Sharing my own Starship Hunter deck (OTK-type). Feel free to use/share it.
Score 42-22, winrate 66%, went from Diamond 10 up to entering Legend rank.
https://ibb.co/SXqNZZK
(winrate could be higher, made terrible mistakes in like 3-4 matches)
(having all replays)
My deck differs from decks on hs-replay - that’s why I’m sharing it. Those are discovery archetypes (with few starship), mine is full starship archetype (with few discoveries).
Deck
Starship OTK
Class: Hunter
Format: Standard
Year of the Pegasus
1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000
-1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000
-1x (4) Twin Module
-1x (5) Perfect Module
1x (1) Miracle Salesman
2x (1) Tracking
2x (2) Biopod
2x (2) Birdwatching
2x (2) Crystal Welder
2x (2) Dimensional Core
2x (2) Greedy Partner
2x (2) Laser Barrage
1x (3) Exarch Naielle
2x (3) Specimen Claw
2x (4) Arkonite Defense Crystal
1x (4) E.T.C., Band Manager
1x (6) Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot
1x (9) King Plush
1x (10) Yogg-Saron, Unleashed
1x (4) Nostalgic Gnome
2x (4) Yelling Yodeler
2x (5) Star Power
1x (6) Aggramar, the Avenger
1x (7) The Exodar
1x (100) The Ceaseless Expanse
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Just putting starship part minions is already good tempo. If opp is not some aggro elem mage, we usually have upper hand on board.
Unlike in discorvery-archetypes, we activate condition “are building starship” sooner, for lasers and welders, and we making OTK-combo way sooner (due to higher starship stats).
On the other hand, we cannot make copies here (of biopods), and fewer in resources. But we have coins here!
Our otk comobs (turns 9-12 usually):
- *ceaseless (0) + starship launch (5) + yodeler (4)
- *ceaseless (0) + coin + Exodar (7) with damage protocol + yodeler (4)
Ofc, starship must have 2 (or sometimes 1) biopods, and Ceaseless wo’t clear reborns and deathrattles which summon minions (it’s rare situation though). And we don’t have Ceaseless if enemy board is already empty, or can use Ceaseless AFTER combo for destroying our own starship (and triggering deathrattle 1 more time)
Mega-combo for empty board:
0) coin + Exodar (7) with damage protocol + yodeler (4) *ceaseless (0)
In ETC we can replace Plush with smth, wasn’t really using him. May be silver serpent or smth else. Gnomelia is good aoe, Yog is Yog.
Can sometimes be short on cards - if Naielle is not found. If found, hand is always fine.
Nostalig Gnome turned out to be very good, with rush. Added him for card draw, was thinking before of 2nd salesman or cowbow hat or even Magata (when no Naielle),
Good sides:
- very fine early game
- goodbye long late game with “who got more copies of Ceaseless/etc”
Bad sides: - no solo-target hard remove until lategame
we have star power (if 1 minion), yog in etc, coins, free slot in etc (instead of King Plush) - sometimes are short on cards, Naielle is needed
Opponents.
Easiest:
- DK (do nothing)
- warriors (passive and slow, only Torgrun is dangerous, armor is never enough for them)
Fine (usually win, depends on starting hands):
- big-mage, spell mage
- rogues (weapon, starship, cycle)
- minion shams, pirate shams
- dh
- dragon priests
- discover hunters
Hard:
- meteor shamans (faster than we)
- dungar druid
very hard, winnable if Stormbringer (not Dungar) played first. Prepare board clears, coins, stall for late rounds, don’t attack stormbringer. - aggro elemmage
can be fine early, winnable if opp unlucky, unwinnable if Saurun (killed by cheap spells for 9+ damage) - handbuff pal (8-stat minions on turns 7-8 are unbeatable)
winnable if opp unlucky (didn’t get weapon). May be winnable with silver serpent and two star powers, dunno.
Special:
- big warlocks (with location)
Didn’t met on this deck. Probably very unwinnable due to no target removals. - deathrattle armor warlock
met two times, and both times was lucky to use birdwatching on Specimen Claw. It made them 4/7, so their autoattacks instakill both 4-cost crystal and 2-cost reborn DK minion, interrupting all their combos.
probably still very winnable, because our starship can have up to 18 attack, otk-combo is very strong.