[Top4Legend] Midrange Hunter Anti-meta
- Last updated Oct 1, 2016 (Karazhan)
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Wild
- 16 Minions
- 12 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: N'Zoth Hunter
- Crafting Cost: 8140
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 5/10/2016 (Old Gods)
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Battle Tag:
N/A
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
480
Channel stream : https://www.twitch.tv/macgarro
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MacgHS
*Top 4 Legend
Thanks to flyboy to share with me the image and congrats :)
1.Introduction
Hi im Macg a spanish Hearthstone player, this is my second deck uploaded. I hope u enjoy it and get high rank. That deck is made to due with the actual meta.
Thank you all for the support, for any question or to follow my activities you can follow me there: https://twitter.com/MacgHS
For any question write a comment in this post :)
Edit: [12/05/2016] uploaded complete guide. New goal, 50 votes to video guide and complete mulligan guide.
Edit: [13/05/2016] new deck image uploaded. Thanks to http://www.hearthdecko.com / Link: http://www.hearthdecko.com/midrange-hunter-standard-s26/
Edit: [14/05/2016] 50+ votes on my deck, thank you all to support me, I'm working on a new overlay to make videos with a good quality.
Edit: [18/05/2016] Flyboy risk top 4 Legend EU + all videos of the community
2.How to play Midrange Anti-Meta
The deck is not dificult to use, but u need experience to use it good.
At first, this is not a total SMOrc deck, if u always SMOrc, probably u wil lose the match, Then u need to know when u can SMOrc and when u need to trade completey the board or only clean some minion.
The two bests qualitys of the deck that u need to use are: presence and pressure. Using that u are near to the win. I important if u wannab use ur damage spells on his face, try to wait and keep the burst to not alert ur oponnent and probably u will rekt him.
3.Deck
*( All beasts make combo with Kill Command and Houndmaster )
-Hunter's Mark : a great card to remove any minion on the table, u can combine with Quick Shot , Eaglehorn Bow , Unleash the Hounds to do a clean clear, depends on the situation.
-Fiery Bat : the best cost 1 on hunter, quite good vs aggro match ups like zoo, because u can clean 2 minions wit that, or vs shaman, or simply vs a drop with 3 points of life( only if u believe on rng). Is a beast*.
-Freezing Trap : this card replace one King's Elekk , i think is better because we have 2 weapons that can be benefit of this trap. But within this benefit, is a great card, he can give us the board, standing up one minion of the oponent and adding 2 more manas on his use.
-Quick Shot : 2 manas, 3 direct damages, what more we need? This spell can trade the 90% of the cost 2 and 3 of the game, or just give us lethal or kill other minion combining with more damage, without talk about the draw if we dont have cards on our hand.
-Huge Toad : now, this card is better than Knife Juggler . At first Huge Toad is a 3-2 drop for 2 mana, and deathrattle deal 1 random damage, so we can call it like a big Fiery Bat and adding that is a beast*.
-King's Elekk : 3-2 drop for 2 mana, beast*, and if u win a minion joust, draw your minion showed. Quite good for this deck for his use and because we need more 2 mana minion drops to make presence and pressure on early game.
-Eaglehorn Bow : combo with Freezing Trap adding one more use to our weapon, this weapon can clean 90% of 2 or 3 mana drops, some 4 mana drops, or just SMOrc.
-Animal Companion : the classic 3 mana spell of hunter, the BEAST* card (Kappa). Good pressure and presence on board.
-Kill Command : more damage on our deck, SMOrc or trade, it depends on the situation.
-Unleash the Hounds : a great card vs aggro decks like warlock zoo or shaman agrgo, good use too vs midrange decks. Beast*ial.
-Houndmaster : good 4 mana drop and the combo with our beasts is rlly good for us, one of the keys in the deck.
-Infested Wolf : a great card of Wotog expansion, his deathrattle give use two 1-1 beasts* that give us a little more presence on board.
-Harrison Jones : a great tech card to use in this meta, all people using warrior, shaman, paladin and rogue. And without his use, is a 5-4 for 5 mana, good presence too, and help us in the curve of the deck.
-Princess Huhuran : dr.5 Beast* on hunter. Active our deathrattle and without is a 6-5 for 5 mana, so so good , great potencial with Savannah Highmane and Sylvanas Windrunner.
-Stampeding Kodo : another great tech card in the actual meta, in addition is a beast*. Great vs aggro decks and control or midrange too, deleting Acolyte of Pain , Armorsmith , Bloodhoof Brave , Northshire Cleric, Beckoner of Evil ,...
-Savannah Highmane : one of the bests card in the game for me, just incredible. 6-5 beast* for 6 mana, deathrattle give us two more beasts* 2-2. Great presence on board and trades.
-Sylvanas Windrunner: another tech card in the deck. Really good vs control and midrange decks. Combo with Princess Huhuran .
-Call of the Wild : one of our finishers, summon the beasts* of Animal Companion on the board. With one o two more minions on board we can rekt the oponent. We take presence and pressure, the two qualitys of our deck.
-Ragnaros the Firelord : the last tech card to beat the meta. The classic drop to win versus control decks, just a finisher, or in other situation can clean a minon( feel the rng). This card is so good, because nobody spect that a hunter will have a Ragnaros.
4.Replacements
-Harrison Jones : i think right now this card is usefull, so is difficult to replace, i think u can replace it for a Acidic Swamp Ooze to destroy a weapon and have more early too, or for Stranglethorn Tiger to get more presence and one more beast*.
-Princess Huhuran : u can replace Dr.5 for Leeroy Jenkins to have one more finisher, Straglethorn Tiger to curve and presence or Psych-o-Tron to curve and defend ur face and minions.
-Sylvanas Windrunner : this tech card is quite difficult to replace too, but u can try Cairne Bloodhoof , Hogger, Doom of Elwynn or Sunwalker .
-Ragnaros the Firelord : i think is a unexpected and really good card on hunter. i think u only can replace him for Leeroy Jenkins or N'Zoth, the Corruptor .
5.Mulligans
I need 50 positive votes to upload a concrete guide versus each deck of the meta, so i hope u will help me :) .
-Aggro: u want to reppel the aggro and control the board. Fiery Bat , Huge Toad , King's Elekk , Eaglehorn Bow ,sometimes Unleash the Hounds and if u have good curve Animal Companion .
-Midrange:u want to control the board and make pressure. Fiery Bat , Huge Toad , King's Elekk , Eaglehorn Bow with coin , Animal Companion with coin and if u have good curve keep Houndmaster or Infested Wolf with coin.
-Control: u want to make pressure, but be careful and dont overextend on minons. Fiery Bat, Huge Toad , King's Elekk , Animal Companion or Eaglehorn Bow with good curve and Houndmaster or Infested Wolf with coin and good curve.
On some Match ups u can keep Freezing Trap and versus Control Warrior with coin and some good curve u can keep Harrison Jones.
6.Community videos
Destructo
kiwiinbacon
Cristianbreak
Khristophesaurus Dinosaurus
7.My other decks
[AntiAggro] Hybrid Dragon Warrior : http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/563654-antiaggro-hybrid-dragon-warrior
New tempo mage: http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/508469-wotog-new-tempo-mage
- Thanks to all the people who enjoy this guide and this deck -
I don't know why people want to run Princess Huhuran so badly. It's simply not that great. I've played like 20 games with it. 90% it was just a 6/5 for 5 and sometimes you get free ping or two 1/1s.
Oh i'm not saying the deck is bad, just not a fan of the Princess. I've cut her and everything that costs 5 mana or more except a Savannah and one Call of the Wild. Also added more early minions and Leeroy. I get about the same or a bit better results than this deck. Still nothing compared to the previous face hunter.
I just found very weird for hunter to play deck with "slow" cards since your hero power just pushes you to go face.
Great fresh and stompy deck - I don't have Harrison Jones, but meta is not that full of weaponry. Just add Stranglethorn Tiger instead. N'Zoth, the Corruptor is the must-play and the second Freezing Trap is useful against Rogue and Paladin too. Skip King's Elekk and one Fiery Bat and you are ready to crush the ladder!
Not full of weaponry? Shaman, warrior, paladin, rogue. Everyone is playing Harrison Jones
That is kinda true, but I struggle (mostly) against warlocks and priests, so I drop Jones with no regrets
So Good! Thank You :-)
+ for dropping a Unleash and subbing in N'Zoth - really helps on more controlly games
This is a nice deck, but not sure how it's anti-meta.....
After a couple of games Unleash the hounds has been a liability so replaced one with N'Zoth.
Why do you friggin' have two eaglehorn bows and one measly trap?
Bows are ideal for controlling the early game. Weapons are op in this game usually trading for at least one card from the opponent per durability, so even if you can't squeeze out maximum value from eagle horn it's still too good not to use to establish board control before you start dropping bombs.
Bow is still worth it even with only 1-2 traps. Most decks now that run bow run at most 2 traps.
Awesome deck. I made some changes, but still. Really wanted to use Ragnaros, but thought it wouldn't fit into Hunter's deck. Your guide made me try and it works awesome.
Replaced Harrison Jones with N'Zoth, the Corruptor and Princess Huhuran with Leeroy Jenkins and went from rank 10 to rank 6 with absolutely no game lost. Not sure if Leeroy Jenkins replacement is an improvement but the finisher is certainly helping, specially since his battlecry actually helps you if you have Unleash the Hounds, but I replaced it simply because I don't have Princess Huhuran and don't want to craft it.
I'm doing really good, went from Rank 5 to Rank 1 with an approximate winrate of 80%, the bad matchup against tempo warrior is greatly improved in this one compared to other Midrange Hunter decks I tried, because of the Stampeding Kodo. I feel like I'm gonna hit Legend this season for the first time, so thanks for your list buddy!
I run this deck with: -Princess Huhuran and -Harrison Jones, because I simply don't have them and +2 Stranglethorn Tiger.
But I feel like my list is even better in some matchups (though considerably worse in others) and, what's important: More consistent.
Sometimes you just need a beast so desperate, that the Stealth bonus on Stranglethorn Tiger is just too good to overlook. And most of the time you can't even utilize the afore mentioned cards I excluded, so that you would end up with a worse minion. Especially in Priest and Warrior matchup Stranglethorn Tigers have done quite some work for me, since they can get atleast 5 damage done before they get sniped by Shadow Word: Death or Shield Slam.
Well, I just got legend with this list! Thanks man.
oh look another "anti-meta" deck, so you know it's good...
n'zoth hunter deck without n'zoth --> midrange hunter
The deck has no draw power no board clear loses to most aggro decks.
Stop trying to fit princess huhruan in these kind of decks, she is a trash legendary, sad but true. She only will work in situational times when you have a deathrattle out , and the only deathrattle that is worth using it on is hymane and sylvanis.