The flavor would have been fitting for a Demon Hunter / Warlock card because it also destroys friendly minions. Self damage is a Warlock thing, no matter if you target your hero or your minions (Diseased Vulture, Darkglare, Ratcatcher, EVIL Genius).

But maybe we should be grateful Zoolock doesn't get to play this.

Now that's a creative way to circumvent the weakness of Stealth minions to AOE. The fact that you can't buff the token before it attacks (board buff auras aside) also prevents abusal. I'm bad at evaluating the strenth of cards, but this is certainly great design!

It's probably too early to say this, but maybe Spell Damage will be a thing this expansion. Also: Why isn't this a dual class card?

Nice idea! Here's my first idea. I'm not very convinced of the art and the name, but the effect is cool. Would obviously be bonkers in wild, but I think 5 mana is at least somewhat reasonable. What do you think? 

KANSAS: Interesting idea, but it feels a bit clunky. I think the major challenge will be to find art fitting the school theme. 

Paragon: Really cool idea! I'd prefer it at 4 mana for more fireball flavor. 

If you can make this stick, double Bloodlust would be possible. A second roll of The Storm Bringer doesn't sound bad either. 

Doesn't that mean that we have a 50/50 chance to pull a golden legendary if we open the 5 golden packs before any other pack from this expansion? You could even gamble a bit and open 2 or 3 regular packs first to further increase your chances. 

Looks cool to me. The big question is if they'll adjust the price with the addition of the 5 golden packs to the usual bundle.

Thanks for the briefing, you're a great lore-yer! This looks exciting to me. I wouldn't mind either alternative: a darker themed expansion like Nax or a Harry Potter crossover fun one.

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I like the overall flavor and as already mentioned the cohesive art style. Some cards are kinda powercreeping a bit (not literally), for example Pandaren Guardian is definitely a better Shieldmaiden.

One thing i dont like, and at this point it is probably too late, is the new keyword. I really dislike keywords that have (x) attribute in them. Yes, there is Overload, but that has a pretty clean UI. You would need to make something like a mechanic icon at the bottom of minions picture, same as for trigger effects and such, and even then having to constantly hover over minions to check how long until the effect triggers, even more pain in the ass for mobile users ... these kind of mechanics are not meant for Hearthstone. I get wanting to add more complexity, but you need to do it in a HS friendly way, this is not it unfortunately.

All that being said, this is still a custom set, so you can do whatever the hell you want and ultimately, the strife i have with that i suppose doesnt matter in this setting, so good luck with finishing your set! Maybe someone will read this and take it to heart when designing their own set in the future so my rumbling is worth something :)

Thanks for your thoughts! The issue you are describing is something I actually have put some thought to, but maybe not enough. I stopped at the point where I decided Stamina would work similar to Dormant, reflecting the counting mechanism. But while Dormant minions are easy to spot on the board, Stamina guys would need something to flag them. The easy way out would be to say that I'd introduce a little hour glass at the base of the minion, similar to the lightning bolt for other effects. I'll keep your advice mind for future projects and will try to work around this problem. 

Thanks to all of you for your super detailed and helpful feedback! It means a lot to me that you seem to like the overall theme. I still consider myself a custom card design novice, so this is a major opportunity to learn something. You are of tremendous help in this. 

I'll definitely heed your advice to drop Alex 3.0 (her stamina was one of the first that I came up with and just fitted the character very well) and find names for the legendarys. I'll also keep looking for better art. I'll probably cut the "Pandaren" part in the name of those cards, at least for the minions. It was meant as a compromise between nothing and a new tribe.

The first/last mechanic is a great idea, I'll keep this in mind when I rework the cards with balance issues you pointed out to me. It's true that the race theme still is still missing in the cards. I had initially meant to add a paragraph about potential PVE content like those "survive x turns" encounters. Your suggestion is a way better idea to reflect the theme! 

@Xarkkal: Thanks for your advice! I probably lack the time for a meaningful WoW experience, but I did read a lot about this on the Web. Your example of gaining rep being a huge grind was something I actually knew about but haven't found a way to implement yet. I'm looking forward to receiving your detailed feedback, please don't spare me ;-) 

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Posting something so soon after I post mine; trying to steal my thunder, eh? lol :P

I'm sorry. I had already decided to make this post this weekend when you came out with yours. My first reaction was to postpone my stuff until next weekend, but then I was reminded of the incoming announcement of the new expansion and I definitely wanted to get this out before that. If it's any comfort to you, I don't think I'm any competition to your Custom Class. Your two leagues above my game. I really didn't want to be rude. 

Well, I’m an impatient person and this isn’t finished by far, but the core cards are done and I’m curious about your feedback. Blizzard will also probably announce the new expansion within a few days and I want to make a point of who had those brilliant ideas first, so...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I proudly present to you my first custom Hearthstone expansion,

The Great Air Race

Now sit back, tighten your seatbelts and make yourself ready, because you are in for a wild ride!

The story:
Our favorite heroes have agreed upon taking a little break from constantly bashing their heads in and chose to participate in The Great Air Race to pass their time instead. It takes place in the Jade Forest on Pandaria and revolves around the Order of the Cloud Serpent, so prepare for Dragons, Pandaren and …

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. This trait will be illustrated by my custom

New Keyword: Stamina (x)!

Protect your Stamina minions and reap amazing rewards! Stamina is basically a fun and interactive version of Dormant. It forces players to pay more attention to their opponent’s board and brings back trading minions as a key element of Hearthstone.

But enough of the warm up, let’s go racing! Here are the cards I’ve designed so far:

Mounts

Dragons

Pandaren

Other

As you can see, I didn’t find art for all the WoW stuff I wanted to make cards of. If anyone happens to be able to help me out with this, I’d be very grateful. I’m also open to any kind of feedback. This custom expansion is far from complete and will probably be a long term side project. I’ll happyly adjust the balance of my cards if you have any concerns.

Thanks for reading!

Murphy's law helps, of course. 5 minutes after making this post, I was able to upload via imgur again (receiving an error message with each and every one but the first). Please tell me there's an alternative to this clown fiesta nevertheless!

Imgur has caused problems for me right from the start. If I use the mobile app, it usually doesn't upload more than one image. If I try to upload a second one, an error occurs after some time and the image appears as "hidden" in my galery without a thing I could do about it but delete it. I usually work around this by loging in via browser in desktop mode. If I upload this way, I also receive error notifications (though different ones), but the images get uploaded properly nevertheless. 

This time, I wanted to upload 28 images for my custom expansion and started out on my laptop for this special occasion. The first 15 went smoothly, but now imgur says "Something went wrong with CREATE_ALBUM_FAIL. Please try later" and that's that. Mobile doesn't work, Internet Explorer doesn't work, Chrome doesn't work. On top of this, the community on imgur seems to be made of very special people. I created my account with WCDC 1 and don't use it for anything else but custom HS cards. Every one of them gets downvoted to hell, no matter if I tag them as custom HS content or not.

So I tried to look for alternatives and uploaded my stuff to Flickr. That went smoothly and it was even possible to organize the images in an album while still being able to copy indivudal links for all of them, something I couldn't manage with imgur. This time, I wasn't able to post the image in a forum post. I tried the links provided via "share", "embed" and "BBCode". No display in here.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Wow! This is truly great work. Some feedback, as requested:

The flavor is amazing! The coloring, the heroine, the card's, it all goes hand in hand and feels completely natural. Really impressive!

What has me a bit worried is the poisonous theme. This effect is really powerful and you built in lots of synergistic cards for it. Some of them, or rather their combined power, look(s) very scary to me.

I'm also wondering if cards that summon Seedlings shouldn't be worded "random" since that's actually what they're intended to do, isn't it?

Overall a very impressive and beautiful set. Great work! 

That's right! Well done, you're next. 

I finished the Warlock grind in a try hard session yesterday. I'm very happy since it's my favorite golden portrait.

Current standings:

Hunter 1011, Mage 1044, Warlock 501, Paladin 240, Warrior 253, Demon Hunter 158, Shaman 69, Rogue 89, Priest 134, Druid 158

Of course I immediately updated my Wall of Fame as well :)

I'll enjoy playing whatever I feel like for some time now, not looking at the numbers ;-) 

I agree too. I'm really torn on this one. It's such a cool card but I'm quite convinced she won't be playable anymore. The thing is, I tend to use up my dust because I always have that next hot shit in mind I'd like to try out. Sigh.

What do the Wild players say? Should we dust her?

Just in case I'm not the only one who missed it: HSReplay has finally extended their deck tracker to mobile! Look for "Arcane Tracker" in your app store (Android only as far as I can tell).

I noticed it yesterday in a Reddit post with a screenshot. Played about 10 games with it. Seems to run smoothly, doesn't use up too much space on the screen, very convenient!