PineAppler's Comments
Jonnychill's Wild Jade Cube Rogue
Well this deck is a blast to play honestly. I have not tried it at higher ranks as I’m currently lowish but in 18 games i lost 3 times. The losses were against Mill Rogue (A hard game to win as you are deathrattle oriented and if they know how to use sap and vanish then they can stall long enough to mill), Quest Warrior (A disciple of RNGesus who was blessed with special powers no mortal should ever even comprehend), and a Face Hunter (Just a matter of who got better draw). It’s not a large sample size so take it with small portions of salt. It seems to be able to stand a chance against almost every deck I’ve played against, even if you think you’re bound to lose. I just won against a Quest Rogue that took around 20 minutes because I was able to keep filling my board with Carnivorous Cube and Baron Rivendare. Dollmaster Dorian and Roll The Bones can have good synergy like mentioned but Umbra seems like a much better card to try out, Dollmaster would be my first switch and then maybe drop an Unearthed Raptor. I like to mulligan for an egg to start with because you have so many activators to start getting a little pressure on the board, sometimes the fear what’s coming and kill it for you only for another egg to hit the board. So I try to start most games with an egg and then move onto Jades if they are a slower deck or if I have nothing else to do. Oh a risky play that can almost guarantee you a game is here, and it seems to show up quite often:
T2-Cavern Shinyfinder
T3-Necium Blade + Hold weapon charge until later unless necassary
T4-Egg + Swing to get ready to activate
T5-Baron Rivendare + Break weapon
That’s a very good couple of turns and you can use the weapon to control the board if you need to use it. There are plenty of small differences you can do to adjust this combo like coining out Cavern Shinyfinder or a Nerubian Egg on T1 so you can pop with Baron Rivendare on T4. If you don’t get the weapon then you can play Carnivorous Cube on T5 after you played Baron Rivendare T4 to act as an activator and a big threat if they can’t effectively control it. Of course Unearthed Raptor on T3 after you played a decent T2 deathrattle is always a good play as well. This deck is really versatile. And it comes with the obvious bonus of being sticky against board clears. This comment is all over the place and I apologize if you read all of this so far. Umm what else, Roll The Bones seems to draw either nothing or 2-3 cards when you play it. Make sure you think about how you want to save your cards to combo later, Jade Shuriken can be used to kill some of your own minions to pop their deathrattle if you run out of steam. If you’ve played other deathrattle focused decks you shouldn’t have much trouble piloting this. Sonja can end the game in 1 turn if you have a good board, don’t be afraid to make some less than efficient trades if it means you can make more jades or get more cubes going. Necrium Vile is a decent one of I think in this deck as it’s very useful when you’ve been waiting for an activator while your opponent is having their way with you. I would not recommend cubing an egg if you can wait a bit, you might not be bale to do anything with these eggs and they’ll fill your board. Instead think about cubing that 4/1 damaged minion or an 8/8 jade golem. If you do something like this then a raptor has so much value in it as well. Anyway this deck is entertaining and effective, I didn’t go over mulligans and I probably left out some other stuff like specific matchups but I’ve been rambling about everything I could think of for way too long and I’m going to end it here. Congrats for making it through my potato salad. Forgive my spelling mistakes and whatnot.
Oh snap I forgot I would not recommend swapping Mistress Of Mixtures out for Zombie Chow because it seems like you can keep control very well in the beginning with your cheap minions. Also it is very important to keep yourself alive if you fell behind with Mistress or the Beetle. Bloodmage also feels like it could be dropped, I did not have many issues with card draw and hand size and the spell damage only helps once every couple of games with FoC, even then it’s usually just a small help. I never need to try to copy his deathrattle either. Just a thought but I know he’s a staple in a lot of decks. Could be worth trying Umbra here instead.