OurDragon Hunter Deck List Guidefeatures an early look at this potential archetype for the Descent of Dragons (DoD) expansion! We’ve got detailed information on mulligans, card choices and replacements. Just about every class got some Dragon synergy in this expansion, but Hunter in particular got a couple of the best ones.
Dragon Hunter is a very new archetype, and it remains to be seen how it will be built. There’s the possibility of going aggressive, midrange, or even singleton. It will take some working out to see what ends up as the best option for the DoD meta.
Dragon Hunter Deck List
Here’s a first look at a possible Dragon Hunter deck in Descent of Dragons:
Deck Code
We’re likely to see some changes to the archetype in the future, we’ll be updating this list and guide with more popular versions once they are revealed!
Dragon Hunter Mulligan Guide
We are just looking to get on board early to keep things clear enough to land our Treants and take advantage of the various cards we have that synergize with them.
Possible Keeps
Play Strategy & Card Combinations
This is a midrange based deck, so we’re looking to hold the board as much as possible and punish control decks with minions and defend against aggro. If you’re against a fast deck, we’re just looking to make the best trades possible and hopefully turn the game around in the middle turns. If you are facing off against control, we want to be aggressive and beatdown our opponent with on-curve minions that we’re playing each turn. Frizz Kindleroost is particularly good against Control because they’ll struggle to deal with the reduced cost cards we’re putting on the board each turn.
We’ve got quite a few good early game cards likeDwarven Sharpshooterwhich potentially gives us a way to clear a minion the following turn. We also gotSpringpawwhich is one of the better early game drops in Standard right now.
ensure to always use yourStormhammerprior to trading in your Dragon minions on the board so you don’t lose a durability! It will take some practice to get used to sequencing this situation correctly, so make sure not to accidentally trade in the wrong order.
What can sometimes be a bit awkward about this type of deck is that we’ll occasionally need to hold onto a Dragon to activate our synergy cards.Scaleriderin particular will have us debating about whether or not we can afford to play ourFaerie Dragonand be without an activator. Most of the time you’ll just want to be proactive, but there will be times when we need to play more slowly.
Primordial Exploreris one of the best class based Dragons released in the new set. This card forces our opponent to remove it before they can safely play a large minion. If you can drop this on an empty board, you’ve got a card that can trade and destroy just about anything our enemy plays.
Veranusis a good later game play that can help get us the board back. It pairs particularly well withUnleash the Houndswhich can trade down all of the reduced health minions our opponent has on the board.
There’s not really a finisher in this deck, we’re mostly just looking to overrun our opponent with strong minions.Frizz Kindleroostcan really help with this by reducing the cost of our Dragons and allowing us to play more than one each turn.
Card Substitutions
There’s quite a bit of Neutral Dragon based synergy cards that could end up in the list, so you aren’t hurting for options if you’re missing some of the legendary cards.
