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Another thing to keep in mind is that Petting Zoo is an excellent card for a Maxima Blastenheimer deck since it's a spell.
Petting zoo is a sleeper i think. It turns the hunter secrets people slept on because they don't activate immediately into bombs.
Petting Zoo is rightfully just Emerald Spellstone but requires secrets to be active rather than played, making the condition infinitely harder. Notably it will summon a 3/3 no matter what so the spell isn't exactly trash if your opponent maneuvers all the secrets. Its a very strong card that in most cases will summon at least two 3/3s when played, so I expect this to find itself in competitive at some point. Unfortunately, most likely it will end up in some face deck. I would assume that the 3/3s are beasts as well, so there's some Tundra Rhino support, if nothing else.
Don't Feed the Animals is strong at first glance, then when the haze evaporates, we realise that its a hunter card, and like all hunter cards, its cards are only useful if the hunter can afford the tempo loss or the card goes face. At present, I don't see it. Hunters already draw pretty much like shit, so under what circumstance are we running that a hunter will have at least 2 useful* beasts in hand for this card to actually be worth the while, considering that cards like Hunting Party and Scrap Shot are near nonexistent competitively in standard.
Maybe there's a card down the line that puts cheap beasts in hand for this to then be worth playing. But that will immediately make tundra rhino broken, so I'm not holding my breathe.
Petting Zoo is GIGA BUSTED, it's like the spellstone but way way better
I'm looking forward to trying Don't Feed the Animals in Beastmaster Leoroxx combo Hunter. I feel like that might be the only place it is worth it, unless some more value buff beasts like Wolpertinger are yet to come.
As a big fan of Subject 9 and beast combos in wild, I absolutely love both of these cards. Most of the time I can't play the Emerald Spellstone in these decks because it is slow and a terrible top deck, and, for some of the secrets like Freezing Trap and especially Rat Trap, your opponent might not want to trigger them in some circunstances, so Petting Zoo will be a good punish for that. Don't Feed the Animals will probably replace all of the gadgetzan handbuffs, since they're not that easy to control after a Hunting Party, and are especially better after Zul'jin
Smuggler's Run is cheaper and buffs all minions instead of beasts only. Clearly, Don't Feed the Animals is a very weak card, and corrupt effect does not redeem it at all.
Don't Feed the Animals doesn't seem terrible, especially since Hunter is running Apex Predator and the WorpleTigers in all their decks.
Petting Zoo seems strong, two 3/3's on turn 3 if you still have a secret in play from last turn. Don't Feed the Animals seems very underwhelming/weak, even the corrupt version is pretty average.
Don't Feed the Animals has the same problem the Pally Gagetzan handbuffs had: You run out of resources. Card won't be good.
Petting Zoo will see play. Two secrets make this already far above the curve. In Wild, will definitely see play in Spell Hunter.
Similar to Emerald Spellstone, but I suppose harder to get 4
And more handbuff hunter again...
Petting Zoo seems really strong. 6-6 in Stats on T3 is some great Tempo!