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That effect happens before their start-of-turn draw, but still happens within your own turn's timer, or else it would be kind of dumb with Nozdormu and animations.

I'm not sure about the keyword, though, and perhaps another term would be more befitting of the effect. The idea is that these effects are forced upon the opponent upon the beginning of their turn, as if provoking them into doing it? Something like that. Anyway, not sure about the keyword as of yet.

Any assistance about balance is welcome.

Yes, the first card's picture is unimpressive. Shush. :p

The first card's idea is that small minions will be forced to attack it, dying (if they have 1 or 2 health) when the opponent normally would want them to go face. The attack order would be from left to right until they are out of minions or this minion dies. It DOES use their regular attack for the turn, so once they have proper control of their turn, the opponent cannot attack with their minions that have attacked into this minion from this effect.

The second card's idea is simply that you have two turns of seeing your opponent's hand at the beginning of their turn. As this effect (the keyword) happens before their draw, you don't get to see what they drew at the beginning of their turn.

The third card makes an opponent's minion attack another, in the manner listed (left minion attacks right minion). Both minions take damage, as if they had battled normally. If the leftmost minion has 0 attack, he cannot attack and thus doesn't take damage back from that nonexistant attack. If there is only one minion, nothing happens. I know next to nothing about Warcraft lore, so I may have gotten the character a bit off. It's supposed to be based on the Lich King arc of his existence, hence why he's a warlock minion, not a shaman minion.

Last Stand: Activates when played and you have 10 or less health

Stalwart Defender: Gives you the general concept for the theme. Could be more aggressively costed, but I wanted to make it 'OK' to show off the theme and how it gives vanilla cards more visbility.

Recuperate: Both effects trigger.

Argo Stongstout: The nice thing about Last Stand, is that cards can be aggressively costed and are flexible due to the relatively tight restriction. This card I like a lot, because it's actually worse in an aggro game. In Control vs Control, you can get below 10 health, play this card and heal yourself with a shield block, armor-up, healing wave, etc. Or, potentially, vs Paladin/Priest, you can play this and sit below 10 health just fine.

The general idea is to counter Aggro decks without being completely useless in Control matchups. It would also help bring back Combo decks, since they would largely ignore Last Stand.

Also, for fun, a balanced Dr. Boom.

Nice. Two ideas:

Aura: an effect that affects the board as long as the card that has it is in your hand or deck

First Strike: Becomes active is this is the first minion you play this turn (combo in reverse)

Arcane: can use unused mana crystals from last turn to be played (let's say you skipped turn 1, and the arcane card costs 3, then you can play it in turn 2)

Intimidate: Any enemy character with less attack than this character can't attack.

the idea with the Intimidate mechanic is that it will discourage aggro and encourage control decks.

PS is this the proper way to format it?

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There's a mechanic that I've submitted to a few competitions and other forum events before that I very much like and very much think has potential, and I've never thought about keywording it before because I didn't think it was necessary, but I realize that keywording it might actually give these sorts of effects a lot more room to exist as more than mere vanilla minions once deck construction is complete and the game begins. Now all that's left is to think of a good name for it. I also probably won't use these exact examples. These are literally just the cards I've created for other stuff before. Thoughts on the concept would not be unappreciated. =)

I guess it'd be "Keyword: Your deck may include these cards."
Keyword: Rogue weapons.
Keyword: 2 Basic Mage Spells.
Keyword: 1 Basic Paladin or Priest card.

 

Quote from LarryMoments >>

Ok, gonna be the feedbacker on page 2 cards, here it is my opinion (Except in the ones I already said):

@DoctorWhoops Cured Keyword: I like the concept in general, like Mmrmm, however, the same, the balance is a bit poor but to the OP side, however, I just really like the idea behind Madame Tharesa.

@Tomerick88 Burn Keyword (Put it on the fire! Real good!): Simple concept, yet I like it, however, its a bit broken in the terms of versatility, it disables just too much, I think that just that receives damage everyturn is just fine, however, I would make a small change to Scorch, make it 1 mana, and deal 2 damage, however, just Burns if you have a dragon in your hand. However, not necesarily, it may still be important for not making it OP or too useless, however, just my opinion.

@LittleOgreHearthEtc Unity Keyword: SImple, yet I like it, may it have some problems with Zoobot and those types of things, but I like it, well not too much, but its balanced enough.

@LukeLavablade First Blood Keyword (Better First Strike of Hit, sounds better): I LOVE THIS IDEA, I love it a LOT, I like the balance, you got my vote surely 100%.

@Lathy Prepare Keyword: I like it, however, it feels so unflexible to me, but I like the concept behind, however, not the idea with the cards, I would like something like typo of Arcane Missiles on a minion or something ilke that, but the idea is pretty nice.

Gonna go with the other´s (on 2nd page) tomorrow, I don´t have too much time now, unfortunaly.

 

New keyword from me is Nexus.

It's sort of link. Nexus - its abilities that activates when you summon minions with other Nexus ability.  

The number after this is amount of Nexus minions that should be summoned for activate this ability. I think its allow make really strong effects.

For example - Sand Spectre transform into opponent's legendary after you summon second minion with nexus after summon a sand spectre. (Sand spectre - sand spectre- Desert scavenger -Nat Pagle from 1 sand spectre). It's can create effect of very value snowball. But I make a minions that activate them effect from only 1 summoned nexus minion. (in spoiler)

And look to Nexus Legendary Sha'mu- it's amasing for make really strong combinations. 

What you think about this? pls help me with balance or wording. And help me choose cards for submission. Thnks so much guys, goodluck for all!

Quote from nurgling13 >>

Deception is a minion keyword. When you play a minion with Deception: X, the other player will see it as minion X. Once the minion attacks or takes damage (I changed it from just being targeted by a spell or hero power for simplicity), then the other player sees what the card really is. From your point of view, you will see the card's true text and stats, but you will see the fake name and art. The card will also glow purple to you, like Shifter Zerus, so that you can easily remember a Deception is occurring. If your opponent tries to play something like Shadow Word: Pain that only works on cards with certain stats and such, it will act like it has the fake stats while the Deception is occurring. Naturally, X has to be a minion with the same cost, otherwise the Deception will be exceedingly obvious when you play it. 

Here are my best examples:

False Prophet is my favorite. I just love the idea of playing mind games with your opponent. You could fake them out into doing nothing on turn 2-3 because they think all their minions will die. I think Faceless Assassin is a pretty good idea too. I'm not sure what I should do for the third card, though. Here are some ideas I had:

Infiltrator could be a Deception of Undercity Huckster instead. Not sure which would be better. So, which ones do you like better? Also, please let me know if you think there are any balance issues. I was thinking of making False Prophet a 2/2, or would it even be balanced at 3/2?

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Quote from Asylum_Rhapsody >>

There's a mechanic that I've submitted to a few competitions and other forum events before that I very much like and very much think has potential, and I've never thought about keywording it before because I didn't think it was necessary, but I realize that keywording it might actually give these sorts of effects a lot more room to exist as more than mere vanilla minions once deck construction is complete and the game begins. Now all that's left is to think of a good name for it. I also probably won't use these exact examples. These are literally just the cards I've created for other stuff before. Thoughts on the concept would not be unappreciated. =)

I guess it'd be "Keyword: Your deck may include these cards."
Keyword: Rogue weapons.
Keyword: 2 Basic Mage Spells.
Keyword: 1 Basic Paladin or Priest card.

While I agree with nurgling in that it makes it a bit harder to balance things, I can't deny the creativity. I've always wanted more deckbuilding restriction mechanics. I also think this can be open to a variety of deckbuilding rules, not just adding class cards. e.g. "Keyword: Your deck can have up to 35 cards.", or even drawbacks like "Keyword: Your deck can have up to 20 cards."

As for keyword ideas: Top of my head says Multi-Class, Rulebreak, or Graft.

My new keyword is Sustenance. Spell with such keyword usually has no immediate effect, but similarly to Secrets, will last as "Active spell" of "Sustained spell" for at least one round (when active spell is in play it is reflected by his Sustenance value under hero portrait). Active spell loses 1 point of Sustenance at the beginning of player's turn and each time effect of spell is triggered. The effect is not hidden as in Secrets — it is visible for both players and can influence both sides, additionally — you can sustain only one spell at time. I developed this mechanic for mages exclusively, so all three cards are from Mage class:

Thermal Void: Have similar mechanics to Demented Frostcaller but more reactive in style.

Summoning Seal: Anti zoo card, suitable for Freeze Mage, or any heavy spell affinitive deck.

Transmute Energy: Rain missiles on your enemies with alternate use of Sustained spell.

My keyword is Infinite. It represents a number, which equals to the Infinite cards played in your last turn.

Minions with Infinite keyword normally cost more than 4. Infinite minions means the amount of minions, not minions with Infinite.

I primarily intent to create some strategy-based variable. Maybe it is not so ideal.