Called it

I guess sidequests count

Hit legend for the first time with this deck. I think it absolutely needs leeroy (instead of stormwind). In the beginning I didn’t understand the leeroy, but the higher you get in ranks, the tighter the games get. There have been a lot of games where leeroy was the exact card I needed to finish off my opponent. If you want to ladder with this deck, I would say leeroy is a requirement.

True, but that has always been the thing with tracking. Why it’s good though, is because it makes your deck a lot thinner very quick, meaning you’ll be drawing your ‘good cards’ faster.
Sometimes you’ll find 3 legendaries to choose from, and that sucks, but most of the time it’s clear which card you want to pick. It’s a risk that hunters are usually willing to take, given the payoff. Especially since hunters aren’t very good at drawing cards in general.

While those are all strong cards, they are also expensive.

Glaivezooka doesn’t really fit the deck, since it’s a very agressive weapon. If you want to put it in the deck, you’ll probably replace eaglehorn bow with it. The fact that eaglehorn has 3 attack actually makes a big difference, since there are a lot of minions with 3 health.
Kings elekk is alright, but you lose the joust a lot of the time, which means it’s often a 2 mana 3/2 which doesn’t do anything. The deck doesn’t need this.
Loatheb is generally a strong card to play on turn 5, but it doesn’t have synergy with the rest of the deck. Loatheb is good to play on a big board, and this deck doesn’t often have it. It’s still a strong minion though, but what would you cut for it?
Same with Dr boom, a very strong card but also expensive. What would you cut for it?

If you want to experiment with these last two cards though, I guess you can try to replace them for zola or sceram cultist. Let me know how it goes.

Interesting, I think the deck has a good early game already but valet has incredible value indeed. However what cards can you cut for valet? Probably arcane tyrant right? But he seems even stronger, being a 0 mana 4/4 to swing the board. Perhaps pyros and a big spell? That would mean you have a better matchup against aggro and midrange, but worse matchup against control. I’d say it’s a tech option.

Hey man, much respect for making a budget control deck. Control decks are usually much more expensive than aggro decks, because they rely on legendaries to carry through the lategame. New players don’t have the dust to play control decks, but I think they should (because control decks are much more fun to play and to play against). Have you considered putting in auchenai soulpriest and circle of healing? Since soulpriest also works with squashlings (I believe).
Thx again for the list and the inspiration.