Three things

(1) read the Vicious Scalehide part.

(2) Mage’s quest is just as bad. The idea is not to let the quest be done. Pressure hard enough for the pieces to be spent.

(3) Think win rates not selective memory of terrors you faced.

I’m experimenting with this

-2 Novice Engineer
-2 Wax Elemental
+ 2 Voodoo Doctor
+1 Fan of Knives
+1 Sap

I mean we still need some drawing effect to dig through the deck when bad draws happens like when 4 of the deck’s best cards (Vanishes, Sonya, and Valeera) are piled up in the last 5-10 cards of the deck or something. That and Fan of Knives is a direct dmg. That aside, my defense for Voodoo Doctor is that if you complete the quest with it which is quite a often for me, it would be 10 healings that has no time restrain unlike other cards that need to battlecries on your board on specific turns. For this reason, Wax Elemental is worthless as a quest completer since you rarely afford to let it stay on the board to be killed. Despite saying this, sometimes against fast aggro I do left some creatures on the board to bait the dmg away from hitting face. Brewmaster, Zola, and Elven to be exact. But if you by any chance of the back up of any quest completer, dropping some on the board to bait dmg is very preferable since they will not know which one is your bet (for example, Shard and Voodoo when you have a back up Voodoo in your hand maybe from the pod or the second one you drew). The deck force opponent to kill everything you dropped on the board anyway otherwise you can drop Sonya next turn and let all of them suicide and fill your hand. Just don’t worry too much on completing the quest if you face fast aggro. If you don’t misplay really really bad you are unlikely to run out of gas.

Yes! some games just seem so bs attacking with 6 5/5s charge after attacking with 6 5/5s lifesteal rush the turn before.

I did replace Elven and found out it was a mistake. This deck is supposed to be a full control not semi-tempo/combo. Elven will be your toolbox against everything. you only need to survive and eventually all the piece that you have left will do it for you.

### Standard Quest
# Class: Rogue
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
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# 2x (0) Preparation
# 2x (0) Shadowstep
# 2x (1) Glacial Shard
# 2x (1) Southsea Deckhand
# 2x (1) Stonetusk Boar
# 1x (1) The Caverns Below
# 2x (1) Voodoo Doctor
# 1x (1) Wax Elemental
# 2x (2) Sap
# 2x (2) Vicious Scalehide
# 2x (2) Youthful Brewmaster
# 2x (3) Fan of Knives
# 2x (3) Mimic Pod
# 1x (3) Sonya Shadowdancer
# 2x (4) Elven Minstrel
# 2x (6) Vanish
# 1x (9) Valeera the Hollow
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Yes! please let me apologize for my noobness. Elven is a must, two of them! I have been playing with good draws and so few games since win streaks got me 5 ao soon.

The thing is if things go out of your way only three cards can help, Vanish, Vanish, and Sonya. So Elven is the key (let me repeat you) I mean I had been playing with these 3 cards at the bottom of my 1/3 deck all the time since so I do get it now how Elven is a must.

Still disagree (to the op) with engineers and 1 FoK, tho Engineers are not good with this aggro meta and with 2 Elven and 2 FoK there is no point playing 2 engineers.

Here is what I play lately So many games seems cancer yes just like what Rogue should be

Here is what

The deck is legit. The life steal aspect really does enable it competitive. I don’t have Gorgon but play quite a bit in ladder and 5ed really fast with

-1 Zola the Gorgon
-2 Elven Minstrel
-1 Glacial Shard
+1 Fan of Knives
+1 Sap
+2 Voodoo Doctor

The thing is to recognize this deck as a full control one. Do not rush things, but also throw everything at the fast aggro decks. So, Minstrel is just hettig in your way of surviving. The quest will be done eventually with Sonya or Vanish (which is quite fast when you survive at 7-8 and Valeera is just there for you.

Sometimes you just need to setup Sonya like uou used to do with Auctioneer Miracle. For 4 -5 mana, play Sonya and 1 charge/rush creature to atk and die. Then bounce Sonya with shadow step.

Really, just tune the deck for more defense against aggro and Valeera will do the rest. Play one Boar, play the copy of the boar atk and bounce with VAnish or or Brewmaster to be copied more next turn, etc.

Will do more mulligan and strategy for 10+ votes