New Hunter Spell - Petting Zoo

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A new Rare Hunter Spell, Petting Zoo, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    A new Rare Hunter Spell, Petting Zoo, has been revealed!

    Petting Zoo Card Image

    Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!


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  • economicaooc's Avatar
    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    It's not too hard to have one secret in play turn 2, and the power of two 3/3s for 3 is notable.

    I would look out for this card.

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    This card looks pretty powerful. Getting two 3/3s on turn 3 is really good tempo, and it isn't hard to do in a secret based deck. This will definitely see play in a lot of hunter decks moving forward.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    3 mana 3/3 isn't great, but 3 mana 6/6 is STRONG 

    Hunter's use of the Phasestalker and tour guide can make this a strong turn 3, I believe. The only problem is what do you slot out for this spell? 

    very powerful in Wild where spell hunter can be a thing. pretty weak in Arena, I'd think

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Strong card.

    There will be a new secret for hunter for sure.

    By The Holy Light!

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Good card, even if you cast only 2 3/3 it's really worth it.

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  • Trimutius's Avatar
    1580 2533 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Well doesn't look quite as good as Emerald Spellstone, but has it's own charm

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    If you've been able to drop a lot of secrets, totally valuable along with using the Emerald Spellstone

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  • PopeNeia's Avatar
    Darkmaster 640 841 Posts Joined 07/06/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Nice. Looks like aggro Hunter just gets more fuel.

    This ain't no place for a hero

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  • slychd's Avatar
    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    This card isn't bad with just one secret, it's even better with more.

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Turn 3 '6/6' into turn 4 '7/7' is gonna be crazy hard to keep with for other classes.  Even supports Blstenheimer since its a way to get early board control without actually running cheap minions.

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  • sense124's Avatar
    Mavka 460 446 Posts Joined 07/22/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    A very notable thing about this card is that it's a spell that summons a minion, which is a great support for Maxima Blastenheimer decks.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5542 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Curves out well into two 3/3s on 3, assuming that your opponent don't proct your secrets. Very likely one of the better hunter cards, but will end up mostly in face hunter decks. If there's more card draw incoming then we might actually see a resurgence of secret hunter.

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  • JackJimson's Avatar
    670 673 Posts Joined 11/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    This card looks pretty strong. 

    Playing this with 1 secret is decent value, with 2 secrets that's a lot of value. 

    At the very least, this card will make drawing a secret on your opening hand not as painful.

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2565 3339 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Strong tempo - big birds ; not sure what to add other than maybe, this will see play

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Dragon 2215 2485 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    This card would make more sense thematically if it had something to do with beasts. Guess the strider is a beast :) 

    Similar to Emerald Spellstone but this card requires the secrets to still be active 

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Seems really strong. There are plenty of way to tutor out secrets, for example Phase Stalker can give you a bunch of secrets. And in WILD it might actually make secret hunter viable again. (It lacked the ability to make giant boards, besides Lesser Emerald Spellstone.)

    Standard: This will 100% see play. Probably in highlander hunter, and perhaps in Secret aggro Hunter. It has a lot of synergy already, and i'm pretty sure they are going to print a new secret for hunter. (It would be weird if they printed a secret hunter card, but only printed a single one. And in the announcement video they said that there were lots of secrets, or something along those lines)

    Wild: This will be a really strong card, BUT hunter is TRASH right now in Wild. However i think secret hunter might be a tier 2 deck, because of it's big synergy with cards like Lesser Emerald Spellstone, Subject 9, Cloaked Huntress, Masked Contender and Mad Scientist. It's unfortunate its not EVEN costed, because Even Hunter would have loved this card, i think.

    RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.

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  • allthehype's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 630 739 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    I like this! Secret hunter is a fun archetype and this is a really strong card if you have more than one secret in play.

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2219 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    I haven't played Spell Hunter in a long time. This could make it fun! (Wild, of course)

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  • FrostyFeet's Avatar
    Senior Writer Derpcorn 2170 1449 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Darkmoon Strider Card Image

    Wouldn't be too surprised to see a lot of these guys in the near future.

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  • FieselFitz's Avatar
    Prince Charming 1105 1355 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Pretty strong in Secret Hunter and also pretty darn good in almost every hunter deck because in most lists there are a few secrets involved. 

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    I think a secret hunter in wild will make a lot a scary boards just from the air with this

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  • Demonxz95's Avatar
    Senior Writer 2245 2626 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    You'd probably only want to play this in Hunter decks that are very dedicated to Secrets, as other Hunter decks don't usually keep a high amount of Secrets on the board. In dedicated Secret Hunters though, this can provide a lot of quick board presence and reach so it might be exciting to try out.

    I don't think you'd trigger this on curve though since you don't normally want to play a Secret on turn 2 and most Secrets don't last multiple turns.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Seems very strong as people mentioned it's reminiscent of the spellstone a really good card (that got nerfed!)

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Looks pretty good. When Maxima Blastenheimerdonger was revealed, I expected some tools to make a spell/big minion Hunter hybrid at least possible to make. What made spell Hunter good in the past was thair ability to summon minions through spells and this card is a perfect example of how to do it, and in a relatively powerful way.

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  • Samzy's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 370 191 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    I’m still trying to work out if I think this is better to or worse than spellstone. On the one hand this can give you a lot more of a payoff, but spellstone is permanently buffed while this is dependent on your opponent not triggering secrets. 
    Im on the fence and time will tell if this is a good card in the long run.

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  • Ilphelkiir's Avatar
    550 254 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    THe darkmoon strider art is cute.

    Darkmoon Strider Card Image

    As for the card itself, it's very good secret support - might be able to raise the deck into viability in wild.

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  • DescentOfDragonsOp's Avatar
    530 353 Posts Joined 12/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    really good for hunter

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  • Koetti's Avatar
    1095 863 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Best Card that Hunter got imo.

    On Average, you should'nt have too much of a Problem to have this summon 2 Minions on T3. There's the new Secret, Open the Cages, and a Couple of others, that usually don't trigger that easily early on in the Game.

    You could probably put this into any Hunter Deck that runs 2 different Secrets, have it perform just fine.

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  • MenacingBagel's Avatar
    815 721 Posts Joined 09/24/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Seems great a ton of bodies for real cheap granted your secrets stay around long enough 

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  • Sparkinarius's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Two 3/3s on turn 3 is insanely powerful, not to mention that it can summon more 3/3s you draw this later in the game. Secrets have proven to be good tempo for Hunter and this just pushes that notion over the top. I think Highlander Hunter would love this, Face Hunter might consider it, and there might just be a dedicated Secret Hunter because Petting Zoo is so powerful.

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  • KillaFIsh's Avatar
    375 250 Posts Joined 07/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Super strong card, playable on turn 3 for two 3-3's, or later for even more.  I love this card so much.

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  • NebuchadnezzarHS's Avatar
    Supporter 2025 1394 Posts Joined 06/14/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Situational card, would be much better (perhaps even OP) if it counted amount of secrets played this game.

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  • Alfi's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 1790 1375 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    I think this will be OK

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  • Lundy's Avatar
    Little Devil Teemo 1555 707 Posts Joined 06/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Essentially Emerald Spellstone, but can come out sooner. This will have a place in the meta for sure.

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  • Input's Avatar
    470 259 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Actually pretty strong in secret hunter. I'm not sold that it has enough yet, but am hoping that it is.

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  • Fisguinho's Avatar
    The Raven 1190 411 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Great card for secret hunter

    All hail the banshee queen.

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  • Geno9999's Avatar
    Metrognome 1620 1210 Posts Joined 11/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Yeah, I fully expect to see 2-3 Darkmoon Striders at a time against Hunter. And given that said traps are probably Snake Trap and Pack Tactics, deceptively sticky 3/3s.

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  • randomfan's Avatar
    Elemental 1255 744 Posts Joined 03/17/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    This just won't do enough. Hunter secrets trigger to reliably for you to get much value off this in the early game and you probably won't want the game to last long enough to make a value combo play from it.

    Unfortunately, common sense isn't as common as it should be.

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  • sule's Avatar
    Dinosaur 785 796 Posts Joined 08/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    It's a lot of stats just having one Secret up, and a huge punish for an opponent who doesn't want to risk triggering your Secrets. Not to mention the new Hunter Secret that your opponent just can't trigger if you don't want them to.

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Absolutely nuts. Wouldn't be surprised to see it nerfed just like Lesser Emerald Spellstone was.

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1565 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Very strong card, will definitely be seen in most Hunter decks even if they only run a couple of secrets

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