...I skipped Boomsday for Rastakhan's Rumble, which is super surprising because I had no inspiration at all for RR until just a few hours ago. I'll turn around and do Boomday next, after I tweak RR some more.
The Witchwood is now complete! That's right, I skipped Kobolds & Catacombs for the time being, because I'm not sure what I want to do with it still. I was halfway done with TWW already anyway, so I figured why not keep the momentum going?
Usual disclaimer: everything is a first-draft in terms of balance, it might get overhauled by tomorrow's end for all I know, etc., etc.
Knights of the Frozen Throne is now complete! As with everything, the balance and whatnot is up for debate, and I'll come back and work on them some more after I take a day off; see how I feel about them.
Next up is Kobolds & Catacombs...a set I haven't even begun to think about lol. Kind of like Rastakhan's Rumble; a hurdle I'll have to overcome eventually.
Edit: July 18, 2020: Rearranged some stuff in KFT...and I officially give up on the set. I spent way too long trying to make Abominable Treeman unique *and* fit within a very narrow window of themes. We're movin' on!
I had a hard time coming up with something, in-part because the dual-class combinations don't really excite me *shrugs* I guess we'll see how it plays out.
Warlock has a lot of self-damage cards, and the Demon Hunter can easily hurt themselves via their Hero Power. Edit: If anything, I would suspect a larger version of my card, so that DH can support the Big Demon archetype it pretends to have. Makes it harder to proc, though.
Journey to Un'Goro is complete! I went through a lot of iterations with these cards, but I'm still not sure about them. Half of them I'm totally satisfied with both in flavor and gameplay, and yet the other half...I don't know. Surviving damage, restoring Health, shuffling new minions into your deck so they can benefit from Irlek; there's a lot going on here, gameplay-wise. Hopefully it's cohesive enough so-as-to not overwhelm the player with conflicting tools.
Next would be Knights of the Frozen Throne, of course, with additional time spent on balancing/tweaking/reworking JtU.
Edit (July 17, 2020): I reworked a bunch of cards from Un'Goro I wasn't satisfied with, and rearranged some as well. Also noticed that I had too many Epics; whoops.
I was going to print something like this for my Alraune class, so in a way I'm disappointed that it exists. Going for the hat-trick of hand, deck, and field scared me off, though.
My favourite thing you've included is the 1 durability weapons, for a minute I just thought these were gonna be substitutes for spells but the added weapon synergy of Sera's Scheme and Elderwood Shaper makes them feel different and exciting.
Thanks :) The 1-durability weapons are a thing I've wanted to do for a long while, even before I settled on the Alraune flavor - they were originally attached to a "Weaponmaster" class, but I found him to be too close to the Warrior and too dull overall. This is much more interesting :D
In other news, the Classic set is "done." We'll see how I feel about it tomorrow, but for now it appears complete lol. I also added a couple more cards to The Rest section, and tweaked Biting Splinter to make the effect stand out more. Barring any changes to be made to the Basic and Classic sets, the next up will be Journey to Un'Goro. I find the later sets more interesting than the older ones, and this allows me to skip troublesome sets where I'd have to explain away some details (*cough* Mean Streets *cough* tri-class cards *cough*).
saw the Pirates, ended up watching a bit of Trump only to realize that Battlegrounds is still a shitshow.
Still unspoiled on the whole Outland story so I think I might be doing that for the next few days. Are there any rewards for that?
Pretty much doing the Challenges nets you a Golden Kael'thas Sunstrider. Otherwise, the story is pretty alright. I don't believe there are any other rewards aside from maybe a card back?
Just finished the Basic set; not sure how I feel about some of them, so I'll leave it alone for now and review them later. Also added a couple new cards to the front-line Examples and "The Rest" section.
A shout-out to Demonxz95 and his guide for custom Basic sets. I used it as a means to double-check my work and make sure I was on the right track.
One of the comments I saw on the YouTube page: "Riot pushin out a 10 minute video just so people will say Yone right" lol
...I skipped Boomsday for Rastakhan's Rumble, which is super surprising because I had no inspiration at all for RR until just a few hours ago. I'll turn around and do Boomday next, after I tweak RR some more.
There's a Murloc in the art for Reclaim Un'Goro; that's all you get.
I guess my loathing of Murlocs has become a meme.
Whoops! I fixed it :D
Inspiration hit me for what to do with Kobolds & Catacombs, so that set is now complete :D On to Boomsday!
The Witchwood is now complete! That's right, I skipped Kobolds & Catacombs for the time being, because I'm not sure what I want to do with it still. I was halfway done with TWW already anyway, so I figured why not keep the momentum going?
Usual disclaimer: everything is a first-draft in terms of balance, it might get overhauled by tomorrow's end for all I know, etc., etc.
Knights of the Frozen Throne is now complete! As with everything, the balance and whatnot is up for debate, and I'll come back and work on them some more after I take a day off; see how I feel about them.
Next up is Kobolds & Catacombs...a set I haven't even begun to think about lol. Kind of like Rastakhan's Rumble; a hurdle I'll have to overcome eventually.
Edit: July 18, 2020: Rearranged some stuff in KFT...and I officially give up on the set. I spent way too long trying to make Abominable Treeman unique *and* fit within a very narrow window of themes. We're movin' on!
Now if the Murlocs could just take a bullet between the eyes, maybe I would play BG some more...
I had a hard time coming up with something, in-part because the dual-class combinations don't really excite me *shrugs* I guess we'll see how it plays out.
Warlock has a lot of self-damage cards, and the Demon Hunter can easily hurt themselves via their Hero Power. Edit: If anything, I would suspect a larger version of my card, so that DH can support the Big Demon archetype it pretends to have. Makes it harder to proc, though.
That's exactly where my head was at, as well :D
Journey to Un'Goro is complete! I went through a lot of iterations with these cards, but I'm still not sure about them. Half of them I'm totally satisfied with both in flavor and gameplay, and yet the other half...I don't know. Surviving damage, restoring Health, shuffling new minions into your deck so they can benefit from Irlek; there's a lot going on here, gameplay-wise. Hopefully it's cohesive enough so-as-to not overwhelm the player with conflicting tools.
Next would be Knights of the Frozen Throne, of course, with additional time spent on balancing/tweaking/reworking JtU.
Edit (July 17, 2020): I reworked a bunch of cards from Un'Goro I wasn't satisfied with, and rearranged some as well. Also noticed that I had too many Epics; whoops.
I was going to print something like this for my Alraune class, so in a way I'm disappointed that it exists. Going for the hat-trick of hand, deck, and field scared me off, though.
If you handbuff him he'll survive even longer ;D ...until he gets turned into a Sheep, anyway.
...yep. I think it's really dumb, and it contributed to them pushing me away from Battlegrounds.
After a long conversation on Discord, I tweaked and/or reworked a bunch of cards. Thanks again, "LazyKid" et all!
Thanks :) The 1-durability weapons are a thing I've wanted to do for a long while, even before I settled on the Alraune flavor - they were originally attached to a "Weaponmaster" class, but I found him to be too close to the Warrior and too dull overall. This is much more interesting :D
In other news, the Classic set is "done." We'll see how I feel about it tomorrow, but for now it appears complete lol. I also added a couple more cards to The Rest section, and tweaked Biting Splinter to make the effect stand out more. Barring any changes to be made to the Basic and Classic sets, the next up will be Journey to Un'Goro. I find the later sets more interesting than the older ones, and this allows me to skip troublesome sets where I'd have to explain away some details (*cough* Mean Streets *cough* tri-class cards *cough*).
Correct: you cannot DE the golden Kael'thas
A cardback. If you do the Heroic bosses, you get a golden version of Kael'thas Sunstrider.
I also recommend that you watch the Felfire Festival video; it was the best part of the whole event lol:
Just finished the Basic set; not sure how I feel about some of them, so I'll leave it alone for now and review them later. Also added a couple new cards to the front-line Examples and "The Rest" section.
A shout-out to Demonxz95 and his guide for custom Basic sets. I used it as a means to double-check my work and make sure I was on the right track.