While there's already a Skull of Gul'dan in the first page, I personally don't like it much so I decide to submit my own, feedback appreciated.
Balance: Transform into 6/6 at 2 Mana is powerful, but it requires a minion, you cannot attacked with the buffed stat at the same turn, and it also gives this card to your opponent. Compare to Demonfire, use that on a Flame Imp, and you already got a 5/4 that can attack and doesn't give your opponent a card. It can also target enemy minions to get rid of nasty cards like Tirion, but your opponent still gets a 6/6.
Flavor: The first part, transforming into Demon is very obvious, ala Illidan. The second part, give to your opponent, is me feeling the skull has the honor of being the artifact that changes its owner most often.
Think about it, Stormreaver Warlock -> Random Warrior -> Hurkan Skullsplinter, the Bonechewer chieftain -> Ner'zhul -> Deathwing -> Khadgar -> Legion -> Illidan -> Adventurer (ala Players)
I honestly can't think of another artifacts that changes hand so many times.
I like it. What of, instead of giving your opponent the card when it's cast, it gives the Infernal "Deathrattle: Add Skull of Gul'dan to your opponent's hand". Then, it's like your opponent took the Skull off the minion's corpse.
no i like it this way, it's a strong card but balanced because your opponent can react to it with their own infernal.
I agree while I like the flavor of the deathrattle idea, balence wise it's more fitting for them to get it upon casting. Also lore walker cho shenanigans would be great with this.
Thanks everyone for the feedback! Now all I need to is to think of a witty flavor text :D
Still feels funny to use the Skull of Gul'dan as Gul'dan himself. Let's not forget it's his actual skull, from when he was killed in the Tomb of Sargeras; not just some random magical trinket.
I agree. It would be like making legendary Shaman minion named Thrall. I understand the Skill is a truly legendary lore item, but unfortunately it just doesn't work as a Warlock card, for me anyway.
After this exchange, I'm thinking one of the mini-competitions should be a Flavor Text contest.
In fact, I thought I would give this a try. Come on over to the thread I made and let's make some funny flavor text!
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I thought that this would be a cool priest spell. Other ones Ive seen haven't seemed legendary, but this one can only be legendary.
The Final Poll is now up! =D