LogFAQs > #964290998

So...one of the cards I opened was Hooktusk, so I went ahead and made a pirate rogue. Except...I don't have Azsharan Vessel so I quickly tossed in some replacement cards for that.

What I didn't realize is that because I don't have vessel I needed to replace like...five cards. Prep is only in the deck to enable Azsharan Vessel. Gone Fishin is only in the deck to draw sunken vessel (and even in a deck with Vessel is one of the lowest drawn winrate cards in the deck so it really needs to be replaced).

Once I made all these replacements I did get a win where I played hooktusk, although ended up stealing a minion cause I was under too much pressure to do anything else (11/11 snowfall guardian that would have killed me). Definitely had a few other games where I just didn't have a high enough pirate count on turn 8 and just ended up sitting on hooktusk.

I guess I probably need vessel to get full value out of hooktusk, but...even with vessel...I'm looking at her drawn winrate stats on HSReplay and she has the lowest drawn winrate in the deck. Which...isn't too surprising--I didn't expect her to be a new Tickatus, because warlock has stuff like "board clears" and "healing" to support a lategame value card. Rogue if they haven't won by turn 8 is often dead to the opponent on turn 8. But now that the stats are in front of me...oof, I'm wondering if it's just correct to cut her from pirate rogue.

Maybe she's an anti-control tech card for that deck? Same way face hunter used to run Deathstalker Rexxar even though it was a dead card in a lot of matchups. But like...I feel like you could just run Amalgam of the Deep, and discover Hooktusk in matchups where she's relevant, instead of actually putting her in your deck.