Hearthpwn

Thanks to all that have voted for me thus far.  I'm glad that so many people have enjoyed my card idea.  Up against some great ideas this week.  Some very interesting mechanics for a fairly restrictive theme.

People really seem to like the peasant/militia cards, considering three variants made it to the finals. 

I think Robes of the Magi has a pretty big flaw, in that your opponent must be running something like Acidic Swamp Ooze or Harrison Jones to counter it. If not, you get unremovable +2 spell damage for the rest of the game. If you make a weapon with an ongoing effect, it needs to have some way wherein it destroys itself (e.g., how Sword of Justice loses durability) or your opponent must have a reasonable way to counter it.

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I feel like Detonate is severely underpowered. I would never consider running two specific cards(both of which are very weak on their own) to only do a small aoe. I get that the class lacks aoe, but it also lacks the card draw to run this sort of very specific combo.(Also, this card would single-handedly destroy druid in arena)  I would prefer it to have a set amount of damage ("Destroy a wisp and deal 3 damage to all enemy minions or something like that). However, I will give it credit for being a perfect reprensentation.

I fell in love with Hippogryph Rider the moment I saw it. It's just so incredible flavorful and a very good translation of the WC3 unit (although in reverse). Definitely get's my vote this week.

I played around with concepts of Peasant -> Milita as well, but this version is incredible weak. Would have been much better as 1 mana with 1 attack and way more flavorful. As it is, it's uber weak. 4 mana for a 3/4... eh.

Not sure how Grand Marshal's effect is linked to WC3 tbh. Seems like an entry for any other week, so the flavor is totally lost to me. Maybe I'm missing something.

Transmutation and Bladestorm are both flavorful and close to their WC3 counterpart, but both have a minor thing that distracts from that. Transmutation is an AoE and Bladestorm deals damage to friendly minions. Otherwise, very solid entries.

I like the concept of Millitia Soldier, but sadly it doesn't really work that well, since it would gain +2/+3 every turn again, meaning you either kill it in one go or it will "heal" itself. Probably too much of a early-game wall, in particular if coined out.

Finger of Death is an obvious and direct idea, but has much flavor. I really like it, but could have been even more absurd or could have gone with some extra flavor ala Power Overwhelming (e.g. like FOD from WoW: Strikes an enemy with the finger of death, inflicting 36000 shadow damage upon them, their children, and their children's children).

Stormwind Militia is too strong and also misses flavor.

Obsidian Statue is meh. Not a good translation and the minion it spawns is incredible lackluster.

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Finger of Death is an obvious and direct idea, but has much flavor. I really like it, but could have been even more absurd or could have gone with some extra flavor ala Power Overwhelming (e.g. like FOD from WoW: Strikes an enemy with the finger of death, inflicting 36000 shadow damage upon them, their children, and their children's children).

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Not sure how Grand Marshal's effect is linked to WC3 tbh. Seems like an entry for any other week, so the flavor is totally lost to me. Maybe I'm missing something.

Garithos' biggest (and only) character attribute is that he's disdainful of everything that's not human. And it's not just some vague reference, it's pretty much the background theme of the first missions of human campaign in Frozen Throne. Him being a racist is what sets Kael'thas' plotline into motion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNv9nR7QVPk

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Not sure how Grand Marshal's effect is linked to WC3 tbh. Seems like an entry for any other week, so the flavor is totally lost to me. Maybe I'm missing something.

Garithos' biggest (and only) character attribute is that he's disdainful of everything that's not human. And it's not just some vague reference, it's pretty much the background theme of the first missions of human campaign in Frozen Throne. Him being a racist is what sets Kael'thas' plotline into motion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNv9nR7QVPk

So, in Hearthstone, he hates Pirates, Beasts, Demons, Dragons, Totems, Mechs, and Murlocs, but he's cool with elves, faceless abominations, and gelatinous ooze creatures? It's silly, but I really mislike when people misuse "Minion Type". That is the official term, not race or tribe. There is no such thing as a "Race Tag" or a "Race" in Hearthstone. Pirates aren't a race, after all. 

I'm pretty sure I got my point across.
Mislike whatever you want, but there is no official term and as long as there isn't one, I can use any of the generally accepted terms for these things without being "wrong" or "inconsistent". I used race because of the obvious reasons.

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Yeah, if you compare it to Shadowflame, Detonate is ridiculously weak no matter how you look at it. Why the hell would anyone put Wisps and Detonate in a deck and then waste 3 cards (including a buff spell on Wisps) to do a mediocre AOE?

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ke the concept of Millitia Soldier, but sadly it doesn't really work that well, since it would gain +2/+3 every turn again, meaning you either kill it in one go or it will "heal" itself. Probably too much of a early-game wall, in particular if coined out.

 

Also I'd like to point out to the other Militia cards, technically, a militia is a group of civilian soldiers (peasants in this case), and your guy's should be showing an entire group of militia soldiers.

Get rekt

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Well then warcraft III was wrong

(Gasp noises from the audience. Somebody feints, and falls.)

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Mine is forgotten?! It has 19 upvotes and is #1 on page 6 (with Transmutation and Finger of Death) :O :O
It was never under review!

It's the name of a whole mission in Wc3 and is the non-playable ability of Mannoroth...

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Mine is forgotten?! It has 19 upvotes and is #1 on page 6 (with Transmutation and Finger of Death) :O :O
It was never under review!

It's the name of a whole mission in Wc3 and is the non-playable ability of Mannoroth...

Missions weren't one of the things it was allowed to be based on (and it was very clear). Also, can you provide any evidence Mannoroth had an ability called that? There is no mention of it here. Also, don't act surprised. I specifically sent you a message telling you that you were probably going to get disqualified. It's your fault for not doing anything about it.

I got not reviewed, a instance that would have forced me to act, or to explain me. I linked the video.
Your oppinion doesn't matter for me, cause it is obisously not granted out of altruism, it was rather of beeing #3 on that page...

Mannoroth put his blood in the Well and corrupted it.
You can see him doing that in the video i linked after i got your message.
Obviously he has to have the ability to do so, or is in posession of his blood for beeing able to put it in the well.
We know out of the mission-description, that this ability/item is actually named Blood of Mannoroth.
It isn't playable, or scripted, of course, but that wasn't asked this week.

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We know out of the mission-description, that this ability/item is actually named Blood of Mannoroth.
It isn't playable, or scripted, of course, but that wasn't asked this week.

 You got a point. Juristic bulletproof, but you should agree that this wasn't the aim of this weeks competition?

Anyone else tired of reading so many comments with nurgling acting up as moral authority of our competitions?