Budget Aggro Stealth Rogue Deck List Guide 2017

Aggro Stealth Rogue is an archetype that borrows from the shell of Water Rogue which had a brief stint as a solid meta deck. The deck relies on hiding high attack minions for a turn before buffing them with Shadow Sensei or Cold Blood for an explosive burst of damage.

In Knights of the Frozen Throne, Bonemare has proven to be a powerful card. Keeping a minion Stealthed for a turn is an effective way to eliminate the concern over having a minion for the skeleton horse to buff.

The deck plays very aggressively and can take advantage of some of the slower builds that have been prevalent thus far. While the deck currently has no meta counterpart, there are some improvements that can be made in some of the card slots.

Budget Aggro Stealth Rogue Mulligan Guide

High Priority Keeps

• Worgen Infiltrator – Infiltrator is your only turn one play and should be kept in every situation. In certain matchups, leaving him in Stealth may be correct.
• Backstab – Rogue loves gaining tempo through the use of Backstab in the early turns.
• Jungle Panther – Ninja Huffer is your primary early game stealth minion. You want to get a three cost Stealth minion down as early as possible.
• Undercity Huckster – Typically, you’re going to Hero Power on turn two, but sometimes you want the option to drop a minion.

Low Priority Keeps

• SI:7 Agent – With the coin or Backstab, SI is a good keep.
• Defias Ringleader – Like SI:7 Agent, Ringleader should be kept with a Combo enabler.
• Shadow Rager – In certain matchups, Shadow Rager is just as good as Jungle Panther. Do not keep against classes that run early turn AoE.

Budget Aggro Stealth Rogue Card Replacements

Aggro Stealth Rogue is not likely to be a meta breaker in Knights of the Frozen Throne. As a result, your dust may be better spent working towards another Rogue Meta Deck. That said, the current list, while a serviceable budget option, can be improved if you already have the recommended cards.

Eventually, the archetype could work towards a Water Rogue build, eventually working in both the Pirate and Murloc packages below. Each package should be replaced as a set. Replacing the specified cards one-for-one in the packages is not recommend.

• 1x Shadow Rager > 1x Shaku, the Collector – Shaku is far less fragile than Rager and gives you at least one extra card.
• 1x Shadow Rager > 1x Edwin VanCleef – Massive VanCleefs aren’t likely to happen in this deck, but even generating a 6/6 can be good enough to get the job done.

Pirate Package

The Pirate Package introduces additional early game pressure. Southsea Deckhand and Swashburglar are reasonable inclusions on their own, but Patches dramatically increases their viability.

• 2x Worgen Infiltrator > 2x Southsea Deckhand
• 2x Undercity Huckster > 2x Swashburglar
• 1x Mimic Pod  > 1x Patches the Pirate

Murloc Package

Aggro Stealth Rogue’s biggest weakness is running out of steam. The Murloc Package helps counteract this by thinning your deck of Murlocs and Beasts with both Finja, the Flying Star and The Curator.

• 2x Defias Ringleader > 2x Bluegill Warrior
• 2x Bonemare > 2x Murloc Warleader
• 1x Mimic Pod > 1x Finja, the Flying Star
• 1x SI:7 Agent > 1x The Curator

Budget Aggro Stealth Rogue Replacements

Here’s a list of cards you can add to this deck if you happen to have them or are missing anything in the list. In general, a lack of card draw can cause the deck to run out of steam. If you find that to be true, consider some of these options.

• Loot Hoarder – Loot Hoarder can be a direct replacement for Undercity Huckster. Usually you’d want to draw cards from your own deck, but the extra health on Huckster makes a difference.
• Sprint – This card is expensive, but can find you the last bit of damage needed to close out the game or enough minions to reassert board pressure.
• Cult Master – Typically, you don’t have that many minions on board, but Cult Master is usually good for a couple draws.
• Keening Banshee – The downside here is irrelevant to your deck. In exchange, however, you get a 5/5 body for 4 mana.

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