[Legend] Pirate Deathrattle Rogue
- Last updated Dec 20, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)
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Wild
- 18 Minions
- 10 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Deathrattle Rogue
- Crafting Cost: 10240
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 12/15/2018 (Rastakhan)
- NanaKwame
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Battle Tag:
Kwame#21471
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
530
This is a sequel to my existing deathrattle rogue deck. Its very powerful and just got me to legend. Deck tracker was not functioning well so I turned it off but I think I had about 60% winrate getting to legend as of 15-12-18.Upvote if you like it
Proof
Here's a Video from Tommy Wave with the deck in action
As well as Jeleniowatyy
Here's the mulligan:
General
Backstab Fire Fly Prince Keleseth Devilsaur Egg Necrium Blade Raiding Party
This is the mulligan you would like to go for when you do not know or you're not sure of what archetype your opponent is. If you somehow got Raiding Party in your mulligan as well as Preparation, keep it and play it, this applies to every matchup.
Vs Aggro Decks
Backstab Fire Fly Prince Keleseth Devilsaur Egg Necrium Blade
Over here, you aim to take the board by force through any means necessary since that's the only way you win. Necrium Blade exists to remove anything threatening that the opponent might put down in the early turns like Sorcerer's Apprentice, Mana Wyrm or Primalfin Totem.
In the mid game, you'll probably be on low health and should aim to use your Cold Blood with Zilliax for a burst heal. Do not try to be greedy with your resources in this matchup, you have more than your opponent anyways.
Vs Midrange Decks
Fire Fly Prince Keleseth Devilsaur Egg Necrium Blade Raiding Party Blightnozzle Crawler
Notable card here is Blightnozzle Crawler. This card in accordance with Necrium Blade and Necrium Vial should help you solidify your control of the board on turn 5. If you got the Prince Keleseth buff on it it or Backstab in hand, you can take out a hunters Greater Emerald Spellstones Wolfs as soon as he plays it.
Vs Control and Combo Decks
Fire Fly Prince Keleseth Devilsaur Egg Necrium Blade Raiding Party Blightnozzle Crawler
In these matchups you aim to draw as quickly as possible as well as filling the board with your deathrattle minions. Leave the killing of the deathrattle cards up to your opponent while trying to make it as uncomfortable as possible for them to clear the board. Da Undatakah shines in this matchup since their control spells like Hex, Greater Jasper Spellstone and Polymorph would have been used at this point allowing you to send that 8 attack face. You can afford to be greedy in this matchup by Keeping Necrium Vial in your opening with Devilsaur Egg especially if you have The Coin.
Matchups
Based on popular decks
Vs Even Paladin, Even Shaman Slightly Unfavoured
A good mulligan is what is going to save you here. If you can establish board dominance early you'll definitely win the game.
Vs Secret Hunter, Spell Hunter Highly Unfavoured
Their secrets are very punishing and you have to find a way to play around them depending on the board state. As stated before, Blightnozzle Crawler + Necrium Vial is going to save you here, pray that you get them. Also try to win the game quickly since Zul'jin is going to restock them, denying your lategame advantages.
Vs Deathrattle Hunter, Even
The first one to out tempo the other wins. Make good use of your Fire Fly with combo cards to ensure you're always putting your opponent on the back foot. Depending on how you use Blightnozzle Crawler, you can gain board control easily and win the game from there.
Vs Odd Rogue, Zoo Warlock Highly Unfavoured
Your Necrium Blade is the mvp of this matchup. With proper use, you can deny your opponent board presence early on and simply out value him from there on.
Vs Taunt Druid, Undatakah Druid, Mecha'thun Druid Highly Favoured
These druids are so passive in the early game that you can be greedy as much as you want.You should also be anticipating your opponents moves and countering them though so play smart and go face.
Vs Even Warlock, Cube Warlock, Slightly Favoured
Their board clears hurt them more than you so if you're able to maintain a sticky board, you can deal enough damage to win the game. Blightnozzle Crawler and Vilespine Slayer are your mvps here. Use them wisely
Vs Midrange Hunter, Token Druid, Slightly Unfavoured
Against Token Druid, the longer the game goes on the less you're likely to win. Pop your 5/5's and send them face as quickly as possible. Against Midrange Hunter, try to establish your board dominance before they do or there'll be no way to come back.
Vs Odd Mage, Big Spell Mage, Highly Favoured
Don't pop your deathrattles. Rather, let your opponent do it out of necessity and get punished for it. Your Devilsaurs can't be killed by Flamestrike so don't worry.
Vs Otk Paladin and most priest decks, Highly Favoured
You go face, you win.
Tips:
- Firstly, do not be intimidated by other decks which are 'meta'. Just do your thing and with enough practice you'll be able to pilot this deck well enough to legend.
- This deck aims to close out games quickly with its powerful draw and board presence so don't try to play a value game with say Cubelock when you should be going face and closing out the game quickly.
- If you got Preparation plus Raiding Party in your hand at any point in time and there are pirates in your deck, you should play it rather than waiting to combo it in addition to something else like Elven Minstrel since it increases the chances of drawing other cards from the deck that you might be searching for.
- Using your Necrium Vial or Necrium Blade on the Cursed Castaway is not a bad idea; being able to consistently draw your combo pieces is what makes this deck very threatening even if your opponent does not think so and continuously kills Cursed Castaway.
- Don't be Greedy trying to get some specific deathrattle for Da Undatakah once your get your three, play it. Sometimes even two is okay if you have Necrium Vial in hand or not
- Blightnozzle Crawler is going to win you a lot of games vs midrange and control especially in conjunction with Necrium Vial do not overlook it
- Keep track of your decklist at all times especially in relation to Cursed Castaway. You see Cursed Castaway tutors specific cards from your deck so for example, you could get lethal if you have the Necrium Blade equipped, a Leeroy Jenkins in hand and a Cursed Castaway on board with Cold Blood in the deck. Watching out for and calculating the probability of drawing a specific card with Cursed Castaway can win you games.
- Always prioritize Raiding Party over Elven Minstrel unless you got bad draw and drew most of your pirates before getting to play Raiding Party. This is to avoid drawing your pirates with Elven Minstrel since they are also minions.
- Da Undatakah also copies the deathrattle effects of your deathrattle minions that were silenced and destroyed during the course of the game so do not fret if that happens to you. It simply means they won't have an answer when Da Undatakah starts making arrangements for their funeral.
That's all for now
The reasoning behind certain cards:
After getting stuck at rank 3 for days with the first RR version, I realised that the culprit was Mechanical Whelp, and so with a heavy heart I cut it (It was just too damn slow). Then came replacing it, so after a long while of brainstorming and neglecting my studies, I realized Cursed Castaway would not be too bad in this deck and I was pleasantly surprised by the results. You would not believe what came next.
I got enough draw like a Druid blessed by rng especially since I got Preparation plus Raiding Party into it, Dread Corsair was simply a must due to getting as much Value from Raiding Party as possible. Cursed Castaway also has rush so it could trade into a taunt and draw my Cold Blood all in the same turn allowing Leeroy Jenkins to finally get his Gurubashi Chicken.
Cutting Carnivorous Cube from the deck to make space for some of these cards also indirectly helped Da Undatakah to get more usefull Deathrattles in the process.
Mossy Horror too was cut because without the Carnivorous Cube to get more Devilsaur Eggs it was useless, the 5/5's against druid could also mow down Spreading Plague vs Druid easily and Odd Paladins will win before turn 6 anyways.
Since Raiding Party was Introduced, there was no need for Cavern Shinyfinder and Prince Keleseth came in to do what he does best, increase win rate by X%
The zoo locks too were nowhere to be found so the Eviscerates and SI:7 Agents were booted, and what was left, was this perfection :)
Card Replacements
This is for those with limited dust. You should keep in mind that with these changes the deck might not perform as optimally as it did for me for you.
Preparation -->Any card really, it's very difficult to replace this one, though I suggest SI:7 Agent or Shadowstep
Necrium Vial -->Corpse Raiser or Fungalmancer
Vilespine Slayer --> Walk the Plank or Lesser Onyx Spellstone
Prince Keleseth --> Eviscerate or Cheat Death
Leeroy Jenkins --> Reckless Rocketeer or Argent Commander
Zilliax --> Saronite Chain Gang or Rotten Applebaum
Leave your questions and suggestions down below, thanks.
Thank you very much!
I wonder what can replace Da Undatakah?
Nothing. There's no card in standard that even comes close to it's effect, if you don't have it don't play this deck or look for an altered version that doesn't include it.
i don't think Da Undatakah is so important again, its just an extra deathrattle, a powerfull death rattle however, but i feel if you get so late in to the game you gonna lose anyway, i would probably find a fast card as a replacement.
Myra Rotspring?
This deck works very well on the ladder at the moment, I definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to have a good time while climbing :D
2 x Raiding Party for just 4 pirates and 2 weapons?
There's a superhigh chance that your second Raiding Party will become a dead card in your hand.
That's only if you kept the pirates in your mulligan or got really bad draw. Even if there's a pirate and the weapon left in your deck it still has good value.
Not really. By turn 8 (when you plan to play Da Undatakah) you would had drawn at least 11-12 cards.
If you played just a single Elven Minstrel and 1 Cursed Castaway you would had drawn 3 additional cards.
Chances you would top deck 2 pirates out of 4, and 1 weapon out of 2 in the first half of your deck are very, very high. That means that half of the time your second Raiding Party (the one you may top deck on turn 8+) will become a dead card as it will most likely have nothing or almost nothing to draw.
I will tell you what is really unlikely. What is really unlikely, is that, by turn 10 you hadn't top decked 1 of your 2 weapons, and at least one pirate. (hoping that one minstrel didn't pull another one) meaning that you have no more pirates or weapons for your second Raiding Party.
Okay, if you don't like the second Raiding Party you're free to replace it with something else like SI:7 Agent. The reason I included 2 was that, it increases consistency,that is you're more likely to draw it in your opening hand. Even Kingsbane Rogue uses 2 Raiding Party despite having only 4 Pirates and a Weapon. They also got 2 Sprint, 2 Fan of Knives and an Elven Minstrel yet you don't see players cutting 1 of the Raiding Party, that should tell you something. I usually don't draw cards with Elven Minstrel in the Mid Game unless I absolutely have to. I already got Devilsaur Eggs to hatch and Cursed Castawayay to rush with as well as staying alive with Blightnozzle Crawler.
Because Leeching Poison was pretty much a win condition for that deck (Kingsbane) If you didnt draw it against an aggro deck, you were done. Here's a very different story. you really dont need a 4/30 chance to draw the weapon
Deck not working at all....tried many game... mostly defeat...
What decks have you been facing and ow have you been losing to them?
beast/spell hunters keep killing me before I can do anything
can't * it's fun though, but can't seem to work for me
Try to keep the Necrium Blade and Backstab in your opening to help remove the threats on board. You should also not try to play passive but aggressive so that they are in turn forced to control the board.
That sucks. It seems you're queuing into bad matchups. You can try a different deck or watch videos of players who have piloted a similar deck to legend.
lost alot initially aswell, but when you get used to this deck its changes, there is a change you just get bad draws, but i feel like the deck does take some randomness out of the draws with the rush pirate and raiding party. and elven minstrell to get your deathrattle cards.
I'm enjoying this deck so far. Thanks!
What should i cut to fit Myra Rotspring in?