I played a version of the same deck, before the nerfs to Prep/Raiding Party and when most people expected to see a different Rogue matchup.
In the current state of the meta, I wonder if the weapon package you’re running isn’t holding you back.
2x Deadly Poison
1x Raiding Party
and 1x Greenskin
devotes 13% of the deck to buffing Spectral Cutlass, and if you’re unlucky enough to pull the Raiding Party when the Cutlasses have already been drawn, you’re wasting a draw that could have gone to value.
Blink Fox feels like an obvious inclusion. Plus you don’t have any other 3 drops except for Fan, which might hurt your curve against non-token aggro.
Tak Nozwhisker is unpopular-ish, but for an Academic Espionage deck that still runs Prep, you do have a chance to fill your hand with 1 cost cards for 9 mana, and to drop one of them on Turn 10 to avoid burn.
The backwards logic of some of these class descriptions is betrayed in part by the two changes to Rogue and Priest; the listed weaknesses are only weaknesses BECAUSE of the corresponding card changes, not due to some built-in class deficiency. A Rogue weaknesses is listed as “board clear.” But there aren’t that many class-specific board clears anywhere, period. Prior to, literally, today, with the removal of Vanish, no one would have interpreted board clear as a Rogue vulnerability; in fact, it would have been a part of their class identity, something echoed in other class cards like Daring Escape or Shadowstep. (Call it the “now you see me, now you don’t” mechanic.) Is board clear a part of Warrior class identity? Because Brawl does still exist. Hunter? Venomizer + Missile Launcher.
What appears to be the case is that they simply didn’t like Vanish’s interaction with the current meta. It potentially trivializes Token Druid, Murloc Shaman, Big Priest, Split Mage, or at least makes the board build up those decks are going for frustrating. Meanwhile, because they lowered the cost of [Hearthstone Card (Pogohopper) Not Found], it was suddenly possible to clear and play a number of Pogos onto an empty board.
Sprint, or some other card draw. In the late game, you’re likely pulling a ton of cheap Pogos anyway, and plus the Sprint has value if you’re resource starved in the mid game and don’t have a significant board presence to play into.
Fan of Knives even could also work, less for the card draw than as a tech answer to the token decks in the meta.
I played a version of the same deck, before the nerfs to Prep/Raiding Party and when most people expected to see a different Rogue matchup.
In the current state of the meta, I wonder if the weapon package you’re running isn’t holding you back.
2x Deadly Poison
1x Raiding Party
and 1x Greenskin
devotes 13% of the deck to buffing Spectral Cutlass, and if you’re unlucky enough to pull the Raiding Party when the Cutlasses have already been drawn, you’re wasting a draw that could have gone to value.
Blink Fox feels like an obvious inclusion. Plus you don’t have any other 3 drops except for Fan, which might hurt your curve against non-token aggro.
Tak Nozwhisker is unpopular-ish, but for an Academic Espionage deck that still runs Prep, you do have a chance to fill your hand with 1 cost cards for 9 mana, and to drop one of them on Turn 10 to avoid burn.
The backwards logic of some of these class descriptions is betrayed in part by the two changes to Rogue and Priest; the listed weaknesses are only weaknesses BECAUSE of the corresponding card changes, not due to some built-in class deficiency. A Rogue weaknesses is listed as “board clear.” But there aren’t that many class-specific board clears anywhere, period. Prior to, literally, today, with the removal of Vanish, no one would have interpreted board clear as a Rogue vulnerability; in fact, it would have been a part of their class identity, something echoed in other class cards like Daring Escape or Shadowstep. (Call it the “now you see me, now you don’t” mechanic.) Is board clear a part of Warrior class identity? Because Brawl does still exist. Hunter? Venomizer + Missile Launcher.
What appears to be the case is that they simply didn’t like Vanish’s interaction with the current meta. It potentially trivializes Token Druid, Murloc Shaman, Big Priest, Split Mage, or at least makes the board build up those decks are going for frustrating. Meanwhile, because they lowered the cost of [Hearthstone Card (Pogohopper) Not Found], it was suddenly possible to clear and play a number of Pogos onto an empty board.
Sprint, or some other card draw. In the late game, you’re likely pulling a ton of cheap Pogos anyway, and plus the Sprint has value if you’re resource starved in the mid game and don’t have a significant board presence to play into.
Fan of Knives even could also work, less for the card draw than as a tech answer to the token decks in the meta.