist I want to feature today.


My list lacks the Trade Prince Gallywix as well as the Cogmaster's Wrench, and I also left out the Antique Healbot since I rarely expect to need the Lifegain. In their place, I wanted to run 2 copies of Sludge Belcher, and 1 copy each of Assassin's Blade, Argent Commander, and Sprint. That left me with one too many cards, so I cut Blade Flurry down to 1.

At its heart, this is a combo deck, utilizing the synergy you get with Mechs to build up an early board presence and then finish off your opponent with a massive burst of damage. Between Deadly Poison and Tinker's Sharpsword Oil, it's trivially easy to enhance your weapon to 6+ power, and in combination with Blade Flurry and/or Eviscerate, you can often setup a 15+ damage swing before Turn 10. And your midgame minions like SI:7 Agent, Spider Tank, and Mechanical Yeti should easily be sufficient to bring your opponent Life total low enough that a 15 point burst is more than enough to finish them off.

This is a fun and budget deck, yet surprisingly effective. If you don't have a Rogue deck you enjoy playing, definitely give this one a try.