Animal Companion Hunter
Class: Hunter
Format: Standard
Year of the Scarab

Session Starting Deck:

2x (1) Critter Caretaker
2x (1) Raptor-Nest Nurse
1x (1) Sands of Time
2x (1) Tame Pet
2x (1) Tracking
2x (1) Wound Prey
1x (2) Crazed Alchemist
1x (2) Brightwing
1x (2)Dire Wolf Alpha
2x (3) Animal Companion
2x (3) Augmented Porcupine
2x (3) Brutish Endmaw
2x (3) Migrating Elekk
2x (4) Spiritspeaker
1x (5) Talya Earthstrider
1x (6) Ankylodon
2x (7) Roam Free
2x (8) Call of the Wild

Note: Bold are the replacement cards for Exotic Houndmaster

Testing Results

Game 1 – Paladin – Conceded on Turn 9.  Kept control of the board until he had a couple of Mechs that he could increase the strats on.  Hard to clear minions with high attack and health.  Having my hero power is a little better, but I am also finding myself short on cards.  Maybe playing just because I have the mana and I should maybe slow the minions that I am putting on the board.

Game 2 – Shaman – First win, but it was close.  I got lucky by the Legendary having a death rattle that gave me exactly what I needed.  It could have been bad because his board was filled with Fire Elementals that had scaled to 4/3 or 4/4 and would have been deadly the next turn. 

Game 3– Warrior – Turn 9 and again a big card like Ysera is played.  I was agle tro use goldrinn to help but he followed up with Fyrakk and cleared my board and hit me hard with a fireball. Turn 10…I am out of cards in my hand.  He plays Great Dracorex and clears my board again and another big firewall. I conceded on Turn 12 with only 2 health left 

Overall: 1 win and 2 losses.

Conclusions

I am still having issues with mid-game where my hand won’t have a lot of cards and I can’t clear some boards where they have minions with large health. I think it is because I have too many 1 mana cards, so I will remove 1x (1) Sands of Time and 1x (1) Critter Caretaker as those haven’t been helpful. I am replacing them with 1x (4) Halazzi, the Lynx and 1x (5) Supreme Dinomancy. The former giving me some lynxes on death to give something in my hand and the latter helping to make my beast stats better which should help later in the game.