Cross7224’s Un’Goro Flower Miracle Rogue (April 2017, Season 37)

This deck is very much a glass-cannon, combo deck. Its consistency lives or dies on all of the moving parts in it, which means you need to do A LOT OF MATH re. draw %, damage on the board, what your opponent will do, etc. Played well, it’s a good OTK-style deck. Played poorly, you will get curbstomped.
Miracles are for those who make them.

Mulligans are very important. The biggest mistake is, despite the premise of the deck, keeping high cost cards like Gadgetzan or Vilespine in the opening hand – actually super-greedy. It’s much better to just chill until you draw into these guys. Always Mull Patches (you NEVER want to see him in your opening hand, always try to summon with other pirates)

Good Keeps, no matter what:
A pirate. Swashburglar is nuts, southsea is fine, because they get Patches. Despite his 1/1 frame, he’s a good source of early damage and is usually good for 2-3 for free. (If you get to Coin + Pirate +Cold Blood> Patches + Turn 1 hit you for 5, it’s insane. Enjoy taking a stupid amount of health to weapon attack him or Druid HP. Either way, Patches will trade with something and he being free with another body is value city)
Backstab
Eviscerate
Preperation+a relevant spell (3 drops are the best, Fan of Knives is the best, but if the spell is relevant, keep it.)

It Depends:
Eddie. VanCleef is a great early 6/6 or 8/8, but he’s situational. You need a lot of cheap cards and he’s a juicy target. (Always keep Killspells or Hexes and the like in mind when trying to make a big Eddie)
Preperation. With nothing else to do, it’s usually a toss.
Cold Blood. You want ways to use it offensively – that body can go for the face, or kill a board threat. But you want to combo and go for the face. (Cold Blooding Gadgetzan for an 8/4 is respectable if he gets to swing. =Wait and see if he lives=, then go for the cold blood)
Shadowstep. With nothing to hit, it’s useless.
Bloodmage Thalnos. He works best as a =2 mana, spells this turn are +1= kind of card, not a body, and certainly not with nothing to cast.
Fan of Knives. It’s your only real AoE card, and even still – you need to know your opponent, because this card can easily be cast purely to draw a card and have it be a good play.
Counterfeit Coin. Best saved for the Gadgetzan turn, a Coin can be used to ramp into something and/or trigger a Combo if your opening hand has something like Eviscerate. Vilespine, or even Cold Blood

Since most of the cards are meant to interact with each other, and are situation-dependent, it’s really more about “combinations of cards” in my opening hand&who I’m facing than the cards themselves.

Never Keeps:
Patches. Obvious, his whole purpose is to NOT be cast.
Gadgetzan Auctioneer. Too expensive.
Vilespine and Leeroy. Same reason.

You can expect a game to go like this:
Early on, you’re having fun with the pirates, hitting face and trading. Turn 2 Hero Power for Rogue is actually an average day, don’t be pissed to have nothing to play. Know that your HP never goes up – you have no Taunts, either – so take everything on the board seriously. Do I hit that guy for 1 and take the damage? If he’ll do more over time, go for it. Mana is =tight= all game – do NOT hit the hero for 1 at 30 health, it’s wasted board control (and yet, DO hit the hero later on, when Mana is unavailable for use, because every point counts. Funny huh? I said this deck is hard to play)

Midgame you might be using some of your spells to keep board control and tempo – try and use the expensive ones, cycle Fan of Knives if it’s gathering dust, but try and do the most with your Mana, always. You want every crystal going to use.

Now you’ll draw into a Gadgetzan Auctioneer. Here’s where things get real.

Do you play him on turn 6, with a couple of 0 cost spells? If they’re relevant to the board. and you can get at least 3 or 4 procs of Gadget, I say it’s decent. But you’re looking to get as much cycling as you can and Shadowstep him, only to come back later to cast a bazillion spells. This is where the “Miracle” comes in, because you need to get the most value out of everything that comes your way to keep the flow of the game.
The deal is, if a Vile and gadget survive a turn, a razorpetal, 2 eviscerates, and 2 cold bloods = 24 points of where the hell did that come from, potentially as early as turn 7. Or, a big Eddie. Or, Southsea charge(you still have a weapon, right?). Or Leeroy Jenkins (Preparation+ FoK is a great combo). Gadgetzan Auctioneer is just a means to an end – he draws through your deck to get the relevant parts. Expect the enemy to eliminate him ASAP.

A final note: with all of this stuff happening, your biggest enemy is often “The Turn Clock”. You’re constantly recalculating how much damage you’ve got and how much it costs you health, Mana, and tempo-wise on the board to do it. Then you gadgetzan, and have to do that calc a bazillion times as you spend time drawing the cards. So always try to go into your turn with a plan of what to cast in what order (Preparation hits the next =spell=, not creature, so cast Fan of Knives before Cold Blood, and don’t mistakenly Preparation a Coin etc etc.), and do it quickly. Little mistakes are all it takes to make this deck lose, but it’s the amount of skill needed to pilot this deck that, I think, makes it one of the most entertaining.