New Hunter Spell - Open the Cages

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A new Common Hunter Spell, Open the Cages, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    A new Common Hunter Spell, Open the Cages, has been revealed!

    Open the Cages Card Image

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


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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    if you want a secret to NOT proc for petting zoo or other synergies.. or if it does it's value getting a 3 cost card.. which generates a 3.5 cost card.. (honestly only huffer would see play as is)

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    It's always Huffer ..!

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Always like seeing new Animal Companion cards.  Seems a bit too tricky to pull off though.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Yay! New animal companions!

    I do like this card a lot. Right now Hunter doesn't have any secrets that trigger from having your opponent leave your minions alive, and now whenever a hunter has to play a secret, this is just one more thing you have to consider before making any moves.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    It seems pretty good, but hard to trigger. Seems really good in deathrattle decks though. Deathrattle minions generally summon more minions, so the effect is easy to get in those decks. Considering this is a hard to trigger secret, it will be hard for your opponent to know which secret you played. This is probably the last secret they check for. 

    Standard: Will see play in secret hunter.

    Wild: Will probably see play in Secret hunter and maybe EVEN Hunter.

    Which animal companion will it summon?

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    "it's always Huffer"

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  • DescentOfDragonsOp's Avatar
    530 353 Posts Joined 12/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    this is almost always a given animal companion cuz hunter always has minions on the board

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  • Trimutius's Avatar
    1580 2533 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    So now we have 4 cards that summon Huffer, so with 2 copies per deck we can feel the board with Huffers!

    On a more serious note it is a decent secret in swarmy hunters, so I can see it maybe.

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Though the same, also traps summon a lot of minions for them.

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  • frosthearth's Avatar
    655 585 Posts Joined 03/18/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    The art looks like the animal companions came out of a disney movie. Always Huffer Pumba.

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    This makes me hate Hunter just a little bit more

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  • Tetsuo's Avatar
    Magma Rager 840 638 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    This secret seems hard to trigger at first, until you realize it's not hard for Hunter to fill their board most of the time. This will trigger sooner than later. Pretty good secret.

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Does it activate only when you have 2 minions or when you have 2+ minions (because the first option is insanely limiting to the viability of the card and technically, that's what the card reads).

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5607 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Its not really that hard to trigger. In most cases, you play your usual 1-2 drops then something like Inconspicuous Rider on 3 that pressures your opponent to clear the board and if they don't, or guessed wrong, then you get your animal companion up for free.

    The fact that it pressures your opponent to clear your board is already significant enough.

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  • FrostyFeet's Avatar
    Senior Writer Derpcorn 2170 1449 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago
    Quote From ElSabidon

    Does it activate only when you have 2 minions or when you have 2+ minions (because the first option is insanely limiting to the viability of the card and technically, that's what the card reads).

    Latter, I'm pretty sure, but I do agree that strictly speaking the first would be what the card says. It was played on the reveal stream so you can try checking if you want confirmation. I didn't pay that close attention to it triggering, but I do think there was a board of three minions on one occasion.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2225 2539 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    I'm assuming the secret doesn't proc when you have 1 or no minions on board?

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    It's good! And something different for your opponent to play around, which makes all secrets just a little better. Plus, free Huffer!

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  • Demonxz95's Avatar
    Senior Writer 2245 2690 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    I'll admit that this card didn't look very good to me at first.

    But then I realized it's a perfect Secret to play on turn 2 to curve into Petting Zoo since it'll be a Secret that won't proc on turn 2, and Petting Zoo will then give you two minions to proc this. It can also occasionally trip up opponents who aren't expecting it. I think it might see some experimentation because of its synergy with Petting Zoo, but I'm not so sure about it making the list.

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  • MenacingBagel's Avatar
    Zombie Chow 815 723 Posts Joined 09/24/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    So is it two specifically or can I have 3 on board and still get it? I mean to me this looks shoddy regardless of how many minions you control I don't think we'll see this much

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Very difficult to trigger if your opponent manage to clear your board

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  • Sparkinarius's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    This secret reminds me of an older Hunter secret: Rat Trap. That secret was ran in secret packages as a one-of to help guarantee more draws with Subject 9. I could see a similar case with Open the Cages being a one-of secret to help have multiple secrets for Petting Zoo or a secret for Hyena Alpha, but I could also see it being one of the first secrets to be cut from the deck in refinement.

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  • clawz161's Avatar
    The Undying 825 827 Posts Joined 07/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Good effect you can play around. nice secret to discover early for the "new spellstone"

    Living like that.

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  • KillaFIsh's Avatar
    375 250 Posts Joined 07/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Pro Tip: Handbuff just for the sake of handbuff is pretty bad.  Honestly, it could buff all minions in your hand and still be really weak.  Nice 100 dust for me.

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  • NebuchadnezzarHS's Avatar
    Supporter 2035 1410 Posts Joined 06/14/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Very powerful Hunter secret, if it triggers ;-)

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  • Lundy's Avatar
    Little Devil Teemo 1555 707 Posts Joined 06/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Amazing card! Best part about is that the opponent can't really decide to trigger it, giving you more out of cards that require you to have a secret in play.

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  • Fisguinho's Avatar
    The Raven 1190 411 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Free boar at the start of the round

    All hail the banshee queen.

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  • Input's Avatar
    470 259 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    I like that you can control it a bit to play with secret synergy.

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  • Geno9999's Avatar
    Metrognome 1620 1217 Posts Joined 11/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Pretty strong with the rest of the Secret package, Pack Tactics and Snake Trap seem like solid way to activate this when you do need it.

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  • slychd's Avatar
    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    What hunter doesn't want an extra Huffer?

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  • randomfan's Avatar
    Elemental 1255 744 Posts Joined 03/17/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Thinking back to my hunter decks, it wasn't often that I knew I would have two minions left to start my next turn. I don't know how excited I am about a 2 mana investment toget a three mana spell at some indeterminate future time.

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

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  • sule's Avatar
    Dinosaur 830 993 Posts Joined 08/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    This is a good Secret, specifically because of how it interacts with other Hunter Secrets to force a punish on the opponent no matter how they play around it. This likely fits into aggressive Hunter decks that already ran Phase Stalker, and likely will be a key cog in a deck built around Secrets.

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Really easy to trigger it for hunter.

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  • Psymon's Avatar
    Red Riding Hood 1505 371 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Snake trap + Open the cages = Huffer to face

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1570 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Seems strong in face decks since they tend to fill the board with cheap minions anyway

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 3 years, 11 months ago

    Really strong new Secret for Hunter, and the perfect combination with Petting Zoo since you can make sure it sticks around by keeping a narrow board and then go wide with the Striders, triggering the Secret on your next turn.

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