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Due to Hurricane Irma making landfall within the next day or two; I decided I wanted to make the best of it. How, you might be asking yourself, would I do that? 

Before anyone decides to state "oh, that's wrong," or "that's being insensitive," please note: I'm literally right in the middle of it all as indicated on this map..

 With that quick little disclaimer made... I've always had a fondness for making light of a bad situation; hurricanes are not exempt. With the current competition underway I created this just to make other people that play Hearthstone around here something to smile about. I present a new Shaman legendary card. This minion is guaranteed to cause auto-concedes.

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Due to Hurricane Irma making landfall within the next day or two; I decided I wanted to make the best of it. How, you might be asking yourself, would I do that? 

Before anyone decides to state "oh, that's wrong," or "that's being insensitive," please note: I'm literally right in the middle of it all as indicated on this map..

 With that quick little disclaimer made... I've always had a fondness for making light of a bad situation; hurricanes are not exempt. With the current competition underway I created this just to make other people that play Hearthstone around here something to smile about. I present a new Shaman legendary card. This minion is guaranteed to cause auto-concedes.

 

 I'm sorry for you dude, I hope everything will be ok :)

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An addtional idea.

A counter to Hero cards. And allows Warlock to go for a fatique route, if that's what they what.

Can also be used in Zoolock as a tech card against hunter

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So i have these ideas so far, they look interesting enough?

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Nice theme this week. Sometimes when playing hunter I wished certain minions had the "beast" tribe to make some cool combos. Therefore I was thinking of something like this:

could have synergy for instance with:

Metaltooth Leaper or Murloc Warleader 

But you can also swap with a tribeless minion to give that minion the "beast" tribe to make some combos. How about swapping with Ysera and than use Houndmaster on Ysera? Or use Crackling Razormaw on her.

Also had this idea for mage:

So the idea is that the opponent does not know which of the 3 minions is the the 4/5 until it has attacked. The opponent only sees 3 4/5 minions.

@NOVEX0R, thanks for the feedback. I will probably let the Hunter card go and go for the Mage card but I kinda want to keep it a 4/5. Maybe I should change it's cost to 6 or 7. I also do not want to remove the Spell Damage because if the opponent kills the Misstress of Mirrors the two copies just sit there on the board doing nothing.

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So here are my cards from a few pages back. Which to submit?

• Intimidating Roar: Kinda powerful if u have high enough attack minion, the "downside" seems non-existant, since u can either attack with minion first or its the minion u just played so w/e. Not sure what is the though behind it, dont rly feel the flavor, great art tho :)
• Embattled Tol'vir: Interesing effect, could be OP, could be weak. Tho again, the discover part feels a bit forced, i get u want more control over it and there isnt rly a good way to do it within current game mechanics, dunno, mby im just being wierd about it. I guess good card overall.
• Death Struggle: I dont think there is a multi targeting in the game yet is there? I mean it shouldnt be that hard to implement, but u know ... what if only one minion has deathrattle? That would be 1-cost silence+steal effect in one card, that feels a bit too powerful. Or would u be able to play it only if u could select two minions? I guess that would be ok then.
• A Good Hunt: This one seems a bit confusing at first, am i to understand that u will basically get 10 cards, but mill everything else except your original hand? Thats a wierd card, tho very interesting.

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Due to Hurricane Irma making landfall within the next day or two; I decided I wanted to make the best of it. How, you might be asking yourself, would I do that? 

Before anyone decides to state "oh, that's wrong," or "that's being insensitive," please note: I'm literally right in the middle of it all as indicated on this map..

 With that quick little disclaimer made... I've always had a fondness for making light of a bad situation; hurricanes are not exempt. With the current competition underway I created this just to make other people that play Hearthstone around here something to smile about. I present a new Shaman legendary card. This minion is guaranteed to cause auto-concedes.

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So I'm probably going to submit Solemn Arbiter, but I just thought of this other thing and was curious as to what people thought.

The arbiter plays off of the "make a minion 3/3" Paladin thing, making his somewhat obvious effect more interesting. The idea behind the chemist is that the minion you Discover is his test subject. Is that obvious enough? I gave it the cost restriction because I didn't want just "Discover a minion", and this makes it easier to get eggs. Besides, someone of his size couldn't handle any bigger of a subject.

• Solemn Arbiter: damn i dont like this card, SO MUCH its basically a dark conviction + a body. It is a costly card, so in the end, mby it is ok ... but paladin has so much crap like this already it would be pretty annoying to deal with this as well.
• Curious Chemist: this one looks ok.

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@ Teknician & NOVEX0R (and anyone else)

Hydross it is. Considering a revision to make it feel just a little more "legendary" and also put on more pressure to deal with it immediately. He'll progressively become a 1/6, 2/7, 3/8 for your opponent and hit even harder if he's ignored (just like in WoW). Which do you prefer?

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Do i need to specify "together" at the end? The card will swap only his 4, 6 and 3 numbers together. Not sure if its clear enough.

I'm also having trouble finding an art for this card, if you have art + name suggestion i'm taking it :P

 

Also if someone already did this, plz mp me i did not read all the cards

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Ok, so i finally decided on a card, i looked through past like 5 pages of this topic and through submissions and didnt see any similar effect (apart from swapin from deck, but not for this particular example). Tell me if there was anything such as this before if u noticed and/or give me your thoughts, thanks!

I decided to make it a Kabal triclass card, seems appropriate, with their mana cost manipulation and those three classes can benefit the most from the effect. The effect is definitely a powerful one, but not an immediate one ... and your opponent can make a pretty solid guess as to which spell got discounted, when he howers over this card and see its new cost, so he can kinda prepare for it when it drop, since he could anticipate in which situations would u play that spell. Tho that information might or might not help him, i think it balances it out, so what do u think?

 

 Really interesting value card. You play 2 mana for 2/2 do nothing, but later you can get cheaper board clear. In combo and control decks it's good, worse in midrange and awful in agro. What I'm afraid of is 2 mana Pyroblast in some weird "draw cards and cast spells into opponent's face" deck, a bit of agro and burst mage. Obviously bad in Priest due to a lot of 0/1/2 mana Spells.

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 Both ideas was used before, I can even show you what I was going to submissions with: 

And someone used the Warlock one idea as well, tho I don't want to search for it. Just know that both ideas were used before. Well, great minds think the same, am I right? :)

 

My card for 100% sure, now only Flavors

Flavors:

Flavor Text: He's so HOT! 

Entry: "I'm melting!"

Attack: "Feel my heat!"

Death: "It finally happened..."

well.. since it's similar with my idea. i love it.. but when it takes fatal damage, will it survive as 0/6? i think it'll be better with "if this minion survives damage".

i think i'll go with another card..

some new idea:

 what do you think?

I really like the first one. Fits Rogue flavor and can be used (especially in arena, so I think Rare would be better). Name is cool, tho I would use for example: Forging Shadow, or Unstable Illusion, or Shadow Reflection. It's only my opinion tho :) And the idea is original and simple. Best to play this minion when you have Taunt, in other scenario it can be just perfect answer to a minion like Water Elemental, enemy has 3/6, you're playing this and you have 6/3 that Freezes enemy, and Mages doesn't want to take damage, so either they use removal or just trade their minion that costs 4 into a minion that costs 2. I'll vote for it definitly.

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@ Teknician & NOVEX0R (and anyone else)

Hydross it is. Considering a revision to make it feel just a little more "legendary" and also put on more pressure to deal with it immediately. He'll progressively become a 1/6, 2/7, 3/8 for your opponent and hit even harder if he's ignored (just like in WoW). Which do you prefer?

Hydross the Unstable: 1st one looks cleaner, its a 3-cost card, that is an elemental AND does some other shit, i dont think u need to complicate it and give it more value. Annoyin to kill with 5 hp on your opponents turn and u can go face for 5 (or whatever is left) with it on your turn, u can buff swap stats etc (flametongue OPOP :D). Go with the 1st one, doesnt need anything more added.

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Ok, so i finally decided on a card, i looked through past like 5 pages of this topic and through submissions and didnt see any similar effect (apart from swapin from deck, but not for this particular example). Tell me if there was anything such as this before if u noticed and/or give me your thoughts, thanks!

I decided to make it a Kabal triclass card, seems appropriate, with their mana cost manipulation and those three classes can benefit the most from the effect. The effect is definitely a powerful one, but not an immediate one ... and your opponent can make a pretty solid guess as to which spell got discounted, when he howers over this card and see its new cost, so he can kinda prepare for it when it drop, since he could anticipate in which situations would u play that spell. Tho that information might or might not help him, i think it balances it out, so what do u think?

Thanks for the feedback. I went with option #1, because yeah, it's fine as-is. The Flametongue Totem combo you mention makes it super scary.

Your card:

First off, I really like the strategic element of hovering over this minion to get an idea of which spell got the discount. Nice way to separate good players from bad. I do think the Battlecry effectively being "set the cost of a spell in your deck to (2)" is a bit strong. It doesn't just have to hit Pyroblast/Twisting Nether/Free From Amber to generate lots of value. A 2-mana 2/2 isn't a horrible tempo loss. I think it would be just fine, and see play, as a 3-mana 2/2 . . . maaaaybe even a 4-mana 3/3.

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So here are my cards from a few pages back. Which to submit?

• Intimidating Roar: Kinda powerful if u have high enough attack minion, the "downside" seems non-existant, since u can either attack with minion first or its the minion u just played so w/e. Not sure what is the though behind it, dont rly feel the flavor, great art tho :)
• Embattled Tol'vir: Interesing effect, could be OP, could be weak. Tho again, the discover part feels a bit forced, i get u want more control over it and there isnt rly a good way to do it within current game mechanics, dunno, mby im just being wierd about it. I guess good card overall.
• Death Struggle: I dont think there is a multi targeting in the game yet is there? I mean it shouldnt be that hard to implement, but u know ... what if only one minion has deathrattle? That would be 1-cost silence+steal effect in one card, that feels a bit too powerful. Or would u be able to play it only if u could select two minions? I guess that would be ok then.
• A Good Hunt: This one seems a bit confusing at first, am i to understand that u will basically get 10 cards, but mill everything else except your original hand? Thats a wierd card, tho very interesting.

Id say the most solid ones r 2 and 3, tho most interesting one is 4 ... tho im not sure how 3 and 4 would work exactly.

 

Ok, so i finally decided on a card, i looked through past like 5 pages of this topic and through submissions and didnt see any similar effect (apart from swapin from deck, but not for this particular example). Tell me if there was anything such as this before if u noticed and/or give me your thoughts, thanks!

I decided to make it a Kabal triclass card, seems appropriate, with their mana cost manipulation and those three classes can benefit the most from the effect. The effect is definitely a powerful one, but not an immediate one ... and your opponent can make a pretty solid guess as to which spell got discounted, when he howers over this card and see its new cost, so he can kinda prepare for it when it drop, since he could anticipate in which situations would u play that spell. Tho that information might or might not help him, i think it balances it out, so what do u think?

 I suppose the idea behind Intimidating Roar was that your hero 'intimidates' a minion and basically gives it 0 or 1 attack, mostly, and it takes its Attack for itself. It's kind of a windfury effect, so I priced it according to Savage Roar, which is a kind of combo piece in itself. This could target the enemy Deathwing for example, which would mean it becomes a 0/12 and your hero gets 12 attack, which seems pretty OP to me.

I agree Embattled Tol'vir isn't too exciting, but I thought it was a nice tech card in Jungle Giants decks if you needed to tech out a more useful card at a later turn while also still completing your quest.

Death Struggle seemed kind of simple to me but also pretty flavourful. I agree at 1 mana it's a bit much, so I've changed it to 3 mana. You would get one targeting arrow, and you'd use it. A sort of 'Deathrattle' icon would appear above the chosen minion like the Play Dead animation. You would then choose the other minion and the same thing would happen, and then there would be one of those animations (I guess like Darkspeaker?) to indicate the swapping of the deathrattles. I was thinking I should maybe limit it to only being played if your opponent had a deathrattle minion, but the original idea was that it could give/take away deathrattles to/from your opponent as well as give them negative ones.

For A Good Hunt, I wasn't really sure what class it should've been, because it's a hard effect to balance. I was kind of looking at it in a fatigue sense, where you might have equal/fewer cards in your deck than in your hand, and you needed different cards to win. So maybe it could've been a Warrior card, or a Mage card, or a Rogue card...? Certainly you could play it on a full hand and mill like 15 cards as you draw cards from your deck, but the intention is more to empty your hand when you're midway through the game, then refill and try to win as you immediately will go into fatigue.

I like Kabal Initiate, but I'm kind of not sure about the wording. Do you play it for 2 mana and then it makes a random spell in your deck cost 2? If so it's almost a free effect on cards like Cabalist's Tome, Meteor, Glacial Mysteries, or Pyroblast. It kind of feels forced because you could just say "Battlecry: Set the Cost of a random spell in your deck to (2)." The cost swapping is only relevant if this gets sent back to your hand with Sap or Vanish or Freezing Trap, which are all pretty niche. If you keep the effect as is, the wording should be "Battlecry: Swap this minion's Cost with a random spell in your deck." But with both wordings it's unclear if you pay that swapped cost when you play it or if that cost just doesn't matter... Hmm. Is it actually "Swap the Cost of two random spells in your deck"? because that's simultaneously more clear and less useful...