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The cost increase definitely hurts, since it’ll make it harder to play multiple things a turn. Not much point in making your minions better if you can’t play any more than 1 thing every turn

If stuff like bomb decks end up seeing a lot of play again it could be decent, might be awhile before it gets that chance though

It clearly has tilt potential, and of course there is card draw (which your opponent is likely to be able to use first). Maybe in Holy Wrath Paladin in a weird Prismatic Lens role? Nah, it will be all about the memes!

ugh.. this one is something for later to achieve

My first one of all the herioc adventures to be completed. 

So joyfully beautifull...

I feel like they designed this expansion specialist in mind but since its retired these cards wont see much play in any format.

so proud to have earned this one

so proud to have this one

it looks so beautifull!

Yummy, and my favorite

 Syndicate of the Mourning Sun

Introduction

A disappearance? A sudden uprising? A misplaced paper? It was probably them. A group of individuals with no identity, no sigil, no name. Factions of secret underworld leaders hidden behind schemes, illusion, and pseudonym. Assassination. Blackmail. Forgery. Nothing is beneath their station. They've been reports of their sightings everywhere: Orzhov, Niflgaar, Azeroth. Mysteries lurk under the cover of night, before dispersing like shadows in the Syndicate of the Mourning Sun.

Themes and Mechanics

This expansion features the keyword Plot. Spells with Plot take up a space, similar to Secrets and Quests. At the start of your turn, the Countdown of the Plot reduces by 1. When it reaches zero, the effect triggers! Every single class Shamans are too busy with their experiments to plot  has a Plot that will change the course of the game.

 

Neutral Commons

Neutral Rares

Neutral Epics

Neutral Legendaries

Arcadia's Gifts:

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Druid

Hunter

Mage

Paladin

Priest

Rogue

Shaman

Warlock

Warrior

Mourning Sun Card Design Team

Phoenix     -    Card Designer
Phoenix     -    Card Balancer
Nix     -    Basically Everything Else

About the Creation

     Hi there! Most of you probably have seen me elsewhere at one point or another. I, Phoenix (or just Nix), have been designing cards for Hearthstone over three years. I prefer quirky explorations of mechanics over flavor and lore. I'm a current moderator of the Hearthpwn.com and have recently has moved towards posting in r/customhearthstone.  However, I enjoy and favor the articles of outof.cards over any other Hearthstone information source. I'm excited and expectant for outof.cards to begin their own series of card creation competitions and help this community progress together in card designing.

     This particular set was originally a large series of cards that was awkwardly jumbled together and called an expansion. It wasn't nearly 100 cards later did I decide to add in a keyword. Each Class features a different method through which a secret underground information operates. For example, Hunters are "hunting" for clues, while Paladins are corruptly laundering money. Warriors just want to beat people up and Priests are busy predicting the end of the world. Combined, the classes (minus most of Hunter who are looking for 'em) make up the Syndicate of the Mourning Sun. Personally, I'm not too happy about the way the set came out. A lot of mechanics and lore feel forced and disconnected. I dislike the boring implementation of the keyword Plot and certain cards seem to be just a few feet too many off the deep end. However, I currently lack the time to enforce many of my dream changes, so this is the final creation.

     If you have questions, comments, criticisms, concerns, or hate mail, post it below - although I am not liable for your actions.

yay, finally done.

I guess it'll get rid of bombs and bloods and the like, but the cure may not be better than the disease,

Is Sathrovarr counting as one of the 5 neutral legendaries? Marin the fox wasn't counting iirc

Fun idea, but seems awkward to use. A bit like Surrender to Madness, but obviously less extreme. You'll want cheapish minions for this, but also enough card draw to get to your buffed minions quickly to make up for using a card on this (even if it costs no mana). I could imagine a successful deck built around this, but it will be tough to pull off consistently.

I dont think quest druid has space for this card but its definitely playable.

Oasis Surger you will be happy with double 7/7 for 6 mana

Anubisath Defender free buff amazing

Flobbidinous Floop not affected at all

Cenarius , Crystal Merchant, Wardruid Loti small inconvenience

Elise the Enlightened and Zephrys the Great are the only effected cards but there are versions that dont run them

Yo Shadows! Your flavor text for Platebreaker is your magnum opus my friend! 5 star pun!

Flexible, and neither option is underpowered. Treant support, token support, and an early body for Quest. Seems good.

Made to curve with Dendrologist. A 1 mana 2/2 is pretty good, though druid is more used to bigger plays. Will go into token decks, and very little else.

Someone in blizzard must have playtested this at a lower mana cost and found it too good. Its a pretty nuts effect, built into a deck properly this is very similar to keleseth swing turns. Unfortunately some car crash must have happened and this got stuck at 7 mana, which will see it shelved into the couldhavebeens drawers forever.

At what point will a token deck ever draw this is already a hard issue to answer since you won't ever mulligan your hand for this. Even if you got it, you got to wait an agonizing amount of turns with all those sweet sweet treant cards in hand before you drop this down and hope to stay alive long enough to finally play those buffed cards.

90% of the time your hand will be empty when this drops down. It is instructive that the ONLY card that curves with this is The Forest's Aid, for a massive swing turn assuming you got it in your hand. Had this been 5 mana it might have been something. Oh well, wait and see if this ever gets buffed in future.

Skins list, with my grade opinion:

Druid: 5
1. Default A
2. 1K C
3. Lunara F
4. Elise B
5. The Grandma Tree Dame Hazelbark (B on visuals so far)

Hunter: 3
1. Default B 
2. 1K F (quote from a Jackiechan stream: "He has 'I will hunt you Down'-syndrome")
3. Alleria B+

Mage: 4
1. Default A
2. 1K A+
3. Khadgar A 
4. Medivh C

Paladin: 5
1. Default C
2. 1K B
3. Arthas A
4. Lady Liadrin D
5. Sir Annoy-O F (special effects and intro can't save it)

Priest: 4
1. Default B (A when animated)
2. 1K B+
3. Tyrande B-
4. Madam Lazul B (slight more effort than Tyrande)

Rogue: 3
1. Default B
2. 1K A+
3. Maiev A
4. Captain Eudora from Dalaran Heist: A

Shaman: 5
1. Default B
2. 1K B+
3. Morgl C (it's a less stupid Sir Annoy-O when you think about it)
4. King Rastakhan B+ (great lines, drum intro)
5. The Thunder King D

Warlock: 4
1. Default B (A when animated)
2. 1K B+
3. Nemsy A (great alternate skin but needed a bit more whimsy effects to stand further out)
4. Mecha-Jaraxxus: A

Warrior: 4
1. Default B (A when animated)
2. 1K D
3. Magni A
4. Deathwing D

Another support for trash archetype dont think forced treant druid will be a thing.

This card is amazing. It is the better pre-nerf wild growth. Ramp big dragons druid!!!

Kinda awkward card considering druid doesnt have enough good minions to make use of this card. Maybe at some point next year

Good card but can't see this happening. Its not the added cost which is the problem, its the fact that it only affects cards in your deck, and token druid has never been too good at drawing cards. Had it affect the hand as well, this might have some place in token/hand druid.

Also, token druid has lately been relying on card generation and spells more so than minions. Maybe there's some place for this in quest druid because Oasis Surger is such a crazy option. But I can't see this slotting into it anywhere.