It's a weird card to assess. I feel like when you want to discover a spell, most of the time you want something you can play right away. This card runs against that. However, for those times when you need to just play this on curve to get resources for next turn, it could be good.
Worth noting that Rogue is getting a weapon that refreshes mana crystals, so you can play this (or any Finale card), then potentially do more stuff.
The first line describes the basic effect of the card. The second line describes its effect once a certain condition is met. The third line contains a hint that is meant to help you find it in the card database.
Based on feedback, I've changed the Maddened Keyword to:
Maddened: When this attacks, the opponent chooses the target at the start of their turn.
The major mechnical difference is that this version of Maddened does not give the minion pseudo-rush, freezing a Maddened character stops it from attacking, and the player in control of the Maddened character can choose whether or not to make it attack (when you attack with a Maddened character you choose the target, then the minion stops mid-attack and the opponent chooses the target at the start of their turn before drawing a card or taking any actions).
I redesigned Yogg-Saron to not need tokens, I think it's a cool design but I'm on the fence about whether it is worth including. Vicious Basilisk are a play on a corrupted version of Stoneskin Basilisk and Ogre Magi, like how Whispers of the Old Gods had corrupted versions of older cards. Xal'atath was my idea for a Maddened Weapon, in this case it gives Shadow Priest a lot of healing and damage, but the opponent can play around it by keeping small minions on the board to force Xal'atath to attack into. I worry that Maddened might make it a bit weak but I think with 2 or 3 Attack it becomes worth it just for incremental board control and healing. Flavor-wise Chromie provides an alternate version of the Anachronos effect as she is a time dragon corrupted by the Old Gods, while Samuro has the same stats as the original Samuro (with the same handbuff synergy) but is much weaker and more balanced because the opponent can make it hit only 2 minions.
Which 3 of these cards do you think make the best use of the keyword? Any balance changes I should make?
Has anyone experimented yet? I'm wondering if you play it with Brann Bronzebeard (or replay it with Shadowstep or Zola the Gorgon), do you get the same 3 options, or is your first choice removed? Is it like Souleater's Scythe, where each card can be discovered only once? If not, I could see Rogue abusing this to get a ton of copies of a particular combo piece, although I'm not sure which piece that would be.
Its just a more consistent Tracking, but very specifically tracking for a combo piece, or a tech card. Mostly likely a tech card, because you can't select just any card in your band, that card you select must still respect the two copies rule, essentially meaning you can't just pick a combo piece you already included into the deck (unless its the second copy)
Most likely you'll be packing ooze or starfish, or a second win con into ETC. Like denathrius, or jailer. Cant see anything else other than those.
I'm not a big fan of "Even" and "Odd" decks, but thanks for interesting ideas, as always.
I find it very interesting, that E.T.C., Band Manager can break the deck rules (restrictions). It can make deck creation more fun. Now you always have to consider whether including ETC is worth it or not
I'll probably go with Gunslinger, as it's the generally preferred option. People seem to be very divided regarding its flavor, so here are two alternate names for it:
Quick Draw is a middle ground that keeps some wild west flavor while also being more generic than Gunslinger.
Swift, on the other hand, goes all the way in the flavor-agnostic direction.
Keep in mind I still plan for all the cards to be wild west themed (I designed it as an expansion exclusive keyword, after all)
Its another rainbow DK card. But this card has immense potential, given that the meta will likely be slower.
There are some good things to hit like Gnome Muncher, or Nerubian Swarmguard, but I feel that 3 mana do nothing is perhaps a tad too slow for most metas to be consistent.
Ive played Blood Tap decks and those were solid, but blood tap is substantially better being only 2 mana whereas this card is 3 mana, and less consistent, but does enable you to play rainbow instead of BBU. I think at the end its likely only good in this one expansion, before fading away to irrelevance.
Given that the game would be slower because of rotation there's a small possibility that this card gets some sort of attention.
But likely its just too slow, and too conditional. If any of the many 'discover a spell' minion like Venomous Scorpid or Vulpera Scoundrel comes back to standard this card loses any sort of niche it can ever have.
I seriously dont know what shaman will be doing next expansion, given how the class more or less got destroyed in the last patch.
Whatever it is, unless elemental shaman comes back or at least there being more elemental synergy this card is trash. Comparable to stuff like Gyreworm, a decent card in a tribal deck but cant breathe outside of it.
Fun addition to Wild Menagerie Warrior which has gotten quite some support over the last year (Mistake and Hookfist-3000 being the most recent examples). It's probably still too fair to be considered meta relevant, but if you get out a Ringmaster's Baton early, things can get spicy.
Its not a blood control card, more like a card for rainbow DK.
There's some good things about this card. Firstly, its guaranteed to make a minion even if its oozed away. And secondly, gaining health (or losing it) is not exactly hard for any DK that plays at least one blood rune.
Best case scenario is playing this on curve and getting a 4/4 on turn 4-5. Not too bad for a 3 mana card that does 6 damage.
Solid card for DK. Too bad its restricted only to likely 1-2 decks at most.
Assuming you can trigger this easily on 4, its not a bad minion in of itself.
But its spiritual predecessor Oil Rig Ambusher had a better statline and is more consistent. But it saw no play even when barrens were first introduced. Granted that then there wasn't any synergy with combo cards.
The main problem would be figuring out where this card actually fits into. Since both draka and Sinstone Graveyard will still be in standard, its never going into any miracle builds, and tempo rogue has pirates. Unless combo synergy eclipse both, this card doesn't have a chance in hell.
New Neutral Minion - Ghost Writer
It's a weird card to assess. I feel like when you want to discover a spell, most of the time you want something you can play right away. This card runs against that. However, for those times when you need to just play this on curve to get resources for next turn, it could be good.
Worth noting that Rogue is getting a weapon that refreshes mana crystals, so you can play this (or any Finale card), then potentially do more stuff.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (Hearthstone Riddles)
Yes it is!
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (Hearthstone Riddles)
I am stumped. Is this a 3-cost card?
Have I Become OP?
What is happening I literally can't lose right now.
I play two mystic shots and opponents concede
I turbo out a board full of thralls and they concede
I hit all my landmarks for Ryze they concede
Did I transcend r and g to become a LOR God?
Have I memed so hard that I have become a meme, some card game equivalent of one punch man?
Or maybe after being so heavily greefed for so long they finally realized I'm just better?
Ah well bound to happen eventually I guess I'll just keep winning non stop why not
Although it is funny when you run mono Darius to delibrity lose and opponents think they've accomplished something
Sorry only had a couple throws in me hope you guys enjoyed its back to winning non stop, mono Darius ain't it who knew ;)
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Thanks for commenting! I agree, things like this, duplicates in reno decks, and even holy spells in shadow priest make for interesting deckbuilding.
New Neutral Minion - E.T.C., Band Manager
Good intel, thanks!
New Neutral Minion - E.T.C., Band Manager
Just checked with everything and yes, it's like the Scythe, you can only choose each card once and it's removed from the pool.
Words of Power - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Based on feedback, I've changed the Maddened Keyword to:
Maddened: When this attacks, the opponent chooses the target at the start of their turn.
The major mechnical difference is that this version of Maddened does not give the minion pseudo-rush, freezing a Maddened character stops it from attacking, and the player in control of the Maddened character can choose whether or not to make it attack (when you attack with a Maddened character you choose the target, then the minion stops mid-attack and the opponent chooses the target at the start of their turn before drawing a card or taking any actions).
I redesigned Yogg-Saron to not need tokens, I think it's a cool design but I'm on the fence about whether it is worth including. Vicious Basilisk are a play on a corrupted version of Stoneskin Basilisk and Ogre Magi, like how Whispers of the Old Gods had corrupted versions of older cards. Xal'atath was my idea for a Maddened Weapon, in this case it gives Shadow Priest a lot of healing and damage, but the opponent can play around it by keeping small minions on the board to force Xal'atath to attack into. I worry that Maddened might make it a bit weak but I think with 2 or 3 Attack it becomes worth it just for incremental board control and healing. Flavor-wise Chromie provides an alternate version of the Anachronos effect as she is a time dragon corrupted by the Old Gods, while Samuro has the same stats as the original Samuro (with the same handbuff synergy) but is much weaker and more balanced because the opponent can make it hit only 2 minions.
Which 3 of these cards do you think make the best use of the keyword? Any balance changes I should make?
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Even DK
Yes - right now Pirate Rogues and Pirate Priests are common and Amalgams can be in Even Shaman and other decks.
New Neutral Minion - E.T.C., Band Manager
Has anyone experimented yet? I'm wondering if you play it with Brann Bronzebeard (or replay it with Shadowstep or Zola the Gorgon), do you get the same 3 options, or is your first choice removed? Is it like Souleater's Scythe, where each card can be discovered only once? If not, I could see Rogue abusing this to get a ton of copies of a particular combo piece, although I'm not sure which piece that would be.
New Neutral Minion - E.T.C., Band Manager
I really like this card. It's very good for tech cards. Instead of having 3 very situational cards that you can draw, you have only 1. Very Flexible.
Even DK
Just curious, what is the purpose of the Golakka Crawler in the deck? Is it a tech card?
New Neutral Minion - E.T.C., Band Manager
Its just a more consistent Tracking, but very specifically tracking for a combo piece, or a tech card. Mostly likely a tech card, because you can't select just any card in your band, that card you select must still respect the two copies rule, essentially meaning you can't just pick a combo piece you already included into the deck (unless its the second copy)
Most likely you'll be packing ooze or starfish, or a second win con into ETC. Like denathrius, or jailer. Cant see anything else other than those.
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I'm not a big fan of "Even" and "Odd" decks, but thanks for interesting ideas, as always.
I find it very interesting, that E.T.C., Band Manager can break the deck rules (restrictions). It can make deck creation more fun. Now you always have to consider whether including ETC is worth it or not
Hearthstone's Next Expansion is Festival of Legends! Finale Keyword, New Priest Keyword, Everyone Gets Weapons
So the way I understand it, the class that gets a skin doesn't get a class pack. So no class packs for Mage, Druid and Warrior
Edit: Oh wait, this is incorrect, didn't actually check which class packs the other 2 options provided, they do give a druid and warrior class pack.
Words of Power - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I'll probably go with Gunslinger, as it's the generally preferred option. People seem to be very divided regarding its flavor, so here are two alternate names for it:
Quick Draw is a middle ground that keeps some wild west flavor while also being more generic than Gunslinger.
Swift, on the other hand, goes all the way in the flavor-agnostic direction.
Keep in mind I still plan for all the cards to be wild west themed (I designed it as an expansion exclusive keyword, after all)
New Death Knight Spell - Harmonic Metal
Its another rainbow DK card. But this card has immense potential, given that the meta will likely be slower.
There are some good things to hit like Gnome Muncher, or Nerubian Swarmguard, but I feel that 3 mana do nothing is perhaps a tad too slow for most metas to be consistent.
Ive played Blood Tap decks and those were solid, but blood tap is substantially better being only 2 mana whereas this card is 3 mana, and less consistent, but does enable you to play rainbow instead of BBU. I think at the end its likely only good in this one expansion, before fading away to irrelevance.
New Priest Location - Fan Club
1 mana heal for 6 at any time? Even outside of synergies this card is in contention for a nod.
Its like Desperate Prayer, but more useful. No doubt its going to see play at some point.
New Neutral Minion - Ghost Writer
Given that the game would be slower because of rotation there's a small possibility that this card gets some sort of attention.
But likely its just too slow, and too conditional. If any of the many 'discover a spell' minion like Venomous Scorpid or Vulpera Scoundrel comes back to standard this card loses any sort of niche it can ever have.
New Shaman Minion - Brass Elemental
I seriously dont know what shaman will be doing next expansion, given how the class more or less got destroyed in the last patch.
Whatever it is, unless elemental shaman comes back or at least there being more elemental synergy this card is trash. Comparable to stuff like Gyreworm, a decent card in a tribal deck but cant breathe outside of it.
New Neutral Minion - The One-Amalgam Band
Fun addition to Wild Menagerie Warrior which has gotten quite some support over the last year (Mistake and Hookfist-3000 being the most recent examples). It's probably still too fair to be considered meta relevant, but if you get out a Ringmaster's Baton early, things can get spicy.
New Death Knight Weapon - Arcanite Ripper
Its not a blood control card, more like a card for rainbow DK.
There's some good things about this card. Firstly, its guaranteed to make a minion even if its oozed away. And secondly, gaining health (or losing it) is not exactly hard for any DK that plays at least one blood rune.
Best case scenario is playing this on curve and getting a 4/4 on turn 4-5. Not too bad for a 3 mana card that does 6 damage.
Solid card for DK. Too bad its restricted only to likely 1-2 decks at most.
New Rogue Minion - Beatboxer
Assuming you can trigger this easily on 4, its not a bad minion in of itself.
But its spiritual predecessor Oil Rig Ambusher had a better statline and is more consistent. But it saw no play even when barrens were first introduced. Granted that then there wasn't any synergy with combo cards.
The main problem would be figuring out where this card actually fits into. Since both draka and Sinstone Graveyard will still be in standard, its never going into any miracle builds, and tempo rogue has pirates. Unless combo synergy eclipse both, this card doesn't have a chance in hell.
Hearthstone's Next Expansion is Festival of Legends! Finale Keyword, New Priest Keyword, Everyone Gets Weapons
Anticipating:
Weapon Silence
Noise Marine decks
Hunter playing Southern Rock