Rogue Hearthstone Deck: K.Q.D

Knives. Quest. Draw.

Knives, Quest, Draw (or K.Q.D for short) is a deck I designed using Miracle rogue as the back bone e.g. Gadgetzan Auctioneer. Thus drawing lots of cards using rogues 0-1 cost cheap cards to keep drawing more cards. There are a few centrepiece combos which I will explain later on, with a rough play guide and complete deck list. At the bottom of this Article you can see the deck in action, although the first game I played was a loss, the 2nd game shows how quickly you can recover with this deck, as long as one of the centrepieces sticks.

Knives: A small but very powerful early game combo is getting a Knife Juggler down who combos well with Elven Archer, Elven Archer will give you 1 targeted shot then your Knife Juggler will throw out 1 random dagger. This combo can be further improved upon by using Shadow Step to bounce your Elven Archer giving her 2 targeted attacks and throwing out 2 knives. Although there is only a single copy of him in the deck, another very valuable combo is using Defias Ringleader to summon 2 creatures, throwing 2 random knives again - you can also Shadow Step him to throw another 2 random knives totalling 4, which is nothing to be sniffed at. The other aspect of knives comes from Fan Of Knives which provides a mild sweep, but when used in conjunction with Preparation will enable you to play 2 cards for 0 and draw 1 card. This will allow you to buff your Questing Adventurer twice! or drawing 3 cards total if a Gadgetzan Auctioneer is in play, all for 0 mana!

Quest: The main damaging combo is Questing Adventurer, he can level up quickly using the rogues access to cheap spells, ideally you’re going to want to play him after your Gadgetzan Auctioneer  however you can play him earlier if you can keep him alive with Conceal. As long as he can survive 1 turn you will often end up with 10/10 under your control or even higher depending on how well you take care of him. He benefits from any card entering the field so using Shadow Step on a creature and re-casting it will count as 2 cards being played and give him +1 +1 for each of these.

Draw: The other centre piece creature in this deck is the Gadgetzan Auctioneer and the main piece in Miracle Rogue, ideally you’re going to want to play him on turn 5 where possible then hide him with Conceal, again fishing for conceal and waiting till turn 6-7 may well be needed to make sure he stays alive. If you manage to keep him alive for 1 turn the next turn your going to be drawing a lot of cards and Ideally looking for the previously mentioned Questing Adventurer getting both of these cards down in play is an exceptionally powerful combo and will snowball very quickly. Another small draw combo is Novice Engineer used in conjunction with Shadow Step allowing you to draw 2 cards for each time she enters the battlefield, If a Gadgetzan Auctioneer is in play this effectively becomes draw 3 cards for 2 mana which is obscene.

A few other notable cards in this deck are Bloodmage Thalanos who provides a bit more draw and spell power to help with all the damaging spells packed. Leeroy Jenkins to help drop opponents when combined with Sinister Strike or Cold Blood you are suddenly able to burst out 9-10 damage which is often enough to finish off a weakened foe. Eviscerate is also noteworthy as removal to help keep your creatures safe but can also double up as a bit more burst damage ideally though you’re going to be looking to use this for removal purposes. 

Single cards, there is currently  a single copy of Sinister Strike and Cold Blood which strikes a better balance of damage and flexibility Cold Blood requiring you to combo and Sinister Strike being useful for setting up a combo or even finishing off an opponent or draw should a Gadgetzan Auctioneer be in play.  There is also a single copy of Sap, I was initially running 2 but found this to clog the hand, sap is great for removing blockers in your attacking creatures way in the late game but a dead draw early on. Again I found 2 copies of Defias Ring Leader to not work as well with my deck late game but they are handy nut draw early game pressure or when combed with 1 of the 2 Knife Jugglers in the deck.

Ideally I’d like to have a copy of Edwin Vancleef in place of my Defias Ringleader but still lacking the dust/luck required to obtain him but if you access to him I highly advise slotting him in over Defias Ringleader.

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Deck List Below: 

• 1x Bloodmage Thalnos
• 1x Leeroy Jenkins
• 2x Preparation 
• 2x Gadgetzan Auctioneer
• 2x Knife Juggler
• 2x Questing Adventurer
• 2x Cold Blood
• 2x Conceal
• 1x Defias Ringleader
• 2x Eviscerate
• 2x Shadowstep
• 2x Elven Archer 
• 2x Fan of Knives
• 2x Shiv 
• 2x Backstab
• 2x Novice Engineer
• 1x Sap  

K.Q.D In Action: