Hearthpwn

Hello fellow Hearthstone players.

As you guys might already familiar, I created this expansion for the Expansion Creation competition. I managed to make it to Phase 3 before being eliminated due to tough competition. Thanks all of the people who checked out and voted for me to advance this far into the competition.

However, not wanting to let all the efforts I put into get wasted, I decided to finish what I started: A full-blown expansion with 9 cards each classes (for a total of 81 class cards) and 43 Neutral cards.

I really hope for your opinion for this expansion.

Note: This expansion was created before Knights of the Frozen Throne announcement, so all similiarities is just concidental.

Without further ado, here's my expansion. Comments and balance concern are welcome.

Rebuilding the Outland - A Hearthstone expansion

Flavor

After an invasion of the Burning Legion, leaders from both Alliance and Horde are now in the process of rebuilding this forsaken place into something more hospitable. Expect to see a lot of Draenei, Elves, Ogres, Orcs, Arakkoa, Plants, Elementals along with a few returning members of the Explorers League and their Horde friendnemy the Reliquary compete to discover this broken land.

Mechanic: 

A big push for this expansion is decision making. Many of the mechanic reward planning ahead to get maximum value for the player with the most in-depth decision making skill

Keywords:

Disclaimer: All of these cards are made before and during the release of the Knight of the Frozen Throne Expansion.

The Neutral set: 43/43

Token:

Q & A:

The Class Cards:

Druid (9/9): Adapting Plants and Hero Attack

Hunter (9/9): Plant/Beast synergy and Secret synergy: 

Token:

Mage (9/9): Freeze / Elemental  synergy. Minions with the same name:

Token:

Rogue (9/9): Spell casting and Plant synergy

Token

Paladin (9/9): Weapon and Divine Shield synergy:

 Token:

Priest (9/9): Manipulative healing and healing synergy

Token

Shaman (9/9): Totem and Elemental synergy

Token:

Warlock (9/9): Discard / Hero Damage synergy:

Token:

Warrior (9/9): Conditional effect / Armor synergy

Token:

Q & A:

New cards added:

New set of cards!

Reward:

Well, this is embarrassing! The neutral is supposed to be only 40-60. I don't know what came over me to put 60-90 ~_~

New cards and the entire Paladin set:

 Token:

Finishing the Hunter and Druid sets while finally finds out the theme of the Warrior set:

Token:

Finishing up the Warrior set and add a Neutral Side Quest!!! Fix some typo in the Hunter sets. A list of interesting interaction will be posted tomorrow:

(It's really hard to find an Odyn art, OK?)

 Token:

Interaction:

Notable discovering pool (* means in Wild format):

Druid

Hunter

Mage

Rogue

Paladin

Priest

Shaman

Warlock

Warrior

 Stonehill Defender pool:

Note: Low-value Paladin minions with Taunt like Skettis Sun Sage and Tifion Mrrglefin were introduced intentionally to reduce the consistency of Stonehill Defender in Paladin,

Synergy:

Lady Vashj:

 Skettis Talonguard:

Other interaction:

 Explanation: Maimclaw allows Hunter to ensure a 2-drop while still running Keleseth

Quest synergy:

 Side Quest synergy:

 Rosalina & Lilian Voss:

Shaman Freeze synergy:

Priest healing synergy

 Other special DK synergy:

 Explaination: Bloodreaver Gul'dan WILL summon a copy of the dead minion since it is counted as a Demon when it died. When it is on the field, its tribe returns to normal

Gift of Rosalina allows Rogue to come back with their healing the turn after playing Valeera, not to mention double the amount of healing as long they can proc the combo effect.

Other synergy:

Hey everyone. I decided to make this a log for every changes that I made to the expansion:

• The discover pool for Silver Hand Explorer after the releasing of many low value Divine Shield minions for the new expansion has been adjusted to only minions with Divine Shield. I originally created her restriction to prevent Paladin from getting too much value only discovering Tirion and Wickerflame. But now the new released Divine Shield minion Righteous Protector made the restriction unnecessary and might make this card too inconsistent to see play. Now she will just straightforwardly discover minions that start with Divine Shield.
• Warp Stalker is now a 2/1. 3/1 is just too OP considering that it will draw you atleast 1 card and force your opponent to have awkward plays.
• Fix the typo of the three weapon buff (Outland Weaponsmith, Shady Weaponsmith and Outland Inquisitor).
• Fix the typo on Primal Fury.
• Dagger of Rosalina is changed from a 1 mana 1/2 to now a 2 mana 2/2 with the same effect. The release of Shadowblade shows that Rogue doesn't need or wants anymore 3/2 weapon. I decided to make it a 4/2 weapon to have it become more impactful. Plus, the 2 cost allows Rogue to have something to do when they missed the Razorpetal Lasher beside just Hero Power up.
• Create Ancient of Miracle to replace Dirty Trick. The original card is below:
  
• Fixed all the typo pointed out by Demonxz95
• Changed Vilefin Inquisitor's name to Vilefin Crusader.
• Changed Corrupted Ancient's name to Outland Orchid with new art. The old flavor card just seems a little bit off to me and the name looks extremely out of place for the rest of the Druid sets.
• Eternal Revenant is now a 2/4 with Taunt instead of a 2/5 since I want it to have more impact when played.

With Knight of the Frozen Throne released, I updated the list of synergy. Hope anyone who view this thread has any interesting combination points out so I can add it to the list.

New Rogue card! This card will took the spot of Dirty Trick since I think the original isn't that strong as well as not what Rogue needs.

Pretty nice set overall. I do like the Plant tribe and I like most of the cards in the set, but there are a couple of wording, grammar and miscellaneous errors you made:

• Flame Convertor should say "When a friendly minion dies, add a 1/2 Elemental to your hand."
• Some of the text of Forest Protector overlaps the Attack and Health icons.
• Is Skettis Talonguard's effect supposed to be a Battlecry or a passive effect? If it's the latter, you should use "has" instead of "gain". This same thing could be said about your Paladin card Draenai Vindicator.
• "attack" on Shady Weaponsmith (and also Primal Fury) should start with a capital A. All cards that refer to an attack statistic always have Attack start with a capital A. Attack only starts with a lowercase A if it refers to the action of attacking (Shaku, the Collector, Blessing of Wisdom and Bear Trap are examples of this).
• Frost Armor should say for each "Frozen character" instead of "characters".
• Ice Surger's effect should say "Frostbolt" instead of "Frost Bolt".
• There's already a card in the game called Vilefin Inquisitor, so you should probably rename that.
• Draenai Vindicator should say "Health" instead of "health" as Health statistics are always refered to with a capital H. Same goes for Prayer of Healing, Blessing of A'dal and Armored Val'kyr.
• Frost Totem should say "for each other Totem you control" instead of "Totems".
• Scheming Imp should say "takes damage" instead of "take" (Floating Watcher).
• Lifelinker looks like it has the same effect as Scheming Imp so it should use the same wording.
• The Underdog should say "add a Brawl" to your hand instead of "all a Brawl".
• Some of your cards are also missing periods/full stops.

But I still do like a lot of this set. My favorite class in this set would be Paladin. I've admittedly always found it weird that Paladin has no weapon synergy in their class given that they are one of the main weapon classes in the game.

Quote from Demonxz95 >>

Pretty nice set overall. I do like the Plant tribe and I like most of the cards in the set, but there are a couple of wording, grammar and miscellaneous errors you made:

• Flame Convertor should say "When a friendly minion dies, add a 1/2 Elemental to your hand."
• Some of the text of Forest Protector overlaps the Attack and Health icons.
• Is Skettis Talonguard's effect supposed to be a Battlecry or a passive effect? If it's the latter, you should use "has" instead of "gain". This same thing could be said about your Paladin card Draenai Vindicator.
• "attack" on Shady Weaponsmith (and also Primal Fury) should start with a capital A. All cards that refer to an attack statistic always have Attack start with a capital A. Attack only starts with a lowercase A if it refers to the action of attacking (Shaku, the Collector, Blessing of Wisdom and Bear Trap are examples of this).
• Frost Armor should say for each "Frozen character" instead of "characters".
• Ice Surger's effect should say "Frostbolt" instead of "Frost Bolt".
• There's already a card in the game called Vilefin Inquisitor, so you should probably rename that.
• Draenai Vindicator should say "Health" instead of "health" as Health statistics are always refered to with a capital H. Same goes for Prayer of Healing, Blessing of A'dal and Armored Val'kyr.
• Frost Totem should say "for each other Totem you control" instead of "Totems".
• Scheming Imp should say "takes damage" instead of "take" (Floating Watcher).
• Lifelinker looks like it has the same effect as Scheming Imp so it should use the same wording.
• The Underdog should say "add a Brawl" to your hand instead of "all a Brawl".
• Some of your cards are also missing periods/full stops.

But I still do like a lot of this set. My favorite class in this set would be Paladin. I've admittedly always found it weird that Paladin has no weapon synergy in their class given that they are one of the main weapon classes in the game.

Quote from Shatterstar1998 >>

Quote from Demonxz95 >>

Pretty nice set overall. I do like the Plant tribe and I like most of the cards in the set, but there are a couple of wording, grammar and miscellaneous errors you made:

• Flame Convertor should say "When a friendly minion dies, add a 1/2 Elemental to your hand."
• Some of the text of Forest Protector overlaps the Attack and Health icons.
• Is Skettis Talonguard's effect supposed to be a Battlecry or a passive effect? If it's the latter, you should use "has" instead of "gain". This same thing could be said about your Paladin card Draenai Vindicator.
• "attack" on Shady Weaponsmith (and also Primal Fury) should start with a capital A. All cards that refer to an attack statistic always have Attack start with a capital A. Attack only starts with a lowercase A if it refers to the action of attacking (Shaku, the Collector, Blessing of Wisdom and Bear Trap are examples of this).
• Frost Armor should say for each "Frozen character" instead of "characters".
• Ice Surger's effect should say "Frostbolt" instead of "Frost Bolt".
• There's already a card in the game called Vilefin Inquisitor, so you should probably rename that.
• Draenai Vindicator should say "Health" instead of "health" as Health statistics are always refered to with a capital H. Same goes for Prayer of Healing, Blessing of A'dal and Armored Val'kyr.
• Frost Totem should say "for each other Totem you control" instead of "Totems".
• Scheming Imp should say "takes damage" instead of "take" (Floating Watcher).
• Lifelinker looks like it has the same effect as Scheming Imp so it should use the same wording.
• The Underdog should say "add a Brawl" to your hand instead of "all a Brawl".
• Some of your cards are also missing periods/full stops.

But I still do like a lot of this set. My favorite class in this set would be Paladin. I've admittedly always found it weird that Paladin has no weapon synergy in their class given that they are one of the main weapon classes in the game.

 Thank you so much for your help and opinion. What do you think about the Hunter set? I'm admittedly really dislike the class since I think it is too one-dimensional (which is something I imagine the developers have in mind since they are supposed to be the "cheap Aggro class"), so I decided to add more complexity for the class.

What is your thought on the newly added Neutral cards?

What is your top 5 / Most favorite cards of the set? Least favorite?

Quote from Demonxz95 >>

Quote from Shatterstar1998 >>

Quote from Demonxz95 >>

Pretty nice set overall. I do like the Plant tribe and I like most of the cards in the set, but there are a couple of wording, grammar and miscellaneous errors you made:

• Flame Convertor should say "When a friendly minion dies, add a 1/2 Elemental to your hand."
• Some of the text of Forest Protector overlaps the Attack and Health icons.
• Is Skettis Talonguard's effect supposed to be a Battlecry or a passive effect? If it's the latter, you should use "has" instead of "gain". This same thing could be said about your Paladin card Draenai Vindicator.
• "attack" on Shady Weaponsmith (and also Primal Fury) should start with a capital A. All cards that refer to an attack statistic always have Attack start with a capital A. Attack only starts with a lowercase A if it refers to the action of attacking (Shaku, the Collector, Blessing of Wisdom and Bear Trap are examples of this).
• Frost Armor should say for each "Frozen character" instead of "characters".
• Ice Surger's effect should say "Frostbolt" instead of "Frost Bolt".
• There's already a card in the game called Vilefin Inquisitor, so you should probably rename that.
• Draenai Vindicator should say "Health" instead of "health" as Health statistics are always refered to with a capital H. Same goes for Prayer of Healing, Blessing of A'dal and Armored Val'kyr.
• Frost Totem should say "for each other Totem you control" instead of "Totems".
• Scheming Imp should say "takes damage" instead of "take" (Floating Watcher).
• Lifelinker looks like it has the same effect as Scheming Imp so it should use the same wording.
• The Underdog should say "add a Brawl" to your hand instead of "all a Brawl".
• Some of your cards are also missing periods/full stops.

But I still do like a lot of this set. My favorite class in this set would be Paladin. I've admittedly always found it weird that Paladin has no weapon synergy in their class given that they are one of the main weapon classes in the game.

 Thank you so much for your help and opinion. What do you think about the Hunter set? I'm admittedly really dislike the class since I think it is too one-dimensional (which is something I imagine the developers have in mind since they are supposed to be the "cheap Aggro class"), so I decided to add more complexity for the class.

What is your thought on the newly added Neutral cards?

What is your top 5 / Most favorite cards of the set? Least favorite?

I'm admittedly not too fond of the Legendary as I feel the effect of having a card always start in your hand could be problematic if it's designed a certain way. Quests have this because they would be completely unplayable if they didn't (like imagine having your Quest be the very bottom card of your deck). I suppose you had this mindset as well when designing this card. It doesn't look too unbalanced though, and I do understand why you decided to do this.

I do like a lot of the Secret synergy cards you have here. My favorite of them is probably Warp Stalker as card draw is something Hunters really need and I think more Secret synergy in Hunter and Paladin would be pretty cool. Mage already has quite a bit of Secret synergy, I think it's about Hunter or Paladin's turn for that. I do also like Outland Ravager because I've always felt that the Steamwheedle Sniper mechanic is underutilized and shouldn't be limited to just a single card. I feel like this card could actually make it viable.

What are the new Neutrals? Favorite and least favorite cards is something I'd probably have to take a closer look at this set to figure out, but you do have some pretty cool cards.

• Fel Orc
• Outland Vulture
• Outland Bandit
• Outland Weaponsmith
• Outland Elekk
• Flame Converter
• Wandering Dryad
• Awakened Ancient
• Skettis Talonguard
• Shady Weaponsmith
• Ancient of Shadows
• Tales of the Outland
• Secret Guardian
• Ancient of Silence
• Advanced Brewmaster
• Nether Dragon
• Giantfin
• Kil'Jaeden the Deceiver
• Lady Vashj
• Rehgar, Earthen Ring Champion
• Therazane, Stone Mother