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I would say that going first and having the opportunity to put down higher cost mana cards first (if the game is going with tempo) gives you the advantage of being much more pro active and aggresive. We all know that games very rarely follow tempo but 'in the beginning' where a lot of cards just came with vanilla stats and no text it was much more balanced.

 With the coin you can do that going second. 

 Only once

As he states, you can go one mana higher first ONE time as the second player, the other 9 turns untill you reach 10 the first player has the tempo advantage. If you look at the data on hsreplay.net on most decks. Just checked on the mulligan guide for the most played Demon Hunter deck and there the winrate for the different cards are on avarage between 12-15 % higher if you go first than second. So even with the benefits going second get the first player is heavily favored. The advantage of going first would be even larger without the extra card and coin the second player gets.

Another example picked from my deck tracker. With the Highlander Hunter deck I am currently using my winrate going first is 71 % and going second is 52 %..

First try!