HearthCards Update - Battleground Cards

With Hearthstone Battlegrounds soon to be among us (and even playable by some), HearthCards has now received an update to allow you to make your own cards for the mode.

Look at Reshaper Murrie here. It's got a 6-star shield icon in place of where a mana cost would normally be. This signifies that it's a card for the Battlegrounds mode.

Let's try to make one ourselves. How do you do that? The first thing we need to do is click on the cog button (highlighted with the red circle). Clicking that will bring you to this menu:

We've seen this menu before, but now there's an option called "Mana to Tavern Tier (Battlegrounds)", which includes a drop-down menu. By default, it will be set to Off, but clicking it will give you a set of 7 options which include the standard Off, and the numbers 1-6, which represent the tiers of cards found in the mode.

From that point, just keep making the card as normal, and the result will look something like this:

When you use the option to change the mana cost to the shield icon, the icon will not show up whilst you make the card, but it will show up properly after you click "Create". There's no need to fill in a mana cost, because it will be replaced by the shield anyway.

So let's look at our finished card again.

It looks like a real Battlegrounds card, does it not? Something that is worth mentioning is that most existing collectable cards in the mode will keep their watermark, but new cards the are exclusive to the Battlegrounds mode will have no watermark. To achieve this, click the "Custom" watermark option, and then click "None" in the list of watermarks.

As the Battlegrounds mode is very fresh, we have yet to fully determine the balancing, but if you wish to see all of the cards in the mode, click here.

In addition, each card in the mode has a Golden variation (meaning there's finally a reason to actually use the Golden option). Golden versions of Battleground cards have their stats doubled, and their effect upgraded if applicable. Usually, this effect is doubled, but there are some exceptions (any card with an x2 effect will upgrade to an x3 effect). Some cards how effects that do not receive upgrades at all when made Golden, which include minions who's effects are entirely made of keywords, or grant a keyworded mechanic under a trigger (Cobalt Guardian, Toxfin).

If we make Loan Shark Golden, it will look something like this:

An interesting point to note is that Golden cards have slightly different text space to them, meaning that if you reduce the card's text size to get rid of an orphan in the text box, the finished card might still end up with that orphan. In this case, you'll need to reduce the card's text even further.

Custom class designs do not support Golden cards, so if you're making one of your custom class cards for the Battlegronds mode, you'll need to use an existing class design similar in color if you still wish to make it Golden.