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Any advice is appreciated. You would think that you would be unable to play anything the turn after you play this, but thanks to Snowfury Giant, you can follow this up with another strong turn. 

What would happen if you're already Overloaded for 1, then you play this? You'd be Overloaded for 3, then 5, then 7, then 9, then 11... and because you skipped 10, you'd loop this over and over until you reach the hard-coded limit. I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty certain it's possible to Overload yourself for more than 10.

 I don't think anyone would really assume the card would work like that and it wouldn't be hardcoded to work that way, however any possible misunderstanding is rectified by a simple wording change to "you've/you have Overloaded for 10", as in past-tense. It would automatically include any overload numbers over 10 since you "have" already overloaded for 10.

I think Toble pointed out the main "problem" of this card. The card is worded like this only to fulfill the needs of this weeks rules, it will always kill off your opponents entire board no matter what (mby if Inner Fire priest had a gigantic minion and was toying with u it wouldnt xaxa :P), so any additional problems with the card r kinda irrelevant, cause the design of the card is fundamentally flawed.

Better think of something new TheGentleman99, u still have 2 hours ;-)

 I'm frankly not interested in that line of thinking, no offense. The nature of this contest is to think up a design within the context of a prompt, and that will inevitably lead to occasional designs that could probably be replicated more or less intact without the prompt. Hell, take my entry for example.

I think it's very distinct for this theme and I came up with it for it, but had I really wanted to make a recurring quest I could easily come up with a different way to make it, including to fit an entirely different prompt. Remember that theme where an effect had to last until the end of the game? How about this:

Dead Magic: "For this game, every time you cast 5 spells, Discover a non-Legendary spell that you have cast this game. Cast it."

Easy. Boom. Completely different prompt, exact same effect.

It doesn't matter if his card could be reworded differently. What matters is does it take on a fitting identity in this competition. The only reason it might not is because you're basically guaranteed 10-15 damage. With tuning to the design, that might not be true. So its worth addressing the card's other problems. It's also worth noting that in a different meta, this same design might in fact be better; if it WERE likely to have more than 6 Overloaded already due to high-overload cards being in circulation, then this card would fit the theme better.

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I'm going to vote for the person with the lowest "number of words" to complexity ratio. for the finalists. What's the term the troll RazorOfArtorias used again?

Since Explosion! was absolutely destroyed by everyone (just kidding, I appreciate the feedback), I have decided to scrap it and try something else. To be honest I'm struggling with this design topic. Unsure about mana cost and text specifics, but I feel like this one has potential. SO, once again, I present it to the masses for feedback (be gentle). :p

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Since Explosion! was absolutely destroyed by everyone (just kidding, I appreciate the feedback), I have decided to scrap it and try something else. To be honest I'm struggling with this design topic. Unsure about mana cost and text specifics, but I feel like this one has potential. SO, once again, I present it to the masses for feedback (be gentle). :p

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 Well...unfortunately...the Submission has been locked, as it usually does Monday afternoon :/

@SilentSecond must have just gotten in under the wire.

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Since Explosion! was absolutely destroyed by everyone (just kidding, I appreciate the feedback), I have decided to scrap it and try something else. To be honest I'm struggling with this design topic. Unsure about mana cost and text specifics, but I feel like this one has potential. SO, once again, I present it to the masses for feedback (be gentle). :p

As linkblade13 mentioned, the submission topic is already locked, so you're too late. Also, your card is strictly worse than Conceal. :P

It's a nice support card for Quest Hunter, but a) because it doesn't say "random" you're just gonna give the same minion Stealth again and again because you target the same minion with repeated effects (See Brann Bronzebeard), and b) it's stricly worse than Conceal.

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Since Explosion! was absolutely destroyed by everyone (just kidding, I appreciate the feedback), I have decided to scrap it and try something else. To be honest I'm struggling with this design topic. Unsure about mana cost and text specifics, but I feel like this one has potential. SO, once again, I present it to the masses for feedback (be gentle). :p

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Since Explosion! was absolutely destroyed by everyone (just kidding, I appreciate the feedback), I have decided to scrap it and try something else. To be honest I'm struggling with this design topic. Unsure about mana cost and text specifics, but I feel like this one has potential. SO, once again, I present it to the masses for feedback (be gentle). :p

The problem with "cast this again" many ppl had this week is, that they didnt realize how many situations wouldnt work with their card, cause of the spells that require a target. What happens on re-cast? Would the spell fizzle out if target died from the first cast? Would the games mechanics even allowed for such interaction? Would it just bug out? All existing cards that cast a random spell (that means including targetable spells obviously) have "targets chosen randomly" in their card text.

Your card could be easilly adjusted by sayin "Give a random friendly minion ...", but the problem is, that there is no space on the card to actually fit another word in there. Thats the most common issue in card design, when ur trying to make something and u cant fit it in 4 lines of text, that is a clear indication that whatever ur trying to do is overly complicated and should be simplified/reworked.

Also the art is not very good.

Im goin through some wow tcg art and iv come across this. Pretty funny how its originally a mage card with choose one :D

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Since Explosion! was absolutely destroyed by everyone (just kidding, I appreciate the feedback), I have decided to scrap it and try something else. To be honest I'm struggling with this design topic. Unsure about mana cost and text specifics, but I feel like this one has potential. SO, once again, I present it to the masses for feedback (be gentle). :p

The problem with "cast this again" many ppl had this week is, that they didnt realize how many situations wouldnt work with their card, cause of the spells that require a target. What happens on re-cast? Would the spell fizzle out if target died from the first cast? Would the games mechanics even allowed for such interaction? Would it just bug out? All existing cards that cast a random spell (that means including targetable spells obviously) have "targets chosen randomly" in their card text.

Your card could be easilly adjusted by sayin "Give a random friendly minion ...", but the problem is, that there is no space on the card to actually fit another word in there. Thats the most common issue in card design, when ur trying to make something and u cant fit it in 4 lines of text, that is a clear indication that whatever ur trying to do is overly complicated and should be simplified/reworked.

Also the art is not very good.

 Fine, I admit defeat. I guess this just wasn't my week for card design. Thanks anyway for the feedback, no matter how brutally honest it was (my poor ego). :P BTW I liked the card art, but I guess it didn't translate well into a card. Welp, hopefully I'll fair better in the next one.

Final Poll is now up!