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Concerning the Pokémon card: I really wanted to make one from the 1st/2nd/3rd gen, which are my favorites. The first one that came to my mind was Gyarados and then Magikarp (I thought of giving it an effect where you could fill your deck with just Magikarps and if you had that many of them they would evolve or something like that; I remember you had to catch a billion Magikarps in Pokémon GO to get a Gyarados), but I'm not sure they're good enough. I personally don't like Dhelmise; it feels strange. Glalie on the other hand seems more interesting.

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I just submitted. If anyone has any final feedback, here is my post:

The Worgen Class

Lore:

Centuries ago, the Lords of Winter’s Fall fell victim to the Worgen curse. The exact circumstances are shrowded in mystery, but the lord who brought the curse upon his family was a renowned mage. A small, secluded principality in the Alterac Mountains, Winter’s Fall was completely cut off from the outside world after this calamity, to hide their lord’s embarassment. In time, the lords learned to control their Worgen curse, shapeshifting at will between human and wolf form, but the curse was never lifted, nor could they remain as humans for long, and so their kingdom’s long isolation continued. Recently, the new lord of Winter’s Fall, Howe Hark, has learned that a new kingdom of Worgen, Gilneas. With the threat posed by the Forsaken, he has ended his seclusion and brought his forces to the aid of Gilneas and the alliance. The Young Wolf, as he is known, is known for both his brilliant military strategy and savagery on the field of battle. Mastery of his Worgen form means he is alternately rallying his loyal men into battle and tearing out the hearts of his enemies.

Reminder about how the class works:

The Worgen class centers around shifting between Worgen and Human form. Using the Worgen Form hero power (which you start the game with) gives you +1 Attack that turn and transforms you into a Worgen. This changes your hero power to Human Form, but you can’t use it until the next turn. When Human Form is used, your Hero heals 2 health and transforms into a human. The unique keywords of the class are Worgen and Human:

Cards with these keywords trigger an extra effect if you play them while you're in that form. Human/Worgen keyword cards are inefficient if played in the wrong form and extra efficient if played while in the right form. One of the key mechanics of the class is switching between forms at the right times to efficiently play cards.

There is a binary theme to the class, based on the two forms you switch between. Howe Hark has cards that focus on the savagery of his Worgen form, dealing damage or buffing attack, similar to Druid shapeshift-themed cards, and also cards that focus on supporting or buffing his minions, representing how he inspires and leads his men while in human form. There are also several secondary themes. The class has cards themed to snowy Alterac homeland of Howe Hark (including Freeze cards). There are also going to be cards that focus on class cards, representing the solidarity of Worgen. 

Because of the hero power and binary theme, the class is well-suited for hybrid playstyles, and lots of cards will be versatile. If the hero power is used effectively, Worgen excels at tempo, since Human/Worgen cards are mana efficient when in the right form. This is also a weapon class, and both cards and your hero power buff your attack and restore health, so it is good at controlling the board, as well. Some of these control tools could be repurposed for Aggro, as well, especially in a Pirate deck.

Example cards:

Hunted - This is one removal option for Worgen, similar to Hunter's Mark. You play this and follow it up with another source of damage that normally would not have killed your target. The effect is permanent, so all damage from then on is doubled for that minion.

Gilnean Reinforcements - This is Worgen’s card draw. A number of classes have variations of this spell (Arcane Intellect, Ancestral Knowledge, Burgle, Thoughtsteal). This take reflects Worgen’s focus on class cards. This makes the spell both more restrictive, since it can only draw certain cards in your deck, and is useless if you have too few class cards, and more reliable, since you have a better idea of what it will give you.

Leap - Direct damage spells are going to be very limited for Worgen, since the class focuses more on dealing damage with weapons and buffing your hero’s attack. This card can be used both for removal, and to protect your minions. When you play this, your hero has Taunt during your opponent’s next turn, which means your minions can’t be attacked. It’s like half of a Conceal, because your minions can still be targeted by spells and Battlecries.

Basic Set:

Alpine Wolf - With Champion of Alterac, it’s important that there’s a 1-Cost class minion as a potential target. This is basically just the same as Enchanted Raven. “Cannot be Frozen” is not worth anything, because it’s almost never relevant. There will be at least one source of Freezing allies in later sets, so it will have some relevance.

Grievous Wounds - This is the Basic direct removal card. It’s a cheap card, but with a very restrictive limitation. While Execute can be paired with any source of damage, and it is often paired with spell damage or minion AOEs, you can only play this after attacking a minion. Execute was too strong at 1, but this would not be. It does combine well with the Worgen Form hero power.

Champion of Alterac - This card is reflective of the Worgen class’ support side, which represents Howe Hark’s human side. It’s a mana-efficient buff spell, but you can only cast it on a class minion. That’s more restrictive than you might initially think. The only way to play it on turn 2 is if you played Alpine Wolf on Turn 1. I don’t plan on making any other 1-Cost minions.

Frost’s Bite - Worgen is a weapon class. Howe Hark is not just all about tearing things up with his claws. I mean, he doesn’t have any when he’s in human form, anyway. Weapons will not be as strong a focus as in Warrior. It will be more like in Shaman. You can see that here, as this is not as strong a weapon as Fiery War Axe, but it has more utility in being able to Freeze, which is a secondary theme of the class, based on Howe Hark’s Alterac homeland.

Krennan’s Potion - Worgen focuses on using their Hero Power to switch forms regularly, so they need some support for that. This card can both help you recover health, which you may lose from attacking minions, and switch forms more easily, either on this turn or the next.

Winter Has Come - This is Worgen’s AOE option. It’s pretty efficient for its cost, because it will damage any neutral minions you have in play. This also reflects Worgen’s focus on class minions. It represents the hardiness of your Worgen and Alterac followers.

Worgen Assassin - With the lack of direct damage spells, Worgen needs a card like this. Similar to Fire Elemental, you can play this later in the game as a removal option, although it lacks Fire Elemental’s ability as a finisher. There was a lot of debate about this card, and I think we reached the consensus that, in its current form, it is as powerful as Fire Elemental. It’s a strong card, but Worgen needs this as a substitute for damage spells.

To keep my Basic set realistic, I tried to keep card text to under three lines. If you look at real Basic sets, you can see that there are only a few Basic cards with 3 or 4 lines of text. When someone presents you a Basic set where almost everything has 3 or 4 lines of text, it isn't really a Basic set.

Here are my other Challenge cards:

Stout Hound - This is based off of some nice artwork of the Pokemon Herdier. Herdiers are known to be very loyal with thick fur that protects them, so I think this fits with protecting your minions from damage. It fits in well with my class because of both the canine theme and Howe Hark’s noble Alterac background. This card exemplifies the support theme of Howe Hark’s Human side. You can play this card similarly to Argent Protector to help trade efficiently. You can also just drop this on turn 2 by itself and it will prevent your opponent from trading into it on their turn.

Krennan Aranas - This is the guy that invented the partial Worgen cure. This fits well with the Worgen hero power, which represents you changing forms between a Human and Worgen. Because regularly using your hero power to take advantage of the Human/Worgen keyword is a central mechanic of the class, a card like this is very useful to the class. It’s worded differently from Coldarra Drake because of the unique way the Worgen hero power works. Every time you use the hero power, you get a different one. Also, Coldarra Drake’s wording is too long. 

 

 Bumping for some feedback.

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I just submitted. If anyone has any final feedback, here is my post:

The Worgen Class

Lore:

Centuries ago, the Lords of Winter’s Fall fell victim to the Worgen curse. The exact circumstances are shrowded in mystery, but the lord who brought the curse upon his family was a renowned mage. A small, secluded principality in the Alterac Mountains, Winter’s Fall was completely cut off from the outside world after this calamity, to hide their lord’s embarassment. In time, the lords learned to control their Worgen curse, shapeshifting at will between human and wolf form, but the curse was never lifted, nor could they remain as humans for long, and so their kingdom’s long isolation continued. Recently, the new lord of Winter’s Fall, Howe Hark, has learned that a new kingdom of Worgen, Gilneas. With the threat posed by the Forsaken, he has ended his seclusion and brought his forces to the aid of Gilneas and the alliance. The Young Wolf, as he is known, is known for both his brilliant military strategy and savagery on the field of battle. Mastery of his Worgen form means he is alternately rallying his loyal men into battle and tearing out the hearts of his enemies.

Reminder about how the class works:

The Worgen class centers around shifting between Worgen and Human form. Using the Worgen Form hero power (which you start the game with) gives you +1 Attack that turn and transforms you into a Worgen. This changes your hero power to Human Form, but you can’t use it until the next turn. When Human Form is used, your Hero heals 2 health and transforms into a human. The unique keywords of the class are Worgen and Human:

Cards with these keywords trigger an extra effect if you play them while you're in that form. Human/Worgen keyword cards are inefficient if played in the wrong form and extra efficient if played while in the right form. One of the key mechanics of the class is switching between forms at the right times to efficiently play cards.

There is a binary theme to the class, based on the two forms you switch between. Howe Hark has cards that focus on the savagery of his Worgen form, dealing damage or buffing attack, similar to Druid shapeshift-themed cards, and also cards that focus on supporting or buffing his minions, representing how he inspires and leads his men while in human form. There are also several secondary themes. The class has cards themed to snowy Alterac homeland of Howe Hark (including Freeze cards). There are also going to be cards that focus on class cards, representing the solidarity of Worgen. 

Because of the hero power and binary theme, the class is well-suited for hybrid playstyles, and lots of cards will be versatile. If the hero power is used effectively, Worgen excels at tempo, since Human/Worgen cards are mana efficient when in the right form. This is also a weapon class, and both cards and your hero power buff your attack and restore health, so it is good at controlling the board, as well. Some of these control tools could be repurposed for Aggro, as well, especially in a Pirate deck.

Example cards:

Hunted - This is one removal option for Worgen, similar to Hunter's Mark. You play this and follow it up with another source of damage that normally would not have killed your target. The effect is permanent, so all damage from then on is doubled for that minion.

Gilnean Reinforcements - This is Worgen’s card draw. A number of classes have variations of this spell (Arcane Intellect, Ancestral Knowledge, Burgle, Thoughtsteal). This take reflects Worgen’s focus on class cards. This makes the spell both more restrictive, since it can only draw certain cards in your deck, and is useless if you have too few class cards, and more reliable, since you have a better idea of what it will give you.

Leap - Direct damage spells are going to be very limited for Worgen, since the class focuses more on dealing damage with weapons and buffing your hero’s attack. This card can be used both for removal, and to protect your minions. When you play this, your hero has Taunt during your opponent’s next turn, which means your minions can’t be attacked. It’s like half of a Conceal, because your minions can still be targeted by spells and Battlecries.

Basic Set:

Alpine Wolf - With Champion of Alterac, it’s important that there’s a 1-Cost class minion as a potential target. This is basically just the same as Enchanted Raven. “Cannot be Frozen” is not worth anything, because it’s almost never relevant. There will be at least one source of Freezing allies in later sets, so it will have some relevance.

Grievous Wounds - This is the Basic direct removal card. It’s a cheap card, but with a very restrictive limitation. While Execute can be paired with any source of damage, and it is often paired with spell damage or minion AOEs, you can only play this after attacking a minion. Execute was too strong at 1, but this would not be. It does combine well with the Worgen Form hero power.

Champion of Alterac - This card is reflective of the Worgen class’ support side, which represents Howe Hark’s human side. It’s a mana-efficient buff spell, but you can only cast it on a class minion. That’s more restrictive than you might initially think. The only way to play it on turn 2 is if you played Alpine Wolf on Turn 1. I don’t plan on making any other 1-Cost minions.

Frost’s Bite - Worgen is a weapon class. Howe Hark is not just all about tearing things up with his claws. I mean, he doesn’t have any when he’s in human form, anyway. Weapons will not be as strong a focus as in Warrior. It will be more like in Shaman. You can see that here, as this is not as strong a weapon as Fiery War Axe, but it has more utility in being able to Freeze, which is a secondary theme of the class, based on Howe Hark’s Alterac homeland.

Krennan’s Potion - Worgen focuses on using their Hero Power to switch forms regularly, so they need some support for that. This card can both help you recover health, which you may lose from attacking minions, and switch forms more easily, either on this turn or the next.

Winter Has Come - This is Worgen’s AOE option. It’s pretty efficient for its cost, because it will damage any neutral minions you have in play. This also reflects Worgen’s focus on class minions. It represents the hardiness of your Worgen and Alterac followers.

Worgen Assassin - With the lack of direct damage spells, Worgen needs a card like this. Similar to Fire Elemental, you can play this later in the game as a removal option, although it lacks Fire Elemental’s ability as a finisher. There was a lot of debate about this card, and I think we reached the consensus that, in its current form, it is as powerful as Fire Elemental. It’s a strong card, but Worgen needs this as a substitute for damage spells.

To keep my Basic set realistic, I tried to keep card text to under three lines. If you look at real Basic sets, you can see that there are only a few Basic cards with 3 or 4 lines of text. When someone presents you a Basic set where almost everything has 3 or 4 lines of text, it isn't really a Basic set.

Here are my other Challenge cards:

Stout Hound - This is based off of some nice artwork of the Pokemon Herdier. Herdiers are known to be very loyal with thick fur that protects them, so I think this fits with protecting your minions from damage. It fits in well with my class because of both the canine theme and Howe Hark’s noble Alterac background. This card exemplifies the support theme of Howe Hark’s Human side. You can play this card similarly to Argent Protector to help trade efficiently. You can also just drop this on turn 2 by itself and it will prevent your opponent from trading into it on their turn.

Krennan Aranas - This is the guy that invented the partial Worgen cure. This fits well with the Worgen hero power, which represents you changing forms between a Human and Worgen. Because regularly using your hero power to take advantage of the Human/Worgen keyword is a central mechanic of the class, a card like this is very useful to the class. It’s worded differently from Coldarra Drake because of the unique way the Worgen hero power works. Every time you use the hero power, you get a different one. Also, Coldarra Drake’s wording is too long. 

 

 Your hero power is cool, and the fact that it has additional effect no your cards I think helps make it balanced. I know you had issues with it feeling underpowered, but I like it as is.

Hunted is a great 0 mana card. It might be the first good use of 0 mana "removal".

Gilnean Reinforcements is kind of scary. On average your class cards are your most powerful and important cards and this seems a bit more powerful than Arcane Intellect. That said I don't think increasing the cost to 4 would be correct either so its just going to be a strong card.

Leap is weird to me. We've never seen this effect on a card, and I'm not 100% sure what how Leaping does damage and gives you Taunt. Other than that I don't think its imbalanced.

I feel like I've reviewed most of the rest of your commons before and I think they are all pretty well balanced. I still have concerns that Champion of Alterac is a bad Basic, because when you unlock it its not going to be very good, considering how few class minions you have in your basic set.

I think the (3) in Stout Hound should just be a normal 3, they parentheses are used to denote mana. Otherwise its fine. I like your Legend and I think your wording is fine.

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Concerning the Pokémon card: I really wanted to make one from the 1st/2nd/3rd gen, which are my favorites. The first one that came to my mind was Gyarados and then Magikarp (I thought of giving it an effect where you could fill your deck with just Magikarps and if you had that many of them they would evolve or something like that; I remember you had to catch a billion Magikarps in Pokémon GO to get a Gyarados), but I'm not sure they're good enough. I personally don't like Dhelmise; it feels strange. Glalie on the other hand seems more interesting.

For some reason, my thought for you was Lapras. Water/Ice seems like a consistent theme for your class, and Lapras's whole lore is about how it ferries people around. It's the iconic Pokemon you "Surf" around on, and it's literally known as the "Transport Pokemon". There's some good, more hardcore-looking Lapras art out there that I think would fit your aesthetic well.

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I'm almost finished with my Basic Set, but I wanted some help with the remaining two cards (which I wanted to be of higher cost, since all cards so far cost below 3 mana), my Legendary (which is probably not going to change much from what it is right now, simply because I don't think it's really that good and I'll explain it) and especially my Pokémon card, which I have no clue what it should be.

My hero portrait and power:

 The cards I intend to showcase and why:

Throwing Axe: Pretty simple piece of removal and the only card with the signature "deckbuilding" mechanic of the Varangian in this Set. Also one of the few, if not the only direct damage spell I plan to give the class (I'll focus on attack-based damage).

Curse of the Sea: This is an interesting concept but probably not that good of a card. I compare it to Deadly Shot.

Forge Will: Most val'kyr and kvaldir that came out in TGT had effects which somehow were related to buffs, and so I decided this would be a major theme of my class. This is a whatever buff by itself, but it has the benefit of being playable when you have no minions at all, just like your Hero Power, to give you board presence. "If you can't" in this card's text means when you can't target a friendly minion, which is either when you don't have one or when the one(s) you have have Elusive.

Yorg Stormheart: This is a crappy card you'd normally not want to put in your deck, but it allows you to run a second copy of a good one you otherwise cannot run 2-of. I think that's probably a fair trade; there are actually not that many neutral Legendaries you'd want to put another one in your deck, since they either win the game when you play them most of the times (like with the Old Gods) or you can already have their effects duplicated through interactions with other cards that are more versatile (like Brann/Brewmaster/Soulcaster + Kazakus/Reno or whatever).

The tokens:

 The rest of the Basic Set:

Sharpen Edge: Balanced against Power Word: Shield. The effect is arguably more useful, but you can't use on enemy minions just for the cycle.

Raiding Party: Simple 2-drop that's maybe a bit too powerful, I'm not sure yet. The token is the same as the Hero Power's.

Shield and Sword: Attack-based removal with some healing to make up for the damage you take. Worded somewhat like and balanced against Seal of Light.

Stranded on Ice: Stall for slower decks, mostly combo. Probably much weaker than Frost Nova than it might seem at first glance. Unfortunately I couldn't find a better-fitting art, so I had to resort to this one, which is pretty good, but I'd much rather have one depicting a ship that resembled a drakkar.

Iron Flesh: Healing spell with a twist. I figured this class would need plenty of healing and some defensive options, otherwise it would struggle a lot like Rogue (back before they had Buccaneer), but I'm probably not adding anymore because of the Classic Legendary.

 That's it, I hope to get some feedback on these before tomorrow.

 

Ok, I know we aren't there yet, but I've finished my Classic set. I now I already posted this, but things get buried quickly. If anyone is interested in checking it out and giving me feedback thanks. If not, no worries. Obviously, its in the spoiler.

Ok, I just edited my post. Should be good now.

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Class: The Medium

'Sort-of-lore':

In the depths of the Undercity there lives a girl a blind girl with unnaturally pale skin, said to be able to see the future and talk to the well-and-truly dead like they are still in the land of the living. Although she can not see, her things are always meticulously arranged, and those that visit her for advice or fortunes say that runes are painted all around the room she lives in, in a script too delicate to have been drawn by a blind girl. Rumours say that she lives with a demon disguised as a child (hint hint classic legendary hint hint), that she has never aged for fifty years, that unnatural, ghostly sounds echo in the night as eerie lights fly about in her dwelling. But such rumours and others like them have never been proven, and those that have tried to verify them are prone to disappear without a trace, never to be heard of again.

One of the Medium's specialities is cost-reductions, allowing her to manifest spirits and cast spells with greater ease. Her main source of discounts is her hero power - 'Communion', which allows her to receive 'Guidance' from the spirits. 'Guidance' spells can be used immediately to receive immediate benefit, or they can be hoarded in order to reduce the cost of certain combo pieces later in the game. The discount is split randomly very much like Arcane Missiles (can hit the same card more than once), except this reduces the cost of cards instead of dealing 1 damage. They will not attempt to reduce the cost of cards that cost (0) or have the Ethereal keyword:

                                                         

Explanation:

Now, why this particular keyword? Well, it serves two purposes. The most obvious one is that it prevents potentially unbalanced super-wombo-combos using certain cards, giving me a bit more freedom when designing so that I don't always have to be terrified of Malygos or similar cards. Another, less obvious one is that it allows you more consistency with an otherwise random effect, since Ethereal cards won't have their costs reduced. Spirits are fickle creatures. They rarely allow you to do as you please with them - and that includes their mana costs.

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Basic Cards Showcase:

The Stonepeak Mystic is the first healing option the Medium has access to. Like many of her cards, it synergises with the summoning of minions, which her main combos are centred around. Every class that aims for the long game requires some sort of healing option, and this card provides it. You can either play it as a tempo card and slowly heal up your hero, or you can save it for burst healing when you need it.

Banish is an example of a card that can synergise with the Medium's hero power. It starts out as a slightly-cheaper situational Assassinate, but as it's cost is reduced, it can kill more and more things. After 1 discount, it's comparable to Shadow Word: Death. After two, it gets pretty damn good.

Channeling is another way for the Medium to discount her cards beyond the use of her hero power, which is important if you want a bit more consistency with your reduction effects due to the random nature of 'Guidance'. The card draw takes place after the discount.

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Other Basics + Explanations:

Bloodbolt: Serves as the class's 2-mana removal spell. Deals 1 more damage at the cost of 2 health. Can be good for combos, but remember - if you use Malygos with this, you'll be smashing yourself for 7 damage.

Ancestral Strength: By appealing for aid from the ancestors of her minions, the Medium can allow them access to the strength of their forefathers! Obviously, stronger cards have stronger forefathers. A Stonetusk Boar's dad was probably another Stonetusk Boar, after all.

Demon Mentor: At times, the messages from the spirits are strangely cryptic and hard to decipher. Fear not! The Demon Mentor is here to help you. She allows you to cast your 'Guidance' spells for free, rewarding you for hoarding them. They will also no longer waste their discounts on each other!

Wind and Water: I showed off this card during the first phase, and it's another card that synergises with summoning minions. Even in the basic set, cards like Murloc Tidehunter and Razorfen Hunter allow people to take advantage of this kind of synergy. +3 health is great for buffing minions out of AOE range.

Soul Burst: A board clear for the class! By manipulating the energy contained within one's soul, the Medium can cause things to EXPLODE! Stronger than Lightbomb, but still weaker than Twisting Nether.

Future Sight: Just because you can see the future (and if you can't, you're a sorry excuse for a Medium) doesn't mean you can make it come sooner! Future Sight allows you to draw cards, but you won't be able to play them until your next turn. Don't forget to plan ahead.

Screaming Spirit: Most likely a terrible singer in life, the Screaming Spirit screams so loud that people just have to kill it in order to concentrate, which is why it has Taunt. It offers a Taunt minion for the Medium, as well as a smaller board-clear when Soul Burst is too expensive for the job.

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Pokemon + Legendary:

The Entombed Horror is found in the League of Explorers adventure - a ghost, locked within the confines of a rather stuffy coffin. Vengeful and generally easily-annoyed, it will violently attack anything and Mummify it for you, so that it may share the same horrible fate as itself! (Token: Mummy Zombie). Which version do you guys like better?

Whispers of the Old Gods brings the Medium another powerful combo tool in the form of Izanami, the Japanese goddess of death (Kill everything!) and rebirth (Reincarnate them!), ruling over the underworld. She allows you to remove buffs from enemy minions, heal friendly ones, and trigger deathrattles, all while giving N'zoth extra fuel and synergising with cards that trigger based on minion deaths/summons (Volcanic Drake, Wind and Water).

 Bumping for some feedback.

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Can I get some feedback on how to word this little guy.

Old Text was "All minions cost health instead of mana", had to make this change for the fact you could just North Sea Kraken it and your opponent may not be able to deal with the might beast. Yes you'd take 9 damage for summoning.

I'd like to give the opponent a chance to benefit from this minion.

 

 

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Class: The Medium

'Sort-of-lore':

In the depths of the Undercity there lives a girl a blind girl with unnaturally pale skin, said to be able to see the future and talk to the well-and-truly dead like they are still in the land of the living. Although she can not see, her things are always meticulously arranged, and those that visit her for advice or fortunes say that runes are painted all around the room she lives in, in a script too delicate to have been drawn by a blind girl. Rumours say that she lives with a demon disguised as a child (hint hint classic legendary hint hint), that she has never aged for fifty years, that unnatural, ghostly sounds echo in the night as eerie lights fly about in her dwelling. But such rumours and others like them have never been proven, and those that have tried to verify them are prone to disappear without a trace, never to be heard of again.

One of the Medium's specialities is cost-reductions, allowing her to manifest spirits and cast spells with greater ease. Her main source of discounts is her hero power - 'Communion', which allows her to receive 'Guidance' from the spirits. 'Guidance' spells can be used immediately to receive immediate benefit, or they can be hoarded in order to reduce the cost of certain combo pieces later in the game. The discount is split randomly very much like Arcane Missiles (can hit the same card more than once), except this reduces the cost of cards instead of dealing 1 damage. They will not attempt to reduce the cost of cards that cost (0) or have the Ethereal keyword:

                                                         

Explanation:

Now, why this particular keyword? Well, it serves two purposes. The most obvious one is that it prevents potentially unbalanced super-wombo-combos using certain cards, giving me a bit more freedom when designing so that I don't always have to be terrified of Malygos or similar cards. Another, less obvious one is that it allows you more consistency with an otherwise random effect, since Ethereal cards won't have their costs reduced. Spirits are fickle creatures. They rarely allow you to do as you please with them - and that includes their mana costs.

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Basic Cards Showcase:

The Stonepeak Mystic is the first healing option the Medium has access to. Like many of her cards, it synergises with the summoning of minions, which her main combos are centred around. Every class that aims for the long game requires some sort of healing option, and this card provides it. You can either play it as a tempo card and slowly heal up your hero, or you can save it for burst healing when you need it.

Banish is an example of a card that can synergise with the Medium's hero power. It starts out as a slightly-cheaper situational Assassinate, but as it's cost is reduced, it can kill more and more things. After 1 discount, it's comparable to Shadow Word: Death. After two, it gets pretty damn good.

Channeling is another way for the Medium to discount her cards beyond the use of her hero power, which is important if you want a bit more consistency with your reduction effects due to the random nature of 'Guidance'. The card draw takes place after the discount.

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Other Basics + Explanations:

Bloodbolt: Serves as the class's 2-mana removal spell. Deals 1 more damage at the cost of 2 health. Can be good for combos, but remember - if you use Malygos with this, you'll be smashing yourself for 7 damage.

Ancestral Strength: By appealing for aid from the ancestors of her minions, the Medium can allow them access to the strength of their forefathers! Obviously, stronger cards have stronger forefathers. A Stonetusk Boar's dad was probably another Stonetusk Boar, after all.

Demon Mentor: At times, the messages from the spirits are strangely cryptic and hard to decipher. Fear not! The Demon Mentor is here to help you. She allows you to cast your 'Guidance' spells for free, rewarding you for hoarding them. They will also no longer waste their discounts on each other!

Wind and Water: I showed off this card during the first phase, and it's another card that synergises with summoning minions. Even in the basic set, cards like Murloc Tidehunter and Razorfen Hunter allow people to take advantage of this kind of synergy. +3 health is great for buffing minions out of AOE range.

Soul Burst: A board clear for the class! By manipulating the energy contained within one's soul, the Medium can cause things to EXPLODE! Stronger than Lightbomb, but still weaker than Twisting Nether.

Future Sight: Just because you can see the future (and if you can't, you're a sorry excuse for a Medium) doesn't mean you can make it come sooner! Future Sight allows you to draw cards, but you won't be able to play them until your next turn. Don't forget to plan ahead.

Screaming Spirit: Most likely a terrible singer in life, the Screaming Spirit screams so loud that people just have to kill it in order to concentrate, which is why it has Taunt. It offers a Taunt minion for the Medium, as well as a smaller board-clear when Soul Burst is too expensive for the job.

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Pokemon + Legendary:

The Entombed Horror is found in the League of Explorers adventure - a ghost, locked within the confines of a rather stuffy coffin. Vengeful and generally easily-annoyed, it will violently attack anything and Mummify it for you, so that it may share the same horrible fate as itself! (Token: Mummy Zombie). Which version do you guys like better?

Whispers of the Old Gods brings the Medium another powerful combo tool in the form of Izanami, the Japanese goddess of death (Kill everything!) and rebirth (Reincarnate them!), ruling over the underworld. She allows you to remove buffs from enemy minions, heal friendly ones, and trigger deathrattles, all while giving N'zoth extra fuel and synergising with cards that trigger based on minion deaths/summons (Volcanic Drake, Wind and Water).

 Bumping for some feedback.

 Your hero power might is more crazy than mine haha. We both decided that some cards needed immunity to the effect though which is a cool conclusion to come to. Are you concerned at all that your hero power is mana neutral, and that the discounts last forever?

Stonepeak Mystic seems like a fine card. I'm curious, how much healing do you plan to have? 

Banish is curious. I feel like you never really want to cast this on something cheap anyway, even when its very cheap itself. Considering your class I feel like this should cost 5, even though I know that makes it a worse Assassinate.

I have a card just like Channeling in my Classic set with a bit of a twist. I think 3 is the right cost for this effect  and I think the card draw should come second.

Bloodbolt looks fair, though I think the wording should be, "Deal 4 damage and 2 damage to your hero." Your wording does save like 2 characters, but makes the reading of the card a bit sloppy IMO. I also don't full know why a Medium is using her bolt to cast damaging spells. Spiritbolt or Soulblast or something might make a bit or sense.

Ancestral Strength combines Blessed Champion and Divine Spirit but also gives you a 1 mana discount. I know separately neither of those cards is highly played but I still think this should cost 7.

Mentor Demon is probably fine. IDK if you plan to allow other cards to generate Guidance spells.

Wind and Water seems a touch expensive. I know you can do a lot of discounting, but this only affects minions you summon this turn and not ones you already have in play. I think 3 mana would be fine.

Soul Burst is cool, but might be too good for Basic. This very close to a 7 mana Twisting Nether, since you can target the largest minion on the board period, but it has the added upside of using a small minion to keep your larger ones alive. I know there are a few low attack high very high health minions this isn't good against, but for a Basic I feel like its really pushing the boundary.

I like Future Sight a lot. It allows you to dig but not to dig for instant answers.

I'm not a huge fan of Screaming Spirit hitting the enemy player, but that's just a personal thing. Well balanced, good art.

I like the first Entombed Horror.  If you compare it to Keeper of Uldaman, you're paying that 1 extra mana for a Silence, seems fair. The second one is just a bit sloppy.

Izanami is cool as well, though I think a 3/3 wouldn't be over powered. She doesn't work well with Sylvanas Windrunner, one of the big offenders of these sorts of effects, and because she affects both sides, she could be helping your opponents N'Zoth, the Corruptor.