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Just a thought but do these challenge polls really need to go on for so long?  It just feels like dead time because I don't want to develop any ideas that I'll need to scrap if I get an annoying challenge.

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Just a thought but do these challenge polls really need to go on for so long?  It just feels like dead time because I don't want to develop any ideas that I'll need to scrap if I get an annoying challenge.

 

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Just a thought but do these challenge polls really need to go on for so long?  It just feels like dead time because I don't want to develop any ideas that I'll need to scrap if I get an annoying challenge.

 

To be honest, what I would like to see is a Class competition with no challenges and we could work on our classes however we want to. This worked fine for the Expansion Creation Competition, I don't see why it wouldn't work here.

I'm thinking about changing the Hero Power for my class because I feel like I made a mistake by making a Hero Power not directly tied to my class' gameplay (kind of like Shapeshift) and this might cost me a lot since I can only give an overview of my class.

Here's what I'm thinking about. I linked all Hero Powers with a basic card synergizing with it that I plan to submit for this phase.

Option #1 (current one)

Option 2

Option 3

(the card is balanced around Disciple of C'Thun)

I finished my basic set! Well assuming certain challenges don't get picked haha.

Class Reminder:

Basic Set:

 Any feedback would be appreciated!

@CheeseEtc

I much prefer the third one. The first one is meh so I agree with changing it, the 50% text is clunky and that RNG would be rather annoying tbh. The third option has the most flavor, the balance is great, and it's really cool!

@CheeseEtc

Agree with Turkeybag. The third one is more interesting and flavourful haha. More fitting would actually be:

Preheat -> It's Ready! Wait sounds a bit obvious and boring.

@NiRaSt

For the ring maybe just orange 'lines' would be more interesting. Something like this:

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I've got a wierd question; When I went into Berserker, I figured I'd do roughly one Draenic Orc tribe per expansion, and lead off the basic set with all my amassed Kargath Bladefist art. I'm mostly wondering if perhaps it's all too similar and would turn off perspective voters, seeing as it's all grey and red. Here's the eight basic spells using Kargath art...

 If they are all too similar I have a metric shit-ton of other art I can use from various races and colors.

My main concern, honestly, isn't that the art is too similar. My main concern is that you have not one, not two, but three cards that draw a card for one mana, two of which aren't even conditional, all of which have additional effects. Every card there makes sense and is completely balanced, except for those three. Drawing a card for one mana is dangerous, the only card that currently does that without any set up is Power Word: Shield, which requires a minion on your side of the board to be good, in a class that isn't designed to be as minion heavy as most others. Even in decks without much early game, it's still run very often due to the added consistency you gain from having access to 1 mana cycling.

None of your three cards are nearly as conditional as Shield, because two of them don't even have conditions, and giving an enemy minion taunt isn't even a bad thing outside of aggro decks, and even then, only rarely. Not only do they not have conditions, they all have bonus effects on top of their cycling, bringing their power levels to a point that's way too high. I'm definately very interested in how you're going to defend these cards, because I know you're not a new designer, you must know these are too strong. I'd like to hear your reasoning behind them.

Also, though it wasn't my main concern, I definately don't like having all the art looking so samey, as they're kinda blending in with eachother. When I think of the majority of cards being posted in this comp, I can remember their arts pretty well, even if the arts had very similar color schemes. When I try to recall the art on all your cards, I can't remember anything past "Kargath holding his fist in the air.". It doesn't help make your cards memorable or help anything stick out.

 Fair enough, I'll back up all three of those. The point you're making is perfectly fair, and I may need to rework these concepts. It's good you mention Power Word: Shield, as it's relevant in this situation. Now, I'm presenting Berserker as a control class, and something I've noticed about control classes is they get stranded against aggro if they can't find their good cards. Now it's true that only Combat Roar is conditional in a technical sense, but by design I figured they would, in their own right, become conditional. Brief Victory is a good card, but I figure if you're against an aggro deck you can't risk playing it turn one just to cycle, especially if you need to survive a later turn with a larger enemy board. I figured it would be similar for Lead by Example because while yes, you can cycle turn one and go face, it puts you at a disadvantage if and when you need to clear and is just generally a waste of resources. Priest having a conditional draw is also fair, as it is a control class. I will freely admit I have no actual data as to how these would see play and whether an unconditional one-cost draw is stronger than decent clear or damage stall.

 The second general point I want to make is that each of these cards is essentially a worse version of a card already in the game, and adds cycle to make it decent. These cards without card draw are a worse Iron Hide, Sparring Partner and Holy Smite, with respect to how Heroic Strike deals 4 damage in comparison to Darkbomb's 3. As I suspect these cards are going to be conditional in the playstyle of Berserker (At least how I predict it to be played), I feel allowing early game cycling in an effort to mitigate the threat of Aggro is fine. I also felt that if any of these cards were increased one or two statpoints and then increased to 2 mana they'd be too bad to ever run. 

Thank you for the feedback! Hopefully that rationale makes sense.

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another option for the weapon, courtesy of @Schlauchneid:

 

edit: added the first weapon for a side by side and some more options for the minion (last one is the original):