103 Legend Mech Hunter
- Last updated Apr 7, 2016 (Explorers)
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Wild
- 22 Minions
- 5 Spells
- 3 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 3460
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 3/29/2016 (Explorers)
- Falcone
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Update (as I'm sure you'll read in the comments) Second day of streaming did not go so well. I tinkered with the list a lot and ended up tilting. I have every confidence that this deck is still great (as you can't get from 5k legend to 103 with any deck) and will continue playing it on stream every day.
So as I sat there, pondering which wacky deck to play next, I considered the cards that will be rotating out in standard. The shredder and Doctor Boom. The mechs. Love them or hate them, these cards have been instrumental to the meta for the last year and a half of the game, and while they may not be missed, they wont be forgotten.
There are a lot of mech cards that I do not think every met their full potential; almost all of the class specific ones. Mech Priest was tinkered with, but the upgraded repair bot wasn’t quite enough to give Priests a reason to play tempo. Fel cannon has seen some use, but running a deck 100% made up of mechs just isn’t possible, due to many of the synergy cards (tinkertown technician and cogmaster) not being mechs themselves. this deck choice also takes implosion out of the running, something which just isn’t sensible giving the power of the card (and its ability to tilt.) But what about Mech Hunter. I’ve experimented with it a little before, but I’ve never seen it as a proper meta deck.
Naturally I couldn’t resist the challenge.
Hunters are naturally aggressive decks, and Metaltooth Leaper can act as a mini savage roar. The possibility HAD to be there. So I gave it a shot.
As it happens, playing mech hunter results in a natural shift of Hunter deck building. Spider tank is a vital 3 drop in mech decks, so what about the Hunter 3 drops? Eagle horn Bow, Animal Companion, Kill Command, Unleash the Hounds? Most of these were going to have to go.
I decided to build this deck by following patterns used by mech mages. Mech mage has always been a popular successful deck, due to Mage’s natural ability to play tempo with its hero power. So what is it that mech mages do so well? They snowball the game out of control with strong tempo in the early game, and (depending on the build) Then burn the opponent down with Antonidas and a flurry of fireballs, or they just out-board their opponent by mowing them down with Fel Reavers.
As it happens, we can’t really rely on either of these win conditions. We do not have antonidas in our hunter deck, and at the moment I believe that Pilotted Sky Golom is a better fit for the deck than Fel Reaver (due to its similarities to Savannah Highmane).
What we can do, even better than the mech mage, is seize and secure the early game with the sheer tempo power of cogmaster, mechwarper, clockwork gnome and Glaivezooker and deal so much damage then that even if the opponent DOES get the board back, they will lose after the hero power is pressed enough times.
All of that being said, I have only clocked around 50 games with this deck (taking me from around 5k legend to 103 legend EU… Which I’m pretty happy with at this stage in the season!) I believe that the best matches for this deck are Combo Druid, Zoo, Secret Paladin, and the worst matchups are control or patron warrior, Reno Lock or… anything with high amounts of board clears and healing.
I will continue to play this deck through to the end of the season and beyond, and continue to gather matchup data.
As usual though, I don’t want to waste my time writing about this deck if there is no interest in it, so I will monitor the comments and likes , and if this deck does continue to do well and generate interest on hearthpwn, then I will do the usual and create card list reasonings/ muligans/ replacements/ videos and do a coaching give-away.
I’m pretty thrilled with the success so far. I have supplied the vod of my stream where I was so successful with the deck. Please do support me by stopping by the stream and dropping me a follow, I’ll be playing almost exclusively this deck for a little while, so feel free to come and watch me play it, but in the mean time, have fun, and good luck!
Enjoy the deck, drop me a follow on twitch, and check back for an extensive guide!
Vod: https://www.twitch.tv/falconepunch55/v/57395206
http://twitch.tv/falconepunch55
PS, if anyone can help me with the coding of images... Let me know... I'm failing pretty miserably.
23-11 so far with the deck, replaced both clockworks with loatheb and ragnaros.
Took out one annoy and one sky Golem for two gorilla bots and my win percentage skyrocketed.... Gorilla is such an amazing card in the late game.... I'm considering removing something else for unleash or for explosive trap to help take care of any token type minions like muster because that seems to be the only thing that gives this deck problems is no way to really clear the board.
I feel like replacing Clockwork Knight with Gorillabot seems reasonable--but there is lots of great theory here. Kudos to a sick build and thoughts :)
i don't have Piloted Sky Golem but (!) dis deck nice, thanks.
the reason junkbot isnt run is because its really slow for mech decks,which are aggro decks.
quick shot is there for the damage and the card draw. mech decks usually hurt for card draw so I would look for something like loot hoarder or acolyte of pain
This is soo wild!
I replaced the Piloted Sky Golem x2 with Gorillabot A-3 worked super well.
Thanks. I did the same and it's proving to be loads of fun. Especially when I get the part to return the minion to hand.
Haha same exact thing happened to me but instead he played Valens chosen onto dragon skin sorcerer to which i countered with freezing...insta rage quite xD
I just started this season @ Rank 15. This deck netted me 0-3(I'm a golden Hunter, have tried every type of Hunter deck under the sun). I would play Reno Hunter before I ever do Mech Hunter ever again.
Wow, rank 15 huh?
Yer so good, you started the season a rank higher than all the legend players?
3 games say nothing, even the best players in the world sometimes lose 3 games in a row.
Lol ur just bad bro :/
cool deck just weird
Pretty cool deck went from Rank 19 to Rank 8 this season currently 31-11 wins. Subbed out a Piloted Sky Golem for a Savannah Highmane. Pretty cool how Metaltooth Leaper acts as a permanent Savage Roar. Definitely can steal some wins with that card.
Lock and load
This deck is pretty fun. I wouldn't recommend using this deck to climb the ladder, but something to play every now and then to mix it up. This deck does require a higher level of skill over other Hunter decks, so don't expect to win several games right off the bat. Great job FalconePunch55!
You can check out my full review of the deck here:
is this another one of those 'you have to be legend to enjoy this EXPERIMENTAL deck' or can it crush tier 1 legend tryhand decks?