Hearthpwn

Yeah, I disagree with the sentiment's that Petrify and Permafrost are bad designs because of the can't attack thing. If your Felreaver or Bittertide Hydra gets turned into a permanent frozen minion, that's kind of your fault. It's like a Druid whose Living Mana get's devolved of turned into sheep with a kazakus potion. These cards (Felreaver, Bittertide, etc) are purposefully risky cards. They have strong punishes.

I think the various Karazhan Portal cards are more problematic here. I've had my Firelands portal summon a Felreaver and it's absolutely terrible. It's a risk that goes along with Firelands portal (in wild anyway), but the potential power that the card generates is worth the risk.

People have already made the calculation that Felreaver isn't worth the risk (only in Arena did I ever see it work out well), and the aggro druids expirementing with Bittertide Hydra deserve for that to periodically fail quite catastrophically. 

Oops.  Accidentally copied the hearthcards link for my card instead of the imgur link.  Doh!

Anyway, had issues with a lot of the cards this time around.  I don't like negative health cards (difference over damage is negligible and damage is not a debuff).  Too many cards were really buffs that had a use as a debuff.  Sorry, Dinosize is not a "debuff" because Deathwing.  I also agree with  Zukuu that there were too many cards that gave a minion 0/can't attack and taunt.  Last, there were a ton of cards that didn't affect the target, but affected only adjacent minions,  hero, etc.  I didn't think these were really in the spirit of the theme.  All that said, I voted for Mind Flay and Hemophobia, which I thought were the most interesting, balanced, and fit the spirit of the theme, with Hemophobia being my fav.

Okay, so the poll's over. Who's the winner?

Congratz Cogito!

Woops, sorry for the delay, got caught up in a game of Heroes. Congrats to our winner, the new Discussion Topic is up now!

Congrats to the champ, Cogito_Ergo_Sum. Also, congrats to RazorOfArtorius, we were both so close! Good luck to all next time!