You're at the final challenge and the deck isn't stacked in your favor. Can you salvage a way to win the fight?
You must make a card with a deckbuilding restriction. You're free to choose whatever restriction you want as long as it's explicit and requires some level of thoughtful deckbuilding.
In other words, cards that technically have deckbuilding restrictions to use properly, but don't say so on the card (like Mogu Cultist or Elwynn Boar) or otherwise don't prevent its normal functionality will not count. While certain cards like Gather Your Party or Clumsy Courier discourage you from using cheap minions or spells in your deck, they don't necessarily prevent you from using them and in any deck (assuming it has at least one minion or one spell in it), it will still maintain its normal functionality.
While there are no clearly defined designations for what counts as 'thoughtful deckbuilding', simply using common sense will make this a non-issue. You wouldn't call Town Crier a card with a 'deckbuilding restriction' because your deck needs a Rush minion to tutor.
Loknax has whipped up a final boss fight for us, and our playbook is limited for this one.
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Competition Phases
Here are the phases of this card design competition
Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, May 22 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, May 27 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, May 27 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, May 28 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, May 28 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, May 29 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.
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While I'm in the middle of internally debating if I should get an Imgur account (and then if I do, actually doing it), here's a card.
Spell Damage Hunter works perfectly for this since it's an established archetype and it still has few enough cards to fit within the requirements.
"spell with Spell Damage" is supposed to be a shorthand for "spell that has benefitted from Spell Damage" since there's not enough text space to write all of that down. I hope that's clear enough.
This week, we're giving the term "colorful language" a new meaning.
You must make a class card with a keyword that the class doesn't normally use. For the purposes of establishing defined boundaries, as long as the class has less than 5 collectible cards that utilize that keyword, it will count.
Keywords that are exclusive to certain expansions or years (like Inspire or Echo) will not count as uncommon keywords for the class regardless of how few cards in that class use it.
Using class-exclusive keywords (like Combo or Outcast) on cards in other classes will also not count.
This week, Wailor wants the classes to step a little bit outside of their keyword comfort zone.
As always, we can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.
Competition Phases
Here are the phases of this card design competition
Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, May 15 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, May 20 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, May 20 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, May 21 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, May 21 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, May 22 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.
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Energy Enhancer feels very derivative of Overdraft, and the effect is generally worse (a fair tradeoff for the loss of the 2/2 body and Tradeable). I do see a combo of having Doomhammer, intentionally Overloading yourself a ton and then having a Windfury hero with like 10 Attack. I don't see this combo being problematic though.
Since you need to choose between either Hammer Enthusiast or Electrify Weapon, I would suggest the former because I think it's more interesting from the perspective of a general player.
Wailor
I like Ragnar Stormcloud, but I do think he equips Doomhammer too efficiently. Super cheap Overload cards will always exist in Standard, and it's not that hard to cheat this out quite early.
Thunderous Gladiator is cute, but I think their effect is too situational to be useful since it only works with Doomhammer (or any weapon if you happen to have Inara Stormcrash and didn't break it by attacking) and I think the effect is quite small for the requirement.
Storm Bolt is a very straightforward and simple card. I think it probably doesn't need the Overload, and making it 0 mana with 1 Overload feels counterproductive for trying to balance Ragnar.
AeroJulwin
Stormcaller Thrall is definitely a cool support card for Doomhammer. There aren't any Elementals in the game that have Charge to make use of the Windfury (except for Al'Akir which already has Windfury). I do think the Windfury effect is quite strong, but it's unlikely to be problematic and the condition to get is fairly steep.
I think Charged Stormer is a good card to use with cheap weapons or other hero attack cards and I don't think the effect is problematic.
I think Forge Goliath wouldn't see play though since decks could just use Hoard Pillager instead and skip the Elemental requirement. I guess the Discover could allow for cheap weapons to be used with it, but I think it would probably just be simply to curate the pool around your other cards.
CursedParrot
I quite like this theme of giving your hero a benefit after each attack for the rest of the game. If you ask me, I would probably cut either Storm's Wrath or Flame's Fury in favor of the other. They're both solid cards, but having 2 weapons takes up a lot of slots for other support in a competition where you have a total of 3 cards. I think support from other card types is pretty important. As Link pointed out already, Storm's Wrath is a nice that is already used, so if you choose to use Storm's Wrath, you should rename that card.
I do think Thrall, Elemental Master is a bit boring, but at least it's balanced.
Thunderstrike is a simple hero-Attack spell, but it can amusingly be used with Windfury (either from Doomhammer or Inara Stormcrash) to get two spells.
Shock Surger is a weapon buffer and also gives you some burst. Kinda like Stormstrike attached to a minion.
Warchief Thrall is the card that basically inspired this entire competition, and is my card from A Hero's Tale. It only makes sense to toss it back in here again, although it is slightly awkward given Wailor's Ragnar Stormcloud.
Well the feedback is quite good. I feel more confident that the effect in this form can now probably just be a Battlecry. It can't really build up that crazily now.
As for as keywords like Battlecry and Deathrattle (and all other keywords that function like this), my thought is that it would copy the Battlecry and Deathrattle keywords, and thus it would still be able to function with certain cards that synergize with those keywords, but the effect of gaining the keywords itself would simply do nothing.
Feedback:
Wailor
I like Pureblood Sorcerer as a nod to Harry Potter, but the effect is supposed to be phrased as "If your deck has no Neutral cards". Just a minor wording thing is all.
ChameleonicSaurolisk is quite good. The effect fits in Rogue quite good and they could probably make something like this work, although I feel like it can probably start with Stealth at baseline.
Linkblade91
This card might not be overpowered (or it might be because I can't really tell), but I do agree that I don't think it's healthy. The downside of damaging your own hero doesn't seem to ever matter since you either kill your opponent anyway before you die, or you do "die" and instead just get healed back up. If there ever was a class that could find a way to abuse this, it's Priest.
BasilAnguis
Amusing idea, but I do agree that some parts are at odds with each other. For instance, you don't really benefit from stealing both Rush AND Charge, so I'd probably drop either one of them in favor of a different keyword (probably Lifesteal). Stealing both Taunt and Stealth similarly isn't useful, although I guess decks that don't typically run Stealth and Taunt minions, so this situation would be quite rare.
Crusader2010
The text seems a bit confusing. Does it only gain all the keywords from all minions on the board at the time you play it, or does it keep track of it at all times while in your hand?
Out of Cards may no longer be around in the form we once knew, but on Out of Games, we're still going to be bringing the competitions around. We've still got a season to finish.
I didn't realize until after I made it that it is a strict powercreep on Blood Herald, but then I really didn't mind that I did that since not only is that card terrible, but this is also a Legendary and a fairly difficult Rune requirement. There's a lot of fun that can be had with an effect like this one if you're able to get it to grow.
I am now also realizing that it's pretty easy to give it Charge because of the Hero Power. Is that problematic? Maybe not.
This week, our cards are getting bold and brash. But they don't belong in the trash.
Make a card that conditionally gains a keyword (or multiple).
Note that giving a keyword is not the same as gaining it. Cards that give keywords to other cards will not count (unless said card also happens to gain a keyword as well).
As Out of Cards is making some bold moves transitioning to Out of Games, Wailor is asking us to make our own bold moves with our cards as well.
As always, we can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.
Competition Phases
Here are the phases of this card design competition
Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, May 1 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, May 6 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, May 6 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, May 7 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, May 7 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, May 8 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.
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Congratulations Wailor.
Competition Theme: Stacked Against You
You're at the final challenge and the deck isn't stacked in your favor. Can you salvage a way to win the fight?
Loknax has whipped up a final boss fight for us, and our playbook is limited for this one.
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While I'm in the middle of internally debating if I should get an Imgur account (and then if I do, actually doing it), here's a card.
Spell Damage Hunter works perfectly for this since it's an established archetype and it still has few enough cards to fit within the requirements.
"spell with Spell Damage" is supposed to be a shorthand for "spell that has benefitted from Spell Damage" since there's not enough text space to write all of that down. I hope that's clear enough.
Gorehowl already can kill Cairne.
Gorehowl starts with 7 Attack and Cairne has 5 Health.
Just a heads-up. Imgur is supposed to be purging uploads without an account today.
It seems to be fine at the time of writing this post, but just to be safe, I would recommend that from this point on, you either:
Competition Theme: Prismatic Parlance
This week, we're giving the term "colorful language" a new meaning.
This week, Wailor wants the classes to step a little bit outside of their keyword comfort zone.
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We've ended our submission period with 6 entries.
For the first time on Out of Cards (or rather, out of Games), all valid entries will make it to the finals.
At this point, you've got 24 hours left to submit.
New Warchief Thrall.
Really couldn't think of anything else, so I just used Wailor's suggestion. It works well enough.
Alright, feedback time.
Your cards are all solid.
Energy Enhancer feels very derivative of Overdraft, and the effect is generally worse (a fair tradeoff for the loss of the 2/2 body and Tradeable). I do see a combo of having Doomhammer, intentionally Overloading yourself a ton and then having a Windfury hero with like 10 Attack. I don't see this combo being problematic though.
Since you need to choose between either Hammer Enthusiast or Electrify Weapon, I would suggest the former because I think it's more interesting from the perspective of a general player.
I like Ragnar Stormcloud, but I do think he equips Doomhammer too efficiently. Super cheap Overload cards will always exist in Standard, and it's not that hard to cheat this out quite early.
Thunderous Gladiator is cute, but I think their effect is too situational to be useful since it only works with Doomhammer (or any weapon if you happen to have Inara Stormcrash and didn't break it by attacking) and I think the effect is quite small for the requirement.
Storm Bolt is a very straightforward and simple card. I think it probably doesn't need the Overload, and making it 0 mana with 1 Overload feels counterproductive for trying to balance Ragnar.
Stormcaller Thrall is definitely a cool support card for Doomhammer. There aren't any Elementals in the game that have Charge to make use of the Windfury (except for Al'Akir which already has Windfury). I do think the Windfury effect is quite strong, but it's unlikely to be problematic and the condition to get is fairly steep.
I think Charged Stormer is a good card to use with cheap weapons or other hero attack cards and I don't think the effect is problematic.
I think Forge Goliath wouldn't see play though since decks could just use Hoard Pillager instead and skip the Elemental requirement. I guess the Discover could allow for cheap weapons to be used with it, but I think it would probably just be simply to curate the pool around your other cards.
I quite like this theme of giving your hero a benefit after each attack for the rest of the game. If you ask me, I would probably cut either Storm's Wrath or Flame's Fury in favor of the other. They're both solid cards, but having 2 weapons takes up a lot of slots for other support in a competition where you have a total of 3 cards. I think support from other card types is pretty important. As Link pointed out already, Storm's Wrath is a nice that is already used, so if you choose to use Storm's Wrath, you should rename that card.
I do think Thrall, Elemental Master is a bit boring, but at least it's balanced.
Thunderstrike is a simple hero-Attack spell, but it can amusingly be used with Windfury (either from Doomhammer or Inara Stormcrash) to get two spells.
Shock Surger is a weapon buffer and also gives you some burst. Kinda like Stormstrike attached to a minion.
Warchief Thrall is the card that basically inspired this entire competition, and is my card from A Hero's Tale. It only makes sense to toss it back in here again, although it is slightly awkward given Wailor's Ragnar Stormcloud.
Competition Theme: Stop! Doomhammer Time!
This week we're honoring a mighty weapon of Warcraft lore. Hit 'em hard, then hit 'em again!
Chegwin and Linkblade91 are getting ready to drop the hammer on their enemies. Let's join in the fray!
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You have slightly under 24 hours left to submit.
At this point, we can officially call this out first article of Out of Games. We're covering all types of games now!
Well the feedback is quite good. I feel more confident that the effect in this form can now probably just be a Battlecry. It can't really build up that crazily now.
As for as keywords like Battlecry and Deathrattle (and all other keywords that function like this), my thought is that it would copy the Battlecry and Deathrattle keywords, and thus it would still be able to function with certain cards that synergize with those keywords, but the effect of gaining the keywords itself would simply do nothing.
Feedback:
I like Pureblood Sorcerer as a nod to Harry Potter, but the effect is supposed to be phrased as "If your deck has no Neutral cards". Just a minor wording thing is all.
Chameleonic Saurolisk is quite good. The effect fits in Rogue quite good and they could probably make something like this work, although I feel like it can probably start with Stealth at baseline.
Out of Cards may no longer be around in the form we once knew, but on Out of Games, we're still going to be bringing the competitions around. We've still got a season to finish.
I didn't realize until after I made it that it is a strict powercreep on Blood Herald, but then I really didn't mind that I did that since not only is that card terrible, but this is also a Legendary and a fairly difficult Rune requirement. There's a lot of fun that can be had with an effect like this one if you're able to get it to grow.
I am now also realizing that it's pretty easy to give it Charge because of the Hero Power. Is that problematic? Maybe not.
Congratulations to Linkblade and Chegwin.
Competition Theme: Bold Moves
This week, our cards are getting bold and brash. But they don't belong in the trash.
As Out of Cards is making some bold moves transitioning to Out of Games, Wailor is asking us to make our own bold moves with our cards as well.
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I'm really excited.
You have 24 hours left to submit and there a total of 7 entries so far.
I haven't really had the motivation to give feedback for the past two comps because there's next to no-one here. :(