Menagerie Hunter deck list guide – July 2017 – Hearthstone

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Menagerie Hunter deck list and strategy – July 2017

Here’s the Menagerie Hunter deck list that was recently cooked up by KiwiiNbacon:

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This is a deck that plays out very much like Midrange Hunter – you just have a lot more options for frustrating the opponent and throwing them off their expected game plan.

Regardless of your match-up, it’s important that you gain and maintain some kind of presence on the board immediately, so you can then build on that presence to escalate your threat. The Mulligan section below has more advice on how to get off to a solid start. After this it’s a case of simply adding as much uncertainty as you can for your opponent, while snowballing the threat you have on the board.

Against aggressive opponents, you want to take a more controlling position, clearing down their board development and making it to the mid-game relatively unpressured. From here you have a wealth of meaty minions that they will struggle to deal with as you push towards the close of the match. In control match-ups, it becomes a little more important to race the opponent, and finish the match off faster. You still have a solid end-game, but you may still find yourself overwhelmed.

If you’d like a look at the deck in action before you try it out for yourself, check out the deck creator’s video below. It’s a pretty good demonstration of just how much versatility the archetype packs in.

More great Hunter guides:

• 1. Best Budget Decks – Hearthstone: Best Budget Decks for Ashes of Outland
• 2. Tier List – Hearthstone deck tier list (Ashes of Outland)
• 3. Dragonbane Face Hunter – Dragonbane Face Hunter deck list guide (Ashes of Outland)
• 4. Beast Hunter – Beast Hunter deck list guide (Ashes of Outland)
• 5. Midrange Hunter – Midrange Hunter deck list guide (Ashes of Outland)
• 6. Highlander Dragon Hunter – Highlander Dragon Hunter deck list guide (Ashes of Outland)
• 7. Quest Hunter – Quest Hunter deck list guide (Ashes of Outland)

Menagerie Hunter Mulligan guide – July 2017

Go for an early board presence here, and prioritise cards like Alleycat, Jeweled Macaw and Kindly Grandmother. Crackling Razormaw provides a nice little tempo swing if you can drop its Battlecry effect onto a previously prepared Beast minion.

Menagerie Hunter tips, combos and synergies – July 2017

There are quite a few combos to track in this deck, which is unsurprising when you consider how many tools of the trade are included. Try to get familiar with all of the following so that you can actually capitalise on the extreme flexibility afforded by this deck.

– Houndmaster can be used to help every Beast minion punch above its vanilla weight, but how about sticking that boost on Rat Pack? That’ll give you a bigger body on the board, and more rat spawns when the enemy takes it out.

– Murloc Warleader provides every other Murloc minion with an extra +2 / +1 of stats, but keep in mind that this boost will vanish when the Warleader is taken out of play by your opponent. The effect is not permanent.

– Finja, the Flying Star pulls two remaining Murlocs from your deck and onto the board when she kills an enemy minion. Make this kill before doing anything else on your turn, as the bonus minions may well change the nature of the rest of your turn.

– Call of the Wild will always grant you a Leokk, which means all of your Beasts gain an extra point of Attack power. Do your sums carefully when you approach the finishing stages of a match – you may be closer to delivering lethal damage than you realise!

– With Cult Master on the board, every minion that dies will add an extra card from your deck to your hand. There’s particular synergy here with Unleash the Hounds – you can trade off those meagre doggies straight away for some serious card advantage.

– Unleash the Hounds also has particular synergy with Scavenging Hyena, allowing you to build an intimidating beast while also chipping away at enemy minions at the same time.

– If you’ve any remaining in your deck, The Curator will add a Dragon, a Beast and a Murloc to your hand. You only have one Dragon in this deck – Primordial Drake – and so you’re guaranteed to gain this creature if it wasn’t already in your hand. Something to think about as you approach the late game.

– Crackling Razormaw can be used to put a Beast card through the Adapt process. When you do so, you’ll have to choose one buff from three options that are randomly grabbed from these ten possibilities: