OurSaviors of Uldum Thief Quest Rogue Deck Guidetakes a look at this possible archetype in the new expansion for Hearthstone’s Year of the Dragon. Rogue is attempting to make thieving a meta possibility again, but this time they’ve brought in a new quest to give it a good chance!
Thief Rogue actually had some success in the Rise of Shadows meta, but it didn’t last for long and kind of fizzled out towards the end. Well, there’s good news if you’re a fan of this style of deck, because you may now run the Quest that benefits from cards from another class! If you’re able to complete it, you’ll get yourself the ability to generate a 3/2 weapon that makes you Immune when attacking. That is a powerful hero power, and will allow you to either smash your opponent repeatedly or easily clean up boards on the cheap!
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TheBazaar Burglaryquest once completed will give you the hero power, Ancient Blades. It costs 2-mana and reads, “Equip a 3/2 Blade with Immune while attacking.”
The main thing we’re looking to do is complete the quest as quickly as possible. The faster we get the weapon hero power, the faster we’re trading into minions with our face or bashing our opponent. We accomplish this mainly with bothPilferandClever Disguise. The latter being the more powerful of the two, which gets us immediately half way to completing the quest. It also curves perfectly, because our standard turn one play is going to be the Bazaar Burglary.
Blink FoxandHench-Clan Burglarare our other ways of getting cards from other classes. If we’re one card away from completing the quest, then usingShadowstepon one of these is perfectly acceptable (although, you’d like to save it for Leeroy potentially).
We do have a couple of alternative gameplans in this deck. We’re runningEdwin VanCleefwhich could always just win you the game with the right combination of cheap spells and an opponent that can’t deal with it. Lackeys are another potential aspect of the deck, we’ve got a couple of generators, and we’re runningHeistbaron Togwagglewhich could generate us a pretty crazy card.
Ultimately, once we’ve completed the quest we immediately head into beatdown mode. This is mostly us using our weapon as much as possible to keep the board clear from minions, and then us going to the face with our own cards. We’ve got some burst from hand in bothEviscerateandLeeroy Jenkins, so be on the lookout for lethal if you’ve got any kind of board state!
