Hearthpwn

I really like this deck. Good way to celebrate Zul'jin before he goes bye bye :/. Flare is very good against other Hunter decks and especially Face Hunter. Saved my arse!

Hey I like your changes.

The one card that I'm wondering about is Flare. I could see how it's handy in the mirror and sometimes saves you from a Flame Ward.

So I wonder how the card is performing for you.

How is Secret Plan working out so far? I tried to play it too but I found that having to pay one extra mana and not being sure that you get a secret you want isn't consistent enough. I rather put the secrets I want in the deck instead.

And if you play secrets, isn't it just better to run Phase Stalker he is a beast and he attracts an immediate response or can avoid those pesky secret draws.

I do agree that this seems a fun deck but at the moment beast hunter seems to lack real power spikes to make it in this meta. IMHO.

I like Secret Plan because of the versatility of choices in each match, and the fact that it is random makes it harder for your opponent to predict what secret you played. On top of that, it will give you a random secret once you play Zul'jin. Those are the reasons, basically.

In the first phases of the deck creation, I tried Phase Stalker, but there are some things to consider: he will bring you random secrets. In fact, of course, it is a very good tempo card, but I kinda like it better controling when to play the secrets (and plus, the versatility/unpredictability Secret Plan offers. Yes, one might be right to argue that it is a preference of someone who likes control decks :P). On top of that, when you get the secrets with him, it doesn't feed Zul'jin. Someone might think the secrets aren't so important for him, but they are a very good support for the big board control he is going to create.

My final considerations, though, is that if you are having a hard time against aggressive decks with this strategy, I agree that Phase Stalker could help because of the tempo gain it offers. As I'm not having that much trouble with those, at least for now, I prefer the controling style of the deck. I'm definitely gonna test him again now, especially if I'm finding too much tree druids and agressive hunters and having trouble against them.

As I said in the previous comment, I tested Phase Stalker. After a lot of changes, I came down to the decision of:
-2 Secret Plan
-1 Ironbeak Owl
+1 Flare
+1 Phase Stalker
+1 Fresh Scent

Working well. Thanks for the tip!

 Just updated the post with the explanation of how the deck works. I'm sorry that I couldn't make it at the beginning;

Hey,

NIce deck, but do you think Starving Buzzard is a good card in this deck?

I think about it more like a late game draw, because I think that without it the deck can easily run out of steam. I believe it's quite good in some situations, even when its not late game yet. For example: you have 7 mana, has Clear the Way and Desert Spear already equipped; so you play Starving Buzzard, then Springpaw and his buddy, and as you attack with Desert Spear you get more two cards, as Clear the Way will give you the 4/4 Gryphon. With all that, you draw 4 cards + take care of the board. You can extend those "combos" to the late game too, and draw a lot, if possible (that is, if you manage to control the board in the early game while saving some of the resources buzzard requires).

It is an expensive card but paired with Desert Spear and cheap beasts it really fills in the lack of draw which Hunter is designed around.

Because of the aggressive hero power, Hunter doesn't get much efficient card draw.

Expensive and awful stats. I see it as a "win-more" card, only useful when you have advantage in the board. A more efficient card draw would be Cult Master. Maybe the beast tag worth