Dergachev’s Tempo Apothecary Rogue

Hi, random mid legend player here! My first draw of Tempo Rogue with Apothecary package. 2x Necrium Apothecary into Cairne Bloodhoof and x2 Mechanical Whelp paired with Necrium Blade providing wincon better than x2Questing Adventurer. You can use this deathrattle package at any rogue, but it fits tempo rogue better imo + you can have good times activating Necrium Apothecary with Vendetta. Maybe we can find another base rogue deck for this combo, but full deathrattle deck works bad – rogue don’t have control options, press F for Vanish.

Main idea is turn 3 Necrium Blade hit, turn 4 Necrium Apothecary, hit again = rank 1 legend.

Chances of turn 3 Necrium Blade turn 4 Necrium Apothecary is huge, it’s like ~40% if you act first and hard mulligan (if I did combinatoric calculations right, remember how often you saw hares evolve turn 4, it’s almost same chances, sligtly less). Much more chances for Necrium Apothecary + activator turn 4 (2 stabs, 2 vendettas, occasional shadowstep), it’s about 53%. 3 things combined (blade + apothecary + activator) gives us ~20% chance to make very strong turn 4. Didn’t count turn 5, but it’s should be much more, like 25-30%. + Every second game you have activator for free (coin). So it’s like boosting winrate each ~20-30% of games, while not being completly uselss other games. For example you can put  Necrium Apothecary without Necrium Blade but with activator turn 4, it’s not that strong (no instant value), but it’s still hard-to-deal-with minion.

Questions for refinement:

1. Should we include x2 Necrium Vial it will slow deck a lot, but give so much free value?

2. Should we exclude Cairne Bloodhoof? If you are not mulliganing for Mechanical Whelp there are very low chances that you draw both of them it before single Necrium Apothecary. Cairne provide stability, but makes turn 4-5 play less powerful.

3. Is Tempo basis best basis for this package or not?

Not a question:

4. What about Waxadred? Well, he is not giving insta value with Necrium Blade so you need special miracle deck for him. This candle boy don’t belong this deck, it makes it powerplays weaker.

On a side note, Flik Skyshiv here just because he is too cool and improve every rogue deck.