Wow! This is amazing and easily one of the best custom classes I've ever seen! The flavor is on point and card design is varied and creative. Fantastic effort, well done!
Dawngrasp is still a complete template of a character though, I hope their Book gives them some form of identifying characteristic other than generic non-confrontational wizard scholar.
Been a while since we've had a crab card, decided to make a versatile spell (not 100% on the cost and expansion):
Feedback, from oldest to newest:
anchorm4n
Nice flavor! Balance seems ok, as well. You can also target an enemy minion, if there's one hiding behind a taunt.
Demonxz95
Looks ok, but, as you pointed out on Discord, the fact that it's the same minion might not qualify.
AeroJulwin
Looks good flavor-wise, not sure about balance, since Rush is valued more than Taunt. You will also want to find new art for each of them, since all the pieces here are already in the game.
R
Not really a fan of any of them, though I will admit, I thought of making a Zilliax card. Ancient Spirit is probably the best of the bunch, though it should cost 1.
Wailor
That's interesting, but I don't really see connection between the buff and the minion summoned. Maybe if it was "Give a minion stats equal to those of a Beast from your deck that costs (3) or less. When it dies, summon that Beast from your deck.", but that's probably too clunky.
Arkasaur
Neat idea, and good flavor.
BloodMefist
I like the SHR version better, and I like it quite a bit!
Hordaki
Nice flavor, probably a bit expensive, might go to 4 (though it's hard to judge these mount cards).
linkblade91
Really nice ideas! I'd go for the Infernal option, though I think 4 mana would be better.
Ah: I'm at work, so I can't see Discord lol. Shouldnt even be on my phone. You're good to go with Take Possession; I prefer Heart of Felfire anyway. I was just being difficult :P
One last possible factor (that I can think of now) could be the game modes you played was perhaps different between the 2 reward tracks? There was some prior mentioning that Standard ranked ladder rewards the most XP per time played (33% more XP relatively). Unless this happened or they stealthily tweaked the XP gain ratio in our disadvantage, you should indeed not experience a significant XP decrease with a similar playrate compared to the previous rewards track.
Off of Arkasaur's feedback, I went and found some different art to use. Perhaps this one better connects everything else together as well for Wailor ;)
Feedback
Wailor
Horse Mount very much looks like a card that we might see in the set. I do actually like it despite being very rudimentary for the prompt. I do think Cycle of Life will likely have a better chance of scoring well.
Linkblade91
As I've already seen both of them on Discord, I think this is a nice way to tackle the prompt. Both cards are very flavorful and something I can expect to see in the real game. My only concern is that such a big drawback can ultimately be negated entirely when used as a finisher, but I suppose that's just the nature of the beast (or, demon rather) when dealing with huge stat-buff cards like this.
Hordaki
I'm going to point out the watermark anyway. XD
I quite like the idea and the flavor of the card, though I do agree with Wailor in that the All type doesn't seem fitting for a spell both mechanically and flavorfully. I'm not sure if you meant to make the card for Warlock or Warrior since you specify the former in your card description, but you use the latter as the class of the card at the moment. In any case, I'm thinking maybe MatDF would be a good set to put it in to fit the "darkness" approach of the set as well as the Menagerie archetypes.
BloodMefist
Hey, nice job on the cards. I personally like the Adventurers version better because I think it's just more interesting than another SHR synergy card, though I think the SHR version would make more sense for the game unless we end up getting Adventurer synergy later down the line.
Arkasaur
I do agree that adding Rush would be a good idea. Otherwise, the card just seems like a worse Ramming Mount.
Anchorm4n
Huge problem with this card: The ability to give any minion in the game pseudo-permanent Stealth (and even comes with a Health boost too to make it less susceptible to AoE). Stealth for only a single turn might not fit the flavor of the card as much, but it's a compromise that will result in better gameplay.
R
Congrats on that win! I look forward to whatever competition you have for us.
Ancient Spirit is my favorite of the three cards. It's very simple, but it's also a very charming type of simple that makes it stand out against other cards of the same simplicity level. The only issue with the card I see is that it has used art. This art is already taken by the Big Wisps option of Wisps of the Old Gods.
Imitation is a funny card flavorwise, but it seems on average to be a worse Ancestral Spirit.
System Update is another funny card, though I find its ability to target any minion (as opposed to just Mechs) to be a little bit strange and bringing back Zilliax is something that not everyone will likely be happy with it. I think "summon a Zilliax" should also be changed to just "summon Zilliax". Zilliax isn't just a random unimportant mob that you find somewhere. It's a named Legendary character with proper Hearthstone lore.
AeroJulwin
Welcome aboard! It's always nice to see some new people getting involved with card creation. You will likely have some questions to ask and we are available here to answer them.
This idea of choosing a form to give a minion and then summoning that form of minion is an idea that I tried to do for the comp, but I couldn't get good wording for it, so I am glad that you seemed to have gotten it. The wording is a bit unconventional, but it does communicate what the card does pretty well.
The biggest problem I see with your card is that all 3 pieces of it use existing art. Kodo Mount uses the artwork of Getaway Kodo, Distressed Kodo uses the artwork of Stampeding Kodo, and Anxious Kodo uses the artwork of Thickhide Kodo. Finding good art for all of these pieces is probably going to be difficult, but it'll be worth it if you can.
A smaller problem is the use of the Classic watermark as the card doesn't belong in Classic due to using the Rush mechanic which was introduced in The Witchwood. This is a mistake that I see new people to this hobby make a lot, so you shouldn't feel too bad about it. The card feels like a Mount card in the new Stormwind set down to a tee, so it probably makes the most sense to use that watermark.
Agree, that behavior is dumb as fuck and just doesn't makes any sense. As much as I think that OTK DH is a nice and hard to use deck, the mechanic has no sense at all.
Just tried it, it still works! I missed out on Naxx because it left the store right after I started playing. I had to set the date to 2015 instead of 2016 though because it only showed LoE and BRM at 2016. Now I have the first wing and I can buy the rest of them with gold on my mobile client later.
To anyone attempting this, you need to go to Solo Adventures, not the store- I thought it had been patched because the store still listed it for $ sale only.
I was playing some ranked just now and hit the next reward tier in Standard Ladder. As I was mindlessly clicking to progress the animations I thought something looked a little bit different about the rewards graphic. I went in to check and sure enough, the packs displayed for the month end reward look like they are going to be United in Stormwind card packs. I don't know if this was already noticed and announced, but it made some of my decisions a little easier. I was contemplating not logging in after July 31 until the expansion had launched to see if I could force it to be the new packs. Now I don't have to wait. I really think that is a nice move on Blizzard's part to make it so that we can get the new packs like that.
As an aside, I've also been saving my packs from the rewards track, tavern brawls, and Book of Heroes/Mercenaries to open with the new expansion. I've got 30+ of those to go as well.
Yep, Stormwind packs it is! I think it was the same just before Barrens launch, also. Maybe that's why they announced the expansion just as the new season started.
Congrats R! It almost feels like reaching Legend for the first time, doesn't it? :-)
Thanks! :)
sad truth
To be honest - I never reached the Legend. I'm too nervous when I play the ranked mod. So basically I play casual mod. Once I took over myself and reached rank 5. It was very easy, but I still was nervous and stopped. I don't know why, but this happens to me only in card games. Hmm… nevermind (:
If Im not mistaken this was a trend started ever since the new monthly reward track was released. Typically the final month's rewards of the current expansion will feature packs from the upcoming expansion. The first tavern brawl of the new expansion will also feature packs from the new expansion, but I cant remember if this was done for barrens.
Its a very small thing, and could have easily been different, but that it does give you packs from the upcoming expansion is a very nice move from team5 nonetheless.
I was playing some ranked just now and hit the next reward tier in Standard Ladder. As I was mindlessly clicking to progress the animations I thought something looked a little bit different about the rewards graphic. I went in to check and sure enough, the packs displayed for the month end reward look like they are going to be United in Stormwind card packs. I don't know if this was already noticed and announced, but it made some of my decisions a little easier. I was contemplating not logging in after July 31 until the expansion had launched to see if I could force it to be the new packs. Now I don't have to wait. I really think that is a nice move on Blizzard's part to make it so that we can get the new packs like that.
As an aside, I've also been saving my packs from the rewards track, tavern brawls, and Book of Heroes/Mercenaries to open with the new expansion. I've got 30+ of those to go as well.
When I put even more thought into this, did we not get the new rewards track introduced last time about a 1 week prior to the launch of Madness at the Darkmoon Faire? If so, this means we had extra time to collect XP at the very beginning.
Yeah, no one can forget about those. The start of Reward Track fiasco. But also make sense. 1 week headstart + Duels achievements. At least I still have 12K gold to spent on the next expansion if I fail to get any giveaway chances.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Nope
New Custom Class - The Shapeshifter
Wow! This is amazing and easily one of the best custom classes I've ever seen! The flavor is on point and card design is varied and creative. Fantastic effort, well done!
New Custom Class - The Shapeshifter
Just noticed I ended up forgeting the Core set 2021, I'll have the thread updated with it by tomorow with some new cards.
Book of Mercenaries Kurtrus is Now Live - Get a Free Demon Hunter Card Pack
Based Tamsin is still best girl.
Dawngrasp is still a complete template of a character though, I hope their Book gives them some form of identifying characteristic other than generic non-confrontational wizard scholar.
Book of Mercenaries Kurtrus is Now Live - Get a Free Demon Hunter Card Pack
This one was pretty fun, the alliance gang seems much more serious and edgy than the horde pals so far.
New Cosmetics Coming in Runeterra's 2.12.0 Patch - Adorable Guardians, Board Chromas, Emotes, & More
Those emotes are some of the best ones yet and the sentinel board looks amazing.
Ride And Die - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Been a while since we've had a crab card, decided to make a versatile spell (not 100% on the cost and expansion):
Feedback, from oldest to newest:
Legends of Runeterra Gets 7 New Champion Skins for the Ruination Event 2.12.0 Update
Thresh having a face is super creepy.
Ride And Die - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Ah: I'm at work, so I can't see Discord lol. Shouldnt even be on my phone. You're good to go with Take Possession; I prefer Heart of Felfire anyway. I was just being difficult :P
Ride And Die - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I just messaged you on Discord to say that I'll drop Take Possession if you think we're too close. Plenty of time to come up with something else :)
Ride And Die - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
^ Well, you made the choice for me: I'm going with Heart of Felfire. Don't need Take Possession and Demonic Possession in the same comp lol :P
Ride And Die - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
The fox is just too boring and Demon is right, the Stealth part might get dangerous. I came up with something a bit more flavorful instead:
I'll add feedback in about 12 hours from now.
Rewards Track: Current progress 2.0
One last possible factor (that I can think of now) could be the game modes you played was perhaps different between the 2 reward tracks? There was some prior mentioning that Standard ranked ladder rewards the most XP per time played (33% more XP relatively). Unless this happened or they stealthily tweaked the XP gain ratio in our disadvantage, you should indeed not experience a significant XP decrease with a similar playrate compared to the previous rewards track.
Ride And Die - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Off of Arkasaur's feedback, I went and found some different art to use. Perhaps this one better connects everything else together as well for Wailor ;)
Feedback
I'm going to point out the watermark anyway. XD
I quite like the idea and the flavor of the card, though I do agree with Wailor in that the All type doesn't seem fitting for a spell both mechanically and flavorfully. I'm not sure if you meant to make the card for Warlock or Warrior since you specify the former in your card description, but you use the latter as the class of the card at the moment. In any case, I'm thinking maybe MatDF would be a good set to put it in to fit the "darkness" approach of the set as well as the Menagerie archetypes.
Congrats on that win! I look forward to whatever competition you have for us.
Ancient Spirit is my favorite of the three cards. It's very simple, but it's also a very charming type of simple that makes it stand out against other cards of the same simplicity level. The only issue with the card I see is that it has used art. This art is already taken by the Big Wisps option of Wisps of the Old Gods.
Imitation is a funny card flavorwise, but it seems on average to be a worse Ancestral Spirit.
System Update is another funny card, though I find its ability to target any minion (as opposed to just Mechs) to be a little bit strange and bringing back Zilliax is something that not everyone will likely be happy with it. I think "summon a Zilliax" should also be changed to just "summon Zilliax". Zilliax isn't just a random unimportant mob that you find somewhere. It's a named Legendary character with proper Hearthstone lore.
Welcome aboard! It's always nice to see some new people getting involved with card creation. You will likely have some questions to ask and we are available here to answer them.
This idea of choosing a form to give a minion and then summoning that form of minion is an idea that I tried to do for the comp, but I couldn't get good wording for it, so I am glad that you seemed to have gotten it. The wording is a bit unconventional, but it does communicate what the card does pretty well.
The biggest problem I see with your card is that all 3 pieces of it use existing art. Kodo Mount uses the artwork of Getaway Kodo, Distressed Kodo uses the artwork of Stampeding Kodo, and Anxious Kodo uses the artwork of Thickhide Kodo. Finding good art for all of these pieces is probably going to be difficult, but it'll be worth it if you can.
A smaller problem is the use of the Classic watermark as the card doesn't belong in Classic due to using the Rush mechanic which was introduced in The Witchwood. This is a mistake that I see new people to this hobby make a lot, so you shouldn't feel too bad about it. The card feels like a Mount card in the new Stormwind set down to a tee, so it probably makes the most sense to use that watermark.
Hope to see you around for more. *thumbs up*
Hearthstone Gets Druid & Priest Balance Changes This Week - Our Thoughts on the Potential Cards
Agree, that behavior is dumb as fuck and just doesn't makes any sense. As much as I think that OTK DH is a nice and hard to use deck, the mechanic has no sense at all.
Bug: buy old adventures for gold
Just tried it, it still works! I missed out on Naxx because it left the store right after I started playing. I had to set the date to 2015 instead of 2016 though because it only showed LoE and BRM at 2016. Now I have the first wing and I can buy the rest of them with gold on my mobile client later.
To anyone attempting this, you need to go to Solo Adventures, not the store- I thought it had been patched because the store still listed it for $ sale only.
Month End Rewards
Yep, Stormwind packs it is! I think it was the same just before Barrens launch, also. Maybe that's why they announced the expansion just as the new season started.
Ride And Die - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I'm kind of new to this, so I would like to get some feedback before I submit my card.
Tools Of The Trade - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Thanks! :)
Month End Rewards
If Im not mistaken this was a trend started ever since the new monthly reward track was released. Typically the final month's rewards of the current expansion will feature packs from the upcoming expansion. The first tavern brawl of the new expansion will also feature packs from the new expansion, but I cant remember if this was done for barrens.
Its a very small thing, and could have easily been different, but that it does give you packs from the upcoming expansion is a very nice move from team5 nonetheless.
Ride And Die - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Simple competition, but my mind is melted. Not sure about Imitation wording btw.
Tools Of The Trade - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Grats, R! Well deserved first place :)
Month End Rewards
I was playing some ranked just now and hit the next reward tier in Standard Ladder. As I was mindlessly clicking to progress the animations I thought something looked a little bit different about the rewards graphic. I went in to check and sure enough, the packs displayed for the month end reward look like they are going to be United in Stormwind card packs. I don't know if this was already noticed and announced, but it made some of my decisions a little easier. I was contemplating not logging in after July 31 until the expansion had launched to see if I could force it to be the new packs. Now I don't have to wait. I really think that is a nice move on Blizzard's part to make it so that we can get the new packs like that.
As an aside, I've also been saving my packs from the rewards track, tavern brawls, and Book of Heroes/Mercenaries to open with the new expansion. I've got 30+ of those to go as well.
Scattered Pod is a New Ionia Follower Revealed From Runeterra's Ruination Event
Now that you mention it they do look a lot like Glow Whales from Below Zero :o
Rewards Track: Current progress 2.0
Yeah, no one can forget about those. The start of Reward Track fiasco. But also make sense. 1 week headstart + Duels achievements.
At least I still have 12K gold to spent on the next expansion if I fail to get any giveaway chances.