Pogo Hopper Rogue , Good against many decks if ...
- Last updated Sep 6, 2018 (Boomsday)
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Wild
- 17 Minions
- 12 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Shuffle Rogue
- Crafting Cost: 7780
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 8/7/2018 (Boomsday)
- Xlage
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Battle Tag:
SLaGE#2909
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
96
22 votes in 16 hours!Well lets get straight to the guide then.
I added some replays for people the understand how this should work.
EDIT( 10 / 8 / 2018 ) : I changed -1 Sap , -1 Counterfeit Coin , -1 Coldlight oracle to ---> +1 Vanish , +1 Mistress Of Mixtures , +1 Shadowstep. The reason is , there is a serious amount of aggro decks right now and playing Coldlight Oracle simply just gives them free cards.Instead cards like mistress of mixtures and shadowstep allows you to combo up a little fast and stay alive.Don't even question the second Vanish :p
EDIT(06 / 9 / 2018 ) : Changed 1 mistress to Deathknight card Valeera the Hollow . Since the aggros are a little bit more less in high ranks , its making my win rate get more good.
Deck Strategy
This deck is a complete Pogo-Hopper deck.So if you guys dont know what is a Pogo-Hopper is its basically a more cancer Jade card.So with this deck what you need to do is stay alive as much as possible to the point where you have enough combo cards or enough cards to at least bother your opponent.
At early game this deck struggles a bit.Because of the lack of early drops and the fear of losing all your pogo hoppers you wont play much minion.That is why we have tech cards like Antique Healbot Brann Bronzebeard and Sonya Shadowdancer . You can use Brann Bronzebeard to heal up yourself for 16 with Antique Healbot or you can use it with Pogo-Hopper to make your Pogo's even more bigger than you can expect.Now to the Sonya , most of you can understand why we have sonya but let me explain it aswell. Sonya Shadowdancer is a card that allows you to replicate your cards when they die.So in early game you can make a cheeky but punishable play by playing some of your core cards.And the turn after you can use sonya to get them to your hand.With this you will have even more combo potential at late game.But never forget its a pretty punishable play and you can even lose the whole game by doing this.
In late game your combo should look like this.Around 8-9 mana you will play brann pogo pogo and lab recruiter.If your hand is a bit bad you can play only one pogo and Shadowcaster to get a 1 mana pogo for more combo potential later.With that combo that i mentioned you will have close to 6 pogos in your deck and a big pogo board. ( a 1/1 if you didn't played earlier and a 5/5 ). After this all you need to do is draw more pogos and play more pogos. Basically just swarm the board with huge minions.
As i mentioned in the second paragraph you can use sonya either in early game to get more combo potential or play him in late game and gain even more and more combo potential. And a quick tip , as far as i can say getting Brann Bronzebeard from Sonya Shadowdancer is giving you the biggest value.Because you can play 4 Pogo-Hoppers with a Brann in late game and even a Shadowcaster to duplicate more.So dont forget that aswell.
MULLİGAN
Right now the meta is filled with aggro decks and big mech decks.So you want your either draws or tech cards that will save you.As far as i can say :
Against Control Decks ( Warlock Warrior Mage ) : You need your draws such as Elven Minstrel and Coldlight Oracle . Elven Minstrel is so good when you go second because of the turn 3 2 minion draw , but also its your core combo drawer so you need him most of the time. And Coldlight Oracle is the best way to mess with your opponents hand and draw cards at the same time.So its important aswell.
Against Aggro Decks ( Not Mech Based! ) : Right now these decks are not that powerfull , because the mech meta is completely swarming the meta these not mech based decks are pretty weak.But still you need to be careful about them.As a rogue you dont have much abilities to not take any damage but live at the same time.So you need to be careful use your Fan of Knives and Backstab to weaken your opponent.At early game us your Mistress of Mixtures to heal and use Eviscerate 's to finish the weak minions.Or you can use your hero power aswell. And dont forget , you can always use the Brann , antique Healbot combo that i mentioned earlier to heal yourself for 16.
Against Aggro Decks ( Mech Based ) : To be honest this is your probably worst matchup.There is so much big deathrattle and stated minions so you are most likely struggling. But thats where Sap and Vilespine Slayer comes in.Cards like sap and Vanish is basically a mech destroyer.The reason is they are returning the minions to your opponents hand and they are loosing all the magnetic effects.So that magnetic mech is just getting destroyed when you use sap or vanish.Use your removals carefully, you dont want to die to a 15/20 deathrattle mech when he pops up on the board.
And against both of the aggro's you need your Giggling Inventor . That card is completely crazy i am telling you.
OTHER STUFF
Replacing the Cards
I dont think these cards can be replaced for anything.So if you dont have enough dust to create this deck.Just wait.But if you are desperately wanting to craft this deck i can say take out sonya and use either Gang Up or another Antique Healbot. If you dont have Brann , you can use Antique Healbot to replace him but i am warning you the deck really relies on these legendarys.So it wont be the same.If anyone think better replacement then let me now in the comments.I played this deck for 30 games at most so i dont have that much of knowledge on what to put out or put in.But i will edit this in the time.
By the time i was playing i found something that can lead to victory pretty easily.Try to get a 1 mana giggling inventor guys.And have a brann in your hand , with brann giggling inventor your board is litteraly impossible to pass.If your opponent doesnt have spells to crush your of course.With that you will protect your brann and the potential pogo hoppers you will play.Keep that in mind.
So its basically this!Let me know if you guys want more information on anything.And thanks for trying!
https://hsreplay.net/replay/bWk95p4rkhicESgNtQYyXV -> Against a dude paladin ( odd )
https://hsreplay.net/replay/EcezB2pb3jJpqk35FXqWoW -> Against a mech warrior.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/uwhiyyz7gjCTbXNPz8KK6i -> And i believe this is the dream xD
hey dude, what do we play instead off giggle girl after the nerf? Been testing Defender of Argus and Sludge Belcher but it's weaker. Any suggestions?
Gotta be honest with you mate , i am not playing hearthstone these days.Maybe like for one month.I've seen the nerfs now . I might check for some solutions this weekend.Then , i will be able to say some stuff.Until then , cant say much but Sludge belcher looks like a good idea.
Zilliax instead of healbot?
Sory for the late reply, i am kinda busy these days.About the zilliax , you can change it . But the antique healbots healing is more other than zilliax.And with brann the healbot's healing is getting up to 16.But zilliax cannot heal that much.So , i gotta say healbot is better than Zilliax.And its a common card , so yeah . :P
Thanks for trying it out! :)
I used Valeera for a bit , but then i thought its pretty slow for this deck. It can be replaced with any tech cards , its up to you :p
cant believe someone really thinks this deck is good. close to meta break? never laughed so hard. this deck is SOOOO slow. it gets stomped by every single aggro deck and countered by every combo deck. dont waste your dust for this!
The only message you will get playing this deck is:
"you cant loose stars at this rank"
well the guy who said the same thing as you is now down voted for 6 , i am not going to say you are wrong this is a meme deck indeed.The reason i said meta break i won 5 consecutive games in a row so i thought its pretty good.But sure , its your own thoughts.
You've attached screenshots from casual and from 17th rank. It's even not a meta.
I understand humor and love memes but I hate clickbaits.
No one said close to meta break was real, it was just a meme that i wrote down.Boy i didnt even thought anybody would play this deck . And if you check my accoutn you will see that i only post fun decks that does absoulute nothing. And as i mentioned on my other account i won like 5 games in a row then i was like "maybe its good? Lets meme it up then!" . And i said this deck aint even good at all , its fun it can win games ( not like those other fun decks around ) and its just feels good to play.Sometimes you can litteraly crush everyone , sometimes you can get crashed , so you can win like 10 games , but you can also lose 10 games.No one mentioned that this deck is litteraly perfect.Some of the comments said they won some games around rank 5 , so that can be thing.So please dont ever try to tell me that i am clickbaiting or some other stuff.Hearthpwn's wild deck lists are dead aswell so when you are putting a deck on hearthpwn , you would never expect a great outcome.So like 50 upvotes was "WOAH!" for me.
I have fun playing my own (a bit budget) version and I have a question, is Sonya very good? I won't craft Brann, but I'm wondering about crafting Sonya, this deck is really a lot of fun, but sometimes I'm missing something and just can't win.
From my experience, you don't want to over crowd your deck, and rogue needs some form of heal and desperately needs taunt. You need to get dk card as soon as possible.early pogo drops are quite useless especially against mid range and aggro. (assuming we are talking about standart).
I'm using ziliax and corpsetaker as healing. Depending on match up I copy ziliax for more heal(and to get heal/divine shield value from corpsetakers). Usually it's only necessary against aggro.
I also have x2 bronze gatekeepers. You can use them to delay the game or give one of your big hoppers taunt later in the game, when enemy starts to get desperate.Or on ziliax for more lifesteal value.
I'd also definitely add myra's unstable element to the deck, if I had, but I'm using sprint instead.
Here's my deck recipe if you are wondering;
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In wild , i would say brann is way much more good for this deck rather than sonya , But if you are playing in standart you can just go for the deck that Methrammar mentioned.But in wild i would definitely say the piece you are missing is brann.
I don't play Standard at all (might check that though, Methrammar) because I feel very limited, I can't use so many cards, so I prefer Wild. And now I realised there's not Valeera DK in the deck above (in which comment section we are) which is weird, I'm running her in my deck and she's just great in this deck. I'll think about crafting Brann because I don't really feel like I want to craft him, that I would regret that. Anyway, thank you both for help.
You wont regret crafting brann, he is in every wild deck trust me.But still its your idea.About valeera i do think its a great cards but i dont like the way she is pretty slow , so its up to users.Thanks for trying out the deck good luck on matches ^^
I shall consider crafting Brann, though I must save some for dust now (crafted New Dr. Boom as Warrior is meant to be my main class and I want it finally golden, 79 matches to go) so it'll take a while, but the deck is awesome and better than my version (I even tried Kingsbane for healing and stuff but it didn't really work that good in here). Good luck in your matches too! :)
if you have money to spare, please consider that LoE expansion has 2 top tier legendaries and some other goodies as well (tunnel trogg, e.g.). brann and reno might both be a part of the wild meta for a very long time. might be, nothing's guaranteed.
Have you considered dirty rat for Reno and Druid match ups?
Actualy i didnt i completely forgot about the dirty rat.But i am kinda questioning where can i put them into.Because tbh against reno decks heal doesnt matter for you.Even if your opponent heals himself to full hp nothing happens cuz you have 30/30 pogo's anyways.But against Kazakus , i dont know maybe you guys can try for now i cant.I dont have the dirty rat in my wild account xD.But i will consider this , maybe i will try in a close time and tell you guys the results.Thanks for the idea tho!
This is called a Pogo deck, but I probably get more wins from players conceding from Brann + Giggling Inventor or Sonya + GIggling Inventor combos than from being beaten by Pogo bunnies themselves.