Budget DH - D5 to Legend (78% WR)
- Last updated Apr 7, 2020 (Outland Release)
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Wild
- 18 Minions
- 10 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Tempo DH
- Crafting Cost: 3540
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/7/2020 (Outland Release)
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First time reaching legend with a free to play Demon Hunter deck.
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Background/History
I started at Diamond Rank 5 right before the release of the latest expansion and wanted to try the free Demon Hunter deck (only basic/classic cards) that you get when you complete the prologue. Since I was at a rank floor I decided it would be OK to lose some games but I started with a 6 game win streak without any changes to the free deck.
After a couple losses, I decided to optimize the deck a bit so I removed some cards like Nethrandamus (he is way too slow) and Command the Illidari(also too slow). I replaced them with other one drops like Crimson Sigil Runner since it is a one-mana cycle which is insane. It's also a common card so it's very cheap to get. I also dropped Wrathscale Naga eventually since it ended up being a dead card for many of my games. The one card you absolutely need two of for this deck is Skull of Gul'dan. I can't emphasize enough that this card will win you a lot of games. I fully expect to see it nerfed in the future but it's a cheap card to buy with dust so it really helps for budget conscious players.
The other notable addition is two copies of Questing Adventurer. I decided these were a much better fit than Coordinated Strike after I saw another Demon Hunter on ladder kill me with it. These are an amazing inclusion for a budget deck because they can completely cheese some games when other people aren't expecting it. You have so many low cost cards in this deck and sometimes you can use Skull of Gul'dan to make all your cards even cheaper.
After making these changes to the deck, I ended up 28-11 on the path from Diamond 5 to Legend (there were a couple other games I lost as a Rogue).
Notable exclusions:
Kayn Sunfury
Spectral Sight
Metamorphosis
I didn't want to buy any of these cards because two of them are legendaries and I don't have the dust. Spectral Sight is just a bit too slow for my liking and it's totally eclipsed by Skull of Gul'dan anyway.
Tips:
This deck is all about tempo and chip damage. You really want to get your cheap minions out and hitting face as much as possible. Sacrifice your health in the early game to save as many of your minions and keep them hitting face. Many games will end because you had just enough damage left with your minions or the extra four damage from Glaivebound Adept.
Also, try to play greedy with your Questing Adventurer. You have two of them in the deck but it is a win condition that not everyone is expecting right now (I've only seen one other person on ladder try it). Most of your opponent's will waste their removal on your other minions so you can save your Questing Adventurer for a big turn where you can play a lot of cheap minions/spells that you get from Skull of Gul'dan.
Mulligan:
For slower matchups, I like to keep Skull of Gul'dan because it's fairly easy to work it over to the left-side of your hand. Once turn 5 or 6 hits, just play it for free tempo and an easy win.
For faster matchups, always keep your one-drop minions. Sometimes, if you have Twin Slice in your hand, you can also keep Satyr Overseer. It's a good turn 3 play and it tends to waste your opponent's removal. If they don't remove the Overseer, they will typically get swarmed too quickly and lose anyway.
As much as it's a win condition, never keep Questing Adventurer. You definitely want to draw it later in the game with Skull of Gul'dan so you can play it for free along with a bunch of other cards.
Matchups:
Right now is a perfect time to be playing this deck. It's optimized enough to beat out the sub-optimal decks currently on ladder. In the 39 games I played with this deck, I faced 20 Demon Hunters (50% matchup) and had a 100% win rate against every other deck except for one Highlander Mage deck that high-rolled. Yes there are a lot of Demon Hunters right now but it's typically a coin-flip with them. Somehow I managed to beat every other deck so if you don't see a Demon Hunter on the other side, it's a free win.
I think that says more about the new class than anything, there are a lot of really powerful cards in this deck and it makes the climb to legend quite trivial.
I can't understand why this deck has so many upvotes. This deck is really weak, like one of the worst I've ever played. These 2-3 stronger can be easily killed and you are left with nothing, because all these little cheap minions are getting removed with AOE spells or battlecries (and I feel like half of the enemy decks are AOE damage cards - welcome to Hearthstone 2020).
If you are quite lucky and enemy lets you - you can deal like 15-20 face damage, but that's it. Can't do any more because you either have no cards or no 0minions to deal damage or enemy has big taunts and big minions or has lot of heal/armor. It's even worse than aggro murlock deck because there's no chance to win the game in 5-7 turns. And I am playing in silver where people have much weaker decks and less OP cards than in platinum or higher ranks. I just lost another match to a priest - I ran out of cards, he was still at 30hp (lot of healing) and still had 15 cards to play.
yep this deck is utter trash and can beat no one.
aggro demon hunter complaining about other demon hunters :DD MADE MY DAY!!
Hey guys!
If you are interested in some commented gameplay you can check my video out bellow :) It is after the nerfs and it still feels good.
great deck!! here is a video to show you that this deck worked for me!!
good game!!!
Questing Adventurer is crap vs all the demon hunters with silence.
Facing soo many DH ..
What about 1 or 2 Ooze in the deck ? What to replace ?
thx for answers :)
0-3 against DHs, their decks just have bigger guys and this deck can't keep up.
same here :(
My favourite demon hunter decks so far. Working out amazingly accept from a game against priest and another demon hunter with a great draw and a life steal weapon that eventually had 19 attack.
Basically it doesn’t do well against decks that heal the heroe, just like face hunter really
this deck doesnt do well against your mom so bad is it!
thanks for posting but pure luck off the start that got you to legend this wont do much now. it just burns out
Totally possible, decks are starting to get a bit more refined now that we're a day into the expansion. HSReplay now has stats on this deck since it's gotten a bit more popular: https://hsreplay.net/decks/upbsKYcZvmxMtcsfglx5Ve/
It does look like the deck still has a 59% WR over 1,300 games which I think is respectable for a deck that costs <1000 dust.
Not sure about that because it’s working for me
20 games played with 80% win rate.
I’ve been getting people to half health at 3 mana and I have killed a couple at 4.
Its all about the value you get with the battlefiend,Skull of Gul’dan and the questing adventurer.
p.s the twin slices are a great combo card with questing adventurer
Oh i agree! Possible counters to the other swarm of face dks is some four cost taunts
nice lie there fanboi but without a video no one belives you
Everytime I draw Skull of Gul'dan too late. I loose. 6 games and 2 wins; 4 times no Skull or in last turn.
It really depends a lot on the combo potential arising out of this card.
This deck does hinge a bit much on Skull. I just noticed that HSReplay now has stats on this deck since it got more popular and over 1,300 games this deck has the highest WR when skull is drawn or kept in the mulligan: https://hsreplay.net/decks/upbsKYcZvmxMtcsfglx5Ve/
Nice deck, thx for posting.
If you were to put in Kayn Sunfury and Metamorphosis, what would you replace?