Dies to Removal

I actually feel compelled to play hunter cause I'm somehow rank 60 with ~440 wins so gold isn't far off(Undertaker, unleash the hounds and buzzard used to all be broken as shit at one point I guess).

With Hybrid Hunter, you should always keep your 1-drops on the play in opener and just raw dog them, but on the draw, I like aggressively mulling for 2-drops.

As far as Board control, vs. rush, it's all matchup dependant which is part of the strength of hybrid hunter. You share something like 75% of the cards with face hunter and it's usually correct to approach the game as such which make the freezing trap better because it masks them as explosive's but on the mull decisions, you can aggressively mull for shredders and highmanes when you know you have to fight battles of attrition.

With midrange hunter, you're firmly a board control deck, but you get the bone of having more powerful cards overall and retaining all the burst damage. I've lost to midrange hunter where I was at 30 life, but bogged down by freezing trap and been burst down to 5 before succumbing to the onslaught. And when you do "get" midrange hunter, houndmaster IS that good.

My Mid Hunter list:

[deck]2 Webspinner
2 Haunted Creeper
2 Mad Scientist
2 Knife Juggler
1 Iron Beak Owl
2 Freezing Trap
1 Snake Trap(Flex slot with Quick Shot, Owl, and Explosive Trap)
1 Quick Shot
2 Kill Command
2 Animal Companion
2 Eaglehorn Bow
2 Unleash The Hounds
1 Piloted Shredder
2 Houndmaster
1 Loatheb
1 Sludge Belcher(Flex slot with Harrison Jones and Shredder)
2 Savannah Highmane
1 Dr. Boom[/deck]

Mid Hunter is definitely the more powerful list and in face finished last month as #1 and #2 Legend on NA with the number one list being mostly the same as mine above and the number 2 list(which was number one for several weeks which is absurd if you know how ladder and MMR work) Was more aggressive with sergeant/gnome over webspinner/houndmaster, but had double belcher and explosive while neglecting quick shot and boom for a more even mana distribution.

I've tried Dwarf before to mixed results. Seemed great in theory, ended up mediocre.

Infiltrator however was good from time to time in meta's where you really want to lead off with a 1-drop. The presence of it in your deck also throws your opponents off with regards to traps and highmane since the auto-assume face hunter.

Was making my last day legend run before the server went down for maintenance.

You can play 3 traps, but you want two of them to be the same for reliability. I play 2 freezing and while that has it's own issues, I always know exactly what my mad scientist is fetching.

Second owl is much better then hunters mark. It(sometimes) attacks for 2, is great on coin in agro mirrors and is a beast. Mark is 0 mana which IS great, but as a deck, Hybrid hunter cares less about board control and would rather be able to convert cards into damage.

I personally like 2 zooka's over 2 bows. The reason being is that zooka is better against agro and I don't play traps other then freezing. You're also playing double quickshot though over wolfrider so from a curve standpoint it makes some sense.

Hybrid in general is great. I literally only play it to finish legend climbs and it always performs admirably. You get to smorc people to death and when that fails, you have highmane which is just a busted card.