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Quote from Razashk >>

Well, when it comes to stuff like that, I kinda live under a rock - so most anime references just *woosh* right over my head. The way you describe it, it sounds almost like overload, actually.

I think cost increase would go better with hearthstones general mechanics. There is a precedent for cost increases, there is none for just being unable to use a type of card.

edit: Best example would be the Venture Co. Mercenary, right?

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Quote from LittleOgreHearthstone >>

 So it is kind of similar. Rather play Pint-Sized Summoner for the ongoing effect than the one time battlecry. The only thing better from your card is that its effect is guaranteed and can combo with Brann.

I am only saying it is not that original in a "card-design-competition" if the card/effect already exists. No offense, it is still a good card. :)

I just didn't knew what you ment with your comment (if it was beacause of the statline increase I was suggestion) ;) That said, I totally agree with you. It's nothing original, but I thought it would fit well in priest. Pint-Sized Summoner is worse than this card, both given the cost and the effect isn't guarenteed (as you said so yourself). Giving them this card could help out with the tempo problems they have to start with, AND it doesn't even have to be played on curve to be good.

Quote from Razashk >>

Pint sized isn't the only minion this is similar to. We have a precedent for cost reduction as a battlecry in Dragon Consort as well. The existence of both kinda makes the card look really shoehorned.

I don't really see why those card make it look shoehorned. There's a lot of cards with similar effect to eachother that sees play (I'm not only talking about constructed). Dragon Consort only works with dragons (duh) and is a paladin card... I can't really see how this has any place in this argument? The effect is similar, but not the same. You can't really make cards that doesn't have any similarities to already existing cards, or cards that we've seen in this competition before. I didn't try to re-invent the wheel on this one, agreed, but I thought it would be a good card that goes well with the priest class (and what they currently need) AND this weeks theme, and I honestly think it's quite alright.

Dragon consort feels relevant when looking at the text on this card because it's the only precedent for this kind of effect we have. It's cost reduction on a battlecry - and a higher reduction for being able to only affect a tribal. I am not saying to not make cards similar to other cards, I am all for wording cards based on other cards - I'm saying that making an effect such as this looks out of place TO ME, but maybe I'm just getting jaded after seeing too many submission where the contest rules seem to be tacked on.

If you care about it, I can give you my opinion on the card itself.

It being a 1/1 for 1 seems underpowered to me. Basically, it's a wisp that allows you to take 1 excess mana into the next turn. The other 1 mana 1/1 class cards, Babbling Book and Swashburglar (problematic as their design is), seem much more exciting than that.

A good comparison would be Tomb Pillager. Tomb pillager has no stat deductions (compared to vanilla stats) on it and basically does the same thing your card does and more.

 

What kind of situation would you say your card is good and/or fun in?

 @Mewdrops:

I'd say costing (11)  looks better than costing (8) more.

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Actually, the general phrasing means that Charge minions would also be unable to attack, no? So it's a little bit more powerful than frost nova.

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What do y'all think about a card like this?

It isn´t the thing that Inspire cards are bad, but the thing is that they are too slow for even make an instant play or impactfull effect, like Kodorider or Nexus-Champion Saraad, players almost never get to make their inspires except if they get this by shredder, portals, etc.

That's all for this week! Take the next 24 hours to review the submission topic and up-vote your favorite entries. =)

Sorry for the delay in getting the poll topic up, folks. The other mods and I just happened to all be super busy today. Bear with us please. ^_~

UPDATE: It appears that our vote-counting systems somehow got itself stuck in an infinite loop. O_O
We're working with some of the higher-ups to figure out what the problem could be, but we're not quite sure yet. Still, I wanted to keep y'all updated that we are sorting this out.