Hearthpwn

What do you do when you have a Bloodfen Raptor on turn 2, but your Hunter opponent summons an Alleycat on turn 1? I tried to favorably wait out the turns to find another way. But I had no choice but to summon the Bloodfen Raptor.

Is this a favorable trade?

Alleycat+Tabbycat<Bloodfen Raptor= Clear board

No, its not, he traded 1 mana for your 2 mana.

not run bloodfen raptor in your deck and put in something useful like a Flame Juggler or literally anything else that isn't a vanilla 3/2 with no benefitial effect

I'm starting to think that River Crocolisk would be more of a benefit to this deck this time around.

I was going to say that if you have enough cheap boardclears in your deck it is worth tanking the cat-damage a couple of turns.. But you dont seem to run any boardclears at all so Im not sure. 

Playing the Raptor is probably fine in that situation with your deck

You should play the raptor. If the hunter trades, it's still good for you, as you're not taking damage, and hunters tend to put you on a clock real fast. On paper in a vacuum it looks bad of course, as he paid 1 mana, and you paid 2, but your decks are different, and you need to try and keep up with the hunter's tempo, as otherwise they'll burst you down.

The only time you would not play the raptor, is if you'd have a way to clear the board the next turn with for example a lightning storm and you'd like to also hit the next minion they play. Then on turn 4 after the lightningstorm, you could play the raptor. But it depends on if you don't have any other turn 3 play, because I'd most of the time play the raptor anyway. Hunters are not known for trading.

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not run bloodfen raptor in your deck and put in something useful like a Flame Juggler or literally anything else that isn't a vanilla 3/2 with no benefitial effect

It's not a good trade, but with a deck like that (slow midrange without board clears) you don't have any other choice, you have no answer that costs less than 4, and you can obviously not wait that long. It's the best you can do in that situation.

Totem golem and tunnel trogg are both commons. Surely they can afford to craft 4 commons ?

3/2 is better then 2/3 in this meta due to tunnel trog.

are you trolling? lol