[EASY RANK 5] Midrange Hunter
- Last updated Sep 16, 2017 (Frozen Throne)
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Wild
- 19 Minions
- 9 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Midrange Hunter
- Crafting Cost: 1320
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 9/14/2017 (Frozen Throne)
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Total Deck Rating
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I was stuck at rank 11 for a while this month, than I decided to give the good old hunter a try and it went surpisingly good. In two days I climbed the ladder relatively easy and got rank 5. The deck went on a winning streak from rank 9 to 5 so I decided to share it with you, in case you are struggling to rank fast enough.
Unfortunately I got no tracker cause I mainly play on mobile, but I can assure you that i wrecked all kind of decks on my way to rank 5, if you want proof I can post a screenshot of my current rank or you can add me. Last encounters were almost all druids and some priests. Best matchups were mages and pirate warriors, 100% winrate against those two.
Mulligans
Be careful, cause sometimes you can overload your hand with 3-cost cards, always dig for your low cost minions
General:
Alleycat not more than one
Two-drops, especially [card]Scavenging Hyena[/card] if you have turn 1 Alleycat
On coin, a two drop followed by [card]Crackling Razormaw[/card] is a really good start
Specific:
[card]Golakka Crawler[/card] keep even two of those against Warrior, one against Druid and Shaman
[card]Deadly Shot[/card] against Druid (early Hydra for aggro, Doomsayer in some Jade lists), against Mage (Doomsayer)
[card]Eaglehorn Bow[/card]only if you already have 1-2 drops
Strategies
Get board control as soon as possible, try to play around boardclears a little. When you got decent board start pumping face damage. [card]Stitched Tracker[/card] and [card]Tracking [/card] are great late game cards, they are a bit clunky in the early stages of the game, so time those cards well. Scavenging Hyena+ Hounds combo is always good so try to make that work. If you have Bonemare in hand try to leave a sticky board on turn 6, or you could keep an alleycat and play the 2 cards on turn 8.
Against Druid try to not play too many small minions or they will punish you with Spreading Plague. Always think of the worst, play around turn 8 UI by making efficent trades with 5 health minions. An unanswered [card]Scavenging Hyena[/card] or [card]Tundra Rhino[/card] can win you games.
Against Priest play around Potion of Madness (the reason why I don't play Kindly Grandmother) and Dragonfire Potion (leave some sticky deathrattles on board). [card]Houndmaster[/card] on a 2-attack minion hurts them enough.
Against Mage, I only faced quest mages, always keep an answer to doomsayer in hand. Leave some space in you board to summon charge beasts (Huffer or Unleash the hounds). You want to go face as soon as possible, leave them at 1-2 health and then pop all those iceblocks with your heropower.
Against Warrior [card]Golakka Crawler[/card] is a must have. If you have 2 of them in hand, or if you already have good first and second turn options, try to save one golakka for high priority pirates (Southsea Captain, Naga Corsair or buffed pirates).
Good luck climbing bros!
P. P. S. English is not my native language so I don't speak it very well, I'm sorry about that
Here is a showcase video made by kiwiinbacon
It's good. But i think more early game could be better. 2 1 drops instead of tracking maybe? Jeweled Macaw?.
Tracking allows you to search for win conditions, hounds, kill command, weapon etc
wow -- I just soared to 10 from 15 in a single 2 hour sitting. I only lost 3 games -- 2 paladin, 1 highlander priest. Really fast deck, thanks for sharing!
On a side note -- how are you dealing with paladin? One variant was some deck I've never seen before, and frankly -- he top decked a win condition when he was out of cards, so I don't count that. Any advice on Murloc paly?
i haven't seen murlocs since the warleader nerf, have you?
Awesome deck!! Thanks!
as fun as Rexxar is (i have him too and i LOVE building zombeasts) - i feel like he doesn't belong in this deck. when you play rexxar you switch from aggression to a control/value game and this deck is not well designed for that. you have to rely on discovering charge minions and often get stuck with minions too expensive to play.
personally i feel like Rexxar and Lich King are too slow in this deck. golakka crawler is always a good card because so many aggro decks run at least one pirate pair to thin their deck with patches (rogues run swashbucklers and aggro decks run bloodsail corsair)
Thanks for reminding good ol'midrange hunter bro :)
Solid deck for slow starting ones, turn 5 is my favourite lethal turn :)
You're welcome :)
Added you if you accept :) hearthstoned#2142
thanks again
Hi im about to try this deck any good replacement for 1 golaka or both? cuz i havent seen a pirate whole day
I was thinking 1 Crazed Alchemist would be good for getting rid of Doomsayer
Ideally kindly grandmother, but against potion of madness it's real bad, I still don't know if I should add it or not. Maybe try dire Wolf but I like that golakka is a 2/3, just try what's better for you at the moment. I encoutered lot of pirates even after nerf this moring on rank 5/4 EU
Ok i wil try both ways and see what works .. thanks for the reply :)
Was kindly grandmother good even against priests? I still don't know if i should add it or not
Thanks for the deck, I think I have at rank 8 a winrate about 70%, I made some changes, I only have 1 crawler since I'm not facing a lot of pirates, so I put DK rexxar, it really helps me and has already made me won some games with him. My only question is about crackling razormaw, I almost never can activate it, so is it really worth in this deck?
Crackling razormaw is a must have in hunter, imo is one of the strongest cards in your arsenal. If you don't encounter pirates sub the crawler with another 2 drop. You can swap a high cost card like bonemare for DK.
You could replace one of the tracking with deathstalker if you have it.
And he is evil, also.
Rexxar may be slow but this deck lacks AoE, and it may not be able to win against jade druid without it