The first line describes the basic effect of the card. The second line describes its effect once a certain condition is met. The third line contains a hint that is meant to help you find it in the card database.
Fun addition to Wild Menagerie Warrior which has gotten quite some support over the last year (Mistake and Hookfist-3000 being the most recent examples). It's probably still too fair to be considered meta relevant, but if you get out a Ringmaster's Baton early, things can get spicy.
I respect the creativity, but I feel like the mechanic is inherently OP. Also the art is a little all over the place, there's no common ground recognizable for me. Overall not my cup of tea, I'm sorry. (This would translate to 2 stars since all cards are well executed.)
Matthieu
Hey there, welcome to this part of the site! I like your keyword, it's pretty flavorful. That said, I'd like to echo Demon's concerns about the power level of the cards and also invite you to wait a bit longer for feedback before submitting in the future. With the help of a few other contestants you might have found ways to further improve your cards and thus bolster your chances at winning the competition.
linkblade91
I agree with Demon, Launch is the coolest Keyword of yours. All the cards look fun to play and like a great fit for the keyword. The only thing I'd like to question is if Booster Rocket should really be a Paladin card - other than the Anachronos similarity I don't see much support for that argument. I'd prefer it in Rogue where you have to weigh its effect against using other weapons and your Hero Power. Valeera also has stuff like Sap and Vanish which are kinda related.
Dolphinslyaer
While the keyword isn't super exiting, I really like what you did with it. Especially the Priest card is super cool! Two concerns: 1) If Duplicate really replays the whole card, wouldn't that create an infinite loop, even if the tooltip says "one more time"? 2) You're missing a third card ;-)
AeroJulwin
I have only one thing to criticize: I don't like the third option. It's a very cool effect, but I think the power level should be toned down a bit by forcing the player to discard one of the two cards. That way, it's still better than most current discard effects, but it's still a little risky to play them.
Wailor
I very much prefer Gunslinger, it's the most flavorful keyword I've seen so far. If you add a last little bit of polish, you're gonna be my favorite for this week's competition :-) linkblade already pointed out that the Paladin card wouldn't qualify and I have some small flavor issues with the Warrior card. A shotgun typically deals smaller shrapnel AOE damage which doesn't fit the current statline and effect very well. Might easily be solved by changing the name.
Demonxz95
I'm a little torn here. While I really like the flexibility your keyword adds by the scaling effects, it's still pretty close to what sidequests do already. A drawback of the scaling effects is that your cards are packed with numbers which doesn't look very nice to me when you see them side by side. Might be better if you see them among other cards of the class without this keyword, but that's unfortunately not the way we'll see them when we vote. Finally, I would go with the initial three and skip the Priest card because it's too close to Priest's Galakrond for my taste.
On another note, thanks for your feedback! I'm a little surprised "Stamina" caused confusion. The way it's meant to work is that the effect triggers when the minion with the keyword survives (x) turns, so when The Prismatic Disc survives 2 turns, it gains Spell Damage +2 for example. How do you think could I word the tooltip to make this more clear?
I'll start out with the keyword and cards from the custom expansion I've never finished. Thanks to Demon and linkblade for providing help for creating the tooltips!
Some background info:
I picture this keyword and those cards arriving in an expansion called "The Great Air Race" which takes place in the Jade Forest on Pandaria and revolves around the Order of the Cloud Serpent, so prepare for Dragons, Pandaren and first and foremost... Mounts! Every class gets a Legendary Mount card to help them win the race. With the exception of Druid I used their WoW class mounts for these. I’m really surprised Blizzard hasn’t walked down this path a long time ago. They are so cool! Winning "The Great Air Race" will not only be a matter of speed, but also of endurance. And that's where my custom keyword comes in - Stamina (x). It activates when a minion survives (x) turns on the battlefield as a start of turn effect. To help identifying minions with this effect, they would be flagged with a little hour glass at their bottom, similar to the lightning bolt for other effects. The counting of turns would work just like it does with Dormant minions.
I've got to admit I'm a little confused. My first reaction was "meh" - while I like some goofy stuff in Hearthstone as much as everybody else, I wouldn't exactly appreciate a whole goofy expansion. But then I remembered...
And if the real game delivers anything remotely close to that, I'll be more than happy :)) Will be fun to see how close our fellow custom card creator got with his version.
I feel a little bad for BloodMefist, that was a very cool card as well who almost reached a rating of 4.0 in the first round only to brutally fail in the finals. Would have clearly made my personal second place.
I agree. But I'm also willing to help if I can and maybe other people are, too.
@Flux: What would you expect from a potential new staff member? How much time should one be able to invest per day / per week? Are there any tasks that don't require specific knowledge? Like I'd have a hard time writing guides for achievement decks cause I'm a bad deck builder, but I can easily write news articles about stuff like the mentioned announcement of the announcement. Other people will have other skills, but we need a better understanding of what you need. Maybe you can put out job descriptions with your next recruiting form?
Sorry for the radio silence, I have to admit I tend to be quite disappointed when I accidently create cards that already exist, especially when I put a lot of effort into it. Anyway, here's some feedback:
Demonxz95
First of all, I vote against Strik. Balancing the power level of a new class with old expansions will be a big thing this week and I feel like that one would be very OP in its expansion. While C'Thun cards seem to be generally loved by the community I don't really feel the flavor of your Envoy card. That leaves us with the Snowchugger for Death Knights which looks solid, but not on par with your usual genius. I hope I don't come over rude, please accept my apologies if that should be the case.
BloodMefist
I like the effect of both cards. The art for the Conjurer seems to be a better fit though, so that's my favorite.
CursedParrot
I'm pretty confused about the fact that Ahune isn't an Elemental itself - I guess that was an accident? That said DK hasn't received any Elemental support yet which leaves me skeptical about this one. My favorite of your three is Kel, but I'd advocate to push him a little closer to his original card. Maybe something like repeating all Frost spells you've cast this turn?
Dolphinslayer
Looks a bit scary at first glance because of the removal that is granted by the Hero Power, but then again toxmonger has never been OP. Very cool card overall!
Wailor
Accusation is a very very cool card. Well done!
linkblade91
I like your design quite a lot, very nice work. The one suggestion I'd like to make is to fine-tune the Hero Power. I would prefer it if each use cost a Corpse to stick with the original effect on Boneguard Commander and Battlefield Necromancer. To balance this, I'd consider lowering the cost to 1, but that's a tough call to make for sure.
Congrats, Wassculaire!
Kindly Grandmother?
What a cool riddle!
I love it, especially the Cobraptor is amazing!
That's correct! Your next :-)
Yes it is!
Fun addition to Wild Menagerie Warrior which has gotten quite some support over the last year (Mistake and Hookfist-3000 being the most recent examples). It's probably still too fair to be considered meta relevant, but if you get out a Ringmaster's Baton early, things can get spicy.
Feedback time!
On another note, thanks for your feedback! I'm a little surprised "Stamina" caused confusion. The way it's meant to work is that the effect triggers when the minion with the keyword survives (x) turns, so when The Prismatic Disc survives 2 turns, it gains Spell Damage +2 for example. How do you think could I word the tooltip to make this more clear?
Well played Demon, well played. That "Giving your hero Divine Shield" part was quite a call there!
This aged very well :D
Wow, what a bold theme! I love it!
I'll start out with the keyword and cards from the custom expansion I've never finished. Thanks to Demon and linkblade for providing help for creating the tooltips!
Some background info:
I picture this keyword and those cards arriving in an expansion called "The Great Air Race" which takes place in the Jade Forest on Pandaria and revolves around the Order of the Cloud Serpent, so prepare for Dragons, Pandaren and first and foremost... Mounts! Every class gets a Legendary Mount card to help them win the race. With the exception of Druid I used their WoW class mounts for these. I’m really surprised Blizzard hasn’t walked down this path a long time ago. They are so cool! Winning "The Great Air Race" will not only be a matter of speed, but also of endurance. And that's where my custom keyword comes in - Stamina (x). It activates when a minion survives (x) turns on the battlefield as a start of turn effect. To help identifying minions with this effect, they would be flagged with a little hour glass at their bottom, similar to the lightning bolt for other effects. The counting of turns would work just like it does with Dormant minions.
I've got to admit I'm a little confused. My first reaction was "meh" - while I like some goofy stuff in Hearthstone as much as everybody else, I wouldn't exactly appreciate a whole goofy expansion. But then I remembered...
MrRhapsody's custom "Rock in Azeroth" expansion!
And if the real game delivers anything remotely close to that, I'll be more than happy :)) Will be fun to see how close our fellow custom card creator got with his version.
Congrats to Wailor! A very deserved win.
I feel a little bad for BloodMefist, that was a very cool card as well who almost reached a rating of 4.0 in the first round only to brutally fail in the finals. Would have clearly made my personal second place.
Very close, but no. Maybe the last line will help you to make the final conclusion.
Hint: All three lines are about one card which is older than the ones you were guessing, but still in Standard.
I agree. But I'm also willing to help if I can and maybe other people are, too.
@Flux: What would you expect from a potential new staff member? How much time should one be able to invest per day / per week? Are there any tasks that don't require specific knowledge? Like I'd have a hard time writing guides for achievement decks cause I'm a bad deck builder, but I can easily write news articles about stuff like the mentioned announcement of the announcement. Other people will have other skills, but we need a better understanding of what you need. Maybe you can put out job descriptions with your next recruiting form?
None of those.
3 for 3? Kinda meh these days.
But 3+3+3 for 3 when done with grace?
Holy cow, sign me up for this deal!
Sorry for the radio silence, I have to admit I tend to be quite disappointed when I accidently create cards that already exist, especially when I put a lot of effort into it. Anyway, here's some feedback:
Hmmm that would lead me to offensive protection via Crazed Netherwing or defensive protection in the form of Emberscale Drake.
Twilight Guardian?