Hello everyone,

Following the reveal of Galakrond's Awakening, I got inspired to get creative and try to make my own adventure.

This is my first time trying to design a custom set of cards, and I'm at that point where I finished it and want to see other people's opinions about it.

The set would be the last of the Year of the Dragon (and kind of like an imaginary alternative to Galakrond's Awakening). My main goal was to create a set of 35 cards that would be coherent, that would bring freshness to the current meta, that would support multiple archetypes for all classes, that would be powerful (to follow up on DoD), that would be fun, that would be (at least somewhat) balanced, and that would bring a slightly slower pace to the game, in order to make the mid-game shine more for all classes. As I tried to focus on the actual playability of the cards themselves, I didn't try to think too much about a theme or try to be too innovative (no new keywords, etc). I instead went for the "Galakrond's Awakening"'s route of trying to expend on the current sets, as well as bringing back some keywords from this year. The goal wasn't to have each card make you go WOW but to just create a proper collection that would try to respect Hearthstone's design philosophy in a world where Galakrond's Awakening didn't really happen.

I will be commenting on most cards to provide some insights. Also, forgive me if sometimes the flavor is awkward, I tried my best to at least make everything look decent !

Each class gets 1 common, 1 rare, and 1 legendary. There are 2 neutrals of each rarity. Enjoy.

Shaman

Totems can be used for many things, especially with all the Lackeys around, so this aims to negate the drawbacks of Overloading by giving you something to do when you can't do much.	I believe that evolve is a fun mechanic, and I think such a card would give the archetype a lot of juice, especially since its effect can be triggered multiple times unlike spells. Synergizes with Primal Invocation quite nicely.	Very versatile, great value for a struggling class. Not an oppressive early game due to poor stats and overload.

Mage

I believe Mage could use the help of a powerful, slow 1-drop that could be used across most of its archetypes.	Fun, versatile spell that aims to ease your curve a bit, if you highroll. Awesome in Cyclone decks.	A strong, relatively cheap tempo play to make up for the lack of good 4-drops in Mage, that I think would fit greatly with the rest of the cards.

Priest

We saw the impact of Winged Guardian, and I believe priest could use a strong minion as well, but without the frankly obnoxious Taunt keyword. The optional battlecry is there because Priest has a lot of ways to buff its minions.	Giving love to control Priest but without giving love to resurrect Priest. Can also be used in combo decks, I guess.	This card has a lot of potential and I love it. Insane tempo and value, at the "cost" of delaying fatigue. Priest could really use some fun stuff like this that doesn't fall into either combo or resurrect archetypes.

Warlock

I really like zoolock as an archetype because it revolves around "carry" minions and "enabler" minions that all need to work together, unlike Galakrond Warlock which is just token spamming.	Handlock is finally a thing and it would be a shame to see it go. Also great in zoo.	What is great with Warlock is that it's also a fun control class. This one could surely make for some cool moments.

Rogue

Nowadays, Rogue revolves quite a bit around finding answers out of thin air. I like this philosophy, even if I can see how it can be frustrating, as an opponent, when you don't know what to expect. Really good to complete the Uldum quest, too.	Rogue doesn't have insane expensive spells, so this can't really be abused... unless you find a way to abuse it. Probably a bit too good with Togwaggle ?	And even more craziness, to conclude from the last two cards. Have fun !

Paladin

Sure, Mech Paladin would love this, but how about some support for control Paladin while we're at it ? please ?	Just a sweet weapon with great value in the early game.	Now, all we needed was to give control Paladin a win condition. Hope this does it.

Hunter

A tool to deal with all the Rush minions in the current meta. Batterhead better watch out! Also neat against Divine Shield minions.	Great value overall, always welcome in most Hunter decks in my opinion.	An argument in favor of giving Secret Hunter a real purpose.

Warrior

A really powerful minion to keep the board in check, and that synergizes with most Warrior minions.	Control Warrior is still a thing, Dr Boom isn't gone yet, I believe such a minion could be of use.	Pirate Warrior needs a leader. Also, this is just a very strong minion that most Warrior archetypes would appreciate.

Druid

Ferocious Howl is rotating out, and I think it needs a replacement.	OK, maybe this card doesn't need to exist, but Treant Druid is finally somewhat viable, so let's embrace it !	A decent minion for ramp/control/quest Druid, if you can enable him. Potentially spooky depending on how easy Druid can get Armor.

Neutral

Just a fun RNG 2-drop.	A minion that hides among the Lackeys.	Delay your draw but stop aggro. Worth it ?
The packfiller of the set Again, basically a minion that synergizes with all the Lackeys.	The set is heavily centered around giving control decks more power, so I believe such a card would be welcome in some aggro decks.	I made sure to design some neat 6-drops just to so I could justify this card because I like it. Very fun in my opinion.
Aaaaaughibbrgubugbugrguburgle!	And at last, a final love letter to Highlander decks.

Thank you for reading my thread ! I hope you had fun. I sure did. Getting creative like that felt awesome. Can't wait to see what the next year will bring.

Feel free to reply !

Some of the boards look cool, but I'm scared to buy one if I don't know what the music sounds like.

Is there a way we can sample the music tracks for each board?

One of the biggest things that attracted me to this game was that Riot had ditched the random-packs model, allowing the players to craft exactly the cards they want. In particular, the uncertain rarities of the cards in random packs often leads to a feels-bad situation when, for example, you get nothing but forty dust worth of garbage in Hearthstone.

So in Runeterra, I kinda hate the way that, even at max level, the Vault reward is mostly bad cards by default, with a random chance to upgrade each drop. It is basically full of random packs!

(For those who don't know: A diamond chest contains several hundred shards plus three rare capsules. Each rare capsule contains a handful of common cards and one guaranteed rare, much like a Hearthstone pack. And also like Hearthstone, there's a very small random chance that each capsule and card can spontaneously upgrade to a rarer version of itself.)

Getting three rare capsules that fail to upgrade out of a diamond chest is a bit of a letdown, considering how hard you worked to earn it.

I would much rather receive slightly fewer, better rewards than a larger number of weak rewards that might upgrade if I get lucky. A diamond chest should guarantee at least one epic capsule, don't you think?

This whole random upgrade thing is just a throwback to the microtransaction model everyone is starting to despise, which I thought Runeterra might be trying to move away from. Can we please just ditch it altogether?

After playing different card games for years, i am here to give you my take on LOR.

The snowball in this game is HUGE, you need to let players draw 2 cards each round, there are too many cards in your deck and if you don't happen to have a specific card/answer(usually a spell) in your hand the game can end in just 1 turn due to the sire amount of power each card holds.

Things only get worse with how overpowered spells are, it's actually the only way to force a kill on an opponet's unit("challenger" ain't reliable) making them frustrating and underwhelming to play against.
You can lose the entire game due to a single spell, a complete 100% turn around.


Ideas to fix this:

1) Up the nexus HP to 25 or even 30, making the game a bit slower and letting us take 1-2 more attacks reducing the need of answers to be so asap.

2) To compensate for the HP buff, let us draw 2 cards per turn resetting the game's paste and giving back aggro the power it lost from the higher HP. +what i have told above.

3) Let every region use "deny", indirectly nerfing all spells a little bit.

I am extremely open to discussion, especially from a competitive view, cause i am only talking about casual playing.

My English ain't that sharp, sorry for any mistakes i made.

I've been really enjoying targus's articles and wondered what else they might have written. Sadly I couldn't really find that information here:

https://outof.cards/members/targus/

Would be great to have?

I know only one copy of a specific champion can be on the board at once but what happens if, for example, I buff a jinx and it vanishes?

Will it keep my buffs and reappear in my hand? or get shuffled into my deck (by playing jinx's get excited) with buffs?

Or will it simply revert to it's default state?

While Wild Growth has been out of the meta for a time since its nerf, the recent release of Winged Guardian has brought a Midrange, Dragon/Ramp/Embiggen Druid back into the game leveraging the new ramp abilities provided by Breath of Dreams. It remains to be seen how this deck will fare over time as the meta settles and new cards are released, but for now it's putting up an appreciable presence, making this a good time to look at it.

One thing to note upfront is that this isn't a discussion of nerfs. While you could make a case for nerfing Breath of Dreams, you could also make a case for nerfing tons of stuff from Descent of Dragons, given the immense power creep in the set. For what it's worth, I'm a bit pleased that Druid at least has a deck to work with now after its period of dormancy.

Most of the posts I make tend to be information centric, whether it is about a bug, statistics, a guide, or maybe just questioning the way things are done. All of these things fall under "discussion", I suppose. I think that a category I would really like to have is something along the lines of "information". People would post guides, and discussion of the way things work, whereas "discussion" can be where people whine about the meta or give opinions on things, like this post. I'm not sure who I need to talk to to get this type of flair introduced, but I think it would be helpful for people looking for guides in particular.

Do I need any cards to discard in order to play this? i.e if this is the only card in my hand can this still be played?

In my Purchases history, it says that I bought 5 copies of Senna. I may have actually crafted 5 - I'm not sure. Like, I may have crafted more than 3 and the server didn't sync up with my crafts or something?

Anyway, I can refund 2 of my rare wildcards, but when I do, it says that it will invalidate one of my decks. Did I spend 2 extra wild cards? Is this a bug? 

I sent a support ticket, but I haven't heard from Riot in 2 days.

Help?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1j99ujvx8zjs96n/5-sennas-purchased.png?dl=0

This card was created for Hearthpwn's Custom Class competition #5 "Trials and Errors". I worked more on it and i wish to share it with you guys to see what you think. So what's a Bloodburner?

Description

All magic needs fuel. Most mages use mana as it is safe (as much as it can be) and plentiful. But it's not the most powerful, no, that would be Blood Magic. To use one's own blood as fuel is incredibly dangerous and most would run dry in a few casts. in truth the only ones who can wield it properly are lizardfolk with their powerful regenerative abilities.

Bloodburners use their own health as fuel, self damage is a key mechanic of the class. A powerful tool is always present at their disposal, that being the Hero Power: "Blood to Fire". Odd mage showed what 2 damage for 2 mana can do early and late game, but like Warlocks, you also pay 2 life yourself whenever you use it. But this can be an advantage, especially to activate the class' keyword Fresh Blood:

Fresh Blood can trigger during your turn or the opponent's as well, forcing him to think if he should go face or eliminate the minions with this keyword.

In short, the class is centered around these:

• Self Damage as a downside to powerful effects but also something you can benefit from
• Hero Power Interactions will be present in almost all sets, the class relying heavily on the Hero Power to win games
• Powerful Spells. Since blood magic is so potent, it makes sense they'd have some neat tricks up their sleeves
• Dragons! Reptile people like big winged lizards, who knew?

Basic

Classic

>>>>>>>>3x Diamond Chest rewards <<<<<<<<

Figured I would include the contents of my Rewards opening to help people who are interested in tracking drop rates get more source material.

Also I know people just like seeing a cache being opened. 

Short and sweet 1:30 sec video, no music overlay, no intro, just cards.

The ruination as a concept in general is disgusting, all good players understand that setting up your field while diminishing the enemies is more important than constantly belittling the opponents hp, I can't count how many times I've played smarter than my opponent resulting in having a massive lead on field with close to equal cards in hand, then they play The Ruination, and suddenly we're only equal playing field, 6+ rounds of work to best the opponent successfully and its demolished entirely by a single card, it ruins the skill in every match that card is had, the opponent will often times win from the RNG of pulling that card, despite being bested every round up to him being able to play that card. It's beyond broken and a shitty concept in general, if its going to be in the game there has to be a condition for it to be met, maybe have to have a certain range of cards in hand, or requires you to have at least 3 allied units in play it shouldn't be this free card to just fuck your opponents entire setup, when you've been outwitted the entire game and have 0 allies in play. that being said, the majority of the spells in shadow isle are damage spells, and just about all of them are extremely over powered, doing absurd amounts of damage for very little cost, to be frank, almost all the spells in the game should be nerfed, in a game where you have only 20 hp, giving a full field +3/+3 (For Demacia!) is insane, that card alone adds 18 damage to a field, and it can be used as early as round 6 with a full field if you luck out with a nice draw, not to mention the Cursed Keeper, and Ravenous Butcher combo, at round 2 you can have a 3/2 and a 4/4 on the field, that's absurd, no other region has the potential for that strong of a field by round 2. It's possible I'm slightly biased, would love other's opinions, obviously it's a new game, so balance issues are to be expected, then again, Riot Games is known for not being able to balance shit.

I dislike limited formats. Because, they're boring, I suck or can't stand what game is offering me (choosing between bad and bad...). In the earlier trial, I got thousands of spells, bad and replicated cards, while my opponents, every one of them got nuts, insane synergies and insane curves. I was thinking spending shards on Expeditions, but now I see it's not worth my nerves. In essence, not different from HS Arena (inconsistent and unpredictable fiesta). Constructed is much more enjoyable for me. Still, need to do these free runs.

https://ibb.co/j8zJf41

What would you choose here? I don't like any of the choices. Even if I would take something, there's an awful card in the same bundle. Ancient Crocolith seems terrible; what guarantees me I'll be able to make enough synergies for it to work (and why at all)? It sucks with what I already picked. But Kalista seems the least bad from the list of offered champions. Ezreal dies by a spittle. Karma gives at least some value and 'not totally bad' tempo, but why Solitary Monk, doesn't feel good with my midrange Garen stuff I would like to build.

What's a good spells / minions ratio? 

I'm really bad at remembering exactly how these "non-chain" (like in expansion drops) work for maximizing value. So new Lunar New Years Quests start tomorrow. How many quests should I have open tomorrow morning (EST) to max reroll and not miss any?

I can't recall the actual workings - do we get a normal quest at tomorrow before the event starts (presumably at 09:00 PST like everything else) and then a SECOND event quest once the event starts? I want to have the 2 to reroll without missing a free "extra" one if that's part of it. So do I need to save ONLY today's quest & tomorrow's normal quest to reroll (i.e. I saved yesterday's quest too - should I complete it?)? Or is it just the one quest tomorrow so I should have yesterday's and today's quest saved? 

Thank you!

Don't get me wrong, I love Tirion. Playing minions like Boogeymonster is silly but it feels great when they work out.

I've played 12 games with Tirion and got 11 wins. One loss might be the first game, so I'm on a 11-win streak, which is amazing.

1 mana gain 2/2, 3/3 in the early game and then going up to 7/7, is it too powerful? What is your experience with him so far?

If you can't sleep and you know it push site updates! Pushes update.

New Features

Legends of Runeterra

• We've now got dedicated database pages for keywords!
  • These are linked on our card pages where a card has that keyword and in the navigation.
  • We're in the process of writing guides for each of the keyword pages. Check out the pages for Barrier, Drain, and Elusive.

Changes

Legends of Runeterra

• Added region links to the cards dropdown.
• Added keywords listing to the cards dropdown.
• Added region links to the decks dropdown.
• Card importer now flags mechanics that Riot's API does not include.
  • Prior to this change, Brightsteel Protector did not appear as a Barrier card.
  • This change makes card filtering a LOT better.

Bug Fixes

Legends of Runeterra

• Fixed an issue that prevented the cache from breaking on deck pages when a deck guide was updated.

https://imgur.com/jQ7GHGq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijlsBWPsPAw

Not sure how much easier or harder it'll be to do this from here on out. There's a lot more time to do it in future weeks, but I don't have those tutorials for easy XP grinding.

We'll take things as they go, I suppose.

Cheers!

I can't seem to edit a deck guide I created for a Runeterra deck (https://outof.cards/legends-of-runeterra/decks/271-fiora-barrier).

I can change the text by clicking "Edit Guide", but after saving, the text on the deck page is unchanged. 
The changes seem to be saved for the editing page only, because when I click "Edit Guide" again, the changes are there.

Deleting site cookies didn't help.

I think this has been to me for a while now, but I definitely noticed it this evening.  I'd been seeing that "you already have this card, converting into shards" message a fair amount after opening my regional chests/capsules, which I chalked up to conventional bad luck / "kettle never boils" phenomenon.  However I saw it this evening with one of the commons from my Shadow Isles Champions Chest, and I thought that was really odd because I'm still missing so many that I'm trying to make my ephemeral deck for, and when I went to look for which darned SI common card I was overdrawing I saw I had 2x, 1x, and 0x for lots of my SI cards but no 3x.

I put in a ticket; I was just wondering if anyone else had noticed anything similar.

As well as Vanguard Firstblade; that shouldn't have permanent 'Attack' gains, though not all of these types are as obscene as Battering Ram or Firstblade, and at least Firstblade is counterable as it starts as a 2/2.

6 Mana for a 0/12 with Overwhelm that gets a permanent +4 every time it attacks... that's absurd, that's so cheap for such a powerful card. Only one card comes close to this and that's Scarmother Vrynna, who's a 6 Mana, 3/8 that gains +3 when she survives damage.

Battering Ram needs to have it's +4 when Attacking made in to 'This Round' or have it's health reduced to 6.

At the moment the only counters to Battering Ram are Noxian Guillotine (if damaged), Vengeance or Ruination. Two of which are... also Noxus based.

UPDATE: THIS CARD MAKER IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO BE USED!!!

Welcome to the Custom Runeterra section. If you're here, and you're anything like me, then you love to create cards. Fortunately for us, the LoR Card Maker exists. If you want to create your own LoR cards, this guide I wrote will show you how.

When you first open the card maker, you are met with this interface.

Don't panic! Everything will make sense shortly. You have three different card types:

• Followers
• Champions
• Spells

Making them all work a little bit differently, so we're going to focus on one at a time. First, we're going to focus on followers since that's the default when you first open the page.

Stats and Keywords

If you're making a follower or champion, you may wish to find the art of your card first as the text may sometimes be hard to read without, particularly if there’s a lot of blue or yellow.

This top section is the card type. The middle helmet is the follower which (as I already mentioned) will be chosen for you when you enter the page. The helmet on the left is the champion, and the fireball on the right is the spell.

While making a follower or champion, this section is where you choose the Mana, Attack and Health of the unit in question. Below that is where you can choose what keyword abilities to put on the card.

From left to right, your choices are Regeneration, Lifesteal, Challenger, Fearsome, Quick Attack, Elusive, Overwhelm, Double Attack, Ephemeral, Fleeting, Can’t Block, Barrier, Tough, and Trap. You can put as many of them as you want on one card, although for the sake of realism, I wouldn’t put more than 4 on one card. There is currently only one card in the game with 3 keywords, Final Spark (and formerly Tryndamere in his Leveled Up form). Some keyword combinations (such as Regeneration and Ephemeral) may not end up working together very well anyway.

When you click on a keyword, it will light up meaning that it’s in the card canvas now. Clicking on it again will deactivate it.

If a card has one keyword ability, it will display that ability and its name on the card. If you have multiple keyword abilities activated, it will display the small icons without the names. We've called in Ahri from Ionia to help demonstrate.

Textboxes

This area is where you will write the name of the card, and its description if you wish to give it one. Writing the name is a walk in the park, but the description has a few more rules.

Below where you write the text, there is a blue square, a yellow square, and keyword icons for almost all of the available keywords.

The blue and yellow squares will allow you to write blue or yellow text. Use blue text to refer to specific cards by name (as is found on champion spells for examples), and use yellow text to refer to keyword abilities or various state-based actions. When you write a keyword ability as part of card text, its icon appears first, then the name of the keyword immediately after (example: Yoni WindchaserBADCARDNAME). When you click on one of these clickables, its code will appear in the Description box. For example, choosing Tough will be displayed as this:

This will be displayed on the card like this:

All code will be placed on the end of the text at that point, so keep that in mind when you’re writing a card that uses code.When you use blue or yellow code, it will appear as “<name><name>” or “<keyword><keyword>” respectively. At this point, write whatever you wish to be highlighted in that color in between the codes.

For example, writing this:

Will be displayed on the card like this:

If you're less familiar with LoR than you are with other card games, the standard wording conventions of the game might trip you up a little bit. If you're not sure with how a card should be worded, look at existing cards to get an idea of how cards with similar triggers/effects are worded.

This subtype box will be where you write the subtype of the card (Elite, Tech, Poro, Spider, etc.). It will be displayed on the top of the card like this:

Region, Rarity, and Artwork

This final part here is where you will choose the Region and the rarity of your card. You have the standard 6 Regions in the game to choose from at your disposal (from left to right: Demacia, Frejlord, Ionia, Noxus, Piltover & Zaun, Shadow Isles), as well as 7 other icons to choose from (from left to right: Bandlecity, Bilgewater, Ixtal, Shurima, Targon, Void, Runeterra).

Below that is the choice of rarity. On spells and followers, your choices are None (for token cards), Common (Green), Rare (Blue), and Epic (Purple).
Since Ahri is an Ironian champion, we’ll choose Ionia. For rarity, we’ll choose Epic. On the card, it will look like this:

The final option we have is to change the artwork position and zooming.

On this interface, click the arrow buttons to move the artwork around, and the magnifying glasses to zoom in or out.

There is no support for image URLs. Only images from your computer can be used as artwork, although this is not a huge issue and if you’re creating cards for a huge set, you’re likely to save all the artwork you use anyway.

Put everything together, and you get this:

Champions

Making champions works largely the same way, but there are two big differences. The first and foremost is the new Level Up box.

This is where you will place your champion's Level Up requirement. Be careful about the wording. In the case of the Leveling Up requirement progression towards a certain objective, some champions require it to be on the field for any progression to be counted (Kalista, Shen, Heimerdinger), whereas others do not (Ezreal, Yasuo, Teemo). Use the phrasing "I’ve seen" if the champion requires it to be on the field for progression to count.

Typing this into the Level Up box…

… will display this:

Although some champions will have blue or yellow text in their Level Up text, the maker does not allow this.

The second major difference with champion cards is that you're locked into using the Champion rarity represented by the yellow gem. Next to the yellow gem is the option to remove the Level Up box for when you make your level 2 champion.

One last cool thing about champions is that if you're making a follower and decide to change the card to a champion, the artwork will stay in the exact same place and it won’t reset back to its default position.

Spells

The final card type is the spell. Where followers and champions are mostly similar to one another with few significant differences, spells are vastly different in design.

Spells only have a mana cost, and then there are 6 keyword boxes below that. The first three are the spell speeds (Burst, Fast, and Slow), the fourth one is the "Skill" box used for unit abilities, the final two are additional effects added to the spells (Fleeting or Overwhelm). A spell must always have a speed or skill option enabled.

(Disclaimer: I’ve never been a LoL player, so don’t hate me if this isn’t the actual name of the ability)

Spells have a very different from design from followers or champions. The artwork is positioned on a circular landscape, and colors found in the artwork be faded into the background of the textbox. Spells will also have different frame designs depending on what spell speed is chosen.

Concluding Messages

VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT use the "Download" button to save your cards. Due to an apparently un-noted update, downloading the card with this method will display stats and text in the wrong place. Until this is fixed, my fix for this is to use the Snipping Tool and snip the card that way.

But that's just all I have to say about the LoR Card Maker. I've made Ahri as a proper champion here:

And here's a bonus card if you want a break from all the Ahri cards I made (I swear I'm not a furry). It's Shroud Soulrender.

So, what are you waiting for? Go out there and make some cards!

The question is in the title: tell me about your favorite champs, and let's speculate what kind of cards they would be like :)

My two favorite champions are Lissandra and Leona, both of which currently do not exist in-game. Lissandra is an obvious shoe-in for the Freljord, while Leona could be included in a new Mt. Targon region. Here's something I made with the LoR card maker; it's probably woefully ill-balanced:

It's supposed to be her ultimate in card form. The Play is of course pretty powerful for getting a free turn of Attacking in, even more-so if you can play her already leveled up. However, her Level Up is hard to achieve without help from cards like Shatter. Edit: Whoops, forgot her Freljord symbol on the Level 2 version.

I actually made a video with some gameplay of a tournament I entered online via Discord over the weekend! The Discord community link is in the description of the video if anyone is interested in checking it out - totally random Discord I found via Reddit! =) Here's the video: Runeterra Tournament Gameplay

Does anyone else know of any other Discord servers or anything else that is currently hosting any tournaments for LoR!? Would love to continue entering them! 

As some of you remember, War of the Dark was a brilliant April 1st joke inspired by recent MTG set.

I want to notice that some of the predictions turned out to be not far from truth.

We actually got a large number of Hero Cards: total of 16 if we count different Galakrond forms.

Also it seems that in the final chapter of Galakrond's awakening both League of Explorers and League of EVIL have to battle with Galakround. This counts as "two teams banding together" to fight elder "destructive power".

Yeah, I know it's a huge stretch. But anyway kudos to our fluffy prophets.