@freddocino probably to increase the chance that Orc mechanic will work often, i'll do the same thing as blizzard did with Elementals to not be forced to copy, and then only change a bit, spells like "Me Smash!". I want many cards to be unique and at some point I can run out of ideas. But looking from the other side, I wouldn't want to force anyone to not play Orcs because of bigger profit for your enemy than for you. So i have to consider that. Other thing i still have to consider is which card I won't show, because i can show only 6.

As I promised, I will review your year today, but I have 2 questions. First is to you: when you play a resurgent card, does it activate its battlecry also at first time you play it, or only at second time? Second is to anyone: how do you make your custom expansion watermarks?

First of all, thanks for everyone who gave me feedback so far. Even if I didn't reply to it, you can be sure I read it and took it into consideration.

Now, I'm not looking for more feedback for the cards or the setting of the expansions; I have that figured out already. What I wanted was your opinion on this logo. I'm not sure about the font or the colors and whether the overall look fits Hearthstone.

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Resurgent has the battlecry go off both times, I think there's some more explanation I need to do for the mechanic. The expansion watermarks come from Hearthcards.net, next to the box for card text you'll see it has the Classic set Swirl. If you click on that and go all the way to the bottom of the list, there are a bunch of custom watermarks that you can use for your cards.

Hey guys, I'm going to post my finished post here, and hopefully get some feedback on it before I move this to the submission thread.

Hello everyone! My name is Vision136, I'm new to the design side of the site, and I'd like to introduce you to...

The Year of The Golem!

(Thanks to NiRaSt for the year logo, very much appreciated!)

In the Year of the Golem, there are 3 expansions to be on the lookout for, but first, at the start of every year, there's a rotation of cards to the Hall of Fame, and based on my plans for the year, these are the 3 that are being rotated out:

 Now that we have that out of the way, let's move on to my first expansion...

Junkheap Jungle

Welcome to Junkheap Jungle, a place that has become severely cluttered over the past few years due to an influx of garbage and spare parts dumped there from nearby gnomish settlements. Of course, the wildlife in the jungle aren’t used to this and have had to learn how to dig for Spare Parts. That's right, Spare Parts are making a comeback in a couple different ways.

Now, here's my second expansion, the very spooky...

Mechs of the Maize

Now after journeying through that junkheap, we’re going to take a little detour through some nearby farmlands, and there’s something real weird going on. There’s an overabundance of mechs and similar types of creations, and the farmers that live there are astoundingly creepy, but so what? There’s not anything wrong with that(at least I hope there isn’t). What I do know is that the mechs and similar constructs have a new keyword for us, and that keyword is Reap. Reap means that whenever a minion with Reap attacks and kills another minion, something interesting occurs.

Whew! After that frightening experience, it’s time to move on to my third and final expansion...

In the Eye of the Observer

This expansion focuses on what comes from the Twisting Nether, or more specifically, the observers. Observers are creatures with plenty of eyes and tentacles to spare, and they’ve started to invade the material plane. In order to escape from these observers, some very powerful mages have banded together and created Unseen. Unseen is a keyword that prevents minions of a certain tribe from attacking or targeting the minion with Unseen.

That’s it for the Year of the Golem! Thank you for reading through this if you made it this far, and I hope you enjoy my ideas. Good luck to everyone, and I will hopefully see you in the next round!

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Question. Do we have to post our sets in order? What I mean by that is, does Phase II need to be expansion 1, Phase III to be expansion 2, and so on? Or are we allowed to work out of order, or change the order later?

 We're fine with you changing the order later. I personally was considering myself a "No" on this, but does it really matter enough to get uppity about it? Not really.

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Hey guys, I'm going to post my finished post here, and hopefully get some feedback on it before I move this to the submission thread.

Hello everyone! My name is Vision136, I'm new to the design side of the site, and I'd like to introduce you to...

The Year of The Golem!

(Thanks to NiRaSt for the year logo, very much appreciated!)

In the Year of the Golem, there are 3 expansions to be on the lookout for, but first, at the start of every year, there's a rotation of cards to the Hall of Fame, and based on my plans for the year, these are the 3 that are being rotated out:

#1 Gadgetzan Auctioneer: This guy has been a part of almost every single meta for as long as I can remember, and it’s time for him to move on, especially since I’m planning on bringing back Spare Parts, and his power could really be abused.

#2 Leeroy Jenkins: Oh boy, it’s been a long time coming for this guy. He’s got the biggest design limiting keyword in the game, and the way he’s played isn’t even the way he’s meant to be played, because people use him as a finisher, virtually eliminating the downside attached to him. With Leeroy in the HoF, I can create some more powerful attack buff cards, without fear of them being abused with Leeroy… until people start using Reckless Rocketeer.

#3 Mind Control Tech: This card has found it’s way back to meta time and time again, and it’s soul crushing every time it’s played for 1 of 2 players, and that’s not the kind of feeling that you want in Hearthstone, it’s just not fun. Moving this to the HoF will result in some more creative 3 drops being played, and increase the fun rate for everyone.

 Now that we have that out of the way, let's move on to my first expansion...

Junkheap Jungle

Welcome to Junkheap Jungle, a jungle that has become severely cluttered over the past few years due to an influx of garbage and spare parts dumped there from nearby gnomish settlements. Of course, the wildlife in the jungle aren’t used to this and have had to learn how to Rummage. Rummage is a keyword which adds a certain number of Spare Parts to your hand based on the condition.

Rummaging Tiger is a midrange/late game element for Rummage druid, an archetype that I might plan on exploring, or even just midrange druid, because spare parts are great. It can even be used in wild for some sort of miracle/deathrattle druid including Gadgetzan Auctioneer(a card which is being moved to the HoF).

Annoying Monkey is going to be a staple in Control hunter, a deck that has gotten a lot of tools, but hasn’t took off yet. Hopefully with this card it will secure the hunter’s midgame to prevent it from falling too far behind.

Now, here's my second expansion, the very spooky...

Mechs of the Maze

Now after journeying through that junkheap, we’re going to take a little detour through some nearby farmlands, and there’s something real weird going on. There’s an overabundance of mechs and similar types of creations, and the farmers that live there are astoundingly creepy, but so what? There’s not anything wrong with that(at least I hope there isn’t). What I do know is that the mechs and similar constructs have a new keyword for us, and that keyword is Reap. Reap means that whenever a minion with Reap attacks and kills another minion, something interesting occurs.

Nightlock Farmer is going to be a staple in tempo rogue, with a big early game body to make sure you have board presence early, without becoming oppressive. It showcases how Reap can be an upside or a downside.

Angry Scarecrow will be the main early game threat for aggressive mech decks, being one of the first cards to bring back mech synergy since LoE. With it’s potential 4 attack, it can take on some of the largest 3 drops, and even some 4 drops.

Whew! After that frightening experience, it’s time to move on to my third and final expansion...

In the Eye of the Observer

This expansion focuses on what comes from the Twisting Nether, or more specifically, the observers. Observers are creatures with plenty of eyes and tentacles to spare, and they’ve started to invade the material plane. In order to escape from these observers, some very powerful mages have banded together and created Unseen. Unseen is a keyword that prevents minions of a certain tribe from attacking or targeting the minion with Unseen.

Xhu’daggab the Freed is one of the first observers to come through into the material plane, and boy is it strong. Being unable to be targeted by Dragons, Elementals, and Murlocs, he can certainly throw down in Wild for sure, with the potential to be strong in standard as well. His Battlecry also makes for a great comeback mechanism, destroying an aggressive opponents board and maintaining a huge board presence by himself.

Custom Tailor Cloak is a perfect representation for Unseen, giving paladins and their light-fused minions the ability to protect themselves from the observers or whatever else they need protection from.

That’s it for the Year of the Golem! Thank you for reading through this if you made it this far, and I hope you enjoy my ideas. Good luck to everyone, and I will hopefully see you in the next round!

 Looks good to me, although I would advise against hiding the cards + Keyword tooltips in the spoilers. It makes it seem like your post is just one big block of text, which will cause some people to lose interest. You can leave the card-explanation stuff in there, but have your selling points out where will everyone can see them! :)

(One really minor thing that bugs me is that you say "jungle" twice in one sentence practically back-to-back: "Welcome to Junkheap Jungle, a jungle that..." Just say "a place" or somethin' so it doesn't sound redundant lol :P)

@freddocino from all the keywords you have created i like rest the most. As long as your enemy doesn't have mass board clears or hard removals, it's great because you lose nearly nothing (sometimes attack of few friendly minions) and gain big advantage on hand or board. Example cards are simple, as it should be, making this mechanic easy to understand. Resurgent is also good, you should keep combining your Resurgent cards with battlecries, but the example with taunt is fine too. The only problem can be with Sleep cards. The mechanic is fine itself, but hard to balance. F.ex. if you made an overstatted sleep minion for Priest, 3 cards would be enough to make a sick combo. I would really focus on this mechanic, because if you will be able to make Sleep minions great (and also balanced) you shouldn't have problems with other mechanics (you know what i mean)

Edit: Molten core is fine. Great support for Quest/Discard Warlock

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@anyone, please review my year. It's below, in its nearly-final form, only before a few minor corrections (if they would be needed). Also PLEASE WRITE IF IT'S NOT TOO LONG AND IF IT  ISN'T TOO HARD TO READ IT. That's important for me

Reminder!!! I'm writing from phone, so i can't paste any images, bold text or even change font.

YEAR OF THE ORC

Y'er been on a journey for the whole year. Relax. Stay a while and listen!

Hundred years ago, somewhere in the dark Universe there was a land called Draenor. Hundreds of Orcs lived there, forming small, and then bigger clans. Clans were meeting each other one time a year, during their sacred fest, Kosh'harg. During one of this fests began a story which lasts until today. Story of the mighty Horde...

1st Expansion: RISE OF THE HORDE

(...)

In this world there was someone another. Someone mysterious. Draenei. They were trading resources with orcs, but they weren't friends (or enemies) Ner'zhul, supported by Gul'Dan called every single clan to fight together and destroy their "deadly enemy". They didn't know that Kil'Jaeden deceived them, offering unlimited power. Gul'Dan realised it too late, when he was left with nothing...

When the war began, orcs were only winning. One day, elements stopped listening to Shamans. They needed another help, and they got it. They got Warlocks, but not only them. Also creatures five times bigger then orcs joined their army. Oh, look how strong are they!

(Druid card)

Me Smash! (4) - Choose one: Take control of an enemy Orc until the end of your turn or give a friendly Orc to your opponent and Curse him. 

Oooh! Curse! What's this? And why would you give a friend to your enemy? Wait a while... 

These green creatures were unstoppable. Oh, wait. My memory is not that good as when i was young. Yes, green. They drank blood of a demon, also awakening unstoppable rage inside them. They destroyed everything belonging to draenei on their path. So fast. Let's take a look, why

(Warrior card)

Grommash, the Posessed. (6) 4/5 - Cleave. Rush. After this attacks and kills a minion, gain +1/+1

Now you see why did they won so fast. They could Cleave and also damage adjacent minions. But Cleave was only for mighty ones. Others were just drunk

(Warlock card)

Drunk Orc (1) 0/5 - at the start of your give this minion to your opponent. It loses 1 health and deals 2 damage to your hero.

But after draenei were defeated, rage was still inside orcs. They started to attack each other.

Now look at this new archetype of minions. If your enemy controls an orc, they do something special. Isn't it simple? And what's that Curse? Well, there wasn't enough food for all orcs on Draenor, because the planet was dying. During the war, crops didn't grow because noone could take care of them. Orcs were dying too. So this Curse destroys minions at the end of your next turn. Not at the start, it would be too complicated. And not that powerful

 

Orcs had to run away from Draenor. But someone who drank the blood was going to free them from it's power, and rebuild the mighty Horde. And his son was going to nearly destroy it. Once again.

2nd expansion: RISES AND FALLS OF HELLSCREAMS

The Portal was opened on both sides. A wave of Orcs flooded Azeroth. They had their new home. But they found other, strange creatures here. They were smaller than orcs, thinner and white. Orcs began to fight with them. Every single person could become their victim for powers, which Orcs believed in. Look how strong is this mechanic

Victim - minion can deal (X) damage to himself to gain a special bonus (also for other minions)

Example - (4) 4/4 - Victim (3): Give your minions +1 attack

After Stormwind fell down, humans started fighting brutally and stronger. They finally defeated Orcs and put them into special camps. Orgrimm Doomhammer sacrified his life to free Orcs from these camps, like Grommash did to free Orcs from Mannoroth's blood. That's what Heroes can do to make your minions stronger

Sacrifice: Deal (X) damage to your Hero for a special bonus

Example: (6) 5/7 -Taunt. Sacrifice (3): Gain +3 Health

(...)

After the Cataclysm began, Thrall had to save Azeroth, becoming new Aspect of Earth (together with other Shamans. He couldn't lead the Horde so he had to choose a new leader. Choice wasn't simple, but he finally chose Garrosh Hellscream. It probably wasn't the best choice possible...

3rd expansion: LOST SECRETS OF DALARAN

If Horde wasn't enough, next problem appeared soon. The Plague. Kel'Thuzad needed one of Medivh's tomes to summon his overlord, Archimonde. Defense of Dalaran fell down fast and Archimonde destroyed the city after he was summoned. Small pieces of mighty towers and arcane tomes got spread to nearby places. 

After a few years an expedition found a cave. They got very deep into it and they found light. They came closer, curious what might it be. And they saw exactly 45 bright runes, 5 of each from 9 light colours. There were Runes of Fire, Ice, Arcanity, Forest, Wild, Blood and probably everything possible. What were this Runes? Probably pieces of Dalaran towers and fragments of knowledge from books stored in this city. 

How did they get there? I don't know. But i know how can they get into your deck and how do they work. Each class gets a legendary which shuffles 5 Runes (with this class's colour) into your deck. Each class has a different cost of these Runes, but they all cost the same for a single class.

Many minions can feel their Magic Power or even control it, basing on their own power.

For example, Khadgar can control it

Khadgar, Mayor of Dalaran - (6) 5/5 - Battlecry: Draw and cast two runes from your deck (targets chosen randomly).

And Blue Wyrm only feels it

Blue Wyrm - (5) 1/1 - Battlecry: Gain +1/+1 for each Rune you cast this game

Edit: i'll finish it later because now i have no time (and i also want to rest a while)

 Technical notes:

Sacrifice and Victim are NOT considered battlecries so cards like Brann Bronzebeard or Blubber Baron don't work with those mechanics.

Curse lasts until the END of your next turn to improve synergies with Orcs

 

 You've really done a great job going into the description for everything. I imagine with the images it would be a lot more digestible, and make the story bits stand out more prominently. As of now they flow into the revelation of the cards very well. Something you might want to be careful of is the thematic similarity between the first two expansions. The mechanics are different enough, but it's important to be able to tell one card comes from one expansion vs the other. I don't know if you plan on the Orc tag being retroactively applied, for instance Warsong Commander would have it, when the syngery seems pretty specific and unique to your expansion, as well as Orcs being a pretty big race in general. If it's not the case, I would suggest something like "Chaos Orc" which goes well with the theme of them having drank the blood. I would say all your example cards seem simple enough, and give a good idea of the value of these effects. This may be an instance of there not yet being images, but some of the class cards don't feel particularly connected to their class, except for the mechanics of the card. Sometimes it's enough, but it's something to think about. I like the flavor of the third expansion. It feels like a good direction behind the other two expansions. And finally, on the choice of Orc for the year's 'animal', I don't really have a problem with it, but if you're looking for other suggestions you could have an animal tied closely to orcs, such as kodos or dire wolves. I'd like to see how this turns out with everything finalized.

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YEAR OF THE TORTOISE

The Year of the Tortoise has come to the tavern! And with it, three expansions (loosely) related to this ancient reptile.

 

THE ALIGNMENT

Something unsual is happening in the skies: Azeroth, Draenor and many other planets are forming a perfect line. This strange phenomenon has made several constellations take a physicall form, and they are ready to join the battle! 

But that's not all! At the very same time, the few Eredar that did not succumb to the mischeavous forces of Sargeras, now known as Draenei, are escaping Argus to find a new home. Will they succeed?

Of course, if not positioned correctly, constellations are just stars. So, in this expansion, positioning will be really important. Both adjacent minions and opposing ones will be important, so be careful!

What does this expansion have to do with tortoises, you ask? Well, ancient cosmologies used to believe that the Earth was resting over an infinite pile of turtles. So, expect a Tortoise with a planet in her back to be in this expansion.

 

DEPTHS OF THE GREAT SEA

There's an old Tauren saying: "Only by looking at the infinite calm of the Great Sea you can know who you really are".

It's not as calm as they say, however! Countless dangers lie in the bottom of this huge mass of salty water: enormous beasts whose weird aspect is only matched by their ferocity, sunken temples with ancient curses waiting to be awaken, fearsome nagas plotting to get their revenge and, well... there are murlocs too.

This expansion features the keyword Dive. When you Dive, your hero will be covered in bubbles until the start of your next turn. By itself, this does nothing, but you can use it to activate certain effects.

 

Tortoises live underwater. Pretty obvious in this case.

 

PATHS OF DESTINY

The astronomers of Azeroth discovered something terrible: a great Fel Meteor was leading directly towards their world. The Horde and the Alliance stoped their fights, and the best socerers of both factions worked together in order to stop the catastrophe. All their work was sterile, as the deadly comet finally fell over the planet.

Its impact was so great that it broke the space-time continuum and generated multiple timelines. In some of them, all life in Azeroth was forever extinguished. In others, the few survivors were devoured by the countless hordes of Felhounds that emerged of the meteor. In a bunch of timelines, however, some heroes met their Fate and assured that Azeroth had a Future.

This expansion features two keyword that are closely related: Fate and Future. It works similar to Quests: when a minion mets the requirement indicated by their Fate, they transform into the minion described by their Future.

It also works for Hero cards: when you play a Hero with Fate, it does nothing. It's only after you meet the requirements that you transform. So, it's kind of a Quest with a Hero card as reward, except that you play the reward right away and doesn't start in your hand.

Tortoises live very long and this expansion is about future. 

 

Nice job connecting everything to your animal.  I think the first expansion has a lot going for it thematically, to support its lack of a keyword (which is totally fine, a good thing even imo). I would say make sure the specific mechanics, like positioning, get enough support. Your example cards reflect this. I like both of them and I think they give a good idea of what's coming. You may want to consider talking about them briefly just because I feel like the use of their abilities could be easy to miss. Diving is cool, good examples. And I think the little blurb about the theme of the expansion goes a long way considering both example cards show off the keyword in its two uses. I would say Hammerhead could be a 5/5 because of its condition. Hero cards from a different time — very cool, although Hero cards technically break the no unique tokens rule, with their Hero Power. I think it would be fine to just mention your plan with them and how fate could be used with them as well as minions, since your other example also shows Fate/Future. Also, it was not immediately clear to me that Charge was significant on the Apprentice because Future means they transform. It's clear enough in the description, but maybe a little reiteration here after the cards are shown. Overall some really neat mechanics and a good diversity of plans.

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 Thanks for feedback! For the recipes, it's indeed the former. I guess I should make it clearer on the keyword.

As for Structures, I have others in store.

Are those any better? There's some kind of buildaround required for them

 The Dark Portal is pretty iconic, but as mentioned it feels a little to close to what's already in the game. Since the effect is repeated and the thing's permanent I imagine the deck would look different as you'd want more demons, but if you don't have plans for changing it maybe just touch a little on it since I think most people will have that association. That being said, I don't personally feel like the structure you had before was a bad example; it gave a good idea of the power level which I think for something as unique as structures is particularly important to show. Coming out with the big flashier example might not have the same effect, even though it's scaled appropriately. 

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Made in Cooperation with @Cogito_Ergo_Sum and @Otovent.

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Year of the Chimera

Feedback plz.

Set Fire to the Rain

Everything was fine on Azeroth. Ahune the Frostlord was chilling in the hail, and Neptulon the Tidehunter was cooling in the rain. But everything changed when the fire Elementals attacked! They didn't want none of those weird weather types, with weak arguments such as "It's literally killing us" and "We're already at the borderline of extinction after the many times' adventures murdered us". Truly pathetic.

The expansion includes two new Weather Keywords. Weathers are basically "aura effects" that lasts for an amount of turns that is descriped on the cards that summon the weathers. At the end of each players turn, this counter goes down by 1, and does its special effects. Those include:

Rain works as a Board preserving effect, that will likely see play in faster decks than Hail, as it enforces Board control, instead of destroying it.

Hail works as a control effect, that diminishes board control, at the cost of a bit of Health, and some trouble keeping board control yourself.

The Fire Elementals want none of those tho, so they remove the Weather, and gains a bonus when they do. It functions both as tech cards against weather decks, but also as a quick strong effect for Weather decks.

War of the Continents

Everyone are at war. The Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, Northend and even Pandaria! Why? Why not! We don't have anyone else to fight really.

The expansion features a new keyword, and a new type of cards. Stitched cards! For those that does not know what this is, then it is basically a card that is available to two classes. A lot like the gang cards from MsoG, but they will be more prominent here!

Basically, when you play your first War/Peace card, you get to choose one of them. That choice is from here locked for the rest of the game, and all your War/Peace choices will always only use that choice.

Goldshire Pictures

From the creators of movies such as "They came from beyond the moon" and "Six-Gun Killer", comes a hearthstone expansion unlike any other. The studio, that originally came from Overwatch invites YOU! to come see everything behind the scenes.

We'll bring it to life with a brand new keyword, that will be featured in a most legendary of manners.

Script is the new one type of keyword. You get a sequence of effects, where they trigger at the start of your turn, one after one. Those effects are super powerful, but slow as hell.

Another prominent feature for the expansion, is hand positioning cards. Some cards will care about being left-most in your hand (Basically your oldest cards), and Right-Most in hand (Which is basically your latest drawn cards).

 

Thanks for reading through this all.

Feedback would be most apperciated, and will be returned.

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Also a big thanks to everyone who reviewed our stuff so far, and especially Vilegloom for your awesome designs for the competion and your invaluable feedback.

 

A Chimaera's pretty clever, although I'm compelled to point out that chimaeras in WoW are kinda different. Not a huge deal. I think Weathers are a good direction of aura effects, seeing as the implementation could go in any of many ways. I'm not sure if it's mentioned, but does on cancel the other? As for the examples, Hailmaker does a good job showing the value, although it is specific to the three turns as well as Hail. I don't think the power level is something that's critical to display in this case. I like that Weather Wrecker actually has subtle synergy with weather effects. War/Peace is a cool duality effect. I think Border Patrol is actually a really strong example in this case to suggest its use is more "what do I need in this match-up?" vs "I want to play a peace deck," if that makes any sense. Just shores up what could make a big difference in the design of the keyword. Cervidae looks like good value, makes sense thematically as well as mechanically. But not a beast? Goldshire is a fun idea. There are a couple of ways I think you could go about selling it. It might just be me but bringing up the Overwatch connection puts it a little out of place, rather than something like the two movie titles and being able to go "I see what you're doing." Kind of a small thing, totally up to you guys. Script works out well for something that could easily have been too complex. And the example shows it well — it seems really, really strong. Maybe it even makes Savagery work. Both examples show Worgens! I don't know if that's an issue, but it might make the theme a little unclear. And as pointed out, the first thing I thought of with Sharpshooter was Explosive Trap. If it gets spell damage on play, it might be something to clarify, thought this also kind telecasts what secret you just played, unless non-damaging spells aren't affected. Also, I'm impressed by the use of the Alliance watermark. Looks like a good collaborative effort, the thought behind everything shows.

 Thanks for your review!

Regarding your stuff:

Sleep: I personally dislike this sort of mechanic, mostly because it is super uninteractive. Many decks can't do anything about it in any ways, unless they want to put extensive ressorces, in what will likely a mediocre benefit. Furthermore it severly benefits some classes more than others. Something like Hunter will have an extremely hard time doing anything about it, whereas this is barely a negative for Mage and Priest. If you absolutely want to go with it, i would severly be careful with which classes you make it for, and for the most times, i'd advise against cards that uses it on enemy minions.

Resurgent: This however is a really cool mechanic overall. I don't really worry about "resets" and how some might feel like it would be hard to implement. It could easily be fixed by simply having some sort of visual that shows whether it is the first or second time you play it. Overall a super cool and thought out keyword!

Okay, so, I've just submited and I wanted to take a bit of time to thank everyone and anyone who's given me feedback and helped me!

This has already been the best Big Comp experience I've had. I've made some really cool expansions (imo), I've had lots of fun making my own logos (finally managed to put my artistic skills into something hs-related) and making everyone's icons. I hope I can make it to the 2nd phase, but If that's not the case, still, I've had tons of fun.

I'll be around giving some feedback if I can, so just ask for it if you want some. Same goes for the Year Icons! If you want one, ask. I can even make it myself if there's no symbol to find online, so don't be shy!

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This has already been the best Big Comp experience I've had. I've made some really cool expansions (imo), I've had lots of fun making my own logos (finally managed to put my artistic skills into something hs-related) and making everyone's icons. I hope I can make it to the 2nd phase, but If that's not the case, still, I've had tons of fun.

 I'm glad that you're enjoying it so much :D There were some initial concerns regarding the amount of effort required and how well this Big Comp would be received, but it seems like it's going well so far ^_^ ...hopefully.

Here's an update:

Year of the Salamander

The Firelord's Call

(other fancy titles coming... hopefully)

This expansion brings us to the Firelands, back to Blackrock to expand upon the adventure since Hearthstone's got a lot of new stuff since its release. There will be plenty of Dragons, as well as Elemental synergy now that it's been implemented. There are no new Keywords (hey, Old Gods didn't have any...) but new mechanics as a focus on top of the reiterated tribal synergy. Particularly there will be synergy with Class-specific cards, in light of Nefarion's chromatic experimentation, or just simply the different Dragonflights. My examples:

The idea here is the show the new mechanics from Ysera, the Dreamer, and kind of Dragon stuff. The stats have been upped for fringe cases (also supports the theory of Reno Jackson secretly being dragon), but I kept the same wording as several classes will have similar things going, and there are Neutral counters such as The Darkness. As well I want to make it a point across the whole Year to shore up different archetypes for classes that tend to fall off and get forgotten without sturdy support.

Potential alternate to Molten Core:

Something Something Booty Bay Summer

Working on the title... a lot of people are going for this location, but the focus here is more on the Summer theme than anything (hence it being the summer expansion, also the previous would be April, like BRM). The expansion brings two(!) new keywords:

Basically, Resurgent cards 'bounce' back to your hand when you first try to play one, and then it will no longer have the Keyword. I'm not sure if I should reword the tooltip. The power of this is that you can bank mana, paying more for it before to get a cheaper card later (like Primordial Glyph) and notably, Battlecries will activate each time they are played, so you get to have the battlecry twice, and in some cases target multiple characters which no card currently allows, yet this would still be consistent with that. 

Bounty I haven't introduced before. I have reworked the effect a lot since I came up with it, and as a result I'm not certain that the flavor is still there, but I have yet to come up with a more fitting word. With Bounty you can get potentially significant value if you are able to play two cards with the same Cost consecutively. And this is every two cards, so playing three cards with the same Cost, one after the other, would activate any Bounties twice. This synergizes particularly well with Resurgent, since you can activate any Bounty by playing one Resurgent card twice.

The cards:

Sunken Blade has a lot of different things going on. The point of it exemplifying Resurgent is basically in it having a lot of different uses. I think it's best to just let it sink in (haha). Dancing Flame (where's the purple?) I think provides more of a sense of the Summer-y theme, going of off the Brazier of the Dancing Flame, from WoW's Midsummer Fire Festival — speaking of, this is why it's not an Elemental, but if people feel like it should be, that's a change I can make. Although in this instance, Bounty does not make as much thematic sense.

Other Bounty cards:

Tales from the Wildhammers(/Wildhammer Clan?)

I just want the abbreviation to be TFW, to be honest. Sleep has since been totally just scrapped I wasn't really sure where to go with Rest, but for now I think I'm just going to stick with it.

There's a lot I could do about this. I was considering them just not being keywords (i.e. one card having 'Your turn ends' and another having '...every minion that did not attack last turn...') but I think it's mechanically unique enough to justify it. I'm not sure if they could have clearer wording—Rested is simply just a Status effect that doesn't affect anything other than cards that will have effects based on Rested minions. effect. Rest makes it so that the order of your turn must be particular, and as well if you choose not to attack with a minion, you could get a bonus on the following turn.

On top of these I'm thinking on emphasizing Hero Power synergy, outside of Inspire effects (probably), rather building upon your Hero Power. This would hopefully give slower decks a win condition beyond using their Death Knight cards, or really just a reason not to play them—having alternatives is nice. As well I was thinking of adding more Quests just for some mechanical diversity, or just interesting stuff, building upon other things, like Hagatha. I'm not sure if there's much point in bringing this up, however, since I would not be able to showcase one.

Current examples:

Counting Sheep is now a hunter card, cause sheep, duh. Really thought, it was mentioned it's a good way to give hunters draw since they lack it, but it doesn't give it out for free. I was going to remove Rest from the card and only have the Rested synergy, but I still think it would be best to have a card with both on it. Hopefully the balance is there. I was also looking at having it be "minions that Rested last turn" but I'm not sure how clear that was, and there is a mechanical difference. 

Aerie Mountaineer is what I'm thinking about when I say building upon your Hero Power. Some cards would have kind of an aura effect, adding something passive to your Hero Power, but it is still mechanically different as once you activate your HP any passives wouldn't apply until the next turn, and of course your Hero Power can be replaced.

So this is mostly what I'm thinking of right now, please any thoughts. Thanks for everything that's been said so far, it has really shaped where I am taking this, and of course I'll be still looking at what you guys are posting.

Sorry I haven't been able to give proper feedback yet. I've actually been caught up trying to get our C3 event ready (Central Creativity Convention) on another site, doing a podcast episode, and organizing the revival of a collaboration video game. Kind of bad luck that the first round of this comp and C3 overlap, and I think unless I manage to get it done tomorrow by the deadline I'm probably not gonna be able to finish my entry. 

;-;