Twice in a row now, we as a community have severely underestimated the Hunter class and their archetypes. Remember when Spell Hunter was being announced? Everyone thought it was a joke. Even this site believed it, calling the card itself a meme in the reveal (Instead of "A new hunter card has been revealed", it said "A new Hunter meme has been revealed"). And then what happened? Spell Hunter became the biggest set sleeper since Prince Keleseth. Throughout Year of the Raven, Spell Hunter was super dominant (maybe not so much in RR, but still). Then Rise of Shadows began to roll around, and Oblivitron was revealed. People laughed at this card, a 6 mana 3/4. Toast even tweeted saying, and I quote "Hunter and bad legendaries. Name a better duo". It is now a metabreaking deck, able to consistently beat every deck in the meta (barring Token Druid, if you draw like garbage). My point is that we should put a little bit more faith into Hunter in the upcoming expansions.
Watch me eat my words when we hype up Hunter in the next expansion and it turns out to be tier 4.
Twice in a row now, we as a community have severely underestimated the Hunter class and their archetypes. Remember when Spell Hunter was being announced? Everyone thought it was a joke. Even this site believed it, calling the card itself a meme in the reveal (Instead of "A new hunter card has been revealed", it said "A new Hunter meme has been revealed"). And then what happened? Spell Hunter became the biggest set sleeper since Prince Keleseth. Throughout Year of the Raven, Spell Hunter was super dominant (maybe not so much in RR, but still). Then Rise of Shadows began to roll around, and Oblivitron was revealed. People laughed at this card, a 6 mana 3/4. Toast even tweeted saying, and I quote "Hunter and bad legendaries. Name a better duo". It is now a metabreaking deck, able to consistently beat every deck in the meta (barring Token Druid, if you draw like garbage). My point is that we should put a little bit more faith into Hunter in the upcoming expansions.
Watch me eat my words when we hype up Hunter in the next expansion and it turns out to be tier 4.
The thing is Oblivitron isnt that strong of a card by itself the card that pushes the archetype is that 3 mana discover a deathrattle shit. Oblivitron is a pretty fair card but is undeniably slow in a vacuum.
Twice in a row now, we as a community have severely underestimated the Hunter class and their archetypes. Remember when Spell Hunter was being announced? Everyone thought it was a joke. Even this site believed it, calling the card itself a meme in the reveal (Instead of "A new hunter card has been revealed", it said "A new Hunter meme has been revealed"). And then what happened? Spell Hunter became the biggest set sleeper since Prince Keleseth. Throughout Year of the Raven, Spell Hunter was super dominant (maybe not so much in RR, but still). Then Rise of Shadows began to roll around, and Oblivitron was revealed. People laughed at this card, a 6 mana 3/4. Toast even tweeted saying, and I quote "Hunter and bad legendaries. Name a better duo". It is now a metabreaking deck, able to consistently beat every deck in the meta (barring Token Druid, if you draw like garbage). My point is that we should put a little bit more faith into Hunter in the upcoming expansions.
Watch me eat my words when we hype up Hunter in the next expansion and it turns out to be tier 4.
I don't think many people thought Oblivitron was a bad card...
people are still traumatized from the years of hunter being literally unable to do anything othern than play Midrange with BEasts.
For years, no new archetype that was pushed for Hunter had ever succeeded regardless of how powerful the support was.
I'M not even sure what happened, but all of a sudden Hunter archetypes were far more functional, but as of now people still have the "but Hunter has no card draw" blinders on
Fact is, card draw just isn't nearly as important anymore (still important, but not as much "if you can#t cycle through your deck efficiently you better play aggro")
Twice in a row now, we as a community have severely underestimated the Hunter class and their archetypes. Remember when Spell Hunter was being announced? Everyone thought it was a joke. Even this site believed it, calling the card itself a meme in the reveal (Instead of "A new hunter card has been revealed", it said "A new Hunter meme has been revealed"). And then what happened? Spell Hunter became the biggest set sleeper since Prince Keleseth. Throughout Year of the Raven, Spell Hunter was super dominant (maybe not so much in RR, but still). Then Rise of Shadows began to roll around, and Oblivitron was revealed. People laughed at this card, a 6 mana 3/4. Toast even tweeted saying, and I quote "Hunter and bad legendaries. Name a better duo". It is now a metabreaking deck, able to consistently beat every deck in the meta (barring Token Druid, if you draw like garbage). My point is that we should put a little bit more faith into Hunter in the upcoming expansions.
Watch me eat my words when we hype up Hunter in the next expansion and it turns out to be tier 4.
The thing is Oblivitron isnt that strong of a card by itself the card that pushes the archetype is that 3 mana discover a deathrattle shit. Oblivitron is a pretty fair card but is undeniably slow in a vacuum.
That's the issue. Most people thought Skull of the Man'ari was trash. I even remember a clip of Kripp where he said "It could literally be 'At the start of your turn, Blizzard will mail you $1,000,000' and it would still be a trash tier card". BOOM, Cubelock rules the meta until Year of the Raven and was still a powerful deck in said Year. It's not because of Skull alone, it's because of supporting cards like Voidlord and Doomguard. In fact, without either of those, Kripp was probably right. I'm not saying people are underestimating the power level of the card itself, they're underestimating the power level of the synergy that it can bring to the table.
Twice in a row now, we as a community have severely underestimated the Hunter class and their archetypes. Remember when Spell Hunter was being announced? Everyone thought it was a joke. Even this site believed it, calling the card itself a meme in the reveal (Instead of "A new hunter card has been revealed", it said "A new Hunter meme has been revealed"). And then what happened? Spell Hunter became the biggest set sleeper since Prince Keleseth. Throughout Year of the Raven, Spell Hunter was super dominant (maybe not so much in RR, but still). Then Rise of Shadows began to roll around, and Oblivitron was revealed. People laughed at this card, a 6 mana 3/4. Toast even tweeted saying, and I quote "Hunter and bad legendaries. Name a better duo". It is now a metabreaking deck, able to consistently beat every deck in the meta (barring Token Druid, if you draw like garbage). My point is that we should put a little bit more faith into Hunter in the upcoming expansions.
Watch me eat my words when we hype up Hunter in the next expansion and it turns out to be tier 4.
So far, Mid Range Hunter and Mech Hunter are the only two decks in the current meta that I have consistent and solid success with. Both are able to wipe the floor with polarising decks such as Bomb Hunter, Lackey Rogue and Token Druid (though the latter is slightly more of a challenge). Lackey Rogue often gets anihilated but these two Hunter decks. If I want to climb the ladder with any sort of speed and consistency, these are my go-to decks. Hunter is definitely the underestimated class right now - which suits me and my win rate just fine :-D
Tbh realizing that FUCKING Malygos hunter is a thing it sounds just crazy to me. I am a hunter main and i am extremely happy and impressed by how the deck peforms. When ungoro came out i was excited becouse had a chance to stop flooding the board with beast and play on curve. It has been like that untill KoC where Spell Hunter was a unexpected good deck and untill WW when Recruit Hunter and then Deathrattle egg hunter ruled the meta.
People always said CONTROL HUNTER, heck no. But Rexxar DK proved them wrong and now Masters Call, Jepetto, Zuljin and Nine lives are keeping the class alive and away from trash tier. I love it
u act like Oblivitron making the archtype but the fact is he is just fair card in that deck
the outstanding cards in that deck is Nine Lives and some boomsday cards that got overshadowed last year with better cards
I made that point earlier. I mentioned that people thought cards like Voidlord and Skull of the Man'ari were trash tier, but combined they became the strongest deck in the game. Many people said Nine Lives was meh because of all the deathrattles rotating out, and almost everyone thought Oblivitron was garbage. In essence, both cards aren't that good, but when put together, they make something better than the sum of its parts. Isn't that one of the hallmarks of good game design?
I called Spell Hunter a new and interesting deck so that's at least one person who was paying attention. Personally I hate the hunter class because of the identity it was boxed into. "Me Hunter Me Go Face," is a thing for a reason. That said I really like Mech Hunter now with Oblivitron. I've dabbled with my own Vareesa Hunter deck which is pretty fun and doesn't rely on the high roll of Malygos and Jepetto.
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Twice in a row now, we as a community have severely underestimated the Hunter class and their archetypes. Remember when Spell Hunter was being announced? Everyone thought it was a joke. Even this site believed it, calling the card itself a meme in the reveal (Instead of "A new hunter card has been revealed", it said "A new Hunter meme has been revealed"). And then what happened? Spell Hunter became the biggest set sleeper since Prince Keleseth. Throughout Year of the Raven, Spell Hunter was super dominant (maybe not so much in RR, but still). Then Rise of Shadows began to roll around, and Oblivitron was revealed. People laughed at this card, a 6 mana 3/4. Toast even tweeted saying, and I quote "Hunter and bad legendaries. Name a better duo". It is now a metabreaking deck, able to consistently beat every deck in the meta (barring Token Druid, if you draw like garbage). My point is that we should put a little bit more faith into Hunter in the upcoming expansions.
Watch me eat my words when we hype up Hunter in the next expansion and it turns out to be tier 4.
The thing is Oblivitron isnt that strong of a card by itself the card that pushes the archetype is that 3 mana discover a deathrattle shit. Oblivitron is a pretty fair card but is undeniably slow in a vacuum.
look at his ratings, most people rated it bad.
people are still traumatized from the years of hunter being literally unable to do anything othern than play Midrange with BEasts.
For years, no new archetype that was pushed for Hunter had ever succeeded regardless of how powerful the support was.
I'M not even sure what happened, but all of a sudden Hunter archetypes were far more functional, but as of now people still have the "but Hunter has no card draw" blinders on
Fact is, card draw just isn't nearly as important anymore (still important, but not as much "if you can#t cycle through your deck efficiently you better play aggro")
I tried having fun once. It was awful.
That's the issue. Most people thought Skull of the Man'ari was trash. I even remember a clip of Kripp where he said "It could literally be 'At the start of your turn, Blizzard will mail you $1,000,000' and it would still be a trash tier card". BOOM, Cubelock rules the meta until Year of the Raven and was still a powerful deck in said Year. It's not because of Skull alone, it's because of supporting cards like Voidlord and Doomguard. In fact, without either of those, Kripp was probably right. I'm not saying people are underestimating the power level of the card itself, they're underestimating the power level of the synergy that it can bring to the table.
So far, Mid Range Hunter and Mech Hunter are the only two decks in the current meta that I have consistent and solid success with. Both are able to wipe the floor with polarising decks such as Bomb Hunter, Lackey Rogue and Token Druid (though the latter is slightly more of a challenge).
Lackey Rogue often gets anihilated but these two Hunter decks.
If I want to climb the ladder with any sort of speed and consistency, these are my go-to decks.
Hunter is definitely the underestimated class right now - which suits me and my win rate just fine :-D
Tbh realizing that FUCKING Malygos hunter is a thing it sounds just crazy to me. I am a hunter main and i am extremely happy and impressed by how the deck peforms. When ungoro came out i was excited becouse had a chance to stop flooding the board with beast and play on curve. It has been like that untill KoC where Spell Hunter was a unexpected good deck and untill WW when Recruit Hunter and then Deathrattle egg hunter ruled the meta.
People always said CONTROL HUNTER, heck no. But Rexxar DK proved them wrong and now Masters Call, Jepetto, Zuljin and Nine lives are keeping the class alive and away from trash tier. I love it
u act like Oblivitron making the archtype but the fact is he is just fair card in that deck
the outstanding cards in that deck is Nine Lives and some boomsday cards that got overshadowed last year with better cards
I made that point earlier. I mentioned that people thought cards like Voidlord and Skull of the Man'ari were trash tier, but combined they became the strongest deck in the game. Many people said Nine Lives was meh because of all the deathrattles rotating out, and almost everyone thought Oblivitron was garbage. In essence, both cards aren't that good, but when put together, they make something better than the sum of its parts. Isn't that one of the hallmarks of good game design?
I called Spell Hunter a new and interesting deck so that's at least one person who was paying attention. Personally I hate the hunter class because of the identity it was boxed into. "Me Hunter Me Go Face," is a thing for a reason. That said I really like Mech Hunter now with Oblivitron. I've dabbled with my own Vareesa Hunter deck which is pretty fun and doesn't rely on the high roll of Malygos and Jepetto.