Hearthpwn

This Deck is based on stealing your opponents cards. You basically become your opponents class!

What's extremely fun about that is, you will never know what class you are going to be next, it's pure RNG, so the Deck seems to be perfect for the God of RNG Yogg-Saron, Hope's End... *Yayy* Yogg is back!!

Of course, the deck concentrates on the power swing with Tess Greymane, but while testing the Deck I had a really hard time in mirror match-ups. So I considered Yogg-Saron, Hope's End as an additional swing relying on the stolen spells.

So let's start one by one...

First of all, Backstab. Other possibilities for the same mana cost would be Preparation, Shadowstep or Counterfeit Coin. Many consider Preparation in such a value based deck, but I actually experienced Backstab to help me out more, especially with a rather slow early game deck. Being able to clear up a 2 or 3 drop, while playing Face Collector or Shaku, the Collector in the same turn is such a tempo swing and forces your opponent most likely to burn a removal instead of trading.

Deadly Poison for obvious reasons. Empowers your Mirage Blade to be basically a 3 mana - "Deal 5 damage" spell. It also works well with Spectral Cutlass and combined with Shadow Reflection you might get a 10 damage + lifesteal weapon that is able to last a lot of turn due to the durability gain. There is a reaso, why perma lifesteal on Kingsbane got removed!

Clever Disguise is way better than Burgle and site note: It gives you 2 spells from another class. That means, you're able to get off your combos and your quest, even when playing against rouge. This used to be a huge problem before.

Underbelly Fence may seem a little weird here but i played a good amount of games only using Undercity Huckster  and recently I gave this girl a try and I love it. Rush is something this deck really needs and even without attacking an enemy minion, a 2 mana 3/4 is insanely strong. When Shifter Zerus starts in your hand and turns into another class minion, you are even able to play it with buffed stats on turn 2.

Fan of Knives for some AoE damage and also provides some sweet card draw. Due to Azure Drake, this can deal 2 damage to all enemy minions + carddraw.

Spectral Cutlass, so this can be your friend while trading and may never leave you throughout the entire game. It's literally OP in this deck, if you use your cards right Spectral Cutlass will never lose any durability and will act like your own little priest Heropower (for your own obviously, not for the minions). That's why there's only one weapon in this deck, because of the infinite value. It's also a way to keep having a weapon, even after changing it as Valeera the Hollow. Buff it up with Deadly Poison.

Spellbreaker silences either your own minions with bad effects or an enemy minion, that you rather want to do nothing when it dies. In case of a Sylvanas Windrunner, for example. On top, it beats Cubelocks pretty hard, by silencing their Voidlord, Possessed Lackey and Carnivorous Cube. Silence comes in handly from time to time.

Vendetta is the alternative to Eviscerate and because this deck is not about going face at the first point, Vendetta actually offers some great value plays. Such as Clever Disguise + Underbelly Fence + Vendetta in turn 4. Card draw + minion body + 4 damage (board clear).

Azure Drake for some extra card draw and the spell damage. Just a decently good card and on top I already got some dragon synergy off of some stolen priest cards, too.

Chief Inspector already helped me out so often when playing against secrets like Ice Block, Freezing Trap, Repentance or Sudden Betrayal. Also has decent stats when only played for tempo.

Unidentified Contract is more reliable remove than Walk the Plank. Additionally it splits into Assassin's Contract, Turncoat Contract, Luctrative Contract and Recruitment Contract. Especially the last two ones have good synergy with this deck. Assassin's Contract and Turncoat Contract are more situational options, but already helped me out of some tricky situations, too.

Sap ⇄ Vanish

Bazaar Burglary is made for this kind of decks. It does have some weird interactions when already in Valeera the Hollow but before that, it's just a buff for your hero power and having a permanent 2 mana Shadowblade is so useful for trading and not losing by eating so much damage yourselve.

Shifter Zerus, a long not seen card. But it is kind of a win condition. There are so many cards in this deck that make this card valuable, such as the already mentioned Vendetta. Having the possibility to play a buffed Underbelly Fence on turn 2 is worth it. Just a fun card, that fits the RNG aspect of this deck.

Face Collector is pretty common in Thief Rouge. Can be played in th early game for the tempo and in the late game for the value and as the Wondrous Wisdomball would say: "Random legendaries are always good!"

Shaku, the Collector, I'm personally in love with this. If you get him to work, he's like an upgraded Burgle, especially if you manage to buff him. It's also a bit more tempo than Burgle, since you put a minion on the board, that is able to trade. Also, your opponent is forced to remove it as fast as possible, to deny you any more value. The longer Shaku, the Collector lives, the stronger he gets.

Harrison Jones, this deck needs some weapon removal for cards like Wrenchcalibur, Doomhammer, Supercollider, Ashbringer and especially for Skull of the Man'ari. Offers some card draw too and has a decent body. Replacement would be Corrosive Sludge, for a stronger body but less utility.

Trade Prince Gallywix has nice defensive stats and this deck needs as much defensive tools as possible. Plus, Trade Prince Gallywix may give you some good spells, your opponent uses for removing it. Basically has "passive" Taunt.

Nefarian, steals 2 Class-Spells. Buffing the synergy with Yogg-Saron, Hope's End and with Tess Greymane! Great card, also does have some nice voicelines when played!

In the following, the 3 core Legendaries are explained in more detail...

Yogg-Saron, Hope's End

Tess Greymane

Valeera the Hollow

Shifter Zerus → May be replaced by one Pilfer. Cheap option and provides an instant card from another class. Played with this a lot myself, before i crafted Shifter Zerus.

Face Collector and Shaku, the Collector → Can both be replaced by putting Blink Fox in there. Better stats but less value. Overall a good card and definitely playable, if you can't afford two additional legendaries.

Harrison Jones → Already mentioned Corrosive Sludge and 5/5 is obviously better than 5/4 when played without the value. Great replacement if you don't have Harrison Jones, yet.

Trade Prince Gallywix  ->  Burgly Bully (decent stats and provides some Yogg-Saron Hope's End buff, but take care not to get milled throughout too many coins)

Crafting Cost: 7120

Dust saved: 9340

1. Bazaar Burglary
2. Tess Greymane
3. Yogg-Saron, Hope's End
4. Valeera the Hollow
5. Nefarian
6. Trade Prince Gallywix
7. Shaku, the Collector
8. Face Collector
9. Harrison Jones
10. Shifter Zerus

That's obviously only my opinion about the best way of getting through, when not having all of the cards yet.

Against Warlock, you want to keep Harrison Jones to remove Skull of the Man'ari as soon as possible. Because you don't want to rely on your topdeck luck. Also Spellbreaker is never a bad idea, so that you can silence a Possessed Lackey, that will most likely recruit a Voidlord or a Doomguard. In case of that you're pretty much screwed, but hey... Your deck has the highest viable amount of RNG so maybe you get a sweet something out of your cards then. You never know.

Keep Shaku, the Collector, it's part of the early game of this deck and it forces your opponent to remove it.

Backstab is pretty good against Aggro-Decks and when it comes to Control matchups, you got the value advantage most of the time.

So that said, a start with either Underbelly Fence, Clever Disguise or even Face Collector is pretty nice. Also Shifter Zerus can help your Underbelly Fence or Vendetta to go off on turn 2, but requires some luck.

Eviscerate is a possible start against Mage, to clear a Mana Wyrm, for example.

So this pretty much... sucks... because your whole Tess Greymane Combo is so weak. The only cards that provide some real value are Clever Disguise, Shifter Zerus and Face Collector due to the fact, that they might give you odd-class cards (except Clever Disguise, gives 2 guaranteed class cards). So be sure, you've played some of those before triggering Tess Greymane. Otherwise, she will be a lonely 8 mana 6/6 and that's quite stupid...

Spectral Cutlass is pretty useless too, due to the missing gain of durability. Your only chance to improve this card a little bit is by stealing a weapon buff, such as Envenom Weapon, Southsea Squidface or Tinker's Sharpsword Oil. But even then you still only have 2 durability, unless you manage to get some value out of Clever Disguise or the other two card mentioned above. Also, do the best out of the life steal, it's your only guaranteed restoration tool in this deck.

Besides all these downsides, of course there is still a way to defeat the burglar in front of you and the solution to all of your problems is called Yogg-Saron, Hope's End. Throughout the whole game you will get even better spells, adapted to the Rouge playstyle. So you will most likely be able to feed Yogg-Saron, Hope's End a lot and in the most effective way. So in case of a matchup like this, just take Yogg-Saron, Hope's End as your win condition. You will see, the God of RNG will do his thing... or throw your whole game... But that always was the fun part about these cards!

And finally to get you in the mood of pure RNG and seeing you opponent cry... sometime you too... Here's a quick video about some sick Yogg-Saron, Hope's End plays from the past! Maybe I'll record this Deck in action myself sometime...

But for now we are left with that, so enjoy!

And here you have some Shifter Zerus moments, too! Just because his RNG factor is equal to Yogg-Saron, Hope's End.

• Replaced Eviscerate with Sap - [05/03/2018]
• Replaced Elise the Trailblazer with Prince Malchezaar - [05/16/2018]
• Replaced Sap with Eviscerate - [05/24/2018]
• Replaced Face Collector with Valeera the Hollow - [05/24/2018]
• Replaced Sap with Vanish - [05/26/2018]
• Replaced Shaku, the Collector with Sap - [06/06/2018]
• Replaced Burgle with Shaku, the Collector - [06/06/2018]
• Replaced Sabotage with Gluttonous Ooze - [06/06/2018]
• Replaced Pick Pocket with Eviscerate - [06/28/2018]
• Replaced Vanish with Walk the Plank - [02/20/2019]
• Replaced Prince Malchezaar with Elise the Trailblazer - [02/20/2019]
• Replaced Walk the Plank with Unidentified Contract - [05/13/2019]
• Replaced Eviscerate with Vendetta - [05/13/2019]
• A lot of changes recently + updated the guides text, so check that out! - [09/26/2019]