Both are solid ideas, but Xevozz feels more flavorful to me. Regarding your concerns about his power level, I think giving him Stealth would be a nice idea that gives him some protection but doesn't make him super OP.
Dolphinslayer
I really like the general idea of the card, the effect looks very versatile and fun. That said, I'm no big fan of the execution of the card to be honest. I'd just reduce the stats to 3/3/3 for starters and then take a second look at the art and the name. Your effect feels very "serious" to me, while the art and the name scream "fun".
Wailor
I like Illidari Ambusher, it's a solid card for Outcast DH that works well with their swarm cards. 4 stars from me. Small issue: the text got pretty close to the attack value, maybe you can fix that?
Neoguli
I have a clear favorite here and that's Pluxva. Easily 4 stars with a potential for 5 when I've seen the rest of the field.
machadogps
This one feels hard to evaluate somehow. The more I think about it, the more I like it though. Good job at trying to balance the broken stuff in Rogue!
Demonxz95
Very cool design in Voluk! Looks like a great synergy card for Battlecry decks without being completely broken and the flavor is very strong. 4 stars for now with a big potential to be raised to 5 when I've seen the other contestants. The Librarian looks a little bland beside it, but I'd suggest to make it a 4/7/7 for the lulz if you should choose to go with him.
linkblade91
Here's another contender for a 5 stars vote! Very creative idea, my one gripe is that it could be too strong for its cost. Maybe raise it to 7/7/7? This would defintely be a card that I'd love to pull from a pack!
Feedback time (skipping Linkblade and Machadogps because I already gave them feedback elsewhere and have nothing new to add).
Wailor
The flavor of Stern Librarian having Taunt was supposed to be representative of the fact that he knows you have overdue books to bring back and he's not happy about it, and eventually you'll have to confront with the less-than-happy librarian about it. I guess that aspect of the flavor isn't communicated well enough.
Regarding Demonsoul Scavenger, I do also think what Link said about the second iteration applies. It seems that it will just simply two cards which will be both in end up in the right-most spots of your hand. The first version does the job better.
As for what you said about Illidari Ambusher, how weird it is read "shuffle your hand" is actually the reason I didn't go with this idea myself. It some ways, it seems unclear, but it also feels like improper wording to me, although we have no precedent so we can't really be sure.
Anchorm4n
Something about dual-class cards in an RoS mini-set kinda irks me, but I suppose if we're imagining that these mini-sets would all be added at the same time in present day Hearthstone like the mini-set comp we just did, then this is perfectly fine. I might just have to learn to overlook that.
It feels a bit strange mechanically for Warrior since they aren't really that good at minion spamming most of the time, and Warlock doesn't really have the Bomb support cards that Warrior does, but it's an okay card overall.
Neoguli
Very weirdly and awkwardly, my list of cards from best to worse is a complete reverse of Wailors. Waterfall Visions is my favorite because it makes the most sense and has the most potential. I quite like it.
Pluxva the Soulbound is a cool little swap on Soul Fragments although it is quite limited by the fact that you'd have to draw those Fragments while you control it, which then encourages you to run a lot of cards that draw the Fragments to use its effect, but in turn that also means you're up all your Fragments that you could otherwise use for cards that destroy them (or Soulciologist Malicia which already has some anti-synergy with the other Soul Fragment cards).
Curious Experimenter is a bit unclear as to what "shuffling its stats" entails. Does that just that the sum of "A + B = C" will result in an entirely different (and presumably randomly chosen) A and B as long as it equals the same C?
Shallow Waters is my least favorite because it doesn't feel like a card for any particular purpose. For all intents and purposes, it basically just acts as a 0 mana Dredge in most game states. It also doesn't feel either Mage or Shaman at all, so it being a dual-class of both is particularly weird.
Dolphinslayer
It feels a bit much in either regard. It's a 3 mana 4/4 Neutral minion that's basically a Madam Goya on crack. It can be used for the same "swap something small for something big" in your own deck or vice-versa on your opponent's board. Replace their big threat with a tiny, insignificant minion. All on a Neutral minion with excellent stats for the cost.
This also assumes that it doesn't have a chance to just repull the same minion that you just put into your deck. Can it do that? If it can, then that doesn't feel fun knowing that the effect always has a chance to just randomly whiff.
BloodMefist
Xevozz is cool in theory and might slip an opponent up, but as mentioned, the fact that it's quite easy to remove does hinder its playability, and your opponent could even possibly take advantage of it by spamming a bunch of small cards that your deck can't use too well.
Reckless Seeker is one of my favorite cards of the competition posted so far. Makes a great use of the Spellburst keyword and there's some pretty fun applications with it as well.
Xevozz is a love letter to Academic Espionage and is meant for greedy Thief Rogue decks. I'm a bit concerned he's too slow and/or easy to remove, but I thought I'd play it a bit more cautious with the first go around. Reckless Seeker is also greedy, but allows for more curated value. You get to pick which spell gets added to your deck, but only certain kinds of spells will be unconditionally good cast automatically. You could also semi-curate when you draw it with Lorekeeper Polkelt!
Skins used to be fun and exciting to get, now that there is just soooo many of them, it feels like it is just cumulating literal dust in my collection..
A take on one of my favorite chaos-themed removal spells from Magic the Gathering (chaos warp).
It could be that this is too generically good with its good stats for cost; but against certain decks with low to no minions this does essentially nothing.
Furthermore, it's definitely not consistent, as you could flip a King Krush against a deck with heavy-hitting top-enders. But then again, it's disruptive in that you can deny them the battlecries of key pieces in their combos.
It randomly reorders your hand so that your Outcast cards get positioned better. It triggers from itself and other minions, so you have several chances to get them where you want in case you combine this with Illidari cards.
Not sure if the wording is clear enough, as it can be understood as "shuffle your hand into your deck", which is absolutely not what I want.
Feedback:
linkblade91
The effect is very interesting and creative, so thumbs up for that.
Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but this card is also very good in OTK decks, as the summoned minion is free (of course, you risk drawing the minion at the very next turn, but I'd say it's very worth the risk). As said, not sure if this is intentional, but if it's not, I'd simply move the trigger to the end of your turn, instead of the beginning.
Demonxz95
Very solid cards as usual.
Stern Librarian has a bit of a flavor issue, as a huge Taunt doesn't seem very appropriate for a librarian. Some sort of big Demon like a Pit Lord would work better, IMO. Still, very solid card.
Spiritchanter Voluk is probably my favorite among the two. Not much to say, as I wouldn't change much (maybe I'd change the name of the token to [0]'s Chant instead of Voluk's Chant, but it's a very minor thing).
I'd probably use another artwork (preferably some pirate with a treasure or coins) and maybe another watermark, but neither thing is a big deal.
anchornm
Very cool card, although I'd probably make it a legendary. Even if you don't, you shouldn't use the word EVIL, as those are exclusively Lackey cards. Finally, there's also the issue that Rise of Shadows didn't have dual class cards, but I don't mind it too much, since it's a miniset and they could very well include them.
Neoguli
Since you posted many cards, I'll review them from most to least favorite:
Shallow Waters is very cool in its simplicity. That said, it has some things to improve, as it would work better as a Battlecry minion (it compares poorly to Aquatic Form) and it shouldn't be dual class (as Sunken City didn't have those).
Curious Experimenter has a very creative use of shuffle. Not much to add, as it's quite refined as it is.
Pluxva the Soulbound is cool, but I don't like it as much as the other two.
Waterfall Visions has a bit of a clunky text, but I don't think it can be expressed in a much better way.
Imagine a world where Rise of Shadows would have received a mini set where all the good and the bad guys team up - et voilà: super cool dual class effects.
I tried to balance this around Darkest Hour. It's pretty scary with Warlock's token cards in Wild, but Warrior also has various ways to spam cheap minions, notably in one of Dr. Boom, Mad Genius' Hero Powers. The wording leans on Plague of Flames and the existing Bomb cards.
Here's my idea to this challenge! Thanks for Demon by simplifying the wording on the main body. (Why exceed mana limit? So it's not useless by turn 10).
I don't know if the second wording would actually put the cards where you want them; the first wording is preferable in that regard, in my opinion. It's funny that you would make a card like that, though, so soon after I made this card for the previous comp (but didn't share it) :P
Considering that, I like the 1/2/1 better. You're not gaining hand-advantage, really, so something cheaper is better.
The Shadow King also had a prominent role outside of comics fairly recently, because he was the main villain in the "Legion" TV series that ran a few years back. He was brilliantly played by Audrey Plaza in the first 2 seasons of the show.
Sidenote: You consistently misspelled the dimension where the Shadow King exists -- it's the "astral plane" (as in "plane of existence"), not the homophone "plain".
Stern Librarian is a hugely-statted Taunt minion, but he comes with a downside that can be pretty severe. You lose your whole hand after you play it. This downside can be circumvented if you can empty your hand before playing it, but if you can't, then the price can be quite heavy as you don't even have discard synergy.
Spiritchanter Voluk can be used to copy some Battlecry effects with some delay and he will only be well utilized with certain Battlecries. The way Voluk's Chant is worded is the same as Shadow (from Shadow of Death) is worded.
Tyrande & Lunara Get New Hearthstone Skins Featuring Lunar New Year & The Dreamgrove
Hahhah this was literally me yesterday when I saw I had some Bru'kan skins and forgot how funny the emotes were
Obtain Hearthstone's Delicious Lunchbox Card Back This Month by Winning 5 Ranked Games
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Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Feedback time!
Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Feedback time (skipping Linkblade and Machadogps because I already gave them feedback elsewhere and have nothing new to add).
The flavor of Stern Librarian having Taunt was supposed to be representative of the fact that he knows you have overdue books to bring back and he's not happy about it, and eventually you'll have to confront with the less-than-happy librarian about it. I guess that aspect of the flavor isn't communicated well enough.
Regarding Demonsoul Scavenger, I do also think what Link said about the second iteration applies. It seems that it will just simply two cards which will be both in end up in the right-most spots of your hand. The first version does the job better.
As for what you said about Illidari Ambusher, how weird it is read "shuffle your hand" is actually the reason I didn't go with this idea myself. It some ways, it seems unclear, but it also feels like improper wording to me, although we have no precedent so we can't really be sure.
Something about dual-class cards in an RoS mini-set kinda irks me, but I suppose if we're imagining that these mini-sets would all be added at the same time in present day Hearthstone like the mini-set comp we just did, then this is perfectly fine. I might just have to learn to overlook that.
It feels a bit strange mechanically for Warrior since they aren't really that good at minion spamming most of the time, and Warlock doesn't really have the Bomb support cards that Warrior does, but it's an okay card overall.
Very weirdly and awkwardly, my list of cards from best to worse is a complete reverse of Wailors. Waterfall Visions is my favorite because it makes the most sense and has the most potential. I quite like it.
Pluxva the Soulbound is a cool little swap on Soul Fragments although it is quite limited by the fact that you'd have to draw those Fragments while you control it, which then encourages you to run a lot of cards that draw the Fragments to use its effect, but in turn that also means you're up all your Fragments that you could otherwise use for cards that destroy them (or Soulciologist Malicia which already has some anti-synergy with the other Soul Fragment cards).
Curious Experimenter is a bit unclear as to what "shuffling its stats" entails. Does that just that the sum of "A + B = C" will result in an entirely different (and presumably randomly chosen) A and B as long as it equals the same C?
Shallow Waters is my least favorite because it doesn't feel like a card for any particular purpose. For all intents and purposes, it basically just acts as a 0 mana Dredge in most game states. It also doesn't feel either Mage or Shaman at all, so it being a dual-class of both is particularly weird.
It feels a bit much in either regard. It's a 3 mana 4/4 Neutral minion that's basically a Madam Goya on crack. It can be used for the same "swap something small for something big" in your own deck or vice-versa on your opponent's board. Replace their big threat with a tiny, insignificant minion. All on a Neutral minion with excellent stats for the cost.
This also assumes that it doesn't have a chance to just repull the same minion that you just put into your deck. Can it do that? If it can, then that doesn't feel fun knowing that the effect always has a chance to just randomly whiff.
Xevozz is cool in theory and might slip an opponent up, but as mentioned, the fact that it's quite easy to remove does hinder its playability, and your opponent could even possibly take advantage of it by spamming a bunch of small cards that your deck can't use too well.
Reckless Seeker is one of my favorite cards of the competition posted so far. Makes a great use of the Spellburst keyword and there's some pretty fun applications with it as well.
Tyrande & Lunara Get New Hearthstone Skins Featuring Lunar New Year & The Dreamgrove
No Miniset trailer yet?
Was one released on a Thursday at some point?
Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Xevozz is a love letter to Academic Espionage and is meant for greedy Thief Rogue decks. I'm a bit concerned he's too slow and/or easy to remove, but I thought I'd play it a bit more cautious with the first go around.
Reckless Seeker is also greedy, but allows for more curated value. You get to pick which spell gets added to your deck, but only certain kinds of spells will be unconditionally good cast automatically. You could also semi-curate when you draw it with Lorekeeper Polkelt!
Tyrande & Lunara Get New Hearthstone Skins Featuring Lunar New Year & The Dreamgrove
ugly
Tyrande & Lunara Get New Hearthstone Skins Featuring Lunar New Year & The Dreamgrove
I use the random skins option and sometimes I’m like - hm, I didn’t even know I had this one
MARVEL SNAP's Latest Patch Brings Balance Changes, Battle Mode, and Series Drop
Fuck you Leader. That card should be deleted from the game, but i guess this is a start.
Tyrande & Lunara Get New Hearthstone Skins Featuring Lunar New Year & The Dreamgrove
Skins used to be fun and exciting to get, now that there is just soooo many of them, it feels like it is just cumulating literal dust in my collection..
Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
A take on one of my favorite chaos-themed removal spells from Magic the Gathering (chaos warp).
It could be that this is too generically good with its good stats for cost; but against certain decks with low to no minions this does essentially nothing.
Furthermore, it's definitely not consistent, as you could flip a King Krush against a deck with heavy-hitting top-enders. But then again, it's disruptive in that you can deny them the battlecries of key pieces in their combos.
Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
New iteration of my card (kinda).
It randomly reorders your hand so that your Outcast cards get positioned better. It triggers from itself and other minions, so you have several chances to get them where you want in case you combine this with Illidari cards.
Not sure if the wording is clear enough, as it can be understood as "shuffle your hand into your deck", which is absolutely not what I want.
Feedback:
Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but this card is also very good in OTK decks, as the summoned minion is free (of course, you risk drawing the minion at the very next turn, but I'd say it's very worth the risk). As said, not sure if this is intentional, but if it's not, I'd simply move the trigger to the end of your turn, instead of the beginning.
Stern Librarian has a bit of a flavor issue, as a huge Taunt doesn't seem very appropriate for a librarian. Some sort of big Demon like a Pit Lord would work better, IMO. Still, very solid card.
Spiritchanter Voluk is probably my favorite among the two. Not much to say, as I wouldn't change much (maybe I'd change the name of the token to [0]'s Chant instead of Voluk's Chant, but it's a very minor thing).
I'd probably use another artwork (preferably some pirate with a treasure or coins) and maybe another watermark, but neither thing is a big deal.
MARVEL SNAP's Latest Patch Brings Balance Changes, Battle Mode, and Series Drop
I've had Absorbing Man pinned for like a week and a half. Still don't have the tokens, but he's ready to be purchased!
Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Four card ideas this time around.
Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Imagine a world where Rise of Shadows would have received a mini set where all the good and the bad guys team up - et voilà: super cool dual class effects.
I tried to balance this around Darkest Hour. It's pretty scary with Warlock's token cards in Wild, but Warrior also has various ways to spam cheap minions, notably in one of Dr. Boom, Mad Genius' Hero Powers. The wording leans on Plague of Flames and the existing Bomb cards.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (Hearthstone Riddles)
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As my first riddle, I am accepting feedback. In riddle form, of course.
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (Hearthstone Riddles)
Glacier Racer?
Mini-Set Madness - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Congrats to Demon! I think you can be doubly proud because those upgrading cards rarely have a chance to win.
Breaking Down MARVEL SNAP's New Card Shadow King - Theorycraft Decks, Top Five Synergies, & Lore!
He would be nice in my cerebro 3 deck... but yeah maybe in Summer...
Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Here's my idea to this challenge!
Thanks for Demon by simplifying the wording on the main body.
(Why exceed mana limit? So it's not useless by turn 10).
Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
I don't know if the second wording would actually put the cards where you want them; the first wording is preferable in that regard, in my opinion. It's funny that you would make a card like that, though, so soon after I made this card for the previous comp (but didn't share it) :P
Considering that, I like the 1/2/1 better. You're not gaining hand-advantage, really, so something cheaper is better.
Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Here's my first idea, presented with two alternate wording and statlines.
The two cards would take the same position as the ones you shuffle; that is, in the extremes of your hand, so Outcast effects would activate.
Let me know if you like the idea and which stats / wording you prefer.
Breaking Down MARVEL SNAP's New Card Shadow King - Theorycraft Decks, Top Five Synergies, & Lore!
The Shadow King also had a prominent role outside of comics fairly recently, because he was the main villain in the "Legion" TV series that ran a few years back. He was brilliantly played by Audrey Plaza in the first 2 seasons of the show.
Sidenote: You consistently misspelled the dimension where the Shadow King exists -- it's the "astral plane" (as in "plane of existence"), not the homophone "plain".
Lost In The Shuffle - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Hope you guys can shuffle.
Stern Librarian is a hugely-statted Taunt minion, but he comes with a downside that can be pretty severe. You lose your whole hand after you play it. This downside can be circumvented if you can empty your hand before playing it, but if you can't, then the price can be quite heavy as you don't even have discard synergy.
Spiritchanter Voluk can be used to copy some Battlecry effects with some delay and he will only be well utilized with certain Battlecries. The way Voluk's Chant is worded is the same as Shadow (from Shadow of Death) is worded.
Mini-Set Madness - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Congrats to Demon!