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This was updated in 13/12: Five new cards are ready for you to research down below :)

Greetings, Students!

Today you will visit Dalaran for the first time. A city packed full with old books and scrolls, and even older wizards trying to unveil their secrets.

It’s a city of great libraries and knowledge and information, and as you know- knowledge is power.

This is my newest custom expansion. I will create new cards for it over the next days, and I would be very happy if you will tell me your opinion about them and rate them.

These are the mechanics of Dalaran’s Magic:

* Almost no RNG, more complex gameplay- after a few years, I really think Hearthstone should raise its difficulty a little bit.

*Deck building interaction- some cards in Dalarn’s Magic alter the way you build a deck. The word Decklist, that appears on some cards, means their effect happens even before the start of the game, and lasts whether  they are in your hand, deck, battlefield or even dead. (Kind of like C’Thun buffs).

*The Library- Dalaran’s Magic biggest mechanic. It works kind of like a sideboard. While building a deck, the moment you put a card that interacts with your Library in some way into your decklist, you are requested to assemble your Library-a sideboard that consists of at least 5 cards, with at least 1 being a minion and 1 being a spell. Your library is built by you, using the cards in your collection, and is unique for each deck that you make, meaning Each deck you make can have its own 5 card library.

An example of a possible warrior library:

As you can see, the library consists of 5 cards- at least 1 is a minion, and at least 1 is a spell.

The library has no immediate effect on the game, but the cards that you put in there can come into play with certain Dalarn’s Magic cards. It acts like a sideboard- for example, if a lot of Truesilver Champions rule the meta, you can put Harrison Jones in your library, while not wasting a deck slot in your regular decklist. If you did not understand this idea fully please comment me below and I will try to explain it in greater detail.

*???- coming soon

When I talked about cards that interacted with your library, I meant for cards like this. This minion is understated, but it can make you choose between the cards that you choose to put in your library, giving you a lot of flexibility. When our Warrior friend for before plays Dalaran Student, he will be able to choose between these cards:

Pretty cool, huh?

13/12 Update- Dream

7/12 Update- The Guardian 

2/12 Update- Shiny!

26/11 Update- Shuffled

23/11 Update- Anceint Scrolls

 21/11 Update- Development of Lifetwist:

First Release

Please rate the cards and tell me what you think about the library concept, the theme and the expansion in general. I will be happy to explain one of the cards if you didn't understand them fully. I need to know if you want to see more of this.

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I think the way you implemented side board is very unique.  Great spin on it but it sure seems super powerful!  

Nifty looking expansion for sure, I'm always down to see custom cards.

However, the timing with your post is magoo as everyone is in gadgetzan mode! =/

Without going into the Detail (because i am at work atm) I really like the idea!

I think Powerful Antimage is not . . .  powerful (pun intended) enough, because by the time you can use him for 0 it will be turn 8 or more. At that point a 3/3 doesn't really do much. Arcane Giant seems so much better. Also useless against aggro. Maybe raise his stats to 6/6?

This Library Mechanic is very very interesting, but I'm worried certain decks might be able to abuse it too much (Strong decks on their own able to cherry pick tech cards)

Library is a really cool concept, I think you should go forward with it.

Library concept is cool and very fancy!

However, i think a discovery mechanic applied on such a strict set is very ppwerful. Reliability should be paid with a proportionate mana cost. So overall, library drawing cards should be quite expensive.

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I really like this concept too, but maybe post an update message here after MSG comes out cause everyone's attention is kinda on that atm

I have a question about the library.

Can i for example, put a Sylvanas Windrunner to my deck and then also put a Sylvanas Windrunner in my library. Or put two Gorehowl's to my deck and one of them to my library. Or can i only have 1 legendary and two normal cards across both the deck and library?

If yes, do i need to own 2 Sylvanas and 3 Gorehowls to do this?

Quote from ZeroAndKira >>

I have a question about the library.

Can i for example, put a Sylvanas Windrunner to my deck and then also put a Sylvanas Windrunner in my library. Or put two Gorehowl's to my deck and one of them to my library. Or can i only have 1 legendary and two normal cards across both the deck and library?

If yes, do i need to own 2 Sylvanas and 3 Gorehowls to do this?

Quote from OscarCrack >>

Love this, but sideboarding is too complex for the avarage HS player imo.
The discover from SB is a really powerful effect and is a nice thought on how to implement it without G2 being here but it might become quite oppressive. Really cool thou as most decks right now play around "hope my opponent doesn't play this tech or my deck sucks" so people would be forced to play more "round" decks instead of this "all or nothing" shit. -I am very unlucky with matchups and that's also the reason I don't play Harrison as I only draw him where I don't need him at all.
Envoir the Old is a really cool card that goes around your Library concept (if i got it right) as you SB him in in Fatigue matchups (interaction is a bit tricky thou) -if I didn't get it pls explain-
The only cards that do not convince me are the 4/3 spelldmg (spelldmg is a really strong effect and I worry about having too many of them in the game. The fact it's neutral is cool but it's still worrying being Arcane Blast an unbalanced card -maybe 4/2 or 3/3?) and the Artifact Seeker (too much RNG for a potentially too high reward -I don't wanna face a Sneed's Old Shredder for free on turn 5- also it doesn't fit the "tech" aspect of the Library imo if not some weird interactions with The Curator)
I'm being highly critic but I love the concept for now. Good work.

Thank you all very much for your comments! Im happy that you like the cards and mechanics so far- it really makes me happy (and helps me balance and create cards better).

three new cards will be spotlighted later today!

Great work. I does not only expand the collection but it expands the game itself. Thanks for sharing.

The library mechanic is definitely interesting.  A decent way to implement sideboards in hearthstone.

In terms of card balance, I would like to discuss your legendary einvor.  I know lots of people love the idea of bigger decks.  But making your deck bigger is a disadvantage, not an advantage.  You want to have as much control over the cards you draw as possible, having more cards in your deck makes it less likely that you will draw the card you really need.  Say you are playing control warrior and really need brawl against a shaman.  Having 5 extra cards in your deck will normally mean that you get brawl a turn or two later. Being a turn late on clearing the board can easily leave you dead.  There are quite a few card games that let you put nearly as many cards in your deck as you want (such as mtg and yugioh), and in these games, absolutely every competitive deck uses the minimum number of cards.

This makes einvor a fairly bad card since he is horribly stated as a 6/6 for 7.  He should actually be an overpowered minion, with the greater deck size treated as a drawback.

This is a really cool idea - I also rated a few of these cards low, but that's actually a good thing because this has the potential to be really OP and that didn't really happen here. Dalaran student has a lot of potential and i'm sure i'd play it in just about about any control deck,  Though even doing that still requires metagame awareness - unless you want to pick very generic and sub-optimal options.

Artefact Seeker has the potential to give you huge, huge plays Again, in a long game, you play only -one- mech in your Library and you're going to get it for zero Mana. Over all it's hard to rate these sorts of cards because it's hard to see how that mechanic would work.

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Quote from Purpenflurb >>

The library mechanic is definitely interesting.  A decent way to implement sideboards in hearthstone.

In terms of card balance, I would like to discuss your legendary einvor.  I know lots of people love the idea of bigger decks.  But making your deck bigger is a disadvantage, not an advantage.  You want to have as much control over the cards you draw as possible, having more cards in your deck makes it less likely that you will draw the card you really need.  Say you are playing control warrior and really need brawl against a shaman.  Having 5 extra cards in your deck will normally mean that you get brawl a turn or two later. Being a turn late on clearing the board can easily leave you dead.  There are quite a few card games that let you put nearly as many cards in your deck as you want (such as mtg and yugioh), and in these games, absolutely every competitive deck uses the minimum number of cards.

This makes einvor a fairly bad card since he is horribly stated as a 6/6 for 7.  He should actually be an overpowered minion, with the greater deck size treated as a drawback.

Quote from LarryMoments >>

I mean, I LOVE the concept of attack=Health, however, I think the requisites are pretty much too high for getting the bonus, although it could be interesting, not all cards in your deck most possibly have equal Attack and Health, so your deckbuilding ITS gonna to be prettty weird, I could probably go with different health or attack, something similar, although this gives me pretty nice remembers of this card of Faeria:

Well, those are the cards that make your concept remember to me, a requisite of beign more agresive, but I still like your cocept, however, it shouldn´t be TOO limited.