Downvoted too much. This list is 2 cards away from the best one.

next to the concede button

Picked Purple as well. Best pick for me so far

Bloodlust and Ooze

Cut the Steam Surger for a Cabalist Tome and you should be fine

The cards that I was really hyped about were Arcane Giant, Silverware Golem and Cloaked Huntress. It seems I was wrong only about the Cloaked Huntress exactly for the reason I thought it may not work: hunter lacks card draw.

I never believed Barnes, Menagerie Warden and Prince Malchezaar to be meta-defining, super-broken or things like that. To me, Malchezaar is trash, Menagerie Warden is more of a fun card and the only playable one is Barnes which in the right deck is just an very good tempo card.

I really underrated Babbling Book, Ivory Knight, Firelands Portal and The Curator. I expected The Curator to be a decent card, I never believed it to be bad, but I didn’t think too good about it as well. It turned out to be a valuable card in Dragon Warrior and N’Zoth Paladin. Yet, Babbling Book, Firelands Portal and Ivory Knight were my top review failures.

Ivory Knight was to me more of an arena card, never thought about it to be playable in a competitive deck.

Firelands Portal, even if one friend told me it was going to be really good, looked to me, again, more of an OP arena card, but not a fast enough card to see competitive play. Yet, here we are with tier 1 Tempo Mage.

Talking about Tempo Mage, my biggest mistake was to think Babbling Book is bad. There were people saying this will be the new 1-drop for Tempo Mage, but I was like “1 mana 1/1 add a spell to your hand? Really?”. Well, it’s easy to see where I was wrong: if this card was, for example, a paladin card, yes, this card would’ve been bad, but we are talking about the mage class which has really good spells. I think the worst outcome of this card would be Shatter, yet it looks like it has a tendency to give you a good spell. Looking at the chances, well, you should be really unlucky to get Shatter knowing how good the mage’s spells pool is.

I have a question for you. What are the cards you thought were going to be the best cards of this expansion? How much are you pleased with them so far?

Playing 800 games of Midrange Hunter without understanding it properly seems strange to me. I mean, it’s one of the easiest meta decks to play and there is not so much room for misplays.

Geomancer strengthens spell, too. Thalnos is only superior for his card draw, which is more essential to Oil Rogue than the bonus +1/+1 the Geomancer has.

I wouldn’t consider Loatheb a card to be replaced because it gives you a little chance to win against aggro decks, which are the most difficult for Oil Rogue.

Fan of Knives also gives you a bonus card.

I don’t really like the Assassin’s Blade because you need to have a weapon with not that much durability in order to activate the attack – Blade Flurry combo. Also, Assassin’s Blade is kinda slow because you have to attack 2 times before you can combo and it’s also a nice target to Harrison Jones.

Thalnos is way to good in this deck. As I wrote above, you can replace it with a Geomancer until you can craft him.

The idea to replace a Sap with BGH is really tempting. I mean, BGH can be better in some cases than the Sap. For example, would you prefer to sap or to BGH a Dr. Boom? :D. Nice idea, man.

Yep, as Roadkill said, Kobold Geomancer is the best replacement for Thalnos.
That spell damage makes this card quite good and the low cost allows you to easily deal more damage with your removals. For example, I run a Geomancer in my Mid Druid deck, just because I want a faster empowered Swipe.

Tomb Pillager is a good replacement for Piloted Shredder.

Well, it depends. You don’t always have to go for 6/6 EVC. Against decks that you know that they don’t usually run BGH you can go for an 8/8 or more EVC.

I haven’t played any Oil Rogue yet, but from what I saw I can say that EVC is a must here. Dr.Boom is too slow in this deck and most of the time you will aim for having a large hand and combos in order to finish your opponent, so EVC can become later your big fancy card if you need one. Also, EVC is good because it gives you more options. You can play Dr. Boom only on turn 7 while there are no constrains about when to play EVC.

Btw, Thijs’ Oil Rogue is the best version in my opinion. Have a look at it. It seems like fun. 🙂

Exactly my thoughts when I saw Finley out there.

Hunter’s Mark is better. You don’t actually need a 2nd Owl or Quickshot.

Giant Toad is not that good. Also, it is vulnerable to Consecration. Flame jugglers aren’t.