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Scavenging hyena hunter is for the braindead.

I'd start with this and adjust a little after playing. I looked at your list above. Master's call is trash in nonbeast decks. 3 mana to pull one minion to your hand and not the board...no thanks! Mojo is good for any deck that only has 4 and less minions. I usually run flare in my zuljin deck but not a fan of it here. You added in bloodmage for arcane watcher synergy is cool. I think adding in defensive secrets is good for they can not even trade with your board. I know you added brewmaster to bounce silencers but i don't like it. Marked shot is a good spell if you are actually losing board somehow but not something i'd start with.  My list could use more card draw but i definitely wouldnt use masters call. Likely I'd add a minion with dr or bc draw a card.

Shhhhh! I'm Hunting. Secrets Hunter Deck by KingCarnage - May 1, 2019 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (21) 1x King Mukla 2x Acidic Swamp Ooze 2x Ancient Watcher 2x Arcane Watcher 2x Defender of Argus 2x Sunfury Protector 2x Spellbreaker 2x Dalaran Librarian 2x Ironbeak Owl 2x Soldier of Fortune 2x Ogre Magi	Ability (7) 1x Rat Trap 2x Tracking 2x Snipe 2x Freezing Trap	Weapon (2) 2x Eaglehorn Bow
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Haha, agreed, the low hanging fruit just doesn't do it for me either.  This past month I actually played more ladder than I have in over a year after seeing the Chaos Control Hunter on here because it looked/was fun and seemed/was too strong for Casual.

And I agree with a lot of your reactions to my original list.  I wanted to play 1) some of the new cards like Marked Shot; 2) counter some of the early predictions surrounding Secret Pally by playing Flare; and 3) in a really small sample, ended up with a number of dead boards/hands so I forced even more options for getting Dalaran Libraian via Youthful Brewmaster and Master's Call.  But I totally agree that MC is terrible value in (non-beast decks in) general and I like the idea of including a weapon to keep up the pressure plus synergize with secrets that punish removing your big minions.  I also liked Harrison Jones initially for the card draw, but most of the weapons being played only have 1 swing left by the time you can play your removals so swamp ooze seems like the better choice.  Ogre Magi is also a nice inclusion that I hadn't considered and I could see Mukla being valuable althought I don't have him yet.

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Silence Hunter feels odd.

 Totally agree, which is why it appealed to me.  Similar to your Hakkar builds, I like trying to force every archetype into Hunter to have fun in Casual with my limited, Hunter-centric, collection (deck-building is my favorite aspect of HS and I quickly disliked aggro/beast Hunter builds).  Any thoughts on improving a Silent Hunter?

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@Rang_Dipkin That looks pretty cool too. What do you think of adding Zuljin and a pair of the Wyvern-calling card?

I think you could definitely include a Zul'jin package for long games.  I went with Zihi originally because I wanted to keep things in the mid-game so I could finish 'em off with the silence package just because I wanted to play with those cards at first. 

However, Unleash the Beast is a great card and anytime you can get cards like that into your deck it's probably going to improve the build.  I think you'd replace 2x Marked Shot, 2x Flare and 1x Youthful Brewmaster with 2x Unleash the Beast, 2x Animal Companion, and maybe 1x Archivist Elysiana to get the most use out of Zul'jin.  The reason to include Elysiana would be to rebound after Zul'jin replays 1 or 2 copies of Tracking in case it mills your deck.

Just wanted to say that I play a version of this in Hunter and it's a lot of fun in Casual.  Tracking and Master's Call help you find your missing pieces, but the neutral cards carry the day and are obviously stronger in other classes.  I've only played a handful of games so I haven't tried to optimize things yet (e.g. don't think I'll keep Flare), but here's what I'm running:

2x Tracking
2x Ancient Watcher
1x Bloodmage Thalnos
2x Dalaran Librarian
2x Flare
2x Sunfury Protector
1x Youthful Brewmaster
2x Arcane Watcher
2x Faceless Rager
2x Ironbeak Owl
2x Master's Call
2x Defender of Argus
2x Marked Shot
2x Soldier of Fortune
2x Spellbreaker
1x Harrison Jones
1x Mojomaster Zihi