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Sonya would be good in this deck.

Edit: Probably the worst rogue deck in this meta.

How did this deck get 51 upvotes? Way better thief rogue decks out there imo.

Upvoted by opponents. ;)

Great Deck, close from Legend with it, not sure about Face Collector 

Face collector is the best way to kill your tempo, but can be good vs control.

In my time playing this game, I always felt like having the cutlass package was extremely slow, and barely worked versus other Rogues, so I just straight replaced it with cards like Earthen Ring Farseer and Rotten Applebaum. Combo those with Sonya Shadowdancer and Valeera the Hollow in the later turns, and you have all the healing you'd get from cutlass, scrapping the "useless" weapon tech cards.

I play a similar deck in wild just for funz. It's sort of a hybrid kingsbane + steal deck. It's not that strong, but it's at least fun to play, and you get different matches all the time thanks to the rng in the steal mechanic.

I would advise making a wild version for this instead, the pool of steal cards is much better, and you dont need to use super slow stuff like Pick Pocket and Echo Collector.

This archetype is so much better in WIld. 

All thief decks are absolute trash. They can be superfun...but they are flawed. Because blizzard designs cards as a main-theme for rogues with the effect "steal" and even makes legendaries for those types of decks and then...makes it 100% unplayable against rogues...so depending on your rank and meta you have an auto concede rate of about 15% for all your games. The decktype isnt even strong against other classes, beacause of all the RNG effects, but with the limitation that it cant be played against rogues its just lame. I played lately over 100 games with thief rogue decks...mostly i get overrun (Heallock, Zoolock, Aggromage, Diarrhea Paladin etc...) and lose by turn 6 or 7 before i even played something or just cant do shit against other rogues. Control matchups can be pretty funny but i dont meet many control decks. I want this deck type to work, but its just not working for me.

Probably shouldn't disenchant thalnos

If they could just add like tri-class cards, make Ysera cards Hunter class or other similar effect, it will surely buff this archetype more in standard. Or maybe they can allow rogues to directly discover another class hero card that would make it competitive.

I get that you’re going for memes but Academic is about tempo and almost every other thief card is about value. IMO either go an Academic + draw route or a weapon buff + thief cards with some defense to stay alive. Like many others are saying, you’ll clog your hand with way too many cards which has always been thief rogues downfall outside of running Ethereal Peddler in wild

This deck is even weaker than blizzard recipe for steal rogue. If the fun is losing a lot of games in a row then it's a fun deck for sure.

0-8 atm... Loosing vs Hunter or Warlock before turn 6.  Where is the fun?

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REALLY DON'T LIKE THIS DECK!!! KEEPS LOSING TO ODD ROGUE :(

 Because such decks are almost auto-lose against any aggro.

So I have a version of this deck that is different slightly but also much better and actually allowed me to climb a bit. Personally I think this kind of deck style is SUPER fun and I would recommend either list for anyone wanting to have a good time. That being said, there are also changes I would make to my own list to add pilfer (fun looking card btw) and Zilliax (which I didn't have the dust to craft)

-firefly AND Tess for +Pilfer (Tess is actually a bad card that is only really useful for highlights because she is slow and it takes a while to get her to a point where she can pop off)

-Tar Creeper OR Fan of Knives OR Hench Clan Thug for +Zilliax because he adds to the survivability of this deck so you don't lose as hard to aggro

Anyway here is the gameplay of a better version of this deck hope you all enjoy my friends.

REALLY DON'T LIKE THIS DECK!!! KEEPS LOSING TO ODD ROGUE :(

1. I would add some auctioneers.  Lots of cheap spells and powers through your deck after you cast Espionage. 

you HAVE to have card draw with cards like these. Either cut the Academics or play Auctioneers.

oh, so this is why i faced this deck 4 straight games at rank 13