Hearthpwn

I like this deck, played it quite a bit at rank 10-25. A few small changes:

1. Cards I sometimes remove
1. Arcane Golem: Something about giving the other side a mana crystal just bothers me.
2. Timber Wolf (1x): Nice for UTH, but doesn't seem to pull its weight in any other situation.
3. Knife Juggler (1x): It's a great 2-drop, but sometimes I just run 1.
2. Cards I sometimes add
1. Deadly Shot It may not be able to damage the opponent but it's such a good removal.
2. Animal Companion (2x): Randomness is annoying but the beasts are so great for their cost I sometimes run 2 of these.
3. King Mukla: Just got this and am trying it, seems like it fits the Beast rush theme.
4. Cult Master: Tried this in a few games. If you're using UTH to clear enemy minions, this draws as many cards as the Buzzard (1 per hound), and I'm often able to draw a card or two with it in other situations.
3. Cards I've tried and not liked
1. Scavenging Hyena - I ran these for ~10 games when I started using the deck, and it didn't work well. Anytime I pump it up (say with a UTH to clear enemy minions), it gets removed before it can attack. Might have some value as a removal-baiter if you play it and wait a turn before pumping?
2. Houndmaster - Does OK in this deck, but I haven't found the taunt that useful, and at 4 mana for a deck that gets to win or loss in 5-10 turns, it's too expensive to combo. What are you going to buff anyway, a Timber wolf? Ironbeak owl?
3. Arcane Shot - Good cheap early removal, but I'd rather have a Deadly Shot, it may cost more but it can take out anything.
4. Hunter's Mark - Also good cheap removal, but I haven't found the need for more removal than the Kill Command / Deadly shot / Eaglehorn Bow / minions.
5. Tracking - I guess in theory this could help find cards for combos, but in practice I didn't find it that useful. Why waste a mana looking through your cards when almost every card in the deck is playable?

Will continue to see how high I can climb with it...legendary seems tough, though.

I don't think these hunter rush decks are good at all.  Maybe I have the worst decision making ever but every single opponent overwhelms me because they're able to kill my charge minions with their hero power or another spell.  You absolutely can't get past more than 2 taunts, and you will never win a game where you don't draw a bow (happens about 60% of the time).  With such a simple concept of always hitting the face I can't see how a deck can fail this much.  I've already lost rank from 10 to 15 and just now started recording stats which I will post later showing all of my games vs specific classes and what not.  I don't see how people are doing so much different moves than I am calling the deck "legendary" when there's only a max amount of maybe 3 moves a turn - usually one or two.  Anyways, I think it sucks and would gladly take any advice on when you actually kill minions, what priority you play them in, and when you ever hold onto minions.  It boggles me how you're able to get to legendary when I'm LOSING more games than I win.

Hello,

New to game and wanted to thank you for sharing this deck and the explanations of how it works. Climbed rank 9 without much efforts as the deck is pretty straight forward go on the face style with a ratio about 3/2. Happened to chain 7 wins in unranked mode.It's a really good deck for farming ^^ quick speed (the game often ends at turn 7-8)

I too swapped a companion for the tinkmaster, it seems better this way, using it as a taunt/threat removal.

deck works well so far. good for grinding up the ladder. winning approximately 2/3 games so far. dropped down from 11 to 13 while learning the deck and have been able to move to rank 7 now. still grinding. 

tried skipping the 2 knife jugglers and using 2 tracks. tracking works at times and fails miserably other times. 2 knife jugglers more consistent. 1 of each doesnt seem to be good enough. tried swapping out 1 kill command for another animal companion. hated the rng out of animal companion and switched back to 2 kill commands. tried 2 arcane shots instead of 2 knife jugglers. found it to be consistently sub-par compared to the knife jugglers. are you still using this deck? have you made any changes to it?

and yea... at least so far, i have found the warriors (the ones running armorsmiths/frothing berserkers are tougher) easier to handle than the druids (running ancient watchers and taunt givers) and handlocks.

I have actually just taken out animal companion and put in a tinkmaster (just managed to craft him). He absolutely could win games as the amount of times I have been stuck with a taunt and he could easily get me out of a bad situation, especially if its a 1/1 squirrel. The randomness isnt as much as a factor. The more taunts you face, the more difficult it will be.

never thought about using a tinkmaster! should try that now.

Edit: now thinking about just substituting the animal companion for an arcane shot.. cause the animal companion is mostly only useful 1/3 times when u get that huffer right? so now the decision i have to make is whether i need a additional taunt removal or 1 mana 2 dmg that goes past taunts.. have u tried arcane shot so far in this deck?

I just feel like I can get so much more out of that one card with anything else. If you are going to run arcane shot you want two to be consistent, but I would rather have a minion threat then a responsive card. That's why I dont run arcane shot atm.

hi.. thoughts on removing buzzards?
they have been useful in less than 10% of the games so far (stopped tracking stats a while ago but im sure i have ~60 games on this deck)..
so thinking about using 2 arcane shots and 1 tinkmaster in the original slots for 2 buzzards and one animal companion

I wouldn't cause it combos hard with Unleash the hounds. You might not have luck with it probably because your opponent doesn't stack on the field but a Snake Trap summons 3 1/1 beasts, epic card worth the buy. If buzzards are attacked this will spawn and make it worth to keep aswell 

Is there a reason people use Timber Wolf instead of Dire Wolf Alpha in here? Timber Wolf dies to Mages, Druids and Rogues immediately, trades with Paladins shortly, trades with Shamans possibly and then there are countless spells like Earth Shock, Mortal Coil, Wrath (cycle), Swipe, Inner Rage and minions like Argent Squire, Novice Engineer, Knife Juggler, Wild Pyromancer and 1/1 Tokens that all kill Timber Wolf. Timer Wolf isn't a real one drop, because it doesn't provide significant amounts of damage with it's attack or buff a significant amount of minions in the deck or trade with a two drop other than Loot Hoarder, Novice Engineer or Bloodmage Thalnos, all of which are card disadvantage.

Dire Wolf Alpha is immune to all of the removal mentioned above, as well as a 2 drop that can trade with other 2 drops and buff all of the Charge minions for additional damage. Is Timber Wolf being half the cost worth being less than half as effective when we have to hold Timber Wolf in hand as a buff spell for Unleash the Hounds as opposed to playing Dire Wolf Alpha on turn 2 as an attacker and buffer for all of our minions? We tend to hold on to our one drops as buff spells a lot in this deck, it's getting to the point where our "buff spells" like Abusive Sergeant just feel like they should be a Deady Shot or Hunter's Mark a lot. I tend to play the deck as combo a lot, just clearing the board with Arcane Shot, Explosive Trap, Misdirection and Animal Companion and then drop the Leeroy Jenkins, Starving Buzzard and Unleash the Hounds combo and short of Lepper Gnome there really isn't a one drop in this deck that you can really get behind with the hero power for a run down.

Has anyone else made the wolf sub?

i have tried using direwolf in my hunter decks instead of timber wolves. from personal experience i find the timber wolves to be more consistent and synergizes better with most of the UTH hunter decks and yes, worth it to hold on to it in most cases to combo with UTH. also, i think, dire wolf as a 2 drop is woefully week as it is going to get removed by cheap removal or the opponents turn 1 drop 2/3 times. 

first, u get pretty much the same effect as dire wolf for 1 mana lesser which makes a lot of difference when trying to get that extra 1-2 dmg to finish off your opponent. 1 mana to draw a card with buzzard in desperate situations is a lot better than 2 mana to draw the card. 1 mana to setup a 5 dmg kill command lot better than 2 mana to set up same kill command. 

like u point out it is never a good 1 mana drop. and the way most of the UTH/leeroy decks are played, you are never really concerned about the wolf getting removed the next turn. even if the direwolf alpha might survive the removal turn, the rest of your board is gonna be cleared. so what is the use of having a buff minion on the board anyway with just 1 hp left? (will still get cleared by most sweepers in the game also).

and for hunter decks that differ from the one in this post or close variations of it, you are better off not having either dire wolf or timber wolf in your deck and kill commands are normally included in such decks as well (the hunter deck razor used in KoTH against realz).

finally, this is just based on my experience and insights i have gained so far. i have been playing hunter for just over a week now and other more experienced people might be able to answer you better or correct me where i am wrong.

1 Mana timber wolfs generally are clutch. 4 mana to do a 5 damage Kill command, and it synergizes super well with UTH. Dire wolf only buffs two minions thus will always be subpar to me.

Hounds snake traps and it's a hunter deck. This is why I keep mine + Buzzards

im using this deck, unfortunately i don't have Leeroy or Misdirection, so im using snake trap and cultists both for extra draws. seems to be working decently

in fact i really recommend using cultists for what its worth. what do you think?

Cultists are actually a really strong play and synergize very well with uth, and competing against taunts. Misdirection is definitely replaceable as long as you replace it with a trap. You really want to be consistent with how much you play in terms of traps to make sure eaglehorn bow is used at its full potential. Also dont attack with a trap and one charge like my friend, kinnnnnnnnnda dumb unless you have to.

If you are searching to fill a spot on 4, then I'd definitely go with Spellbreakers. Having 4 Silences attached to bodies is really good. I don't think that you will need the additional card draw at 4, since this is covered by Starving Buzzard/UTH. Spellbreaker can at least get rid of Taunters and be a body that needs to be traded away (4/3 is solid if you have the upper hand). 

+1, this is what I do in my deck.

Have you tried Freezing trap at all? I gave them some play-time and it's not bad. It's also good against the Warrior Chargers or any big taunter that you may lure into attacking you before you put your owl down (or buying time for your chargers). 

Just like you, I am also considering Hunter's mark...it's never bad in the higher ranks where control seems to be more dominant. 

Ya I haven't tried freezing trap at all, my only problem with it is that its easily counterable (even if unintentionally) and they generally will on accident baiting out an explosive because everyone sees a trap and immediately sees explosive. It is also a dead drop for damage, it wont contribute to damaging anything at all, merely saving you a turn from a minion. I would definitely consider it, but I just dont know if it would be ideal here. I played veev's super anti rush deck last night and he managed to play 11-12 taunts on me and even without hunter's mark I was able to get through all of em pretty hard but it ended up being too much. 11-12 taunts is the absolute worst case scenario and never happens really.

It's true, but it's also a fact that screwing up with the tempo of the opponent is easily translated to board control. Which means, that regardless of dealing damage, it's a good way to set up a board position that is dominant for that final turn. Of course, just like every situational card...it can prove rather bad. 

The most important part of getting wins with Hunter, is to understand what hands to keep, and play according to the matchup. Most people think that Hunter is an easy faceroll, but in fact it's one of the most demanding decks as far as decision making is concerned. You have no way of recovering if the opponent stabilizes on high-ish two digit health.