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Looks like a substantial portion of the entries this week are going to be headless horsemen.  If you are making a headless horseman card and haven't submitted it yet, you may want to rethink it.  Unless its stunningly well-designed, I really doubt people are going to be upvoting the 10th headless horseman card they see after the first few pages.

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Skeletons is definitely my favourite, although I could use some feedback on its balance. The flavour is that the skeletons scare the bejeezers out of the minions in front of it, and they run back to their owner's hand. I'm pretty much set on the effect, so it's just balance I need feedback on.

Circe is just a fun immune minion to mess around with. I like it, but it's probably not that good. Maybe at 0 mana?

The Cryomancer is kind an anti-aggro card. You can take out a small drop and get a nice 2/4 body along with an effect that helps slow the enemy down. Or you can ping off a divine shield or something.

 

 Spooky scary skeletons - are...scary potential doubie sap - especially against control decks,holy smokes...interesting design,but too strong for me,maybe for 6 mana?

Circe - Is interesting and funny card but...zoo - yep,1/1 immune token is last thing that i want in zoo warlock : D...how buffs work on this card? or it cannot be affected by spells/battlecries?

Ghostly cryomancer -  I like that the most from all three - is flavorful,versatile and not OP - great design : D!

Came up with a cool idea but I've already used my submission so I guess I'll just share it here. Might give some inspiration! 



Helps control warlock as they get the benefits of TN without committing to likely another 8 mana card. It isn't just flat out better than TN though as it wont transform until you have 10 mana thus it takes 2 turns longer to use when desperate, also if you draw it from tap you won't be able to use it, same if you tap to see other options or play a card before it as it will transform back. That can be used to your advantage if you'd be better off using the 4 mana version.

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Skeletons is definitely my favourite, although I could use some feedback on its balance. The flavour is that the skeletons scare the bejeezers out of the minions in front of it, and they run back to their owner's hand. I'm pretty much set on the effect, so it's just balance I need feedback on.

Circe is just a fun immune minion to mess around with. I like it, but it's probably not that good. Maybe at 0 mana?

The Cryomancer is kind an anti-aggro card. You can take out a small drop and get a nice 2/4 body along with an effect that helps slow the enemy down. Or you can ping off a divine shield or something.

 

 Spooky scary skeletons - are...scary potential doubie sap - especially against control decks,holy smokes...interesting design,but too strong for me,maybe for 6 mana?

Circe - Is interesting and funny card but...zoo - yep,1/1 immune token is last thing that i want in zoo warlock : D...how buffs work on this card? or it cannot be affected by spells/battlecries?

Ghostly cryomancer -  I like that the most from all three - is flavorful,versatile and not OP - great design : D!

 Mm. I'll probably make the Skeletons 6 mana and buff its stats a bit. Like this (reworded based on Kharazhan chess pieces wording):

Circe will be affected by any buff cards, just like a normal minion. The idea was to balance this by allowing your opponent to take advantage of any buffs you apply to her as well. Irrelevant, but just out of curiosity, if you give Divine Shield to a minion with Immune, would the shield pop when it attacks another minion? Probably won't, but I was just wondering.

Also, random other idea:

I don't know, I just found the image of a Pumpkin man setting your minions on fire and throwing them at people amusing.

 

I guess you really like the chess mechanic. I'm usually the one who's advocating for strong cards but you're just massively power creeping Kidnapper which isn't outstanding as we all know, but with some stat changes it really could be decent. Just look how much stats Kidnapper loses and for what power - then add maybe 2 stat points so that you make it good.

I'm probably being too scientific about it but let's go - 6 mana no text has 13 stat points, Kidnapper lost 5 to get Combo: Sap 1 thing. Yours is battlecry instead of combo so it should lose 2 stats just from that, and potentially double the effect but not always so let's say instead of 5 he should lose 8 then you add 2 so that it's still better than Kidnapper. So for this to be somewhat balanced you have to have a 6 mana with 5 stats so maybe a 3/2. Would've reached the same result without going through bad cards by just looking at it like 2x Sap for 4 mana and then the minion has to be a 2 drop.

That said it's still 3 cards into 1 which has proven to be devastating with Call of the Wild, hell even 2 into 1 with the old Muster for Battle cancer and I dunno... Dr. Boom.

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For the purpose of this card, Undead minions are as follow:

0 - Wisp

1 - Undertaker, Zombie Chow

2 - Bloodmage Thalnos, Boneguard Lieutenant, Crazed Alchemist, Cutpurse, Dark Peddler, Fallen Hero, Mad Scientist, Mana Wraith, Nerub’ar Weblord, Undercity Huckster, Undercity Valiant, Unstable Ghoul, Wild Pyromancer

3 - Deathlord, Eydis Darkbane, Fjola Lightbane, Flesheating Ghoul, Ravaging Ghoul, Shade of Naxxramas, Stoneskin Gargoyle, Unearthed Raptor

4 - Ancient Shade, Anub’ar Ambusher, Baron Rivendare, Shifting Shade, Spawn of Shadows, Tomb Pillager, Wailing Soul

5 - Abomination, Feugen, Sludge Belcher, Spectral Knight, Stalagg

6 - Kidnapper, Sylvanas Windrunner, The Black Knight, The Skeleton Knight

7 - Chillmaw

8 - Fossilized Devilsaur, Kel’thuzad

9 - Anub’arak

 First idea was a spell (The Graves are Open: 4 mana, each turn for the rest of the game, summon a random Undead on the active player's side), but it didn't meet the requirements, so it became (Dance Macabre: 4 mana, each turn for the rest of the game, transform a random minion on the active player's side into an Undead of equal or lower cost), but I realised it was too much RNG, not enough related to Hallow's End and WoW for my liking and maybe a bit too complicated in the wording.

So I thought: well, at Halloween the barrier between living and dead is thinner, so a necromancer might abuse that to summon an army. I remembered Zanzil, so I gave him the original "summoning an Undead" effect, the "Immune while controlling an Undead" ability to meet the requirements of the competition (which is still fitting), and the drawback of losing mana crystals to compensate the RNG of the summoning. Stats and mana cost aren't really that thought out, they're like that only because currently in the game there are 2/3 minions of every mana cost from 1 to 6 except 5 and that triggers some kind of OCD in me. :D Aside from that, I thought that 5 as a mana cost would be all in all reasonable, since you would be losing mana crystals afterwards.

What do you think? Is 2 mana crystals too much? Stats too high or too low for the effect?

 

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Long version: my first thought when I see this card is "what qualifies as 'Undead'?"  Since we don't have any cards that reference Undead in the game yet, this'll likely confuse some people despite your list (and probably cost you a couple votes).  Second thought, upon reading the list: this is way too swingy- you have a chance to pay 5 mana and destroy 2 mana crystals in order to summon a 2/3 and a 1/1?  Or to get Kel'Thuzad on turn 5...  I would say trim it down to a much smaller range of minions (preferably no Wisp, and no cards above 6-cost), maybe as few as 3 or 4?  Until then, it's hard to really say how powerful it is, but note- destroying 2 mana crystals is a huge downside.  Each mana crystal destroyed is worth 2-3 mana, putting this guy's effective cost around 10.  Based off of the minions summoned, this is roughly a 6/7 worth of stats, which means he costs 4 mana too much.  I would probably reduce the mana crystal cost to 1.  Additionally, 'start of turn' effects are very weak- as you have him now, he's going to be a 5 mana 2/3 in most situations.  If you want him to actually activate his effect, you'll need to bump up his health substantially.

My suggestion: 5 mana, 3/6 'At the start of your turn, summon an Undead instead of gaining a mana crystal.  Immune while you control an Undead.'  Undead list: Zombie Chow, Unstable Ghoul, Deathlord, Flesheating Ghoul, Shifting Shade.  Might still be a bit UP, but you get the idea- go ahead and take whatever you want of this, this is just how I'd modify the card.

 

My current idea for a card:

Idea being, when a minion would die it gets reanimated- but then nearby minions get spooked and run away.  Very potent in a control deck, as you can ping Imps to send their allies back to their hand, or kill Totems to scare off Flamewreathed Faceless.  Or you can use it in conjunction with Sylvanas or the like to make some value plays (especially if you've got some Battlecry minions nearby)...  Does it feel balanced?  Unique?  And, of course, is it fun?

 

 Thanks for the feedback. I agree that it needs a buff. Right after I posted the card, I made some calculation: the average mana cost of a summoned Undead is 3.66, confront this with Hogger which is a 3.5-mana body that summons every turn a 2-mana minion without drawbacks and yeah, it needs a serious buff. I don't like restricting the Undead list that much though...

How about "at the end of your turn, transform a random minion into a Flesheating Ghoul"?

About your card, I have a few thoughts: 1, I personally don't like locations or places as minions; 2, probably too powerful (think of possible combos with chargers and Reincarnate: Graveyard + Leeroy + Reincarnate = 10 mana, 3 cards, 18 damage from hand); 3, I like the idea, but I really don't see a Flamewreathed Faceless (for example) getting spooked... maybe a mana or attack restriction to indicate that only "small" or "weak" minions get scared?

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This is my final submission. If you're tired of all those turn two Fiery Win Axes swinging at your poor minions, that's an interesting answer. After all these brutal murders, your opponent's heart will melt as he sees this adorable guy. As we can see, it's battlecry require certain circumstances to occur, so it won't trigger everytime. But even if it doesn't, we do still get a nice minion on our side.  It also can serve as a pretty nice finisher, countered only by taunts or aoe freeze. Or some secrets. Well, almost everyone has a way to get rid of it.

PS: How do i put the full-sized card into the post? I mean, not by adding it as attachment. Im a little new in this kind of stuff. :D

Happy Halloween! ^_^
And that's all for this week, folks. Take the next 24 hours to look over the entries and up-vote your favorites. =)