[RANK 9 to LEGEND] [80% WR] Midrange Hunter
- Last updated Apr 25, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 8 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Midrange Hunter
- Crafting Cost: 1840
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/12/2017 (Un'Goro Launch)
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Battle Tag:
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Total Deck Rating
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HeyGuys.
Since the deck reached the 10 upvotes, I’m going to make a guide for it.
Edit: A lot of people asked, so I'll try to explain things more detailed. Currently rocking with 70%+ win rate in dumpster. (Proof below.)
Gameplan/strategy:
This deck really depends on the board control; you need to keep the pressure on your opponent to control every situation.
Questionable Cards:
Jeweled Macaw - A lot of people asked me why am I playing this over other one drops like Fiery Bat. Even tho random effects are not something we want in our decks, but this deck has no card draw. This is a good way to fill your hand, even when you get a below average beast. It's also a beast, and we have a lot of beast synergies.
Kindly Grandmother - Too good to not play this card. Early board control, beast synergy.
Deadly Shot - The ladder is full of taunt warriors and some other decks with taunt. Since Hunter doesn't really have other hard removals and Hunter's Mark only sets the minion's hp to 1, but doesn't kill it.
Tundra Rhino - Some people don't like to run two of it. However I won many games because of the 2x Rhinos.
Mulligan guide:
vs aggro: Alleycat Jeweled Macaw Unleash the Hounds Crackling Razormaw Kindly Grandmother
vs control: Alleycat Jeweled Macaw Deadly Shot Crackling Razormaw Kindly Grandmother
Tech choice:
Since you already have enough 5+ drops with the double Savannah Highmane and Tundra Rhinos the remaining two cards could be a tech choice.
If you face a lot of control/slower decks the Stranglethorn Tiger could be the perfect 5 drop.
During my climb, I faced a lot of mirror and aggro decks. In this matchups, the best possible tech card is Nesting Roc. This card is more like a win more card, since it requires two minions on board to get the taunt effect. However, we can easily control two minions at Turn 5 or wait one turn and use Alleycat with it.
Stampeding Kodo can save your games if you face a lot of Freeze/Exodia Mage or Taunt Warrior. If the Mage casts Frost Nove + Doomsayer, you can easily remove the Doomsayer with Stampeding Kodo. The same situation for Alley Armorsmith. Unfortunately, the Kodo has a weak body, unless you can buff it with Houndmaster it doesn’t do more than a weaker Deadly Shot.
Deadly Shot totally destroys Taunt Warriors. Their early game is weak; you can build up a board for Turn 4-5-6. Whenever he summons an Alley Armorsmith or another big treat you can simply Deadly Shot it and push face.
Replacements:
Rat Pack: You want to play this card on curve at Turn 3 and buff it with Houndmaster so you can get a guaranteed taunt of Nesting Roc (If you run it.) The only possible replace of this card is Infested Wolf, but it’s a tempo loss.
Kindly Grandmother: You can’t really replace this card, because the deathrattle effect is just too strong to early board control, but Ravasaur Runt could do the job. You can make a synergy with turn one Alleycat.
You can see the legend proof and some of my matchups below. I finished the climb on iPad, so the rest wasn’t tracked.
Guide at 10 upvotes.
Stats in Legend
Quote from Sagefire1994 >>first time legend with this deck! THANK YOU SO MUCH! :D
Quote from mianiplays >>Legend today after ~35 games. From rank 3 with no stars.
This decks needs board pressure early on. Mulligan for a 1 drop, keep Kindly Grandmother always and keep Crackling Razormaw if you have a 1 drop.
It's really easy to defeat Quest Rogues with this deck. You just keep playing curve and hit face most of times. By the time they complete the quest, you will already have lethal with your hero power.
For against Quest Warriors, try to get a Crackling Razormaw poisonous , or get a nice Hyena early on. It basically needs to be SMOrc all the time except when they throw a taunt, use your Deadly Shots or Kill Commands even to clear and hit face even more. Hope he won't be able to stabilize and make sure you have a nice board presence at all times because if you lose it, it's gonna be really hard getting it back.
I only listed what you can do that will get you a guaranteed good start, you have endless possibilities on what you can do. Out of 4-5 1 drops and another 4 2 drops you are pretty much guaranteed every single game that you will have something to play to get early board. Even if your opponent does waste a turn to clear something and doesn't throw a taunt, it's still a win situation for you because you are doing more damage to face. As long as you can control board and pull a Deadly Shot/Kill Command/Adapt to clear one of the annoying taunts, you can win the game. To be honest I have won more games against Taunt Warriors than Pirate Warriors with this deck just because of the fact that you can get alot of early board pressure except that Pirate Warriors can get that as well
I wanted to ask for advice i run freezing trap in my hunter decks can i get your opinion on it. I also have a hard time ever winning against pirate warriors
Nice deck , currenty rank 2 with 3 stars , lost 2 matches agains quest rogue ( with vanish and the freeze elemental ) , maybe i was unlucky .
http://imgur.com/a/bCutb
This is when I hit Rank 5 like 2 weeks ago with this deck , if it helps motivate other people :P And I am a relatively newbie player as well.
i need 1 card draw card pls gv me suggestion
I had a great time ranking up from rank 20 to 12 with Chaouz midrange hunter deck, but then i could not get over rank 12! This one gave me the ideas to swap a few cards and finally got over rank 12. I'm now rank 10, and still winning ^^
The deadly shot is an excellent card in this deck. I also put one explosive trap, against other Hunter it works like a charm :D
What did you take out to replace with Explosive Trap?
I don't have rat pack. Compared to this deck I have one rhino less and two fiery bat. So with the one rhino out i could put an explosive trap. Works for me :)
Cool, thanks. I don't have Rat Pack either, so I may try that as a replacement and see what happens. Hoping to get maybe Rank 10? I know Rat Pack is a great card, but maybe 10 is possible without it.
I started playing less than a year ago, I play for free, I miss a lot of great cards (like rat pack for example) and manage to get through rank 10 for the first time with this Hunter :D Before my best rank was 16 or 15 ^^ So without a doubt you can go up to rank 10 ! The only problem i'm facing now is the taunt warrior and maybe murloc palladin, their are a bit of a pain.
I'm still on rank 10, but that's because i'm not to keen on those type of deck, i prefer decks with more controle. Right now i'm messing around with the mage quest (infinite fireball power haha), which is more fun but not really great for winning haha
i dont have kindly Grandmother. Any replacements?
All of those are probably too slow unfortunately. Swamp King Dread is probably the best of the bunch in my opinion. Stampede is better in quest hunter, but that deck isn't seeing much play. Dinomancy is just too slow in general. You'll probably never get much value out of it unless you run it in a Reno deck in wild or something.
It does, but Houndmaster already does the job of buffing Rat Pack. Not to mention, you get a 4/3 for tempo. What would you replace for Dinomancy?
It's pretty unlikely that your opponent will let a Tundra Rhino live long enough to make use of stampede. It's pretty greedy. Of course, if you manage to pull that combo off, you'll probably win. It just doesn't seem likely to me.
Dinomancy too slow. Stampede has potential but it's not even worth adding since it's more for the late game, while this deck aims to close the game before turn 6-7
And for Swamp King Dred, you could replace a Tundra Rhino for it, but as I said , you are aiming to close the game before turn 6 or 7. No need for it
This deck is so good! Especially considering its low dust cost. I made a short video showcasing it :)
Thanks so much for the decklist!
Awesome! Thank you!
Any idea for some wave clear cards like Grievous Bite or Explosive Trap ? There are a lot of hunters and rogues who spam low health minions ...