New Rogue Card Reveal - Spectral Cutlass
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I think a part of why Rogue is such a tempo class is because the hero power drops off in value in the mid/late game. Being able to use your face to defend your minions is powerful but you often can't do it against 4+ attack minions with how little healing is in the class. A weapon like this that will lower your tempo when played but then allow your generated cards to extend your ability to use weapon charges as removal changes that dynamic.
You're right that it will require a decent amount of support cards (and I think I made that clear in my post), but I think you may be over exaggerating how much. That may just be because we build decks differently. It sounds like our Burgle Rogues have been quite different. I dont like Ethereal Peddler/Obsidian Shard as build around cards, because you have to play lower tempo cards that generate value to get a high tempo play. That just doesn't make sense to me. You've already given up tempo, how is getting a small burst of it now going to swing the game? If I'm throwing a bunch of lower tempo, value generating cards in then I want synergy cards to help me take advantage of that value, not just make up for the tempo loss. Spectral Cutlass does that. It's a value tool that actually helps enable you to take advantage of other value tools. In theory, I'd much rather run that in a burgle rogue than tempo plays.
The question is going to be whether getting weapon buffs on the thing is going to be prohibitively clunky because clearly it's base stats alone aren't going to cut it. But imo, it plays into the Burgle Rogue gameplan better than any Burgle-synergy card up until this point.
Fair enough man, yeah i think you're right we are problably building very different this deck and i can see this weapon being better in a value gameplan, anyways i hope you do well with your version this archtype is quite fun when you manage to steal good things from opponent's class clearly not the best of the decks but certainly one of the most fun for me :)
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This is the version i have more sucess and reach legend twice, played it as a midrange deck with weapon buffs and pirates.
I like Rogue is getting more healing, but this card is trash. There is no reason to run this instead of Kingsbane, and Rogue is losing Swashburglar.
they're also losing a lot of the thief generation cards as well
There is no reason to run this instead of any Rogue weapon (except Poisoned Blade)
i mean what if you just survive with thief rogue, somehow play 28 cards from the opposing class, then vanish and 1 shot them... lmao. one thing i always hate about this mechanic is when you go against another rogue.
kingsbane rogue is losing 2=4 of it's pirates and coldlight, maybe going thief rogue package over mill and also having this weapon can help you stabalize until you can grow your kingsbane? you could turn your extra leeching poison into something useful with lilian. plus mill package is old and boring and predictable as hell to me by now, would be cool to see any other control-ish type deck for rogue.
i've also tried kingsbane rogue with only captain greenskin and a ton of bounces. the thing never breaks. you don't even really need kingsbane unless your opponent runs weapon removal, which is likelybecause of warlock. still interesting.
If you somehow get echo card from other class, it can gain a lot of charge. Still unplayable though.
In theory, you put 1 copy of Spectral cutlass + 1 Cavern Shinyfinder + 2 Elven Minstrel + 2 Deadly Poison, not counting burgle-cards. In comparison with Kingsbane, to provide viability of this weapon, you don't have to put in your deck two dead cards - Leeching poison, also 1 Shinyfinder can be replaced with better card. Yes, this weapon can be usable only with at least 1 poison in it, but deck with this weapon in theory is better, than with Kingsbane.
Yes! A good card for burglar rogue! Not a completely viable deck but really fun!
saw this and was like why is everyone being so critical?? the card doesn't look that bad!....... Oh yeah Kingsbane exists lol
I’m not so quick to call this trash. Rogue has the best weapons buffs of any class. Throw 2x Deadly Poison on this thing and you get basically 2x Fireball for 6 mana, plus an extra Fireball every time you play a burgled card or a spell from Witch’s Cauldron. All I can say is that I will be outvaluing Kingsbane with this in wild, using Ethereal Peddler, et al.
Lifesteal does make it marginally better than Kingsbane pre-buff, but this card is too fragile compared to Kingsbane, and you still need to build a deck around it by adding random card-gen cards in, which will probably result in suboptimal minions that don't fit your situation. Plus the opponent can easily counter this by running an Ooze, something that Kingsbane survives better.
Regardless, this card can make or break Exodia Rogue. Other classes all have better draw (except Paladin I guess) and there’s still plenty of room in a burgle deck for other cards, better attuned for countering aggro. Delaying an early board with Vanish, a Cauldron’d Lightning Storm, or burgled Consecrate, and delaying death with this. And what’s a combo deck but stalling until you assemble all five pieces of the puzzle- no! Nobody’s ever been able to call- sorry, got carried away there.
Horrible card with no actual use
Did you preorder yet ?
*sniff *sniff. Is that trash I smell?
Pretty bad, Rogue got trashed so far this expansion but hey it's an epic card just like WANTED! they are usually garbage for this class.
wait a minute... this weapon plus leeching poison = o.p. combo
edit: what's sarcasm?
...please tell me this is sarcasm