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Just a reminded that my class focuses on trying to accumulate or copy a single card and gains benefits from repeatably using one card during the whole match. Here are the Hero Power and Keyword. If you haven't seen my post, please check it out :)

               

                                                                     (still working on wording for keyword, suggestions are appreciated)

 I love the Nuts and Bolts challenge a lot, and even if it doesn't win I will still submit my matching card :P Here they are, I am very happy with Calm both thematically and mechanically. I'm mechanically happy with Storm, but it may be too wordy for a basic, so if I get feedback to trim it down I will try something different for Storm (but I have to introduce the 3 or more mechanic somewhere in the basic set). All feedback is appreciated, thanks :)

 a bit confused about calm: does it check if you have a copy of the top card in your deck, and if it doesn't, it does nothing, or is it like a 50% thing? either way, 3 mana is too expensive. 

also, a typo on storm, it should be "you're". 

Quote from PRKSlayer >>

Just a reminded that my class focuses on trying to accumulate or copy a single card and gains benefits from repeatably using one card during the whole match. Here are the Hero Power and Keyword. If you haven't seen my post, please check it out :)

               

                                                                     (still working on wording for keyword, suggestions are appreciated)

 I love the Nuts and Bolts challenge a lot, and even if it doesn't win I will still submit my matching card :P Here they are, I am very happy with Calm both thematically and mechanically. I'm mechanically happy with Storm, but it may be too wordy for a basic, so if I get feedback to trim it down I will try something different for Storm (but I have to introduce the 3 or more mechanic somewhere in the basic set). All feedback is appreciated, thanks :)

I'd be worried about the implications of the card being shuffled in your deck and how that interacts with fatigue.  Does it stop shuffling it when you have less than 10 cards?

If it was me what I would do is have hot iron as a weapon and have strike do 3 damage normally and more damage if you have a weapon equipped so you want to use strike while you have hot iron.  Strike while the iron is hot.

I dare say, here's my basic set. It satisfies all the challenges.

Tokens:

• Cannon Fodder costs (0).
• Cannon Fodder and Mystery Construct use different parts of the same art.
• 6 cards have 2 or less lines of text (Cannon Fodder, Hitting the Ground, Mystery Construct, Piercing Round, Running Fast, Truefire Rocket)
• Elite Engineer has mirrored stats (4/4 for 4)
• Elite Engineer is the only minion (wait are you counting tokens??)
• Hitting the Ground and Running Fast form the phrase 'Hit the ground running', which means becoming proficient at a job or activity quickly and easily, overcoming and recovering from figurative obstacles easily

If the "only minion" requirement includes tokens I'll have to wait and see for the poll result, but otherwise I think I'm all good.

The only thing I would like to mention is Hitting the Ground. It's a new mechanic. How it works: Your opponent has a Cairne Bloodhoof on the board with 6 other minions and you cast Hitting the Ground on it. Not only does it destroy it, it prevents your opponent from having any more than 6 minions in play. There is no physical 'board space', just symbolism to aid understanding. The Baine Bloodhoof doesn't spawn because it can't, just how deathrattle summons work nowadays. I debated if I should cost this higher (8 originally) let me know your thoughts.

I went for Deceptively Simple and My One and Only, mostly because they're both huge pet peeves of mine when people don't make their Basic set appropriately BASIC and when they include way too many minions like they haven't even glanced at what the existing classes' card proportions look like.

All right, I got Nuts and Bolts done! I present to you: Slash and Burn, our favourite method of destroying natural habitats, killing forest animals, and causing global warming for the cause of profit! (That counts, right? Please tell me it counts, I spent way too long trying to think of this xD)

Good thing NiRast and Opal received a wild card, both were really active on the discussion thread.

My comments on the challenges by order of preference.

1. "All or Nothing" (#1). Sounds pretty good because extreme costs are in fact a good way to show the mechanics of the class. 5 out of the 9 existing classes have a card that costs 0 or 10 in their basic set (6 if you count pre-nerf Hunter's Mark) so it must not be that difficult.
2. "Deceptively simple" (#3). Forces the Basic Set to be, well, basic, but also facilitates the work of voters. We will have tons of cards to read, so I don't have these cards to have tons of text on them on top of that though. One major criticism though: You should have made the challenge about the number of words rather than the number of lines because Blizzard (and I) often voluntarily put line breaks between different effects in order to make the card more readable. With this challenge we can't do that.
3. "My one and only" (#5). Basic sets must contain a majority of spells because there are no neutral spells, so they make up the class' identity. Even without this challenge, 3 minions is a maximum in a basic set.
4. "State of the Art" (#2). This one would screw up a lot of people. For some classes, the quantity of decent Wow-related art they have available is really low, with possibly some images that aren't big enough to be used twice.
5. "Perfect Symetry" (#4). That one is just unfun. It drastically limits the type of minions we can use...
6. "Nuts // Bolts" (#6). That one is easily the worst. It completely shits over non-native speakers (and we're probably the majority here since the forum is 70% EU). I have a food-related class so it may be easier for me but I still hate this one. Fortunately if all of us non-natives ignore this it won't pass.

In the end I voted for all of them except #6 because I REALLY don't want to have to do this.

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So, completely random hypothetical question for you all that will almost definitely never need to be practically applied I hope but if there were two challenges which were tied for 3rd place, would you prefer that we:

A) Flip a coin to determine which challenge you have to follow (or some other suitable random binary choice selector).
or
B) Make it so you have to follow both challenges, so you have 4 challenges for the phase instead of 3.
or
C) Some other option - we're open to suggestions.