It's becoming pretty clear that Blizzard has no idea what to do with the Hunter class. They seem to be deathly afraid of Face Hunter coming back and so they won't give them strong early game tools. Instead, they get a bunch of late game stuff and some clunky midrange options. The class has been bottom 3 in constructed basically since Standard began, almost two years ago, when they lost their best early game cards, either in the rotation (Mad Scientist, Haunted Creeper, Glaivezooka) or to nerfs (Knife Juggler, Arcane Golem).
I keep waiting for Blizzard to do their usual balance job of just printing a bunch of OP cards for a class after it has been dumpster for a long time, like they did with Shaman last year and are doing with Priest now. But apparently that isn't going to happen this set, unless their common cards are all good early game tools (unlikely). They really could use a good 2-mana weapon and a better 1-drop than Fiery Bat or Alleycat, both of which have been outclassed by neutral cards like Firefly and any 1-mana Pirate.
#MakeHunterGreatAgain
