*EASY LEGEND* Potamia's Midrange Hunter
- Last updated May 15, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Wild
- 14 Minions
- 14 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Midrange Hunter
- Crafting Cost: 2280
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 5/16/2016 (Old Gods)
- Potamia
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Before you ask, Proof:
Hello guys, My name is Martin Rios (Potamia ingame), I'm a legend player from Argentina and I wanted to show you the Deck I made which I used to get to Legend this season.
This is a deck I started making when the expansion got out, and after a series of rotations and replaces, this is the deck I ended with. There has been some interest ingreplacements, and some cards might even look weird, but it's the best combination I got to.
The way you play this deck is the same you would play for any Midrange hunter deck : Take control of the board early on with high attack minions, spells and weapon, and from
turn 5 and on unleash a series of threats your opponent won't be able to deal with, and you just win the game from that point on.
Mulligan:
General Mulligan Guide:
You should mulligan the same way in most matchups : Try to curve nice with Fiery Bat into Huge Toad or King's Elekk into Animal Companion / Eaglehorn Bow From then on, you are most likely gonna draw your mid game threats for every turn.
Quick strategy guide:
Shaman :
Aggro Shaman is a decent matchup, like a 50/50. It all depends on who gets the early board. If he plays a Tunnel Trogg followed by Feral Spirit and you couldn't contest it, kiss your game goodbye. If you can maintain your early board, and he can't contest it, you'll win.
if you already have a 1-drop, you might want to keep a Quick Shot for an easy removal of Tunnel Trogg, or you can also try keeping a Hunter's Mark for the Flamewreathed Elemental. Snake Trap is also a nice keep against Shammy if you don't have a 2-drop.
Midrange Shaman is a 60-40 on our favor. You just want to take care of their Lightning Storm by not overextending too much, and try to bait their Hex before you play your Savannah Highmane and you'll do ok.
Druid :
C'thun Druid is seeing some play in high ranked ladder, so you might have some precautions about it. You have to always try to curve well, but if you happen to get a Hunter's Mark in your mulligan phase, KEEP IT, because it will be a huge tempo gain if you can use it on their innervated Druid of the Claw and Dark Arakkoa. Try to keep your minions above 1 health to avoid Swipe board clear, and you'll be fine. If you achieve to reach midgame and drop your midgame threats, the Druid will most likely have no way to remove, and your way to his face will be clear.
Warrior:
Control warriors are a decent matchup of us. Just maintain control of the board and don't over extend, and you will most certainly win. Care for brawl and also try not to put them to 12 or under unless you need it or you're safe from the buffed Revenge AoE. Keep pressure and he won't be able to stop you in time. Try to bait executes before playing Savannah Highmane or try to play them in an empty board, so you force them to use a spell plus the Execute or even forcing him to hit it with his face :)
Tempo warrior is a tough matchup, maybe the only one which brings real trouble to us, mainly because of Ravaging Ghoul which easily clear our Snake Trap and bring our big cards to Execute range, plus bringing a 3/3 body to the board, and if they combine them with Blood To Ichor it will be difficult to stop the huge tempo gain from them.
Eaglehorn Bow Is an awesome card in this matchup. it gives you means to stop the tempo gain from the warrior, and it's a clean kill for Acolyte of Pain, Ravaging Ghoul and the little slimes. Another great keep is Infested Wolf Because you'll use it after the Ravaging Ghoul is played, and he will likely have to trade, and won't have another AoE to effectively clear the spiders. That's when the Wrangler comes in ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Rogue:
Miracle Rogue is pretty popular right now, and the best way to win is by pressuring his guts off. and I mean PRESSURE him. try to put all the pressure you can, always trying to avoid Fan of Knives. With Blade Flurry almost gone from ladder, Rogues have a really bad times dealing with a lot of minions above 1 health (unless the happen to draw Bloodmage Thalnos + Fan of Knives in which case you'll get rekt.
Pressure him enough to bait the Sap on your little minions, so he won't have it for your Savannah Highmane. If he can't sap them, you'll most likely win the game.
If you get the chance to kill their Auctioneer, go for it unless you have lethal, because he can beat you up with 1 turn of drawing glory with it.
Mage:
There are very few Freezemage/FreezeSaronMage's out there, and they're usually a pretty easy matchup. You want to pressure them a lot, like with Miracle Rogue so they waste their removals early and miss important mana turns like Emperor Thaurissan or miss a Secret or an Arcane Intellect. Denying them their Draw Mechanics is of huge importance to give you time to throw your lategame threats with ease. It's a pretty easy matchup, you can pop their Ice Block with your hero power, which makes it far easier. Try to mulligan your direct damage, you want to draw them in the end game; Get as many minions possible on the board ASAP.
Special mentions:
Some cards are not that seen, or might feel unfitting when seen, so I'll take this space to explain the reason I play them.
Ram Wrangler (And even 2x of them!)
This card is not seen that much on competitive ladder, but I think it's an awesome card given that with the new cards (Specially Infested Wolf) we can almost guarantee having a Beast by turn 5. I found myself very few times where I didn't have a beast to combo my Ram Wrangler, And if you happen to find yourself in that situation, you can always save a Fiery Bat To combo it.
This card played on turn 5 with a beast on board, it's usually an insane tempo boost, and sometimes it just leads to victory by it's own.
This was one of my latest additions to the deck. you DON'T want it as an 1 drop, you want to draw it at your late game, when you have already a really good board, looking for a finisher, or in the midgame if you lost your board, to find a midrange minion and try to recover it. Always try to use it Explicitly when you need it. I can count the amount of times I tracked into a Kill Command, or Tracked into a Call of the Wild and won me the game. This is an awesome card for a midrange deck, and I honestly can't see why such few people run it.
Feel free to post any questions regarding it's playstyle, strategy of whatever, I'll answer ASAP :)
Really good and fun deck, works so well, got from rank 16 to 12
Really glad you liked it! Hope to see you climbing even higher! ;)
exchange anything for a tundra rhino?
Yes, you can exchange a Ram Wrangler for a Tundra Rhino and it will work too.
I personally don't like Tundra Rhino that much, but if you like it, that's the best swap you can make.
Really good and fun deck, i win so often against priests they get wrecked every time
Glad you liked! Yeah! Priest is one of the best matchups for this deck :B
I am so glad to find a midrange hunter deck that actually works! Midrange is what i loved before standard, what do you guys think about Sir Finley? I usually included him but is he good in standard anymore? Another card that i somewhat want to test is forlorn stalker. This deck has a lot of deathrattle maybe it could work?
Really glad you liked it! Midrange Hunter is an awesome deck, and really fun to play!
About Sir Finley : it's not a bad pick, but the Hunter Hero power is really good in this deck, it helps you keep the high pressure in midgame, and getting you really closer to lethal. Mage's fire blast would be the best replacement for it, without a doubt.
And about the Forlorn Stalker, I don't believe you have enough Deathrattles for it to work on your favor. Forlorn is an awesome card, but horribly slow, and it's easily dispatched by most decks nowadays.
That being said, feel free to experiment and comment how did it go!
Great deck I'm having a lot of fun with it and success, I've been wanting to play hunter for some time now, I only needed one more Call Of The Wild for this deck as well so it worked out perfectly! It seems like a lot of people I'm playing, Rank 11 atm. Don't seem to know this deck very well and it's confusing them.
Several times I've been up against mages that think I have frost trap and they don't want to lose their flamewaker combos so they don't even attack, But it was snake/bear trap the whole time xD. Which is fair enough I myself haven't seen a lot of snaketrap hunters going around. Again I've only been at rank 13 to 9 and in between this month so that might be different at higher ranks.
All in all it's a fun deck that actually turned out to be really good as well. Midrange Hunter is back with a BANG!!!
Really glad you liked it! Indeed, it's a really powerful deck, and yeah, so much times people don't attack being afraid of freezing trap it makes me laugh lol.
Hope you get even higher with it! :)
Can i replace snake trap for freezing trap?
I'd rather replace Bear Trap instead, because both of them work as a defensive tool.
Snake trap is more like an early tempo tool against weapon users and aggro/zoo, which usually has a great impact on early turns.
Hope the deck suits you well, and good luck with the modifications! :)
MID SMOrc GOOD :D ! Thanks for the share and congratz on legend yoh!
Really glad you liked the Deck Khristophesaurus!
It was really fun, and it's true, it sometimes has that "Face hunter" series of turns, lol.
Thank you for making such a cool video and giving the correct credit! :)
See you on legend soon ;)
Yeah :3 ! Yeah that game against the priest was just super insane there was nothing he could do against the constant pressure :O ! No problemo sir! I hope to see you in legend soon yeah XD !
That's what I thought in the beginning, but around something like 100 games, I just had a Ram Wrangler without a beast to play it with about 1 or 2 times.
Due to the deck's curve and amount of early beasts, it's really unlikely not to get Value from it.
It gives you too much value to pass up in my opinion ;)
IF you don't like it, or if you feel it just doesn't do what you need it to do, you can replace one of them, you can replace it for another King's Elekk, for better early and more chances of drawing another big threat (Instead of RW).
Yeah, I agree! The lack of effective 5 drops for hunter makes it better for Ram Wrangler to be played.
Good luck with the deck! The King's Elekk exchange is pretty effective too, and brings another defense against early Tunnel Trogg and other aggro threats!
Hope it works for you as it did for me! Help me sharing the deck if it did ;)
Buen deck y buenas explicaciones. +1
¡Me alegra que te haya gustado! :D
Glad you liked it! It still rocks in legend rank! :)