Thanks for the first round of feedback guys! Here's the updated version of the cards atm. Also I'm thinking people missed the part where Extraterrestrial Arcane was part of a custom expansion I made that used the Gadgetzan Watermark. I understand the confusion of many people, but I wanna keep the original expansion of this card that it was made in mind.
Nether-terrestrial - I saw many ppl say that this was costed weird seeing it was 8 Mana and you could just run Twisting Nether instead. This version focuses on you prepping into a way to kill your opponent's board. If you don't have a way to take down the minion right away, you give your opponent the advantage or disadvantage of trading the said minion. They can either kill it outright to take down the demon, or keep it around if they think you have no way to remove it and use it to clear something later. Sorry for the confusion on the wording as well. The Deathrattle was unnecessary after review.
Kirin Tor Astrologist - I had realized from the Battlecry people were confused cause it would offer 3 8-costs, 3 9-costs, or 3 10-costs. This was the original wording I wanted to get across and was mainly focused on giving Mage a good followup or some bigger late game in control matchups.
Extraterrestrial Arcane - This card was made in a custom expansion where Mages were focused on chaining Elementals for long amounts of time or flooding the board with them to boost spells or buffs. If you want to check it out, I'll leave the expansion link below. The card is 1 mana to stop possible broken Pyroblast follow-ups in Wild. When this was originally made at 0 mana, ppl said the potential with Pyroblast burns were too problematic and I agreed.
So I'm sorry that I didn't get back to you earlier like I intended, but here we go.
I'm pretty sure Kirin Tor Astrologist is supposed to say "or" instead of "and" because with the current wording, you will get one 8-Cost, one 9-Cost, and one 10-Cost minion with its Battlecry.
I am pretty sure Kirin Tor Astrologist is supposed to give you 3 cards. First you discover an 8 cost card, then a 9 cost card, then a 10 cost card.
Also worth noting: you should never take the flame seriously. How stupid and pathetic are those people that say things like "get cancer" and stuff. The lack of maturity and common sense is laughable. Brush it off and move on, they're not worth your time.
Usually, when my opponent is about to kill me but then ropes me the whole turn and starts emoting I get less salty. I just laugh at them and emote back
KANSASOld God Fanatic 17452912 PostsJoined 03/25/2019
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago
I usually accept when I win and people send me a friend request. Either they are friendly and want to say GG and chat about the game, or they are salty and want to flame me. If they are salty, then I just chuckle a little, unfriend them, and then move on. Sometimes though it surprises me how salty some people can get. One time I was playing a long control game and my opponent had lethal, but before killing me he kept on dragging the minion around the board and emoting. At the end of the game I sent him a friend request, he didn't respond for about 10 minutes, then he said "EZ GAME" and unfriended me. Another time a friend of mine was playing Handlock v Handlock and it was a pretty good game. At the end he sent him a friend request to say GG and complement him on his Handlock deck. His opponent accepted only to say "loser" and then unfriend him.
KANSASOld God Fanatic 17452912 PostsJoined 03/25/2019
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago
If you get all 5 Treants onto the field then it is a lot better than The Forest's Aid, but you have to have 10 cards in hand to do that. If you are playing a token deck and you end up with 10 cards in hand by turn 7, you probably have been playing super slow. So getting above average stats for 7 mana may not be enough to get you ahead.
If people liked it then I guess it is a well designed card and I can't really argue otherwise. I guess I am partly just disappointed because I thought my card had a pretty good chance of winning this time around.
KANSASOld God Fanatic 17452912 PostsJoined 03/25/2019
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago
Well it seems my card was better than I had thought. I made some changes based off of the (surprisingly) large amount of feedback.
I updated Obscuron's cost to match Empyrean, I edited Empyrean's text to so that the words are a bit bigger and easier to read, and I also swapped their stats based on feedback. Some people mentioned that restoring Health didn't seem to have anything to do with time, but I don't think there is a simple way to display a card working with time that isn't potentially super broken like Time Warp.
Some more feedback:
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@Inconspicuosaurus (seriously man, that is just the most hilarious user name), The card is a bit weird. It works like Djinni of Zephyrs, but it also counts damage and Hero Powers. As we have seen from Djinni of Zephyrs, this effect can be pretty hard to utilize, and your card is even harder to make use of because of the shared damage. I would buff it's stats, give it some other relevant ability, or make it not share damage.
@CursedParrot, I really like the flavor and design of Luna's Cosmic Portal, though you could make the wording better. If it said "After you cast a spell, store a copy of it and lose 1 durability. Deathrattle: Cast the stored spells" then it would read a lot smoother. But if you can think of a more official sounding word than "store" to describe it saving the spells than use that instead.
@Pokeniner, Kirin Tor Astrologist is my personal favorite, but it may not be your best card. The wording on Nether-terrestrial is a lot better now, that card is my second pick. I don't really like Extraterrestrial Arcane because I don't think it would be very useful in a practical sense. How many Elementals are you going to be able to play in a single turn? 4? 5? And how much tempo are you losing because you are holding back half of your hand? And is it even worth it just to get a single above-average spell? If it is part of a custom expansion then I could understand that archetype getting more support and maybe working, but in a vacuum the card is weak.
@Hordaki, I really like the flavor, but I am not sure about the 7 mana 7/7 statline. I get that it is Dr. Boom, but 7 mana 7/7 may be a bit too good in too many decks. I would put it into a class, maybe Priest or Mage. Instant removal like this probably shouldn't be Neutral.
@TheHoax91, I don't know if you have looked at the submissions yet, but there are at least 2 other Algalon the Observers. It is totally fine to have the same character submitted more than once, but when the same name and art appears 3+ times it doesn't look unique or inspired any more. I am not saying you can't go along with this card, but just keep this in mind. About the actual card, I like the second version better. The two abilities of the first one don't really seem to connect, it feels like you just came up with some form of restriction and then some generic form of payoff, the second one feels more focused. It is a tech card, that is what it does and it does it well.
KANSASOld God Fanatic 17452912 PostsJoined 03/25/2019
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago
No offense to Tox, but Gnarlroot was my least favorite of the finalists. Compared to The Forest's Aid or Tending Tauren it is just bad. I have to ask, what about this card was so good?
KANSASOld God Fanatic 17452912 PostsJoined 03/25/2019
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago
It seems like my card wasn't very good. That is fine, I didn't like it either. I don't think I will end up submitting for this competition, I have no inspiration.
Anyway, here is some feedback:
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anchorm4n, is this effect until the end of the game? If so then it should say on the card, if not then this is a worse version of Violet Illusionist. If it is a permanent effect than this is a really cool card, but it does seem a bit out of place in Priest. The only time you are taking damage on your turn is when you are in fatigue. Maybe if this was a neutral card?
Linkblade, I like Meteor Fall a lot. I am not sure if it would be a very good card unless it said random minion instead of random character, but the flavor is there and it does look like a card Blizzard might make.
Demonxz95, For Celestial Crafter, you don't need to say "with the same cost as the chosen spell" you could just say "with the same cost". That aside I think Starace is better. Though if it is supposed to be pronounced "stariss" than it should probably be spelled like that. As it is now people are going to pronounce it "starace". But that is a minor thing. About balance, I think at 3 mana it is just too expensive. I think 2 mana spell damage +2 is fine.
Xarkkal, Planetary Alignment is probably too slow to be good. It is really hard to set up a good combo because you don't know what you are going to have drawn at that point. It has the potential to highroll and set up a big swingy win, but you also may very well draw wrong and the card is useless. I would maybe reduce the cost and effect of the card so that it is a bit more reliable, and has less potential to swing the game out of nowhere.
BasilAnguis, I like Gravity Well a lot. It has solid flavor and it is playable.
Wailor, I like Space-Time rift best. You can use it in a lot of ways, and it would probably create some combos which is always fun. 4 mana may be kind of a lot though considering it is only going away for a single turn. I would make it 3 mana.
MenacingBagel, The card is probably too slow and expensive for what it does. I have played enough [Hearthstone Card (Swamp Queen Hagatha) Not Found] to know that 7 mana 5/5 add high value cards to your hand isn't usually worth playing. Maybe if it were a 5 mana 4/5 add 2 portals?
Bloodmefist, Even Horizon is okay, but probably too similar to Twisting Nether. Color From Space is cool, evolve stuff is always fun. And this also won't create stupid shenanigans with Desert Hare. Algalon the Observer is interesting, but it breaks the rule of Custom Hearthstone, no more than 4 lines of text. I can see why you added that last bit so that Mages don't cheat out anything too big on turn 3 or 4, but it also makes the card too wordy. I would make him a 5/5. All in all I think Color From Space is your best, with Algalon as a close second. Though both could use a little bit of tweaking.
shaveyou, I like Homemade Shuttle, but I don't see why it needs to be a 4/4. I think 3/4 is better so that it still has strong stats for 3 mana without having too many stats. Also the 3 attack matches the 3 damage it deals when it dies, which emphasizes the fact that it crashed into something.
Pokeniner, Extraterrestrial Arcane is interesting, but I think it would be simpler if it just dealt a random damage for each elemental instead of adding spell damage. Kirin Tor Astrologist is probably too slow. I would reduce the numbers, or maybe make it discover an 8, 9, and 10 cost minion. Nether-Terrestrial is interesting, but the wording is weird. Why not just say "Battlecry: Give a minion 'Deathrattle: Cast Twisting Nether'"? It would reduce the amount of text by a lot.
KANSASOld God Fanatic 17452912 PostsJoined 03/25/2019
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago
It seems Trick Gift was more popular, but everyone agreed that it could use some work. I reworked the card a little to be less wordy and more straight forward.
Feedback:
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MenacingBagel, I think Reveler Reno is a better card in a vacuum, but Firework Fanatic is better flavor-wise. But they are both good cards.
Linkblade91, I really like this card. It is both flavorful, and it looks like a lot of fun to play with. The only issue I have with the card is that it destroys all of your armor, so if you already have 20 armor stacked up, playing this actually deals damage to you. Maybe you could change it to say "deal 85 damage to your Hero" instead? But that kind does kind of make the card a bit clunky.
Alfi, Don't forget a watermark! Aside from that the only thing I would change is reduce the number of Hellfires to only one and maybe make him a 7/7. I understand why you have two Hellfires, but as it is you are giving your opponent way too much. Just look at King Mukla, he has the same stat bonus (+2/+2 more than the cost would imply) and he gives two bananas (which are worth much less than Hellfires) and he is still too bad to see play.
anchorm4n, Great card! Grammar is good, flavor is strong, it is playable in a lot of decks. A solid 5 star card.
Wailor, I like Happy Hour the best. It might be a bit dangerous with Rogue playing so many cards in a turn, but for this competition I am a little less concerned about how powerful the card would be if it were printed right now, and more concerned on the flavor of the card.
Dermostatic, I really just don't know about this card. It is funny and all, but some people might not like the fact that it is super unrealistic. Go along with this idea if you think people will like the joke, but if people are going to be taking the cards a bit more seriously, then you may want to come up with something else.
MrRhapsody, I like Whine and Cork Shot the best. I would make it 2 mana though for balance reasons, and maybe make it restore 4 Health instead? Right now I feel like it is a bit too efficient for 1 mana.
I still can't find it. All of your clues lead me to 16, and I even googled the hint and got 16. What is it??
I am pretty sure Kirin Tor Astrologist is supposed to give you 3 cards. First you discover an 8 cost card, then a 9 cost card, then a 10 cost card.
Usually, when my opponent is about to kill me but then ropes me the whole turn and starts emoting I get less salty. I just laugh at them and emote back
I can't find numbers 1, 11, and 12. Help?
I can provide hints for any of the other numbers if people want.
*edit* I just need 12 now.
I looked through the weapons (collectible and noncollectable) and didn't find 12. On the bright side though I did find 16 :)
Could you give me a hint for 12? I have no knowledge of WoW or the Wow tcg, and I don't really feel like flipping through every weapon in the game.
It would be nice if the clues were ordered top to bottom in columns instead of in rows going from the bottom up.
I usually accept when I win and people send me a friend request. Either they are friendly and want to say GG and chat about the game, or they are salty and want to flame me. If they are salty, then I just chuckle a little, unfriend them, and then move on. Sometimes though it surprises me how salty some people can get. One time I was playing a long control game and my opponent had lethal, but before killing me he kept on dragging the minion around the board and emoting. At the end of the game I sent him a friend request, he didn't respond for about 10 minutes, then he said "EZ GAME" and unfriended me. Another time a friend of mine was playing Handlock v Handlock and it was a pretty good game. At the end he sent him a friend request to say GG and complement him on his Handlock deck. His opponent accepted only to say "loser" and then unfriend him.
I kind of like that it has no animations. It almost feels more real.
That being said I am still not buying these. I like my Godzilla ones better :)
If you get all 5 Treants onto the field then it is a lot better than The Forest's Aid, but you have to have 10 cards in hand to do that. If you are playing a token deck and you end up with 10 cards in hand by turn 7, you probably have been playing super slow. So getting above average stats for 7 mana may not be enough to get you ahead.
If people liked it then I guess it is a well designed card and I can't really argue otherwise. I guess I am partly just disappointed because I thought my card had a pretty good chance of winning this time around.
Well it seems my card was better than I had thought. I made some changes based off of the (surprisingly) large amount of feedback.
I updated Obscuron's cost to match Empyrean, I edited Empyrean's text to so that the words are a bit bigger and easier to read, and I also swapped their stats based on feedback. Some people mentioned that restoring Health didn't seem to have anything to do with time, but I don't think there is a simple way to display a card working with time that isn't potentially super broken like Time Warp.
Some more feedback:
@CursedParrot, I really like the flavor and design of Luna's Cosmic Portal, though you could make the wording better. If it said "After you cast a spell, store a copy of it and lose 1 durability. Deathrattle: Cast the stored spells" then it would read a lot smoother. But if you can think of a more official sounding word than "store" to describe it saving the spells than use that instead.
@Pokeniner, Kirin Tor Astrologist is my personal favorite, but it may not be your best card. The wording on Nether-terrestrial is a lot better now, that card is my second pick. I don't really like Extraterrestrial Arcane because I don't think it would be very useful in a practical sense. How many Elementals are you going to be able to play in a single turn? 4? 5? And how much tempo are you losing because you are holding back half of your hand? And is it even worth it just to get a single above-average spell? If it is part of a custom expansion then I could understand that archetype getting more support and maybe working, but in a vacuum the card is weak.
@Hordaki, I really like the flavor, but I am not sure about the 7 mana 7/7 statline. I get that it is Dr. Boom, but 7 mana 7/7 may be a bit too good in too many decks. I would put it into a class, maybe Priest or Mage. Instant removal like this probably shouldn't be Neutral.
@TheHoax91, I don't know if you have looked at the submissions yet, but there are at least 2 other Algalon the Observers. It is totally fine to have the same character submitted more than once, but when the same name and art appears 3+ times it doesn't look unique or inspired any more. I am not saying you can't go along with this card, but just keep this in mind. About the actual card, I like the second version better. The two abilities of the first one don't really seem to connect, it feels like you just came up with some form of restriction and then some generic form of payoff, the second one feels more focused. It is a tech card, that is what it does and it does it well.
Yeah I am not too sure about Fblthp because, as you mentioned, he is already a card in standard. It was just the first thing that popped into my head.
No offense to Tox, but Gnarlroot was my least favorite of the finalists. Compared to The Forest's Aid or Tending Tauren it is just bad. I have to ask, what about this card was so good?
"A popular character first introduced in flavor text."
The return of Fblthp!
Seriously, stop putting the spaces in between your sentences. Just put a period and continue on the same line.
@Demonxz95, I didn't notice the wording issue. Do you think this wording is better? Or do you know of a better way to word it?
About your cards, I like Explosive Pinata. It makes for some interesting deck-building, and is also pretty powerful with the right synergies.
It seems like my card wasn't very good. That is fine, I didn't like it either. I don't think I will end up submitting for this competition, I have no inspiration.
Anyway, here is some feedback:
Linkblade, I like Meteor Fall a lot. I am not sure if it would be a very good card unless it said random minion instead of random character, but the flavor is there and it does look like a card Blizzard might make.
Demonxz95, For Celestial Crafter, you don't need to say "with the same cost as the chosen spell" you could just say "with the same cost". That aside I think Starace is better. Though if it is supposed to be pronounced "stariss" than it should probably be spelled like that. As it is now people are going to pronounce it "starace". But that is a minor thing. About balance, I think at 3 mana it is just too expensive. I think 2 mana spell damage +2 is fine.
Xarkkal, Planetary Alignment is probably too slow to be good. It is really hard to set up a good combo because you don't know what you are going to have drawn at that point. It has the potential to highroll and set up a big swingy win, but you also may very well draw wrong and the card is useless. I would maybe reduce the cost and effect of the card so that it is a bit more reliable, and has less potential to swing the game out of nowhere.
BasilAnguis, I like Gravity Well a lot. It has solid flavor and it is playable.
Wailor, I like Space-Time rift best. You can use it in a lot of ways, and it would probably create some combos which is always fun. 4 mana may be kind of a lot though considering it is only going away for a single turn. I would make it 3 mana.
MenacingBagel, The card is probably too slow and expensive for what it does. I have played enough [Hearthstone Card (Swamp Queen Hagatha) Not Found] to know that 7 mana 5/5 add high value cards to your hand isn't usually worth playing. Maybe if it were a 5 mana 4/5 add 2 portals?
Bloodmefist, Even Horizon is okay, but probably too similar to Twisting Nether. Color From Space is cool, evolve stuff is always fun. And this also won't create stupid shenanigans with Desert Hare. Algalon the Observer is interesting, but it breaks the rule of Custom Hearthstone, no more than 4 lines of text. I can see why you added that last bit so that Mages don't cheat out anything too big on turn 3 or 4, but it also makes the card too wordy. I would make him a 5/5. All in all I think Color From Space is your best, with Algalon as a close second. Though both could use a little bit of tweaking.
shaveyou, I like Homemade Shuttle, but I don't see why it needs to be a 4/4. I think 3/4 is better so that it still has strong stats for 3 mana without having too many stats. Also the 3 attack matches the 3 damage it deals when it dies, which emphasizes the fact that it crashed into something.
Pokeniner, Extraterrestrial Arcane is interesting, but I think it would be simpler if it just dealt a random damage for each elemental instead of adding spell damage. Kirin Tor Astrologist is probably too slow. I would reduce the numbers, or maybe make it discover an 8, 9, and 10 cost minion. Nether-Terrestrial is interesting, but the wording is weird. Why not just say "Battlecry: Give a minion 'Deathrattle: Cast Twisting Nether'"? It would reduce the amount of text by a lot.
I too did this in the morning with a cup of coffee. It is a nice relaxing way to start the day.
It seems Trick Gift was more popular, but everyone agreed that it could use some work. I reworked the card a little to be less wordy and more straight forward.
Feedback:
Linkblade91, I really like this card. It is both flavorful, and it looks like a lot of fun to play with. The only issue I have with the card is that it destroys all of your armor, so if you already have 20 armor stacked up, playing this actually deals damage to you. Maybe you could change it to say "deal 85 damage to your Hero" instead? But that kind does kind of make the card a bit clunky.
Alfi, Don't forget a watermark! Aside from that the only thing I would change is reduce the number of Hellfires to only one and maybe make him a 7/7. I understand why you have two Hellfires, but as it is you are giving your opponent way too much. Just look at King Mukla, he has the same stat bonus (+2/+2 more than the cost would imply) and he gives two bananas (which are worth much less than Hellfires) and he is still too bad to see play.
anchorm4n, Great card! Grammar is good, flavor is strong, it is playable in a lot of decks. A solid 5 star card.
Wailor, I like Happy Hour the best. It might be a bit dangerous with Rogue playing so many cards in a turn, but for this competition I am a little less concerned about how powerful the card would be if it were printed right now, and more concerned on the flavor of the card.
Dermostatic, I really just don't know about this card. It is funny and all, but some people might not like the fact that it is super unrealistic. Go along with this idea if you think people will like the joke, but if people are going to be taking the cards a bit more seriously, then you may want to come up with something else.
MrRhapsody, I like Whine and Cork Shot the best. I would make it 2 mana though for balance reasons, and maybe make it restore 4 Health instead? Right now I feel like it is a bit too efficient for 1 mana.
Hey, another competition! This theme should be interesting. I made two cards, what do you think?
I saw the art for Trick Gift over a month ago and thought it was funny. Until this day I have never found a place to use it.