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Power creep isn't the issue - it's better than Flame Lance, but worse than Assassinate and has meaningful trades against Siphon Soul (the latter is important because it is in-class.) It's a fair card. The occasional time you get to punish another Warlock for using Wrathguard doesn't matter - It's like using Sacrificial Pact against Lord Jaraxxus. At worst, it means you can't 'print' Finger of Death until Wrathguard rotates out of Standard.

My problem with it is it doesn't do anything exciting or new, and the number on it is high enough to kill virtually any creature. (There are quite a few end-game threats that Flame Lance will not remove. Functionally, it's a destroy effect with the frustration of being a big spell that won't even kill Argent Squire. This is a competition about creativity. You wouldn't vote for Murloc Raider if someone submitted it to this contest.

I don't get to force your hand. If you think you nailed the flavor of Finger of Death, then ignore me and submit it. See what the voters think.

But you asked if I (or anyone reading this thread) preferred Finger of Death or Spell Immunity and I told you the truth. No current card grants 'Elusive/Shroud' to other cards, and it's an interesting way to help protect important minions.

 

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Quote from Jaxal1 >>

The Culling doesn't seem very Paladin-y.

What if Raise Dead was 'Summon two 1/1 Skeletons for each (friendly?) minion that died this turn'? Might need to cost more, but seems a little cleaner than a 'play only if' limit.

 The Culling is supposed to reference this This important piece of WoW history, perpetrated by a Paladin.

I think if I was going to was change Raise Dead, it would be this:
Raise Dead (4)
Summon a 2/2 Skeleton for each minion that died this turn.

Thoughts on this?

Okay, I came up with some new ideas: 

Acid Bomb is one of the Alchemist's abilities that does area damage over time (yes, it also reduces armor, but there isn't room for additional effects). In HS, it would serve as an additional AOE for Rogues, which they really need. For clarity, the damage starts at the end of the turn you cast it, and then it will deal damage on your opponent's turn and then your next turn. Critical Strike is a Blademaster ability. In HS, it would serve a similar function to Hunter's Mark. It is not quite as good as Hunter's Mark, though, which allows you to take out anything with any source of damage. 

Here are my old ideas:

The left one is based off of one of Archimonde's abilities that does an unnecessary amount of damage to insta-gib basically anything except Heroes (hence the 20 damage) and the right one is based on a passive ability of a number of neutral units like golems Finger of Death is a more useful single target removal than Siphon Soul, which is a little too expensive. Spell Immunity would work well in combination with cards like Flamewaker.

Which ones do you like? Personally, I really like Finger of Death for its flavor, and I will probably go for it unless people like one of the others a lot.

Does the "created cards count towards the 3 lines" mean that each card can only have 1 line if you crate 3 cards or that the text of all three combined has to fit into 3 lines? I can't fit a potion related card into 3 lines otherwise. There is like 1 word too much, so one card is on 2 lines, while the other barely fill 1, so all 3 combined would fit 3 lines.

Alternatively, these are what I came up with in the meantime:

It only REFILLS the mana, it doesn't grant additional mana. It's arguably a worse Innervate, but for a class that has spell synergies, so it would probably see play in tempo mage. 

Based on the ability of the same name from the Firelord neutral hero, which "Wreaths an enemy unit in magical flames which cause damage over time, prevent the casting of spells and reduce attack damage."

Anything remarkable about them? Otherwise I feel I have to try and make the potions work somehow.

Alas, you don't get the 5/5 body along with it. For both you need an established board, but Loathheb adds to the threat and is one of its own, while Soul Burn isn't by itself.

As for Lawa Spawn (should be capitalized in the card text), I think "break even" stats are too strong for this kind of effect, at least in the early mana region. On the other hand, I struggle to find a good fit for it on later mana slots. It would wreck havoc in paladin / priest / druid buff decks. 3 mana 2/3 or 5 mana 4/4 or 2 mana 2/2 seems more fair and would encourage to play it along with buffs. It might be a bit undertuned then however. It's kind of difficult to balance, since it's so snowbally. In case of doubt I think I would keep it as it is.

I like the flavor of the card. It's a nice translation of the effect into HS.

Here's a few ideas I've been working on,

Any preferences or think the balance is off?