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Beyond The Forbidding Sea: A 77-card fanmade Hearrthstone Expansion
Hi, I'm Frostivus! Today I'm very excited to share with you a very crazy idea I have been working on since the beginning of the year: to make a fun and interactive pirate-themed expansion in 2017.
Elise is back for one last ride, and she's got the treasure map for a hidden island. Race against the four Pirate Lords as you brave the uncharted frontiers beyond the Forbidding Sea. Make tenuous alliances. Break them. Get double-crossed. Get mutinied. Get eaten by giant squids. If you manage to stave off the sea monsters, ghost pirates and magic-imbued thunderstorms looking to turn your ship into a floating plank captained by a one-man crew, you'll be rewarded with riches beyond your wildest imagination.
This set introduces some new mechanics:
Contracts Contracts start in your opening hand and gives small benefits that last as long as you fulfill the contract, or play a new one.
Odd-Even Odd-Even cards change depending on what turn you're on, either odd or even. They come with cool animations.
I've also placed an emphasis on interactions that persist beyond your turns and also more decision-making cards that test your knowledge and skill.
You can check them out in action, along with several other cards, below:
I've divided the cards per class, with a separate link for mobiles that also contain the gifs:
Neutral Legendaries (mobile link)
And here's the compilation of all the odd-even gifs.
Designing cards have always been a favorite past time of mine, and I enjoy sharing them with the community. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them.
Special thanks to the artists whom I credit in the mobile links, the /r/customhearthstone community for their meticulous feedback, the HSmod team who taught me a lot about set design, my team who helped me in my previous expansion and whose boundless enthusiasm for my work remain a constant inspiration, the friends I never expected to make in /r/customhearthstone but have known for many years now, both Ben Brode and IksarHS for not only engaging with us fan designers all the time, but even dropping a few kind words every now and then! And last but not least, Team 5, for creating a very special game.
For more fanmade cards with a much better quality, check out the custom hearthstone subreddit!
For my previous sets, check out Go West, Young Brode, a Western-themed set where I gave everyone PTSD on Overwatch beta McCree, and Winterveil Wonderland, a fully-voiced expansion where I extorted hundreds of dollars worth of labour from skilled professionals on a holiday.
I'll see you guys . . . IN THE FROZEN THRONE.
Iksar
OH ITS YOU. Frostivus you always do a good job.
Iksar
I thought this was somehow going to be a 4 mana 7/7 meme but it turned out it was a pretty cool set instead.