One little piece of advice: don't submit your card too quickly. I did that and then realized my card is a bit flawed, both in terms of balance and wording.
Seriously, it annoys me to read the comments of this thread. So much negativity.
People are like "omg blizz has no clue", when time has told they usually know better than the community. Remember the overhype of cards like Troggzor the Earthinator?
I believe that touching THREE cards in a deck will obviously drop its winrate by a lot, even if those changes aren't big.
Plus, Faceless Corruptor trades way worse now, even if it's still a good card.
It feels really weird to be saying that a 1-mana 2/2 isn't stacking up well enough to make it in constructed, but here we are.
Well, we've had 1 mana 1/3 with strong upsides since the very beginning of Hearthstone. This has a similarly strong statline, but no extra effect, so I don't find it an outrageous indicator of power creep. Although power creep has happened this expansion, obviously.
I disagree with the analysis of Ancharrr. 2/3 is pretty good stats for a 3 cost weapon and the effect is premium quality. I mean, compare it to Livewire Lance, which costs one more, has 1 less Durability and pulls arguably worse minions.
The trade for that is of course that you need to build a Pirate deck, which might not be easy in Standard right now. However, I'm quite sure Warrior will get new Pirates soon, otherwise this card wouldn't have been printed.
And even if that doesn't happen, this card will obviously be used in Wild, at the very least.
Had a lot of fun making this card :) I should've made it a class card, since such a powerful boardclear doesn't probably belong in Neutral, but whatevs.
One little piece of advice: don't submit your card too quickly. I did that and then realized my card is a bit flawed, both in terms of balance and wording.
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EDIT: is there a Discussion thread? I can't find it.
Seriously, it annoys me to read the comments of this thread. So much negativity.
People are like "omg blizz has no clue", when time has told they usually know better than the community. Remember the overhype of cards like Troggzor the Earthinator?
I believe that touching THREE cards in a deck will obviously drop its winrate by a lot, even if those changes aren't big.
Plus, Faceless Corruptor trades way worse now, even if it's still a good card.
I'd love to see it as a 3/3 if anything because it would have the same statline as Faceless Manipulator, the card that inspired it.
They knew it to a certain extent. Keep in mind that there are a lot of potential decks to build, and the testing team isn't very big.
Within a day or two of the expansion, they retrieve data from millions, if not billions, of games, thus getting much more reliable data.
So, they probably knew it was top tier, but they didn't have enough data to check if it was actually OP.
Well, we've had 1 mana 1/3 with strong upsides since the very beginning of Hearthstone. This has a similarly strong statline, but no extra effect, so I don't find it an outrageous indicator of power creep. Although power creep has happened this expansion, obviously.
I think Mech synergies are better than this effect.
Does anyone know if this guy has an extra effect while golden? Like Mega-Windfury or something.
Not the most original card in the world, but...
Next: A Shaman legendary Murloc.
I expected this guy to have Divine Shield, but I guess Lifesteal also makes sense.
This card is so much better than I expected. I designed an Armor tech which was just "Your minions ignore Armor". It was a 5 mana 4/4.
Now, if you think about it, this makes more sense, since it only works against Warrior, Druid and Paladin using Thekkan, so it better be OP.
Yeah, it utterly destroys Thekkan, but he's close to rotation, and I imagine he must be a real pain in Wild, with Molten Giant and stuff.
Very interesting article. I really like the idea behind the Infinite Dragonflight.
Dog is man's best friend. Except if said man is a Mage.
Next: A Breath spell. It must have an extra effect if you're holding a Dragon.
That's a bummer. I really like this flavor texts, it's a pity they ain't the real ones.
I disagree with the analysis of Ancharrr. 2/3 is pretty good stats for a 3 cost weapon and the effect is premium quality. I mean, compare it to Livewire Lance, which costs one more, has 1 less Durability and pulls arguably worse minions.
The trade for that is of course that you need to build a Pirate deck, which might not be easy in Standard right now. However, I'm quite sure Warrior will get new Pirates soon, otherwise this card wouldn't have been printed.
And even if that doesn't happen, this card will obviously be used in Wild, at the very least.
Sounds interesting! Looking forward to try it.
I'm kinda surprised Hunter is receiving poisonous dragons, but Brann is shown riding a red dragon in the trailer.
The Hunter legendary is yet to be revealed, but it would be weird if it was Alex, given the other Hunter cards revealed so far.
It's a shame, since giving the Explorer classes all four good Aspects would've been quite neat.
Had a lot of fun making this card :) I should've made it a class card, since such a powerful boardclear doesn't probably belong in Neutral, but whatevs.
Next: A Mage spell related with time.
Next: A Paladin minion based on this painting by Remedios Varo.