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This build is going fairly well for me right now;

"Hakeem928"

60 Cards. 25 Lands (11 10; 4 other).

A library for Rogues Gallery (Dimir)

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Land
Spell	■■■■	Terramorphic Expanse		Land
cost
Creature	■■	Dimir Guildmage	2/2
	■■	Inkfathom Infiltrator	2/1
	■■	Walking Corpse	2/2
Spell	■■■■	Agony Warp
cost
Creature	■■	Barony Vampire	3/2
	■■	Dimir Cutpurse	2/2
	■■	Neurok Invisimancer	2/1
	■	Royal Assassin	1/1
Spell	■	Soul Manipulation
cost
Creature	■	Abyssal Specter	2/3
	■	Ashling, the Extinguisher	4/4
	■	Glen Elendra Liege	2/3
	■■	Moroii	4/4
	■	Sangromancer	3/3
Spell	■■	Barrin's Spite
	■■	Flight of Fancy
cost
Creature	■	Ghastlord of Fugue	4/4
Spell	■	Dire Undercurrents
	■■	Ribbons of Night
cost
Creature	■	Harvester of Souls	5/5
	■	Laquatus's Champion	6/3
	■	Wrexial, the Risen Deep	5/8

Get the deck planner used to make this table.>>>

I'll post some notes tomorrow or the next day.

I like this deck a lot because it's challenging and very different from a standard aggro or control deck - and I'm winning with it more than I'm losing (but does that mean anything?  I went 4-2 today but 2 of my wins were against pretty bad opponents even though it was xbox ranked and my 2 losses were against turn 2/turn 3 hexproof creatures that quickly grew with enchantments for which this deck has no answer.  Maybe winning percentages mean something over 100s of games but there is so much variance in decks and opponents that I'm not sure the percentages reported here indicate much either way).

But even though I like the deck, I don't think I can avoid the conclusion that this is the weakest deck in 2013, by an extremely large margin.  I used to think that nothing could be worse in 1v1 than DP, but DP has a number of good matchups in addition to its horrible ones - and the fact that it's great against MM is a very large plus, given how popular MM appears to be. 

RG has many flaws:
--its main strength, supposedly draw/discard, is very vulnerable to disruption
--the discard part of this deck isn't very relevant against decks that have even a little draw power, because the discard is slow and unreliable.  GM is a far better discard deck even though it doesn't have that many discard cards.
--it has no way of dealing with enchantments or artifacts except for Extract, which is pretty unreliable and bad
--hexproof ends this deck completely.  If you're playing Aura Servants and on turn 2 they play an Invisible Stalker, the game is effectively over: a turn 2 win that will be drawn out for a bit but will still be a win unless the AS player can't find a Plains or enchantments
--it has no sweepers
--its removal is pretty weak (and much of it is slow and expensive) and if you're facing a deck like PI, SS or MM with a lot of creatures with toughness 5 or higher you can be in trouble.  
--it is really slow; its main creatures are unblockable weenies that can't be pumped without facing a 2 for 1 situation and a smart opponent will keep mana open if they see the potential for a threat.

I guess the other candidate for worst is Act of War - but Act of War has always run pretty well for me, and even though it shares some of the same weaknesses as RG.   And Act of War has three things that RG badly lacks: speed, and sweepers, and one card that can deal with enchantments/artifacts.  

Every deck seems to have good and bad matchups.  Bad matchups for this deck are:
--hexproof
--direct damage
--big creatures
--fast aggro
--mill

I am not sure what the good matchups are yet.  Maybe CL.

But still, it's fun.  It's a lot more fun than MM, which is a bit too easy to play most of the time.  The flavor of it is pretty cool.  Winning with the worst deck is more fun than winning with one of the best (having said that, Dragon's Roar still sucked in every way and was not remotely fun to win with).

1 Expanse
4 Agony warp
2 Guildmage
2 Infiltrator
1 Stalker
2 Vampires
2 Cutpurse
2 Invisimancer
2 Phantom Warrior
1 Assassin
1 Manipulation
1 Specter
1 Ashling
2 Barrin's
1 Liege
3 Helm
2 Moroii
1 Sangromancer
2 Footsteps
1 Ghastlord
1 Grimgrin
2 Ribbons
1 Champion
1 Wrexial

Jan 16, 2013 -- 6:33PM, djAMPnz wrote:

Every time I use this deck I like Grimgrin more and more. I'm right in thinking you can sac all of your creatures before damage to give him a boost to win the game, right?

My point exactly)

Jan 16, 2013 -- 6:33PM, djAMPnz wrote:

 I like how the removal in this deck is tricky to use and requires planning and combos.

Someone said earlier (some dissapointed person) that rogues have to be fast, so this deck doesn't fit it's name. Rogues have to be cunning)

Jan 16, 2013 -- 3:39PM, sixty4half wrote:

Back in pg53 there's a post by tripp quoting monks defoliation fyi.

Just getting caught up on the thread and almost choked on my pizza laughing as I imagined WOTC bombers dropping Agent Orange on Viet Nam.