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

Session starting Deck:
2x (1) Jeweled Macaw
1x (1) Raptor-Nest Nurse
2x (1) Tame Pet
2x (1) Tracking
2x (1) Wound Prey
1x (2) Crazed Alchemist
1x (2) Dire Wolf Alpha
1x (3) Ancient Stegodon
2x (3) Animal Companion
2x (3) Augmented Porcupine
2x (3) Brutish Endmaw
2x (3) Migrating Elekk
1x (4) Halazzi, the Lynx
2x (4) Spiritspeaker
1x (5) Supreme Dinomancy
1x (5) Talya Earthstrider
1x (6) Ankylodon
2x (7) Roam Free
2x (8) Call of the Wild

Testing Results

Game 1 – Demon Hunter – won – the scaling worked and was able to get some upgrades to my animal companions.  He was strong though and was able to do considerable damage, but the ACs that I summoned had nice death rattles that helped turn the tide of the games

Game 2 – Imbue Pally -Won-  So many portals just overwhelming me in like turn 12 or 13.  Egg of khelos became the 20/20 taunt.  He played Malorne and I have no cards in my hand although I did get Tortolla and then got lucky getting Volocross and had 42 corpses, so he was a 35/35 and that was able to beat the pally.

Game 3 –   Hunter – He used a lot of spells with arrows and killed me off on Turn 8.  He mostly went face and even with Taunts he was able to take me out. 

Overall: 2 wins and 1 loss.

Conclusions

Clearing the board will most likely always be an issue, but that is ok as long as I can scale. Having trouble against a “spell” hunter who ignored the board and my taunts is interesting. So, not I need to see which one adjustment that I can make. I am going to replace one of the Brutish Endmaws and add another Ancient Stegodon. I get the choice of Taunt, Poison or +1/+1 which is good if I need a taunt to survive or need poison to get rid of a large minion.