Alright, I'm sorry. If this isn't solved or very close to solved by 8 pm CET (which is in about 11 hours from now), I'll give you the solution and the next riddle is up for grabs.
1 - Correct, but your looking for a card. Which of the HS Prince cards might have "his head in the sky"?
2 - It's HS phrasing... It describes an effect that is attached to a minion, like Coldlight Oracle would be Arcane Intellect on a stick (if it would draw only for you). I can't give you more details without giving away the solution, sorry.
3 - Good guess, but it's not a Hunter secret. There's another, very similar card.
Final guess is also incorrect, but I think we're getting there.
I don't want this thread to die because I'm not capable of presenting a good riddle, so here are some heavy hints for the three parts of the riddle and the final solution.
Part 1:
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What do you call a "royal son"? That's half of the first card's name.
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I hope everyone has figured out by now that "banned" references to the Hall of Fame. Which HoF card is oftentimes called *another card* on astick? That's number 2.
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Probably the hardest one with only a loose connection to the final solution. The "trap" indicates what card type it is. Which one would you test with a scout? Now you've got number 3.
Final solution:
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Those three cards are linked by their effect, but they all do it in a somewhat roundabout way. There's one iconic HS card that shares this trait in a more direct style. This is the solution.
Honestly, I'm pretty happy with what we have right now. One page displaying class level and total wins serves me fine.
If anything, I'd love to see Griffior's idea of Full Art cards implemented, which is somewhat related to player's profiles (quick example: deal lethal with Leeroy Jenkins 1.000 times to unlock his full art which will be used in game (only) for you). Griffior is the most creative guy I know in this area and this my favorite idea of his :)
One issue with all of this kind of stuff is avoiding to disappoint the longterm players. They either have to implement stuff based on data they're collecting anyway (which we don't know about, but certainly limits the possibilities) or focus on recent stuff like they did with achievements. Quite a challenge I think.
A big THANK YOU to the team behind these competitions! I have started as a complete newbie to custom card design with season 1 and now this is my favorite part of the whole site. As far as I know I haven't missed a single competition and I don't intend to change that. This wouldn't be the case if not for our great community full of people who are eager to help each other out and get better at card design. Please don't make the break last too long!
On a sidenote, I'm a bit sceptical about bigger comps because it will be hard to keep people around once the first phase is over, but then I have yet to take part in one of these and the team will surely come up with some good ideas. That said, if there should be a class design competition, I'd be very excited to see an epic battle between linkblade's Alraune class and Demon's Time Traveller class :D
I guess I've misjudged how slow this is going when holidays are over. I'm sitting at 48 right now and I'm not sure if I'll make it to 50 this week, but I'm really looking forward to leveling up faster after that. I'm on the ftp track btw (I'm kind of a dolphin, but I wanted to see how this works out before spending money on it, especially since the Hero skins didn't appeal very much to me).
Not sure what to do about the mini expansion yet. I'm sitting on 15 packs I've saved up and about 5.000 gold. I'll definitely get that 15€/2.000 gold bundle if it proves to be real but don't know which of the two options I'll take. It's just insane value.
I'm sorry that you feel that way. I honestly think the first three cards aren't very difficult to guess, making the connection to the final solution is admittedly a bit harder.
If you would tell us about your thought process, I could tell you where you're right or wrong, even if that means someone else might snatch the win. Should I give out more hints already?
While I'm here, do we have any information if they'll fix the book of heroes achievements? I've played through all of them, but mage and hunter are unsolved in my achievements log.
Alright, I'm sorry. If this isn't solved or very close to solved by 8 pm CET (which is in about 11 hours from now), I'll give you the solution and the next riddle is up for grabs.
1 - Correct, but your looking for a card. Which of the HS Prince cards might have "his head in the sky"?
2 - It's HS phrasing... It describes an effect that is attached to a minion, like Coldlight Oracle would be Arcane Intellect on a stick (if it would draw only for you). I can't give you more details without giving away the solution, sorry.
3 - Good guess, but it's not a Hunter secret. There's another, very similar card.
Final guess is also incorrect, but I think we're getting there.
I don't want this thread to die because I'm not capable of presenting a good riddle, so here are some heavy hints for the three parts of the riddle and the final solution.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Final solution:
Honestly, I'm pretty happy with what we have right now. One page displaying class level and total wins serves me fine.
If anything, I'd love to see Griffior's idea of Full Art cards implemented, which is somewhat related to player's profiles (quick example: deal lethal with Leeroy Jenkins 1.000 times to unlock his full art which will be used in game (only) for you). Griffior is the most creative guy I know in this area and this my favorite idea of his :)
One issue with all of this kind of stuff is avoiding to disappoint the longterm players. They either have to implement stuff based on data they're collecting anyway (which we don't know about, but certainly limits the possibilities) or focus on recent stuff like they did with achievements. Quite a challenge I think.
I haven't played DH in a while, but that Felsteel list looks cool. Will try it out tonight. Thanks for the article!
Feels like Hunter got the worst package by far. :/
Woah, those Rogue cards look strong!
I'd like to add Scavenger's Ingenuity into Houndmaster.
First ever use of "affect" on a card. Nice addition for custom card design!
Since the leaked 15$/2.000 gold deal for the mid expansion bundle has been confirmed, I've decided to open my 14 saved up packs. Look what happened!
That's a first appearance of the word "affect" on a card. Great news for custom card designers!
A big THANK YOU to the team behind these competitions! I have started as a complete newbie to custom card design with season 1 and now this is my favorite part of the whole site. As far as I know I haven't missed a single competition and I don't intend to change that. This wouldn't be the case if not for our great community full of people who are eager to help each other out and get better at card design. Please don't make the break last too long!
On a sidenote, I'm a bit sceptical about bigger comps because it will be hard to keep people around once the first phase is over, but then I have yet to take part in one of these and the team will surely come up with some good ideas. That said, if there should be a class design competition, I'd be very excited to see an epic battle between linkblade's Alraune class and Demon's Time Traveller class :D
Congrats linkblade! A really neat card.
I'm already sad I didn't wake up to a new prompt this morning :( Please don't make the break too long!
I guess I've misjudged how slow this is going when holidays are over. I'm sitting at 48 right now and I'm not sure if I'll make it to 50 this week, but I'm really looking forward to leveling up faster after that. I'm on the ftp track btw (I'm kind of a dolphin, but I wanted to see how this works out before spending money on it, especially since the Hero skins didn't appeal very much to me).
Not sure what to do about the mini expansion yet. I'm sitting on 15 packs I've saved up and about 5.000 gold. I'll definitely get that 15€/2.000 gold bundle if it proves to be real but don't know which of the two options I'll take. It's just insane value.
It has not been literally "banned", but got excluded from a certain format.
The second one is not a Weapon
I'm sorry that you feel that way. I honestly think the first three cards aren't very difficult to guess, making the connection to the final solution is admittedly a bit harder.
If you would tell us about your thought process, I could tell you where you're right or wrong, even if that means someone else might snatch the win. Should I give out more hints already?
Really cool ideas, I love the (im)purity take on Paladin and Warlock!
Not so sure about Shaman / Warrior, though. Wouldn't Weapons buff kinda negate the Boggspine Knuckles nerf?
Hard mulligan for Consecration.
While I'm here, do we have any information if they'll fix the book of heroes achievements? I've played through all of them, but mage and hunter are unsolved in my achievements log.
Wow, thanks for featuring my deck!
Also that Quest Bomb Hunter looks nice. Might have to re-craft Boommaster Flark...