It seems my first idea is annoy... So I got another one. Is it better now? Please give me feedback.Thank you.

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I'm pretty sure that you can just simplify it to "Choose an enemy minion. Swap places with it." or even just "Swap places with an enemy minion" when compared to Vol'jin. This is pretty optional though.

It seems a wonderful Mind Control on a stick! Regardless, I feel like this is a bit too strong for a 5-cost card. Besides the fact that a 5 mana Mind Control is ludicrously strong, the drawback doesn't seem too harsh. Let's compare this to The Beast; for the drawback of giving your opponent a 3/3, The Beast gets 2 mana's worth of extra stats. Shadow Deceiver gets 5 mana's worth of extra value. Ouch. Because we're being generous (as this is a class card), let's say that giving your opponent a 3/3 allows 3 mana's worth of extra value. So, this should cost 7. If you don't think that 7 is a good enough reduction, you can make this a 6 mana 4/4.

Admittedly, I did realize it was pretty strong at 5 after I made it 5. As of now, I changed it to a 6 mana 3/3, just easing it up a little bit at a time until I find the perfect spot. I balanced the card considering that Mind Control doesn't really see play even in slower decks, and The Beast obviously has never been playable either.

Fair enough. I don't think 6 mana is too bad when compared to Embrace Darkness.

Btw, my card Windwaker shuffles your original hand back into your deck, similar to how Madam Goya puts the card you selected back into your deck. Do you think it's a good card?

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Here are my ideas so far:

The Siren is basically going to bait a spell/weapon of your opponent's hand, or else they have to essentially sacrifice a minion by setting it's Attack to 0. The Paladin Secret lets you get a minion in your deck out for free, and in the middle of an attack so that something that was attacking a 1/1 is now attacking something else. But the cost is that you now have a 1 mana 1/1 vanilla minion diluting your deck. The last card also gives you efficiency at the cost of diluting your deck. 

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Okay, so here's what I've got so far. Your thoughts?

• Traitor Trader: Yes, I made this purely for the pun. XD It's a nice anti-Jade Idol card though.
• Double Cross: The name and art are both references to Treachery. To a certain degree, it has the same mechanical effect as Treachery. It can be used to steal cards, make some Treachery shenanigans with cards like Doomsayer and Howlfiend, "heal" your cards, reshuffle cards with powerful Battlecries, and synergize with Warlock's powerful cards that have a Battlecry drawback (e.g. Doomguard and Lakkari Felhound). The balancing is based off of Gang Up, Entomb, Recombobulator, Devolve, and of course, Madam Goya. Also, the name is a pun on how double/two cards cross the battlefield.
• Windwaker: The name is an allusion to Flamewaker and Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker; oh, and this is also a pun :P. It helps you "refresh" your hand in case you draw the wrong cards. It's great for certain combo decks, Elemental decks, or any deck really.

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Narrow themes make it harder to come up with something unique.  Here's an idea that I like that I think has some decent flavor to it.  And as far as I can tell, it hasn't been posted yet.

Sure, it could potentially swing out a big Beast early in the game, but its a secret so (1) it would only activate on your opponent's turn and (2) your opponent could play around it.  It is rare for an opponent to damage but not kill a beast in the early game so this card won't be activating until you have beefy enough beasts on the board to survive a hit.

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 Repost my idea with a new one:

• Inspired Chemist: It's a nice, flexible card, but I feel like that idea is done far too often. I've already seen various versions of that card, even before this competition existed.
• Arcane Dance: This card seems a bit too OP. You could easily swap Primordial Glyph's and Pyroblast's Cost and destroy your opponent out of nowhere. The fact this allows you CHOOSE those spells make it seem much more plausible that broken combos can occur.

 

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Narrow themes make it harder to come up with something unique.  Here's an idea that I like that I think has some decent flavor to it.  And as far as I can tell, it hasn't been posted yet.

Sure, it could potentially swing out a big Beast early in the game, but its a secret so (1) it would only activate on your opponent's turn and (2) your opponent could play around it.  It is rare for an opponent to damage but not kill a beast in the early game so this card won't be activating until you have beefy enough beasts on the board to survive a hit.

 

So flavorful! I love it! But I feel the effect just TOO random. Sometime it can high roll out your Highmane, sometime it pulled out an Alleycat. I feel that adding some restriction would make it better.

 Repost my idea with a new one:

I think I had a stroke of genius. I really like this idea:

As comparison, my ideas before:

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I think I had a stroke of genius. I really like this idea:

As comparison, my ideas before:

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 I like Battlemage a lot but I'm concerned that this isn't a correct use of the term "swap."  I think Blizzard uses "swap" when you are replacing something with something else that already exists.  When you replace something with something random that isn't already in someone's deck or hand, Blizzard tends to say "transform" or "Replace."  For example, see Evolve and Explore Un'Goro.  I'm not sure how strict people (and more importantly mods) intend to be with correct usage of the term "swap."  

As long a "swapping" a card with a random card that doesn't already exist in someone's deck or hand is allowed, I think you have a great submission.  Only thing I would change is to clarify if the battlecry applies to all secrets in your deck, your hand, on the board, etc.

Thanks for the feedback guys. I've changed a few things on the card:
- Made it Priest instead of Rogue.
- Increased the health by 1.
- Increased the mana cost by 1.

Is it still to strong? You have to remember that your opponent grants control of this minion, so unless you can clear it, they'll have a chance of gaining control of one of your minions as well.

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Here are my ideas so far:

The Siren is basically going to bait a spell/weapon of your opponent's hand, or else they have to essentially sacrifice a minion by setting it's Attack to 0. The Paladin Secret lets you get a minion in your deck out for free, and in the middle of an attack so that something that was attacking a 1/1 is now attacking something else. But the cost is that you now have a 1 mana 1/1 vanilla minion diluting your deck. The last card also gives you efficiency at the cost of diluting your deck.

 Apparently, I'm blind as a bat because your cards were right above mine XD.

• Vashj'ir Siren: Yeah...keeping a permanent minion on the board while completely nullifying its Attack is both annoying and uninteractive. It takes up space, loosely affects certain random effects, and you can do nothing about it. However, I absolutely LOVE the mechanic and the flavour of this, and how they compliment each other. Maybe you should do something like "If this was killed by a minion, swap card text with it." (so that it gives the enemy minion Taunt and thus, the minion isn't permanently on the board)
• Protector of the Weak: I think that this card is too random and "swingy"; it's either insanely good or useless. You're relying on producing enough Silver Hand Recruits, and diluting your deck with a situational 1-cost Secret; that's a really slow requirement for such an unreliable effect. You can either get something like a Tirion Fordring for ~3 mana (which is OP) or most likely a 2-drop that doesn't do much (which kinda wastes all that effort). Either way, the game is going to swing in someone's favour too harshly.
• Venture Co. Miner: A 5-mana Nourish at the cost of shuffling semi-constructive Coins into your deck (that are ESPECIALLY useful in Miracle Rogue or any deck that runs Gadgetzan Auctioneer for the matter) seems too powerful. The fact that it's a better Spider Tank just makes it Bah-roken. Don't get me wrong. I like the effect. But it should probably be a 3/3 or 3/4 at the very least.