Sneakily Grinding Your Opponent's Cards - Mill Rogue with StanCifka
StanCifka brings us some post-nerf glory today with his Mill Rogue deck. Let's take a look at it and push ourselves onto the ladder to cause chaos!
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How it Works
This is a late-game, control style deck which has two different win conditions:
- Bring your opponent into fatigue, dealing great damage to them.
- Burning their key cards, preventing them from having win conditions of their own.
Let's take a look at how this all works.
- Valeera the Hollow is essential to the deck. Her Shadow Reflection will allow you to draw out extra cards through Coldlight Oracle spam.
- If your opponent has plenty of minions on the field, push them back into their hand to fill it up and burning the following cards they draw.
- Coldlight Oracle is assisted not only by Valeera but also Shadowstep and Youthful Brewmaster.
- Are you in fatigue yourself? Shadowblade will prevent any damage you take so go crazy!
- Mulligan for Coldlight Oracle unless you're fighting aggro. With aggro its a good call to keep cards like Backstab, Doomsayer, and Tar Creeper.
- Although Skulking Geist is a great Jade counter, it can also help whittle down your opponent's cards, bringing them to fatigue quicker.
- It is possible to deal 31 damage in a single turn if your opponent is out of cards.
- 24 Damage: With Valeera: Shadowblade, Coldlight Oracle (3), Copied Oracle (7), Shadowstepped Oracle (11), Face with Weapon (3).
- 7 Damage: Opponent draws at the start of their turn.
Go check out the full guide if you're interested in playing this deck to its max potential.
The Deck
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Good deck. I got a lot of fun playing this. It's a bit tricky to reach the late game because, I had BIG problems saving some cards for later use against aggro. But when you reach that point, "the good point", you can laugh a lot.
I found a lot of players that doesn't know how to fight against mill, by the way. They see what I am trying to do and... they don't increase their board, they just... stop a moment to think and... then keep doing the same mistakes. For example, I played against some priest that saw what I was trying clearly and despite being able to use a lot of lowcost cards, he kept trying to curve perfect with huge minions. He just... killed himself, he was unable to empty his hand and I destroyed his entire deck in a few turns.
Sadder than funny...
This version actually has a solid game against aggro (But you are right, it's not a match you are excited to play), but it's main strenght is in the fact that in this metagame Kazakus Priest will definitely be a deck to beat, and this deck delivers.
Skulking geist is an MVP against priest. Depending on the version of the deck I've removed upward of 8 cards in one play.
Is Saronite Chain Gang good enough to play it over the prince and some other card like the second farseer?
Yes, because here what you really need is to slow down enemy's attack. You need to reach the late game, and life here is less important, given that you are going to kill your opponent being invencible with the shadowblade.
Extra value from Vanish. Vanish with 2 down and you get 4 chain gangs. If they kill one before you vanish and you have another alive you get 2 back.
Why x2 counterfeit coin? I understand Preparation but the coin...
Yeah, not very intuitive Hillandder, I agree with that. I started without them, then added one and found out it's insanely good. Basically with this deck you have a lot of problems with your own handsize, and Coin is great when you are interested in tempo/card advantage exchange.
I've never played any Mill decks, might try this one.
Sneakily motivate people to play aggro
Everybody is already playing aggro.
Why not Shadowcaster in the deck? Also I think this deck misses a lot of cards
Since Stancifka is one of the best deckbuilders in the world, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that he didn't "miss" any cards. You can quibble over tech slots, but you better bring an AWFULLY good argument to any substantial criticism of his decks.
Tested one for a while a it was OK but in the end it's just a little bit too expensive, but you can run it if you want ;)
Please don't play Curator, it's extremely bad, plus the deck cannot afford to run any card draw besides Oracle because then your own fatigue would become a huge problem.