I really hope that in the future, Freljord will regain it's strengths. Since CotM, it feels like Targon has taken the Healing region title, while Demacia became the master of midrange combat tricks. Frostbite and Troll Chant aren't (flexible) enough. (I know, ramp and board wipes are still there, but so far, those only worked with Shadow Isles.)
I don't know what will happen, and I was never so interested in it. But redemption to the Buried Sun Disc!
The theme is fun, but right off the bat I find it problematic that the hero power creates tokens with a tribal tag. That's going to create scads of balance issues and design-space headaches down the line. The same holds true for heavy Mech synergies in the class cards.
This is a cool effect and I like the many different ways it can be used. The card is by no means bad as is, but I'm thinking it could possibly be 2 mana since it's always worse than Subdue on the enemy board and you need a lot of minions on your side in order for it to be a huge buff (thinking specifically of Reliquary Seeker in that regard), though I can't doubt that a +6/+6 buff for 2 mana would indeed be extremely good.
Pretty good job overall
Didn't want to make it 2, since Paladin has quite a few ways to flood the board with Dudes. And unlike Seeker, the buffed minion can attack immediately.
I did, however, change the art:
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AeroJulwin: The fact that it can't attack heroes makes it about as good as Bladed Gauntlet (hint: not very). It's probably worse because it's in Hunter.
Demonxz95: Not sure Restless Souls counts. Matatha all along isn't bad, but the effect isn't that interesting.
The L3 Xerath buff seems like a sidegrade at best. Buffing his health is necessary, and coupled with the passive improvement to sun disk *may* just may allow Xerath to carve out a small niche, but I doubt it.
Funny to see Trundle get buffed back to what were his original values if I recall correctly. Guess powercreep is real eh?
MarkMcKz has a video out of a Rokara OTK that uses Linecracker. I got the What Happens When...? achievement on the second game I played with it. (I would have gotten it on the first, but for Ice Block spoiling it.)
Alright, I'm counting on you to give me some good feedback.
Restless Souls is a classic design of mine that ended up working perfectly for what's going on here.
Servant Magatha has Magatha Grimtotem at the Darkmoon Faire and corrupted by the Old Gods. Not sure why she's there, but the art was way too perfect to pass up. I wish I could've made it just summon any random Totem, but unfortunately a couple of too good rolls exist for that.
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Wailor
I like it, but maybe make it cost 4.
Linkblade91
Still going on that Yrel train even after she was added to the game. And wow, that Yrel is a huge comeback enabler. Basically a 5-Attack pre-nerf Dreadsteed with Rush while behind on board. Kinda strong at putting you back in the game.
Hold the Line! is definitely a lot easier to balance. That said, one thing that is weird about both cards is the fact that they both have anti-synergy with the Hero Power.
Anchorm4n
Yeah, I was just about to comment on Cyclopian Horror. I encourage you not to give up though. You can definitely get there.
Nirast
This is a cool effect and I like the many different ways it can be used. The card is by no means bad as is, but I'm thinking it could possibly be 2 mana since it's always worse than Subdue on the enemy board and you need a lot of minions on your side in order for it to be a huge buff (thinking specifically of Reliquary Seeker in that regard), though I can't doubt that a +6/+6 buff for 2 mana would indeed be extremely good.
Pretty good job overall
AeroJulwin
Exactly that. PM Shadows (or DM on Discord) your prompt ideas and we choose whichever one we like the most to be the next competition (ideally having more than one prompt is a good idea).
As for your card, Smoldermort is definitely a deviation from the typical Hunter weapon. This is very much a card for Control Hunter, which is a little bit weird, but I don't hate it.
The artwork doesn't particularly feel like a Hunter weapon to me, but then again Stormhammer exists and this definitely feels more Hunter to me than that card does.
Honestly, they have to do both. Fix the achievements bugs AND introduce balance changes. It should not even be a choice, really.
With every new expansion and new game mode, the number of issues have been increasing exponentially, it seems. Either they hire more people or they postpone releasing new content, but at least spend proper time on improving or at least keep the game at a constant quality level. At this moment, the quality is clearly going downhill if you look at the growing known bugs list of the past few patch notes.
In a previous AMA with Iksar or Celestalon, they already acknowledged that the game is buggy and they would like to spend time on fixing this. Hopefully, it will happen sooner than later.
How the You Are Not Worthy achievement bug eluded their QA department (if there is one at all) is beyond me. Furthermore, how this could not be fixed before 2021 ended is also unfathomable.
By the way, I find comments stating 'do this instead of that' rather amusing. As if everything is done serially. Team5 is capable of doing multiple things simultaneously, right?
I prefer Yrel, her effect is really cool and original. I agree she should probably be tone down a little bit, so I'd reduce her statline to 4/3.
anchorm4n
I like your Dwavern Vanguard, even if the effect is shared with Cyclopian Horror. Unlike that one, your card can be a pretty effective anti-aggro tool, considering you can drop him whenever you want without much cost.
Nirast
I like your card a lot, specially because how flexible it is, kinda like a much more interesting Dark Conviction. The artwork is definetly its main weakness, though.
Aerojulwin
I don't know… It's very hard to use, since you need your opponent to go both tall and wide for it to be worth it. Also, I think Warrior would be a more appropriate class for it, because removing big stuff with weapons requires a consistent source of healing or armor.
I've actually been having a lot of fun in Standard since the balance patch. I climbed to Diamond faster than ever on New Year's Day because I was enjoying myself and just kept playing. (Normally, I'm out after I earn the card back, if I even go that far.)
Sorry to hear Wild still sucks, but to me it's a little weird to put all your eggs in the basket that isn't making any money for the company.
Ironically this card is the best performing card in a tier 2 deck with beast hunter. ITurns out you just need to summon 1 biog beast and it's already worth.
Thanks Nirast, I've only done a superficial search but took a second look after your comment - and of course there is Cyclopian Horror. Guess I'm out for another week then.
Honestly, your version is probably better. Is cheaper, and has a better base stat-line for the cost. But you'd lose points for originality.
Oh and apparently i'm the #5 top commenter in 2021? That's surprising. I guess taking part in discussions during every HS card reveal season helped a lot.
Okay i just looked at my profile, and noticed that in my profile i say: "You might not see me comment too much, because i'm a bit shy and prefer to "lurk" around, but i gladly take part in discussions about new cards, theory-crafts, and sometimes some other discussions when i find them interesting."
So being the #5 top commenter in 2021 is kinda ironic to me. lol. I guess that HS card reveal seasons still helped a lot, and other than that there must have been plenty of interesting discussions i guess?
Started the year off by getting 2 legendaries in the 5 end of season packs and somehow managed to finally get an 11x multiplier despite not even hitting top 2k legend.
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That's a sick mug!
Counting On You - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
New idea. Is this too hard to pull off? Don't know if it's better or worse than my previous card.
Worldbreaker Cosmetics, New Chip Guardian, Card Backs, and Board Coming in the Runeterra Patch 3.0.0
I love Aztec theme. The arts are marvelous, the board is beautiful, and most likely the music will be too.
New Legends of Runeterra Balance Changes Coming This Week Focus on Dominant Decks and Improving Region Diversity
Another great shake up for the good.
I really hope that in the future, Freljord will regain it's strengths. Since CotM, it feels like Targon has taken the Healing region title, while Demacia became the master of midrange combat tricks. Frostbite and Troll Chant aren't (flexible) enough. (I know, ramp and board wipes are still there, but so far, those only worked with Shadow Isles.)
I don't know what will happen, and I was never so interested in it. But redemption to the Buried Sun Disc!
And more Bandle (mana cheat) nerfs too, awesome.
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The theme is fun, but right off the bat I find it problematic that the hero power creates tokens with a tribal tag. That's going to create scads of balance issues and design-space headaches down the line. The same holds true for heavy Mech synergies in the class cards.
Counting On You - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I agree the weapon was a bad idea. New card:
Keeping the same mechanic, but putting it on a Rush minion. Added an Overkill to keep the value of high Attack against smaller minions.
Counting On You - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Didn't want to make it 2, since Paladin has quite a few ways to flood the board with Dudes. And unlike Seeker, the buffed minion can attack immediately.
I did, however, change the art:
More Feedback:
AeroJulwin: The fact that it can't attack heroes makes it about as good as Bladed Gauntlet (hint: not very). It's probably worse because it's in Hunter.
Demonxz95: Not sure Restless Souls counts. Matatha all along isn't bad, but the effect isn't that interesting.
New Legends of Runeterra Balance Changes Coming This Week Focus on Dominant Decks and Improving Region Diversity
- The buff to vengeance and mono Shurima are nice and so are the nerfs to Bandle City.
- The buff to monster Harpoon and Nerf to Sion are puzzling to me, the former was already a great card, the later wasn't part of any tier 1 deck.
- The biggest change is definitely Ice borne legacy, elusive poros, mistwraiths, sand soldiers, so many decks can be enabled by that card.
- The rest are pretty meh.
New Legends of Runeterra Balance Changes Coming This Week Focus on Dominant Decks and Improving Region Diversity
The L3 Xerath buff seems like a sidegrade at best. Buffing his health is necessary, and coupled with the passive improvement to sun disk *may* just may allow Xerath to carve out a small niche, but I doubt it.
Funny to see Trundle get buffed back to what were his original values if I recall correctly. Guess powercreep is real eh?
Worldbreaker Cosmetics, New Chip Guardian, Card Backs, and Board Coming in the Runeterra Patch 3.0.0
If anything is amazing about this patch it is that Iceborn Legacy is burst again
Slow speed made the card unplayable. Giving it burst speed back seeems... powerful
poro elusives, freljord bladedance, spider legacy, heimerdinger's legacy?
There is so much to try now and I feel like there will be a some broken deck featuring this card.
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MarkMcKz has a video out of a Rokara OTK that uses Linecracker. I got the What Happens When...? achievement on the second game I played with it. (I would have gotten it on the first, but for Ice Block spoiling it.)
Counting On You - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Yep: either Shadows, Demon, or myself will work. We'll share it amongst ourselves on the staff Discord, and then get back to you :)
Counting On You - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Alright, I'm counting on you to give me some good feedback.
Restless Souls is a classic design of mine that ended up working perfectly for what's going on here.
Servant Magatha has Magatha Grimtotem at the Darkmoon Faire and corrupted by the Old Gods. Not sure why she's there, but the art was way too perfect to pass up. I wish I could've made it just summon any random Totem, but unfortunately a couple of too good rolls exist for that.
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Still going on that Yrel train even after she was added to the game. And wow, that Yrel is a huge comeback enabler. Basically a 5-Attack pre-nerf Dreadsteed with Rush while behind on board. Kinda strong at putting you back in the game.
Hold the Line! is definitely a lot easier to balance. That said, one thing that is weird about both cards is the fact that they both have anti-synergy with the Hero Power.
Pretty good job overall
Exactly that. PM Shadows (or DM on Discord) your prompt ideas and we choose whichever one we like the most to be the next competition (ideally having more than one prompt is a good idea).
As for your card, Smoldermort is definitely a deviation from the typical Hunter weapon. This is very much a card for Control Hunter, which is a little bit weird, but I don't hate it.
The artwork doesn't particularly feel like a Hunter weapon to me, but then again Stormhammer exists and this definitely feels more Hunter to me than that card does.
Any news on these damned bug fixes?
Honestly, they have to do both. Fix the achievements bugs AND introduce balance changes. It should not even be a choice, really.
With every new expansion and new game mode, the number of issues have been increasing exponentially, it seems. Either they hire more people or they postpone releasing new content, but at least spend proper time on improving or at least keep the game at a constant quality level. At this moment, the quality is clearly going downhill if you look at the growing known bugs list of the past few patch notes.
In a previous AMA with Iksar or Celestalon, they already acknowledged that the game is buggy and they would like to spend time on fixing this. Hopefully, it will happen sooner than later.
How the You Are Not Worthy achievement bug eluded their QA department (if there is one at all) is beyond me. Furthermore, how this could not be fixed before 2021 ended is also unfathomable.
By the way, I find comments stating 'do this instead of that' rather amusing. As if everything is done serially. Team5 is capable of doing multiple things simultaneously, right?
Counting On You - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
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Quitting HS
I've actually been having a lot of fun in Standard since the balance patch. I climbed to Diamond faster than ever on New Year's Day because I was enjoying myself and just kept playing. (Normally, I'm out after I earn the card back, if I even go that far.)
Sorry to hear Wild still sucks, but to me it's a little weird to put all your eggs in the basket that isn't making any money for the company.
Any news on these damned bug fixes?
They shut down the whole office between Christmas and New Year's.
Even when they do get back to work, I'd rather see more balance changes before they worry about fixing achievement bugs.
Counting On You - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Wow, I can't believe I won! Thanks for the support everyone! I believe this means I get to decide on a prompt. Do I just PM it to ShadowsOfSense?
Immediately thought of Unleash the Hounds! and decided I wanted to make a Hunter card.
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Nope. Look for a hint on this page...
Wing Commander Ichman
Ironically this card is the best performing card in a tier 2 deck with beast hunter. ITurns out you just need to summon 1 biog beast and it's already worth.
Counting On You - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Honestly, your version is probably better. Is cheaper, and has a better base stat-line for the cost. But you'd lose points for originality.
Out of Cards: 2021 in Numbers
Okay i just looked at my profile, and noticed that in my profile i say: "You might not see me comment too much, because i'm a bit shy and prefer to "lurk" around, but i gladly take part in discussions about new cards, theory-crafts, and sometimes some other discussions when i find them interesting."
So being the #5 top commenter in 2021 is kinda ironic to me. lol. I guess that HS card reveal seasons still helped a lot, and other than that there must have been plenty of interesting discussions i guess?
This Week's Top Hearthstone Twitch Clips Featuring Rdu, Savjz, Kripparrian
Yeah, I see only one Hearthstone highlight.
Welcome to 2022!
Started the year off by getting 2 legendaries in the 5 end of season packs and somehow managed to finally get an 11x multiplier despite not even hitting top 2k legend.
So yeah, pretty good start overall lol
This Week's Top Hearthstone Twitch Clips Featuring Rdu, Savjz, Kripparrian
I´ve enjoyed everyone but RDU. Thanks for the laughs :)