Hearthpwn

MSoG:
Stand and Fight! - This is cool. I think this sort of thing, more health focused than Attack could be a cool way to be unique. Adding buffs is also cool, but you have to pick the right ones. Taunt seems good here for sure. The flavor is good it.

Rebellious Recruit - As I mentioned, I don't like the fact this is sooooo hard to buff. Hunter used this well because it was easier to buff things and some of their buffs were +2/+2. You have a single +1, just making this feel miserable. The flavor is fine but the card itself is probably unplayable.

Street Fighter - This seems fine, its cool to see the effect on a Deathrattle and not a Battlecry, but its also just kind of weird. Why does this dying make a weapon you have better? 

Intimidate - This is so impossibly hard to judge. We've only seen this as a temporary effect, and in some ways, I think for good reason. Also, I'd look at the wording for Pint-Size Potion and Shrinkmeister. This is probably fine. IDK. 

Sharpshooter - At least this can be buffed after it hits the table, but even then your class isn't particularly good at that. I still think this seems fine, its much more consistently good to the point of being playable if you want to focus on that.

Chosen Recruits - Great card draw idea. Great flavor.

Potential Recruit - This is great here. Very fun, very cool.

Fiery Commander - I talked about giving out buffs, and I really hate Charge here. Charge is one of those mechanics that Blizzard has already said hasn't been good for the game. They haven't printed a non-conditional Charge, besides Patches, which already proved to be horrible in a long time. And even then conditional chargers aren't that common. I'd be fine with Windfury or even Windfury and health.

Squad Leader Satsu - This is very interesting. Its definitely powerful, and that's cool. Its a bit low on direct impact and I feel like this statline at this cost is just unplayable. Not only is it slow, its hugely low impact. If you compare this to The Mistcaller its an even worse stat ratio and comes down even later, making getting catch up impact even harder. The effect is more powerful, but probably not worth playing. Throw on a couple more stat points or lower the cost, maybe some combination of both.

Journey to Un'Goro:
Jungle Juju - I really like this. Its fun, different and flavorful.

Tribal Chosen - Perfectly fine. Unexciting but that's not a bad thing.

Primitive Huntress  - This seems way worse than Naga Corsair, though I guess not being a Pirate could maybe be considered a good thing. Just give it a buff and its good.

Long Way Home - I don't get how the name relates to the effect. I think the cost and that are fine, but I just don't get the flavor.

Daughter of the Wild - This is more interesting than Tribal Chosen, bit I do find it a bit odd to have two different Deathrattle minions in the same expansion that both effectively draw a card. I'd almost rather see this have potentially lower stats but just summon the Panther.

Sage Watcher - This seems fine. The art isn't my favorite though.

Deja Voodoo - This card I just don't get. Yes, its less random, but its also harder to actually play. You have to have a friendly minion die on your turn, and it has to be one you want to Res. I think that this could easily be 3 if not 2 mana, especially considering that it its many drawbacks.

Wailing Werewolf - This one is a bit scary. I'm not sure if the return effect is supposed to be good or bad, but I almost feel like its more of a positive, making this a very very powerful removal/damage effect. For example, your opponent is at a multiple of 10. You play this, attack a minion it can kill without dying, and bam, it jumps back into your hand for more value when you need it. Or, your opponent is likely to board clear or remove the card in general, but they are at 24 or 14, bam, you get in for 4 and your minion is safe to go in again later. Not to mention you're a class that uses hand buffs, and all the sudden you can do a lot more crazy things with this.

The First Slayer - Great, finally found a home.

Ancestral Power - This one is tough. I do think the effect is slow, very much like Warriors, but I do also think its powerful. I know we talked about the balance of the weapon, but it is true that this plus two Slayer's Strength is 32 damage, 1 is already 16 damage. This just smashes so amazingly hard. There is not way to tell if its actually too good or not though, so fuck it. Its probably fine because its just slow.

Apocalypta Scout - That's not broken OP at all! (PLZ FIX) See Flesheating Ghoul.

Cataclysm - I saw your previous definition of "Everything" I'll admit that "Everything" might be two much. Just lay off the mana crystals please.

Endotron - It's a legendary. Eh, should be fine... How about changing it to all minions to balance it out a bit? It's just more fair that way. 

As a side note, I just want to say that the class is pretty good. Well, there IS an unhealthy amount of anime involved. But otherwise, it's okay.

I mean this was actually just a typo. It should be more balanced now.

And this is much more balanced. Before, it felt like Mukla, but with almost no debuffs.

Okay, Impulse will almost occur always in your class. This is much more balanced since it acts like Dragonfire Potion, and has a pretty good chance of backfiring.

Duh. What was I thinking? 

It's still strictly worse than Sorcerer's Apprentice. But, this just buffs the card slightly to make it more balanced.

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.

Side note: I haven't had the chance to type in any descriptions. I'm just so busy.... ugh.

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