"Whispers of an ancient tomb..."
The events of Dragonblight left many in gloom,
"...Fire made flesh! Dragon's breath! Teeth and claw and flame..."
The damage has been done! Its EVIL to blame,
"...This is the place of funky magical phenomena. Anything goes..."
We now must act before others' power grows!
"...Power alone is not to be feared. Fear instead, those who wield it!"
To stop any more mayhem as these villains see fit.
Join us; returning to places of old, We've won before, so don't cower, be bold!
Do not yield, do not fear, do not give up your fight, For united, none can oppose this CRUSADE OF LIGHT!
This is a "revival" expansion of sorts similar to Rise of Shadows. Here, the "bad guy" and "good guy" classes are reversed, with the bad guys being the Old Adventure Expansion Bosses and the good guys being the Crusade of Light to stop them before another "League of EVIL" arises.
Expansion Mechanics:
- Safeguard: Effectively granting the minion 'Immune' for a turn, Safeguard works for both offensive and defensive purposes, allowing usually frail minions to guarantee an attack or slower minions to get off their ability trigger.
- Shaded: My take on the potential "Twinion" idea. Shaded allows the player to double-dip on powerful Battlecries, Deathrattles, or other similar effects as they would with cards like Anka or Jepetto Joybuzz. Additionally, Shaded cards with passive effects can be saved for combos due to their cost of 1.
- Dispel: A simplification of the 'Elusive' effect so that card text can be shortened.
- Cleave: Similar to Dispel, this effect is rather common in Hearthstone and making it a keyword would help with its simplicity.
- Lieutenants and Avengers: The 'class cycle' cards similar to Schemes or Projects. Lieutenants all have an ability keyword and a Deathrattle that is a callback to their class' Classic Legendary. Avengers also have an ability keyword and gain an additional effect if a friendly minion died the turn you play them.
The EVIL Classes
"Whats this? More Adventurers dare to besiege our great fortresses? And why to they speak about a 'League of EVIL 2?' No matter; we have grown much more powerful in these slow times and will give them a fight they shall not forget!"
Druid (Blackrock Mountain)
Hunter (One Night in Karazhan)
Mage (Curse of Naxxramas)
(AN: Apologize for weird formatting with Baron, for some reason I lost the individual files and only had the combined one)
Paladin (Knights of the Frozen Throne)
The Crusader Classes
"It seems these villains are more powerful than we thought! But stay strong! For we too have powerful allies who have joined our cause! If we beat these bosses before, we can do it again!"
Priest
Rogue
Shaman
Warlock
Warrior
Neutral Cards
Common
Rare
Epic
Legendary
Final Author Notes
Well there is Crusade of Light! It's kinda unbelievable to see this set complete after working on it off and on for the past few months. I'm sure not everything is 100% balanced, so please feel free to leave any suggestions and/or improvements in the comments below; I'd very much appreciate it!
- Some of you may have noticed that the Crusade Classes have a legendary based on an alternate hero skin except for Shaman, but that is because Lady Zarog is the planned free Hero reskin for the Shaman class planned to be given to all players who opened a pack from the set should it be 'released' by Blizzard.
- I am also working on an Adventure mode for this titled 'King of the Raid' where you fend off pesky adventurers as one of the four Evil bosses. I am unsure when this will be completed, so stay tuned!
- This is technically the second "Set" in my Hearthstone year, with the first being Deepsea Imperium. If you don't mind a trip to reddit, and are interested in deckbuilding with these two sets, please take a look at it here.
