[Top4Legend] Midrange Hunter Anti-meta
- Last updated Oct 1, 2016 (Karazhan)
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Wild
- 16 Minions
- 12 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: N'Zoth Hunter
- Crafting Cost: 8140
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 5/10/2016 (Old Gods)
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Battle Tag:
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
480
Channel stream : https://www.twitch.tv/macgarro
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MacgHS
*Top 4 Legend
Thanks to flyboy to share with me the image and congrats :)
1.Introduction
Hi im Macg a spanish Hearthstone player, this is my second deck uploaded. I hope u enjoy it and get high rank. That deck is made to due with the actual meta.
Thank you all for the support, for any question or to follow my activities you can follow me there: https://twitter.com/MacgHS
For any question write a comment in this post :)
Edit: [12/05/2016] uploaded complete guide. New goal, 50 votes to video guide and complete mulligan guide.
Edit: [13/05/2016] new deck image uploaded. Thanks to http://www.hearthdecko.com / Link: http://www.hearthdecko.com/midrange-hunter-standard-s26/
Edit: [14/05/2016] 50+ votes on my deck, thank you all to support me, I'm working on a new overlay to make videos with a good quality.
Edit: [18/05/2016] Flyboy risk top 4 Legend EU + all videos of the community
2.How to play Midrange Anti-Meta
The deck is not dificult to use, but u need experience to use it good.
At first, this is not a total SMOrc deck, if u always SMOrc, probably u wil lose the match, Then u need to know when u can SMOrc and when u need to trade completey the board or only clean some minion.
The two bests qualitys of the deck that u need to use are: presence and pressure. Using that u are near to the win. I important if u wannab use ur damage spells on his face, try to wait and keep the burst to not alert ur oponnent and probably u will rekt him.
3.Deck
*( All beasts make combo with Kill Command and Houndmaster )
-Hunter's Mark : a great card to remove any minion on the table, u can combine with Quick Shot , Eaglehorn Bow , Unleash the Hounds to do a clean clear, depends on the situation.
-Fiery Bat : the best cost 1 on hunter, quite good vs aggro match ups like zoo, because u can clean 2 minions wit that, or vs shaman, or simply vs a drop with 3 points of life( only if u believe on rng). Is a beast*.
-Freezing Trap : this card replace one King's Elekk , i think is better because we have 2 weapons that can be benefit of this trap. But within this benefit, is a great card, he can give us the board, standing up one minion of the oponent and adding 2 more manas on his use.
-Quick Shot : 2 manas, 3 direct damages, what more we need? This spell can trade the 90% of the cost 2 and 3 of the game, or just give us lethal or kill other minion combining with more damage, without talk about the draw if we dont have cards on our hand.
-Huge Toad : now, this card is better than Knife Juggler . At first Huge Toad is a 3-2 drop for 2 mana, and deathrattle deal 1 random damage, so we can call it like a big Fiery Bat and adding that is a beast*.
-King's Elekk : 3-2 drop for 2 mana, beast*, and if u win a minion joust, draw your minion showed. Quite good for this deck for his use and because we need more 2 mana minion drops to make presence and pressure on early game.
-Eaglehorn Bow : combo with Freezing Trap adding one more use to our weapon, this weapon can clean 90% of 2 or 3 mana drops, some 4 mana drops, or just SMOrc.
-Animal Companion : the classic 3 mana spell of hunter, the BEAST* card (Kappa). Good pressure and presence on board.
-Kill Command : more damage on our deck, SMOrc or trade, it depends on the situation.
-Unleash the Hounds : a great card vs aggro decks like warlock zoo or shaman agrgo, good use too vs midrange decks. Beast*ial.
-Houndmaster : good 4 mana drop and the combo with our beasts is rlly good for us, one of the keys in the deck.
-Infested Wolf : a great card of Wotog expansion, his deathrattle give use two 1-1 beasts* that give us a little more presence on board.
-Harrison Jones : a great tech card to use in this meta, all people using warrior, shaman, paladin and rogue. And without his use, is a 5-4 for 5 mana, good presence too, and help us in the curve of the deck.
-Princess Huhuran : dr.5 Beast* on hunter. Active our deathrattle and without is a 6-5 for 5 mana, so so good , great potencial with Savannah Highmane and Sylvanas Windrunner.
-Stampeding Kodo : another great tech card in the actual meta, in addition is a beast*. Great vs aggro decks and control or midrange too, deleting Acolyte of Pain , Armorsmith , Bloodhoof Brave , Northshire Cleric, Beckoner of Evil ,...
-Savannah Highmane : one of the bests card in the game for me, just incredible. 6-5 beast* for 6 mana, deathrattle give us two more beasts* 2-2. Great presence on board and trades.
-Sylvanas Windrunner: another tech card in the deck. Really good vs control and midrange decks. Combo with Princess Huhuran .
-Call of the Wild : one of our finishers, summon the beasts* of Animal Companion on the board. With one o two more minions on board we can rekt the oponent. We take presence and pressure, the two qualitys of our deck.
-Ragnaros the Firelord : the last tech card to beat the meta. The classic drop to win versus control decks, just a finisher, or in other situation can clean a minon( feel the rng). This card is so good, because nobody spect that a hunter will have a Ragnaros.
4.Replacements
-Harrison Jones : i think right now this card is usefull, so is difficult to replace, i think u can replace it for a Acidic Swamp Ooze to destroy a weapon and have more early too, or for Stranglethorn Tiger to get more presence and one more beast*.
-Princess Huhuran : u can replace Dr.5 for Leeroy Jenkins to have one more finisher, Straglethorn Tiger to curve and presence or Psych-o-Tron to curve and defend ur face and minions.
-Sylvanas Windrunner : this tech card is quite difficult to replace too, but u can try Cairne Bloodhoof , Hogger, Doom of Elwynn or Sunwalker .
-Ragnaros the Firelord : i think is a unexpected and really good card on hunter. i think u only can replace him for Leeroy Jenkins or N'Zoth, the Corruptor .
5.Mulligans
I need 50 positive votes to upload a concrete guide versus each deck of the meta, so i hope u will help me :) .
-Aggro: u want to reppel the aggro and control the board. Fiery Bat , Huge Toad , King's Elekk , Eaglehorn Bow ,sometimes Unleash the Hounds and if u have good curve Animal Companion .
-Midrange:u want to control the board and make pressure. Fiery Bat , Huge Toad , King's Elekk , Eaglehorn Bow with coin , Animal Companion with coin and if u have good curve keep Houndmaster or Infested Wolf with coin.
-Control: u want to make pressure, but be careful and dont overextend on minons. Fiery Bat, Huge Toad , King's Elekk , Animal Companion or Eaglehorn Bow with good curve and Houndmaster or Infested Wolf with coin and good curve.
On some Match ups u can keep Freezing Trap and versus Control Warrior with coin and some good curve u can keep Harrison Jones.
6.Community videos
Destructo
kiwiinbacon
Cristianbreak
Khristophesaurus Dinosaurus
7.My other decks
[AntiAggro] Hybrid Dragon Warrior : http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/563654-antiaggro-hybrid-dragon-warrior
New tempo mage: http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/508469-wotog-new-tempo-mage
- Thanks to all the people who enjoy this guide and this deck -
If anyone interested I've been experimenting (like a lot of hunters) with Doomsayer. Hunter needs early game for that 10-15 damage from cheap minions to go into the late game withSavannah Highmane and Call of the Wild. That's how I win most of my games and the Doomsayer helps a lot. I'm not sure if it's optimal but I've beaten a lot of zoo locks and shamans because of this card. It's even good against control to lock them out of their very important 5-6 mana turns. I subbed our Princess Huhuran, unless you're going with a more deathrattle theme I think she is underwhelming. I subbed in Sylvanas Windrunner to again help with control and other mid range decks to make the board more awkward, and possibly gain it back.
I took out rag, was not a big fan of him, I'd rather get a Call of the Wild most of the time.
Thanks for this! I have actually been wondering about this. Right now in the 2 slot I have 2 King's Elekks and 2 Huge Toads, so I'm not sure if I'll swap out one of these or take out removal or higher drops. Anyway I'll be testing it for sure and appreciate the input!! :D
I managed to climb from rank 17 to rank 9 with a variation of this deck:
-1 Ragnaros the Firelord, +1 N'Zoth, the Corruptor
-2 Unleash the Hounds, +1 Freezing Trap, +1 Bear Trap
-1 Harrison Jones, +1 Cairne Bloodhoof
I find N'Zoth to be really strong in this deck. Just when control thinks they've stabilized N'Zoth brings a full board with him and the vast majority of the time dropping N'Zoth wins me the game. I just didn't see enough weapons to really justify Harrison, so I went with Cairne for extra board stickiness and added target for Huhuran and N'Zoth.
Like others commenting here the Achilles's heel of this desk seems to be aggro in my experience. Aggro/Tempo account for 75% of my losses with this deck. I feel like this desk is toast the instant it falls behind in board control. It's an inherent weakness of Hunter but I'm trying to figure out how to cover this weakness of the deck. Explosive Trap doesn't really clear the real Shaman threats and Explosive Shot comes a little too late for a card that more often than not only kills one, maybe two minions. Now that I'm facing more aggro decks this is becoming a real issue. Am I playing the match-up wrong? Any cards that could help?
Hey there, Fellow Aussie HS player here.
@MacBGT i think you have done an outstanding job with this deck man, i have gone 22-3 went from Rank 12 - Rank 5 won 15 straight games!!
I'm having real trouble with AGGRO WARLOCK... Any tips/tricks or replacements guys? it seems like either A = Im getting bad rng/mulligans or B = ZooLock is just really good against this deck??
I have only just encouterd this problem tonight when i have faced ZooLock 5times back to back @Rank 5 and im 0-5 witch put me back to rank 6 :(
Every other deck/class i havn't had to much trouble with at all...
Cheers
why not -1 toad +1 elekk? 16/8 using +1 leeroy -1 princess great job
So confused... Granted I'm missing some of the big cards (Rag and Princess), but I have yet to get a single win in casual mode with this deck over easily 10 attempts... Wtf am I doing wrong?
Lol some of the biggest trihards are in casual. Meaning ridiculously expensive deck.
This deck looks super fun, I am tempted to craft Princess Huhuran but I'm not sure if it's a waste of 1600 dust.
She's a good tech card but not at all essential. Try a Stranglethorn Tiger or another 5 drop in her place and then if you like the deck consider crafting her. :)
will I be fine with:
-2x Huge Toad
- Princes Huhuran
+2x Flame Juggler
+ Deadly Shot
I am currently at rank 6 trying to get to rank 5
can ı replace with ragnaros ? ı have geddon ı dont have dust
IS it possible to remove something for... king krush? He never ever gets played , i would like to use him, i know hes not good but he could be all like....
"surprise!! motherFU@#$ER!!!! "
Thug life.
Krush is very bad, don't try to force legendarys into a deck just because u have it, the majority of the time a common/rare will be a better replacement.
I don't disagree. But i feel bad for him. sniff. Sigh, I should just disenchant already. For such a big guy, hes pretty invisible lol. Its sad, i cry for him, and the skies cried too. 400 dust here i come!
P.S. For some reason i cant edit my comments right now. So i wanted to add but if you had to pick one thing... which would it be? to force him in.
It is no fun to lose though...
I really love this deck. It is fresh, it is fun and it does extremely well against the current (shaman) meta! Call of the wild MVP.
I had such fun that I decided to make a video showcasing the deck, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
GL for the rest of the season guys!
- huhuran , 2x toad and harrison
+ooze,elek,explosive and deadly shot
started climbing from rank 20 to rank 9 with 2 losses. not bad
- Princess
- Harrison
+ Leeroy
+ Deadly Shot
I climbed rank 5 to rank 2, W:21 L:7 atm.