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Competition Theme: Lord of the Arena
This week's theme comes from Sinti, whose "Treasure Hunter" was the winner of our Size Matters competition!
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card must be an "Arena Exclusive" card
Your card must be a class card (as all current exclusive cards are)
Your card cannot use the new Echo or Rush keywords, or a 'Start of Game' effect - we'd prefer for this competition to be about Arena cards, rather than who can make the most interesting card with the new mechanics
Since Arena Exclusive cards are in the arena pool only for a certain time duration, they can be a little crazier than what you're used to seeing in Arena or even Constructed, though you should adhere to some reasonable self-imposed restrictions; for example, 1-cost Pyroblast is not a way to go, thanks!
Arena Exclusive cards have no rarity or watermark, so treat them as Basic cards for Hearthcards purposes.
You can check all existing examples here (Arena Exclusive Cards - in spoilers there are more examples since audience at Blizzcon chose 1 out of 3 cards for each class)
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So since this is the arena format and since you can't always rely on getting powerful cards in your draft, which in constructed support macro deck-strategies (e.g. pre-nerfed HIghlander Priest; Cube-Warlock, Tempo Mage etc), the cards we should design have to support smaller sinergies, in order to be viable there. Else they wouldn't feel like arena cards.
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
So the prompt is basically "create a moderately OP card that isn't too OP." I'm interested to see what people come up with but this will be a real tough one to balance since I'm guessing there will be a wide variance on how much power everyone thinks is appropriate.
Yeah, sorry, should have probably addressed that. They r not allowed, Echo especially would be quite a cheap way to do this, i want you to think a little harder :) And also i didnt want this comp to be Echo+Rush comp, im sure there will be one in the future ;-)
They are not allowed. While they are certainly interesting and could be impactful in Arena, we'd rather this didn't become an Echo/Rush competition as people flock to the new keywords.
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Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
Yeah, sorry, should have probably addressed that. They r not allowed, Echo especially would be quite a cheap way to do this, i want you to think a little harder :)
Thanks, I was hoping they wouldn't. They should be reserved for their own prompt :D
Please don't mind that they have a rarity. They're from my collection. This is what I got so far.
First two seem weak, last one is kinda weirdly worded.
I like Love Potion, that could definitely work for this, but in the end, mby a tad weak as well, since you could just play around it same way you play around most hunter secrets in arena ... just dont attack, until you have a minion you want to sacrifice. The card as it is now is perfectly balanced to be a real constructed card, we r goin for something a little more now :D
Please don't mind that they have a rarity. They're from my collection. This is what I got so far.
First two seem weak, last one is kinda weirdly worded.
I like Love Potion, that could definitely work for this, but in the end, mby a tad weak as well, since you could just play around it same way you play around most hunter secrets in arena ... just dont attack, until you have a minion you want to sacrifice. The card as it is now is perfectly balanced to be a real constructed card, we r goin for something a little more now :D
Thanks Sinti, but Love Potion Trap WEAK?!? I'm shocked. I was certain it would be called ridiculously OP :D That's where I stand at least.
Please don't mind that they have a rarity. They're from my collection. This is what I got so far.
First two seem weak, last one is kinda weirdly worded.
I like Love Potion, that could definitely work for this, but in the end, mby a tad weak as well, since you could just play around it same way you play around most hunter secrets in arena ... just dont attack, until you have a minion you want to sacrifice. The card as it is now is perfectly balanced to be a real constructed card, we r goin for something a little more now :D
Thanks Sinti, but Love Potion Trap WEAK?!? I'm shocked. I was certain it would be called ridiculously OP :D That's where I stand at least.
Mby im undervaluing it, but you can just not attack face until you have like 2-drop or a token that you would ran in and then trade into it. But i do like the card a lot! And i hate ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL secrets :D
I had a question about the arena cards— I haven't played the new version myself— what rarity are the arena cards rated at? Do they show up with common cards/basic cards when drafting?
I had a question about the arena cards— I haven't played the new version myself— what rarity are the arena cards rated at? Do they show up with common cards/basic cards when drafting?
Well, since the rarity is kinda irrelevant after the 10.4 update, they show up alongside all rarities ;-) But for the purposes of HC and stuff, treat them as Basic cards.
This is the Discussion Topic. The Submission Topic will go up in ~24 hours.
Competition Theme: Lord of the Arena
This week's theme comes from Sinti, whose "Treasure Hunter" was the winner of our Size Matters competition!
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
More info in a news article (Designer Insights: Upcoming Arena Changes - New Cards and Pick Rules)
Competition Process
Preview Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 15/03/18
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 15/03/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 19/03/18.
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Looking forward to see what you think would be a good Arena Exclusive card guys :)
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So since this is the arena format and since you can't always rely on getting powerful cards in your draft, which in constructed support macro deck-strategies (e.g. pre-nerfed HIghlander Priest; Cube-Warlock, Tempo Mage etc), the cards we should design have to support smaller sinergies, in order to be viable there. Else they wouldn't feel like arena cards.
Is Echo and Rush allowed for this prompt?
Time to revisit an old idea, maybe? I'm a little creatively-bankrupt at the moment.
I bet I could post this and do better than normal.
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
So the prompt is basically "create a moderately OP card that isn't too OP." I'm interested to see what people come up with but this will be a real tough one to balance since I'm guessing there will be a wide variance on how much power everyone thinks is appropriate.
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Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
Fuck, I never play arena.
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Please don't mind that they have a rarity. They're from my collection. This is what I got so far.
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I had a question about the arena cards— I haven't played the new version myself— what rarity are the arena cards rated at? Do they show up with common cards/basic cards when drafting?
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