Hearthpwn

14/5 new cards:

They are explained more in the bottom of the spoilers Below

Hi! I Got bored with the Pirate expansion i was working on and decided to swap theme, at least for now- for the 'Tale of Fairies' expansion. I am really excited to show you the cards, a few at a time. 

So- mechanics:

- No new keywords (at this stage of the design)- i felt like making the expansion without new keywords will help me design better cards.

- A new tribe, Fairies- the fairy expansion just had to include a brand new Fairy tribe. unlike tribes like Mechs or Murlocs, the Fairy tribe is designed to be a weaker tribe from a synergy point of view. There will be a few cards that interact with Fairies, but the Fairies themselves, will be strong on their own. Some themes of this tribe from a mechanic's point of view are small creatures, generally controlly, that can interact with magic in pretty interesting ways.

- Beasts are getting some love! Yay!

-Pushing the boundries- this expansion will include effects that right now will feel pretty wierd in hearthstone, but one of my goals with my designs is to make them fit hearthstone. If you are unsure about how a wierd effect would look on the game client, i would love to explain- and maybe change the cards with those effects. (these include: Time manipulation, Auras and even a diffrent win condition that i will love to show you).

so, the cards:

Your Fairy Tale- you are summoned to to the magical forest! The deeds you do today may become the Fairy Tales of tommrow!

Battle takes wings- Meet the Fairies- those tiny flying creatures that we all love have entered the tavern in a loud hum. These guys look friendly and harmless, but they have a few tricks, and cards, up their sleeve (or wing).Put your spoiler here.

Nature of the forest- the magical forest also has some magical creatures of mother nature. these beasts are not the ordinary animals of azzeroth... they all seem to have a little bit of... magic in their blood.

Lies and Butterflies- Those seemingly harmless creatures led by the great Bluewing can do some crazy things when played by the swarms!

Dragons of magic- This expansion also has some cool Dragons! Not the scary fiery ones of Blackrock Mountain, but much cuter enchanted dragons, with many of them tied to fairy tales and legends.

 changed cards:

 The old Qiona Cloudmouth. Text: Qiona Cloudmouth, council member of the higest clouds, and annoyer of enemys. This cheap Legendary is perfect for confusing and playing Mind games with your opponent. The enemy may be so scared to give you value from the random secret, that he may not play his turn to his fullest. Kind of a new Mad Scientist , but i think that its much more intersting to play with and against. What will you be happy to get from Qiona? A Counterspell ? Maybe a Duplicate ? (Im not sure about the balance of this one, it used to be 2 mana 1/3 that attaches 2 random secrets but that seemed a little to crazy to me. what do you think? Do you think even the current version is too strong? Or perhaps really weak and needs buffing?)

Qiona should clarify that it's at the start of your Turn.

No new keywords ...

The way you bold "No", I thought there is a new keyword "No" and actually was looking for it :(

It sounds like an awesome mechanic though :D. On topic, careful about Stealth and Battlecry, they might have weird interation, you might want to change the order. 

Quote from Hanzo0712 >>

No new keywords ...

The way you bold "No", I thought there is a new keyword "No" and actually was looking for it :(

It sounds like an awesome mechanic though :D. On topic, careful about Stealth and Battlecry, they might have weird interation, you might want to change the order. 

Quote from Djjest3r >>

Qiona should clarify that it's at the start of your Turn.

After some time, new cards are here

Regarding Quiona, I think it actually needs a bit of a buff. With the design right now, you'll get an unknown secret. The thing is, your opponent will probably spend their turn playing a minion and going face, and there is a small chance Quiona might get you a value Vaporize or ME. I'll tentatively suggest making it a 1 mana 1/2 with discover a secret that lasts until the start of your turn. This way the card is a bit more tuned/skillful for both you and your opponent. What do you think?

Quote from renqaz >>

Regarding Quiona, I think it actually needs a bit of a buff. With the design right now, you'll get an unknown secret. The thing is, your opponent will probably spend their turn playing a minion and going face, and there is a small chance Quiona might get you a value Vaporize or ME. I'll tentatively suggest making it a 1 mana 1/2 with discover a secret that lasts until the start of your turn. This way the card is a bit more tuned/skillful for both you and your opponent. What do you think?

That's true, random is more fun. For random, the current version is good. Maybe if you wanted 2 secrets you could make it a 3 mana 1/1? That way you could use it as an annoying midgame thing to play around that weakened their next turn. Very fairy-like.

Cool! But i think i will make it a little stronger than a 3 mana 1/1. Will add the changed Qiona the next time i upload new cards :)

OK :) Thanks for letting me help

Quote from renqaz >>

OK :) Thanks for letting me help

Thank you very much :D You made me smile

New cards: Stairs to Elune is pretty crazy!

Also, Qiona was buffed. Is it too much?

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I allways love hearing what you think about my cards, so i would love if you will tell me your opinion about the expansion so far :)

New cards (9/5)

Tell me what you think about these

Hopefully, this is a fairly comprehensive list of stuff. I will probably do another pass over once the set is more fleshed out.

Clockstopper Linn
I’ve met Elise Starseeker and you, sir, are no Elise Starseeker. ‘Stop Time’ might be powerful, but it doesn’t win you the game like the Golden Monkey does by itself; you need cards to combo with it. Linn quite possibly has the worst stat to cost ratio of any minion that doesn’t have an immediate effect on the board. The result is that, unless the game is completely stalled out (in which case, Elise is still probably the better option, since Linn requires you to have resources to play with), playing Linn is a potentially game losing play; you’re essentially playing a vanilla minion with 3-4 mana worth of stats for 9.

Lunar Tiger
So, it’s Stranglethorn Tiger +1 Mana & +1 Spell Power. Beast Druid cards aren’t quite as desperately in need of Beasts sticking to the board as some of the Mid-Range Hunter cards (most notably Ram Wrangler and Pack Houndmaster (EDIT: derp)). Spell Power works well with Swipe, as always, but I don’t think this guy’s going to be unseating Azure Drake in Druid, unfortunately. In Arena, I think it’s usually just a worse Stranglethorn Tiger. I think you could’ve probably gotten away with giving it an extra point or two in its stats; class cards are meant to be stronger than neutrals, y’know?

Stairway to Elune
I honestly don’t think Hearthstone should have ‘alternate win condition’ cards, but that’s a personal opinion of mine. As a card, Stairway to Elune is either completely broken or completely useless, depending on whether the shell that surrounds it actually works. If there’s a heavy Druid Control deck available for it that can consistently stall the game, the only way to deal with Stairway to Elune is Counterspell. Or milling it, I guess. If the deck can’t sustain itself, there isn’t a home for the card.

Prized Stag
Really should be a neutral card instead of a Hunter card, even if it is a beast. Blizzard has made it pretty clear that healing isn’t in Hunter’s wheelhouse. It might also be a little too strong if you compare it directly to Refreshment Vendor or Cult Apothecary, but that’s really me just nitpicking.

Legend of Tarix
Okay, I’m mildly disappointed that this wasn’t called ‘Wild/Wyld Hunt’ :P. Aside from that, it’s a super flavourful card, even if it again might break certain ‘colour pie’ rules when it comes to Hunter. That said, I think the manner in which the healing is obtained might debatably bypass the issues. It also might be a little under costed, considering it dies to Kill Command, plus Hunter’s Mark is a thing. Also, super trolly if your opponent is playing priest. “Auchenai Soul Priest. Kill Tarix. 30 DAMAGE TO YOUR FACE.”

Butterfly Swarm/Agent of Blue/Butterfly Effect
Need more information/examples before I can safely judge these cards, but if they’re given as much support as C’Thun, I’m pretty sure Butterfly Aggro would be terrible to go up against.

Secret Bender
If Fairies are meant to be to secrets as Pirates are to weapons… Eh. I guess that works, but that still doesn’t make me like this card. Even considering Qiona or Nia (with the potential that the Secret could grab Counterspell, Spell Bender or Effigy), the synergy feels forced, since most fairies don’t actually care about secrets.

Hymn of Myths
Putting this at common is really cruel for Arena Paladins; they’re going to see a thousand of them for each legend they draft. Aside from that, it seems fine. A ‘Hymn’ is debatably a Priest concept, but eh.

Queen of the Unwanted
Seems very out of character for Warlock, who usually relies on neutral buffs or demon specific buffs (or power overwhelming, but that doesn’t count :P), especially since Warlock is the card draw class. When it comes to ‘put a minion in your hand’, they have Sense Demons and Dark Peddler. I believe that’s the extent of it (plus neutral cards). From the name, it feels more like it should interact with discarded/milled cards/minions.

Totem of Ankarash
Another common that feels terrible in arena, albeit less so than some others. There’s still going to be times when you don’t see an Overload card, though. There might be some stupid combo that does a bunch of damage, but I can’t think of it. Seems fine enough.

Nia the Untouchable
While I can appreciate what you’re trying to do, she’s way too fragile to be particularly good. 9/10 times, most decks that want to kill you with spells will blow her up pretty easily. Only decks I can think of which would really hate this card would be old Oil Rogue and Combo Priest; most other decks that end with spell damage (Freeze Mage, Hunter with double SKill Command, etc) have ways of killing 4/4s.

Lesser Fairy
It’s a vanilla 2 mana 2/3. Stop the presses.

Cicada Hunter
If you go by the stats of Ironforge Rifleman, this might be a little strong, but the Rifleman is kinda bad anyway, so I don’t think anyone minds. Powerful arena card. Hard to say in contructed.

Enchanted Ladybug
For a neutral minion, it’s 1-2 stat points above what it should be (compare/contrast Carrion Grub); it should be a 2/4 at best. Doesn’t have amazing synergy with the stuff it’s buffing since most fairies have a decent amount of their value invested in Battlecry or other immediate effects.

Blade of Liona
Interesting card. Not terrible without its battlecry and becomes very valuable with it. Only issue is whether there’s a deck that can make use of it.

Qiona Cloudmouth
On one hand, potentially 7 mana worth of cards for 2 mana. On the other hand, a ridiculous amount of RNG and can be completely avoided basically by passing your turn, maybe playing a couple of weak-ish minions (thus only playing into Mirror Entity). It could probably do with being a 3 man 2/3, but gauging the power of that effect is difficult.

I was writing a really long reply for you but i had a power outage and i want to cry now :(

I hate it when that happens. I use a laptop, so I don't have to deal with power outages, but I've lost long posts to Firefox crashing before. Nowadays, I usually write posts up in a word processor before actually posting them.

Also I missed commenting on Flaming Servant. It's okay! Maybe a little OP, since it's nearly as good as Icehowl, but cheaper. It's still within the realms of 'doesn't completely break the game'.

I have a fan-made card for your expansion:

An early game Legendary for Paladin. Can be used to aid control, but has a chance to be used in Aggro. Or not. Due to its being a Deathrattle, it synergizes with N'Zoth, the Corruptor

The concept is "Guardian Angel", and I kinda think it counts with the fairy theme.

Thank you very much for replying :)

The one big thing you are missing with Stop Time is the ability to make all your minions attack twice (once each turn)!

I really appreciate you guys writing your opinion here. I will change some of the cards soon based on the feedback i got from you. 

Also, Hackergrad, i love the card but have a really similar card already made (havent posted it yet).. I will add your card in one of the next updated of the expansion i think (and give you credit for it).