Five Eviscerates?? Note that over the course of three games, I saw a total of four Evis.
Yeah. You really can't ever have too many Eviscerates. Maybe 20 is the limit... They trade evenly with 2-drops, combo for bigger stuff, and can be burn.
Usually Rogue tries to take board control early using Backstab/Deadly Poison/hero power/Ringleader, etc
Yeah, it would have been great to have been offered Backstab or Ringleader. If you have more than 5 total Backstab+Eviscerate+Poison, you should be good for the early game. You don't necessarily need all of them. It's not a constructed deck.
In this deck, your 2's a are a little weak (Swordsmith is too small for a 2-drop
I'm not saying you shouldn't have picked them. I'm just saying that if you're trying to count your mana curve, you really don't want to count these as 2-drop minions. You're still actually fine, since you have 3 good 2-drops, a 2/2 and a bunch of Eviscerates. Usually I want to have at least 2 3/2, at least 4 combined 3/2s and 2/3s, and at least 6 things you can play on turn 2, including removal and 2/2s. You're a little short on the second critereon, and that's the only weakness I can see in the deck.
The last few of the Assassin's Blade charges should go face
I don't know what happened in your games so I'm just making general comments about how to play Rogue.
A lot of what lost these for me, I think, were just a ton of taunts and shields from my opponents, the first two were Paladins.
Paladin should be an easy matchup for Rogue. You should usually be able to make his hero power completely worthless because you trade 1 hero power for 2 of his. And if you get board control early with your good low mana cards and hero power, he shouldn't get many good opportunities to use his buff cards.
So here's the thing, though... I can either spend time playing the game, or spend time watching streams. I don't have the time for both. More and more I'm thinking I should just hang it up altogether.
There's obviously a tradeoff here, but I think it's possible to increase one's enjoyment of a game by watching it a little instead of playing it. Anyway, I thought you wanted comments on why you did poorly, and my suspicion is that it's your play, since the draft is fine. But since there's no logs, I can't make any specific comments. You don't need to watch tons of streams. Really if you just watch like a half dozen games, you might get a better for feel for what kind of thought-process better players are using. The mistakes you make might not be obvious to you since you have no comparison for what you should be doing. Just getting a little bit of perspective can be useful.