Combo Beast Hunter (Ft. Octosari)
- Last updated Apr 1, 2020 (Kael'thas Patch)
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Wild
- 17 Minions
- 13 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Midrange Hunter
- Crafting Cost: 7840
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 3/27/2020 (Kael'thas Patch)
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Mulligan for Helboar and Scavenger's Ingenuity. Play one of your many 3 drops on 3, hopefully one that was hit by the aforementioned Helboar or Scavenger's Ingenuity and look to play for maximum tempo from here on out. This is not a face deck, it's a deck that aims to stabilize board with efficiently stat-ed beasts and beast synergy, until being able to hopefully have the ideal hand of Tundra Rhino x 1, Savannah Highmane x 2 and Beastmaster Leoroxx, which turns your turn 8 into - 14 Charge damage and 19/20 worth of stats, excluding the benefits of Tundra Rhino and Savannah Highmane deathrattles. (Octosari can easily replace one of the Savannah Highmane in the combo for more damage, more immediate stats, and then more reload when it dies.) Also, the combo can be done on turn 7 if you get an Escaped Manasaber to stick until then, or even turn 6 with The Coin if you get an extremely lucky hand and draw.
Alternate win condition is getting hand-buffs on Zixor Prime, or playing Nagrand Slam when your opponent has an empty board, again, both of which can be done a turn early with a hit from Escaped Manasaber. Diving Gryphon is also a fantastic card that can be buffed up to remove bigger minions while simultaneously helping you draw key cards including Zixor Prime. Overall it's a solid midrange beast list that has many ways of closing out a game unexpectedly.
Update-
-1 Timber Wolf As pointed out in a comment by Brads_Gaming, this card was definitely the weak link of the deck and without Unleash the Hounds it wasn't worth it.
+1 Octosari This might seem like a spicy choice, but after realizing our deck heavily lacked draw, Octosari can provide a disgusting amount of reload, and can also be pulled by Beastmaster Leoroxx alongside of Tundra Rhino for even more burst than a Savannah Highmane. I think this card actually makes the deck so much better and I'm really excited to test it.
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what about teron?
Great idea, really hope it works! Love the possible little combos in the early game too, especially a buffed Augmented Porcupine into Mok'Nathal Lion seriously has the potential to win you the early/midgame on its own.
What are your thoughts about including Scarlet Webweaver with the idea of ensuring Thundra Rhino gets pulled? You could either play it any beast at 0 just before Leoroxx to ensure the charge in case you have more 4 beasts in hand; or you could combo a 0-cost Rhino with Zixor Prime (another combo idea I've seen around) whose battlecry would be wasted if pulled from Leoroxx.
I love this idea, but I really don't think Nagrand Slam is very good in this deck. If this is really going to combo, slam is too unreliable. It doesn't get summoned by Beastmaster Leoroxx and the chance it hits all face for a finisher is low. I replaced it with King Krush, as it can be buffed to give some solid reach as well as summoned by Beastmaster. I realize it makes Tundra Rhino redundant in some cases, but you may not even need to rely on the rhino in certain cases if you have a big Krush as a finisher. It's another win condition by itself.
I feel like it is powerfull deck and it combos dont depend on to many conditions. Otherwise Tracking make us lose some card but this is the only card that can be questioned and there may not be a replacement due to it value.
So I've actually thought a lot about replacing Tracking since like you said, it can make you lose some important cards in a semi-combo type deck, but then I realized that all but one of the combo pieces are two of's anyway, and it's also just super valuable to dig for Beastmaster Leoroxx, Zixor Prime, or even Octosari on an empty hand. The worst case scenario would be like if you got all three as the options in the early game, but in that case you just call Hearthstone a bad game and move on
Like the idea, but why not abuse Nine Lives? Just the prime is 2 shuffles.
Not a terrible suggestion, but without drawing Zixor, Apex Predator the Nine Lives would be useless since it get's bad value from every other card except maybe Savannah, but at that point it wouldn't be impactful enough. Also, even if you get multiple Zixor Prime it's not exactly game winning, and one with a lot of hand buffs is more than enough. If there were more good deathrattles to synergize with Nine Lives I'd definitely put them in though
Like the explanation, learned something.
It is insane value, I aggre. But I think it is perhaps too slow and I also have a feeling this exp will be fast full of aggro/midrange decks.
it is pretty easy to dry zixor tho, you just need scavanger or griphon and there it is!
I feel like Fresh Scent and Timber Wolf can be swapped for something better. Maybe Desert Spear could be one of the cards. Timber Wolf seems really off in the deck though.
Idk I really really like Fresh Scent in the deck since all but one of the minions are beasts and 2 mana +2/+2 is premium, not to mention the synergy with Augmented Porcupine and potential lethal combos with Tundra Rhino. I agree with your thoughts on the Timber Wolf though, without Unleash the Hounds it seems weak in comparison to the rest of the list. Definitely not sure about Desert Spear though, what exactly does it do for this list?
Desert Spear to me is just a some what decent weapon since you're not using secrets or dragons. I still personally don't love Fresh Scent myself as I just feel like it isn't the best card but I totally understand why you have it in the deck.
Seems like a good deck, will try it out day one
Please leave a comment about any of your thoughts on the list, it helps me a lot and I think this archetype will be super strong once refined from multiple people's opinions!