Two New Rogue Card Reveals - Mistwraith & Pick Pocket
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Yes, very good for those wo are love to play arena. But what is with players who don´t? So far I´ve seen a lot of cards which may will be good in arena, but very less for constructed play. I wanna see some good constructed cards in this expansion. I personally don´t care about arena, so most cards so far are little bit disappointing.
We are going to be scrounging for good cards this exp
That’s some insane value in arena,compared to mimic pod and thistle tea, pick pocket shines
These cards might see play on ladder IMO. Cool and relatively strong especially after the rotation and the lowering average power level.
Tempo Rogue > Value Rogue, every time.
oh, yeah, baby, gimmie those class steal cards!
Mistwraith... compare to Questing Adventurer, or Violet Teacher. Seems weak, and those are two cards from the basic set.
Pick Pocket... You can't spend your entire turn drawing 5 random cards, so you're looking at 2-3 cards. 4 mana ,draw 2 random cards? 6 mana, draw 3? Sorry, that's very weak. Play Thistle Tea or Mimic Pod, you get a card that YOU want (usually), and sometimes making 2 or 3 of them makes it OP. I don't think that new rogue weapon is strong enough to make this archetype work.
Cabalist tome rip
Pick pocket - yas
Mistwraith - nay
Oh... now we are talking... Spectral Cutlass might actually be good enough after Kingsbane rotates...
Until there's a 1 mana echo, which won't happen, Mistwraith won't see play.
Pick Pocket is cool for arena, but has no place in constructed - ever.
I'm a rogue newbie, but why is Pick Pocket bad? It seems to have passable early game value, but really good late game value.
It's a decent enough value card, and being modular (in a sense. More mana = more cards from that 1 card, and you get to choose) definitely helps, but currently the name of the game is tempo, tempo and more tempo. Unless your class, and your deck specifically, has some really good catch up mechancis, taking the time off to play this is more often than not a death sentence, since you aren't using your mana to develop any stats on the board at all.
it's 2-mana and basically requires you to spend your whole turn to get real value out of, so unless you are in a situation where you can jsut pass a turn to draw random class cards that may or may not help your gameplan, this card is just dead in hand
Rogue doesn't really do value. A little bit sure, but they can't win games with it like Paladin or Priest can. No, what Rogue does is tempo. Playing five hyper-efficient cards and exploding on the board (or exploding their opponent's face) in one turn. With Miracle Rogue, a.k.a. the final form of this kind of play, the rogue player can suddenly go through their entire deck in something like three turns and either burst or overwhelm their opponent.
The theme, you might have noticed, is explosive turns that give the rogue an immediate advantage on the board (or just win the game outright with burst damage). Nothing else has ever really worked, despite rogue getting some excellent value cards in the past. Mill is a bit of an oddball, but it's not a value deck either, and it's dead without Coldlight so it doesn't really matter.
Now, look at Pickpocket. Does it give you any presence on the board when played? Does it do anything to your opponent's board when played? Will it allow you to 1-shot them next turn? No? Then it's useless to rogue. Pickpocket is especially bad for Rogue because it actually does absolutely nothing except give you card advantage when played- something that Rogue has never had trouble with, and will not win them the game anyways. Thus, in constructed, it's worthless.
In arena, on the other hand, card advantage is huge for all classes and decks are more a matter of "take what you can get" than "push this class to its limits." In that format, a card that gives you a bunch of extra cards is fantastic, because card advantage really will win you the game there. I hope this was helpful!
Awesome explanations. Thank you!
What the heck. Blizzard stealing my battletag ?
What, Miss Wraith?