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I've got three ideas here, all with a similar theme:

Option 1 – This should count as a transform effect, right? It works like Shifter Zerus in that the cards are not permanently transformed. You can simply cast the card to remove it, and adjacent cards return to normal. Function: Deny two cards from your opponent until they waste 2-mana to remove the plague. Now you have to deal with it though.
Option 2 – It's either a dead card in your opponent's hand, or can be played tactically to their advantage (e.g. transforming a 1/1 into a Zombie Chow)
Option 3 – A bit more complicated. As long as this is in your hand, you will continuously get Zombie Chow transformations. Get rid of it and it's now your opponent's problem. A bigger risk reward.

I'm personally leaning towards Option 1, as it's very unique compared to the rest, and it seems balanced because 1) Casting it gives it to your opponent, and 2) It may or may not be as disruptive as you'd hope, considering you can't control which cards are turned into Zombie Chows. Combos withLoatheb too.

 Just some suggestions (I think this is super cool, by the way).

I'd called it 'The' Wandering Plague, not 'a' Wandering Plague, simply because you don't really call diseases 'a'. I mean, you don't really say 'that person has a tuberculosis', for example. It just makes everything sound nicer, and doesn't change what the card actually does.

I think the first one is cool, but: If you Brann Bronzebeard it, both Plagues would get turned into Zombie Chows, and I'm not sure if you'd like that interaction. Also, I'd reword it to: 'While this is in your hand, adjacent cards are 2/3 Zombie Chows. Give your opponent the wandering plague.' That way, you have one effect while its in your hand (zombie chows) and the 'actual' effect of the card is to give it to your opponent.

With the second one, I'd say 'Give this to your opponent', like the first one does. I don't like the third one.

My cards (the ones I'm thinking about):

Spooky Scary Skeletons: The idea here is that the Skeletons jump out and scares everyone (the nearby minions freak out and run back to their owner's hands). Not sure about the balance.

Ghostly Cryomancer: Kind of an anti-aggro card. You can take out a small drop and transform into something that helps slow them down. Could be a bit too strong.

Circe, the Eternal: I couldn't really think up a good name for this, so if there's any warcraft character that would fit this kind of effect, please tell me. It's my idea of an Immune minion that might be balanced (okay, it's probably not). The main problem with Immune is that when you start buffing the minion, it kinda gets out of hand. Now, if you buff it, your opponent also benefits, and I think that alleviates the problem.

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Hmm, thanks for spotting that Brann interaction. Even without Brann it's a concern, e.g. playing two Plague Eruptors on the same turn. I think an easy fix would be only affecting minions. Makes more sense anyway, how do you turn a spell into a Zombie? It does make it considerably weaker though. What do you think about making it a 4-mana 4/5 instead? Or a 5/4 which has vanilla stats, but the 4-health makes it slightly weaker. I mean, the effect is somewhat symmetrical, right? So 4/5? 5/4?

As for removing the "When cast" wording, I would agree with you but I decided to keep it just because this is the card design competition, so I want to ensure would-be voters get it. As for 'the' and 'a', I was following Blizzard's wording for giving people cards. They refer to the card as the card itself, but using 'the' could be more flavorful and it's not like Blizzard's been 100% consistent with wording anyway. I'll consider it.

Your cards:
I like the idea of Spooky Skeletons, but balance wise it might be too powerful. It's a cheaper Vanish with a body. You rarely bounce that many minions with Vanish anyway. The utility makes it very flexible, as you have a little control over who gets bounced through proper positioning. It might make it a bit weaker, but what about "Inspire: Return opposing minions to their owner's hand"? Or, simply make it a sort of Sap with a body that rewards proper positioning by not hitting friendly minions too?

Cryomancer is also pretty interesting. What do you think about "if it survives" instead? In the Adventure Competition I made a card that says "Deal X damage to a minion, if it survives give it "Deathrattle: Resummon this minion", which allows it to both be a tool for Crusher decks (hit your big bombs) or use it to ping off enemies. This way, either you ping off an enemy and be done with it, or slightly damage a friendly minion to transform it into a Demented Frostcaller. Thing is, Frostcaller isn't exactly a super good minion for this effect.

As for Circe, as a 1-mana minion? I don't like it. It's like a 1-mana Dreadsteed that your opponent can use. Seems balanced, until you realize that there are ways for your opponent to work around it, extracting value from the card without giving you the value when it returns under your control. I'm talking about stuff like Power Overwhelming, Abusive Sergeant, Savage Roar, etc. Temporary buffs that would love the extra token. It's actually fine balance-wise, the problem here is that it doesn't deserve a card slot. There's no reason to run this over other 1-drops current decks already use.

 

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So that's a culture-related theme. It's quite hard for people from Asia (for example, me) to understand what Halloween theme means.

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Which one is better?

casting spell 3 times counts for Priest of the Feast , yogg, Gadgetzan Auctioneer, Northshire Cleric,

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So that's a culture-related theme. It's quite hard for people from Asia (for example, me) to understand what Halloween theme means.

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So that's a culture-related theme. It's quite hard for people from Asia (for example, me) to understand what Halloween theme means.

 Not really, there is nothing in the rules that requires you to do a Halloween-related card even if that's what most people here are doing.

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So that's a culture-related theme. It's quite hard for people from Asia (for example, me) to understand what Halloween theme means.

 Not really, there is nothing in the rules that requires you to do a Halloween-related card even if that's what most people here are doing.

 "Happy Hallowee- err, I mean, Happy Hallow's End! Your card's artwork and name must be Halloween/Hallow's-End-themed. In addition to this thematic restriction..." 

It's literally on top tsch tsch i am disappoint, cheese. Btw could you check out the Horseman above and rate it to help me out a bit

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So that's a culture-related theme. It's quite hard for people from Asia (for example, me) to understand what Halloween theme means.

 Not really, there is nothing in the rules that requires you to do a Halloween-related card even if that's what most people here are doing.

I'm pretty sure the rules say 'your card must have a halloween themed art/name'.
If I had to do a summary of halloween in a few words, it would be: "Night, Shadows, Pumpkins, Skeletons, Witches, Ghosts, Zombies, Candy, other creepy/scary things'.
I could be wrong, though. I also live in Asia and we don't really celebrate halloween here.

 "Happy Hallowee- err, I mean, Happy Hallow's End! Your card's artwork and name must be Halloween/Hallow's-End-themed. In addition to this thematic restriction..."

I missed this aswell but it's kinda vague tbh and adds nothing to this competition. I have an idea of a legendary minion for this competition but now i feel forced to change it into" The headless horseman", just like everybody else, taking away some of the flavor.

I think the 3 restrictions were enough, i was actually glad one of them was regarding immune minions because there was a discussion a couple of weeks ago regarding this type being added to the game but people were kinda negative towards the idea.

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 "Happy Hallowee- err, I mean, Happy Hallow's End! Your card's artwork and name must be Halloween/Hallow's-End-themed. In addition to this thematic restriction..."

I missed this aswell but it's kinda vague tbh and adds nothing to this competition. I have an idea of a legendary minion for this competition but now i feel forced to change it into" The headless horseman", just like everybody else, taking away some of the flavor.

I think the 3 restrictions were enough, i was actually glad one of them was regarding immune minions because there was a discussion a couple of weeks ago regarding this type being added to the game but people were kinda negative towards the idea.

He's baaaaaaack and with better 'boom-bots'

Dr. Extremely balanced

I've had this idea for a bit, and since OW is in it's halloween phase, it couldn't be better 

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So that's a culture-related theme. It's quite hard for people from Asia (for example, me) to understand what Halloween theme means.

New set of cards:

Spirit Healer are the NPCs that can resurrect you when you die so it fits the theme I guess. However I hesitate to use a Val'kyr instead since this would be closer to the current expansion.

I also had this idea:

Again, I'm not really satisfied with any of those but I'm think I'm into something with the Scythe of Elune. Sadly I didn't find any way I could make my "Servant of Hethiss" fit this week's theme.