New meta (or pseudo new)

It seems like the hunter fever has gone down, because of 2 reasons:
- UTH nerf
- Miracle rogue

IMO I still believe the nerf isn't as fatal as people may think, because the other value of midrange hunter coming from 2 Savanah Highmanes, 2 Houndmasters are still there. No I don't want to list Hyena because it's 1 turn slower now, and Hyena is very vulnerable to all sorts of removal/silence. You may still find it useful in the druid matchup.

Miracle rogue is pretty much the kryptonite of midrange hunter because turn 6 highmane is too slow, and Sap x2 is too crazy to remove any buffed target from Houndmaster or highmane.

So before the nerf of UTH to 3 mana, it seems like the best deck to rank up is: Miracle rogue.

But right after the nerf becomes effective, we are seeing a small shift in favor: Shaman and Handlock. Both of these decks were struggling under Hunter's reign, but now come back really strong because they can beat Miracle rogue easily, especially Shaman with correct mulligan/draw can destroy Handlock and Zoo easily too. Shaman can also wreak unexperienced handlock players really hard if handlock players don't usually estimate the burst damage that shaman can do next turn. But shaman may also have hard time if they can't stick anything on board after turn 4. That's the turn where handlock really shines.

I do believe because of that reason, laddering with shaman seems to be the safe choice by now. You have little to no bad matchups, and some bad matchups can turn out to be ok for you if you mulligan correctly.

As for me, I still want to laddering with handlock simply because this is my favorite deck, and it's a deck that rewards you with sweet wins (or even more, win from very tight situation) if you time your timing and anticipate your opponent's moves correctly.

I'm rank 9 atm, tbh today I haven't done extensive ladder, and I was a little shocked seeing so many shamans in ladder after patch. I'm working on a new handlock build that can see "shaman as free win", will post it here when I can consistently beat shaman with it :)

See ya.