Hearthpwn

Core Keywords: Impulse, Deathrattle

Concepts

• Recklessness
• Retaliation
• Resurrection
• Healing (Instead of armor)
• Damage-based Removal (Like a mage’s spells)

This means that the card was drawn earlier this turn, or somehow added to your hand earlier this turn. So, cards from Yogg-Saron and other RNG effects that aren't added to you hand will never trigger impulse. In addition, cards added into your hand during your opponent's turn can't trigger impulse!

Possible Archetypes

Tempo Phoenician

"Freeze" Phoenician

Self-Mill Phoenician (w/WotoG)

Reno Phoenician (Possibly if this joins the Kabal)

Elemental (When Un'Goro comes around)

35-card "Good Stuff" Phoenician (When is this NOT a good deck?)

Nix’s Mark: A quick simple and easy buffing spell that’s comparable to Divine Strength.

Counter Reflex: A simple damaging spell. I considered having this deal 4 damage, but I didn’t think the downdraw was as strong as Soulfire’s. 4/10: Made slightly stronger because of the drawback. 4/19: Changed name to Counter Strike

Pyromancer: I wanted Pyromancer to have some way of boosting a spell’s strength. As some of you’ll know, I went through quite a few versions of this card before settling with this one. A 2-mana 3/1 that basically supports the “I burn you to ashes. Then more”. 4/10: -1 Attack. To more evenly balance it’s strong value. 

Flaming Vortex: Now. It’s not supposed to be double Whirlwind. The concept is to increase the power of spell damage and Pyromancer, along with other cards that cooperate well. I can guarantee that Enrage effects will never appear in this Class.

Following Flame: It’s pretty weak actually… as it deals 2 damage, but allows you opponent to attack once again… It’s just a versatile card that’s effective against 2-Health minions…

Fury: Comparable to a more consistent version of Lock and Load or Stampede. This will help quite a bit with activating the “Impulse” keyword.

Reduce to Ashes: The finishing move… Weaker than Mind Blasts, and much weaker than Fireball for burn damage. This is because the class is already full of quick and easy spells. Also, it opens up a little possibility of hitting your own hero… if that ever needs to happen for some strange situational reason... 4/10: The card was originally 8 damage, but it felt too strong. At 6, it felt too weak. For now, the card has been reintroduced at 7 damage.

Phoenix Tears: A healing spell. Everyone has a few of these. I believe it’s quite balanced.

Scorching Phoenix: As previously pointed out, yes. This minion has an overpowered anti-aggro ability. Also, it harms your own board too. Just have fun with it… and try not to get hit by fireballs.

Invigorate: No. This is not Innervate. Remember Sprint? Oh yeah. Let’s make it bigger.

Catalyze: I believe that this is helpful with the impulse effect. This is slightly stronger than the Warlock Hero Power (Because of the set) 4/10: “Deal 2 damage to your hero”. The cards has been updated to reduce all the complaints. Yeah, yeah. I get it. 4/19: A quick grammatical change.

Retaliate: Weaker, 0-Cost version of Counter Reflex. Similar to Backstab.

Nix’s Blessed: Just a simple buff. Incorporates Nix’s Mark. As an Impulse effect.

Intuition: Replaces all the Phoenix Awakening nonsense. It’s a card that encourages the use of “Impulse”, along with removing any debuffs on cards in your hand.

 Phoenix Egg: Infinite resurrection at it’s finest. 4/10: Added Can’t Attack to make it much weaker than Devilsaur Egg, forcing a player to eliminate it

Rebirth: Resurrection idea once again. Slightly different from Shaman’s and Priest’s. 4/10: Renamed to “Renewal”.

Phoenixfire: Simple damaging spell. 4/10: Added the word “Also” to clarify the intended effect. 4/19: Replaced “Also” with “And”.

Anticipate: Simple draw concept. 4/10: Name changed from “Precognition” to “Anticipate”.

Bloodmage: Wait wait wait. This is Phoenician class. What’s with this Bloodmage nonsense? Well, the thing is, many bloodmage's have the ability to summon Phoenixes so why not? 4/10: Replaces Forgegaurd. 4/19: Changed rarity to Epic.

Reckless Blazewing: I just thought of this to be a random concept as an interesting epic.

Tectonic Surge: Simple minion damaging spell.

Lavahound: This fiery beast is… well a little Core Hound-y. Likes to pounce on pretty much any moving object... 4/10: Word “random” added to clarify the intended effect.

Pyroclasm: Simple, but possibly devastating, AoE.

Pyromaniac Sera: A finisher if your opponent has no way to remove it. 4/13: It was argued that this would end the game if brought into play by Barnes. I would argue otherwise, as an early Ragnaros or Y’Sharj would pretty much do the same thing. Also, we haven’t gotten to ONiK yet. It might be a bridge to cross when we get there.

Blaze of Glory: An interesting thought about Impulse cards, although this may be a little too strong. Note that the card will not have impulse if Deathchill Phoenix dies during your opponent’s turn.

Deathchill Phoenix: This card is made to work well with the Impulse Keyword, forcing you to almost play the drawn card. Note that Impulse will only become available if the minion dies during your turn.

Bomb-o-tron: Mech that deals damage to stuff. Fun eh?

Flamewing: A mix-up on Deathchill Phoenix’s concept.

From the Ashes: A more precise version of Resurrect. 4/19: Text adjusted to clarify intended result.

Phoenix Rager: Welcome to the Rager Family! Okay, hear me out. This minion seems to be overpowered AF. But the thing is, I wanted this card to force your opponent to remove it with a spell or with their hero. 4/19: Reworded the same effect.

Unstable Caster: Revisits an idea in Anticipate. 4/19: Picture changed.

Cerebral Combustion: At worst, a weaker Deadly Shot. At best, a cheap removal card. Another simple example of a way to use Impulse. 4/19: Name changed to Cerebral Combustion.

Nix’s Cometstorm: Similar to Volcano, but with a possible healing spell thrown in. 4/19: -1 Damage and Healing.

Steelwing Volitus: 4/19: Completely changed idea. Now, it’s a completely different card!

Reprisal: Another spell that has the retaliation mechanic. At the same it is a powerful removal. 4/19: Removed accidental “Mech” tag.

Dark Iron Golem: Similar to many other Blackrock Mountain cards that cost less based on the number of minions that die in a turn.

Dualcast: This is a pretty simple spell that I’m surprised doesn’t already exist. It just is the copy of the last spell you cast. (Same cost and all)

Prized Vial: Although the coin seems slightly out of place… This is a simple healing spell. The idea is that you can use the vial of Phoenix Tears, or choose to sell it for a coin instead.

Cyro’s Chosen: This card is basically the counterpart to “Nix’s Blessed”, but for Icewing Cyros instead. It has a small Frost Shock included as an Impulse effect.

Zapwing: One of the stronger cards in this set, as a 3-cost 5/5. Probably going to be a staple in most decks. I believe that the downdraw does well to balance its stats.

Molten Claw: Simple and effective. A little stronger than Shadow Bolt

Nix’s Champion: Once again, this follows the +2/+1 effects from Nix’s Mark. Nix’s Champion becomes stronger whenever you activate your hero power. Although, the wording makes it similar to Floating Watcher

Flame Bearer: Another way to show Following Flame (Which is similar to Corruption)

Duel of Legends: A way to pull out the legendaries from both decks. This card will encourage players to almost always include at least one legendary in their deck.

Adventurer Glacius/Icewing Cyros: The powerful legendary card from the set. It summons a 3/2 body followed by a 5/5 one. This can be compared to a weaker version of Anub’arak, but with a possible freeze thrown in. The idea is that Adventurer Glacius (One of the Phoenicians) is able to transform (somehow) into the more powerful Icewing Cyros. When Icewing Cyros is defeated, Adventurer Glacius is temporarily wounded, but given a bit of time, able to return to the fight.

In the set as a whole, a few more “wild” variations of Phoenixes appear. The cards Zapwing, the electric phoenix, and Adventurer Glacius/ Icewing Cyros as the ice phoenix. I don’t plan on adding many more non-fiery cards in the set.

Confusion of Rafaam: A more powerful, and more playable, version of Curse of Rafaam.

Prismatic Phoenix: Just a card that can shuffle a miniature Coin into your deck. Will work pretty well in Miracle Phoenician decks.

Firehand Wanderer: You can choose to Yogg-Saron it, or just take the card draw. Either way, it can be quite powerful…even game-winning - especially if you discover a Call of the Wild.

Forbidden Rite: This is the spell-based counterpart of Forbidden Shaping. Like all the other forbidden cards, it’s below vanilla.

Predictable Madness: An oxymoron. This probably is not going to be played too often, but I guess this can create some interesting combos. Ever wish for two Leeroy Jenkins without going through so much shenanigans? Here you go! Also, this set introduces the concept of self-milling as a downside to earn bonus value. This card helps counteract this by adding more cards into your deck.

Lifelinker: As explained in Twisted Flame and Screeching Blazewing below, this card uses self-milling. This card allows you to gain extreme value in a deck that intentionally self-mills in order to win. In addition, it can redirect the backlashes of your hero power to the enemy hero. 

Twisted Flame: Unlike the previous sets, this set introduces the concept of a self-milling downside, seen in Fel Reaver. +1 Attack trades for 3 cards in your deck.

Screeching Blazewing: The minion counterpart to Twisted Flame. A 3-cost 5/5 that will demolish your deck. (probably) This has very very very very very very strong value, and likely the most powerful card in the entire set.

Distorted Pyromancer: Weaker than Firehand Wanderer due to the limited choices. This is one of many Cultists who work for the awakening of Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End.

Lavahorror: The C’Thun supporter of the set. Pretty straight foreward. Is the corrupted version of Lavahound.

Pyromancer’s Tome: A lot like Cabalist Tome, but with cards from any class. It also gives the cards a cost reduction if you play them the turn they were received.

A’mitag: Well. You just killed you deck and possibly replaced it with 10 cards that may or may not be playable. Pray that you didn’t discard it early on... 5/8: Balancing issues and a slight name change.

As a set, this takes the Phoenician around an extremely dark turn. It’s filled with (lava)horrors, unrelenting madness, and corrupted versions of multiple cards. Also, it introduces the concept of self-milling as a cost to powerful effects. This creates the possibility of developing a yolo fun-to-play Mill Phoenician archetype (which won’t have that much support later on, but whatever…). C’Thun decks don’t seem to playable, as it’s growth heavily depends on the actions of your opponent.

"ONK - While the set looks good overall, I noticed you didn't carry over any themes from the set, like spell synergy, or summoning minions and stuff... oh well

Woops. Oh wait, there's some discard is a miniscule theme in WotoG and some spell (specifically Impulse) synergy with "Scatter" and some preparations to Elemental synergy in Vivid Flamecaster.

Vivid Flamecaster - It is on a Deathrattle right? Oh, it's not? I'll fix that...

Jet Rook - Jet refers to the color Black in a similar way to Onyx also referances black and Ivory refers to white.. And for nerfs, I'm putting this as a 4/4 still, since the card is still weaker than deadly shot. This only kills minions that already dealt damage. (See Reciprocate from Blackrock Mountain)

MSG!

Potion of Tears - Ahhh... I'm going to make this cost (1). *Hits head on the computer a few times* What was I thinking when I made this?

Kabal Catalyst - I know that it's a little weak compared to Radiant Elemental and Sorcerer's Apprentice. Okay. really weak. I think I won't change this, since this class has a much better combo potential. I often compare this to rogue rather than mage or priest.

Anomaly Elektris - Infinite 2/2's eh? I have a feeling you did this for Un'Goro but as of right now this card sucks because its too tiny to even do anything, and you can't really buff it. Odd that you decided to use this now rather than for Un'Goro. 

Heh heh heh. How did you figure out my master plan? (I'm deleting this and replacing it with an entirely new card.)

Bloodbound Potion - I get that removing 6 cards from your deck is devastating. But, I do think that having cards that are too weak are always okay. Every set has cards that are unplayable [see Purify] except in specific decks (This works well in a Self-Fatigue Lifelinker deck).

Kabal Illusionist - I've considered making this a 4/4. But, I think this is quite strong already. Unlike Barnes, this summons a minion from your hand, which greatly decreases the RNG of the effect.

Infused Flamewing - 4 Cost 6/6s are probably pretty easy to send off. Playing the card "Fury", followed by a few other spells can really make this cost 0 sometimes. It's untested, but in theory, it should work. If not, I'm going to get fired.

Radiant Potion - Oh. shift, you're right. I do need some help thinking of a 6-cost 5-damage AoE like Dragonfire potion or Felfire Potion. Any ideas?  What if I changed it to minions without Battlecry or Deathrattle?

A little secret: I actually have Un'Goro made already. I'm just unwilling to post two sets in three days. When I did with WotoG and LoE, I didn't get as much feedback as I would have hoped. I'm going to wait a bit before doing anything else. In the mean time, I'm making some final edits to the set and putting together a few plausable decks for the class (both wild AND standard)

Doom Empress Y'veral: Inspired by the Ancient Prophecy card that won a design tournament a while back. Sort of like Elise Starseeker/Trailblazer, she provides you with a powerful reward later on in the game. I think she fits the flavour of the End Bringer class pretty well.

Cataclysm: By 'everything', I'm referring to all Minions, Secrets, Weapons, and Mana Crystals. Basically, it resets the game. Can be used in a fatigue battle in which you're ahead, or just to reset things in order to survive a bit longer and let the Reign of Chaos end the game for yout. I'm not sure if it's too, well, restrictive.

Orb of Decay: Not sure how to balance this little thing. It slowly but surely chips away at your opponent's health, at the cost of making you unable to attack with your hero power without breaking it. Works well with slower, grindier archetypes of the End Bringer (I intend for the class to have at least some sort of Attrition playstyle, which just slowly but surely grinds the opponent to dust).

Apocalypta Pyromancer: The Apocalypta are the chosen ones of the Apocalypse Cult, the ones that are destined to bring about the end of times and survive to rebuild the world. The Pyromancer has an incredibly strong ability for clearing out enemy boards of small minions - since she'll trigger off the deaths caused by her own ability, it's possible for her to just keep blasting until everything is dead.

Flame Slash: Balanced around Swipe. Costs (1) less at the cost of having to slam your face into the big guy you want to kill. The class will have plenty of other ways to increase the hero's attack.

Blazing Claw: Just a nice little weapon.

Apocalypta Bloodblender: The End Bringer's Frothing Berserker. It can grow very quickly if left out of hand, and has a sort of soft-taunt.