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I feel like it is worth noting that Acolyte of Pain has synergy with Knife Juggler for those who run it.

Quote from ballonballon »

>> Thanks. I was just confused about the sudden surge of downvotes when the deck itself actually works pretty solidly.

Because after a decent advertisement in the topic (7 win streak) everyone can read in the very first line about your journey from rank 20 to 16. That's like luring people into your circus tent, babbling about an undefeated fighter and it's a kindergarten battle. People tend to come here to get impressions from decks tested on the higher (highest) rankings so it's not just a fluke that works on people making gazillion of mistakes but is rather solid and preferable fool prove thing they can copy to climb the ladder or get their dailies done quickly.

Long story short: i'd just play (a LOT) more games with it, use something like hearthstonetracker to back your deck up and step away from the winstreak announcement in an area where it doesn't count. Get a bunch of more games with it done, show people how it performs over 50 or even 100 games and maybe even try to get legend with it.

Ps: what's your impression on Mad Scientist? With a bunch of traps in your deck already this card might turn out to be really good, maybe even worth cutting some of them (running one of each to catch some players of guard or just cut it down to freezing and explosive?!).

Well I did keep playing with it. I made it to rank 14 + 4 stars and then dropped back to 16 +1 star. Now sitting around 15 + 2 or so...

I don't have the Mad Scientist yet as I haven't the gold to unlock that wing yet. I'm still working on it and I don't want to pass judgement until I can apply some practicality through usage to my summarization.

Quote from Wabbasha »

Hey, Atlantios. Since I like hunters, I'm working around it. I ditch 2 trackings to test. All I can say about it, is: don't ditch flare. The Meta is all about hunters.

I'm running just 2 traps. explosive traps. No bow. The rest go pretty basic.

Worst match ups are Control Warrior and Freeze mage. Since those are rare in the new meta.... I'm ok with it.

Hunters are growing in the meta worst than zoo, holy shit.

And for your deck, don't worry about other people think. Just have fun, bro.

I tried working around traps, but didn't work as I wanted.

glhf!

Thanks. I was just confused about the sudden surge of downvotes when the deck itself actually works pretty solidly. All in all it works much better than some of the other decks that have several upvotes. I just don't understand the dynamics involved with people voting it would seem.

This thread is so pretty. <3

I like them all. :3

I don't understand why my deck is being negative voted. In actual use the deck itself works better than most Hunter decks I've used. Does anyone have insight regarding this?

Quote from LightsOutAce »

Hunter is the cheapest and best but much more difficult to play well than Zoo.

I've done really well using this hunter deck:

I give the full run down on how I use it here.

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Quote from Flood »

If you want to have like a 95% win ratio VS Hunter, use control warrior.. <3 it works amazingly I have lost once to hunter out of like 20 games.

At what rank if I may ask? At legend, the MU is 50/50 at best, if the Hunter isn't even at an advantage. Even if you check the streams of hardcore warrior players such as Sjow, they struggle real hard vs Hunters and lose more often than they win.

Edit: Running a Spellbreaker might be the key. Highmane wins games on its own if not answered in time.

Warriors running Frothing Berserker can answer Savannah Highmane very well in my experiences. I've seen it come ahead when fresh played as an 8/4 simply by trading minions for Highmane.

We still run different decks and have different levels of skill while playing them.

Quote from Superband »

kodo and haunted creepers are good to add in your deck. i personally like 1 flare 1 tracking rather than 2 of either. and snake trap isn't too good imo. you might wanna squeeze 1 owl as well or even 2 with all the silence targets available.

What exactly would you swap around and for what reasons? Bearing in mind it would still need to maintain Midrange.

I've ran Tundra Rhino instead of Oasis Snapjaw but waiting the extra turn for it is painful.

Quote from Wabbasha »

About the slowliness of cards: What you guys think of Stampeding Kodo vs  Hound Master?

Given all the beast synergy in my, and most, hunter decks I would say Hound Master is by far the better of the two if I had to chose. Personally I don't really care for Stampeding Kodo. I think it's too expensive for what it does despite the bulk it brings to the table.

Quote from ballonballon »

Snapjaw is to slow for my taste, i prefer boar, dire wolf & haunted creeper over it due to their cost. On the later turns i really want to drop highmane (which is in your deck but not mentioned in your strategy for whatever reason?!).

Leeroy: i'm running without traps currently and have to use uth earlier to clear the board early, do you really can pull a lethal combo with him and doggies off consistently? Between kill commands and hero power i rarely feel the need for another finisher.

1. This is admittedly a slower deck style than I prefer, but it works much better. Always mulligan the snapjaw for late game.
2. Leeroy wins battles. Hands down. The combo that is most ideal is turn 9 when I can play Leeroy (4mana) + Starving Buzzard (2mana - 6total) + Unleash the Hounds (3mana - 9 total) and COIN + Timber Wolf (1mana - 10total) or turn 10 and that same combo. Basically gives you a minimum of 6dmg from Leeroy and 4dmg from Unleash the Hounds + Timber Wolf so 10 dmg. (realistically you should get 14-20dmg on this turn alone though)

Quote from senti_rk »

No offense, but this doesn't happen in ranks 5+. Do you really want to rely on "stupid" mistakes? Of course everybody wins because of (small) mistakes from the opponent, but tbh I wouldn't reyl on this one. If the opponent plays smart, he knows what ttrap it is pretty fast (attacking you hero, then playing a minion). He could even use this for his own purpose (i.e. activating the trap for his own Unleash the Hounds). As 3 1/1s it's just not worth a card.

If I couldn't convince you on this one, please at least add Tracking again ^^

Fair enough, what do you feel should be trimmed to add in the Tracking?

Quote from senti_rk »

Definately get two Trackings back, they are really important. It doesn't help you, if ouy have alot of great cards in your deck but don't get the cards you need right now. I would remove the Snake Trap, nobody ever attacks a minion if a trap and a Starving Buzzard is on the board.

You'd be surprised how often they do.

I played 4 games last night where I had Snake Trap and Starving Buzzard out. In 3 of those the combo was triggered and in one of those I actually got to keep my Starving Buzzard (thanks to Freezing Trap) and I played Unleash the Hounds on my next turn with an Explosive Trap. It's situational sure, but it works more often than not. Worst way to look at it is that Snake Trap gives you 3 1/1 for 2 mana. ...and they're beasts which means you get that synergy as well.

Quote from Cagey75 »

Hunter!

It's perfect for beginners I think. Cheap deck, easy to play, not very difficult to win with at lower ranks. 

A good hunter deck is going to run around 800~2600 to craft.

To get to Rank 20 it is viable but after that it does take a bit of effort to put together a strong deck.