Hearthstone
Prismatic Parlance - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Submitted 1 year, 7 months ago by
Demonxz95
Competition Theme: Prismatic Parlance
This week, we're giving the term "colorful language" a new meaning.
- You must make a class card with a keyword that the class doesn't normally use. For the purposes of establishing defined boundaries, as long as the class has less than 5 collectible cards that utilize that keyword, it will count.
- Keywords that are exclusive to certain expansions or years (like Inspire or Echo) will not count as uncommon keywords for the class regardless of how few cards in that class use it.
- Using class-exclusive keywords (like Combo or Outcast) on cards in other classes will also not count.
This week, Wailor wants the classes to step a little bit outside of their keyword comfort zone.
As always, we can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.
Competition Phases
Here are the phases of this card design competition
- Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, May 15 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, May 20 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
- Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, May 20 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, May 21 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
- Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, May 21 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, May 22 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
- Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.
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Competition Theme: Prismatic Parlance
This week, we're giving the term "colorful language" a new meaning.
This week, Wailor wants the classes to step a little bit outside of their keyword comfort zone.
As always, we can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.
Competition Phases
Here are the phases of this card design competition
Discussion Thread Rules
No thread rules were added to this season. Please populate and manually edit this thread with them.
Just a heads-up. Imgur is supposed to be purging uploads without an account today.
It seems to be fine at the time of writing this post, but just to be safe, I would recommend that from this point on, you either:
Charge is only used once in the Paladin, and Spell Damage is not on any Warlock cards:
Not sure on the cost for either of them.
Now Gorehowl can kill Cairne.
Gorehowl already can kill Cairne.
Gorehowl starts with 7 Attack and Cairne has 5 Health.
I've been waiting for an excuse to use spell handbuffing in a comp again ever since it finally became legal in MotLK. Leech Glyph provides Mage with a bit of healing, which might not fit its identity, but that's why the healing is not very high, even compared to Neutral cards. However, the Lifesteal should become more valuable in a deck with spell damage cards. And since it specifies damaging spells, the card pool will most likely be favorable.
Edit:
Leech Glyph was obviously a bit expensive, but I didn't want to make it a 1-Cost to avoid it being a direct powercreep on Magic Trick. For some reason I didn't think of it yesterday, but of course I should've just made it a battlecry. So here's the new and improved version:
My second idea is Ice Sculpting. Warrior has Frost spells now, but so far the only one that actually Freezes is Snowed In. Ice Sculpting is a defensive tool that can be used to freeze a large minion and summon a copy for yourself for later or it can be played together with a buffed up Taunt minion to put a big wall on your board.
While I'm in the middle of internally debating if I should get an Imgur account (and then if I do, actually doing it), here's a card.
Spell Damage Hunter works perfectly for this since it's an established archetype and it still has few enough cards to fit within the requirements.
"spell with Spell Damage" is supposed to be a shorthand for "spell that has benefitted from Spell Damage" since there's not enough text space to write all of that down. I hope that's clear enough.
Feedback:
Although the same could be said about Seraphina, I find her much more interesting. Being a one-off, not depending on being on hand, needing spells to deal the final blow… All these things make the card work much better, IMO.
I like that you decided to showcase an important character for the WoW lore, but her effect doesn't feel appropriate for Warrior. I'd probably redesign the card as a Shaman legendary (she's a Shaman, after all) with the text "Your weapon has Windfury and Poisonous". Another option would be to make it a Rogue card (which fits the effect a bit better), but you'd probably need to change the character in that case.
Ice Sculpting isn't bad, but it doesn't look like a Warrior card.
My ideas. Also to Demon - I absolutely recommend having an account on Imgur.
"Truth is in the shadows, waiting to be revealed by the light. But light only disperses the shadow." - Me
"If other people shared traits of those considered naive, the world would've become a better place." - Also me
Also, when you submit, I advice you to write a short explanation in the card description as to how the effect fits in with the lore.
You have about 6 hours left to submit! I only just submitted a card, myself: been busy a lot lately...or distracted with Tears of the Kingdom lol.
Good luck to the finalists!
Congratulations Wailor.
Congratulations to Wailor! You crushed that one.