Another week, another design competition! I was initially enamored with doing some Priest/Rogue burgle shenans, but somehow ended on Druid/Paladin. 

Both Druid and Paladin have different ways to buff the deer and flood the board to maximize the effect, but neither has an easy way to kill it themselves and must rely on trading into/with it.  Both do also have ways to give it Taunt (although Paladin's is on a rotating basis) which can make it easier to proc, but I do not currently see a way that this card can be abused.  Currently think it might be a bit underpowered, but I am really happy with the flavor of the card.  Might change the name to Sacred Stag for alliteration and being a bit less obvious about the reference.

I ended up submitting Horrified Apprentice since I feel like it fits the darker side of Scholomance better.  Although some people said that the art/name is too dark, I bring up that Fleshgiant exists in the same set and has some pretty dark implications and art. 

Feedback part 2 

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Thanks for the feedback, everyone!  Most people seemed to like the card, so I only made minimal adjustments to it.  It can now no longer return itself if it is your only minion that died.  A lot of comments regarded the art/name, so I have two different versions that I want to run by people.  The first keeps the art but changes the name to something more fitting while the second uses a lighter art to fit the name "Nosy Newbie".  

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Hell yeah! Hyped for the new season!  Taking some advice from KANSAS' suggestion thread, I'll try only showing one card at a time.

I wanted to further push Zoo/Tempo Deathrattle Priest since I was dissapointed that neither took off despite all the support they got.  I enjoy the flavor of a student coming across the real deal with Scholomance and will likely try to continue iterating on the theme if the current effect isn't to people's liking.  The flavor of the effect is a bit off, but the idea is that the student found out the secrets of Raise Dead that the school was hiding.  I was also somewhat dissapointed with how boring Frazzled Freshman was and wanted to make something more interesting.

I'm looking forward to how everyone else takes this weeks contest theme!

I was having a lot of success with self-damage and soul fragment zoo.  I didn't queue into anything super aggressive, which might counter the deck, but I was able to climb to plat pretty effectively.

In the dungeon I go deeper...

Idk about Cho'gall, I personally don't remember many people hyping him up.  It was the first time we'd seen a health-instead-of-mana effect and that got people talking, but I don't remember people being super excited about him since he still cost a lot himself.  Also surprised to not see Lakkari Sacrifice here.  I remember people were losing their minds over the infinite value and board presence it could provide for the 'low cost' of discarding 6 cards.  Specifically that was where TrumpSC got his famous '5-star' rating super wrong and tried desperately to make discard Warlock almost every expansion until it rotated.

After seeing all the cards, I think this will be a nice early drop for ramp beast Druid since it can get more value out of cards without screwing up curve like Embiggen does.  I still don't see much of an application in Hunter though since they lack the ramp resources to slot in big value beasts and don't have enough really strong early-game beasts to get value out of the Keleseth-esque effect.

Is those dedicated Spell Damage decks this probably finds a home, but its scope won't reach much beyond that.  There are far too many weak Spell Damage minions and getting a 1 mana discount on a later turn won't be enough to justify running this most of the time.

Now that we've seen the main card this is supposed to synergize with, there might be room for a big beast Druid where this works pretty well.  It also helps cycle through the deck so you can reach KT or Mountseller faster.

Definitely a design I've seen in some custom card.  Still, it's pretty interesting and I like to see that they're pushing control Hunter and DH.

Building a curve in one card could be good, but man are there some trash beasts out there.

90% sure I saw this around the custom hearthstone subreddit.  Might be good enough for Token Druids since they run a lot of spells, but the impact seems kind of 'meh' to warrant this over other cards.

Seems pretty good in Stealth Rogue.  Curves pretty well in stealth-synergy cards and even replaces itself when it dies.

Good in arena, might be a consideration in standard.  Decent in Taunt warrior and might have an application in deathrattle decks, but its still pretty slow.

With an effect like that I would have thought he was a Trogg.  Speaking of, this well suffer a similar fate of being too niche and not warranting a spot over other cards.

Lot of decent-good 1-drops this expansion.  Could be a Flame Imp level good in some decks, but it's not good enough to run in every fast deck out there.

Very good Murloc and it might be good enough to run in something like Quest Hunter since it counts for 2 minions and can be tutored with the 4/1.  

Works well with the 7 mana Druid/Hunter spell, but I'm not confident that is enough to warrant running this card.  The times you draw it it becomes too slow and clunky to play.

Pretty decent minion.  I think it has the most likelihood of seeing play in Priest or Paladin since they can buff it further, have dragon synergy, and have good minions to hide behind it.