Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread

The flavor of Stern Librarian having Taunt was supposed to be representative of the fact that he knows you have overdue books to bring back and he's not happy about it, and eventually you'll have to confront with the less-than-happy librarian about it. I guess that aspect of the flavor isn't communicated well enough.

Regarding Demonsoul Scavenger, I do also think what Link said about the second iteration applies. It seems that it will just simply two cards which will be both in end up in the right-most spots of your hand. The first version does the job better.

As for what you said about Illidari Ambusher, how weird it is read "shuffle your hand" is actually the reason I didn't go with this idea myself. It some ways, it seems unclear, but it also feels like improper wording to me, although we have no precedent so we can't really be sure.

Something about dual-class cards in an RoS mini-set kinda irks me, but I suppose if we're imagining that these mini-sets would all be added at the same time in present day Hearthstone like the mini-set comp we just did, then this is perfectly fine. I might just have to learn to overlook that.

It feels a bit strange mechanically for Warrior since they aren't really that good at minion spamming most of the time, and Warlock doesn't really have the Bomb support cards that Warrior does, but it's an okay card overall.

Very weirdly and awkwardly, my list of cards from best to worse is a complete reverse of Wailors. Waterfall Visions is my favorite because it makes the most sense and has the most potential. I quite like it.

Pluxva the Soulbound is a cool little swap on Soul Fragments although it is quite limited by the fact that you'd have to draw those Fragments while you control it, which then encourages you to run a lot of cards that draw the Fragments to use its effect, but in turn that also means you're up all your Fragments that you could otherwise use for cards that destroy them (or Soulciologist Malicia which already has some anti-synergy with the other Soul Fragment cards).

Curious Experimenter is a bit unclear as to what "shuffling its stats" entails. Does that just that the sum of "A + B = C" will result in an entirely different (and presumably randomly chosen) A and B as long as it equals the same C?

Shallow Waters is my least favorite because it doesn't feel like a card for any particular purpose. For all intents and purposes, it basically just acts as a 0 mana Dredge in most game states. It also doesn't feel either Mage or Shaman at all, so it being a dual-class of both is particularly weird.

It feels a bit much in either regard. It's a 3 mana 4/4 Neutral minion that's basically a Madam Goya on crack. It can be used for the same "swap something small for something big" in your own deck or vice-versa on your opponent's board. Replace their big threat with a tiny, insignificant minion. All on a Neutral minion with excellent stats for the cost.

This also assumes that it doesn't have a chance to just repull the same minion that you just put into your deck. Can it do that? If it can, then that doesn't feel fun knowing that the effect always has a chance to just randomly whiff.

Xevozz is cool in theory and might slip an opponent up, but as mentioned, the fact that it's quite easy to remove does hinder its playability, and your opponent could even possibly take advantage of it by spamming a bunch of small cards that your deck can't use too well.

Reckless Seeker is one of my favorite cards of the competition posted so far. Makes a great use of the Spellburst keyword and there's some pretty fun applications with it as well.