Liftoff! (Space themed community-built expansion - 147 Cards!)
Welcome to Liftoff! This is a full 147 card space-themed set that I worked on with several other people. It took 4 months to finish it, but we recently just did and I couldn't be more excited. This project was not started by me, but because I was the one on the team who's most familiar with the site, I'm in charge of the thread here for it. The reason for the larger number of cards than usual is also because we decided to use pre-DH rarity adjudications for Neutral cards.
Liftoff! introduces not one, but two new keywords! Those keywords are Launch and Observe.
Launch cards have a one-time effect that triggers when you initiate an attack with the card, but before the attack fully connects.
Observe cards take a look at 3 cards within a specified set of parameters, just like Discover. However, Observe is a bit different because all 3 cards you look at are all in your deck and the card you choose gets put on top of your deck.
Demon Hunter
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Druid
Tokens
Hunter
Tokens
Mage
Paladin
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Note: Soliana appears in your collection and will always start in her Sunlight form. She will transform into Moonlight form if you cast a spell while you hold her. When in Moonlight form, she will transform back into Sunlight form if you play a minion while you hold her.
Priest
Note: Shadowarper Xenia's effect will not trigger off of herself. Summoning a minion while you control her will only summon one shadow copy.
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Rogue
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Shaman
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Warlock
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Warrior
Tokens
Neutral Commons
Tokens
Neutral Rares
Tokens
Neutral Epics
Neutral Legendaries
Tokens
Well, you've made it this far.
And now to give a special thanks to everyone else who worked on this set: AlphaEthan, BlueZombieBlood, Cheese, Clukudurk, Cosmonaut, Goldenxray, Henlo, Kami, Logovaz, Meepazor (LutriSpellcaster), Mega-Pixel, mgamgam, Nolan, Psyclone, TheFriendlyEnemy, Smiles, Zozoth
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Welcome to Liftoff! This is a full 147 card space-themed set that I worked on with several other people. It took 4 months to finish it, but we recently just did and I couldn't be more excited. This project was not started by me, but because I was the one on the team who's most familiar with the site, I'm in charge of the thread here for it. The reason for the larger number of cards than usual is also because we decided to use pre-DH rarity adjudications for Neutral cards.
Liftoff! introduces not one, but two new keywords! Those keywords are Launch and Observe.
Launch cards have a one-time effect that triggers when you initiate an attack with the card, but before the attack fully connects.
Observe cards take a look at 3 cards within a specified set of parameters, just like Discover. However, Observe is a bit different because all 3 cards you look at are all in your deck and the card you choose gets put on top of your deck.
Demon Hunter
Tokens
Druid
Tokens
Hunter
Tokens
Mage
Paladin
Tokens
Note: Soliana appears in your collection and will always start in her Sunlight form. She will transform into Moonlight form if you cast a spell while you hold her. When in Moonlight form, she will transform back into Sunlight form if you play a minion while you hold her.
Priest
Note: Shadowarper Xenia's effect will not trigger off of herself. Summoning a minion while you control her will only summon one shadow copy.
Tokens
Rogue
Token
Shaman
Tokens
Warlock
Tokens
Warrior
Tokens
Neutral Commons
Tokens
Neutral Rares
Tokens
Neutral Epics
Neutral Legendaries
Tokens
Well, you've made it this far.
And now to give a special thanks to everyone else who worked on this set: AlphaEthan, BlueZombieBlood, Cheese, Clukudurk, Cosmonaut, Goldenxray, Henlo, Kami, Logovaz, Meepazor (LutriSpellcaster), Mega-Pixel, mgamgam, Nolan, Psyclone, TheFriendlyEnemy, Smiles, Zozoth
Let me start off by saying: Excellent work guys! I will try to give you some feedback to each class, since you worked on this hard, so let's see what i do and do not like :)
Overall, you did an amazing job, the set feels great and there are a lot of interesting mechanics and ideas, one thing i do have to say is, while the theme of the set is cool, it feels very strange to have mixed in art/characters that are actual spacecrafts etc and then some are regular WOW and fantasy stuff. I get that it was probably very hard to find an appropriate art and this is something you decided to do, you did a great execution of the flavor, mechanics and so on, just it feels kinda weird to have it mixed like that, thats all.
You can be proud on the set tho, gj and gl in your future endeavors :)
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Do you need to say "this turn" on the card when launch only happens once?
Living like that.
Technically you could give it Windfury somehow and it would have that slight difference
I mean it says one time.
Living like that.
Thank you for the detailed reply! <3
I wholeheartedly agree with your analyses. Your feedback is noted. I'll try my best to implement it for our next set, which we've already started.
The Launch itself only triggers one time, but the effect will still last until the end of the turn.
To be fair, the keyword, or rather its description, does not translate this fact well. It does seem that it should trigger once, on the first minion attack and then fizzle out, something like Spellburst, not that it can stay on the minion and act as an aura effect for the reminder of the turn, for example.
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Very cool expansion, really enjoyed it.
Perhaps I'll try to go more in-depth later; but my first impression is that you guys clearly captured the essence of HS card design, and there are tons of flavorful cards as well as creative archetypes. I especially like the neutral set, Hand of the Void is flavor incarnate! The way you guys played around with Observe and gave it enough support is amazing, it's what Blizzard should be doing when creating expansion-specific keywords.
One constructive criticism I can give is that making the both Legendaries of a class to support the same archetype is kind of limiting design. Not saying that they should be unplayable together but it'd give the idea of that archetype being shoved down our throats if Blizz did it.
Very good stuff.
I don't really know what else to say, so I'll say this: HEARTHSTONE! IN! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!