Rouge's Guard it Goin' On

Half and Half no Sugah

Rogue is a hero that you can spin off in a hundred different directions when deck building, but I consistently run into a couple of huge problems with most of those deck building options.

• the setup
• the cost

Rogue is just too slow of a hero with no way in kit to cycle through her deck and zero resource gen to reliably setup and afford such setup. So instead we bank on seeing every card in the deck one hand at a time and giving her the best chance at brewing a mean pot of coffee. It all starts with...

The Ingredients

We got Half Guardians and Half X-Men. I love the Guardian allies for Rogue, they are at a great cost value, have good to great abilities, and Energy Spear is awesome. Angela is an exceptional value and can help setup a same turn Throg. The real star of the show is Bug. I love me some BUG!!! However, I also had a good idea I wanted to explore with Game Time and that made it so relying just on getting a Guardians to then Honorary X-Men and then Attack Training to unreliable and I said from the outset here I was aiming to add reliability. So enter the X Men! Forge has two excellent targets, Professor X has great thwart and enter play effect, Sunfire provides a solution to a resource starved hero when needed, Angel has a great stat line and a great cost. The X Men also make it easier to hit Game Time and combined with Danger Room they can really set you up early or late in the game which brings me to

The Mulligan

Rogue has great events, but if you draw nothing but events or rogue cards (-Gambit) in your opening hand trash that entire hand lol. The only event I would hold in the off chance you drew an opening hand of events is Goin' Rogue, but even then I think I'd risk it. Once you get some allies into play the deck should/hopefully start to roll out and build upon itself as the game goes. Top targets to mulligan for:

• Bug
• Cosmo
• Forge
• Professor X to possible stay in AE turn 1
• either of the 2 Xmen locations
• Honorary X-Men
• if you made it this far...literally any ally lol
• .....oh no this is bad....uhhhh I hope you kept that Goin' Rogue

You Got the TOUCH!!!

you got the poweeeeeeeer!!! yeah

Oh you noticed that single copy of Assess the Situation and "Bring It!" have you? Well those are targets for Touched. In fact there are 3 targets for Touched, with Game Time being the primary target. However, Game Time isn't always an active card so Bring it and Assess the Situation are there as an out for those turns you have an extra card and Superpower Adaptation in hand. Even on their own both Assess the Situation and "Bring It!" offer some much needed deck cycling to a hero that as I mentioned before has none. It's an especially neat option when you want to flip down anyways. Surprisingly this is the most use I have gotten out of Touched other than attaching it to the Villain.

The End

I have had a lot of fun playing this deck and I hope you have a good time as well. Curious if this works well for anyone else. If you find yourself beating your head against the wall searching your deck for that specific combo with Rogue, I suggest giving this a try because I really think I tried my best to limit that feeling and you can ultimately play the deck as it comes to you.

PS I prioritized Goin' Rogue over Southern Cross when given the option. It really helps you get down to Anna Marie which is unfortunately the only built in "card draw/resource gen" Rogue has so it is very important part of her game to get to AE when she can.