REMOVED (This is the Submission Topic)

Here's how cards with Maintenance work:

after using hero power 

after using hero power again

Each time you use your hero power with this card in your hand, the worst outcome is taken away until the best outcome is the only one left.

CLASS: THE FORLORN

A BAND OF DISGRACED AND DISHONOURED PALADINS AND PRIESTS THAT WERE FORSAKEN FOR THIER PRIOR ACTS, THEY WERE LOST AND AIMLESS UNTIL LADY TOUKA RALLIED THEM TOGETHER IN SEARCH OF REDEMPTION. THEY NOW TRAVEL TO THE DARKNESS PARTS OF AZEROTH BRINGING LIGHT AND HOPE TO THOSE THAT NEED IT MOST.

HERO: LADY TOUKA

NOT MUCH IS KNOWN OF LADY TOUKA, A FORMER PALADIN WHO ABUSED THE POWER OF THE HOLY LIGHT FOR HER OWN SELFISH QUEST FOR POWER. RUMOURS OF DARK DEEDS, TALES OF BLOOD MAGIC AND HUMAN SACRIFICE FOLLOW HER WHEREVER SHE GOES BUT ONE THING IS CERTAIN NOW, HER SOLE PURPOSE IS REGAIN WHAT LITTLE HONOUR SHE HAS LEFT AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW HER COMMAND.

HERO POWER: LIGHT REMNANT

THE FORLORN CAN SUMMON A LIGHT REMNANT A SYMBOL OF HOPE TO GUIDE THEM IN THIER TIMES OF DARKNESS, A 1/1 CHARGER THAT IS ADDED TO THE HAND. NUMEROUS LIGHT REMANTS HAVE COMBO POTENTIAL.

EXAMPLE CARDS

RESILIENT SCOUT - A SOLID EARLY GAME DROP THAT NOT ONLY ALLOWS YOU TO REFILL YOUR HAND WITHOUT DRAWING FROM YOUR DECK BUT ALLOWS TO PICK A CARD YOU'VE PLACED IN YOUR DECK CUTTING DOWN THE RNG FACTOR FOR DISCOVERING SOMETHING INEFFECTIVE.

A LIGHT IN THE DARK- AMAZING WITH SPELLPOWER AS YOU CAN DO 2 OR 3 DAMAGE TWICE , THIS IS THE PRIMARY EARLY GAME REMOVAL AOE.

WILLFUL RESURRECTOR- A POWERFUL MIDGAME AND LATE GAME CARD AS YOU CAN DISCOVER A FRIENDLY MINION THAT DIED AND SUMMON IT INTO PLAY. THE FACT YOU DISCOVER THE MINION INCREASES THE ODDS OF SUMMONING A PRIME TARGET WHICH COULD BE GREAT FOR TEMPO OR LATE GAME THREATS.

MANY THANKS FOR CHECKING OUT THE CLASS REALLY ENJOYED CREATING IT.

Aethermancer class

An ability that support's the theme of card draw for this class and also aids the hero power. Can be applied to spells, weapons, and creatures.

                Casting Rune                                        Gifted Apprentice                                          Brainstorm

This card is meant to push the idea          Because this class uses many              This card is an important card for

of playing a lot of low cost spells in       spells, many of the minions in the         Aethermacer to help get it's draw

  one turn. I am also planning on           class are spell related. Also Gifted            Turns going. If used with other

making more runes for this class           Apprentice's spell damage works           small damage spells, it can make 

                  in the future.                            well with playing a lot small spells.                  you draw a lot of cards.

Aethermancer is a class who wins by playing a whole bunch of low curve removal spells (which casting rune helps with) and drawing a whole bunch of cards to replenish their hands. This effect of course also works well with your hero power to make it more relevant and not completely RNG based. Spell damage also takes a huge part in this class because of  the low cost removal (which I am planning on posting some of later.) Aethermancer also uses cards like brainstorm and runes like casting rune (I'm planning on making this a card type for the class, if only I could show more cards...) to make big turns. 

INCUBUS

Incubi were once great paladins of men, twisted and fallen to fell deeds. They have wholly forsaken the Light to pursue darker magics and sinister objectives, which are virtually unknown to all save the Incubi themselves. To the common folk, Incubi appear as Nightmarish silhouettes too terrible to behold directly, wielding the strength of the greatest warriors and the cunning of the most wicked warlocks. They take pleasure in the pain they inflict upon their victims, stopping at nothing to pursue the deepest sensual experiences via combat and torture. They come and go, so the adventurers say, leaving nothing but flame and agony in their wake. 

Cards:

Playstyle Explained:

The Incubus is a class that thrives on attaining victims, then subsequently torturing and killing them, reaping great pleasures from their cruel deeds. This is represented by the Incubus' Hero power, Torment, which allows for the summoning of more bodies that the Hero can abuse to his/ her advantage. The main idea here is to slowly build up your side of the board, lull your opponent into doing the same, then playing powerful cards to "mutilate" the board state.

Slave: One of the core tokens of the class. A reliably on-demand Taunt minion can be useful in a pinch against aggressive deck types. The effect is symmetrical to feign balance – in truth, the Incubus gains the initiative as there will be potentially many minions, weapons, spells (including secrets) that will be able to abuse the fact that the Hero power summons two minions at once. But this won't be that easy to do, since both players will need to clear the Taunts in order to interact with the rest of the characters on the board, the Incubus must use his power wisely in order to achieve the greatest advantage. Of course, there will also be many cards that can help summon these Slaves, and perhaps manipulate the Slaves themselves...

Sadistic Succubus: An early game board control minion. It comes with the temporary downside of giving your opponent a Taunt in exchange for its strong stats. But luckily if you draw this minion in the later stages of the game, it can still provide a lot of utility since you will invariably have cards in your hand or deck that can abuse the Slave that it summons.

Screaming Talons: Speaking of abusing Slaves, the first weapon sneak-peaked from the Incubus class rewards for consistent usage of your Hero power. While cost-inefficient in a pinch, it can be very useful in maintaining board control if you have been using your Hero power wisely and effectively.

Torture Dungeon: Rather straightforward - a draw engine that rewards you for interacting with the board. I might decide to change it to "every minion," but that would require spiking the cost and the fact that its pretty conditional means it can sometimes be a totally dead card. There will be some sweet board clears to come with further competition phases for this class, so hopefully stay tuned!

Class: Runic Guardian

Hey, so my submission is the Runic Guardian. As an ancient beast sworn to protect ancient relics, the Runic Guardian draws power from the artifacts it finds and takes damage for destroying them. It will play usually as a control deck with weakness in the early game but strong recovery tools.

My solution to this challenge was to have a token that is used as a resource which would influence the power of class spells. Adding a fairly "useless" token card to your hand forces players to balance spell power with card options and the 1 dmg to your hero discourages greed/abuse of auctioneer like effects. 

Of course there are concerns that with this particular keyword neutral minions would have a hard time finding a place in the deck, so the class cards are going to be fairly spell heavy with only a few minons that give a little added support to the artifact system. It also takes a while to accumulate enough artifacts so neutral early game minions are needed.

The three cards I've included showcase the general flavor of the class as well as a few different directions I plan to take it in future expansions.

Violet Runescribe is one of the staple classic minions that addresses a few of the tempo issues with such a heavy hero power dependence. It has pretty premium stats and helps ramp up your artifact count early on. 

Disruption represents the first and main archetype for this class where accumulation of artifacts is encouraged. It can go from worst case 4 mana 1 dmg aoe to a fairly strong/cheap late game board clear. 

Harness the Power is a different archetype for this class that I intend to develop over a few of the expansions. This archetype will encourage using up your artifacts to gain power which improves synergy with violet teacher type cards.

Some other archetypes/themes I have in mind to explore include:

• Warlockesque cards where benefits are gained for damage dealt to your hero (probably in the basic set since key words can't be used)
• Relic "Activation" where cards change the effect of the relics ie heal, summon tokens, buffs
• Tribal Synergy either with prexisting tribes (dragons/beasts etc) or a newly made tribe (probably based on buildings/ruins)

My Class: The Trickster

Introduction and information

The Trickster class. Infamous for their tricks and illusions, they fight their opponents with deck-manipulating abilities and card copying.

Their special keyword is:

So it's something like a conditional battlecry, except it also works on spells. Like previously stated, many of their cards will be themed around deck-manipulating and other tricks and illusions. 

It is probably going to be mostly a control or combo focused class, because of the slow mechanics affiliated with shuffling things into someone's deck. Some of their cards are stronger than similar cards, but have a delay to them.

They are the fourth class to have secrets in Hearthstone, and their secrets are, like the Paladins', 1-cost.

 Lore and backstory

Darmin Wendell was a normal Gilnean until the Worgen attacked. After he was transformed, he started toying with a mixture of arcane magic, fel magic and physical tricks to combat the Forsaken who wanted to unleash the undead plague on Gilneas. The result was the first Trickster. They use illusions and tricks to confuse and defeat their enemies. Some of them also have demonic familiars (though it is rare for it to be more than an imp).

Example Cards

I've chosen to show three themes from the Trickster. Mirroring, Trickery and shuffling.

Mirror Bomb is a card that could potentially be good, especially if you use it on a powerful Deathrattle or end of turn effect minion (hey look, Ragnaros was inside the bomb!). But if your opponent only plays small minions, it's probably not that good.

Spectral Imp is a very generic example of what a Trickery bonus could be. It's a solid two-drop, with an upside if you shuffle cards into someone's deck. 

Ethereal Spellbinder is a card that you can use to trigger Trickery, or just escape from fatigue/gain more combo pieces. Might be a tiny bit overpowered, I'm not sure? Just remember to judge the concept, not the exact values.

Thanks for reading! Hope to see you in the next phase.

Class : Phantom 

Lissandra an ancient phantom queen ,being a phantom makes her hard to kill and have the ability to evade damage ,and have the strength to deal double the damage to finish he enemies quickly. 

Hero Power : Ethereal vortex 

summon a 0/1 taunt with 50% evasion chance ,which make it harder to remove.

Keyword : Evasion 

Sample cards :

Game play :

Lissandra main game play plan is to evade damage from aggro decks with hero power and Evasion spells and minions mean while set the board to win with double damage minions and weapons.

The Stargazer!

Who are Stargazers?

Stargazers look to the skies to study the stars — whether they use them for tools of navigation or calendar, belief in the ancient lore of the skies, or to uncover PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!!! Ahem.

Our Hero and power:

So the token does nothing?

Besides provide you with some encouragement, yes! But that's not all it does. Its purpose is that the Hero Power specifically puts the card at the end of your deck, so you'll draw them last, helping you prevent fatigue damage without disturbing your draw throughout the game. But Wait!

The keyword for this class is called Constellation

To clarify, each individual card with constellation in your deck will provide you with a copy of it if you have a starlight card in your deck to replace. This only happens once, so you can't get infinite copies of a card by playing it each time. So, if you put two copies of one constellation card in your deck, you could potentially end up playing it four times that game. If one was added to your hand, such as through a random effect like Spellslinger, that would also produce a copy when played, and so on and so forth.

Some example cards:

Class: Headhunter

Name: Chan Stormstout (not Chen)

Chan is a kind, brilliant, and humorous friend.

Also an annoying enemy.

Class: Kung-Fu Master (not Monk)

A Kung-Fu Master knows plenty of tricks: Nunchakus,  Waving Chairs, Borrowed Umbrella, and, Ah-Da-Ah-Dadadada...

Hero Power
Ah-Da: +1 Attack until the start of your next turn

(A hero with attack value outside his turn would deal combat damage to attackers.)

"Attack is the best defense."

Into the face or not? That was not a problem.

Unless you are fight against Chan.

Chan's opponent must think more: Should I wait until next turn to avoid some damage? Or into the face at a price?

In the mean time, Chan's cards enhance the difficulty for deciding.

These cards show the philosophy of a Kung-Fu Master.

Be nice to friends, protect them.

Beat the aggressors.

And keep beating them until they become friends.

The Bronze Guardian

As a member of the Bronze Dragonflight, Moradormi has extensive knowledge about the future. She knows exactly what is meant to happen, and what isn't. Or so she thought. Discovering the ultimate fate of her flight, their corruption into the Infinite Dragonflight, turned the once optimist dragon into a full-on cynic. Still, she strives to make the future a better place, perhaps trying to atone for deeds not yet commited.

Certain events are just meant to happen, and there's nothing one can do to stop them, though they can always be delayed or, for better or worse, brought about earlier. This Hero Power has gone through some revisions, but this version is the one I found most balanced yet. Inevitability and Temporal Bomb set the main theme of the class.

Much like the Warlock's Life Tap, this Hero Power gives you a net total of 1 draw, but instead of paying with Health, the drawbacks of this Hero Power are manifold, the most evident one being the 1 mana cost of Temporal Bomb. There's also the fact that it's placed at the top of your deck, meaning it's on a 1 turn delay (if you don't have additional draw) and it denies your own next draw if not played immediately, which its second effect encourages. Speaking of, the second effect also serves to introduce the class' unique keyword: Latent.

Latent is meant to represent the ability of the Bronze Dragonflight of being 'just in time' by giving cards additional effects if they've been held long enough just to play them at the best possible moment. Mechanically, the easiest paralel to Latent effects are Rogue's Combo effects, except their trigger condition is different. Temporal Bomb's Latent effect is meant as a soft enabler for combo decks (since the cards hit by the reduction are random). 

All in all, the Hero Power is meant to enable control archetypes by providing them resources throughout the game, with Latent effects such as Temporal Bomb's being particularly powerful in slow greedy decks. It also enables combo decks by giving them access to consistent draw to get their combo quickly while also reducing card's costs. Faster decks also see benefit from the Hero Power in a manner similar to Zoo Warlock, being able to play multiple cheap minions while having access to draw (although unlike Life Tap, the draw isn't immediate).

Example Cards

Incoming Meteor: A very straightforward example of a Latent card. An overcosted Arcane Explosion that becomes much stronger if held for a few turns. One of the best sources of non-destruction AoE in the class.

Uncertain Death: An example of a "counter" Latent effect. Uncertain Death is a 4 mana Assassinate the turn your draw it, but becomes a 4 mana Deadly Shot afterwards. It is part of a rather small subset of Latent effects that are better off played right away, but are undercosted because of it.

Preacher of Destruction: Having all 3 example cards have Latent effects would defeat the point, though rest assured there are minions with Latent on them (since it works just like Combo would, the have Latent instead of Battlecry). This card embodies another theme of the class: each turn this is in your hand effects. Much like Shifter Zerus or Nerubian Prophet, these effects always happen at the start of your turn. These particular effects go hand in hand with Latent effects in the sense that you don't want to play them right away but rather squeeze the most value out of them.

Honorable mentions for effects the class features: "When drawn" effects, "For each turn this was in your hand" Battlecries and "At the start/end of your turn" effects.

And now... Presenting the one, the only... Jester Class!

There once was a jester class

That was lead by a playful lass

She rolled the dice

A six did suffice

And she whooped ol' Anduin's ass

Who is Lena Moreau?...

Of all of the acts in stormwind, none are as entertaining or bizarre as that of Lena Moreau. She amazes with the pure impossibility of her tricks, the craziness of her stunts, and the ingenuity of her characters. The favorite student of Barnes himself, she is always wanted by royals and commoners alike. She is also well renowned in the gambling scene. She's banned from many clubs because of her uncannily good rolls and draws. Some call it luck, Some call it skill, some call it magic. No one truly knows the secrets of Lena Moreau.

Example Cards