Hammul Runetotem - Its barely a condition at all. Making a druid deck with only nature cards do hamper them slightly but not as much as you would expect. The real question would be, is it worth it? And I kinda dont think that it is. The imbued hp is basically jades except you can only do it once per turn, most aggro decks would destroy you well before this gets going and even midrange decks can threaten with massive minions or overwhelming boards that this would rarely matter.
Compare this with the current hp druid, or hell, just compare this with dragon hp druid. Imagine doing 5 damage per turn with 2 mana and that still only barely competitive.
The only reason why I think this card is playable is because of pure novelty, and that its highly likely that the powerlevel of the next rotation would be low enough for this to succeed.
Horn of plenty - Gonna be played in all druid decks because why not. At least we can be comforted that nourish is no longer in standard.
Reforestation - Lucky that frost lotus seed is rotating otherwise there's zero reason to play this. At least its draw two for two. Decent, though underpowered because you need to wait three turns to draw an extra card.
Grove shaper - Its too slow to ever be good competitively, and theres yet to be a nature spell that damages face, or present a board wipe. So no go for me. Might get better if the meta is slow enough or theres better nature spells.
Evergreen stag - The sort of card you design when deadlines up and you cant think of anything else. Either that or this was once an OP card that got nerfed to oblivion. I simply cannot understand the thought process behind the design of this card other than it being pure filler. Unless embiggen is being brought back to standard this card is unplayable trash. When you consider that cards like origami dragon and stone drake saw zero play in standard, what chance does this card even have?
Not to mention that druid dont tend to play minions like these anyway. Toyrantus, druid of the plains, and immortal are perfectly good cards that will see play in other classes, but not in druid where play patterns tend to be either sky high or rock bottom.
Forestlord Cenarius - Very flavourful. Unfortunately its also...well, bad. 10 mana to put up to three big dudes with taunt, because lets face it you'll never use this as a psuedo bloodlust to end games. Definitely underpowered for a 10 mana card, because for 10 mana, you'll either need to win games, threaten lethal, or at least prevent your opponent from doing so. This card passes the buck by building up taunts and then imagining your opponent having no answers. And what's more, ironically this doesnt work with cards like embrace of nature, so technically its actually worse than drum circle.
Will it be playable? Well, maybe. Because you simply have to imagine there being a way to cheat this out, or maybe malorne is just that good and you get a 1 mana cenarius consistently.
All in all, quite underwhelming for a druid set. I was expecting there to be at least a few broken as hell cards but instead its the opposite: cant see any of it. But its druid, and it'll always find a way to be toxic as fuck, even in weak expansions.
In retrospect, it is very surprising that it took this long for Cenarius to get a reprint card.
Despite being a rather important character lore-wise, Cenarius has always had the least amount of prominence in Hearthstone compared to all of the other Classic class Legendaries. Some of the others at least had Mercenaries, Cenarius had literally nothing other than his original card until now.
Toreth the unbreaking - At first glance this looks broken. Basically granting divine shield minions immunity because theres just no way to deal damage three times to a minion and somehow still be in the game. Unfortunately though, this card is only ever broken in arena, because in competitive standard theres so many ways to remove minions that this comes across as simply useless, not even compared favourably to Amitus. Ironically, this card likely can just solo down paladin on its own, so if it ever gets mind controlled you might as well just concede then and there.
Critter caretaker - Its just a weird card because you'll never play this in anything other than control and do control decks even want this? Comparable to mistress of mixtures, something that was meta roughly 8 years back and which saw little to no play when it was reintroduced.
Mother duck - Will likely be playable in swarm decks and maybe DK because its practically 4 corpses + removal.
Ancient of yore - Aggro decks nowadays will destroy you far faster than this can heal and youve developed nothing on board so its like a 5 mana shield block. Might see play but Im not optimistic.
Meadowstrider - I like it only because it has 11 health and taunt. Unfortunately for this it'll never be playable in standard competitive. Too slow, easily removed, and its ability to negate fatigue is vastly underpowered compared to kiljaeden.
Both very similar effects on face value, but also synergize immensely with each other. Now Ahoo'ru can take nine hits before losing all of its Divine Shields... or at least it would if Toreth didn't also have Taunt.
Wish they'd do something with rogue that wasn't thief but Ashmane is also too expensive.
These taunts without a tribe in warlock are interesting. I do like the Dark Gift card I've played with so far. Could be to slow to hold them for the discount though.
edit: Looking back through after the warrior stuff and these Deathrattle Dragons look even better. Dreadwing especially could be useful refill in a more aggressive Dragon deck or as a way to get a Ysondre down earlier.
Nightmare lord Xavius - Personally think this card is unplayable but being able to tutor a minion may have its uses, though generally anything thats random that doesnt also win you the game tends not to be viable. Even at its best its a combo enabler, but Im not holding my breath
Nightmare dragonkin - Would have been busted had it been a battlecry but being a deathrattle has its uses in dhunter. At least it can be reliably tutored and quite frankly dhunter's cards have been so trash for the last two expansion that anything thats even remotely decent commands respect. And this one certainly is a good start
Ashamane - Not really familiar with the lore, so Ive no idea why he has a stake stuck in him. In any case, the card itself is not very good, and its perhaps suggestible that the only way it sees play is via malorne. Maybe in thief decks, if its viable at all that is.
Hopeful Dryad - Can start praying because its a 2/5 chance to get a brick in your hand and making this card's inclusion completely worthless in competitive standard
Gnawing Greenfin - It looks ok and then you remember that scarab keychain exist. Couple that with the fact that theres an absence of murloc decks + murlocs being generally shit in standard, makes this card utterly rubbish
Tranquil treant - Good potential to be among the most hated cards, or be the most unplayable. As befit ramp in general as a play pattern.
Illusory greenwing - Works wonders with tormented dreadwing which also curves from this card. Both being deathrattes unfortunately makes them a tad slow but at least the greenwing has taunt. If the power level is slow enough to permit playing greenwing, you can bet the combo with dreadwing being explored to some capacity, that is to say, if you can create a deck with no other dragons in it.
Briarspawn drake - Its only use is to be cheated out and nothing else. That said, being able to deal face damage makes the card scary enough that you just gotta believe it'll see play at some point.
Shaladrassil - Its funny because the corrupted dream cards are good, very good in fact, but good luck corrupting this card. We've already seen how hard it is to get corrupted cards going, and this puts 5 cards into your hand so that's another obstacle in of itself. For now, its looking like a druid card, because no other class can corrupt this fast enough for it to matter.
Selenic drake - Only way this sees play is that the power level is substantially lower than it is now. For what it is, its an arena card.
Grace of the greatwolf - When you consider that flanking strike is 7 years old now and still somehow looks better than this card, its kinda sad.
Goldrinn - The sort of card that will see play if only because it makes all other beast on board impossible to ignore. Its not really that great, but its the sort of card you put into the deck simply because it can scam wins out of nowhere.
barkshield sentinel - A joke of a card that will only be viable in dhunter and even then it wont be good.
A dev confirmed to Zeddy that the card will kill any Ysera, no matter its health. Pretty funny, since neither 5 nor 10 damage would usually kill Ysera.
The mini-set Infinitesimal and Beyond is published! I know it's bad timing with the announcement of the next expansion, but I wanted to finish the whole thing, as I've been working on it quite a while, with the help of the wonderful people in the Custom Hearthstone Discord.
Hey, really glad to see this finally posted here! Maybe tomorrow we might see some parallels to the Emerald Dream set and this one?
After that set is announced, I might give a more thorough feedback post. The only thing I'll say now is that Black Widow looks quite weak compared to Sinrunner.
Hey! I'm happy to publish this here to be honest. I really miss the comps here, giving feedback was always the most fun part for me and I really miss that (although I don't know if I'd had the time for it nowadays)
Not many similarities with the new set, though, except for The Quantum Length from the Mini-set and the new Aviana card. Regarding what you point out about Black Widow, I've given her Taunt and +1 Health. Not sure if that'll be enough.
BTW, I checked out your Gladiators set and it's really good. I'll try giving it feedback when I can.
I bet there's a neutral "Choose Both" card in this set. Ain't no way they designed Barbed Thorn to have AoE damage or Poisonous with no way to get both.
A bit mixed over the new hp and dark gifts, but its early days.
Seems to me that imbueing hp is a bit too slow for hearthstone these days. Only way this is playable is that the hp does direct damage, or is so powerful that it cannot be ignored. The hunter and shaman hp, for example, is not that. But likely there would be a legendary that gives out a payoff for doing all these, though Im skeptical over whether it'll ever be worth it to play subpar cards just to get a hp that doesnt win you the game.
As for the dark gift, I like the concept but unless theres a way to give these gifts immediately to board, instead of discovering minions with it, I cant see it work neither. Its way too slow, and you'd get destroyed by anything that plays minions on turn 1-2-3. Gonna wreck arena though for sure.
For the new cards so far:
Ysera, emerald aspect - Playable only in druid and warrior because thats the only two classes that can actually ramp up to take advantage of the start of game effect. For all other classes, youre more likely capping your own knee just playing this card.
Naralex - Designed to be played with ysera surely. And for that reason its likely that it'll only see play in druid/warrior. But class dragons to be revealed or designed later would change this obviously. Its a combo card in essence anyway.
Ursoc - Funny thing about this card is that its too slow to act as a board clear, and likely if it survives its gonna get bobbed into your opponent's hand. Definitely a dangerous card, but we'll have to see if its even playable in DK.
And one last card thats not shown in this graphic but is shown in reddit:
Fun card. But unplayable surely. Think about how hard it is to even get mothership working and now we're suppose to believe priest can actually play this card, survive for 3 turns, and somehow win?
Blizzard would normally provide an official news post which would make this process a lot quicker and easier. This year appears to the be the year of unconventional announcement strategies because they've given us little to work off of for every announcement so far, and I really hope this isn't the case for the whole year.
Fun factoid here: Ominous Nightmares is the first Shadow spell for Warrior, which was previously the only class in the game without one. Shadow for everyone now!
Hey, really glad to see this finally posted here! Maybe tomorrow we might see some parallels to the Emerald Dream set and this one?
After that set is announced, I might give a more thorough feedback post. The only thing I'll say now is that Black Widow looks quite weak compared to Sinrunner.
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 25 - Day 4 [Finished]
All these Nature spells sure make me wish Topior was in the Core set, or would that make druid too OP?
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 25 - Day 4 [Finished]
Hammul Runetotem - Its barely a condition at all. Making a druid deck with only nature cards do hamper them slightly but not as much as you would expect. The real question would be, is it worth it? And I kinda dont think that it is. The imbued hp is basically jades except you can only do it once per turn, most aggro decks would destroy you well before this gets going and even midrange decks can threaten with massive minions or overwhelming boards that this would rarely matter.
Compare this with the current hp druid, or hell, just compare this with dragon hp druid. Imagine doing 5 damage per turn with 2 mana and that still only barely competitive.
The only reason why I think this card is playable is because of pure novelty, and that its highly likely that the powerlevel of the next rotation would be low enough for this to succeed.
Horn of plenty - Gonna be played in all druid decks because why not. At least we can be comforted that nourish is no longer in standard.
Reforestation - Lucky that frost lotus seed is rotating otherwise there's zero reason to play this. At least its draw two for two. Decent, though underpowered because you need to wait three turns to draw an extra card.
Grove shaper - Its too slow to ever be good competitively, and theres yet to be a nature spell that damages face, or present a board wipe. So no go for me. Might get better if the meta is slow enough or theres better nature spells.
Evergreen stag - The sort of card you design when deadlines up and you cant think of anything else. Either that or this was once an OP card that got nerfed to oblivion. I simply cannot understand the thought process behind the design of this card other than it being pure filler. Unless embiggen is being brought back to standard this card is unplayable trash. When you consider that cards like origami dragon and stone drake saw zero play in standard, what chance does this card even have?
Not to mention that druid dont tend to play minions like these anyway. Toyrantus, druid of the plains, and immortal are perfectly good cards that will see play in other classes, but not in druid where play patterns tend to be either sky high or rock bottom.
Forestlord Cenarius - Very flavourful. Unfortunately its also...well, bad. 10 mana to put up to three big dudes with taunt, because lets face it you'll never use this as a psuedo bloodlust to end games. Definitely underpowered for a 10 mana card, because for 10 mana, you'll either need to win games, threaten lethal, or at least prevent your opponent from doing so. This card passes the buck by building up taunts and then imagining your opponent having no answers. And what's more, ironically this doesnt work with cards like embrace of nature, so technically its actually worse than drum circle.
Will it be playable? Well, maybe. Because you simply have to imagine there being a way to cheat this out, or maybe malorne is just that good and you get a 1 mana cenarius consistently.
All in all, quite underwhelming for a druid set. I was expecting there to be at least a few broken as hell cards but instead its the opposite: cant see any of it. But its druid, and it'll always find a way to be toxic as fuck, even in weak expansions.
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 25 - Day 4 [Finished]
In retrospect, it is very surprising that it took this long for Cenarius to get a reprint card.
Despite being a rather important character lore-wise, Cenarius has always had the least amount of prominence in Hearthstone compared to all of the other Classic class Legendaries. Some of the others at least had Mercenaries, Cenarius had literally nothing other than his original card until now.
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 24 - Day 3 [Finished]
NOT THE BABIES!
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 24 - Day 3 [Finished]
Toreth the unbreaking - At first glance this looks broken. Basically granting divine shield minions immunity because theres just no way to deal damage three times to a minion and somehow still be in the game. Unfortunately though, this card is only ever broken in arena, because in competitive standard theres so many ways to remove minions that this comes across as simply useless, not even compared favourably to Amitus. Ironically, this card likely can just solo down paladin on its own, so if it ever gets mind controlled you might as well just concede then and there.
Critter caretaker - Its just a weird card because you'll never play this in anything other than control and do control decks even want this? Comparable to mistress of mixtures, something that was meta roughly 8 years back and which saw little to no play when it was reintroduced.
Mother duck - Will likely be playable in swarm decks and maybe DK because its practically 4 corpses + removal.
Ancient of yore - Aggro decks nowadays will destroy you far faster than this can heal and youve developed nothing on board so its like a 5 mana shield block. Might see play but Im not optimistic.
Meadowstrider - I like it only because it has 11 health and taunt. Unfortunately for this it'll never be playable in standard competitive. Too slow, easily removed, and its ability to negate fatigue is vastly underpowered compared to kiljaeden.
Gladiators of Brawl'Gar - Full 183-Card Custom Expansion + Mini-Set (COMPLETED!!!)
Whoa!
Both very similar effects on face value, but also synergize immensely with each other. Now Ahoo'ru can take nine hits before losing all of its Divine Shields... or at least it would if Toreth didn't also have Taunt.
RoadCraft's First Demo Launches During Steam Next Fest on February 24
Its live as of a few minutes ago!
RoadCraft's First Demo Launches During Steam Next Fest on February 24
Bonjour a quel heure sort la demo ?
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 20 - Day 1 [Finished]
Corrupt is back... kind of. Loved the mechanic, whish it returned in full for Y'sharraj.
Goldrinn is a big boy! Love him. He'll be fun in wild. Will be interesting to see if the Imbue hero power can make him work in standard.
Also, I see you Inspire! Sometimes I wish they'd just use the old keywords but I get why not. Just makes the card look clunky.
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 21 - Day 2 [Finished]
Love that Signature Xavius!
Wish they'd do something with rogue that wasn't thief but Ashmane is also too expensive.
These taunts without a tribe in warlock are interesting. I do like the Dark Gift card I've played with so far. Could be to slow to hold them for the discount though.
edit: Looking back through after the warrior stuff and these Deathrattle Dragons look even better. Dreadwing especially could be useful refill in a more aggressive Dragon deck or as a way to get a Ysondre down earlier.
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 20 - Day 1 [Finished]
He already has
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 21 - Day 2 [Finished]
She sacrificed herself in the War of the Ancients to kill a powerful pit lord, killing him as she was impaled with his spear.
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 21 - Day 2 [Finished]
Nightmare lord Xavius - Personally think this card is unplayable but being able to tutor a minion may have its uses, though generally anything thats random that doesnt also win you the game tends not to be viable. Even at its best its a combo enabler, but Im not holding my breath
Nightmare dragonkin - Would have been busted had it been a battlecry but being a deathrattle has its uses in dhunter. At least it can be reliably tutored and quite frankly dhunter's cards have been so trash for the last two expansion that anything thats even remotely decent commands respect. And this one certainly is a good start
Ashamane - Not really familiar with the lore, so Ive no idea why he has a stake stuck in him. In any case, the card itself is not very good, and its perhaps suggestible that the only way it sees play is via malorne. Maybe in thief decks, if its viable at all that is.
Hopeful Dryad - Can start praying because its a 2/5 chance to get a brick in your hand and making this card's inclusion completely worthless in competitive standard
Gnawing Greenfin - It looks ok and then you remember that scarab keychain exist. Couple that with the fact that theres an absence of murloc decks + murlocs being generally shit in standard, makes this card utterly rubbish
Tranquil treant - Good potential to be among the most hated cards, or be the most unplayable. As befit ramp in general as a play pattern.
Illusory greenwing - Works wonders with tormented dreadwing which also curves from this card. Both being deathrattes unfortunately makes them a tad slow but at least the greenwing has taunt. If the power level is slow enough to permit playing greenwing, you can bet the combo with dreadwing being explored to some capacity, that is to say, if you can create a deck with no other dragons in it.
Briarspawn drake - Its only use is to be cheated out and nothing else. That said, being able to deal face damage makes the card scary enough that you just gotta believe it'll see play at some point.
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 21 - Day 2 [Finished]
I was thinking Gwanwing Greenfin looked huge for a 1/1 and then I realized that's supposed to be a Treant, not a regular tree 😅
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 21 - Day 2 [Finished]
Fun fact: Gnawing Greenfin makes Grunty worse by existing, and Grunty makes Gnawing Greenfin worse by existing.
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 20 - Day 1 [Finished]
Fixed, sorry about that. The numbers on the dates are so close together, it didn't catch my eye.
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 20 - Day 1 [Finished]
That October date in the title confused me so much, thought I was going crazy
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 20 - Day 1 [Finished]
New cards, my comments on the interesting ones;
Shaladrassil - Its funny because the corrupted dream cards are good, very good in fact, but good luck corrupting this card. We've already seen how hard it is to get corrupted cards going, and this puts 5 cards into your hand so that's another obstacle in of itself. For now, its looking like a druid card, because no other class can corrupt this fast enough for it to matter.
Selenic drake - Only way this sees play is that the power level is substantially lower than it is now. For what it is, its an arena card.
Grace of the greatwolf - When you consider that flanking strike is 7 years old now and still somehow looks better than this card, its kinda sad.
Goldrinn - The sort of card that will see play if only because it makes all other beast on board impossible to ignore. Its not really that great, but its the sort of card you put into the deck simply because it can scam wins out of nowhere.
barkshield sentinel - A joke of a card that will only be viable in dhunter and even then it wont be good.
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 20 - Day 1 [Finished]
A dev confirmed to Zeddy that the card will kill any Ysera, no matter its health. Pretty funny, since neither 5 nor 10 damage would usually kill Ysera.
All Into the Emerald Dream Card Reveals for February 20 - Day 1 [Finished]
I hope Corrupted Awakening deals 10 damage to Ysera.
The Minuscule Realm - Full 183-Card Custom Expansion + Mini-set
The mini-set Infinitesimal and Beyond is published! I know it's bad timing with the announcement of the next expansion, but I wanted to finish the whole thing, as I've been working on it quite a while, with the help of the wonderful people in the Custom Hearthstone Discord.
Hope you guys like it ^^
Hey! I'm happy to publish this here to be honest. I really miss the comps here, giving feedback was always the most fun part for me and I really miss that (although I don't know if I'd had the time for it nowadays)
Not many similarities with the new set, though, except for The Quantum Length from the Mini-set and the new Aviana card. Regarding what you point out about Black Widow, I've given her Taunt and +1 Health. Not sure if that'll be enough.
BTW, I checked out your Gladiators set and it's really good. I'll try giving it feedback when I can.
Hearthstone's Next Expansion is Into The Emerald Dream - All Details Inside
I bet there's a neutral "Choose Both" card in this set. Ain't no way they designed Barbed Thorn to have AoE damage or Poisonous with no way to get both.
Hearthstone's Next Expansion is Into The Emerald Dream - All Details Inside
A bit mixed over the new hp and dark gifts, but its early days.
Seems to me that imbueing hp is a bit too slow for hearthstone these days. Only way this is playable is that the hp does direct damage, or is so powerful that it cannot be ignored. The hunter and shaman hp, for example, is not that. But likely there would be a legendary that gives out a payoff for doing all these, though Im skeptical over whether it'll ever be worth it to play subpar cards just to get a hp that doesnt win you the game.
As for the dark gift, I like the concept but unless theres a way to give these gifts immediately to board, instead of discovering minions with it, I cant see it work neither. Its way too slow, and you'd get destroyed by anything that plays minions on turn 1-2-3. Gonna wreck arena though for sure.
For the new cards so far:
Ysera, emerald aspect - Playable only in druid and warrior because thats the only two classes that can actually ramp up to take advantage of the start of game effect. For all other classes, youre more likely capping your own knee just playing this card.
Naralex - Designed to be played with ysera surely. And for that reason its likely that it'll only see play in druid/warrior. But class dragons to be revealed or designed later would change this obviously. Its a combo card in essence anyway.
Ursoc - Funny thing about this card is that its too slow to act as a board clear, and likely if it survives its gonna get bobbed into your opponent's hand. Definitely a dangerous card, but we'll have to see if its even playable in DK.
And one last card thats not shown in this graphic but is shown in reddit:
Fun card. But unplayable surely. Think about how hard it is to even get mothership working and now we're suppose to believe priest can actually play this card, survive for 3 turns, and somehow win?
Hearthstone's Next Expansion is Into The Emerald Dream - All Details Inside
Blizzard would normally provide an official news post which would make this process a lot quicker and easier. This year appears to the be the year of unconventional announcement strategies because they've given us little to work off of for every announcement so far, and I really hope this isn't the case for the whole year.
Fun factoid here: Ominous Nightmares is the first Shadow spell for Warrior, which was previously the only class in the game without one. Shadow for everyone now!
The Minuscule Realm - Full 183-Card Custom Expansion + Mini-set
Hey, really glad to see this finally posted here! Maybe tomorrow we might see some parallels to the Emerald Dream set and this one?
After that set is announced, I might give a more thorough feedback post. The only thing I'll say now is that Black Widow looks quite weak compared to Sinrunner.