That’s where I am too. Breezed through the first several fights, failed a couple times at that fight, then my son woke from his nap and I had to put it on pause.
Figure I want to try and control the board to utilize my hero power. Was trying to not trade my minions if I didn’t have to, which keeps minions on board for me. Might be where my mistake is as it allows more board development on the other side, then the damage spirals out if control. Maybe I need to get board and THEN smash the button each turn instead of trying to smash it right away
If I may, the entire purpose of the competition we did was to design "no minion" cards for classes without such archetype meaning that no Hunter or Mage cards were allowed. Most other classes, of course, can't accomplish this archetype quite as well as Hunter or Mage, so a little bit of lee-way is needed when analyzing these cards. Cards with custom watermarks can also be thought of as coming from a set where a no minion archetype for the class would be pushed by at least one other card, even if we don't know what that card would be.
Somehow these card design competition winners always seem to be really spot on on art and theme, but completely clueless on balance - this card is unplayable at 5 mana, and no minion priest will never be a thing.
I was trying to get to 1000 warlock wins today. I play wild only. When I had one more game to 1000 wins, I chose Renolock as it is my favorite warlock deck and matched against some Big Priest. My first 2 Kazakus potions (I added a copy using Zola the Gorgon) did not give sheep nor removal, so I thought I would run out of clears by the end. Their priest deck had the usual big priest minions and Prophet Velen, Emperor Thaurissan, and 2 Mind Blast for a direct damage combo. I got lucky with my Tickatus and burned both of their mind blasts. The game was going all the way near fatigue, with me having only 5 cards left in the deck. It was a close game where a nice Plague of Flames clear was set up, a nice Lord Godfrey clear, a good N’zoth board, and finally a Gul’dan board to match one of their resurrect boards. After all the Emperor Thaurissan ticks, they played Mass Hysteria and then Psychic Scream for 0 mana. I thought, maybe they are out of ress spells, as their hand was almost empty. But no, they played another Mass Resurrection and even got Archmage Vargoth which usually doubles their board size (usually but not this time). I thought that Renolock had lasted so long vs Big Priest, almost fatiguing them and running them out of resources, only to have no removal for their final board. If even one of the Kazakus potions had been decent, I probably would have won, was the thought.
At this point, it seems this is a story with a salt thread rather than pepper thread ending. But then, the most hilarious thing happened. At the end of their turn, Archmage Vargoth recast Mass Hysteria which destroyed almost all of their board.
After that they were out of resurrect spells and it was easy to win and get the 1000 wins warlock portrait, and it turned out to be such a memorable final battle.
Trustworthy Pact-Seller seems innocent at first, but then I notice a bit of a problem. Violet Illusionist. I prefer Tax Collector Hans, as I think it has an interesting design that affects how both players think about what cards to play on their turn.
Pokeniner
Unless you run a Druid deck with almost no minions, the effect seems like too much of a gamble. The best thing I can think of is playing it against no-minion decks since then you're guaranteed to always draw a minion first to use the reduce effect on. That's a bit of a strange situation to run the card though and it's not that useful in matchups besides then.
DestroyerR
Winslow Tobtock is a card design I've made a few times (although never for a competition, just in my own personal time), and while I appreciate the weird, wacky combo potential of the card, feedback of the design in the past has never been too great.
Elegant Spellmaster I think is really nice, and I like the way you've used Spell Damage here. That said, I don't think it would necessarily be too OP if the spells kept the bonus damage in addition to the Cost reduction effect considering Sorcerer's Apprentice is a thing.. Spell Damage minions usually don't stick around very long
Anchorm4n
The artwork problem you've already pointed out, so I won't mention it. The Studies themselves are flavorful and on-point. I like them, but they might be too simple for some voters.
Moira Thaurissan is… VERY dangerous to say the least, and I agree with your assessment that it will probably be very hated and not do too well.
Wailor
Moonclaw Panthara is a design that in all my years of seeing custom Hearthstone cards, I don't think I've seen. My only concern is that it becomes quite strong in the late game as a 1 mana 5/5 with Rush when you have 10 Mana Crystals, although having to get there first does somewhat counteract this.
NerdyMcNerd
I feel like Toki's effect would either be quite broken, or quite useless. I don't think there's a middle ground here. It's funny, but I'm not a huge fan. Same goes for Tess. It doesn't appear to specify "up to 10" so it looks like it can make 10-Cost cards wholly unplayable, which is probably something that should be avoided.
Hordaki
A cool idea for a Giant, and it certainly fits the set well. My only criticism is that I think it's too obvious the artwork has C'Thun on it. I would probably try to find different art to use instead of the one it has right now. Pretty good otherwise though.
I'm getting Valeera for sure. It's the best looking one in my opinion. Next expansion I'm getting Illidan since I like that shot over his base portrait and I'm never getting 1,000 DH wins (although I'll probably still never use it - I'm just so sick of Illidan's voice. I'd rather stick with Aranna).
After that it'll be open season. Priest and Shaman are off the table until they're what's left, but otherwise it's whoever I'm feeling.
I'm still struggling to come up with something original so here goes another revamp. I know this would get some serious hate but we're living in a world with Tickatus.
I was between Valeera and Illidan because both look nice to me and I have favorites in the other classes that I like to use.
Ultimately I chose Valeera because when I hit 1000 wins with Illidan (still way off) I know I’m only ever going to use the Demonic Illidan portrait anyway.
I've edited Moonclaw Panthara to 11/5/5 to take into account both Hordaki's and NerdyMcNerd's opinions.
Anyway, more feedback of my own:
DavnanKillder
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I still prefer Tax Collector Hans' first version.
NerdyMcNerd
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I prefer Tess, but I think her effect is too extreme. I'd honestly drop it to just one card for each trigger and a cost increase of just (2). In return, you can give her better stats or cost.
Hordaki
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Pretty solid card overall. I'd say it's balanced too. Not much to add here, sorry :_D
I'm hoping we get Bluther for the 3rd portrait when it his turn in the Tavern Pass. Kul Tiran Jaina showed those can depict a much more recent version of the character than the end-of-MoP basic portraits, and let's be honest, Uther hasn't got many looks to choose from...
The origin of Arthas/The Lich King and what happens to him starts in Warcraft III, so you don't have to play WoW to get a lot of the story beats. If you haven't already, I recommend playing WC3: Reforged; despite being less than what was promised, it's still a perfectly okay update to the original game.
As for Uther, well...we only recently learned there's more to that particular story in the latest WoW expansion ;)
Mulligan for everything that sets toughness to 1. Subdue is especially good. He hasn't many minions and those that he has are pretty expensive. He also plays a lot of removal. Don't overextend into dark skies/twisting nether and play one threat at a time, maybe 2 if they are outside dark skies range. Most important - pray to Yogg that the 7 mana 7/7 gives you some good stuff. :)
I liked this one the most so far! Interesting HP’s, good story line (slowing things are coming together) and decently balanced. The story of the Lich King makes me want to play WoW ..
I think this is a really interesting effect although I imagine it would be a bit underpowered, I would consider changing it to increase the cost by 1 for every 4 armour instead of 3.
linkblade91:
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Scarlet Vanguard is still a bit overpowered (or at least I think it is) maybe reduce the cost decrease to 1 and decrease the cost to 7 or 8
DavnanKilder:
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I really like both of these ideas and can't think of any suggestions: sorry!
doingtheobvious:
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Looks good, but should it be a beast? I'm no expert on WoW lore so this may be wrong.
Pokeniner:
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Love the idea but it seems quite OP, maybe reduce the effect to changing the minion's cost by 2 or increase the cost to 5.
DestroyR:
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Winslow is much to random for my liking but Elegant Spellmaster looks awesome
Wailor:
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I like the idea for Moonclaw Panthara but my problem with it is that once it becomes cheaper (turn 6-7 ish) it will be less powerful as it is off-curve considerably. Maybe buff the stats a bit?
Hordaki:
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Nice idea for a giant although I think you could probably bump the cost down to 9. Thanks for feedback btw :)
This chapter felt easier than the last two again. The only fight that I had to try twice was the blade master, and that was mostly because I wasn't paying proper attention to his hero power - first getting a minion killed needlessly by the 3 damage, and later a board of recruits by the splash damage (facepalm). But don't mind it to also see some light content in between all the ranked stress - and some of my casual friends really had trouble with the Jaina and Garrosh Chapters.
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That’s where I am too. Breezed through the first several fights, failed a couple times at that fight, then my son woke from his nap and I had to put it on pause.
Figure I want to try and control the board to utilize my hero power. Was trying to not trade my minions if I didn’t have to, which keeps minions on board for me. Might be where my mistake is as it allows more board development on the other side, then the damage spirals out if control. Maybe I need to get board and THEN smash the button each turn instead of trying to smash it right away
Card Design Conversation - Justified
If I may, the entire purpose of the competition we did was to design "no minion" cards for classes without such archetype meaning that no Hunter or Mage cards were allowed. Most other classes, of course, can't accomplish this archetype quite as well as Hunter or Mage, so a little bit of lee-way is needed when analyzing these cards. Cards with custom watermarks can also be thought of as coming from a set where a no minion archetype for the class would be pushed by at least one other card, even if we don't know what that card would be.
Card Design Conversation - Justified
Somehow these card design competition winners always seem to be really spot on on art and theme, but completely clueless on balance - this card is unplayable at 5 mana, and no minion priest will never be a thing.
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When I played he held onto his dark skies until he only had 3 cards left in his hand,
It didn't even kill my only minion on the board.
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Wait, you really died to TDP?
The Pepper Thread - Share Some Good Vibes!
I was trying to get to 1000 warlock wins today. I play wild only. When I had one more game to 1000 wins, I chose Renolock as it is my favorite warlock deck and matched against some Big Priest. My first 2 Kazakus potions (I added a copy using Zola the Gorgon) did not give sheep nor removal, so I thought I would run out of clears by the end. Their priest deck had the usual big priest minions and Prophet Velen, Emperor Thaurissan, and 2 Mind Blast for a direct damage combo. I got lucky with my Tickatus and burned both of their mind blasts. The game was going all the way near fatigue, with me having only 5 cards left in the deck. It was a close game where a nice Plague of Flames clear was set up, a nice Lord Godfrey clear, a good N’zoth board, and finally a Gul’dan board to match one of their resurrect boards. After all the Emperor Thaurissan ticks, they played Mass Hysteria and then Psychic Scream for 0 mana. I thought, maybe they are out of ress spells, as their hand was almost empty. But no, they played another Mass Resurrection and even got Archmage Vargoth which usually doubles their board size (usually but not this time). I thought that Renolock had lasted so long vs Big Priest, almost fatiguing them and running them out of resources, only to have no removal for their final board. If even one of the Kazakus potions had been decent, I probably would have won, was the thought.
At this point, it seems this is a story with a salt thread rather than pepper thread ending. But then, the most hilarious thing happened. At the end of their turn, Archmage Vargoth recast Mass Hysteria which destroyed almost all of their board.
After that they were out of resurrect spells and it was easy to win and get the 1000 wins warlock portrait, and it turned out to be such a memorable final battle.
The Price Is Right - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Feedback round 2.
Winslow Tobtock is a card design I've made a few times (although never for a competition, just in my own personal time), and while I appreciate the weird, wacky combo potential of the card, feedback of the design in the past has never been too great.
Elegant Spellmaster I think is really nice, and I like the way you've used Spell Damage here. That said, I don't think it would necessarily be too OP if the spells kept the bonus damage in addition to the Cost reduction effect considering Sorcerer's Apprentice is a thing.. Spell Damage minions usually don't stick around very long
The artwork problem you've already pointed out, so I won't mention it. The Studies themselves are flavorful and on-point. I like them, but they might be too simple for some voters.
Moira Thaurissan is… VERY dangerous to say the least, and I agree with your assessment that it will probably be very hated and not do too well.
Level 50 Hero Portraits
I'm getting Valeera for sure. It's the best looking one in my opinion. Next expansion I'm getting Illidan since I like that shot over his base portrait and I'm never getting 1,000 DH wins (although I'll probably still never use it - I'm just so sick of Illidan's voice. I'd rather stick with Aranna).
After that it'll be open season. Priest and Shaman are off the table until they're what's left, but otherwise it's whoever I'm feeling.
The Price Is Right - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I'm still struggling to come up with something original so here goes another revamp. I know this would get some serious hate but we're living in a world with Tickatus.
Level 50 Hero Portraits
No! He’s going with that Lawbringer Uther who is so strong he’s reading a book while kicking ass
Level 50 Hero Portraits
I was between Valeera and Illidan because both look nice to me and I have favorites in the other classes that I like to use.
Ultimately I chose Valeera because when I hit 1000 wins with Illidan (still way off) I know I’m only ever going to use the Demonic Illidan portrait anyway.
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Again, one and done, except one.
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Are you saying that because he’s holding a book? Just like in his original and Lightforged portraits?
In the Lawbringer portrait for reaching lvl 50 on the rewards track his book is even open!
Uther’s WC3 model also has a tome in his left hand at all times. Uther without a book would actually be weird...
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He’s always had a book in his hand when using Uther in HS. Unless you are using Horseman Uther or change into DK Uther.
Take a closer look at his other portraits.
The Price Is Right - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I've edited Moonclaw Panthara to 11/5/5 to take into account both Hordaki's and NerdyMcNerd's opinions.
DavnanKillder
NerdyMcNerd
Hordaki
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I'm hoping we get Bluther for the 3rd portrait when it his turn in the Tavern Pass. Kul Tiran Jaina showed those can depict a much more recent version of the character than the end-of-MoP basic portraits, and let's be honest, Uther hasn't got many looks to choose from...
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The origin of Arthas/The Lich King and what happens to him starts in Warcraft III, so you don't have to play WoW to get a lot of the story beats. If you haven't already, I recommend playing WC3: Reforged; despite being less than what was promised, it's still a perfectly okay update to the original game.
As for Uther, well...we only recently learned there's more to that particular story in the latest WoW expansion ;)
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Mulligan for everything that sets toughness to 1. Subdue is especially good. He hasn't many minions and those that he has are pretty expensive. He also plays a lot of removal. Don't overextend into dark skies/twisting nether and play one threat at a time, maybe 2 if they are outside dark skies range. Most important - pray to Yogg that the 7 mana 7/7 gives you some good stuff. :)
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I liked this one the most so far! Interesting HP’s, good story line (slowing things are coming together) and decently balanced.
The story of the Lich King makes me want to play WoW ..
Icehowl
5 beast
The Price Is Right - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Giant Prize + Prince Malchezaar + C'Thun, the Shattered shenanigans?
Darkmoon Mini Set
I'm currently at 33 packs. i would be at 40 if i wouldn't have randomly opened some. or if my internet wouldn't have decided to suck for 2 weeks.
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book in hand. interesting....
The Price Is Right - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Feedback time!
Demonxz95:
linkblade91:
DavnanKilder:
doingtheobvious:
Pokeniner:
DestroyR:
Wailor:
Hordaki:
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We've got Lady Liadrin too for that :)
This chapter felt easier than the last two again. The only fight that I had to try twice was the blade master, and that was mostly because I wasn't paying proper attention to his hero power - first getting a minion killed needlessly by the 3 damage, and later a board of recruits by the splash damage (facepalm). But don't mind it to also see some light content in between all the ranked stress - and some of my casual friends really had trouble with the Jaina and Garrosh Chapters.