Hearthpwn

Let's compare these two cards for a second. Now I don't want to offend any of the participants in the competition, but I will give my opinion about the cards. Both cards are well balanced - nothing out of the ordinary, however I don't think that the first card would ever see play. You can only put it in a buffing deck, but why should you do that, when you can choose a more advantageous card. The culling is better - in a way, that if it was implemented, it would definitely see play.

My goal was to make a card, that would simply be played. A card, that would break the ice and open new possibilities. And I didn't want to make it a simple one, which everyone could see, if it was broken or overcosted/weak. It had to be a bit complicated, in order to be interesting, that's why I wanted to hear out some opinions. Now I'm FAR from thinking, that my card is well designed or balanced, or has the potential like the Culling. And it's obvious, that I failed. But I aimed to make a card, that would support the macro aspect of the game. Because for me a game of hearthstone is frequently "Do I have the card? Do i have the mana to use it." Sometimes "Do I need to play it now (or I can wait a bit)". And I purposely gave an example with Jades and twisting nether - how you can hold on the big board clear for a while. Normally you cannot afford to do that, because they will kill you on the following turn, even though you will need the board clear desperately later. And that imo is missing from the game - planning strategies up ahead.

Because there's no argue, that HS tries to be a simple game (=accessible for all). And that's good. Although I played Yu-Gi-Oh and loved how the game was complicated with all the spell, trap etc. cards, I got puzzled from the thousands of cards and possibilities there and I had the feeling, that I would never be able to catch up. Hearthstone tries to prevent this from happening. But imo it wouldn't hurt, if we added some cards, that supported the macro aspect. Because I kinda got fed up with the repetitive cards like "give a minion +/+". I would warmly welcome cards like Hemet, Jungle Hunter, which think out of the box. Because hs is not just a game of aggro vs control - of course one deck will take the proactive role and the other of the reactive in some cases, but we need cards, that open more possibilities.

And I won't stop planning such cards, even though some of them may be broken, just to imagine a new path for the game.