Renogg Hatson, Ruskeydoo's Legendary Hunter
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Wild
- 16 Minions
- 12 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Reno Hunter
- Crafting Cost: 12880
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 7/20/2016 (Old Gods)
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This is TF2 and gaming personality Ruskeydoo's legendary hunter deck, some of the following was taken from their Reddit post. The rest was written with Ruskeydoo for this guide.
Renogg Hatson, Legendary Hunter
Been playing since beta, said to myself “If I ever get Legend, I will do so using a hipster deck of my own design.” Finally managed it. Pretty much the entire climb was done using this monstrosity.
Legend Proof
Card Choices
Hunter's Mark – One of your two hard removals. Works well with Mage hero power, Pyro, Dreadscale, etc...
Sir Finley Mrrgglton– Mage is best, Priest and Warrior are great against rush, Warlock sometimes but situational, Druid is alright. Turn two hat.
Bear Trap – Great early minion, put a hat on it.
Bloodmage Thalnos – Lots of damage spells, card cycle, looks great with a hat.
Explorer's Hat – Second hero power. Can lead to insane Yoggs if things work out.
Explosive Trap – Great AoE
King's Elekk – Draw is nice, Info about your opponents deck is good, can mislead opponent about your deck.
Quick Shot – Removal. I have never drawn a card with it.
Wild Pyromancer – gives extra damage to removal, friends with Acolyte, hat.
Acolyte of Pain – Hat, dreadscale, pyro, mage power, nuff said.
Animal Companion – Solid creature.
Deadly Shot – hard removal.
Dreadscale – token clear, extra one damage on other things can be great, beast, mini-Geddon.
Eaglehorn Bow – Crappy fiery war axe but still good enough.
Kill Command – Removal
Powershot – Great clear. We have a lot of ways of making it hit for 3 damage. Make zoo cry.
Unleash the Hounds – defence from flood decks, late game play lots of hats.
Elise Starseeker – Fatigue solution.
Spellbreaker – Warriors dropping Sylvanas is a problem, 4 drop.
Azure Drake – Great creature.
Explosive Shot – 2:1 Value machine.
Harrison Jones – So many weapon classes right now
Stampeding Kodo – Works great in current meta.
Reno Jackson – Always keep in mulligan.
Sylvanas Windrunner – Value minion. There are various sketchy ways you can play then kill for a steal.
Baron Geddon – AoE, big threat, extra 2 damage has won games.
Gladiator's Longbow – Pure control. Cannot wear hat.
Call of the Wild – Crazy card. Always gets value.
Ragnaros the Firelord – Big threat, damage, etc. Hat not useful but stylish.
Yogg-Saron, Hope's End – When you lose control of the game drop Yogg. HAT.
Play-style and Match-ups
Renogg Hatson is rather complicated deck to pilot, it’s not easy at all. Your decisions will be dependent on what your opponent’s deck is. An example would be when playing a Warrior, I wouldn’t drop Sir Finley Mrrgglton on turn one, because I need to know which type of Warrior I’m up against.
It is important to have a good general knowledge of the types of decks out there, their win conditions and their weaknesses. Also your opponent’s reach, what I mean by this is how much burst damage they muster to kill you in one. There’s a single heal in this deck, so you must know the best time to play it.
If your opponent is playing a rush deck, such as Aggro Shaman, zoo, pirate warrior, then you’re looking to fend them off with AoE, establish any board presence you can with your low cost minions. Try to make it to late game with Reno Jackson, at this point you’re probably fine.
Against some control decks, such as Evolve Shaman or Control Warrior you’re looking to out value your opponent. Be willing to take a little bit of damage to get the most out of your cards. Make sure to pressure your opponent so they have to play their cards inefficiently.
Mid-range decks are again a case of value, survive the early game and simply control.
Notable Match-ups
C'Thun Warrior is incredibly hard to play against, you essentially need to rush them as fast as you can. Try to force them to play their Doomcaller before their C'Thun , or a small C'Thun .
Dragon and Pirate Warrior isn’t a hard match-up, control the board and stay alive. If you manage that they’ll run out of steam.
Both Miracle Rogue and Deathrattle Rogues will be hard matches. For Miracle you really need to try and control from the beginning, and put them in a situation where they need to use their cards to survive instead of having a huge Gadgetzan Auctioneer turn.
For N'Zoth, the Corruptor decks you have two options. One is to manage to get enough pressure on before the N'Zoth, the Corruptor turn. The other is to counter N'Zoth, the Corruptor with Yogg-Saron, Hope's End and pray.
For everything else, just play control.
Mulligans and Finley
Always keep: Sir Finley Mrrgglton, Reno Jackson, King's Elekk, Quick Shot...
...except when shouldn't.
Philosophy: When choosing your mulligan, don't think so much about advancing your own aims, think about countering what they're trying to do. We are not planning on winning any time soon, so choose what will make their life difficult.
Against almost every class you have to expect rush, if you mulligan for rush and it’s control, you’re fine. If you don’t mulligan for rush, and it’s rush, you’re dead.
Don't be too greedy with your mulligans, don’t keeps cards just for draw.
There’s plenty of mulligans you want to keep against specific decks, too many to list. Use your best judgement, obvious things such as keeping 3 damage clears against Shaman and 2 damage against Zoo.
Finley
Again, your hero power is match-up dependent. Ranked in general usefulness:
Hunter: If you’re putting on good pressure, and they’re near to death keeping your hero power is fine, for now.
Mage: Generally the best, it has synergy with hunter’s mark, Acolyte of Pain, with all the AoE the ability to add an extra one damage is huge. Great board control.
Priest: Second only to Mage, you can extend the life of hatted creatures and it gives you more flexibility as to when you play Reno.
Warrior: Actually a very solid pick, it doesn’t control board but it gives you survivability which is nice. Great against rush.
Warlock: When you know it’s a deck you need to rush down, this is the best hero power. But it’s a little bit of a desperation move.
Druid: Not the best, but plausible. Provides board control, but you don’t want to be taking that damage. Useful for extending the reach of your weapons.
Paladin: Everyone’s packing so much board clear that I can’t see myself using it.
Rogue: I’ve taken in desperation, but it’s not great. You don’t want to be taking that face damage.
Shaman: Possible hat synergy, haven't played it much.
Replacements and Priority Crafts
Replacements
Baron Geddon | Any big late game threat such as Savannah Highmane, Cairne Bloodhoof, North Sea Kraken or even a second Call of the Wild. Although doubles in this Reno deck are scary. |
Dreadscale | Doomsayer, Huge Toad. |
Bloodmage Thalnos | Loot Hoarder, Tracking? |
Harrison Jones | Acidic Swamp Ooze |
Ragnaros the Firelord | Any similarly priced control card such as King Krush, Ysera, or North Sea Kraken |
Sylvanas Windrunner | Sorta the same thing as Ragnaros the Firelord, any sort of control card such as Savannah Highmane, Cairne Bloodhoof, Nexus-Champion Saraad, maybe The Black Knight? |
Reno Jackson, Elise Starseeker, Sir Finley Mrrgglton | Consider buying LoE. |
Gladiator's Longbow | See Sylvanas Windrunner. |
Call of the Wild | Dr. Boom, oh wait. |
Yogg-Saron, Hope's End | Deathwing . Yogg’s gonna discard your hand with Astral Communion anyway. |
Explorer's Hat | Irreplaceable. Get out. How dare you. |
Priority Crafts
Call of the Wild > Yogg-Saron, Hope's End > Baron Geddon.
What? Here's a picture special 4u. Trade Harrison Jones with SI:7 Agent and Kill Command Sylv with 100% chance to steal Anub'arak. Bear triggers Kill Command so u have 5 dmg, instead of this he put hat on bear and pinged, IMO this is a missplay. Now where am i wrong? I play from the very first season so be sure i know the basics.
While I appreciate you guys watching my video, I make these videos to show off the deck, not my skills (or lack of) playing Hearthstone! Hope you have fun playing the deck!
You should always welcome people telling you of your misplays, helps you in the future.
This is probably the best hunter deck i have seen in a while. the guide is pretty complete and it was a blast to play :D
Since the deck is pretty expensive i decided to try to make a cheaper version using recommended cards and it worked out extremely well!
Here is a quick video showcasing a cheaper version that still runs great. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.
Glad to hear it's working out for you! Thanks for crediting the deck source, hadn't thought about running a Loothoarder in place of Thalnos. I may add it to the list of replacements.
Missed lethal at 25:30, since you can Spellbreaker ragnaros and hero power or hat. You also play many turns where you start spending mana before you've fully decided what you will do, which leads to resolving rng with less mana available for new decision-making (e.g. playing explorer's hat before map to the golden monkey).
I can here to say the same thing...
I've had a similar list without the hat that I ran for a while before standard. But the amount of silence being ran back then made me take it out. I'll try it again with hat this time now that there's fewer ways to remove the hat permanently. Rogue's Sap is still a concern since that class has actually gotten a bit more popular though.
I was trying to make a consistent reno hunter myself for ages, never thought THAT THE HAT was the missing part of my deck. I'm on a winstreak of 7-1 and I had loads of fun, thanks for the deck
Had a great time with the deck :D ! Lost 2 because of 50/50s so that's a bummer but happens right XD ! Funny I beat two zoolocks though ;P !
Thanks for making a video about the deck, but it's not actually my deck. All credit goes to Ruskeydoo, it would be awesome if you could update the title/thumbnail of the video to reflect this.
Awh I see haha! Will do thanks for letting me know :D !
I've replaced Thalnos with a Savannah and liked it. I found the extra board pressure more effective than the spell power (and haven't had a problem with card efficiency enough to need the extra draw).
I'm missing Dreadscale, is MC tech good swap?
That's the swap I made. Seems reasonable so far. I think Farseer could be a reasonable option as well.
Had a fun time with the deck and while some matchups are pretty hard (ZooLock e.g.) I found quiet a bit of success against various Warriors. Going 4-1 here facing Tempo, Dragon, C'thun and OTK combo warriors, only the Cthun one was a problem.
I put variety in decks above the grind so it was a decent pleasure to have another hunter option today for testing! :)
Some gameplay: Video
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Ok seriously, i hate these annoying C'Thun Warriors. How the fuck do you beat them when they play Justicar t6? Games take 30 min and you lose, nice time waste. And how the fuck do people LIKE playing this boring deck? It odesnt take any skill just like Aggro decks. Just vomit your removal and let Brawl RNG win you the game and gain 1929 armor. I guess I should stop playing Hearthstone for a while, trying new fun decks is just suicide when playing ranked. Either you face Dragon Warrior, C'Thun Warrior or OTK Worgen Warrior, all awfully strong decks. I guess the current meta is even worse than Secret Pally meta...
Sorry for all the cursing, this deck is really fun and worked like a charm in Casual, but in ranked all people play the same netdecks and draw godly, no chance with my shitty RNG. :/
Saying Control Warrior doesn't take skill... Seriously? It's one of the hardest decks to master and do well with.
I keep running into C'Thun Reno or normal Reno Warlock decks, in Casual AND Ranked... So i thought lets try this new Control Hunter deck and what can i say, after my rag killed his rag -> he played twisting nether -> i play kodo with a hat on it -> he concedes turn 9. Awesome. :p
But usually, which decks have a favoured matchup vs both of these Warlock decks? I hate playing against them.. Only C'Thun Warrior is worse.