The Dead of Knight - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread

I think the card in concept is fine, even though Death Knight 6, 8, or 10-Cost spells, so I'm not sure what would happen if you tried to play the card with that many Corpses. Additionally, its only 7-Cost spell is Frostwyrm's Fury and its only 9-Cost spell is The Scourge, and it's very unlikely for Death Knight to ever have a spell of every Cost from 0 to 10 in Standard rotation at any point. I would say making it Discover any Death Knight card could fix it, but then it becomes a fairly consistent way of generating extra copies of strong minions.

Also, I'm not sure what's up with that name, but you should change it.

I like the effect, and I like the usage of the Duels character into Constructed Hearthstone. That's thinking smarter, not harder!

My only little gripe is that later down the line, and it may even be relatively soon, building an FFF deck that doesn't use weapons may not be that difficult (unless there happens to be a new weapon that they for some reason absolutely need to run) which would end up circumnavigating the downside entirely.

Good use of character, and good effect.

I personally prefer the minion version myself because I think it's a bit more original than applying to spells, and also because it seems stronger to me.

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I'm someone who plays FFF Death Knight pretty regularly, I can definitely tell you that it doesn't need this amount of mass spell-generation. Generating enough spells for my deck is generally not a problem. Frost Strike and Lady Deathwhisper normally gives me enough extra reach or stalling just fine, so I feel like this probably won't see play. Hand size is sometimes also something that they have to keep in mind since they're holding a lot of combo spells and play a fair amount of draw, which will end up limiting this card's usability even more.

The card also should do something at baseline so it still does something even if you have no Corpses. I realize that having no Corpses at a point where you'd want to play the card is not exactly a likely scenario, but the card should still do something if that happens. It's just a part of Hearthstone's design philosophy.

Blood Empowerment is a really funky removal for Blood. It's a bit on the weird side, but I kinda like it. It could be a Shadow spell when you look at Blood Boil, Corpse Explosion, or Blood Tap. Then again, Death Strike, Obliterate, and Vampiric Blood are typeless, so it doesn't really matter. There's Team 5 being inconsistent again!

I'm afraid I don't really like Construct Quarters too much. Pure Unholy generally doesn't have that much trouble generating more Corpses than they know what to do with, and I don't think there would be much of a point in running this. If you were to do something with this, I would suggest the card do something else in addition to gaining Corpses, but I personally prefer Blood Empowerment.

I don't really like this too much. The effect being on a Rare feels very weird since the effect itself feels Legendary (the fact that it stacks with each usage further contributes to this feeling). Unholy probably doesn't have that much trouble keeping this thing afloat.

If you were to tweak this design though, you should capitalize Corpse.

machadogps - This is neat, and definitely solidifies Frost's strength in card draw. That being said, Defrost already covers the "draw a card; spend a Corpse to draw more" space rather neatly. If that didn't exist I'd vote 5-stars for sure, but the overlap is a downer.

Alfi - Really surprised the Death Knight didn't come with a Location, but I guess we'll see what the mini-set brings. That being said, this is super strong. A "for the rest of the game" effect on a card that's already kind of difficult to interact with, that can be stacked up without additional resources…that's a recipe for frustration in my opinion.

Nobudy - Cool to see your first post coming here with us; to that I say "Welcome!" :D Your cards look quite solid: they seem fairly balanced, they're interesting, and I want to play with them haha. I agree with the others that Death's Advance or Coldtusk Fisherman will go farther than Raise Undead, 'cause some will look down on it for being on the strong side. Death's Advance has the best art, so I say that one.

NerdyMcNerd - Welcome back :) I'm not a fan of this, to be totally honest, because I feel it undermines the few cards that already allow you to gain Corpses off enemies, like Soulstealer. Twisting Nether-on-a-stick not withstanding, the ability to feed off enemy minions also helps make it stand out, and Gorefiend takes away from that, in the same set.

MrRhapsody - I had to read Blood Empowerment a couple times to understand how your card functioned, probably because I'm a dummy lol. That being said, after finally getting it - it's temporary Mana-cheating until the minion dies from the blood-letting - I find it very strong, unique, and cool. Definitely go with that one.

Dolphinslayer - Welcome to the Discussion thread :) I actually like Sylalleas Frostwind - My main problem is that the text is 5 lines long, which should not happen in a Constructed card. Shouldn't be happening at all - looking at you, Duels - but that's a matter for another time. Every word looks important, though, so I'm not sure how to fix this…

anchorm4n - The spell version of Koltira seems more befitting their Blood Elf nature, as you noted, but from a gameplay standpoint it's a lot to ask. Triple-Blood doesn't generate too many Corpses, and what are you planning to spend them on? The minion one seems better for tempoing out something a little sooner, so I guess that's the pick.

Moondreamer - No pun intended, but this is very cool. I would consider playing it in a heartbeat - probably my favorite card here. No additional notes; I think you're good to go.

Neoguli - Proper names are for Legendaries - amusing or otherwise, it needs to be changed. The gameplay effect is interesting, though - obviously Unholy can generate the bigger numbers of Corpses, despite only having one major expensive spell (The Scourge). With the Death Knight's spell pool being so low, Discover is overkill…but what if it said "from any class"? Now things can get spicy. Just my thought.

Demonxz95 - My favorite is Postmortal Servitude - it's a nice DK-version callback to Omega Assembly. Blood Moon isn't very interesting to me, and Strik is much too complicated in my opinion.