Rank 5 with 70% win rate.
- Last updated Nov 25, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)
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Wild
- 13 Minions
- 15 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Midrange Hunter
- Crafting Cost: 2740
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 11/16/2016 (Yogg Nerf)
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This is the deck I used to reach rank 5 during 11.2016 season with 70% win rate.
MULLIGAN:
Against Druid keep Cat Trick. Coining it in the first round is a pretty huge counter to their Wild Growth. Keeping Kindly Grandmother forces them to Hero Power -> Spell it down. Combined with Cat Trick it makes their early turns awkward. Animal Companion, Eaglehorn Bown, Stranglethorn Tiger are good keeps.
Against Shaman keep Quick Shot to deal with early drops, Freezing Trap (for same purpose), Cloaked Huntress.
Against Mage aim for Freezing Trap, Cloaked Huntress, Quick Shot. Never keep Fiery Bat in this matchup. It dies to a ping early, but is a perfect Kill Command activator in later stages of the game. If playing against Freeze Mage, Flare is the game winning card here.
Against Warrior you can keep bigger drops, like Infested Wolf, Stranglethorn Tiger. Cat Trick wrecks warriors up.
Against Warlock mulligan hard for Explosive Trap, Kindly Grandmother. Houndmaster on your Kindly Grandmother often decides games.
Against Priest - For Priest, personally the matchup isn't very hard. For Resurrect Priest Mulligan for Freezing Trap and Eaglehorn Longbow, try to shutdown the Injured Blademaster -> Resurrect/Onyx Bishop combo. For Dragon Priest, try to watch out for the early game combo of Twilight Whelp, Wyrmrest Agent, and Twilight Guardian. Again try to Mulligan for Freezing trap, but the matchup is somewhat of a pain. Play Cat in a Hat and Stranglethorn Tiger accordingly after turn six, as all he does is entomb your large drops. Dragon Priest is usually a bad matchup and you just want to out tempo and shutdown his early threats. THANKS #SerenitydotCS for posting this.
Against another Hunter - Flare is the MVP here. Fight for board control early, start pressuring from turn 4 onwards. You have to think 1-2 turns forward. What cards do they hold? What would be the best play in this situation? ALWAYS expect the best play from them. If they don't execute it, it means they lack the card. Use it to your advantage.
Against Paladins it's a free win. They lack early pressure to fight you.
Against Rogue - he WILL out-tempo you, unless he draws shit. Aim for chaining Kill Commands, count on Cat Trick and Stranglethorn Tiger, as they can't remove it.
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In all matches, you should count your lethal a turn or two forward. Don't be afraid to save Fiery Bat as a later Kill Command activator. The most powerful plays are:
Houndmaster on Kindly Grandmother (before deathrattle)
Houndmaster on Stranglethorn Tiger.
Stranglethorn Tiger is the MVP in most matches. It guarantees a safe Kill Command or Houndmaster next turn, often forces awkward turns, guarantees lethal.
When Cloaked Huntress appears, DON'T JUST SPAM ALL THE SECRETS.
Think about moves your opponent can make. What is the priority for their removal? What do you gain by Freeze Trapping a certain minion? Maybe Explosive Trap can give you a perfect trade opportunity next turn? Maybe it guarantees lethal? Count your damage 2 turns forward, play with your whole deck, not with your hand.
Switches:
You can add in Ragnaros the Firelord if having trobule against control decks (switch with tracking).
+ Unleash the Hounds -Savannah Highmane if having trouble against aggro
#des7ructo made a video (below) about this deck. Thank you very much!
HAPPY CLIMBING :)
0-4 even lost free wins. Rng or just fking bad deck dont care what u else have to say
What about Avian Watcher from Karazhan? Hunter has a lot of traps - that counts as secrets - and having any trap prepared when Watcher is summoned gives Watcher +1/+1 and Taunt. Deck with x2 Watchers will have a little different tempo (7 mana for full effect, or wasting trap to summon Watcher at 5 mana crystals), but I tried it and for me it's okay.
thats not the decks fault m8, Hunters lack AOE as a whole shamans just beat the class straight up
I think this deck would be good if it weren't for all the Shamans on ladder. But there are and this deck seems too slow. My advice is to use the face variant which can sneak some wins against shaman.
Flare? Have i to run it?
how can i replace it?
Was at lv 7, tried this deck, lost till lv 12, trash build.
thank guy -Tracking +Rag for rng
Garbage.
Is there any replacements for Quick Shot?
I am at rank 14. Most of my opponents are Warriors and Hunters. What is the best replacement for Quick Shot for me?
Also, I don't have Flare and I replaced it with Ragnaros the Firelord. What do you think about it? Maybe there is better replacement for Flare?
-1 Tracking
+1Rag
14-6. Cool deck man. Thanks for this and I'll be working with this shell for a long while.
Did the same, Rag is just awesome.
Yo, I made a video about this deck. It's cool to see something that is different from a midrange or face hunter. The other cool thing about the deck is that we have Flare back, haven't seen it in play from quite some time ( obviously cause secret paladin is ded af), and as always I'm not a big fan of Tracking, cause of the discard. Overall the deck works decently in the meta, and some cards can be changed depending on what kind of decks are faced more. Check out my video and leave a comment or two.
The vast majority of hunter decks forget about the meta utility of Flare, which I consider to be strong even if you just play it for the draw (so needed by the hunter mid engine).
I tried it. It's just too slow in the current meta. By turn 9, most times you have already won or even CotW won't help anymore.
I dunno I played a similar deck to legend last month and I didn't have Call for the first 25 or so games and added it later and my win rate went up from 60 to 65% and maintained that to legend over 110 games. There was maybe less tempo mage then though. It's also bad if you play a lot of zoo.
Not always. I played with variation of this deck and had few matches when only Call of the Wind saved my match:).
What do you think about Hounds (zoo, shaman) and Leeroy in this deck?