So, Shatter and I actually finished this set before Phase II even begun. There's going to be a lot of stuff to go over, but we would appreciate your feedback. Worth mentioning that this is actually the second set of the year, not the first. We just worked on this one first. This is Once Upon a Time in Azeroth, this set has a theme of fairy tales and mythology.
In this set, each class is getting a new Legendary spell card, a "Story" card. Story cards have an effect that happen when the game starts and also have an addition effect when you play them. It also introduces the new mechanic: Legacy.
Druid
Story tokens:
Persepholes is our first Wild card.
Other tokens:
Demeter's Sorrow - Choose One options for Demeter's Sorrow.
Mortal Harvest and Divine Harvert - Choose One options for Maiden of Harvest.
Blessing of Death and Blessing of Life - Choose One options for Underworld's Blessing (which itself is created my A Marriage of Life and Death).
Gift of Death and Gift of Decay - Choose One options for Persepholes.
Hunter
Story tokens:
Other tokens:
Mage
The Snow Queen is another wild card.
Story tokens:
After you play Strength, Beauty and Intelligence, Snow White, Dwarven Princess is added to your hand.
Other tokens:
Paladin
Arthur, Wise King is our third Wild card.
Story tokens:
Arthur, Wise King as well as the Young King Arthur tokens from Merlin's Time Portal + other cards will activate Sword in the Stone and will not be damaged by Excalibur. Thought Young King Arthur himself isn't created by the story card, he is important to the story, so I felt including him here was necessary.
Priest
Story tokens:
Other tokens:
True Love Kiss is also created by a Neutral card, hence why it's a Neutral token.
Demeters sorrow: seems OP. Druid doesn't normally get great AoE and then you also have the chance to stall a turn for certain decks too.
I don't think it's too strong at all. It follow the same principle as Starfall for the AoE parts (good board clear (Volcanic Potion / Consecration + 1 mana) and that card didn't see play. The stall part is vastly inferior to Loatheb (since both achieve the same effect but the latter cost 1 more for a 5/5 body).
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So, Shatter and I actually finished this set before Phase II even begun. There's going to be a lot of stuff to go over, but we would appreciate your feedback. Worth mentioning that this is actually the second set of the year, not the first. We just worked on this one first. This is Once Upon a Time in Azeroth, this set has a theme of fairy tales and mythology.
In this set, each class is getting a new Legendary spell card, a "Story" card. Story cards have an effect that happen when the game starts and also have an addition effect when you play them. It also introduces the new mechanic: Legacy.
Druid
Story tokens:
Persepholes is our first Wild card.
Other tokens:
Demeter's Sorrow - Choose One options for Demeter's Sorrow.
Mortal Harvest and Divine Harvert - Choose One options for Maiden of Harvest.
Blessing of Death and Blessing of Life - Choose One options for Underworld's Blessing (which itself is created my A Marriage of Life and Death).
Gift of Death and Gift of Decay - Choose One options for Persepholes.
Hunter
Story tokens:
Other tokens:
Mage
The Snow Queen is another wild card.
Story tokens:
After you play Strength, Beauty and Intelligence, Snow White, Dwarven Princess is added to your hand.
Other tokens:
Paladin
Arthur, Wise King is our third Wild card.
Story tokens:
Arthur, Wise King as well as the Young King Arthur tokens from Merlin's Time Portal + other cards will activate Sword in the Stone and will not be damaged by Excalibur. Thought Young King Arthur himself isn't created by the story card, he is important to the story, so I felt including him here was necessary.
Priest
Story tokens:
Other tokens:
True Love Kiss is also created by a Neutral card, hence why it's a Neutral token.
Demeters sorrow: seems OP. Druid doesn't normally get great AoE and then you also have the chance to stall a turn for certain decks too.
I don't think it's too strong at all. It follow the same principle as Starfall for the AoE parts (good board clear (Volcanic Potion / Consecration + 1 mana) and that card didn't see play. The stall part is vastly inferior to Loatheb (since both achieve the same effect but the latter cost 1 more for a 5/5 body).
I'd disagree that it is the same effect as Loatheb or even that paladin spell that does it because it is 10 more not 5. This means you guarantee your opponent uses no spells next turn. With 5 there is a chance that they have some spell they could play even if it's sub optimal for them to do so.
So, Shatter and I actually finished this set before Phase II even begun. There's going to be a lot of stuff to go over, but we would appreciate your feedback. Worth mentioning that this is actually the second set of the year, not the first. We just worked on this one first. This is Once Upon a Time in Azeroth, this set has a theme of fairy tales and mythology.
In this set, each class is getting a new Legendary spell card, a "Story" card. Story cards have an effect that happen when the game starts and also have an addition effect when you play them. It also introduces the new mechanic: Legacy.
Druid
Story tokens:
Persepholes is our first Wild card.
Other tokens:
Demeter's Sorrow - Choose One options for Demeter's Sorrow.
Mortal Harvest and Divine Harvert - Choose One options for Maiden of Harvest.
Blessing of Death and Blessing of Life - Choose One options for Underworld's Blessing (which itself is created my A Marriage of Life and Death).
Gift of Death and Gift of Decay - Choose One options for Persepholes.
Hunter
Story tokens:
Other tokens:
Mage
The Snow Queen is another wild card.
Story tokens:
After you play Strength, Beauty and Intelligence, Snow White, Dwarven Princess is added to your hand.
Other tokens:
Paladin
Arthur, Wise King is our third Wild card.
Story tokens:
Arthur, Wise King as well as the Young King Arthur tokens from Merlin's Time Portal + other cards will activate Sword in the Stone and will not be damaged by Excalibur. Thought Young King Arthur himself isn't created by the story card, he is important to the story, so I felt including him here was necessary.
Priest
Story tokens:
Other tokens:
True Love Kiss is also created by a Neutral card, hence why it's a Neutral token.
A Marriage of Life and Death - you get 8-10 Armor just for putting this card in your deck and it can even be used to remove minions or burst damage i am sorry but start of game effects have to be either random or requiring to build a deck around them
Wish of the Queen - Same thing you get Cards and even though those cards are OK these are still cards you can play and after all of them are played you get a Very Good Card
Midnight Getaway - Same thing again thought this one is probs the most balanced because if your opponent kills it you get left with 2 Dead Cards
Arabian Night - Again you get a Card for free just for spending 1600 or buying packs thought again this one is a bit balanced as the Two out of 1001 Tales shuffled can mess up your game plan
Mjornir - Spirit Claws should probs nerf it to 2 mana
the best way (I think) to fix these cards is to make them shuffle these cards into your deck
Guys are you serious? Phase 2 has barely begin and some already have full sets!?
The perk of working as 2 people is that you can finalize your idea early. And if that idea got an early lead, well, you can snowball that into a fast work schedule.
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Gonna do a brief look at all the guys who passed and give my opinions. Can't be bothered to talk about Hall of Fame choices unless they're relevant to any of the cards.
Doctor Whoops' Year of the Frog
Right off the bat, the sets are quite diverse and well presented. The Infiltrate keyword is nice, I imagine there's quite a lot of potential design space for it and it only makes sense. Feed is already easy to imagine in-game because it's already in the game and Surface Hunter is a fine card to show off. Those two keywords are fine, but you've walked into an issue Tek found himself in while working on Treasures, which was why the inclusion of the Sandy Shores card was made. Essentially, if the Guest cards included in your deck actually count against card count without any chance of actually being drawn, then what you effectively have is a deck that has less cards in it. The vast majority of decks in the game would take a 28 card, 26 card, 24 card etc deck over a 30 card one if that was freely available. It's just more consistent, and there's absolutely no reason not to do it. This would lead to players using Guests purely as cards to lower deck sizes rather than making actual Guest decks.
The Guest keyword is very interesting thematically and I like the flavor of the Stormwind City set the most, so I'd like to see it still, I just think it should be reworked maybe in a similar way to Treasures. Of course, there's also the chance that I've misinterpreted the keyword and missed something like an idiot, so I'm sorry if that's the case. Overall I can definitely see why this was the most highly voted set, but I think Guest is a genuinely big issue.
Linkblade91's Year of the Kodo
The flavor for the first set is fantastic, I'm quite fond of the Burdens. They're a way of introducing massive changes to a deck that remain simple. I do feel like The Vigilant Crusader could be made more simple with just one keyword, the textbox is getting a little packed there, but with how much that would impact you don't need to worry too much. The cards showcased for the War of Sea and Sky could have been better. Though I like the idea of the expansion, I'm indifferent with Terror Drake, kinda unsure how it has Stealth thematically, but I dislike the Naga Siren. What you've said about the Naga is that they provide benefit to the 'Biggest' Naga in terms of Attack, Health or Cost, so a card with "The Naga with the highest X has..." should be a common occurrence. Despite that, the first Naga you show is a 5/5 that does that with Taunt which is Epic. That sounds more like a Common and it doesn't really show what the potential of the Naga's tribal shenanigans could be. It doesn't feel too different from a 5 mana 5/5 Taunt, and feels so boring and bad considering giving minions taunt isn't really valued very highly. Metal and Mayhem seems nice, the flavor's good. Encore is a great keyword, I like it a lot. Power Up is a little more meh, kinda odd to revisit spare parts in general. The cards you showcased are good for them, with Spirit Bouncer showing off some fantastic possible synergy with Encore effects off the bat by allowing its effect to be used by a much bigger minion, and Treant Harvester being flavorful and useful.
Overall, all three sets are very good but I'd really like to see the potential of the Naga tribe and the Challenge keyword.
KingKuba's Year of the Lion
I felt quite happy looking through all of this. I'm not generally going to talk about the people behind the cards that much in these reviews but you seem like the kind of person who's quite new to making custom cards but has some really good ideas. What I mean by that is that you've got some really fantastic concepts here among some simple mistakes and I'm excited to see this set potentially flourishing. Obviously the place to start with is Storage, which I think is a potential UI nightmare and unsure on how good it is CURRENTLY, but it has some serious potential. I think you should go over a brief summary of how you use Storage cards during deckbuilding and through that find a way to include as many copies of Storage cards as you want so I can run a warehouse deck (that's only 30% a joke) and I'd love this keyword and the set. I love the flavor behind all the sets by the way, just wanted to go over Storage first. Then I'm going to go onto the third expansion for a reason that'll be obvious soon after. I like the flavor of this set the most, it's quite light and jovial. Rent could have a lot of potential as a keyword, especially if you throw some Rent (1 turn) cards in there, which could be quite interesting for designs. I dislike Buyout however, it doesn't feel like it has too much of a purpose. Making a way of keeping your Rent minions feels uninteresting more than anything else as well as quite parasitic. I think just having the Rent cards is preferable. Right, set 2 is the one I have the most problems with by far. The faction mechanic just isn't interesting, it's just a tribe that locks you out of playing certain cards. The two cards you've showcased aren't doing it any favors either. Garona Halforcen is a legendary class tech card, which you really want to avoid. The general issue with that is that legendary cards, especially class cards, are cards that you put into your deck to promote an archetype in an interesting or powerful way. Tech cards are cards you use to counter OTHER archetypes. It's straight up just an overpowered assassinate with a body in most cases and that's not the reason why I dislike it. She doesn't do anything to help your Horde deck, she just might do something against Alliance minions with Deathrattles. That's probably not many cards. Othmar Garithos is far and beyond the most overpowered card in the game. He's an autoinclude in every paladin deck due to the way purely positive Start of Game cards work. When you don't actually have to draw the card nor use the card, it just provides a benefit to your deck unconditionally at the start of the game, the card shouldn't be printed. You don't even have to account for the technical risk of drawing this minion which is understatted in comparison to almost all the other broken start of game cards that people have made, it's an Alliance minion, it just draws itself at no cost when the game begins, as well as whatever other Alliance card you put in there is. I'd suggest a complete rework of the second expansion but if you don't want to do that at least just fix those two cards up. Sorry the review got negative towards the end, it's just that your first and third sets are on completely different levels to your second. I genuinely meant what I said about the year having some serious potential and I look forward to seeing what you make.
Tomerick88's Year of the Butterfly
I'm going to be blunt...
That is not an interesting keyword. It's not flexible, it's not got any potential design space, more than anything it's just a boring and bad version of taunt. I do not like the pet keyword, not at all. Keywords can mean so many potential different things depending on the cards they're on, and how singular this keyword is is mundane. Hemet's Petting Zoo itself could be interesting with good flavor but I'm not feeling it so far. Going into the second expansion, Fate's fine, there's some design space for it and it fits the expansion, though I'm starting to think you've rushed through all this a bit. The presentation for your cards isn't great and the actual cards are similar. Veteran Tracker is missing capitalization and is literally just using the Tracking art. Tactical Retreat is a great card that utilizes your rotation of Divine Favor well. The terrain cards aren't very aesthetically pleasing, I once again think you could have spent more time and precision with this. Regardless I do feel that the terrain should last for a set amount of turns and shouldn't be countered by enemies playing terrains. Having it last infinitely is insane value that forces people into playing terrains, and playing a really expensive terrain that goes away immediately isn't fun.
CheeseETC's Year of the Scorpion
First set is good. The factions are alright and I don't really have a lot to say about it other than I'm fond. Could open up a lot of interesting new decks. I'm not fond of the second set at all. Dividing things into a bunch of guys who generate resource and then a bunch of things that need resource is parasitic and hard to manage before you even account for the fact that the things that take your resource take up board slots. It's hard to manage in a simple manner, simple being one of Hearthstone's core themes, and it feels more like a nostalgia trip than a fun or functional expansion. Don't want to include more than 4 buildings in my deck because I don't want to ever collect dead buildings in my hand but then I want to have enough resource to play them otherwise they're just dead anyway so better distribute a bunch of resource gatherer's into my deck. Draw dependency is rampant here. In comparison I really like recipes. They're flavorful and quite similar to buildings in that they're permanent benefits except way more interesting and better because they don't take a parasitic new resource to exist, you just need to fulfill certain conditions to repeat effects. I certainly wouldn't include both buildings and recipes into the year, in my eyes one's just better than the other. I will say though, the way you've formatted the recipe card is stylish and cool but I think you might have to change it unless you don't want to write much on the cards. Small Drink is the epitome of a common of the effect with literally three words and then a basic condition, yet it ended up with 4 lines. How are you going to make Epic recipes?
Shatterstar1998 and Demonxz95's Year of the Dragon
Year of the Dragon sounds generic but whatever. Nightmare on the Nether is cool, though you could go over what makes the actual expansion itself interesting a little more, because I didn't really see anything about the expansion itself in the cards. I just got the context of the area and how it has a bunch of tribal minions. Legacy could be cool but King Arthur feels like a really bad way of showing it off. If I play three cards in a turn I get to change the Health of all minions to 1! Oh wait they've already all got 1 Health because I played the card. I'll wait till next turn and THEN use his effect. Alright, there, my opponent's played some new minions, now I can use his Legacy. Oh actually I think I'll just trade him in, that seems more efficient because I don't want to set my minions Health to 1. Why does Legacy feel so much like a redundant extra on the Legacy showcase card? Prince Charming well... I don't like him. How is he a start of game support card and how was he supposed to show off how each class is getting a start of game card? Wouldn't showing off a start of game card be more helpful for that? Why do I care about drawing my start of game cards, that's not what's interesting about those cards, the interesting part already happened. At the start of the game. Because it's a start of game card. Sure it thins my deck and I can play it to get like a 9 mana 7/8 body but that's hardly that supportive. Prince Charming just feels like a Curator card you made because you've got some new keywords. It's not got nearly as much connection between the themes as The Curator nor its Witchwood counterpart. It's boring. Caverns of Time seems alright, I like Future Strike, it's a very nice card. Temporary dormant cards are something I've seen a lot, in fact my favorite version of them I've seen was from DKPaladinMDL's Caverns of Time expansion that he finished some time ago. I feel like the showcase card you chose for it wasn't that interesting. In general I kinda wish there was more you were showing in your year, I've not been able to criticize a lot because I've not got a good grip on the expansions. Nether on the Nightmare will be dark and have demons and dragons and stuff as well as an effect that exists already. Once upon a Time will have legacy but you haven't provided a good example of a legacy card and start of game cards for every class but you haven't shown a start of game card. Caverns of Time has future stuff that could be quite cool, I'm fond of that, as well as collectible temporary permanents which are nice. I don't know, I just think your presentation was lacking with ideas that have already been explored a lot.
ThisOtherGuyTox, Cogito and Otovent's Year of the Chimera
Stitched cards could be cool, the one presented is simple and gives a good idea of what to expect, and I think I remember Tox talking about the choose one at the start of the game thing some time before and I've quite liked it as an idea. Border Patrol is also a nice simple idea for showing off how things are. Can't really see any faults so far, things look good. Weathers seem fine. I'd like to see cards that benefit off of weathers but it's understandable not to considering you only had two cards to show which did well to establish the flavor. Because I don't want to get through 2 sets without at least suggesting something I want to put in a personal request for you guys to include my favorite pokemon ludicolo in there somewhere, maybe something like this.
You don't have to call him Ludicolo or anything just please man I love ludicolo so much you'd be doing a great service for my family. Script is flavorful and quite nice, it's reminiscent of the new card type thing introduced to Magic recentlyish. I love the flavor of the set as a whole and I'm sorry that the new expansion kinda takes away some of the uniqueness of the set. In general this set seems the most refined so far... Suspiciously so. Gosh dang the mods and their ability to prepare three sets with unique flavor and keywords in a space longer than two weeks we need a revolution around here or something. For real though, looking forward to seeing the third set the most so if you go out before then I'll be angry. Good luck.
WaterwaIker's Year of the holy shit I'm only 8 submissions through this is taking so long I'm gonna end it all also why is your name spelled with a capital i rather than an l what Hydra
Starting off, Lights, Cards, Action! is gonna be a set I greatly look forward to. Great humor, very light, all good with me. Van Hellscream is a really nice card with a cool effect, though he honestly feels absurdly strong. He's got a really well statted 5 mana body for 6 that replaces your hero power with one that's worth about 2 mana, which is nuts. That said it obviously carries the downside of not working with Deathstalker Rexxar which you'd probably want to play in a more control focused Hunter so I imagine it's fine but it's certainly stronger than most hero power upgrade cards. I don't like Mildly Annoyed Max, punishing your opponent for not playing on curve isn't that fun for them, and if they do play on curve this is just a 5 mana 5/3 which isn't very fun for you. In general it kinda just doesn't feel like a fun card. Alleria Windrunner is fun but honestly I don't think trample is a good idea. Hearthstone's been existing for a while under the idea that trample isn't a thing so as you might expect stuff like Arcane Channeler suddenly being added can cause problems. What kind of problems? Problems of Meteoric proportions is what. For the next expansion, Marsh Seer is massively unfun as it can ruin so many decks. Oh, it appears I've discovered my opponents C'Thun/N'Zoth/Bloodreaver Gul'Dan/Emeriss/Alexstraza/BigGamechangingMinion/Yogg'Saron. Guess they lose. Also go to my Year of the Lion and/or Year of the Frog reviews for my stance on Tyr. I would include this in every deck because it's free consistency. I don't need to actually draw the card or use it, nor do I have to gimp my deck, yet I get benefits.
Dropdead's Year of the Manticore
Transforming effects already fulfill the purpose of Banish elegantly, include more transform cards rather than adding in a new yet redundant keyword. It might fit in the game better if Hearthstone had an actual graveyard and not a pool of cards being tracked for Big Priests sake, but as of right now it's just taking an effect that shows up in every card game with a graveyard and putting it into a game without one. If you're in Shadowform is a terrible idea that gets passed around a lot, can't wait to get this card in a pack when I don't actually own that epic card from the classic set. Oh well I guess I could still use it as a 6 mana deal 5 spell, fantastic. For 6 mana couldn't it just banish the minion regardless of anything else? Priest already got Entomb why is this a card? Your location card is okay. I think you should have done a better job showing off themes of the expansions because some of the cards just feel irrelevant to showing the actual expansion off. Yeah Hogger's Faithful is a pretty cool card but what does it tell me about the expansion?
Phoenixfeather's Year of the Phoenix
First expansion seems alright. Soulcast is nice, Elusive is Elusive. Rise from the Grave is a cool card that does well to show off the expansion. Apatheia's one of the least interesting ways of adding neutral decks theoretically possible. The thing is, I like the idea of neutral decks, but I think a game like Shadowverse is a game that could show you a good way of going about implementing neutral synergy. Rewarding you for having disproportionate amounts of neutral cards over only running them. Running decks without spells, only minions, with no class identity, very few interesting gimmicks and such is just uninteresting. What makes the matches involving this lady more uninteresting than most? Well let me briefly say why I like Elusive. It does well in countering an enemy who relies on spells to counter minions by making it harder to deal with your elusive minions, yet it doesn't make half their deck pointless because I still have the rest of my deck to go through and it's not like they're ALL going to be Elusive so they can just use their spells on those ones! Oh wait, my entire deck IS Elusive, guess my opponents hand is just filled with dead cards now. Boy, this game of minions slapping into eachother and nothing else sure is interesting. At least AoE's still exist. Second expansion is a lot better, love Solais, it's a great weapon with good flavor. Deus Ex Machina is also good flavor and a cool card. I don't know how much I like the return of Inspire but I don't hate it. Burn is a keyword that belongs in a class and not an expansion. Removing the top one or two cards of your deck is widely irrelevant outside of decks that go to fatigue because they're exceptionally slow, are running Aluneth or rely on specific cards like C'Thun and sometimes they're on the bottom and have to dig deep. The rare cases in which removing the top card of your deck is used as a downside do so in a way where it's escalated to the point where your deck might be shredded in seconds like with Fel Reaver. Being able to include a few cards that have above average power level in exchange for burn just means I'm running cards which are too good at no extra cost.
Vilegloom's Year of the Ram
I've been really indecisive of your stuff. I don't know what it is about it. Regardless I don't trust myself to force a review on this because I don't have an opinion of it really. I'm not trying to wuss out I swear, it's just that my input would be redundant. Take that all as you like.
ShadowsOfSense's Year of the Serpent
I don't like Ambush. I remember Phoenix explored it's potential some time before with Impulse and cards which manipulate how you draw it that makes it more skilled but even then it's still the "Did you topdeck this" keyword. It's good flavor and I'm happy about its use with Cephalopirate due to it not being objectively better, but I don't really like it. Explore is a nice keyword, one thing I think a lot of people make mistakes with while making Hearthstone cards is creating cards that give information for the sake of information, yet this uses it practically. Well, at least in the case of Murloc Pathfinder. If all the Explore cards will be like that, I'm very happy with it. If you make cards which just Explore and nothing else, I'll be sad. That's just not very Hearthstone. One thing of note, with both Ambush and Explore existing, deck manipulation better exist, it just makes them both so much better. Revenant is a keyword that feels nice due to how Undead synergy works, I like it. Mount is nice but obviously unfortunately timed due to Magnetic. Flanked is nice also, no real criticisms.
Teknician's Year of the Gryphon
Treasure's are looking nice and appropriately scary and the Plunderer is a good example of a Treasure fetcher, so I'm happy with how it's developed thus far. This might just be me but Sandy Shore looks a little too realistic, I think a wide shot of a beach would be better. Overall, good first set. Unsure about the second set, Sacrifice is an alright keyword, Plague is quite questionable. Not in the "This is probably bad" sense but the "I have literally no idea how to evaluate this" sense. I will say though that the Blood Beetle's Sacrifice option feels surprisingly low impact, considering you lose both an attack and the minion. I've gone over Red Mana briefly with you already I believe, waiting to see how you handle it, I think you can make it work well.
Mrobjectionman's Year of the Pegasus
I'm a strong believer that Hearthstone's RNG isn't as bad a problem as many like to say and that it's actually quite beneficial for the game, but having it as a core theme for an expansion doesn't seem like a great idea. GvG had that as a core theme and people hated it, so I'm unsure if people will like that. Good flavor though. Good flavor for the next set also, this version of Mount is pretty good, it's like reverse Magnetic. I don't like Dominance, seems very win more. Generally the person with the biggest minion is the one winning, so to me it kinda reads like "If you're winning, has an extra effect.", which means the cards don't benefit you while losing and benefits you while winning, which polarizes the game rather than having it be a back and forth.
Aaro54's Year of the Mech
You know my opinion on your shit man go ask me things in the Discord or something
Soulbattle's Year of the Cat
Hethiss is nice, does well to show off multiple potential themes of the expansion with both poisonous and death, and I like Invoke despite not really feeling like a keyword, though I can't really explain why. I like the idea of the Grimoire of Eternity and I'm willing to see how the mage spell tribe thing works out, though I think you've not exactly got the casual and goofy vibe down in the submission. I feel like Brutallus probably isn't that hard to build a deck around and stomps aggro into the ground, though that's obviously a card that'd need playtesting. Blazing Infernal doesn't really feel like a "Positioning matters" card all that much honestly, I feel like a card that requires a lot of pre-planning would be best to show it off. This is more of a "Place between two minions and attack" card that you want to play minions around.
Wailor's Year of the Tortoise
Draenei Wanderer feels like it could do something relevant to the swap beyond just swapping, like the actual swap being a necessity that functions as a bonus. Like Curious Glimmeroot giving information or something similar. I think a card which has the pure function of swapping feels too non-Hearthstoney, too niche, yet as a secondary effect it could fulfill its intended purpose elegantly while being more interesting. I think Dive has a similar issue, Hearthstone doesn't tend to have many effects that do nothing by themselves. If Dive actually did something minor for your hero and then synergies existed on top of that, I'd like the mechanic more. Fate and Future seems fine, but giving a minion Charge allows it to attack on its first turn, it doesn't allow a minion that already attacked to attack again. Everything seems pretty well connected in this year though.
NOVEX0R's Year of the Scarab
Not too fond of Ancient, it feels like it could be done more elegantly. Tracking digits in the cards text usually isn't how things in Hearthstone work. Also I'm not sure if I like that this encourages a less than active form of play. Active playing should be encouraged even in control decks in my opinion and Hearthstone typically favors it also in comparison to most card games. Tomb Relic is a boring card in standard and absolutely game breaking in wild. Shadowboxer exists ya know. Hearthstone effects tend to do something by themselves so I'm not really fond of the nightmare/dream mechanic, I think it could be better if the Dream or Nightmare states did something regardless of the synergy cards. Stolen Plans is insanely overpowered and would be included in 100% of rogue decks because there's no reason not to. As soon as you draw it you immediately cast it and draw another card. If it didn't reveal the opponents hand it'd still be included 100% of rogue decks, it's just a way of making your deck one which only effectively contains 28 cards, which is more consistent than a 30 card one.
Electronite's Year of the Serpent
Hibernate is a keyword that comes up a lot, but I strongly believe that it's a bad one. Hearthstone is a very active game and making cards that encourage you to not attack are only a few steps away from cards that encourage you to not attack. Attacking is already a very big part of the decision making in the game, one of the most important elements. Making cards that make you not want to do that isn't something I like. Royal Archivist is a nice card, I like it. Knowledge Corrupt could probably do with a better name but in general the second set seems way healthier than the first. Dreamwalker's not that interesting to play nor does it do much special, yet it still feels odd to have the word Immune on a common neutral card.
LarryMoments' Year of the Wendigo
Getting a new keyword and then making two new cards with the keyword to show off an expansion feels like a way better idea when the new keyword was already a mechanic in the game, I mean the flavor's nice but I hope to see some more themes than just minions killing minions. Possession is flavorful enough and the flavor of the set as a whole is quite good, but it's really a pretty small effect and I'm not really sure what to expect out of the expansion because of it. It's not a particularly debilitating effect but I think it works perfectly with other effects as more of a marker than anything, a chance for some richly flavored cards to flourish like perhaps a minion that moves into a minion, possessing it, and comes out when the minion dies. Silver Mirror is also quite good. Lots of flavor potential in that set, I must say. You're not gonna showcase murlocs for your murloc focused expansion? Odd, and the cards you've shown haven't given me much of a view on what the expansion is all about, if I'm being honest. They're good cards however.
TheProjenitor's Year of the Fox
I like Plan, it's a common concept that's been executed well here. I'm glad you've given such a clear example of what the expansion's all about. A simple common plan card and a card that has a trade off involving the information your opponent obtains, it works nicely. Seems promising. There seems to be a broken imgur link on the next set, don't know if that's just me. Regardless, I don't like the way you've set up the keyword. Iterating Battlecry just feels too wordy. I think if you were to put (Iterate) or (Iterates) in brackets after the battlecry, kind of like Fatespinner, it might look neater. Regardless, every card with Iterate is kind of like a more restrained Shudderwock, which means it's probably really hard to manage the power level. Even a weak common Iterating battlecry minion that does 1 damage will also summon a 3/3 golem, draw a card, maybe kill a couple of minions and burn the board in a firestorm or something similar, and it escalates with every card printed. Rebuilding Dalaran is really interesting yet Enter the Legion is really uninteresting. Obviously your legendary spells are going to be very bottom-up from a design standpoint but I definitely think a stronger focus on how interesting Enter the Legion is mechanically would be good. Destroying mana crystals at later turns just isn't much of a downside so it kinda feels like summoning a bunch of guys with an overload.
I was a little exhausted near the end because it's gotten late, so I apologize if I've said much that's nonsensical or too crude, I'm not quite myself just yet. Regardless, I hope the competitors in question at least read it, I've spent a lot of time on it even if a lot is just gibberish, and if any of your works were to improve due to all this effort it'd all have been worth. A lot of promising entries this comp, many with small mistakes made here and there (that might have came from having to make a three-set concept in the space of two weeks) and I'm hoping to see some great stuff by the end. Including Ludicolo, mostly that. Tox, this is a genuine threat, I will send over 7 spammy messages to you via Discord and Hearthpwn that'll contain some kind of puzzle that'll insinuate you smell bad when you eventually solve it unless you throw Ludicolo in as a minion in Set Fire to the rain. It doesn't have to be a Legendary, though he deserves to be one, not even an Epic, and he doesn't have to be called Ludicolo but... Just please you have to do it I need it.
We've already posted OUaTiA. The reason we couldn't showcase any of the Start of Game cards is that they all produce unique tokens, so we would've gotten disqualified if we showcased them. They all have an additional effect that happens when you play them too which is why Prince Charming can draw them. You're also just objectively wrong when you say "It's not got nearly as much connection between the themes as The Curator nor its Witchwood counterpart". In fact, it actually probably has more.
True Love Kiss is renamed correctly to True Love's Kiss (and the cards that produce it).
New art for True Love's Kiss
The Druid Story has a major revamp: The spell now cost 1 instead of 0, you only receive 3 instead of 5, but now you can gain +2 attack or 4 Armor. The old version was way too powerful with the Legacy mechanic.
Young King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone now correctly has the Book watermark.
After you play Strength, Beauty and Intelligence, Snow White, Dwarven Princess is added to your hand.
Other tokens:
Paladin
Arthur, Wise King is our third Wild card.
Story tokens:
Arthur, Wise King as well as the Young King Arthur tokens from Merlin's Time Portal + other cards will activate Sword in the Stone and will not be damaged by Excalibur. Thought Young King Arthur himself isn't created by the story card, he is important to the story, so I felt including him here was necessary.
Priest
Story tokens:
Other tokens:
True Love Kiss is also created by a Neutral card, hence why it's a Neutral token.
Cg to all who made it! Im still following from the shadows and most of you guys are doing great job despite how abysmal the first submission topic looked with all those horribly complex keywords with walls of texts needed to explain them.
Small side note for Shatter and Demon: how is this named character an Epic card?:p
We've already posted OUaTiA. The reason we couldn't showcase any of the Start of Game cards is that they all produce unique tokens, so we would've gotten disqualified if we showcased them. They all have an additional effect that happens when you play them too which is why Prince Charming can draw them. You're also just objectively wrong when you say "It's not got nearly as much connection between the themes as The Curator nor its Witchwood counterpart". In fact, it actually probably has more.
Ah, okay. I didn't realize that was the case for your Start of Game cards, but maybe if that'd been explained in the submission it would have been less confusing. Prince Charming would be a boring card had they all worked in similar manners to the start of game cards that already existed in Hearthstone beforehand for reasons already explained, hence the oddness of it. Regardless I meant connection between the cards actually drawn by the minion. I shouldn't have mentioned Ashmoore in it but honestly it's hard to defend that Elusive, Start of Game and Legacy have more in common with each other than Beast, Murloc and Dragon, so I'm not sure how that's "just objectively wrong". I'm not trying to be rude in my posts, I'm sorry if I accidentally said something wrong.
Gonna do a brief look at all the guys who passed and give my opinions. Can't be bothered to talk about Hall of Fame choices unless they're relevant to any of the cards.
DISCLAIMER: I am in such intense fear of accidentally refreshing the page that I've decided to post this and edit it to completion. The rest will be done in some amount of time.
Doctor Whoops' Year of the Frog
Right off the bat, the sets are quite diverse and well presented. The Infiltrate keyword is nice, I imagine there's quite a lot of potential design space for it and it only makes sense. Feed is already easy to imagine in-game because it's already in the game and Surface Hunter is a fine card to show off. Those two keywords are fine, but you've walked into an issue Tek found himself in while working on Treasures, which was why the inclusion of the Sandy Shores card was made. Essentially, if the Guest cards included in your deck actually count against card count without any chance of actually being drawn, then what you effectively have is a deck that has less cards in it. The vast majority of decks in the game would take a 28 card, 26 card, 24 card etc deck over a 30 card one if that was freely available. It's just more consistent, and there's absolutely no reason not to do it. This would lead to players using Guests purely as cards to lower deck sizes rather than making actual Guest decks.
The Guest keyword is very interesting thematically and I like the flavor of the Stormwind City set the most, so I'd like to see it still, I just think it should be reworked maybe in a similar way to Treasures. Of course, there's also the chance that I've misinterpreted the keyword and missed something like an idiot, so I'm sorry if that's the case. Overall I can definitely see why this was the most highly voted set, but I think Guest is a genuinely big issue.
Linkblade91's Year of the Kodo
The flavor for the first set is fantastic, I'm quite fond of the Burdens. They're a way of introducing massive changes to a deck that remain simple. I do feel like The Vigilant Crusader could be made more simple with just one keyword, the textbox is getting a little packed there, but with how much that would impact you don't need to worry too much. The cards showcased for the War of Sea and Sky could have been better. Though I like the idea of the expansion, I'm indifferent with Terror Drake, kinda unsure how it has Stealth thematically, but I dislike the Naga Siren. What you've said about the Naga is that they provide benefit to the 'Biggest' Naga in terms of Attack, Health or Cost, so a card with "The Naga with the highest X has..." should be a common occurrence. Despite that, the first Naga you show is a 5/5 that does that with Taunt which is Epic. That sounds more like a Common and it doesn't really show what the potential of the Naga's tribal shenanigans could be. It doesn't feel too different from a 5 mana 5/5 Taunt, and feels so boring and bad considering giving minions taunt isn't really valued very highly. Metal and Mayhem seems nice, the flavor's good. Encore is a great keyword, I like it a lot. Power Up is a little more meh, kinda odd to revisit spare parts in general. The cards you showcased are good for them, with Spirit Bouncer showing off some fantastic possible synergy with Encore effects off the bat by allowing its effect to be used by a much bigger minion, and Treant Harvester being flavorful and useful.
Overall, all three sets are very good but I'd really like to see the potential of the Naga tribe and the Challenge keyword.
KingKuba's Year of the Lion
I felt quite happy looking through all of this. I'm not generally going to talk about the people behind the cards that much in these reviews but you seem like the kind of person who's quite new to making custom cards but has some really good ideas. What I mean by that is that you've got some really fantastic concepts here among some simple mistakes and I'm excited to see this set potentially flourishing. Obviously the place to start with is Storage, which I think is a potential UI nightmare and unsure on how good it is CURRENTLY, but it has some serious potential. I think you should go over a brief summary of how you use Storage cards during deckbuilding and through that find a way to include as many copies of Storage cards as you want so I can run a warehouse deck (that's only 30% a joke) and I'd love this keyword and the set. I love the flavor behind all the sets by the way, just wanted to go over Storage first. Then I'm going to go onto the third expansion for a reason that'll be obvious soon after. I like the flavor of this set the most, it's quite light and jovial. Rent could have a lot of potential as a keyword, especially if you throw some Rent (1 turn) cards in there, which could be quite interesting for designs. I dislike Buyout however, it doesn't feel like it has too much of a purpose. Making a way of keeping your Rent minions feels uninteresting more than anything else as well as quite parasitic. I think just having the Rent cards is preferable. Right, set 2 is the one I have the most problems with by far. The faction mechanic just isn't interesting, it's just a tribe that locks you out of playing certain cards. The two cards you've showcased aren't doing it any favors either. Garona Halforcen is a legendary class tech card, which you really want to avoid. The general issue with that is that legendary cards, especially class cards, are cards that you put into your deck to promote an archetype in an interesting or powerful way. Tech cards are cards you use to counter OTHER archetypes. It's straight up just an overpowered assassinate with a body in most cases and that's not the reason why I dislike it. She doesn't do anything to help your Horde deck, she just might do something against Alliance minions with Deathrattles. That's probably not many cards. Othmar Garithos is far and beyond the most overpowered card in the game. He's an autoinclude in every paladin deck due to the way purely positive Start of Game cards work. When you don't actually have to draw the card nor use the card, it just provides a benefit to your deck unconditionally at the start of the game, the card shouldn't be printed. You don't even have to account for the technical risk of drawing this minion which is understatted in comparison to almost all the other broken start of game cards that people have made, it's an Alliance minion, it just draws itself at no cost when the game begins, as well as whatever other Alliance card you put in there is. I'd suggest a complete rework of the second expansion but if you don't want to do that at least just fix those two cards up. Sorry the review got negative towards the end, it's just that your first and third sets are on completely different levels to your second. I genuinely meant what I said about the year having some serious potential and I look forward to seeing what you make.
Tomerick88's Year of the Butterfly
I'm going to be blunt...
That is not an interesting keyword. It's not flexible, it's not got any potential design space, more than anything it's just a boring and bad version of taunt. I do not like the pet keyword, not at all. Keywords can mean so many potential different things depending on the cards they're on, and how singular this keyword is is mundane. Hemet's Petting Zoo itself could be interesting with good flavor but I'm not feeling it so far. Going into the second expansion, Fate's fine, there's some design space for it and it fits the expansion, though I'm starting to think you've rushed through all this a bit. The presentation for your cards isn't great and the actual cards are similar. Veteran Tracker is missing capitalization and is literally just using the Tracking art. Tactical Retreat is a great card that utilizes your rotation of Divine Favor well. The terrain cards aren't very aesthetically pleasing, I once again think you could have spent more time and precision with this. Regardless I do feel that the terrain should last for a set amount of turns and shouldn't be countered by enemies playing terrains. Having it last infinitely is insane value that forces people into playing terrains, and playing a really expensive terrain that goes away immediately isn't fun.
CheeseETC's Year of the Scorpion
First set is good. The factions are alright and I don't really have a lot to say about it other than I'm fond. Could open up a lot of interesting new decks. I'm not fond of the second set at all. Dividing things into a bunch of guys who generate resource and then a bunch of things that need resource is parasitic and hard to manage before you even account for the fact that the things that take your resource take up board slots. It's hard to manage in a simple manner, simple being one of Hearthstone's core themes, and it feels more like a nostalgia trip than a fun or functional expansion. Don't want to include more than 4 buildings in my deck because I don't want to ever collect dead buildings in my hand but then I want to have enough resource to play them otherwise they're just dead anyway so better distribute a bunch of resource gatherer's into my deck. Draw dependency is rampant here. In comparison I really like recipes. They're flavorful and quite similar to buildings in that they're permanent benefits except way more interesting and better because they don't take a parasitic new resource to exist, you just need to fulfill certain conditions to repeat effects. I certainly wouldn't include both buildings and recipes into the year, in my eyes one's just better than the other. I will say though, the way you've formatted the recipe card is stylish and cool but I think you might have to change it unless you don't want to write much on the cards. Small Drink is the epitome of a common of the effect with literally three words and then a basic condition, yet it ended up with 4 lines. How are you going to make Epic recipes?
Shatterstar1998 and Demonxz95's Year of the Dragon
Year of the Dragon sounds generic but whatever. Nightmare on the Nether is cool, though you could go over what makes the actual expansion itself interesting a little more, because I didn't really see anything about the expansion itself in the cards. I just got the context of the area and how it has a bunch of tribal minions. Legacy could be cool but King Arthur feels like a really bad way of showing it off. If I play three cards in a turn I get to change the Health of all minions to 1! Oh wait they've already all got 1 Health because I played the card. I'll wait till next turn and THEN use his effect. Alright, there, my opponent's played some new minions, now I can use his Legacy. Oh actually I think I'll just trade him in, that seems more efficient because I don't want to set my minions Health to 1. Why does Legacy feel so much like a redundant extra on the Legacy showcase card? Prince Charming well... I don't like him. How is he a start of game support card and how was he supposed to show off how each class is getting a start of game card? Wouldn't showing off a start of game card be more helpful for that? Why do I care about drawing my start of game cards, that's not what's interesting about those cards, the interesting part already happened. At the start of the game. Because it's a start of game card. Sure it thins my deck and I can play it to get like a 9 mana 7/8 body but that's hardly that supportive. Prince Charming just feels like a Curator card you made because you've got some new keywords. It's not got nearly as much connection between the themes as The Curator nor its Witchwood counterpart. It's boring. Caverns of Time seems alright, I like Future Strike, it's a very nice card. Temporary dormant cards are something I've seen a lot, in fact my favorite version of them I've seen was from DKPaladinMDL's Caverns of Time expansion that he finished some time ago. I feel like the showcase card you chose for it wasn't that interesting. In general I kinda wish there was more you were showing in your year, I've not been able to criticize a lot because I've not got a good grip on the expansions. Nether on the Nightmare will be dark and have demons and dragons and stuff as well as an effect that exists already. Once upon a Time will have legacy but you haven't provided a good example of a legacy card and start of game cards for every class but you haven't shown a start of game card. Caverns of Time has future stuff that could be quite cool, I'm fond of that, as well as collectible temporary permanents which are nice. I don't know, I just think your presentation was lacking with ideas that have already been explored a lot.
ThisOtherGuyTox, Cogito and Otovent's Year of the Chimera
Stitched cards could be cool, the one presented is simple and gives a good idea of what to expect, and I think I remember Tox talking about the choose one at the start of the game thing some time before and I've quite liked it as an idea. Border Patrol is also a nice simple idea for showing off how things are. Can't really see any faults so far, things look good. Weathers seem fine. I'd like to see cards that benefit off of weathers but it's understandable not to considering you only had two cards to show which did well to establish the flavor. Because I don't want to get through 2 sets without at least suggesting something I want to put in a personal request for you guys to include my favorite pokemon ludicolo in there somewhere, maybe something like this.
You don't have to call him Ludicolo or anything just please man I love ludicolo so much you'd be doing a great service for my family. Script is flavorful and quite nice, it's reminiscent of the new card type thing introduced to Magic recentlyish. I love the flavor of the set as a whole and I'm sorry that the new expansion kinda takes away some of the uniqueness of the set. In general this set seems the most refined so far... Suspiciously so. Gosh dang the mods and their ability to prepare three sets with unique flavor and keywords in a space longer than two weeks we need a revolution around here or something. For real though, looking forward to seeing the third set the most so if you go out before then I'll be angry. Good luck.
WaterwaIker's Year of the holy shit I'm only 8 submissions through this is taking so long I'm gonna end it all also why is your name spelled with a capital i rather than an l what Hydra
Starting off, Lights, Cards, Action! is gonna be a set I greatly look forward to. Great humor, very light, all good with me. Van Hellscream is a really nice card with a cool effect, though he honestly feels absurdly strong. He's got a really well statted 5 mana body for 6 that replaces your hero power with one that's worth about 2 mana, which is nuts. That said it obviously carries the downside of not working with Deathstalker Rexxar which you'd probably want to play in a more control focused Hunter so I imagine it's fine but it's certainly stronger than most hero power upgrade cards. I don't like Mildly Annoyed Max, punishing your opponent for not playing on curve isn't that fun for them, and if they do play on curve this is just a 5 mana 5/3 which isn't very fun for you. In general it kinda just doesn't feel like a fun card. Alleria Windrunner is fun but honestly I don't think trample is a good idea. Hearthstone's been existing for a while under the idea that trample isn't a thing so as you might expect stuff like Arcane Channeler suddenly being added can cause problems. What kind of problems? Problems of Meteoric proportions is what. For the next expansion, Marsh Seer is massively unfun as it can ruin so many decks. Oh, it appears I've discovered my opponents C'Thun/N'Zoth/Bloodreaver Gul'Dan/Emeriss/Alexstraza/BigGamechangingMinion/Yogg'Saron. Guess they lose. Also go to my Year of the Lion and/or Year of the Frog reviews for my stance on Tyr. I would include this in every deck because it's free consistency. I don't need to actually draw the card or use it, nor do I have to gimp my deck, yet I get benefits.
Dropdead's Year of the Manticore
Transforming effects already fulfill the purpose of Banish elegantly, include more transform cards rather than adding in a new yet redundant keyword. It might fit in the game better if Hearthstone had an actual graveyard and not a pool of cards being tracked for Big Priests sake, but as of right now it's just taking an effect that shows up in every card game with a graveyard and putting it into a game without one. If you're in Shadowform is a terrible idea that gets passed around a lot, can't wait to get this card in a pack when I don't actually own that epic card from the classic set. Oh well I guess I could still use it as a 6 mana deal 5 spell, fantastic. For 6 mana couldn't it just banish the minion regardless of anything else? Priest already got Entomb why is this a card? Your location card is okay. I think you should have done a better job showing off themes of the expansions because some of the cards just feel irrelevant to showing the actual expansion off. Yeah Hogger's Faithful is a pretty cool card but what does it tell me about the expansion?
Phoenixfeather's Year of the Phoenix
First expansion seems alright. Soulcast is nice, Elusive is Elusive. Rise from the Grave is a cool card that does well to show off the expansion. Apatheia's one of the least interesting ways of adding neutral decks theoretically possible. The thing is, I like the idea of neutral decks, but I think a game like Shadowverse is a game that could show you a good way of going about implementing neutral synergy. Rewarding you for having disproportionate amounts of neutral cards over only running them. Running decks without spells, only minions, with no class identity, very few interesting gimmicks and such is just uninteresting. What makes the matches involving this lady more uninteresting than most? Well let me briefly say why I like Elusive. It does well in countering an enemy who relies on spells to counter minions by making it harder to deal with your elusive minions, yet it doesn't make half their deck pointless because I still have the rest of my deck to go through and it's not like they're ALL going to be Elusive so they can just use their spells on those ones! Oh wait, my entire deck IS Elusive, guess my opponents hand is just filled with dead cards now. Boy, this game of minions slapping into eachother and nothing else sure is interesting. At least AoE's still exist. Second expansion is a lot better, love Solais, it's a great weapon with good flavor. Deus Ex Machina is also good flavor and a cool card. I don't know how much I like the return of Inspire but I don't hate it. Burn is a keyword that belongs in a class and not an expansion. Removing the top one or two cards of your deck is widely irrelevant outside of decks that go to fatigue because they're exceptionally slow, are running Aluneth or rely on specific cards like C'Thun and sometimes they're on the bottom and have to dig deep. The rare cases in which removing the top card of your deck is used as a downside do so in a way where it's escalated to the point where your deck might be shredded in seconds like with Fel Reaver. Being able to include a few cards that have above average power level in exchange for burn just means I'm running cards which are too good at no extra cost.
Vilegloom's Year of the Ram
I've been really indecisive of your stuff. I don't know what it is about it. Regardless I don't trust myself to force a review on this because I don't have an opinion of it really. I'm not trying to wuss out I swear, it's just that my input would be redundant. Take that all as you like.
ShadowsOfSense's Year of the Serpent
I don't like Ambush. I remember Phoenix explored it's potential some time before with Impulse and cards which manipulate how you draw it that makes it more skilled but even then it's still the "Did you topdeck this" keyword. It's good flavor and I'm happy about its use with Cephalopirate due to it not being objectively better, but I don't really like it. Explore is a nice keyword, one thing I think a lot of people make mistakes with while making Hearthstone cards is creating cards that give information for the sake of information, yet this uses it practically. Well, at least in the case of Murloc Pathfinder. If all the Explore cards will be like that, I'm very happy with it. If you make cards which just Explore and nothing else, I'll be sad. That's just not very Hearthstone. One thing of note, with both Ambush and Explore existing, deck manipulation better exist, it just makes them both so much better. Revenant is a keyword that feels nice due to how Undead synergy works, I like it. Mount is nice but obviously unfortunately timed due to Magnetic. Flanked is nice also, no real criticisms.
Teknician's Year of the
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Aaro54's Year of the Mech
You know my opinion on your shit man go ask me things in the Discord or something
Soulbattle's Year of the
Wailor's Year of the
NOVEX0R's Year of the
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LarryMoments' Year of the
TheProjenitor's Year of the
Regarding Pet: You could easily say the same about Jaraxxus and Hero cards. I would very much prefer the Pets to be their own card type like hero has but I'm not a photo shop master. As I've said in the last discussion (I understand you probably didn't see that) My intention with the Pets is to explore what can be done with the Bolf Mechanic. Hopefully the two I showed did that. A Bolf effect with a divine shield is quite interesting imo as is the possibility of reviving the Bolf effect with Alar. They're more like charms that pop up on the board to block damage as opposed to Bolf that was supposed to have survivability. It isn't intended to carry that expansion it's just going to be one card for each hero.
Good spot with the tracking art I do this all on my phone including playig hearthstone so I haven't really made out the art. Ofcourse that can be changed. No idea how I missed the capitalisation too. Hopefully you can appreciate that doing this on my phone adds a layer of difficulty to my design even the typing.
I will think on what you've said about Terrain because it was something I was starting to realise when I was toying with the possibility of legendary terrain cards. It won't be fun to see them cancelled out. I really wanted to capture the idea of a battle for control of the terrain so I would like some interactivity for the opponent. I will have a good think on this.
Overall you are right I did do my designs quite quickly but this is a hobby not a job. I am a man with a job and other commitments please forgive me for not having gone all out in the first phase. I just thought I'd use it as a concept submission before getting carried away over something people didn't enjoy which unfortunately I have done before.
Now I see that so many people saw potential in my ideas I am committed to putting out a quality expansion for phase 2.
Gonna do a brief look at all the guys who passed and give my opinions. Can't be bothered to talk about Hall of Fame choices unless they're relevant to any of the cards.
DISCLAIMER: I am in such intense fear of accidentally refreshing the page that I've decided to post this and edit it to completion. The rest will be done in some amount of time.
Doctor Whoops' Year of the Frog
Right off the bat, the sets are quite diverse and well presented. The Infiltrate keyword is nice, I imagine there's quite a lot of potential design space for it and it only makes sense. Feed is already easy to imagine in-game because it's already in the game and Surface Hunter is a fine card to show off. Those two keywords are fine, but you've walked into an issue Tek found himself in while working on Treasures, which was why the inclusion of the Sandy Shores card was made. Essentially, if the Guest cards included in your deck actually count against card count without any chance of actually being drawn, then what you effectively have is a deck that has less cards in it. The vast majority of decks in the game would take a 28 card, 26 card, 24 card etc deck over a 30 card one if that was freely available. It's just more consistent, and there's absolutely no reason not to do it. This would lead to players using Guests purely as cards to lower deck sizes rather than making actual Guest decks.
The Guest keyword is very interesting thematically and I like the flavor of the Stormwind City set the most, so I'd like to see it still, I just think it should be reworked maybe in a similar way to Treasures. Of course, there's also the chance that I've misinterpreted the keyword and missed something like an idiot, so I'm sorry if that's the case. Overall I can definitely see why this was the most highly voted set, but I think Guest is a genuinely big issue.
Linkblade91's Year of the Kodo
The flavor for the first set is fantastic, I'm quite fond of the Burdens. They're a way of introducing massive changes to a deck that remain simple. I do feel like The Vigilant Crusader could be made more simple with just one keyword, the textbox is getting a little packed there, but with how much that would impact you don't need to worry too much. The cards showcased for the War of Sea and Sky could have been better. Though I like the idea of the expansion, I'm indifferent with Terror Drake, kinda unsure how it has Stealth thematically, but I dislike the Naga Siren. What you've said about the Naga is that they provide benefit to the 'Biggest' Naga in terms of Attack, Health or Cost, so a card with "The Naga with the highest X has..." should be a common occurrence. Despite that, the first Naga you show is a 5/5 that does that with Taunt which is Epic. That sounds more like a Common and it doesn't really show what the potential of the Naga's tribal shenanigans could be. It doesn't feel too different from a 5 mana 5/5 Taunt, and feels so boring and bad considering giving minions taunt isn't really valued very highly. Metal and Mayhem seems nice, the flavor's good. Encore is a great keyword, I like it a lot. Power Up is a little more meh, kinda odd to revisit spare parts in general. The cards you showcased are good for them, with Spirit Bouncer showing off some fantastic possible synergy with Encore effects off the bat by allowing its effect to be used by a much bigger minion, and Treant Harvester being flavorful and useful.
Overall, all three sets are very good but I'd really like to see the potential of the Naga tribe and the Challenge keyword.
KingKuba's Year of the Lion
I felt quite happy looking through all of this. I'm not generally going to talk about the people behind the cards that much in these reviews but you seem like the kind of person who's quite new to making custom cards but has some really good ideas. What I mean by that is that you've got some really fantastic concepts here among some simple mistakes and I'm excited to see this set potentially flourishing. Obviously the place to start with is Storage, which I think is a potential UI nightmare and unsure on how good it is CURRENTLY, but it has some serious potential. I think you should go over a brief summary of how you use Storage cards during deckbuilding and through that find a way to include as many copies of Storage cards as you want so I can run a warehouse deck (that's only 30% a joke) and I'd love this keyword and the set. I love the flavor behind all the sets by the way, just wanted to go over Storage first. Then I'm going to go onto the third expansion for a reason that'll be obvious soon after. I like the flavor of this set the most, it's quite light and jovial. Rent could have a lot of potential as a keyword, especially if you throw some Rent (1 turn) cards in there, which could be quite interesting for designs. I dislike Buyout however, it doesn't feel like it has too much of a purpose. Making a way of keeping your Rent minions feels uninteresting more than anything else as well as quite parasitic. I think just having the Rent cards is preferable. Right, set 2 is the one I have the most problems with by far. The faction mechanic just isn't interesting, it's just a tribe that locks you out of playing certain cards. The two cards you've showcased aren't doing it any favors either. Garona Halforcen is a legendary class tech card, which you really want to avoid. The general issue with that is that legendary cards, especially class cards, are cards that you put into your deck to promote an archetype in an interesting or powerful way. Tech cards are cards you use to counter OTHER archetypes. It's straight up just an overpowered assassinate with a body in most cases and that's not the reason why I dislike it. She doesn't do anything to help your Horde deck, she just might do something against Alliance minions with Deathrattles. That's probably not many cards. Othmar Garithos is far and beyond the most overpowered card in the game. He's an autoinclude in every paladin deck due to the way purely positive Start of Game cards work. When you don't actually have to draw the card nor use the card, it just provides a benefit to your deck unconditionally at the start of the game, the card shouldn't be printed. You don't even have to account for the technical risk of drawing this minion which is understatted in comparison to almost all the other broken start of game cards that people have made, it's an Alliance minion, it just draws itself at no cost when the game begins, as well as whatever other Alliance card you put in there is. I'd suggest a complete rework of the second expansion but if you don't want to do that at least just fix those two cards up. Sorry the review got negative towards the end, it's just that your first and third sets are on completely different levels to your second. I genuinely meant what I said about the year having some serious potential and I look forward to seeing what you make.
Tomerick88's Year of the Butterfly
I'm going to be blunt...
That is not an interesting keyword. It's not flexible, it's not got any potential design space, more than anything it's just a boring and bad version of taunt. I do not like the pet keyword, not at all. Keywords can mean so many potential different things depending on the cards they're on, and how singular this keyword is is mundane. Hemet's Petting Zoo itself could be interesting with good flavor but I'm not feeling it so far. Going into the second expansion, Fate's fine, there's some design space for it and it fits the expansion, though I'm starting to think you've rushed through all this a bit. The presentation for your cards isn't great and the actual cards are similar. Veteran Tracker is missing capitalization and is literally just using the Tracking art. Tactical Retreat is a great card that utilizes your rotation of Divine Favor well. The terrain cards aren't very aesthetically pleasing, I once again think you could have spent more time and precision with this. Regardless I do feel that the terrain should last for a set amount of turns and shouldn't be countered by enemies playing terrains. Having it last infinitely is insane value that forces people into playing terrains, and playing a really expensive terrain that goes away immediately isn't fun.
CheeseETC's Year of the Scorpion
First set is good. The factions are alright and I don't really have a lot to say about it other than I'm fond. Could open up a lot of interesting new decks. I'm not fond of the second set at all. Dividing things into a bunch of guys who generate resource and then a bunch of things that need resource is parasitic and hard to manage before you even account for the fact that the things that take your resource take up board slots. It's hard to manage in a simple manner, simple being one of Hearthstone's core themes, and it feels more like a nostalgia trip than a fun or functional expansion. Don't want to include more than 4 buildings in my deck because I don't want to ever collect dead buildings in my hand but then I want to have enough resource to play them otherwise they're just dead anyway so better distribute a bunch of resource gatherer's into my deck. Draw dependency is rampant here. In comparison I really like recipes. They're flavorful and quite similar to buildings in that they're permanent benefits except way more interesting and better because they don't take a parasitic new resource to exist, you just need to fulfill certain conditions to repeat effects. I certainly wouldn't include both buildings and recipes into the year, in my eyes one's just better than the other. I will say though, the way you've formatted the recipe card is stylish and cool but I think you might have to change it unless you don't want to write much on the cards. Small Drink is the epitome of a common of the effect with literally three words and then a basic condition, yet it ended up with 4 lines. How are you going to make Epic recipes?
Shatterstar1998 and Demonxz95's Year of the Dragon
Year of the Dragon sounds generic but whatever. Nightmare on the Nether is cool, though you could go over what makes the actual expansion itself interesting a little more, because I didn't really see anything about the expansion itself in the cards. I just got the context of the area and how it has a bunch of tribal minions. Legacy could be cool but King Arthur feels like a really bad way of showing it off. If I play three cards in a turn I get to change the Health of all minions to 1! Oh wait they've already all got 1 Health because I played the card. I'll wait till next turn and THEN use his effect. Alright, there, my opponent's played some new minions, now I can use his Legacy. Oh actually I think I'll just trade him in, that seems more efficient because I don't want to set my minions Health to 1. Why does Legacy feel so much like a redundant extra on the Legacy showcase card? Prince Charming well... I don't like him. How is he a start of game support card and how was he supposed to show off how each class is getting a start of game card? Wouldn't showing off a start of game card be more helpful for that? Why do I care about drawing my start of game cards, that's not what's interesting about those cards, the interesting part already happened. At the start of the game. Because it's a start of game card. Sure it thins my deck and I can play it to get like a 9 mana 7/8 body but that's hardly that supportive. Prince Charming just feels like a Curator card you made because you've got some new keywords. It's not got nearly as much connection between the themes as The Curator nor its Witchwood counterpart. It's boring. Caverns of Time seems alright, I like Future Strike, it's a very nice card. Temporary dormant cards are something I've seen a lot, in fact my favorite version of them I've seen was from DKPaladinMDL's Caverns of Time expansion that he finished some time ago. I feel like the showcase card you chose for it wasn't that interesting. In general I kinda wish there was more you were showing in your year, I've not been able to criticize a lot because I've not got a good grip on the expansions. Nether on the Nightmare will be dark and have demons and dragons and stuff as well as an effect that exists already. Once upon a Time will have legacy but you haven't provided a good example of a legacy card and start of game cards for every class but you haven't shown a start of game card. Caverns of Time has future stuff that could be quite cool, I'm fond of that, as well as collectible temporary permanents which are nice. I don't know, I just think your presentation was lacking with ideas that have already been explored a lot.
ThisOtherGuyTox, Cogito and Otovent's Year of the Chimera
Stitched cards could be cool, the one presented is simple and gives a good idea of what to expect, and I think I remember Tox talking about the choose one at the start of the game thing some time before and I've quite liked it as an idea. Border Patrol is also a nice simple idea for showing off how things are. Can't really see any faults so far, things look good. Weathers seem fine. I'd like to see cards that benefit off of weathers but it's understandable not to considering you only had two cards to show which did well to establish the flavor. Because I don't want to get through 2 sets without at least suggesting something I want to put in a personal request for you guys to include my favorite pokemon ludicolo in there somewhere, maybe something like this.
You don't have to call him Ludicolo or anything just please man I love ludicolo so much you'd be doing a great service for my family. Script is flavorful and quite nice, it's reminiscent of the new card type thing introduced to Magic recentlyish. I love the flavor of the set as a whole and I'm sorry that the new expansion kinda takes away some of the uniqueness of the set. In general this set seems the most refined so far... Suspiciously so. Gosh dang the mods and their ability to prepare three sets with unique flavor and keywords in a space longer than two weeks we need a revolution around here or something. For real though, looking forward to seeing the third set the most so if you go out before then I'll be angry. Good luck.
WaterwaIker's Year of the holy shit I'm only 8 submissions through this is taking so long I'm gonna end it all also why is your name spelled with a capital i rather than an l what Hydra
Starting off, Lights, Cards, Action! is gonna be a set I greatly look forward to. Great humor, very light, all good with me. Van Hellscream is a really nice card with a cool effect, though he honestly feels absurdly strong. He's got a really well statted 5 mana body for 6 that replaces your hero power with one that's worth about 2 mana, which is nuts. That said it obviously carries the downside of not working with Deathstalker Rexxar which you'd probably want to play in a more control focused Hunter so I imagine it's fine but it's certainly stronger than most hero power upgrade cards. I don't like Mildly Annoyed Max, punishing your opponent for not playing on curve isn't that fun for them, and if they do play on curve this is just a 5 mana 5/3 which isn't very fun for you. In general it kinda just doesn't feel like a fun card. Alleria Windrunner is fun but honestly I don't think trample is a good idea. Hearthstone's been existing for a while under the idea that trample isn't a thing so as you might expect stuff like Arcane Channeler suddenly being added can cause problems. What kind of problems? Problems of Meteoric proportions is what. For the next expansion, Marsh Seer is massively unfun as it can ruin so many decks. Oh, it appears I've discovered my opponents C'Thun/N'Zoth/Bloodreaver Gul'Dan/Emeriss/Alexstraza/BigGamechangingMinion/Yogg'Saron. Guess they lose. Also go to my Year of the Lion and/or Year of the Frog reviews for my stance on Tyr. I would include this in every deck because it's free consistency. I don't need to actually draw the card or use it, nor do I have to gimp my deck, yet I get benefits.
Dropdead's Year of the Manticore
Transforming effects already fulfill the purpose of Banish elegantly, include more transform cards rather than adding in a new yet redundant keyword. It might fit in the game better if Hearthstone had an actual graveyard and not a pool of cards being tracked for Big Priests sake, but as of right now it's just taking an effect that shows up in every card game with a graveyard and putting it into a game without one. If you're in Shadowform is a terrible idea that gets passed around a lot, can't wait to get this card in a pack when I don't actually own that epic card from the classic set. Oh well I guess I could still use it as a 6 mana deal 5 spell, fantastic. For 6 mana couldn't it just banish the minion regardless of anything else? Priest already got Entomb why is this a card? Your location card is okay. I think you should have done a better job showing off themes of the expansions because some of the cards just feel irrelevant to showing the actual expansion off. Yeah Hogger's Faithful is a pretty cool card but what does it tell me about the expansion?
Phoenixfeather's Year of the Phoenix
First expansion seems alright. Soulcast is nice, Elusive is Elusive. Rise from the Grave is a cool card that does well to show off the expansion. Apatheia's one of the least interesting ways of adding neutral decks theoretically possible. The thing is, I like the idea of neutral decks, but I think a game like Shadowverse is a game that could show you a good way of going about implementing neutral synergy. Rewarding you for having disproportionate amounts of neutral cards over only running them. Running decks without spells, only minions, with no class identity, very few interesting gimmicks and such is just uninteresting. What makes the matches involving this lady more uninteresting than most? Well let me briefly say why I like Elusive. It does well in countering an enemy who relies on spells to counter minions by making it harder to deal with your elusive minions, yet it doesn't make half their deck pointless because I still have the rest of my deck to go through and it's not like they're ALL going to be Elusive so they can just use their spells on those ones! Oh wait, my entire deck IS Elusive, guess my opponents hand is just filled with dead cards now. Boy, this game of minions slapping into eachother and nothing else sure is interesting. At least AoE's still exist. Second expansion is a lot better, love Solais, it's a great weapon with good flavor. Deus Ex Machina is also good flavor and a cool card. I don't know how much I like the return of Inspire but I don't hate it. Burn is a keyword that belongs in a class and not an expansion. Removing the top one or two cards of your deck is widely irrelevant outside of decks that go to fatigue because they're exceptionally slow, are running Aluneth or rely on specific cards like C'Thun and sometimes they're on the bottom and have to dig deep. The rare cases in which removing the top card of your deck is used as a downside do so in a way where it's escalated to the point where your deck might be shredded in seconds like with Fel Reaver. Being able to include a few cards that have above average power level in exchange for burn just means I'm running cards which are too good at no extra cost.
Vilegloom's Year of the Ram
I've been really indecisive of your stuff. I don't know what it is about it. Regardless I don't trust myself to force a review on this because I don't have an opinion of it really. I'm not trying to wuss out I swear, it's just that my input would be redundant. Take that all as you like.
ShadowsOfSense's Year of the Serpent
I don't like Ambush. I remember Phoenix explored it's potential some time before with Impulse and cards which manipulate how you draw it that makes it more skilled but even then it's still the "Did you topdeck this" keyword. It's good flavor and I'm happy about its use with Cephalopirate due to it not being objectively better, but I don't really like it. Explore is a nice keyword, one thing I think a lot of people make mistakes with while making Hearthstone cards is creating cards that give information for the sake of information, yet this uses it practically. Well, at least in the case of Murloc Pathfinder. If all the Explore cards will be like that, I'm very happy with it. If you make cards which just Explore and nothing else, I'll be sad. That's just not very Hearthstone. One thing of note, with both Ambush and Explore existing, deck manipulation better exist, it just makes them both so much better. Revenant is a keyword that feels nice due to how Undead synergy works, I like it. Mount is nice but obviously unfortunately timed due to Magnetic. Flanked is nice also, no real criticisms.
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Aaro54's Year of the Mech
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TheProjenitor's Year of the
Regarding Pet: You could easily say the same about Jaraxxus and Hero cards. I would very much prefer the Pets to be their own card type like hero has but I'm not a photo shop master. As I've said in the last discussion (I understand you probably didn't see that) My intention with the Pets is to explore what can be done with the Bolf Mechanic. Hopefully the two I showed did that. A Bolf effect with a divine shield is quite interesting imo as is the possibility of reviving the Bolf effect with Alar. They're more like charms that pop up on the board to block damage as opposed to Bolf that was supposed to have survivability. It isn't intended to carry that expansion it's just going to be one card for each hero.
Good spot with the tracking art I do this all on my phone including playig hearthstone so I haven't really made out the art. Ofcourse that can be changed. No idea how I missed the capitalisation too. Hopefully you can appreciate that doing this on my phone adds a layer of difficulty to my design even the typing.
I will think on what you've said about Terrain because it was something I was starting to realise when I was toying with the possibility of legendary terrain cards. It won't be fun to see them cancelled out. I really wanted to capture the idea of a battle for control of the terrain so I would like some interactivity for the opponent. I will have a good think on this.
Overall you are right I did do my designs quite quickly but this is a hobby not a job. I am a man with a job and other commitments please forgive me for not having gone all out in the first phase. I just thought I'd use it as a concept submission before getting carried away over something people didn't enjoy which unfortunately I have done before.
Now I see that so many people saw potential in my ideas I am committed to putting out a quality expansion for phase 2.
I'm quite confused now. I definitely agree that the cards you've shown are more interesting than Bolf, but I'm not sure what you mean when you say they would ideally have their own card type nor how you could say the same for Hero cards. I didn't see the previous discussions, I apologize as I won't have much context on them. I'll try and be more present in the discussions from here on out I just wanted to avoid the first phase ones.
Don't worry, I can appreciate the mistakes and that you've got work to do. We all make mistakes, pretty sure I've made more neutral weapons accidentally than class ones. It's just when compared to a lot of the other posts that went through yours seemed a lot more rough, and if you invest more time to make sure everything's nice and shiny next time I'll have no issues.
Gonna do a brief look at all the guys who passed and give my opinions. Can't be bothered to talk about Hall of Fame choices unless they're relevant to any of the cards.
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Linkblade91's Year of the Kodo
The flavor for the first set is fantastic, I'm quite fond of the Burdens. They're a way of introducing massive changes to a deck that remain simple. I do feel like The Vigilant Crusader could be made more simple with just one keyword, the textbox is getting a little packed there, but with how much that would impact you don't need to worry too much. The cards showcased for the War of Sea and Sky could have been better. Though I like the idea of the expansion, I'm indifferent with Terror Drake, kinda unsure how it has Stealth thematically, but I dislike the Naga Siren. What you've said about the Naga is that they provide benefit to the 'Biggest' Naga in terms of Attack, Health or Cost, so a card with "The Naga with the highest X has..." should be a common occurrence. Despite that, the first Naga you show is a 5/5 that does that with Taunt which is Epic. That sounds more like a Common and it doesn't really show what the potential of the Naga's tribal shenanigans could be. It doesn't feel too different from a 5 mana 5/5 Taunt, and feels so boring and bad considering giving minions taunt isn't really valued very highly. Metal and Mayhem seems nice, the flavor's good. Encore is a great keyword, I like it a lot. Power Up is a little more meh, kinda odd to revisit spare parts in general. The cards you showcased are good for them, with Spirit Bouncer showing off some fantastic possible synergy with Encore effects off the bat by allowing its effect to be used by a much bigger minion, and Treant Harvester being flavorful and useful.
Overall, all three sets are very good but I'd really like to see the potential of the Naga tribe and the Challenge keyword.
Thanks for the feedback; mass-replies are always a large undertaking haha. I agree in-that my middle expansion is kind of my nadir: I'm heavily invested in The Trials Within Us and very proud of it, and I'm pretty hyped on the flavor for Metal & Mayhem! ...that leaves War of Sea and Sky, which came about when I took two separate expansion-ideas and smashed them together. I figured that Dragons would be a common flavor, and Naga/undersea terrors might be a common flavor, but pitting them against each other could be unique. If it feels "forced" that's because it is lel
Lots to do to make it better...but first things first ^_^
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I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
Gonna do a brief look at all the guys who passed and give my opinions. Can't be bothered to talk about Hall of Fame choices unless they're relevant to any of the cards.
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Doctor Whoops' Year of the Frog
Right off the bat, the sets are quite diverse and well presented. The Infiltrate keyword is nice, I imagine there's quite a lot of potential design space for it and it only makes sense. Feed is already easy to imagine in-game because it's already in the game and Surface Hunter is a fine card to show off. Those two keywords are fine, but you've walked into an issue Tek found himself in while working on Treasures, which was why the inclusion of the Sandy Shores card was made. Essentially, if the Guest cards included in your deck actually count against card count without any chance of actually being drawn, then what you effectively have is a deck that has less cards in it. The vast majority of decks in the game would take a 28 card, 26 card, 24 card etc deck over a 30 card one if that was freely available. It's just more consistent, and there's absolutely no reason not to do it. This would lead to players using Guests purely as cards to lower deck sizes rather than making actual Guest decks.
The Guest keyword is very interesting thematically and I like the flavor of the Stormwind City set the most, so I'd like to see it still, I just think it should be reworked maybe in a similar way to Treasures. Of course, there's also the chance that I've misinterpreted the keyword and missed something like an idiot, so I'm sorry if that's the case. Overall I can definitely see why this was the most highly voted set, but I think Guest is a genuinely big issue.
Linkblade91's Year of the Kodo
The flavor for the first set is fantastic, I'm quite fond of the Burdens. They're a way of introducing massive changes to a deck that remain simple. I do feel like The Vigilant Crusader could be made more simple with just one keyword, the textbox is getting a little packed there, but with how much that would impact you don't need to worry too much. The cards showcased for the War of Sea and Sky could have been better. Though I like the idea of the expansion, I'm indifferent with Terror Drake, kinda unsure how it has Stealth thematically, but I dislike the Naga Siren. What you've said about the Naga is that they provide benefit to the 'Biggest' Naga in terms of Attack, Health or Cost, so a card with "The Naga with the highest X has..." should be a common occurrence. Despite that, the first Naga you show is a 5/5 that does that with Taunt which is Epic. That sounds more like a Common and it doesn't really show what the potential of the Naga's tribal shenanigans could be. It doesn't feel too different from a 5 mana 5/5 Taunt, and feels so boring and bad considering giving minions taunt isn't really valued very highly. Metal and Mayhem seems nice, the flavor's good. Encore is a great keyword, I like it a lot. Power Up is a little more meh, kinda odd to revisit spare parts in general. The cards you showcased are good for them, with Spirit Bouncer showing off some fantastic possible synergy with Encore effects off the bat by allowing its effect to be used by a much bigger minion, and Treant Harvester being flavorful and useful.
Overall, all three sets are very good but I'd really like to see the potential of the Naga tribe and the Challenge keyword.
KingKuba's Year of the Lion
I felt quite happy looking through all of this. I'm not generally going to talk about the people behind the cards that much in these reviews but you seem like the kind of person who's quite new to making custom cards but has some really good ideas. What I mean by that is that you've got some really fantastic concepts here among some simple mistakes and I'm excited to see this set potentially flourishing. Obviously the place to start with is Storage, which I think is a potential UI nightmare and unsure on how good it is CURRENTLY, but it has some serious potential. I think you should go over a brief summary of how you use Storage cards during deckbuilding and through that find a way to include as many copies of Storage cards as you want so I can run a warehouse deck (that's only 30% a joke) and I'd love this keyword and the set. I love the flavor behind all the sets by the way, just wanted to go over Storage first. Then I'm going to go onto the third expansion for a reason that'll be obvious soon after. I like the flavor of this set the most, it's quite light and jovial. Rent could have a lot of potential as a keyword, especially if you throw some Rent (1 turn) cards in there, which could be quite interesting for designs. I dislike Buyout however, it doesn't feel like it has too much of a purpose. Making a way of keeping your Rent minions feels uninteresting more than anything else as well as quite parasitic. I think just having the Rent cards is preferable. Right, set 2 is the one I have the most problems with by far. The faction mechanic just isn't interesting, it's just a tribe that locks you out of playing certain cards. The two cards you've showcased aren't doing it any favors either. Garona Halforcen is a legendary class tech card, which you really want to avoid. The general issue with that is that legendary cards, especially class cards, are cards that you put into your deck to promote an archetype in an interesting or powerful way. Tech cards are cards you use to counter OTHER archetypes. It's straight up just an overpowered assassinate with a body in most cases and that's not the reason why I dislike it. She doesn't do anything to help your Horde deck, she just might do something against Alliance minions with Deathrattles. That's probably not many cards. Othmar Garithos is far and beyond the most overpowered card in the game. He's an autoinclude in every paladin deck due to the way purely positive Start of Game cards work. When you don't actually have to draw the card nor use the card, it just provides a benefit to your deck unconditionally at the start of the game, the card shouldn't be printed. You don't even have to account for the technical risk of drawing this minion which is understatted in comparison to almost all the other broken start of game cards that people have made, it's an Alliance minion, it just draws itself at no cost when the game begins, as well as whatever other Alliance card you put in there is. I'd suggest a complete rework of the second expansion but if you don't want to do that at least just fix those two cards up. Sorry the review got negative towards the end, it's just that your first and third sets are on completely different levels to your second. I genuinely meant what I said about the year having some serious potential and I look forward to seeing what you make.
Tomerick88's Year of the Butterfly
I'm going to be blunt...
That is not an interesting keyword. It's not flexible, it's not got any potential design space, more than anything it's just a boring and bad version of taunt. I do not like the pet keyword, not at all. Keywords can mean so many potential different things depending on the cards they're on, and how singular this keyword is is mundane. Hemet's Petting Zoo itself could be interesting with good flavor but I'm not feeling it so far. Going into the second expansion, Fate's fine, there's some design space for it and it fits the expansion, though I'm starting to think you've rushed through all this a bit. The presentation for your cards isn't great and the actual cards are similar. Veteran Tracker is missing capitalization and is literally just using the Tracking art. Tactical Retreat is a great card that utilizes your rotation of Divine Favor well. The terrain cards aren't very aesthetically pleasing, I once again think you could have spent more time and precision with this. Regardless I do feel that the terrain should last for a set amount of turns and shouldn't be countered by enemies playing terrains. Having it last infinitely is insane value that forces people into playing terrains, and playing a really expensive terrain that goes away immediately isn't fun.
CheeseETC's Year of the Scorpion
First set is good. The factions are alright and I don't really have a lot to say about it other than I'm fond. Could open up a lot of interesting new decks. I'm not fond of the second set at all. Dividing things into a bunch of guys who generate resource and then a bunch of things that need resource is parasitic and hard to manage before you even account for the fact that the things that take your resource take up board slots. It's hard to manage in a simple manner, simple being one of Hearthstone's core themes, and it feels more like a nostalgia trip than a fun or functional expansion. Don't want to include more than 4 buildings in my deck because I don't want to ever collect dead buildings in my hand but then I want to have enough resource to play them otherwise they're just dead anyway so better distribute a bunch of resource gatherer's into my deck. Draw dependency is rampant here. In comparison I really like recipes. They're flavorful and quite similar to buildings in that they're permanent benefits except way more interesting and better because they don't take a parasitic new resource to exist, you just need to fulfill certain conditions to repeat effects. I certainly wouldn't include both buildings and recipes into the year, in my eyes one's just better than the other. I will say though, the way you've formatted the recipe card is stylish and cool but I think you might have to change it unless you don't want to write much on the cards. Small Drink is the epitome of a common of the effect with literally three words and then a basic condition, yet it ended up with 4 lines. How are you going to make Epic recipes?
Shatterstar1998 and Demonxz95's Year of the Dragon
Year of the Dragon sounds generic but whatever. Nightmare on the Nether is cool, though you could go over what makes the actual expansion itself interesting a little more, because I didn't really see anything about the expansion itself in the cards. I just got the context of the area and how it has a bunch of tribal minions. Legacy could be cool but King Arthur feels like a really bad way of showing it off. If I play three cards in a turn I get to change the Health of all minions to 1! Oh wait they've already all got 1 Health because I played the card. I'll wait till next turn and THEN use his effect. Alright, there, my opponent's played some new minions, now I can use his Legacy. Oh actually I think I'll just trade him in, that seems more efficient because I don't want to set my minions Health to 1. Why does Legacy feel so much like a redundant extra on the Legacy showcase card? Prince Charming well... I don't like him. How is he a start of game support card and how was he supposed to show off how each class is getting a start of game card? Wouldn't showing off a start of game card be more helpful for that? Why do I care about drawing my start of game cards, that's not what's interesting about those cards, the interesting part already happened. At the start of the game. Because it's a start of game card. Sure it thins my deck and I can play it to get like a 9 mana 7/8 body but that's hardly that supportive. Prince Charming just feels like a Curator card you made because you've got some new keywords. It's not got nearly as much connection between the themes as The Curator nor its Witchwood counterpart. It's boring. Caverns of Time seems alright, I like Future Strike, it's a very nice card. Temporary dormant cards are something I've seen a lot, in fact my favorite version of them I've seen was from DKPaladinMDL's Caverns of Time expansion that he finished some time ago. I feel like the showcase card you chose for it wasn't that interesting. In general I kinda wish there was more you were showing in your year, I've not been able to criticize a lot because I've not got a good grip on the expansions. Nether on the Nightmare will be dark and have demons and dragons and stuff as well as an effect that exists already. Once upon a Time will have legacy but you haven't provided a good example of a legacy card and start of game cards for every class but you haven't shown a start of game card. Caverns of Time has future stuff that could be quite cool, I'm fond of that, as well as collectible temporary permanents which are nice. I don't know, I just think your presentation was lacking with ideas that have already been explored a lot.
ThisOtherGuyTox, Cogito and Otovent's Year of the Chimera
Stitched cards could be cool, the one presented is simple and gives a good idea of what to expect, and I think I remember Tox talking about the choose one at the start of the game thing some time before and I've quite liked it as an idea. Border Patrol is also a nice simple idea for showing off how things are. Can't really see any faults so far, things look good. Weathers seem fine. I'd like to see cards that benefit off of weathers but it's understandable not to considering you only had two cards to show which did well to establish the flavor. Because I don't want to get through 2 sets without at least suggesting something I want to put in a personal request for you guys to include my favorite pokemon ludicolo in there somewhere, maybe something like this.
You don't have to call him Ludicolo or anything just please man I love ludicolo so much you'd be doing a great service for my family. Script is flavorful and quite nice, it's reminiscent of the new card type thing introduced to Magic recentlyish. I love the flavor of the set as a whole and I'm sorry that the new expansion kinda takes away some of the uniqueness of the set. In general this set seems the most refined so far... Suspiciously so. Gosh dang the mods and their ability to prepare three sets with unique flavor and keywords in a space longer than two weeks we need a revolution around here or something. For real though, looking forward to seeing the third set the most so if you go out before then I'll be angry. Good luck.
WaterwaIker's Year of the holy shit I'm only 8 submissions through this is taking so long I'm gonna end it all also why is your name spelled with a capital i rather than an l what Hydra
Starting off, Lights, Cards, Action! is gonna be a set I greatly look forward to. Great humor, very light, all good with me. Van Hellscream is a really nice card with a cool effect, though he honestly feels absurdly strong. He's got a really well statted 5 mana body for 6 that replaces your hero power with one that's worth about 2 mana, which is nuts. That said it obviously carries the downside of not working with Deathstalker Rexxar which you'd probably want to play in a more control focused Hunter so I imagine it's fine but it's certainly stronger than most hero power upgrade cards. I don't like Mildly Annoyed Max, punishing your opponent for not playing on curve isn't that fun for them, and if they do play on curve this is just a 5 mana 5/3 which isn't very fun for you. In general it kinda just doesn't feel like a fun card. Alleria Windrunner is fun but honestly I don't think trample is a good idea. Hearthstone's been existing for a while under the idea that trample isn't a thing so as you might expect stuff like Arcane Channeler suddenly being added can cause problems. What kind of problems? Problems of Meteoric proportions is what. For the next expansion, Marsh Seer is massively unfun as it can ruin so many decks. Oh, it appears I've discovered my opponents C'Thun/N'Zoth/Bloodreaver Gul'Dan/Emeriss/Alexstraza/BigGamechangingMinion/Yogg'Saron. Guess they lose. Also go to my Year of the Lion and/or Year of the Frog reviews for my stance on Tyr. I would include this in every deck because it's free consistency. I don't need to actually draw the card or use it, nor do I have to gimp my deck, yet I get benefits.
Dropdead's Year of the Manticore
Transforming effects already fulfill the purpose of Banish elegantly, include more transform cards rather than adding in a new yet redundant keyword. It might fit in the game better if Hearthstone had an actual graveyard and not a pool of cards being tracked for Big Priests sake, but as of right now it's just taking an effect that shows up in every card game with a graveyard and putting it into a game without one. If you're in Shadowform is a terrible idea that gets passed around a lot, can't wait to get this card in a pack when I don't actually own that epic card from the classic set. Oh well I guess I could still use it as a 6 mana deal 5 spell, fantastic. For 6 mana couldn't it just banish the minion regardless of anything else? Priest already got Entomb why is this a card? Your location card is okay. I think you should have done a better job showing off themes of the expansions because some of the cards just feel irrelevant to showing the actual expansion off. Yeah Hogger's Faithful is a pretty cool card but what does it tell me about the expansion?
Phoenixfeather's Year of the Phoenix
First expansion seems alright. Soulcast is nice, Elusive is Elusive. Rise from the Grave is a cool card that does well to show off the expansion. Apatheia's one of the least interesting ways of adding neutral decks theoretically possible. The thing is, I like the idea of neutral decks, but I think a game like Shadowverse is a game that could show you a good way of going about implementing neutral synergy. Rewarding you for having disproportionate amounts of neutral cards over only running them. Running decks without spells, only minions, with no class identity, very few interesting gimmicks and such is just uninteresting. What makes the matches involving this lady more uninteresting than most? Well let me briefly say why I like Elusive. It does well in countering an enemy who relies on spells to counter minions by making it harder to deal with your elusive minions, yet it doesn't make half their deck pointless because I still have the rest of my deck to go through and it's not like they're ALL going to be Elusive so they can just use their spells on those ones! Oh wait, my entire deck IS Elusive, guess my opponents hand is just filled with dead cards now. Boy, this game of minions slapping into eachother and nothing else sure is interesting. At least AoE's still exist. Second expansion is a lot better, love Solais, it's a great weapon with good flavor. Deus Ex Machina is also good flavor and a cool card. I don't know how much I like the return of Inspire but I don't hate it. Burn is a keyword that belongs in a class and not an expansion. Removing the top one or two cards of your deck is widely irrelevant outside of decks that go to fatigue because they're exceptionally slow, are running Aluneth or rely on specific cards like C'Thun and sometimes they're on the bottom and have to dig deep. The rare cases in which removing the top card of your deck is used as a downside do so in a way where it's escalated to the point where your deck might be shredded in seconds like with Fel Reaver. Being able to include a few cards that have above average power level in exchange for burn just means I'm running cards which are too good at no extra cost.
Vilegloom's Year of the Ram
I've been really indecisive of your stuff. I don't know what it is about it. Regardless I don't trust myself to force a review on this because I don't have an opinion of it really. I'm not trying to wuss out I swear, it's just that my input would be redundant. Take that all as you like.
ShadowsOfSense's Year of the Serpent
I don't like Ambush. I remember Phoenix explored it's potential some time before with Impulse and cards which manipulate how you draw it that makes it more skilled but even then it's still the "Did you topdeck this" keyword. It's good flavor and I'm happy about its use with Cephalopirate due to it not being objectively better, but I don't really like it. Explore is a nice keyword, one thing I think a lot of people make mistakes with while making Hearthstone cards is creating cards that give information for the sake of information, yet this uses it practically. Well, at least in the case of Murloc Pathfinder. If all the Explore cards will be like that, I'm very happy with it. If you make cards which just Explore and nothing else, I'll be sad. That's just not very Hearthstone. One thing of note, with both Ambush and Explore existing, deck manipulation better exist, it just makes them both so much better. Revenant is a keyword that feels nice due to how Undead synergy works, I like it. Mount is nice but obviously unfortunately timed due to Magnetic. Flanked is nice also, no real criticisms.
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Regarding Pet: You could easily say the same about Jaraxxus and Hero cards. I would very much prefer the Pets to be their own card type like hero has but I'm not a photo shop master. As I've said in the last discussion (I understand you probably didn't see that) My intention with the Pets is to explore what can be done with the Bolf Mechanic. Hopefully the two I showed did that. A Bolf effect with a divine shield is quite interesting imo as is the possibility of reviving the Bolf effect with Alar. They're more like charms that pop up on the board to block damage as opposed to Bolf that was supposed to have survivability. It isn't intended to carry that expansion it's just going to be one card for each hero.
Good spot with the tracking art I do this all on my phone including playig hearthstone so I haven't really made out the art. Ofcourse that can be changed. No idea how I missed the capitalisation too. Hopefully you can appreciate that doing this on my phone adds a layer of difficulty to my design even the typing.
I will think on what you've said about Terrain because it was something I was starting to realise when I was toying with the possibility of legendary terrain cards. It won't be fun to see them cancelled out. I really wanted to capture the idea of a battle for control of the terrain so I would like some interactivity for the opponent. I will have a good think on this.
Overall you are right I did do my designs quite quickly but this is a hobby not a job. I am a man with a job and other commitments please forgive me for not having gone all out in the first phase. I just thought I'd use it as a concept submission before getting carried away over something people didn't enjoy which unfortunately I have done before.
Now I see that so many people saw potential in my ideas I am committed to putting out a quality expansion for phase 2.
I'm quite confused now. I definitely agree that the cards you've shown are more interesting than Bolf, but I'm not sure what you mean when you say they would ideally have their own card type nor how you could say the same for Hero cards. I didn't see the previous discussions, I apologize as I won't have much context on them. I'll try and be more present in the discussions from here on out I just wanted to avoid the first phase ones.
Don't worry, I can appreciate the mistakes and that you've got work to do. We all make mistakes, pretty sure I've made more neutral weapons accidentally than class ones. It's just when compared to a lot of the other posts that went through yours seemed a lot more rough, and if you invest more time to make sure everything's nice and shiny next time I'll have no issues.
I mean that I intend the Pets to be to Bolf what Hero cards are to Jaraxxus. So there would be an actual card shape that signifies it as a pet rather than a keyword but it is not within my capability. Either way I'm confident I can do enough this phase to justify the votes I got. I'll see what you think when I've solidified my ideas more 😀
First set is good. The factions are alright and I don't really have a lot to say about it other than I'm fond. Could open up a lot of interesting new decks. I'm not fond of the second set at all. Dividing things into a bunch of guys who generate resource and then a bunch of things that need resource is parasitic and hard to manage before you even account for the fact that the things that take your resource take up board slots. It's hard to manage in a simple manner, simple being one of Hearthstone's core themes, and it feels more like a nostalgia trip than a fun or functional expansion. Don't want to include more than 4 buildings in my deck because I don't want to ever collect dead buildings in my hand but then I want to have enough resource to play them otherwise they're just dead anyway so better distribute a bunch of resource gatherer's into my deck. Draw dependency is rampant here. In comparison I really like recipes. They're flavorful and quite similar to buildings in that they're permanent benefits except way more interesting and better because they don't take a parasitic new resource to exist, you just need to fulfill certain conditions to repeat effects. I certainly wouldn't include both buildings and recipes into the year, in my eyes one's just better than the other. I will say though, the way you've formatted the recipe card is stylish and cool but I think you might have to change it unless you don't want to write much on the cards. Small Drink is the epitome of a common of the effect with literally three words and then a basic condition, yet it ended up with 4 lines. How are you going to make Epic recipes?
Hm, I guess you're right about resources. I might have another idea for that but now, I need to focus on the Shattrath stuff!
QUESTION: Are we allowed to show cards we've used for the first phase? Because I'm not sure as of now.
Yes you can! The rule is actually the reverse scenario: you don't have to continue using cards you create in the first round in later Phases. If you want to, then go for it :)
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Been hiding my WIP in the Staff Work Area again lel :/ Removing most of the flavor-fluff, I'd love to get some feedback on my Trials and their Burdens. I've got other cards completed, but the Trials are the most important pieces of my expansion: if they need changing, everything related to that class might need another look. There's a couple main things to consider:
Do the Start of Game benefits outweigh the Burden's negatives? They should, but not overly so.
Are the Burdens even that much of a Burden? If they're a weak slap-on-the-wrist, that's not enough.
Are the Trials relatively balanced when compared to each other? They're not all as dramatic as the Paladin's "you can only have 1 minion", but they should all still be significant enough to warrant building around.
Just to be forthcoming, I'm the least confident with the Shaman and the Warlock. Anyway, here they are:
Druid/Fear: A Druid who lacks control over their primal tendencies should be afraid. Are they masters of the wild, or does the wild rule over them?
Enhanced hero and permanent +1 Attack, but forced to attack each turn (unless Frozen). Focused on buffing the hero and clearing a path for the player's attacks, but dangerous if not well managed when dealing with Taunts.
Hunter/Hatred: Her desire for vengeance pushes Alleria beyond the Dark Portal. She will come to know a thousand years of war, in the Twisting Nether.
Steamwheedle Sniper+, but hounded by constant Voidlings. Control archetype focused on clearing with the Hero Power and generating momentum from enemy kills.
Mage/Gluttony: Dependent on the power of the Sunwell for centuries, the "Blood Elves" are addicted to magic. What lengths will they go to sate their appetite?
Permanent Spell Damage bonus, but they must continue to use magic (in the form of mana) or die from withdrawal. Adding more Spell Damage raises the stakes. Archetype supports (and demands) mana efficiency.
Paladin/Despair: Being solitary crusaders against endless evil, a Paladin must not lose hope as the fight continues everlasting.
Bonus stats + Keywords, but can only ever have one minion. 1-vs-Many Control archetype, outlasting the opponent behind high-value Taunt walls and healing.
Priest/Arrogance: Tempted by the Shadow ways, a Priest must strike a balance with the Light or fall victim to their own arrogance.
Immediate improved-Shadowform, but it reciprocates damage back at the player. Constant, dramatic juggling of their Health; an all-in evolution of the Shadow Priest. Think cards like Spawn of Shadows and Blackguard.
Rogue/Zeal: Drawn to wealth, but ambition will be their undoing: the golden glint of greed shines a light upon the shadows they seek to hide in.
Gain free copies of the Coin, but so can the opponent if not careful. New ways to generate and interact with the Coin, spending them for bonus effects.
Edited to clarify that you acquire a Coin every turn all game. The original version could have been interpreted as a one-time only effect, which would've been quite shitty lel.
Shaman/Doubt: Doubt can paralyze the mind and Freeze the body, prior failures haunting one's thoughts like apparitions. How does one escape such a prison?
Your army is cheaper, but each friendly loss slows you down. Archetype focuses on pro-Freeze elements and summoning multiple minions to help sustain your forces through the long, cold war.
Besieged by Doubt is unique, as the only non-minion member of the Sha cycle (the art doesn't fit in the minion window lel). The token is a collectible card, described below. Transform is a powerful effect, but it costs triple that of Devolve so hopefully it's okay.
Warlock/Violence: Binding his soul to the Burning Legion, Gul'dan will know power and blood as Darkness Incarnate. The price for failure will be severe.
Constant destruction reloads the player's hand, but the Burden introduces a ticking clock: the Warlock must win before the cost becomes too great. Archetype follows a similar style, permanently pushing yourself closer to losing in exchange for greater power.
^ Edit: It was originally "Whenever a minion dies, restore 2 Health to your hero." I found that too boring, and was really concerned that people wouldn't find that appealing enough to play the card. So...yeah. Traded endless sustain for constant reload, giving the Warlock two theoretical problems to deal with: dying from becoming too frail, and/or burning through your deck too quickly.
Warrior/Anger: In pursuit of strength, the orcs submit themselves to Mannoroth's Blood-curse. However, rage is a double-edged sword; will the fire consume them as well?
Minions have bonus Attack but they take damage periodically. Archetype consists of throwing expendable minions to their death and benefiting from the losses. Continuation of Self-Damage/Enrage mechanics.
Plus a couple Neutral cards for some additional context:
Haunting Remnant is a collectible token of the Shaman's Besieged by Doubt Sha-spell.
Sha of Pride is a tech card against the influx of healing effects I'm introducing, and the tenth/final member of the Sha cycle.
Spirit of Redemption is the ultimate gambit and plays to the Reward/Burden style: if you can prove you can survive at 1 Health for a full turn, you are greatly rewarded.
I don't think I'll be able to provide feedback today, but I can try to reciprocate some words tomorrow afternoon or Saturday.
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I don't think it's too strong at all. It follow the same principle as Starfall for the AoE parts (good board clear (Volcanic Potion / Consecration + 1 mana) and that card didn't see play. The stall part is vastly inferior to Loatheb (since both achieve the same effect but the latter cost 1 more for a 5/5 body).
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I'd disagree that it is the same effect as Loatheb or even that paladin spell that does it because it is 10 more not 5. This means you guarantee your opponent uses no spells next turn. With 5 there is a chance that they have some spell they could play even if it's sub optimal for them to do so.
Most of the Cards are cool
But they have a few problem
A Marriage of Life and Death - you get 8-10 Armor just for putting this card in your deck and it can even be used to remove minions or burst damage i am sorry but start of game effects have to be either random or requiring to build a deck around them
Wish of the Queen - Same thing you get Cards and even though those cards are OK these are still cards you can play and after all of them are played you get a Very Good Card
Midnight Getaway - Same thing again thought this one is probs the most balanced because if your opponent kills it you get left with 2 Dead Cards
Arabian Night - Again you get a Card for free just for spending 1600 or buying packs thought again this one is a bit balanced as the Two out of 1001 Tales shuffled can mess up your game plan
Mjornir - Spirit Claws should probs nerf it to 2 mana
the best way (I think) to fix these cards is to make them shuffle these cards into your deck
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Gonna do a brief look at all the guys who passed and give my opinions. Can't be bothered to talk about Hall of Fame choices unless they're relevant to any of the cards.
Doctor Whoops' Year of the Frog
Right off the bat, the sets are quite diverse and well presented. The Infiltrate keyword is nice, I imagine there's quite a lot of potential design space for it and it only makes sense. Feed is already easy to imagine in-game because it's already in the game and Surface Hunter is a fine card to show off. Those two keywords are fine, but you've walked into an issue Tek found himself in while working on Treasures, which was why the inclusion of the Sandy Shores card was made. Essentially, if the Guest cards included in your deck actually count against card count without any chance of actually being drawn, then what you effectively have is a deck that has less cards in it. The vast majority of decks in the game would take a 28 card, 26 card, 24 card etc deck over a 30 card one if that was freely available. It's just more consistent, and there's absolutely no reason not to do it. This would lead to players using Guests purely as cards to lower deck sizes rather than making actual Guest decks.
The Guest keyword is very interesting thematically and I like the flavor of the Stormwind City set the most, so I'd like to see it still, I just think it should be reworked maybe in a similar way to Treasures. Of course, there's also the chance that I've misinterpreted the keyword and missed something like an idiot, so I'm sorry if that's the case. Overall I can definitely see why this was the most highly voted set, but I think Guest is a genuinely big issue.
Linkblade91's Year of the Kodo
The flavor for the first set is fantastic, I'm quite fond of the Burdens. They're a way of introducing massive changes to a deck that remain simple. I do feel like The Vigilant Crusader could be made more simple with just one keyword, the textbox is getting a little packed there, but with how much that would impact you don't need to worry too much. The cards showcased for the War of Sea and Sky could have been better. Though I like the idea of the expansion, I'm indifferent with Terror Drake, kinda unsure how it has Stealth thematically, but I dislike the Naga Siren. What you've said about the Naga is that they provide benefit to the 'Biggest' Naga in terms of Attack, Health or Cost, so a card with "The Naga with the highest X has..." should be a common occurrence. Despite that, the first Naga you show is a 5/5 that does that with Taunt which is Epic. That sounds more like a Common and it doesn't really show what the potential of the Naga's tribal shenanigans could be. It doesn't feel too different from a 5 mana 5/5 Taunt, and feels so boring and bad considering giving minions taunt isn't really valued very highly. Metal and Mayhem seems nice, the flavor's good. Encore is a great keyword, I like it a lot. Power Up is a little more meh, kinda odd to revisit spare parts in general. The cards you showcased are good for them, with Spirit Bouncer showing off some fantastic possible synergy with Encore effects off the bat by allowing its effect to be used by a much bigger minion, and Treant Harvester being flavorful and useful.
Overall, all three sets are very good but I'd really like to see the potential of the Naga tribe and the Challenge keyword.
KingKuba's Year of the Lion
I felt quite happy looking through all of this. I'm not generally going to talk about the people behind the cards that much in these reviews but you seem like the kind of person who's quite new to making custom cards but has some really good ideas. What I mean by that is that you've got some really fantastic concepts here among some simple mistakes and I'm excited to see this set potentially flourishing. Obviously the place to start with is Storage, which I think is a potential UI nightmare and unsure on how good it is CURRENTLY, but it has some serious potential. I think you should go over a brief summary of how you use Storage cards during deckbuilding and through that find a way to include as many copies of Storage cards as you want so I can run a warehouse deck (that's only 30% a joke) and I'd love this keyword and the set. I love the flavor behind all the sets by the way, just wanted to go over Storage first. Then I'm going to go onto the third expansion for a reason that'll be obvious soon after. I like the flavor of this set the most, it's quite light and jovial. Rent could have a lot of potential as a keyword, especially if you throw some Rent (1 turn) cards in there, which could be quite interesting for designs. I dislike Buyout however, it doesn't feel like it has too much of a purpose. Making a way of keeping your Rent minions feels uninteresting more than anything else as well as quite parasitic. I think just having the Rent cards is preferable. Right, set 2 is the one I have the most problems with by far. The faction mechanic just isn't interesting, it's just a tribe that locks you out of playing certain cards. The two cards you've showcased aren't doing it any favors either. Garona Halforcen is a legendary class tech card, which you really want to avoid. The general issue with that is that legendary cards, especially class cards, are cards that you put into your deck to promote an archetype in an interesting or powerful way. Tech cards are cards you use to counter OTHER archetypes. It's straight up just an overpowered assassinate with a body in most cases and that's not the reason why I dislike it. She doesn't do anything to help your Horde deck, she just might do something against Alliance minions with Deathrattles. That's probably not many cards. Othmar Garithos is far and beyond the most overpowered card in the game. He's an autoinclude in every paladin deck due to the way purely positive Start of Game cards work. When you don't actually have to draw the card nor use the card, it just provides a benefit to your deck unconditionally at the start of the game, the card shouldn't be printed. You don't even have to account for the technical risk of drawing this minion which is understatted in comparison to almost all the other broken start of game cards that people have made, it's an Alliance minion, it just draws itself at no cost when the game begins, as well as whatever other Alliance card you put in there is. I'd suggest a complete rework of the second expansion but if you don't want to do that at least just fix those two cards up. Sorry the review got negative towards the end, it's just that your first and third sets are on completely different levels to your second. I genuinely meant what I said about the year having some serious potential and I look forward to seeing what you make.
Tomerick88's Year of the Butterfly
I'm going to be blunt...
That is not an interesting keyword. It's not flexible, it's not got any potential design space, more than anything it's just a boring and bad version of taunt. I do not like the pet keyword, not at all. Keywords can mean so many potential different things depending on the cards they're on, and how singular this keyword is is mundane. Hemet's Petting Zoo itself could be interesting with good flavor but I'm not feeling it so far. Going into the second expansion, Fate's fine, there's some design space for it and it fits the expansion, though I'm starting to think you've rushed through all this a bit. The presentation for your cards isn't great and the actual cards are similar. Veteran Tracker is missing capitalization and is literally just using the Tracking art. Tactical Retreat is a great card that utilizes your rotation of Divine Favor well. The terrain cards aren't very aesthetically pleasing, I once again think you could have spent more time and precision with this. Regardless I do feel that the terrain should last for a set amount of turns and shouldn't be countered by enemies playing terrains. Having it last infinitely is insane value that forces people into playing terrains, and playing a really expensive terrain that goes away immediately isn't fun.
CheeseETC's Year of the Scorpion
First set is good. The factions are alright and I don't really have a lot to say about it other than I'm fond. Could open up a lot of interesting new decks. I'm not fond of the second set at all. Dividing things into a bunch of guys who generate resource and then a bunch of things that need resource is parasitic and hard to manage before you even account for the fact that the things that take your resource take up board slots. It's hard to manage in a simple manner, simple being one of Hearthstone's core themes, and it feels more like a nostalgia trip than a fun or functional expansion. Don't want to include more than 4 buildings in my deck because I don't want to ever collect dead buildings in my hand but then I want to have enough resource to play them otherwise they're just dead anyway so better distribute a bunch of resource gatherer's into my deck. Draw dependency is rampant here. In comparison I really like recipes. They're flavorful and quite similar to buildings in that they're permanent benefits except way more interesting and better because they don't take a parasitic new resource to exist, you just need to fulfill certain conditions to repeat effects. I certainly wouldn't include both buildings and recipes into the year, in my eyes one's just better than the other. I will say though, the way you've formatted the recipe card is stylish and cool but I think you might have to change it unless you don't want to write much on the cards. Small Drink is the epitome of a common of the effect with literally three words and then a basic condition, yet it ended up with 4 lines. How are you going to make Epic recipes?
Shatterstar1998 and Demonxz95's Year of the Dragon
Year of the Dragon sounds generic but whatever. Nightmare on the Nether is cool, though you could go over what makes the actual expansion itself interesting a little more, because I didn't really see anything about the expansion itself in the cards. I just got the context of the area and how it has a bunch of tribal minions. Legacy could be cool but King Arthur feels like a really bad way of showing it off. If I play three cards in a turn I get to change the Health of all minions to 1! Oh wait they've already all got 1 Health because I played the card. I'll wait till next turn and THEN use his effect. Alright, there, my opponent's played some new minions, now I can use his Legacy. Oh actually I think I'll just trade him in, that seems more efficient because I don't want to set my minions Health to 1. Why does Legacy feel so much like a redundant extra on the Legacy showcase card? Prince Charming well... I don't like him. How is he a start of game support card and how was he supposed to show off how each class is getting a start of game card? Wouldn't showing off a start of game card be more helpful for that? Why do I care about drawing my start of game cards, that's not what's interesting about those cards, the interesting part already happened. At the start of the game. Because it's a start of game card. Sure it thins my deck and I can play it to get like a 9 mana 7/8 body but that's hardly that supportive. Prince Charming just feels like a Curator card you made because you've got some new keywords. It's not got nearly as much connection between the themes as The Curator nor its Witchwood counterpart. It's boring. Caverns of Time seems alright, I like Future Strike, it's a very nice card. Temporary dormant cards are something I've seen a lot, in fact my favorite version of them I've seen was from DKPaladinMDL's Caverns of Time expansion that he finished some time ago. I feel like the showcase card you chose for it wasn't that interesting. In general I kinda wish there was more you were showing in your year, I've not been able to criticize a lot because I've not got a good grip on the expansions. Nether on the Nightmare will be dark and have demons and dragons and stuff as well as an effect that exists already. Once upon a Time will have legacy but you haven't provided a good example of a legacy card and start of game cards for every class but you haven't shown a start of game card. Caverns of Time has future stuff that could be quite cool, I'm fond of that, as well as collectible temporary permanents which are nice. I don't know, I just think your presentation was lacking with ideas that have already been explored a lot.
ThisOtherGuyTox, Cogito and Otovent's Year of the Chimera
Stitched cards could be cool, the one presented is simple and gives a good idea of what to expect, and I think I remember Tox talking about the choose one at the start of the game thing some time before and I've quite liked it as an idea. Border Patrol is also a nice simple idea for showing off how things are. Can't really see any faults so far, things look good. Weathers seem fine. I'd like to see cards that benefit off of weathers but it's understandable not to considering you only had two cards to show which did well to establish the flavor. Because I don't want to get through 2 sets without at least suggesting something I want to put in a personal request for you guys to include my favorite pokemon ludicolo in there somewhere, maybe something like this.
You don't have to call him Ludicolo or anything just please man I love ludicolo so much you'd be doing a great service for my family. Script is flavorful and quite nice, it's reminiscent of the new card type thing introduced to Magic recentlyish. I love the flavor of the set as a whole and I'm sorry that the new expansion kinda takes away some of the uniqueness of the set. In general this set seems the most refined so far... Suspiciously so. Gosh dang the mods and their ability to prepare three sets with unique flavor and keywords in a space longer than two weeks we need a revolution around here or something. For real though, looking forward to seeing the third set the most so if you go out before then I'll be angry. Good luck.
WaterwaIker's Year of the
holy shit I'm only 8 submissions through this is taking so long I'm gonna end it all also why is your name spelled with a capital i rather than an l whatHydraStarting off, Lights, Cards, Action! is gonna be a set I greatly look forward to. Great humor, very light, all good with me. Van Hellscream is a really nice card with a cool effect, though he honestly feels absurdly strong. He's got a really well statted 5 mana body for 6 that replaces your hero power with one that's worth about 2 mana, which is nuts. That said it obviously carries the downside of not working with Deathstalker Rexxar which you'd probably want to play in a more control focused Hunter so I imagine it's fine but it's certainly stronger than most hero power upgrade cards. I don't like Mildly Annoyed Max, punishing your opponent for not playing on curve isn't that fun for them, and if they do play on curve this is just a 5 mana 5/3 which isn't very fun for you. In general it kinda just doesn't feel like a fun card. Alleria Windrunner is fun but honestly I don't think trample is a good idea. Hearthstone's been existing for a while under the idea that trample isn't a thing so as you might expect stuff like Arcane Channeler suddenly being added can cause problems. What kind of problems? Problems of Meteoric proportions is what. For the next expansion, Marsh Seer is massively unfun as it can ruin so many decks. Oh, it appears I've discovered my opponents C'Thun/N'Zoth/Bloodreaver Gul'Dan/Emeriss/Alexstraza/BigGamechangingMinion/Yogg'Saron. Guess they lose. Also go to my Year of the Lion and/or Year of the Frog reviews for my stance on Tyr. I would include this in every deck because it's free consistency. I don't need to actually draw the card or use it, nor do I have to gimp my deck, yet I get benefits.
Dropdead's Year of the Manticore
Transforming effects already fulfill the purpose of Banish elegantly, include more transform cards rather than adding in a new yet redundant keyword. It might fit in the game better if Hearthstone had an actual graveyard and not a pool of cards being tracked for Big Priests sake, but as of right now it's just taking an effect that shows up in every card game with a graveyard and putting it into a game without one. If you're in Shadowform is a terrible idea that gets passed around a lot, can't wait to get this card in a pack when I don't actually own that epic card from the classic set. Oh well I guess I could still use it as a 6 mana deal 5 spell, fantastic. For 6 mana couldn't it just banish the minion regardless of anything else? Priest already got Entomb why is this a card? Your location card is okay. I think you should have done a better job showing off themes of the expansions because some of the cards just feel irrelevant to showing the actual expansion off. Yeah Hogger's Faithful is a pretty cool card but what does it tell me about the expansion?
Phoenixfeather's Year of the Phoenix
First expansion seems alright. Soulcast is nice, Elusive is Elusive. Rise from the Grave is a cool card that does well to show off the expansion. Apatheia's one of the least interesting ways of adding neutral decks theoretically possible. The thing is, I like the idea of neutral decks, but I think a game like Shadowverse is a game that could show you a good way of going about implementing neutral synergy. Rewarding you for having disproportionate amounts of neutral cards over only running them. Running decks without spells, only minions, with no class identity, very few interesting gimmicks and such is just uninteresting. What makes the matches involving this lady more uninteresting than most? Well let me briefly say why I like Elusive. It does well in countering an enemy who relies on spells to counter minions by making it harder to deal with your elusive minions, yet it doesn't make half their deck pointless because I still have the rest of my deck to go through and it's not like they're ALL going to be Elusive so they can just use their spells on those ones! Oh wait, my entire deck IS Elusive, guess my opponents hand is just filled with dead cards now. Boy, this game of minions slapping into eachother and nothing else sure is interesting. At least AoE's still exist. Second expansion is a lot better, love Solais, it's a great weapon with good flavor. Deus Ex Machina is also good flavor and a cool card. I don't know how much I like the return of Inspire but I don't hate it. Burn is a keyword that belongs in a class and not an expansion. Removing the top one or two cards of your deck is widely irrelevant outside of decks that go to fatigue because they're exceptionally slow, are running Aluneth or rely on specific cards like C'Thun and sometimes they're on the bottom and have to dig deep. The rare cases in which removing the top card of your deck is used as a downside do so in a way where it's escalated to the point where your deck might be shredded in seconds like with Fel Reaver. Being able to include a few cards that have above average power level in exchange for burn just means I'm running cards which are too good at no extra cost.
Vilegloom's Year of the Ram
I've been really indecisive of your stuff. I don't know what it is about it. Regardless I don't trust myself to force a review on this because I don't have an opinion of it really. I'm not trying to wuss out I swear, it's just that my input would be redundant. Take that all as you like.
ShadowsOfSense's Year of the Serpent
I don't like Ambush. I remember Phoenix explored it's potential some time before with Impulse and cards which manipulate how you draw it that makes it more skilled but even then it's still the "Did you topdeck this" keyword. It's good flavor and I'm happy about its use with Cephalopirate due to it not being objectively better, but I don't really like it. Explore is a nice keyword, one thing I think a lot of people make mistakes with while making Hearthstone cards is creating cards that give information for the sake of information, yet this uses it practically. Well, at least in the case of Murloc Pathfinder. If all the Explore cards will be like that, I'm very happy with it. If you make cards which just Explore and nothing else, I'll be sad. That's just not very Hearthstone. One thing of note, with both Ambush and Explore existing, deck manipulation better exist, it just makes them both so much better. Revenant is a keyword that feels nice due to how Undead synergy works, I like it. Mount is nice but obviously unfortunately timed due to Magnetic. Flanked is nice also, no real criticisms.
Teknician's Year of the Gryphon
Treasure's are looking nice and appropriately scary and the Plunderer is a good example of a Treasure fetcher, so I'm happy with how it's developed thus far. This might just be me but Sandy Shore looks a little too realistic, I think a wide shot of a beach would be better. Overall, good first set. Unsure about the second set, Sacrifice is an alright keyword, Plague is quite questionable. Not in the "This is probably bad" sense but the "I have literally no idea how to evaluate this" sense. I will say though that the Blood Beetle's Sacrifice option feels surprisingly low impact, considering you lose both an attack and the minion. I've gone over Red Mana briefly with you already I believe, waiting to see how you handle it, I think you can make it work well.
Mrobjectionman's Year of the Pegasus
I'm a strong believer that Hearthstone's RNG isn't as bad a problem as many like to say and that it's actually quite beneficial for the game, but having it as a core theme for an expansion doesn't seem like a great idea. GvG had that as a core theme and people hated it, so I'm unsure if people will like that. Good flavor though. Good flavor for the next set also, this version of Mount is pretty good, it's like reverse Magnetic. I don't like Dominance, seems very win more. Generally the person with the biggest minion is the one winning, so to me it kinda reads like "If you're winning, has an extra effect.", which means the cards don't benefit you while losing and benefits you while winning, which polarizes the game rather than having it be a back and forth.
Aaro54's Year of the Mech
Soulbattle's Year of the Cat
Hethiss is nice, does well to show off multiple potential themes of the expansion with both poisonous and death, and I like Invoke despite not really feeling like a keyword, though I can't really explain why. I like the idea of the Grimoire of Eternity and I'm willing to see how the mage spell tribe thing works out, though I think you've not exactly got the casual and goofy vibe down in the submission. I feel like Brutallus probably isn't that hard to build a deck around and stomps aggro into the ground, though that's obviously a card that'd need playtesting. Blazing Infernal doesn't really feel like a "Positioning matters" card all that much honestly, I feel like a card that requires a lot of pre-planning would be best to show it off. This is more of a "Place between two minions and attack" card that you want to play minions around.
Wailor's Year of the Tortoise
Draenei Wanderer feels like it could do something relevant to the swap beyond just swapping, like the actual swap being a necessity that functions as a bonus. Like Curious Glimmeroot giving information or something similar. I think a card which has the pure function of swapping feels too non-Hearthstoney, too niche, yet as a secondary effect it could fulfill its intended purpose elegantly while being more interesting. I think Dive has a similar issue, Hearthstone doesn't tend to have many effects that do nothing by themselves. If Dive actually did something minor for your hero and then synergies existed on top of that, I'd like the mechanic more. Fate and Future seems fine, but giving a minion Charge allows it to attack on its first turn, it doesn't allow a minion that already attacked to attack again. Everything seems pretty well connected in this year though.
NOVEX0R's Year of the Scarab
Not too fond of Ancient, it feels like it could be done more elegantly. Tracking digits in the cards text usually isn't how things in Hearthstone work. Also I'm not sure if I like that this encourages a less than active form of play. Active playing should be encouraged even in control decks in my opinion and Hearthstone typically favors it also in comparison to most card games. Tomb Relic is a boring card in standard and absolutely game breaking in wild. Shadowboxer exists ya know. Hearthstone effects tend to do something by themselves so I'm not really fond of the nightmare/dream mechanic, I think it could be better if the Dream or Nightmare states did something regardless of the synergy cards. Stolen Plans is insanely overpowered and would be included in 100% of rogue decks because there's no reason not to. As soon as you draw it you immediately cast it and draw another card. If it didn't reveal the opponents hand it'd still be included 100% of rogue decks, it's just a way of making your deck one which only effectively contains 28 cards, which is more consistent than a 30 card one.
Electronite's Year of the Serpent
Hibernate is a keyword that comes up a lot, but I strongly believe that it's a bad one. Hearthstone is a very active game and making cards that encourage you to not attack are only a few steps away from cards that encourage you to not attack. Attacking is already a very big part of the decision making in the game, one of the most important elements. Making cards that make you not want to do that isn't something I like. Royal Archivist is a nice card, I like it. Knowledge Corrupt could probably do with a better name but in general the second set seems way healthier than the first. Dreamwalker's not that interesting to play nor does it do much special, yet it still feels odd to have the word Immune on a common neutral card.
LarryMoments' Year of the Wendigo
Getting a new keyword and then making two new cards with the keyword to show off an expansion feels like a way better idea when the new keyword was already a mechanic in the game, I mean the flavor's nice but I hope to see some more themes than just minions killing minions. Possession is flavorful enough and the flavor of the set as a whole is quite good, but it's really a pretty small effect and I'm not really sure what to expect out of the expansion because of it. It's not a particularly debilitating effect but I think it works perfectly with other effects as more of a marker than anything, a chance for some richly flavored cards to flourish like perhaps a minion that moves into a minion, possessing it, and comes out when the minion dies. Silver Mirror is also quite good. Lots of flavor potential in that set, I must say. You're not gonna showcase murlocs for your murloc focused expansion? Odd, and the cards you've shown haven't given me much of a view on what the expansion is all about, if I'm being honest. They're good cards however.
TheProjenitor's Year of the Fox
I like Plan, it's a common concept that's been executed well here. I'm glad you've given such a clear example of what the expansion's all about. A simple common plan card and a card that has a trade off involving the information your opponent obtains, it works nicely. Seems promising. There seems to be a broken imgur link on the next set, don't know if that's just me. Regardless, I don't like the way you've set up the keyword. Iterating Battlecry just feels too wordy. I think if you were to put (Iterate) or (Iterates) in brackets after the battlecry, kind of like Fatespinner, it might look neater. Regardless, every card with Iterate is kind of like a more restrained Shudderwock, which means it's probably really hard to manage the power level. Even a weak common Iterating battlecry minion that does 1 damage will also summon a 3/3 golem, draw a card, maybe kill a couple of minions and burn the board in a firestorm or something similar, and it escalates with every card printed. Rebuilding Dalaran is really interesting yet Enter the Legion is really uninteresting. Obviously your legendary spells are going to be very bottom-up from a design standpoint but I definitely think a stronger focus on how interesting Enter the Legion is mechanically would be good. Destroying mana crystals at later turns just isn't much of a downside so it kinda feels like summoning a bunch of guys with an overload.
I was a little exhausted near the end because it's gotten late, so I apologize if I've said much that's nonsensical or too crude, I'm not quite myself just yet. Regardless, I hope the competitors in question at least read it, I've spent a lot of time on it even if a lot is just gibberish, and if any of your works were to improve due to all this effort it'd all have been worth. A lot of promising entries this comp, many with small mistakes made here and there (that might have came from having to make a three-set concept in the space of two weeks) and I'm hoping to see some great stuff by the end. Including Ludicolo, mostly that. Tox, this is a genuine threat, I will send over 7 spammy messages to you via Discord and Hearthpwn that'll contain some kind of puzzle that'll insinuate you smell bad when you eventually solve it unless you throw Ludicolo in as a minion in Set Fire to the rain. It doesn't have to be a Legendary, though he deserves to be one, not even an Epic, and he doesn't have to be called Ludicolo but... Just please you have to do it I need it.
@Maxlot
We've already posted OUaTiA. The reason we couldn't showcase any of the Start of Game cards is that they all produce unique tokens, so we would've gotten disqualified if we showcased them. They all have an additional effect that happens when you play them too which is why Prince Charming can draw them. You're also just objectively wrong when you say "It's not got nearly as much connection between the themes as The Curator nor its Witchwood counterpart". In fact, it actually probably has more.
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Post our set with some major change:
Druid
Wisp
Story tokens:
Persepholes is our first Wild card.
Other tokens:
(Choose One option of Demeter's Sorrow)
(Choose One option of Maiden of Harvest)
(Choose One option of Persepholes)
Hunter
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Other tokens:
Mage
The Snow Queen is another wild card.
Story tokens:
After you play Strength, Beauty and Intelligence, Snow White, Dwarven Princess is added to your hand.
Other tokens:
Paladin
Arthur, Wise King is our third Wild card.
Story tokens:
Arthur, Wise King as well as the Young King Arthur tokens from Merlin's Time Portal + other cards will activate Sword in the Stone and will not be damaged by Excalibur. Thought Young King Arthur himself isn't created by the story card, he is important to the story, so I felt including him here was necessary.
Priest
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Other tokens:
True Love Kiss is also created by a Neutral card, hence why it's a Neutral token.
Rogue
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Shaman
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Warlock
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Warrior
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Neutral
Nightmare Amalgam
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(We plan to put Lovelorn Prince under a Spoiler right under Poisoned Apple so the readers know there is a Neutral counterplay available)
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(Created by Maiden of Harvest)
(Created by Lovelorn Prince and Poisoned Apple)
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Ah, okay. I didn't realize that was the case for your Start of Game cards, but maybe if that'd been explained in the submission it would have been less confusing. Prince Charming would be a boring card had they all worked in similar manners to the start of game cards that already existed in Hearthstone beforehand for reasons already explained, hence the oddness of it. Regardless I meant connection between the cards actually drawn by the minion. I shouldn't have mentioned Ashmoore in it but honestly it's hard to defend that Elusive, Start of Game and Legacy have more in common with each other than Beast, Murloc and Dragon, so I'm not sure how that's "just objectively wrong". I'm not trying to be rude in my posts, I'm sorry if I accidentally said something wrong.
Regarding Pet: You could easily say the same about Jaraxxus and Hero cards. I would very much prefer the Pets to be their own card type like hero has but I'm not a photo shop master. As I've said in the last discussion (I understand you probably didn't see that) My intention with the Pets is to explore what can be done with the Bolf Mechanic. Hopefully the two I showed did that. A Bolf effect with a divine shield is quite interesting imo as is the possibility of reviving the Bolf effect with Alar. They're more like charms that pop up on the board to block damage as opposed to Bolf that was supposed to have survivability. It isn't intended to carry that expansion it's just going to be one card for each hero.
Good spot with the tracking art I do this all on my phone including playig hearthstone so I haven't really made out the art. Ofcourse that can be changed. No idea how I missed the capitalisation too. Hopefully you can appreciate that doing this on my phone adds a layer of difficulty to my design even the typing.
I will think on what you've said about Terrain because it was something I was starting to realise when I was toying with the possibility of legendary terrain cards. It won't be fun to see them cancelled out. I really wanted to capture the idea of a battle for control of the terrain so I would like some interactivity for the opponent. I will have a good think on this.
Overall you are right I did do my designs quite quickly but this is a hobby not a job. I am a man with a job and other commitments please forgive me for not having gone all out in the first phase. I just thought I'd use it as a concept submission before getting carried away over something people didn't enjoy which unfortunately I have done before.
Now I see that so many people saw potential in my ideas I am committed to putting out a quality expansion for phase 2.
I'm quite confused now. I definitely agree that the cards you've shown are more interesting than Bolf, but I'm not sure what you mean when you say they would ideally have their own card type nor how you could say the same for Hero cards. I didn't see the previous discussions, I apologize as I won't have much context on them. I'll try and be more present in the discussions from here on out I just wanted to avoid the first phase ones.
Don't worry, I can appreciate the mistakes and that you've got work to do. We all make mistakes, pretty sure I've made more neutral weapons accidentally than class ones. It's just when compared to a lot of the other posts that went through yours seemed a lot more rough, and if you invest more time to make sure everything's nice and shiny next time I'll have no issues.
Thanks for the feedback; mass-replies are always a large undertaking haha. I agree in-that my middle expansion is kind of my nadir: I'm heavily invested in The Trials Within Us and very proud of it, and I'm pretty hyped on the flavor for Metal & Mayhem! ...that leaves War of Sea and Sky, which came about when I took two separate expansion-ideas and smashed them together. I figured that Dragons would be a common flavor, and Naga/undersea terrors might be a common flavor, but pitting them against each other could be unique. If it feels "forced" that's because it is lel
Lots to do to make it better...but first things first ^_^
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I mean that I intend the Pets to be to Bolf what Hero cards are to Jaraxxus. So there would be an actual card shape that signifies it as a pet rather than a keyword but it is not within my capability. Either way I'm confident I can do enough this phase to justify the votes I got. I'll see what you think when I've solidified my ideas more 😀
Hm, I guess you're right about resources. I might have another idea for that but now, I need to focus on the Shattrath stuff!
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Yes you can! The rule is actually the reverse scenario: you don't have to continue using cards you create in the first round in later Phases. If you want to, then go for it :)
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A question, can we use the Magnetic Keyword? Technically standard is still Basic, Classic, Witchwood and Boomsday (Since the year isn't over yet)
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Been hiding my WIP in the Staff Work Area again lel :/ Removing most of the flavor-fluff, I'd love to get some feedback on my Trials and their Burdens. I've got other cards completed, but the Trials are the most important pieces of my expansion: if they need changing, everything related to that class might need another look. There's a couple main things to consider:
Just to be forthcoming, I'm the least confident with the Shaman and the Warlock. Anyway, here they are:
Druid/Fear: A Druid who lacks control over their primal tendencies should be afraid. Are they masters of the wild, or does the wild rule over them?
Hunter/Hatred: Her desire for vengeance pushes Alleria beyond the Dark Portal. She will come to know a thousand years of war, in the Twisting Nether.
Mage/Gluttony: Dependent on the power of the Sunwell for centuries, the "Blood Elves" are addicted to magic. What lengths will they go to sate their appetite?
Paladin/Despair: Being solitary crusaders against endless evil, a Paladin must not lose hope as the fight continues everlasting.
Priest/Arrogance: Tempted by the Shadow ways, a Priest must strike a balance with the Light or fall victim to their own arrogance.
Rogue/Zeal: Drawn to wealth, but ambition will be their undoing: the golden glint of greed shines a light upon the shadows they seek to hide in.
Edited to clarify that you acquire a Coin every turn all game. The original version could have been interpreted as a one-time only effect, which would've been quite shitty lel.
Shaman/Doubt: Doubt can paralyze the mind and Freeze the body, prior failures haunting one's thoughts like apparitions. How does one escape such a prison?
Besieged by Doubt is unique, as the only non-minion member of the Sha cycle (the art doesn't fit in the minion window lel). The token is a collectible card, described below. Transform is a powerful effect, but it costs triple that of Devolve so hopefully it's okay.
Warlock/Violence: Binding his soul to the Burning Legion, Gul'dan will know power and blood as Darkness Incarnate. The price for failure will be severe.
^ Edit: It was originally "Whenever a minion dies, restore 2 Health to your hero." I found that too boring, and was really concerned that people wouldn't find that appealing enough to play the card. So...yeah. Traded endless sustain for constant reload, giving the Warlock two theoretical problems to deal with: dying from becoming too frail, and/or burning through your deck too quickly.
Warrior/Anger: In pursuit of strength, the orcs submit themselves to Mannoroth's Blood-curse. However, rage is a double-edged sword; will the fire consume them as well?
Plus a couple Neutral cards for some additional context:
I don't think I'll be able to provide feedback today, but I can try to reciprocate some words tomorrow afternoon or Saturday.
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