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Damn I really want to submit Helm of Domination (sorry nobravery and phoenix) but I'm not sure if I can because Lathy posted a similar card 3 minutes before me. Mods? Is it ok?

 The mods have voted, and Helm of Domination was deemed legal.

First of all because the cards were shown within such a small timeframe, that it's unlikely that you copied the card.

Secoundly. We feel like the effects are different enough, to make them seperate cards. One act as a simple buff, whereas the other also includes Stat changes, and a transform mechanisme.

I have three cards.

Which one?

The last one is super flavorful, but I would make it even more OP, like "deal 2 damage to a random enemy".

The other two cards are decent but not as interesting.

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Three ideas. Which do you like best?

 

Holy crap the rate this is going is so slow. It seriously feels like a mini comp. Actually, this prompt might've faired better for a mini comp than a main WCDC. Almost considering just submitting now (and my initial post has 3 upvotes, which feels like a sign to me).

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Three ideas. Which do you like best?

 

 

 

Oh, haha. I knew someone would've done this! I like the middle one; the Jaraxxus one is too swingy, and the right-most one is also too swingy (1-Cost to 10-Cost with the curve leaning around 2 or 3 mana). Warlock spells are always fun, and they fit thematically with the 'Raising hell' idea of the card.

Also:

Deadscale Knight is the token. OP? Too niche?

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I went with simple stuff for now.

Yes, I noticed I missed the "d" on "Emerald". I'll correct it if I submit it.

Helm of Domination - The Helm of Domination is what makes The Lich King, well, the Lich King. Whoever puts it on their head becomes the new Lich King.

Emerald Dream - That's where Ysera is from. Ysera is only found in super control decks, which would prefer having lots of control cards like Ysera offers.

E.T.C.'s Cheese - Because I had to.

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This week's theme is such a mixed bag for me. On one hand, this allows to pull some ludicrous cards and really cool effects we wouldn't be able to in other competitions. On the other hand, it's quite hard to think of strong ideas and evaluate correctly as they are so powerful.

Alright so I came up with these. One for Ysera and another one (two versions of it, actually) for the Lich King/Arfus.

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I have three cards.

Which one?

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Posting some of the immediate ideas that came to me for this theme

• Raise Some Hell - Based on the ETC song of the same name, and card effects like Dread Infernal and Abyssal Enforcer. It's a bit worse compared to class cards like Hellfire and Consecration (especially compared to Rogues Do It... being a better Hammer of Justice), but AOE is oftentimes more valuable than direct damage.
• Remorseless Winter - Following the theme of most of the Death Knight cards being based off Death Knight abilities, and also exploring the bitter cold that comes with the Icecrown theme in a much more direct way.
• Eye of the Lich - Based off the legendarily infamous Eye and Hand of Vecna, following the D&D theme of Kobolds and Katacombs. Other versions of this card could've been "Discover a card in your opponent's hand" or "Steal a card in your opponent's hand." Those two options seemed weak, but the third, printed option may be a bit too strong.

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So now that I know how this competition actually works. Here is my first idea, an Awesome Treasure from the Master Chest.

(It's meant to have the Kobolds watermark. FML)

So I think Quests are pretty unlikely to ever appear again in Hearthstone (granted, Joust did come back in the form of Raven Familiar about 2 and 1/4 of a year after TGT). Bit of a shame because it's a really cool mechanic and there wasn't really ever much support for a lot of them (The Marsh Queen for instance only was supported in Un'Goro, however Fire Plume's Heart already had years of support for it when it came).

You may thing "Well, this kind of defeats the purpose of the Quests, don't they?"... well, sort of... but it is random and the Reward may not work as well as you think if your deck isn't tailored for them (as is the case for rewards like Crystal Core or Megafin).

• Bag of Jewel is a Treasure that can help you get your Spellstone and create an interesting dynamic that you can play them right away or wait until next turn to get the upgrade or wait even longer to get the big effect.
• Fallen Champions: Based on the LK boss card. Allow for value stealing in a world infest with Bonemare and Corridor Creeper
• Impressionable Whelp: Back-to-back Ysera so she will likely to stick and create more Dream Cards.

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I have three cards.

Which one?

 Death Juggler feels more like a set card than a DK card.

Vampiric Blood is the one I'd pick. It fits so perfectly with the expansion.

Repost my cards with some modification and a new idea:

• Bag of Jewel is a Treasure that can help you get your Spellstone and create an interesting dynamic that you can play them right away or wait until next turn to get the upgrade or wait even longer to get the big effect.
• Fallen Champions: Based on the LK boss card. Allow for value stealing in a world infest with Bonemare and Corridor Creeper
• Impressionable Whelp: Back-to-back Ysera so she will likely to stick and create more Dream Cards.

Three cards from three different card pools.

I aimed to make each card believable within the card pool while also adding something that wasn't there before.

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I went with simple stuff for now.

Yes, I noticed I missed the "d" on "Emerald". I'll correct it if I submit it.

Helm of Domination - The Helm of Domination is what makes The Lich King, well, the Lich King. Whoever puts it on their head becomes the new Lich King.

Emerald Dream - That's where Ysera is from. Ysera is only found in super control decks, which would prefer having lots of control cards like Ysera offers.

E.T.C.'s Cheese - Because I had to.

 Helm of Domination is the best of the three here. On par with the other tokens and is always useful.

Emerald Dream is way too powerful and swingy compare to the other dream cards.

E.T.C.'s Cheese: Useless if not use right away while only benefit your opponent.

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This week's theme is such a mixed bag for me. On one hand, this allows to pull some ludicrous cards and really cool effects we wouldn't be able to in other competitions. On the other hand, it's quite hard to think of strong ideas and evaluate correctly as they are so powerful.

Alright so I came up with these. One for Ysera and another one (two versions of it, actually) for the Lich King/Arfus.

 I like the first version of King's Call the best. Powerful but not too OP. Oniric's Presence flavor make no sense while most of the time will just be a Holy Light

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I have three cards.

Which one?

 Death Juggler feels more like a set card than a DK card.

Vampiric Blood is the one I'd pick. It fits so perfectly with the expansion.

Quote from CecilHoshino >>

Posting some of the immediate ideas that came to me for this theme

• Raise Some Hell - Based on the ETC song of the same name, and card effects like Dread Infernal and Abyssal Enforcer. It's a bit worse compared to class cards like Hellfire and Consecration (especially compared to Rogues Do It... being a better Hammer of Justice), but AOE is oftentimes more valuable than direct damage.
• Remorseless Winter - Following the theme of most of the Death Knight cards being based off Death Knight abilities, and also exploring the bitter cold that comes with the Icecrown theme in a much more direct way.
• Eye of the Lich - Based off the legendarily infamous Eye and Hand of Vecna, following the D&D theme of Kobolds and Katacombs. Other versions of this card could've been "Discover a card in your opponent's hand" or "Steal a card in your opponent's hand." Those two options seemed weak, but the third, printed option may be a bit too strong.

 Raise Some Hell seems balance but looks kind of boring. Not really great flavor either.

Eye of the Lich is just really unfun for your opponent. Get rid of it.

Remorless Winter seems a little too strong? You basically Frost Nova and lockdown 2 of your opponent's minions attack in the next turn.

Quote from Demonxz95 >>

So now that I know how this competition actually works. Here is my first idea, an Awesome Treasure from the Master Chest.

(It's meant to have the Kobolds watermark. FML)

So I think Quests are pretty unlikely to ever appear again in Hearthstone (granted, Joust did come back in the form of Raven Familiar about 2 and 1/4 of a year after TGT). Bit of a shame because it's a really cool mechanic and there wasn't really ever much support for a lot of them (The Marsh Queen for instance only was supported in Un'Goro, however Fire Plume's Heart already had years of support for it when it came).

You may thing "Well, this kind of defeats the purpose of the Quests, don't they?"... well, sort of... but it is random and the Reward may not work as well as you think if your deck isn't tailored for them (as is the case for rewards like Crystal Core or Megafin).

Edit: NVM. I just realize that it is meant to be a Treasure.

The flavor doesn't make any sense. Why does the Reward is tied to the Tome? Beside that, the effect is way too weak? for a treasure given that it doesn't impact the board right away while the Reward themselves are just too low value.

Repost my cards with some modification and a new idea:

• Bag of Jewel is a Treasure that can help you get your Spellstone and create an interesting dynamic that you can play them right away or wait until next turn to get the upgrade or wait even longer to get the big effect.
• Fallen Champions: Based on the LK boss card. Allow for value stealing in a world infest with Bonemare and Corridor Creeper
• Impressionable Whelp: Back-to-back Ysera so she will likely to stick and create more Dream Cards.

 

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Quote from CheeseEtc >>

I went with simple stuff for now.

Yes, I noticed I missed the "d" on "Emerald". I'll correct it if I submit it.

Helm of Domination - The Helm of Domination is what makes The Lich King, well, the Lich King. Whoever puts it on their head becomes the new Lich King.

Emerald Dream - That's where Ysera is from. Ysera is only found in super control decks, which would prefer having lots of control cards like Ysera offers.

E.T.C.'s Cheese - Because I had to.

 Helm of Domination is the best of the three here. On par with the other tokens and is always useful.

Emerald Dream is way too powerful and swingy compare to the other dream cards.

E.T.C.'s Cheese: Useless if not use right away while only benefit your opponent.

Quote from Vilegloom >>

This week's theme is such a mixed bag for me. On one hand, this allows to pull some ludicrous cards and really cool effects we wouldn't be able to in other competitions. On the other hand, it's quite hard to think of strong ideas and evaluate correctly as they are so powerful.

Alright so I came up with these. One for Ysera and another one (two versions of it, actually) for the Lich King/Arfus.

 I like the first version of King's Call the best. Powerful but not too OP. Oniric's Presence flavor make no sense while most of the time will just be a Holy Light

Quote from Teknician >>

I have three cards.

Which one?

 Death Juggler feels more like a set card than a DK card.

Vampiric Blood is the one I'd pick. It fits so perfectly with the expansion.

Quote from CecilHoshino >>

Posting some of the immediate ideas that came to me for this theme

• Raise Some Hell - Based on the ETC song of the same name, and card effects like Dread Infernal and Abyssal Enforcer. It's a bit worse compared to class cards like Hellfire and Consecration (especially compared to Rogues Do It... being a better Hammer of Justice), but AOE is oftentimes more valuable than direct damage.
• Remorseless Winter - Following the theme of most of the Death Knight cards being based off Death Knight abilities, and also exploring the bitter cold that comes with the Icecrown theme in a much more direct way.
• Eye of the Lich - Based off the legendarily infamous Eye and Hand of Vecna, following the D&D theme of Kobolds and Katacombs. Other versions of this card could've been "Discover a card in your opponent's hand" or "Steal a card in your opponent's hand." Those two options seemed weak, but the third, printed option may be a bit too strong.

 Raise Some Hell seems balance but looks kind of boring. Not really great flavor either.

Eye of the Lich is just really unfun for your opponent. Get rid of it.

Remorless Winter seems a little too strong? You basically Frost Nova and lockdown 2 of your opponent's minions attack in the next turn.

Quote from Demonxz95 >>

So now that I know how this competition actually works. Here is my first idea, an Awesome Treasure from the Master Chest.

(It's meant to have the Kobolds watermark. FML)

So I think Quests are pretty unlikely to ever appear again in Hearthstone (granted, Joust did come back in the form of Raven Familiar about 2 and 1/4 of a year after TGT). Bit of a shame because it's a really cool mechanic and there wasn't really ever much support for a lot of them (The Marsh Queen for instance only was supported in Un'Goro, however Fire Plume's Heart already had years of support for it when it came).

You may thing "Well, this kind of defeats the purpose of the Quests, don't they?"... well, sort of... but it is random and the Reward may not work as well as you think if your deck isn't tailored for them (as is the case for rewards like Crystal Core or Megafin).

Edit: NVM. I just realize that it is meant to be a Treasure.

The flavor doesn't make any sense. Why does the Reward is tied to the Tome? Beside that, the effect is way too weak? for a treasure given that it doesn't impact the board right away while the Reward themselves are just too low value.

Repost my cards with some modification and a new idea:

• Bag of Jewel is a Treasure that can help you get your Spellstone and create an interesting dynamic that you can play them right away or wait until next turn to get the upgrade or wait even longer to get the big effect.
• Fallen Champions: Based on the LK boss card. Allow for value stealing in a world infest with Bonemare and Corridor Creeper
• Impressionable Whelp: Back-to-back Ysera so she will likely to stick and create more Dream Cards.

Is Ellor's Token supposed to be a warlock card? Or is it meant to be a Marin card? If so, make it a neutral spell. Wording: "Discover a spell. Add a number of Coins to your hand equal to its Cost." Honestly you could just submit Bag of Coins for this one, so I think you shouldn't submit this.

Emeraldon Oracle: I was initially like "yeah but why would you mention Ysera" and then I thought of Ysera Awakens... so yeah, this is a good card. However, you should think of this as Antique Healbot plus a conditional Healing Touch. That would usually make this an 8 mana card so maybe price it at 3 mana. I know there's the 4 mana 7/6 and the 3 mana 3/5 Elusive, but this is still a very powerful effect.

Gnomageddon is silly, but so are all of the inventions. It should be "for a random player" rather than "from". I'm torn between this and the Oracle, but I'm leaning towards the dragon here.

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I like that the Death Juggler get normal juggler's "unnerfed" stats XD, However, it feels like every underpowered. I think you should have gone nuts with the card text... How about: "Lifesteal. Whenever you play a card deal 2 damage to a random enemy" ?

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Is Ellor's Token supposed to be a warlock card? Or is it meant to be a Marin card? If so, make it a neutral spell. Wording: "Discover a spell. Add a number of Coins to your hand equal to its Cost." Honestly you could just submit Bag of Coins for this one, so I think you shouldn't submit this.

Emeraldon Oracle: I was initially like "yeah but why would you mention Ysera" and then I thought of Ysera Awakens... so yeah, this is a good card. However, you should think of this as Antique Healbot plus a conditional Healing Touch. That would usually make this an 8 mana card so maybe price it at 3 mana. I know there's the 4 mana 7/6 and the 3 mana 3/5 Elusive, but this is still a very powerful effect.

Gnomageddon is silly, but so are all of the inventions. It should be "for a random player" rather than "from". I'm torn between this and the Oracle, but I'm leaning towards the dragon here.

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Ellor's Token: almost 25% of the time (maybe more) the card will end up doing nothing. Sometimes it will actually punish the player (imagine having to choose from 1, 2 and a 0 mana spell)... With treasure card, even in case of the worst RNG, they don't put a player that cast them in a worse position.

Emeraldon Oracle: its a solid card... kinda boring tho for my taste, but actually balanced.

Gnomageddon:  it should be: "... for a random player", right? If so, I really like the card. Its funny and gets out of hand quickly.

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Is Ellor's Token supposed to be a warlock card? Or is it meant to be a Marin card? If so, make it a neutral spell. Wording: "Discover a spell. Add a number of Coins to your hand equal to its Cost." Honestly you could just submit Bag of Coins for this one, so I think you shouldn't submit this.

Emeraldon Oracle: I was initially like "yeah but why would you mention Ysera" and then I thought of Ysera Awakens... so yeah, this is a good card. However, you should think of this as Antique Healbot plus a conditional Healing Touch. That would usually make this an 8 mana card so maybe price it at 3 mana. I know there's the 4 mana 7/6 and the 3 mana 3/5 Elusive, but this is still a very powerful effect.

Gnomageddon is silly, but so are all of the inventions. It should be "for a random player" rather than "from". I'm torn between this and the Oracle, but I'm leaning towards the dragon here.

 Thanks for the feedback, and you're correct that Gnomageddon is meant to say for not from. Just a note that all of Marin cards have the Warlock border for some reason (Link) similar to how Ysera's have the Hunter border.

Here is my initial idea for an E.T.C. Power Chord card. Still feels a tad weak. Thoughts on balance?