Let's discuss Pogo Rogue, post buff patch - what are your ideas?

With Pogo Hopper being buffed to a 1-drop, I believe this now offers a lot of flexibility and possibilities for building a successful Pogo deck.  It's less the fact that you can and will play PH on 1, but the fact that it's faster to combo with cards like Lab Recruiter and Daring Escape.  

After trying out some ideas last night, here's what I would consider to be "core":

• 2x Pogo-Hopper
• 2x Lab Recruiter
• 2x Shadowstep
• 1x Myra's Unstable Element
• 2x Witchwood Piper
• 2x Togwaggle's Scheme
• 2x Backstab
• 1x Zilliax

I'm still undecided about which draw engine(s) are best.  We could add a couple of Preps and Auctioneers.  We could add Thalnos and Acolyte of Pains.  Probably want to add at least one FoK.  Last night I was trying out 2x Daring Escape but two might be overkill.  There's also the possibility of Sprint and/or Vanish.  Lastly, because this deck can take a few turns to get going, we need some early survivability.  That will either be through spell removal (like Walk the Plank) or contesting the board with tempo oriented minions, like SI:7.  

What are you all playing with?  What are your ideas for resurrecting this deck?  

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Magic Carpet and Barista Lynchen are definitely good options. I was experimenting with some things yesterday. tak noswhisker and Spirit of the Shark work quite well also. Daring Escape can be handy.

Ooh I hadn't even considered Magic Carpet.  

I was running Spirit of the Shark and it can certainly put an immediate clock on your opponent, and is also really useful for drawing with Witchwood Piper.  I suppose that could be considered 'core' too, eh? 

Is Barista good enough to be crafted ? 

Barista is amazing

not just in this deck but others as well

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Is Barista good enough to be crafted ? 

Good in control/value decks, so worth it if you like playing those, else probably no

I feel like pogo rogue will become better when people can run pogos without it being a pogo centred deck. Most rogue decks are running a decent amount of bounce and honestly i feel it might be best to try and slot in pogos into some of them, instead of making a pogo only deck

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I feel like pogo rogue will become better when people can run pogos without it being a pogo centred deck. Most rogue decks are running a decent amount of bounce and honestly i feel it might be best to try and slot in pogos into some of them, instead of making a pogo only deck

Can you imagine how insane Storm Chaser would be in this deck?  

I think that there isn't enough draw for this deck to be good at all. Compare it to Jade Druid: both have a card that can go infinite and summon always bigger dude, but A) jade idol is a one card, while pogo hopper need a lot of external support in bouncer/shuffler B) Druid draw card were extremely good, while rogue is not

You should find a way to cycle fast into your deck to draw lots of pogo-hopper first, then focus on the other problem.

We are in rogue: did somebody said miracle?