Shadowfin Soulmancer has one pretty huge problem: Chronological inconsistency. You have a card that uses Soul Fragments, a mechanic from a year before spell schools existed, and combining that with spell schools. There's simply no place in the game's life that this card could be placed. It can't be placed in Year of the Phoenix because spell schools didn't exist yet. It can't be placed before then because neither Demon Hunter nor Soul Fragments existed yet. And it can't be placed after because then you'll have a card that is unusable in Standard because there's no Soul Fragment cards in the format.

Virulent Voidmaster is definitely better. It's easier to use and it doesn't have the same chronological problem that Shadowfin Soulmancer does.

I definitely think going with Arcane Owl (specifically the first version) is the better way to go over Nightmare Lord or Nightmare Servant. I fully understand what you're trying to do with the other two cards, but it'll be a very hard sell for the competition.

Kirin Tor Prodigy is cool, although the discrepancy in power on each of the effects is a little bit off-putting. The Fire Combo effect is just blatantly much weaker than the other two.

Equilibrium has really cool flavor, but unfortunately that flavor will overlap with BloodMefist's card from the last competition. It also doesn't do anything without the Combo effects.

Gonna agree with everyone else and say that I like this card. It's simple and it feels like a card that Blizzard would print. I can see it doing pretty well.

"but none of them is particularly good"

I disagree. I like both of these cards. I say Swift Assassin is a little bit better since it's more to-the-point on how you're supposed to use it and it's quite flavorful, but both of them are solid cards.

If I'm reading this right, this appears to deal 4 damage to one minion and 8 damage to adjacent minions. And that seems extremely powerful to me.

I definitely prefer Hail Storm. It seems like it does what you want it to do more of the time and it seems a bit weird for hail to heal you.

It seems fine. Hot Streak is going to make any Fire spell broken, and that's not really avoidable so it's best to not worry about that.

I must ask though. Is it intended to not have a spell school? If that's the case, then balance is a complete non-issue and the card is 100% fine as is.

Nice flavor all around and a super cool usage of the pizza art. I'd say the Rare version only increasing the Cost of one card is the way to go. I actually also like Basil's suggestion of making it affect your next card as opposed to just one card at random or all of them.

Super flavorful, but I feel a bit of a design disconnect in the sense that you can play it and then toss out all your Shadow spells and then the penalty to Holy spells doesn't really matter since you've already gotten so much value out the card. And then the penalty to Shadow spells next turn doesn't matter since you've presumably already played all of them on the previous turn anyway. Minions also don't tend to survive long enough for effects like this to function the way they're intended.

Really cool artwork, but I don't see the use for the card. It also doesn't really feel like a Mage card either.

I understand your reasoning for not making it a Fire spell, but it has artwork that sorta needs it to use the Fire spell tag. Not including will likely cost you some points since the art just specifically screams "Fire spell".

Your second version needs capitalized "Cost" and also "Fire" should not be bolded. Beyond that, I am worried by how quickly and easily this can ramp up. Just casting a single Fire spell already makes it a 1-mana Consecration.

I will agree with everyone else and say that you shouldn't use "Roame" in the name. I'm gonna say that balance is probably fine since Discovering a spell by itself with no additional upside is not worth 1 mana and adding a 1 mana tax to that won't break anything. If anything, it actually makes the cards slightly worse on average as far as mana efficiency goes.

I am fully aware that the intent is that it gets harder to play by playing more cards, but it still features a dynamic that works against itself by increasing its Cost as you're spending more mana which is just doubly making it harder to use as opposed to just wanting you to play more cards.

Mythmaker has some cool flavor, but a problem stems from the fact that making cards cost 10 is bad. I'd imagine this problem would only be exacerbated with 1-Cost minions since they (logically) don't do very much so you now have a 10-Cost card in your hand that doesn't do much of anything impactful. Splintergraft suffered a very similar problem (in addition to it being an 8-Cost card that required board presence and also didn't do anything immediately).

Desperate Shot is a more interesting design although it has a very weird dynamic in that Hunters have typically never been that good at holding a lot of cards in their hand anyway (although this has admittedly been changing over the course of this year).

Aside from the weird phrasing and syntaxing (which I'm not entirely sure how to fix), the card is a bit weird in that it costs more mana when you play more cards and thus spending more mana. True that Rogue decks can play a lot of 0 or 1-Cost cards to offset this, but it's a strange dynamic in which the card weirdly works against itself.

I like the callback to Justicar Trueheart, but the upgrading your Hero Power seems a bit off to me since it just upgrades your Hero Power with no real cost (other than just making it slightly more expensive for 3 uses). It's not like Justicar which required you to play a minion with a bad stat distribution, or either Genn Greymane, Baku the Mooneater, or Sir Finley of the Sands which each have deckbuilding requirements.

The effect of costing more can also somewhat be negated with cards like Tour Guide which might be something worth thinking about.

Cool idea. It seems that you may have run out of space on the card to specify this, but if possible, I'd probably put "(up to 10)" somewhere on the card.

Sunfire being almost a better Fireball for Druid seems off to me. True, this version can't target face which is actually sort of a big deal, but I'd probably still lower the damage to 5. Makes more sense for Druid since they're not supposed to be as good at single-target damage as Mage is.

Frostwolf Blademaster is kinda cool. I like the fact that it can potentially clear a board of minions with exactly 4 Health.

A fine card when looked at in a vacuum, but its flavor doesn't really fit with Fractured in Alterac Valley.

Fierce Cub is a really nice design that's simple but not boring. I quite like this card.

Magic Instructor Charon is a pretty cool card that works nicely with Magister Dawngrasp.

Vendetta is a fine card, though as pointed out by Wailor, its name is already used so you should change it if you choose to go with it.

Commander Karl Philips is pretty cool, so I'd go with that. More Karl lore.

"why would I not be happy abou…. oh, I see why."

And yeah, you're right. I'm not happy about it. XD

We may have been told about an old set-exclusive keyword making a return as an evergreen mechanic, but we don't know what that mechanic is. And it sure as hell isn't going to be Overkill, I can tell you that much.

The juxtaposition between the Overkill and Honorable Kill effect is cute, but the Honorable Kill effect is a little bit weird since it can save itself from dying.

Nice overall. The effect isn't too intrusive, but it can still disrupt your opponent badly when used at the right time. I like it.

Great idea. Balance I'm not too sure about, though it does rely on your opponent needing to use their Hero Power and ideally against a deck that wants to use it a lot which I think works well for it.

I'm gonna have to agree with everybody else here and say that this does nothing for me. The art for the first version does not fit Hearthstone at all and the effect in general just seems way too weird to work.

I'm not exactly the biggest fan of "Marin the Fox but different". At least Toggwaggle was a bit different in that he just skipped the Treasure Chest entirely and let you choose a Treasure. The card otherwise is fine though.

I think the effect is a neat idea, but it doesn't really feel like a Paladin card to me other than the artwork. I feel like it could very well just be a Neutral card.

I do think the card design is a bit too narrow since it, on baseline anyway, only affects Mage and Hunter. Use as a tech card for Hero Powers from hero cards and such is fine, but then it should exist in a set where those cards actually exist. It is a little bit weird to have both this and Overconfident Orc in the same set when the latter has the same stats, cost, Taunt, and is generally just a better card most of the time.

A simple, but fine idea. I think you could possible phrase it as "Battlecry: Your opponent's Hero Power costs (1) more this game" to avoid the overlapping problem.

I do see the 1/1/4 statline as slightly controversial which is why I thought about changing it anyway.

A funky idea, but I do agree that it's too risky to use for the comp.

Well I can see you've already submitted. Your card is pretty good though, so I can see it doing pretty well.

Inspiring Ballad is fine. I definitely prefer Pied Piper.

Pretty good new rendition of ETC. Nightfall feels significantly worse than the other two, though I guess that's just sort of on flavor with the original ETC with how Power of the Horde was by far the worst of the original Power Chords.

I love myself a good Metallica pun and I think you've good yourself a good card right here.

A fun idea, but there's absolutely a way to break this. I'm not sure what that way is yet, but someone is going to find one. The artwork is not too great either unfortunately.

Contrary to what other people are saying, the card doesn't need to specifically exclude itself since Discover cards can no longer Discover themselves anyway.

An'she Mythsinger is a fun idea, but it definitely can get abused quickly. Reverberating Hymn is balanced, but these types of basic designs don't usually do so well unless there's some type of specific aspect to them.

A fine idea on paper, but I do agree that spending 5 mana on one spell that doesn't do anything (unless you control multiple Secrets) does not seem like the way to go for Hunter. You might be able to get away with doing that in a class like Priest or Warrior, but definitely not Hunter.

It is also a little bit weird to be a Scholomance card given that Scholomance didn't contain any Secrets or synergy cards for them in Hunter.

I quite like the first version. I don't think it's too strong now, and it in fact actually might be weak. Cards that gain benefit when Traded only need to be Traded once before it becomes "good" whereas this one needs to be Traded twice.

The (buffed) second version is more than acceptable, but I prefer the first version myself.

Mecha'zoth is a classic, so I would not be opposed to the idea of using that if you want.

Of the other two, I do think Elise would have the better chance of getting a good score over Xavius. While I for one, support the concept of a card that you "can't" play, some people will likely find it a bit too weird (particularly under its current execution) and penalize it somewhat.

I'm a big fan of the effect, although I must admit that I do agree with Sinti in that it costing 11 doesn't seem to serve a significant purpose to the card.

As everyone else has pointed out: Good idea, but the art is already used by the Corrupted version of Sweet Tooth.

Coral Lurker has a really cool ability (although I am worried that it might be slightly too strong). Though I am hoping Tradeable makes appearances elsewhere, its watermark should be either United in Stormwind or The Deadmines for the time being.

I am not a big fan of Miranda Coastmoor. It's not supposed to be that easy to get Treasures. Marin the Fox requires you to play an understatted 8-drop and destroy a minion you give to your opponent, and [Hearthstone Card (Heistbaron Toggwaggle) Not Found] requires you to have Lackeys (and to be playing Rogue). This requires no such condition and is easily repeatable.

As pointed out, Fire Lord Graazek needs an art change since its art is already being used by Fireguard Destroyer. The effect is fine, but I don't think it's intended to hit itself so it should specify "other characters".

Brogon the Trampler is…. an interesting concept but playing it covers two extremes. Either you draw it early and can be play a 10/10 with Rush for very few or potentially even 0 mana, or you draw it late when you've already drawn most of your Beasts and the card is literally unplayable and it wastes a draw. Beyond that, there are syntax errors such as "Beast" not being capitalized and Rush being below the Cost-reduction effect instead of above it.

A good idea, but I do definitely think it needs some work. As pointed out previously, Totem Goliath as a roll is pretty significant and it's much better than most other things you can possibly get. I'm not too big on the name either.

This is actually one of the oldest fan-made card designs to become a "trope" many many years ago, so it's a cool throwback to those old days to see it come back.

Back then, this effect was theorized to be used as Joust synergy rather than Evolve synergy as the latter had not existed yet by this effect's first iteration. I think this is a cool Shaman design and I do think we will eventually see it in the game some day, not to mention its contrast with other cards in this competition is probably going to give it some appeal in voting. I'm not sure about the specific numbers, but I think the base idea you have is worth using.

It's funny, but I do think the joke is a bit too "on the nose" for me. It'll probably get some points from some people for humor, but it'll likely also cost you some points from others for a very similar reason.

I'd say go for it if you're really confident that more people will love the humor than people that won't. Otherwise, it'll probably be a good idea to have some other card in reserve just in case.

Definitely too weak in my opinion.

As pointed out before in response to Wailor's card, cards that upgrade when Traded only need to be Traded once before they become "good". This one needs to be Traded at least 3 times before it becomes any good and that will take quite a while overall.

Yes, you will.

That is all that I think needs to be said.

A very strange card. It's an interesting way to do a flexibility card like this, I'll say that much. I'm afraid I can't say I like it that much though because it's just too weird.

It's also got mistakes where it says "Tradable" and "looses".

Well that's something. It's a Deathwing, Mad Aspect effect for Hunter which is alright I suppose. For some reason, the card just bothers me and I can't exactly put my finger on why. I guess it's because Hunter can't really use the effect as well as Warrior can with Deathwing (although it has gotten a bit better recently).

Chameleosaurus is pretty nifty. I like it.

Gladiator Chewer however I have a problem with. Not in terms of concept, but rather that it overlooks a very important detail. Since the minion it attacks will have negative Health when you trigger the Overkill, the minion will try to gain negative Health and further weaken itself.

Neoguli basically already put it best.

Simple, sweet, and interesting. Good job all around.

Unfortunately not eligible since the card has to be a minion.

Good job. I like it.