'Tis But A Scratch - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread

I will admit that I also did not consider the possibility of infinitely combo-ing with Saurfang. I'm not so sure that it would even be broken, but it does make me want to think of a new card.

anchorm4n: I like the first 2 versions of the cards flavour-wise, but I think the second one is more balanced. You should make the mama a 3/3, though.

grumpymonk: It's no 4 mana 7/7, but it's still a really good minion. I don't really see a world where this doesn't trigger it's frenzy the following turn, except when your opponent has no minion. I'd stat it as a 4/4, or make it 4 mana. I prefer the first art.

KANSAS: Great flavor on this one! I like it!

cydonianknight: Pretty great with the Rush, and fairly balance, sing as you can't usually gain more than 4 Attack.

linkblade91: I like the Hero. It has a place in both a Frenzy and Big archetype, making it very versatile. Edit: Your updated spell is also pretty good.

Wailor: Love the flavor on this one! Card seems good, but I'm not sure how many know Stealth cancels Taunt.

Demonxz95: Looks ok on paper, but there's a few interactions that may not be clear. I'm going to assume that cards that give your hero attack won't give you anything. And Hero Powers are still 'cards' in the eyes of the game. Some people might deduct points from it.

Nirast - I hope the misspelling of "Misterious Wildkin" is intentional :P I think the card is very interesting, but the payoff makes it one-dimensional: why would I ever choose the Frenzy, when the Deathrattle is guaranteed to net me 8 Armor? It would need to be something that benefits the Wildkin too, to warrant its survival. The Drake's flavor of coughing up the eaten minion is amusing, as is the flavor of the Crocolisk eating a minion, but both of them suffer from being kind of boring and/or obvious designs. Give the Wildkin a more nuanced payoff and you've got a strong contender (I think).

anchorm4n - Please don't submit the Angry Chicken variant lol. It's silly, and you don't want meme jokes to be potentially viable (and this is, with Scavenger's Ingenuity) or they become annoying. The regular version (without Misha) is fine as is.

grumpymonk - I'm not really a fan of either art, to be honest, but the one on the right is better IMO. I also agree with anchorm4n that this the stats as-is are too strong, because the Frenzy will negate the downside and just make for a flat 3/5/5.

KANSAS - It should say "Return this to your hand", for maximum clarity, but beyond that I like it. It could maybe stand to be a 2/2/4 because Belligerent Gnome exists and this is a class card; just a thought.

cydonianknight - It's perfectly fine from a mechanical perspective. It's just…kind of uninteresting, to me at least. The DH has so many tools in its arsenal for gaining Attack, as well as Rush minions, that adding the two together doesn't feel overly special. I could see this being a winner, so please don't be discouraged, but I'm not overly excited about the idea if I'm being frank :/

Wailor - I've never cared for cards that attempt to purposefully play into the Taunt + Stealth interaction. It needs to exist to keep from being busted, but doing it on purpose just doesn't interest me *shrugs*

Demonxz95 - I still wonder if your card is too strong with that high of Health, because you're practically guaranteed to pull something…but then cards like Psychic Conjurer exist that give you a card automatically so I don't know. I also don't like how there are so little ways to escape the situation within a reasonable cost for the effort.

grumpymonk - I like it. Unlocking one overloaded crystal isn't much of a "payoff", 'though you can definitely benefit later on if you're spamming Overload.

Wailor - I think giving it Taunt might be too much, especially if the Paladin player is managed to buff its Health. Frenzy on a Paladin minion seems off flavor-wise, as well, but purely from a gameplay perspective I like the stickiness.

shatterstar1998 - Frenzy triggering is like a Battlecry or a Deathrattle, and not an on-going effect like having Spell Damage, so Thalnos seems weird. I like Explore the Barrens, though: as you said, it's a good standalone card.

I appreciate the idea of Misterious Wildkin (which has a typo by the way, it should be "Mysterious", unless it's supposed to be a pun), but the text is very clunky and doesn't look too good.

Barrens Black Drake feels mostly weak overall. Moat Lurker has never been an "okay" card and this isn't that much better.

Hungry Crocolisk is really flavorful, but it suffers from a few problems. Namely that good targets for it will be hard to come by since it has low Attack and Health, needs to kill the minion and survive the attack. Lots of variables there. It does also run into a problem that Wailor pointed out where it might attack something with 0 Attack and not get damaged. If that happens, then the Frenzy is basically gone. A less talked about problem with cards that gain stats when they die is that they don't work as the creator will have intended and the same works for this card. Since it's killing a minion, it won't gain any Health since the minion it's basing its Health gain off of is 0 or lower. In fact, if it's lower than 0 then it'll take further damage since it's trying to gain a negative number of Health.