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    Posted 4 years ago

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    Linkblade91 - Nice flavor, although I do feel that duplicating your Soul Fragments might end up leading to too much healing.

    Wailor - I pretty much agree with Ancorm4n. It's by no means a bad idea, but it seems difficult to balance properly and it's not that original either.

    BloodMefist - I think this has an unintended quirk with the way Echo works. It seems to read as if you need to Corrupt each temporary copy for them to generate again. This is otherwise though, a fine card.

    DestroyerR - The effect of refreshing Spellburst seems neat, but in practice I feel like it wouldn't change much. Decent idea though.

    DavnanKillder - Sand Shark is a funny card with a fine idea, although the effect does have a weird interaction. Overkill doesn't require the minion to survive, so would it be possible to Adapt into Rocky Carapace or Volcanic Might to save it from death if it would've otherwise died? Power Word: Drowse seems really neat though I'm not sure if it would be better than Maiev Shadowsong. Enchanted Shotgun seems like a neat idea. The Spellburst is flavorful although I'm not sure if it's "necessary" compared to Combustion, and some people might penalize it on the basis that it's Hunter AoE regardless of its power level.

    Anchorm4n - I am quite fond of both of your cards. I really like Zevrad because Big Demons DH is an archetype I would actually like to see get some play (or really anything that isn't just "draw your deck, gain Attack, hit the face"). Sleepy Spell Scribe is a cool Spell Damage card.

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    Posted 4 years ago

    I came up with a new card, not used anywhere. In all reality, Secrets make for great flavor in this comp.

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    Posted 4 years ago

    Something that I think is worth mentioning is that you probably shouldn't try to force all 3 prompts onto one card or else you'll most likely end up with a weird, overbaked card that has too many things going on in it.

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    Posted 4 years ago

    I'm thinking of just reusing this card I used earlier this season since it did pretty good and I'm quite fond of it.

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    Posted 4 years ago

    My first idea.

    It's a tiny, mummified dragon, but it comes with two Invokes!

    I thought of making it a 3/1 because 2/1 seemed weak, although the staff pointed out that 3/1 was too strong.

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    Got another Idea and i think this will be the one i go with because this time the Card has no copy in standard and should work according to the rules ;)

    The Effect should work like Rattlegore but only upwards. Not sure if i should set a cap at 10/10 - and if i do so how i should phrase it?

    (up to 10) for example or should it be (up to 10/10). Or is it ok without a Cap ?

    Even with a cap of 10, it's still very OP. Play this on turn 1, and you're basically set for the whole game

    True ... should it be enough to increase the Mana or is the Abilitiy to strong?

    Could also make it to "resummon with +1/+0 so the health would stay at 1 mana

     

    First change (changed Mana cost)

    or this one (changed ability to just increase the attack)

    Even with a Mana increase, I compare to pre-nerf Dreadsteed and foresee some problems.

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    Posted 4 years ago
    Quote From FieselFitz

    Got another Idea and i think this will be the one i go with because this time the Card has no copy in standard and should work according to the rules ;)

    The Effect should work like Rattlegore but only upwards. Not sure if i should set a cap at 10/10 - and if i do so how i should phrase it?

    (up to 10) for example or should it be (up to 10/10). Or is it ok without a Cap ?

    Even with a cap of 10, it's still very OP. Play this on turn 1, and you're basically set for the whole game

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    Posted 4 years ago

    I think I know what happened.

    When you said "wild west set before", I thought you meant the first one I did and not the second one (which is the most recent one and the one you're talking about).

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    Posted 4 years ago

    I'm not counting that many. I count 139.

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    Posted 4 years ago

    Oh hey, I can finally give feedback now.

    Linkblade91
    A really clever usage of the art and prompt. It might be too difficult to use effectively though since you will only have 3 mana to cast spells on and it is reliant on having a full board. That said, if you do have that board, Blessing of Might can seal the game for you.

    Wailor
    A.F.Kay is not a valid submission since adventure characters don't count (I know you made it really early where the rule may not have been established clearly yet, just feedback for the same of complete feedback).

    Saraad is fairly alright, although I feel like you'd rather just use Soulwarden instead and nothing about him really captures the same feeling as the original Saraad.

    Megafin looks kinda cool. Murlocs are not really meant to be a late-game tribe, but this perhaps allows some weird late-game Murloc decks to exist. My only gripe is the sense of scale as the Murloc in the art does not look very big, although finding good art is probably quite difficult, so I can't fault you too much for this one.

    I feel very mixed about people who use their own edited art for comps since it does present a disadvantage for people who aren't familiar with these programs. That said, I would be a hypocrite if I criticized you for doing it as I did it myself during the "Manual of Monsters" comp, and the art is pretty funny as well. Unlike the original Boogeymonster, it's actually not complete shit either. It's not *great*, but it's definitely not horrible.

    Overall, I'd say Megafin is probably my favorite of your cards.

    SLima
    I will echo what Wailor said about the watermark. It doesn't really make sense for this card to be introduced in the same set as the original Toki. Other than that though, the rest of the card seems fine. You could probably just called it "Infinite Toki" since that's the art you used.

    FungusABao

    Kun seems okay, but it's very weird for him to be the in the same set as the original Kun. Although at the same time, a different set wouldn't allow for Jade Golem synergies, so there's a bit of a dilemma there.

    Shudderwock is okay, although it's a bit difficult to use since most Dragons are designed to be big and have strong Battlecries. Neither of which really go well with this card.

    DestroyerR
    Baku is kinda neat, although I agree with Wailor in that it's definitely too dangerous to print. Flark's effect is really cool, and it'd definitely get a lot of creativity points.

    MenacingBagel

    Unfortunately, Krizgut is not a valid character to use since it was never a card at any point. That said, you could perhaps still use the effect for something, so it's worth keeping. I won't mention the watermark since it's not really necessary on a card that won't be used anyway.

    I like Sherazin better anyway, although I feel like Maiev usually accomplishes what you want to do with this card better unless you use it on your own minions.

    DavnanKillder

    Dorian has a strange art perspective as the most visible character in the art appears to be the doll and not Dorian himself, unless… that is Dorian? The effect seems pretty flavorful and on point too, although I feel like it may overlap too much with The Nameless One which we just got.

    The Face Collector is an okay card, but the name feels really lazy and the effect could backfire.

    Queen Ashmore is not bad, but it doesn't seem to have any connection with the original card.

    BangyakunoSquash
    Baku has a creative effect, although the artwork seems more draconic than bestial.

    CursedParrot
    I can't really say much since Zavas is not a valid character for the prompt. That said, the effect seems creative. On the other hand, it feels really weird for this version to exist one set after the original.

    FieselFitz
    Seems a bit OP since you can summon 5 Jade Golems with this at once. I do also agree with Wailor in that you shouldn't use Jade Golems outside of MSoG.

    BloodMefist
    Arfus is a pretty "out there" character to use for this prompt, so points for originality! The effect seems good and flavorful as well. Compared to Val'anyr, Greybough, or Talritha, it doesn't seem to be too problematic.

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    Posted 4 years ago
    Quote From DestroyerR

    WW — obviously not going to be rated by balance, but this card honestly has no point. You’d get the same effect doing eenie meenie miney mo with your deck slots. 1/5

    Every time you do that though, you have to stop and play eenie meenie miney mo with yourself after each game.

    With this new Whizbang, you can just start a new game immediately after the previous one ends and get a completely random deck. It's a more streamlined approach.

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    Posted 4 years ago

    He's back to being in charge!

    Or rather, in a rush.

     

    EDIT: Added Whizbang the Whimsical

    If you want to play some Hearthstone, but don't know which deck to play, Whizbang's got your back. He'll also add a little bit of fun as you'll get random decks each game. Compared to his original counterpart, his utility is that he will always choose decks you have (and are therefore of higher average quality), but won't allow you to use cards you don't own. He functions as a "random deck" button for when you enter Ranked mode.

    Whizbang cannot choose:

    • Another Whizbang deck.
    • A Zayle deck.
    • An incomplete deck.
    • A Wild deck if you're playing Standard.

    If you have no valid decklists for it to choose, then you won't be able to use his ability.

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    Posted 4 years ago
    Quote From Wailor

    Finally, I'd like to ask how to create a custom watermark, like the Sun mark Demonxz95 used for their space expansion.

    http://www.hearthcards.net/setsandclasses/#3875-%3E%3E%3EEmblems-

    Check out this link. Click on a card to get its code.

    If you see a watermark you want, then you type that watermark's code into your card's textbox to get that one onto the card. It is important that you don't add line breaks or spaces for the code.

    Some of them appear to have been deleted from the set page, but their codes will still work. For the sun watermark in Liftoff!, I typed the code {{EMBLEM=custom35}} into the textbox of each card I made.

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    Quote From anchorm4n

    Fair points all of them.

    A little defense of my card: I thought giving Mage a wand as a Weapon in an expansion themed around a magic school would be flavourful. I mean, what kind of card type would you make a wand if not a weapon? The wand increasing your magical abilities seemed natural, too, thus the Spell Damage. Triggering the effect was meant to be easy as well, since a mage should not have problems using their wand to their advantage. I concede that the 3/2/1 statline is a bit random but the point I was trying to make is that a "stick" isn't that great of a weapon. Finally, I accept that this would be very powerful in a meta without weapon removal, but my argument against that point is that Scholomance brought along strong Weapons synergies for at least Demon Hunter, Warrior and Rogue. 

    I don't think the problem with the card is so much that it's a Mage weapon, but rather that it's incredibly broken.

    You play it, and you just have Spell Damage +2 for the rest of the game if you just don't attack with it. This is why weapons that have passive effects like this are often avoided, because it's better to just not attack with them.

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    Posted 4 years ago

    The original post was made before Bloodyface came out as a trans woman, thus why it still uses the name, Brian.

    I assume that since this post links to that previous post, her new name is used here for chronological context.

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    I had these questions a while back about these custom Hearthstone, I meant no offense, I respect anyone decision about arts. I would even encourage them to keep pursuing this.

    The thing is, up until now, after 6+ years, I haven't seen yet a single custom made Hearthstone being used by the Hearthstone team (please correct me If I'm wrong), since they always made their own arts (or new keywords) from their own team, maybe some arts from outside source, but never about the gameplay design or keywords.

    So why keep doing this without any sort of incentives from them (Blizzard)?
    Is it not a better alternatives to send them all of this directly? I mean, if you want to be recognized, plus your arts is fascinating, why not apply for the job?

    Again, just curious. No offense in any way at all. Great job.

    As someone who's very involved with the FC community, perhaps I can try to answer.

    From what I can gather, people like to create cards just because it's simply fun to create your own card ideas for a CCG you really like. I like to create cards because it's fun. When people play a card game, it's natural for some of those people to start thinking of what cards they would create. Entire fan-made expansions is just a natural step from fan-made cards. Most of us don't care if these cards we make never get into the game because we simply enjoy making the cards that we make and don't expect anything to come of it.

    As far as applying for the job goes, one does have to keep in mind that to get a job working at Hearthstone designing cards, there's a lot more than just being able to think of good card ideas. Knowledge and experience of proper game design is also required, which obviously not everyone has. Take me for instance. Regardless of what cards I have made, I don't believe that Blizzard would want to hire a 21 year old who lives on the other side of the country and knows very little about how to actually design the basis of games.

    As far as there being no custom cards in the game made by us, this isn't necessarily true. Card designs that the FC community has made have sometimes ended up in the game at some point, although not necessarily those exact cards. Although we know that Team 5 has looked at cards made by the FC community before (in the past anyway, so their perspective of this may be different now), it's difficult if not outright impossible to judge how much influence from us they actually get from us.

    But the main reasons people create cards is because they like to get creative with their own ideas, and they just simply enjoy making their own cards regardless of if anything actually comes of it or not.

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    Quote From fungusABao

    Just like what I thought, both of them were not that good according to feedbacks, so I decied to go with another idea:

    Similar to The Card of Ledgend, this one can also replaces a card you draw with another one, and hope it can be a little bit more useful than a random Golden Legendary. (If it is OP, then probably I will raise its cost by 1.)

    *perfect card is the same from Zephrys the Great.

    feedbacks later.

    I don't really like perfect card effects outside of Zephrys, since it basically just robs him of his "virginity", if you understand what I mean. And this exists in the same same set, no less. Not only that, but Zephrys's effect in general is a bit polarized in opinion and fairly frustrating to play against anyway.

    Another such problem is that no collectible Neutral weapon existed until Scholomance, so if you want to make another one, it should be from that set or, preferably after.

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    Quote From grumpymonk

    How about this for detachable blade, since its the one that people seem to like the most?

    In the enviornment where echo cards can cost 0, it would take two [Hearthstone Card (Blackwater Pirates) Not Found] to go infinite, and it would cost 11 mana.

    Actually it would still only cost 8. The two Blackwater Pirates and then the weapon itself costs 0 in your hand

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    I'm finding the theme really difficult, because I feel like its hard to justify a 1 durability weapon without thinking that a better version could be made with more durability.   Anyways, here's what I have.

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    Wailor - Mirror Mace is cute, but I like Soul Eater even more.  I wouldn't go with the Shaman version because I don't see how the effect fits in that class.

    Nirast - I like The Harverster the most, the rest of the weapons are interesting but are harder to build around then they look and are quite complicated.

    fungusABao - The fact that you had to write an long explanation of what The Orb of Eternity does and that I'm not sure that I still fully understand what it does is sign that the card is too complicated.  I like the The Card of Legend, I would suggest making a cost reduction of some sort (like making the legendaries cost 1 less) as I don't think that card is powerful enough to run right now.

    FieselFitz - I like the idea, but isn't Yogg Saron about randomness to the max?  You going to know what spells are cast when you play this, which limits the randomness.

    DestroyerR - I'm not sure about having spell damage permanently by holding your weapon, even it makes the target random.  That being said, I like the creativity with the text.

    DavnanKillder - I like Banishing Blade and Vengeful Axe.  I think Midnight Scythe might undermine Warlock's weakness in limited healing a little too much.

    anchorm4n - Balanced Blade: Isn't this Gorehowl, except that you can hit face multiple times with it? Its much too powerful for aggro decks if that's the case.

    Staff of Souls: I like the second version a lot.  The first version is too slow and narrow in my opinion.

    Pokeniner - Cool idea.  Reminds me of Headcrack kinda.

    There's a huge problem with Detachable Blade.

    Blackwater Pirate.

     

    EDIT: I did just remember that Echo cards can no longer cost less than 1. But in the context of when The Witchwood was released, this interaction would still exist all the way until Descent of Dragons.

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    Quote From FieselFitz

    Here's my first Idea.

    Not realy satisfied with the Name tough ... 

    The art is already taken by Aluneth.

    But not only that, it's a Legendary weapon which did not exist until K&C and for a class that doesn't use weapons (which also didn't exist until K&C), so you should change the watermark.