Animals! -Hunter Midrange [Low Budget] *Counter...
- Last updated Oct 2, 2014 (Naxx Launch)
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Wild
- 19 Minions
- 11 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 760
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 5/30/2014 (Live Patch 5506)
- Louey7
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Battle Tag:
Louey7#1147
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Region:
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Total Deck Rating
96
Hello, I am Louey7 (my YouTube: here). This is my current Hunter deck. "Animals!" Name: A bunch of 'Beasts'! This has recently received a full-Naxxramas major update, along with a more fluid flow, and unique midrange feel.
This is a video I made of the deck. Hope you learn something useful in it and thanks for watching!
It is a low budget control deck. I am doing well with Naxxramas and am climbing at rank 11 with this. You can follow my rank season to see this along with everything else I use on my YouTube channel! It has the ability to do massive burst damage, and board clears. It can survive well in the early game, have an extremely powerful mid game, and a strong finishing late game. Once I get time, I will include the combos, matchups, replacements, "Why" this card or not that card, etc.
This is a great counter to early-game heavy decks. This would especially include: Aggro decks (any kind), zoo (never lost to zoo, yet), all rush decks.
This deck currently includes no epics. It does include: a few rares, commons, basics, and Naxxramas cards.
Card Choices and Reasoning
Flare is great to get rid of stealth and enemy secrets. However, against opponents without any of those, it provides a great early game cycle card. Most notable classes to save it for: Miracle Rogues, Mages, Paladins, and occasionally shamans and priests. Other than that, you would want to keep it in your hand, and just cycle it on your first turn, if there is no other better play and you feel the extra card is needed.
Stonetusk Boar It combos extremely well with Hunter's Mark for a kill. Also it is a single "hound" in Unleash the Hounds, so can work in the same way where you would only use Unleash the Hounds to get one hound out.
Tundra Rhino appears bad if you like at it raw stat wise. 2/5 (7) for 5 mana isn't good. However, giving all of beasts charge (including this one) is very valuable. When you are behind this can create unfavorable situations for your opponent, and turn the tide in your favor. Also, it can ensure you are keeping the lead, when you are in the lead. Overall, great for gaining some tempo, burst damage, ensuring victory, etc.
Ironbeak Owl Hunters are generally weak in the silence and hard removal area, so I included this as a great silencer. It is also a beast, so it fits right in. Most people I see do not use this, but I feel it can be important and has saved me a few times. Currently it is definitely worth the slot for extra burst past taunts and weakening out-of-control minions.
Changelog
Emperor Cobra Has been replaced!! I got Stampeding Kodo from a pack. I found it works much better.
Naxxramas changes!
I have replaced River Crocolisk with another Dire Wolf Alpha. It seemed to be under performing and be too variable in getting it.
Webspinner is now in the deck, full-time. It replaced Faceless Manipulator and Oasis Snapjaw. The latter was under-performing and this card helps add hand-drawing along with a solid 1 drop. Always keep in mulligan
Be sure to follow this thread, along with my YT channel for updates to this deck and see how it performs against what.
Best Match Ups
Handlock - Usually easy win with the burst potential here.
Zoolock/zoo variants - This deck is almost a guarantee win, especially with Naxxramas changes.
Aggro of any kind - Almost as sure of a thing as Zoolock, favorable.
Tempo - Usually preferred if they don't avoid any hunter things, sometimes difficult
Midrange - depending how slow/fast can give trouble
Freeze mage - Unsure??
Other mages - Still unsure?? And I don't really remember playing against many mages with this.
Control shaman - Can be bad if shaman is played well
Control/Armor Warrior - Usually a decently easy win. Sometimes harder
To the face decks - Depends on your opening and their opening. If you can get your traps and taunts out and keep control, should be fine. If they overrun you early you may be in trouble.
Mirror - Well I'd have to say the hunter wins....... But really, 50/50... maybe? (unless it is aggro - easy win for us!)
Taunt shaman (see my shaman deck coming soon for what I mean) - Well, I do not know.
Hope you enjoy it! And please comment thoughts
My bad!
I thought I fixed that.. But thanks (:
Will make sure it is fixed now
(Edit) Should be fixed now. I hard refreshed and shows right video. Sorry about the mix up there. Glad you like the deck!
PLEASE post a mulligan guide. I have a really hard time knowing what and what not to mulligan.
Not much time now, but I will eventually. For now:
UTH versus Warlock or any aggro type class
always want solid 2 mana minions, and animal companion.
Flare is good for cycle :)
Ignore this
Noticed that I end up having dead cards in hand even when playing Tracking.and if I don't pull cards from UTH plus Buzzard I'm usually just topdecking vs my opponent. It still works pretty well though, better than the other control hunters I've tried.
Tracking also discards 2 cards, so be aware of that. (It burns 3 for 1)
Since most of the time I end up handholding and using your hero power, I rarely find I need to topdeck and answer, or have dead cards.
I suppose just be sure to save most of your stuff for combos, try for Starving Buzzard (sorry left that one out last post) in your starting hand. :)
Great deck, working pretty well.
Made some minor changes, turned out to test very well.
-1 Faceless, -1 Crocolisk, -1 Dire Wolf, -1 Oasis
+2 Tracking, +1 Kodo, +1 Misdirection
I'm considering the Tundra Rhino and Misdirection as my 2 "tech" cards. Basically, I'll be swapping those 2 in and out with random other cards (acidic swamp ooze, etc.) depending on my needs. Ooze is pretty good, clutch at times, crap at others. Most likely I'll be dropping the Rhino for another Misdirection, maybe a The Black Knight.
Overall, as the deck stands as above (-1 Faceless, +1 Stampeding, just because I don't have a Faceless): I'd give it a 7.5 or 8/10.
Managed to push from Rank 25 all the way to 15 with it in less than an hour. Switched to my Aggro Hunter to climb to 10, and then switched back to this and slipped back down to 12. All in all, a great deck. Love the different aspect of the hunter-lock scheme. Great job on this!
I really have never liked Tracking and still don't.
It is 3 cards, just to get 1 card of your choice out of 3 out of remaining cards. Late game it could cause really bad fatigue, which is when you would get least card loss disadvantage. (You use the card=1+discard 2 cards=3+get 1 card=2. 2 card disadvantage.) But if you like it and it works for you I suppose it is a fine trade.
I have Stampeding Kodo (the update) in place of Emperor Cobra.
The other 3 are just solid drops that you can use on the turn they become available and all three combo well with everything else in the deck.
Misdirection looks like it works fine, just may not be enough minions for my preferences.
Just my thoughts on your choices, but whatever works for you is great :)
Thanks for the great rating though and glad it worked out well for you!
This hunter deck I have had success with.
Ranked
Zoo 4/5 or 5/6 or somethin'
Miracle Rogue 2/3 (or 3, another rogue but not quite all miracle i dont think <-- won that one)
Mid shaman 1/2
to the face warrior 1/1
aggro mage 2/2
control mage 0/1
aggro druid 1/1
control druid won 2, out of 3 or 4 matches
handlock 1/2
priest won all
i am rank 13. i streaked a bit, then it steadied out more. started at rank 17. there are more matches I forgot, but tried to keep track as much. overall great. by the way, i dont remember exact numbers, those are just approximate
That is great overall!
It is no problem that numbers aren't exact :)
Hello im new here to hearthpwn. Just some backgroujd. Been playing hearthstone since march. Im rank 11 now.
I was 14 betore using this deck. Ans it helped a lot. I haave always loved hunter and was lookijg for a deck that actualy worked at my rank.
So I have all the carss for this. I streaked from 14 to 9, but then a big loss streak, but was also playing my mwge. I was down to rank 12 and steadipy cpimbed to 3 star 11, with this deck.
Im sure it coupd do better sijce I am by no means a pro or even all that great. Great deck overall and great descriptions and video. Thamks !
6/6/2014 11:36:01 AM
By the way ill try your priest deck over the weekemd
Glad it is working out very well for you, and thanks!
Hope you enjoy the Priest deck :-)
If you remove the Cobra, Snapjaw, Faceless, Tundra Rhino, and Dire Wolf Alpha and replace them with 2x Stampeding Kodo, 2x Tracking, and the second Flare you have the dreaded midrange hunter deck from last season (before the UtH nerf), which is still quite strong (I played it for the first week after the nerf from rank 17-8 with little trouble). I would suggest giving it a try (and the changes make it even cheaper, too!).
I may switch some things out in this, but I am not using Tracking, I hate that card very much... :)
I don't have Stampeding Kodo otherwise I would use it
I am probably going to remove Faceless Manipulator for something else there, that spot seems week my last couple matches.
I love hunter decks so I thought I would try this one out. Here are the results
Mage Antonidas burn 50% 2 games played
Druid ramp 0% 5 games played
Druid Token 25% 4 games played
warrior aggro face rush 0% 1 game played
Zoo 66% 9 games played
miracle 50% 2 games played
Shaman, 50% 4 games played
Warrior control 25% 4 games played
handlock 50% 2 games played
Priest 0% 2 games played
Pally aggro 0% 2 games played
Pally control 25% 4 games played
Conclusion its not a bad deck for lower levels but above 12 its going to be alot more difficult to get results with this.
Do you know what the main problems were that could be fixed?
Any help in this is much appreciated! I am still generally new to deck building and here. I'm trying to keep up with all the decks, even though I'm not exactly sure what some decks are by name (ramp and token druid I have no idea :p).
As for the rank 12. I didn't get much testing in at this rank, but last season I got rank 11 with this along with my zoo and priest. I had occasional losses on both, so it wasn't a win streak jump. I didn't get too much testing overall at that rank though, since the new season came out right after I made this deck.
I don't have emperor cobra, what card can i replace it?
Another River Crocolisk or Dire Wolf Alpha should work.
Yep I understand :)
There aren't any legendaries in this deck. They are with Orange text/ orange middle (Ragnaros the Firelord, King Krush, etc.)
You may be thinking the epics or rares.
Epics=Purple (Faceless Manipulator)
Rare=Blue (Savannah Highmane)
With your replacements, try to keep beast synergy though. :)
Awesome deck! My only two legendaries are Sylvana's and King Krush. I don't have a Faceless. Would any of these improve the deck?