Shadowcat Powers Up Rogue!

I think Rogue is an archetype-defining card for protection, and this deck tries to show how strong it can be!

With this deck, I am looking to do 2 things: keep Rogue on the table forever, and make a small prefect defense package to use Shadowcat's phased form ability to prevent damage.

On the first deck pass, I'd focus on getting Unflappable and Rogue into play, and ideally Utopia as well. The goal is to keep Rogue on the table, and provide good allies for her to siphon stats from, namely Gambit with a good encounter card, Rockslide, or Colossus. Siphoning off of them is an easy 2-3 ATK to defeat minions, and frees up your hero to focus on thwarting and villain damage. I'd also recommend using Utopia to ready Rogue, as you have plenty of healing to keep her around and the ready keeps her stats.

The perfect defense package uses Indomitable for bankable readies and Hard to Ignore for scenarios that need extra thwarting.

The long-term goal is to use ample healing via Elixir, Triage, and Med Team to keep Rogue alive to keep pumping out damage. Elixir does turn off the extra ally slot from Utopia, so it is also removable if you find you already have enough healing. As a side-package I added Fighting Fit to take advantage of any extra healing because I never use it and thought it could be good to take advantage of the resource generation from Solid form. However, Fighting Fit should be a second priority to building your Rogue buffing engine.