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Competition Theme: Easy as AoE

This weeks theme comes from alexbroxman, whose "Flesh Imp" was the winner of our "Once Upon A Time" competition.  As the title suggests, you'll be making AoEs!

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card must deal damage to or destroy more than one minion on the battlefield at once.
  (We recognize that there are a few ways to effectively deal damage to or destroy a minion, like setting its Health to 1 or returning it to its owner's hand or shuffling it into a deck, but lets avoid those and focus specifically on actual damage and actual destruction.)
• To clarify...
  • Your card doesn't need to always affect more than one minion, like Cleave, but it should do so as part of its normal function. I think we've all sometimes had to play a Flamestrike when there's only one enemy minion or a Brawl when there are only two minions on the board, and that's fine.
  • Cards like Arcane Missiles are also fine, as although their effects are random, being distributed across multiple targets is part of their normally expected potential.
  • What wouldn't be fine would be, for example, Flame Juggler just because you can combine it with Brann Bronzebeard, or Circle of Healing just because Auchenai Soulpriest exists.
  • That's not, however, to say that your card must do its thing entirely independently; Wild Pyromancer and Void Crusher would be considered valid entries, despite needing to be triggered by other game elements, because their effects are always valid when they are triggered.
• There are tons of examples of this in the game, so we're not going to list them all. Some of our favorites, though, include Explosive Trap, Swipe, Blade Flurry, Foe Reaper 4000, Flame Leviathan, Doomsayer, Corrupted Seer, Poison Seeds, Betrayal, and of course, DOOM!
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 Competition Process

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 So, without further ado, have fun and get creating!

This theme immediately made me think Mage:

The first one is like a Multishot where you know what it's gonna hit, although it's very limited in what it can hit. If the right one isn't clear, it goes through each enemy minion and it randomly chooses to do one of these things: Freeze it, or deal 3 damage to it. So, this one is pretty random in its outcome. 

Quote from Donnerfausuts >>

Does casting multiple corruption qualify?

Would this qualify ? (if so is it good?)

Quote from MrCheezles >>

So any card the deals damage to or destroys multiple minions (without requiring synergy)? This seems far more open than other recent competitions

Quote from CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey >>

Would this qualify ? (if so is it good?)

Flavour Text: "It reacts to everything, shock, thunder, Scamaz fails, Saltnad, etc."

How it seems, balanced or not, do you like the idea?

I think the theme its pretty easy, however, the hard thing its gonna be, its balance, that´s gonna be though.

PD: Sorry guys, I made commited a wording issue, it should be to all OTHER characters, so it doesn´t damages himself

A recurring idea I've tried, but never submitted. It might fit well this week. What are your thoughts :) ?

EDIT: Also has this idea. Not sure if it's too OP. And does it even fit the restrictions?

Quote from omgnametakenwtf >>

Quote from Lathy >>

A recurring idea I've tried, but never submitted. It might fit well this week. What are your thoughts :) ?

 Impractical af at 5 mana, I think even for 3 this would never see play. The reason is you'll hardly ever have more than 2 beasts so it can barely surpass Powershot (woah new card?). And if you do have more than 2 beasts you might as well go face and instead of clear their board have them get a big one and Unleash. Yea yea it has flavor and shit but it's just too bad...

Quote from Lathy >>

A recurring idea I've tried, but never submitted. It might fit well this week. What are your thoughts :) ?

EDIT: Also has this idea. Not sure if it's too OP. And does it even fit the restrictions?

 

Okay, new idea:

It's a delayed AOE with a number of restrictions. It's similar in theme to Corruption, although a lot easier to play, since you can cast it on a minion then kill that minion immediately after. Your opponent can play around it through good placement of their minions. Also, here are my previous ideas:

I think some nice Priest removals will come from this week's rules. None more deserving imo.