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• How would Etheral Trader's UI work?

Choice of 3 cards twice. Basically two Discover interfaces (one for each player), and a Choose One interface for your opponent at the start of their next turn and they see the cards chosen.

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• Alleria of the Void's effect is too ambiguous. What would happen to 1-Health minions in the hand and deck?

Remember Patriot Arrow from a few competitions ago. Works the same way. Minions that reach 0 Health in the hand or deck stay in the hand or deck but will die immediately upon entering play. Battlecries will still trigger.

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• "No buff cards for mage" is one of the last hardwired design rules Blizzard is still upholding, so I don't like the Ring of this reason (not to mention it's OP)

When has this ever been established?

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• You should use another character than Jaina for your Legendary.

Normally I would agree because I don't like using heroes as cards except for Death Knights, but I'm willing to let it go for this instance.

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• Whisper of Corruption's effect is good (though overdone), but the flavor isn't mage at all.

Because Faceless Summoner and Book of Specters does a better job at Mage flavor, right?

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• Corrupted Ashbringer's effect is nearly irrelevant, and doesn't fit Paladin.

It's a corrupted Ashbringer... the weapon originally held by Tirion Fordring? How does that need fit Paladin? Just because it's dark doesn't mean it can't be a Paladin card.

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• For the Paladin Leggy I'd take Mograine rather than Tirion. Tirion has never been corrupted.

Which is precisely why I picked him.

That and Darion Mograine is already used by The Four Horsemen, and doesn't fit the flavor of the set as well.

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• Ethereal Traitor is a 2mana 2/4 (and a free Consecration in decks that run Auchenai)

And Circle of Healing is a 0 mana Flamestrike in decks that run Auchenai.

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• Reaver is OP. Kobold Librarian should NOT become a metric.

And I didn't use Kobold Librarian as a source of balance, but rather Arcanologist. It has a weaker stat:cost ratio and the cards it draws can wildly vary.

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• Acolyte of Nightmare doesn't fit warrior.

How exactly?

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K, so I'm doing my Ghost/Haunted House expansion "The Phantom House", copy-pasting the introduction here because idk. I've got a third of it done, and I'd like to hear what you think about it, will give feedback in return when I can.

Banshees, Ghosts and lots of Pumps, these were the perfect ingredients to make the perfect Haunted House, but the owner of it forgot about the "Nocheaur Curse", which made the his house, now called The Phantom House, creepier than ever, but where does this house hold the mysteries? Will your heart hold enough pump before it pumps itself into this manor oblivion?

Possess is a new keyword featured in this expansion. This is shown in a good amount of Neutral cards and some class cards, however not all classes are going to have this keyword.

Priest

In this heavy-weight mansion, hidden philosophy is the greatest treasure that the ancients have burdenered behind a secret passage, going downstairs, you directly face into a gigantic library, full of ancient knowledge.

In short words, to clarify, this is a MANOR/big house, White House-like size, not a simple Haunted House, so there are a lot of rooms, of course unclean to do some stuff with it, with the company of the fellow ghosts.

Archetype: Trigger when drawn cards.

Margaret Ghostner effect includes Battlecries, while in hand effects and Spells, the rest of the cards can be played normally, I may struggle to balance this one.

 Shaman

You carefully open a grinding door, to find an old, of course off laboratory, it seems they made experiments in her- look! There are some dusty books around. You seem to find what happened here, a love story between a monster and another one? A bit cliche, do they really make Twilight books?

Archetype: Spell and Manipulating/Altering Effects

btw Ethereal Manor Kitty is supposed to be a Ghostly Black Cat, but since ghosts are white ethereal creatures, it looks like that. You can't really identify what colour of clothes or hair they were having before unless you find some photos of them.

 Warlock

In the center of all the chaos of madness, Warlocks have the powers to enter inside the heads of their foes and make them lose their free will, with another one taking control of it, it clearly reminds of those movie scenes where the character loses control of itself, becomes clearly emotionally unstable and starts doing barbaric or sadistic things. Days before the Nocheaur curse landed, there was this man that played his Chelo everyday, the same time, at the same duration, it was charming yet creepy, however he got a deadly disease and died days after beign diagnosed, slowly, the house became Possessed by ghosts, strange, seems that this Chelo just wants to break it's own strings.

Archetype: Possess Warlock (And by main yes, a LOT of Possess cards in here)

Also I'm debating whether even using this card below, since I've got mixed thoughts, situational and difficulty of choosing the art.

And yes, just noticed Schlerenhouse Buffon "Possess" isn't bolded, I'll fix it later.

 Neutral

Tokens:

Also I made 5 different tokens as "Flying Things", Archispectre Corduroy will summon one of these at random, just made a lot of tokens since I liked him that way, it gives him a bit more diversity, I mean why a single token anyways? XP

I may remove Flying Monkey or Chalice for Flying Fork and Flying Pitcher :P

 I'm not participating but can give my thoughts I guess.

The introduction is kinda confusing. I don't get the Pump thing. What does this mean? And pls, PLS use more periods dude. :) Your sentences are way to long. You should rewrite the intro a bit.

Like CheeseEtc said Possess(ed) is rather weak and the fact that it only applies for 1 turn makes it kinda wonky. Maybe you could change it into "At the start of your turn, attack a random friendly minion." and make it permanent on default. Would be more impactful and still fit the flavour I think. Instead of just attacking randomly, the minion turns on its allies. Then a card like "Possess a minion." would be already quite powerful.

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 I remember being told that having a multitude of resource generators is bad because it lowers deck quality. So I'm thinking about substituting them for a single resource generator for the whole expansion:

The Gold mine would be given for free to all players like C'Thun and Beckoner of Evil. It's common so you can have 2 of them but obviously they'll clutch your starting hand if you do so. Obviously too, this is the only structure that costs mana instead of Resources.

WOULD BE A SUBSTITUTE TO 4 NEUTRAL CARDS & 9 CLASS CARDS (1 per class) ->

 

Is it actually better?

I really like the idea of the 3 neutral Resource gatherers. They provide options for different archetypes, so you can choose which benefits your deck the most or include all of them if you go heavy builder. Don't really know what you want to do with all of it though. Just having the Goldmine seems way to boring. If anything I would just cut the class cards. Probably you want to give every class the ability to build structures so like this maybe you can also balance it easier. (And hope there is a Legendary Structure coming for each class.) :) You can do a lot of things with the Goldmine. "Start of Game: If you have at least x Structures in your deck, this starts in your hand." or something similar to support building. Or a Legendary Pick Axe that starts in your hand and summons a Goldmine that you can mine yourself. 

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 @Demonzx95

Overall

Lol Elusive again. I don't know if this comes from another tcg but I think it sucks as a name. Legacy is intrinsically better for "miracle" classes (Rogue, Priest, and to a lesser extent Druid) though iirc I already said that during phase 1 reviews.

Mixing both the Nightmare and the Nether into 1 expansion is weird, they're not really the same thing.

Cards

• Faerie Matriarch is weak. too easy to play around
• How would Etheral Trader's UI work?
• Shivarra Blademaster must be legendary and cost more. There's too many decks that generate cards to make this fair.
• Alleria of the Void's effect is too ambiguous. What would happen to 1-Health minions in the hand and deck?
• "No buff cards for mage" is one of the last hardwired design rules Blizzard is still upholding, so I don't like the Ring of this reason (not to mention it's OP). Leave Rings to me.
• You should use another character than Jaina for your Legendary.
• Whisper of Corruption's effect is good (though overdone), but the flavor isn't mage at all.
• Corrupted Ashbringer's effect is nearly irrelevant, and doesn't fit Paladin.
• For the Paladin Leggy I'd take Mograine rather than Tirion. Tirion has never been corrupted.
• Ethereal Traitor is a 2mana 2/4 (and a free Consecration in decks that run Auchenai)
• Plunderer is OP. Like, really OP.
• Totem Pole's art sucks
• Reaver is OP. Kobold Librarian should NOT become a metric.
• Acolyte of Nightmare doesn't fit warrior.
• Shield of Corruption can easily be abused.

 I remember being told that having a multitude of resource generators is bad because it lowers deck quality. So I'm thinking about substituting them for a single resource generator for the whole expansion:

The Gold mine would be given for free to all players like C'Thun and Beckoner of Evil. It's common so you can have 2 of them but obviously they'll clutch your starting hand if you do so. Obviously too, this is the only structure that costs mana instead of Resources.

WOULD BE A SUBSTITUTE TO 4 NEUTRAL CARDS & 9 CLASS CARDS (1 per class) ->

 

Is it actually better?

  Blizzard has broken design rule many times due to fan demand. Rogue and Mage's healing problem was addressed with Kingsbane and Arcane Artificer. Druid and Rogue's board clear problem was addressed for a while with Poison Seeds and Dark Iron Skulker. Priest's early game problem was addressed with Dark Cultist etc. Plus, the main usage of the ring isn't even to buff the minion (the Spell Damage is worthless in protecting the minion. It's to get the card draw and the extra damage to your spells.

Corrupted Ashbringer's effect has to be weak or it will be OP compare to Arcanite Reaper (Which is already see some play in Warrior)

You also seem to forget one downside of Shivarra Blademaster: If you play her, you can't destroy the card generated afterward.

For your cards, the Resource gathering looks good, but I suggest putting in some Anti-Resource synergy in order to spice up your expansion as well as giving other deck archetype some room to fight back.

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 First things first. Nice work getting it out so quickly.

Mark of Ysera seems much worse than Mark of Y'Shaarj as drawing a card is much more effective than granting Elusive. In addition, it looks like a number of Dragons already have Elusive...So it's draconic bloodline doesn't seem very helpful.

Heart of Il'gynoth seems to be really really powerful. All "gain control of minion for a turn" automagically gives it charge as well. As a result, you're basically stealing and swinging with their entire board.

 Nightmare Ysera - I always love alternate versions of cards. Just one very very small thing: There are 5 dream cards. It would make sense to also have 5 Nightmare cards (although there are 6). It's mostly up to personal preference.

Overall, I think this is a very very good set of cards. I honestly looked through everything and could only find 3 cards with problems, all of which are so minor that you could probably ignore them. Anyway, keep up the good work, and await my upvotes.

 Mark of Ysera was originally to just give the Elusive without condition, but then I'm really worry about it getting put on a 1 drop 1/3 minion and thus this minion will snowball hard because  your opponent can't cast removal on it.

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 @LarryMoments

Overall

You already know what I think of Possessed. It's weak (and also complicated). This makes most of your Possess cards weird and weak.

Also I think the flavor is good, as well as most of the cards, but you should use more wow-related art.

Cards

I won't comment on Possess since I have issues with the mechanic

• I think Margaret should be "Battlecry: Silence all minions in both player's hand" since Silence isn't really an aura effect. I like the card a lot and I think it's fair.
• Where did you get the art for Electrical Impulse? lel
• Horrifying Nightmare is weaker than Corruption. It should cost (1)
• I think Ooze Ghost should cost more.
• The Rush on Corduroy's token is useless since it's at the end of turn.

 I remember being told that having a multitude of resource generators is bad because it lowers deck quality. So I'm thinking about substituting them for a single resource generator for the whole expansion:

The Gold mine would be given for free to all players like C'Thun and Beckoner of Evil. It's common so you can have 2 of them but obviously they'll clutch your starting hand if you do so. Obviously too, this is the only structure that costs mana instead of Resources.

WOULD BE A SUBSTITUTE TO 4 NEUTRAL CARDS & 9 CLASS CARDS (1 per class) ->

 Is it actually better?

 Hoh boy they always ask me to use more wow related art XD

I agree on all your opinions, maybe Margaret will stay the same, as until you remove her, those abilities won't trigger (Battlecries, while in hand, and spell-type cards), but the other's yes, and what you suggested is good, but changes the whole point of the card. I'll leave Ooze Ghost the same though, not all classes have weapons anyways and they'd have already used at least 1 Durability most of the times, if they don't have a weapon, it's an unplayable vanilla 3/2, which is a common problem between the Ooze cycle.

About the resource generator, I'm not too sure if using a mine would be correct, but if you go with it, keep the class resource generator. But I agree with Schaulaneid that a single gold mine to make resources is boring.

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K, so I'm doing my Ghost/Haunted House expansion "The Phantom House", copy-pasting the introduction here because idk. I've got a third of it done, and I'd like to hear what you think about it, will give feedback in return when I can.

Banshees, Ghosts and lots of Pumps, these were the perfect ingredients to make the perfect Haunted House, but the owner of it forgot about the "Nocheaur Curse", which made the his house, now called The Phantom House, creepier than ever, but where does this house hold the mysteries? Will your heart hold enough pump before it pumps itself into this manor oblivion?

Possess is a new keyword featured in this expansion. This is shown in a good amount of Neutral cards and some class cards, however not all classes are going to have this keyword.

Priest

In this heavy-weight mansion, hidden philosophy is the greatest treasure that the ancients have burdenered behind a secret passage, going downstairs, you directly face into a gigantic library, full of ancient knowledge.

In short words, to clarify, this is a MANOR/big house, White House-like size, not a simple Haunted House, so there are a lot of rooms, of course unclean to do some stuff with it, with the company of the fellow ghosts.

Archetype: Trigger when drawn cards.

Margaret Ghostner effect includes Battlecries, while in hand effects and Spells, the rest of the cards can be played normally, I may struggle to balance this one.

 Shaman

You carefully open a grinding door, to find an old, of course off laboratory, it seems they made experiments in her- look! There are some dusty books around. You seem to find what happened here, a love story between a monster and another one? A bit cliche, do they really make Twilight books?

Archetype: Spell and Manipulating/Altering Effects

btw Ethereal Manor Kitty is supposed to be a Ghostly Black Cat, but since ghosts are white ethereal creatures, it looks like that. You can't really identify what colour of clothes or hair they were having before unless you find some photos of them.

 Warlock

In the center of all the chaos of madness, Warlocks have the powers to enter inside the heads of their foes and make them lose their free will, with another one taking control of it, it clearly reminds of those movie scenes where the character loses control of itself, becomes clearly emotionally unstable and starts doing barbaric or sadistic things. Days before the Nocheaur curse landed, there was this man that played his Chelo everyday, the same time, at the same duration, it was charming yet creepy, however he got a deadly disease and died days after beign diagnosed, slowly, the house became Possessed by ghosts, strange, seems that this Chelo just wants to break it's own strings.

Archetype: Possess Warlock (And by main yes, a LOT of Possess cards in here)

Also I'm debating whether even using this card below, since I've got mixed thoughts, situational and difficulty of choosing the art.

And yes, just noticed Schlerenhouse Buffon "Possess" isn't bolded, I'll fix it later.

 Neutral

Tokens:

Also I made 5 different tokens as "Flying Things", Archispectre Corduroy will summon one of these at random, just made a lot of tokens since I liked him that way, it gives him a bit more diversity, I mean why a single token anyways? XP

I may remove Flying Monkey or Chalice for Flying Fork and Flying Pitcher :P

 I'm not participating but can give my thoughts I guess.

The introduction is kinda confusing. I don't get the Pump thing. What does this mean? And pls, PLS use more periods dude. :) Your sentences are way to long. You should rewrite the intro a bit.

Like CheeseEtc said Possess(ed) is rather weak and the fact that it only applies for 1 turn makes it kinda wonky. Maybe you could change it into "At the start of your turn, attack a random friendly minion." and make it permanent on default. Would be more impactful and still fit the flavour I think. Instead of just attacking randomly, the minion turns on its allies. Then a card like "Possess a minion." would be already quite powerful.

 I know the introduction is messy kek, my wording sucks and I know it. Also, heart pumps.

Okay, so I see everyone thinks Possess is weak XP, however I won't make it "At the start of your turn, attack a random friendly minion" and permanent, that would be too restricting, it'd be Betrayal on steroids, so I'll put below 3 options (it includes the original so no copy-pastes)

OR

So it's either attacks random minions until it dies, or attacks his allies but only works once. If the last one gets approved, I'll change Spirit Jailor and Ethereal Manor Kitty to fit the effect/balance of Possessing.

So, we are having a hard time deciding which art is better for Totem Pole and fit in with the theme of our expansion:

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So, we are having a hard time deciding which art is better for Totem Pole and fit in with the theme of our expansion:

 Definetely the 1st one, as it gives the bit of dark tone the expansion has.

@LarryMoments

 @Shatterstar1998/Demonxz95

 @CheeseEtc

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Overall, there are lots of solid designs, and each class has a good identity. My concern is all the Elusive. It inhibits interaction by nature, so making it a set's defining mechanic could lead to less interactive games overall. I think Mage especially would suffer, since it manages the board primarily using spells, and its main theme in the set is Spell Damage. Also, after three cards named "Ethereal X", it starts to sound repetitive. 

Mage- Nether Guardian suffers from the unintuitive-ness that afflicts everything with a  passive Health buff. It's even weirder for him because he has Spell Damage and buffs himself.

Paladin- Not a Silence class, so Corrupted Ashbringer doesn't fit well. Corrupted Tirion also seems weird since normal Tirion still exists and does essentially the same thing. Yes, he's just for Dragon decks, but you could put OG Tirion in those, too, and get pretty much the same thing. He's not a bad card per se; it just doesn't add anything new to the game, I think.

Priest- Ethereal Traitor seems strong at 2 Mana since you opponent likely won't have anything to heal on 2, nullifying the drawback. I really like Shadow Strength, though.

Warrior: Mill decks are unpopular with many, myself included, so Acolyte of Nightmare may not be well received. Eranikus also looks off since rez isn't part of Warrior's repertoire. 

Because the Elusive effect is so crippling for Mage, we printed a new cheap board clear that scale exceptionally well with Spell Damage. Not to mention this might get Arcane Explosion to see play.

If you just play Ethereal Traitor at 2 mana, he is still basically a 2 mana 2/4 with Taunt, which is basically a Vulgar Homunculus (it wasn't good enough to put in any other Warlock deck beside Evenlock because it activate the Spellstones). You have to run all the "Healing become damage in order to justify running this card.

I mean, Taunt wasn't a part of the Warrior card until Bolster and Sparring Partner was printed.

Most of what we've got is positive, so I think we're almost done. Here's our first draft of our big post.

AND NOW...

A collaboration between Shatterstar1998 and Demonxz95, we present to you...

The second expansion of

Year of the Dragon

But first, a reminder of our Hall of Fame choice and new keywords:

Hall of Fame

Our choices might surprise you, but we have our reasons.

Keywords:

• Legacy effects can be fulfilled and activated multiple times per turn.
• Cards with Elusive and Legacy effect in the other sets will have their wording modified to include these keywords. For example:

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Nightmare on the Nether takes us to the Emerald Nightmare and the Twisting Nether - an ethereal dimension of chaotic magics that connects the myriad worlds of the universe, where corruption overcomes the best of everyone and darkness lurks around every corner. No one is truly safe, even the dragonflights. Dangerous creatures like Demons, Ethereals, Voidwalkers and Nether Dragons await.

Jaina, Warbringer and Nether Guardian are two examples of the Spell Damage theme from Mage this expansion. These two minions represent a theme for Spell Damage Mage this expansion: They do more that just offer the Spell Damage. Jaina offer a solid win condition if your opponent can't clear out the board that she summoned back while Nether Guardian brings more survivability toward the infamous fragile class by being the first Mage-specific Taunt minion in the game (unless you count the Mirror Image tokens) as well as offer protection for the board when summoned back by Jaina.

Felsworn Seeker and Ascension of Dreams are examples of Elusive being a major presence in this set. Both of them offer protection for friendly minions as well as the fact that Felsworn Seeker is a sticky, hard to remove minion itself.

Not only is Elusive a major presence this expansion, they also had their very own synergy. Shroudscaler is a minion that allow Shaman to push a board of minions with Elusive to become more powerful while showcasing the Shaman-exclusive (except for one Neutral card) Elusive synergy this expansion. Mark of Ysera is another card that offer Elusive exclusively for the Dragon tribe, as well as showcasing Dragon synergy that was promised by our Year of the Dragon.

The other cards are cards that showcasing a major theme for the chosen class this expansion.

• Nightmare Lord Xavius is a powerful build around card that support minions-focus Warlock deck that prefer ability-based minions and special buffs rather than just flooding the board like Zoolock.
• Ethereal Plunderer is a powerful card that showcasing the theme of specialized cost discount for Rogue this expansion, as well as bringing back the Ethereal minions that were prominent in Rogue in past expansions. Since Combo cards are rarer to come across than spells, it was made more powerful than Sorcerer's Apprentice and Radiant Elemental.
• Priest cards in this expansion will focus on their lesser-developed class mechanics. For example: Cultist of the Void has the mechanic from Auchenai Soulpriest and Embrace the Shadow, as well as being a 1 mana 1/3 statline to hopefully improve Priest early game.

Shivarra Blademaster showcasing the disruption mechanic prevalent in the Neutral set. She is a very powerful tech card to combat the Token-heavy Story mechanic from the first expansion of our year - Once Upon A Time in Azeroth or copies of Shudderwock generated from other Battlecries.

The full set:

FAQ

A big thanks for everyone who gave their opinion in the Discussion topic and Vilegloom for making the Year of the Dragon and the Once Upon A Time Azeroth banner.

Click here to see Once Upon a Time in Azeroth, the first expansion of the year that we showcased in the previous phase.

So, what do you think?

Should I have 1 resource generator per class (and less neutral ones) or should all the resources generator be neutral?

Sample with 1 resource generator/class

Sample with only neutral resource generators

 Which configuration is best?

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Should I have 1 resource generator per class (and less neutral ones) or should all the resources generator be neutral?

Sample with 1 resource generator/class

NEUTRAL

WARRIOR

Notice how the resource generator clutches the set

WARLOCK

Don't pay attention to eye of Kilrogg rarity pls, it's an old card

Sample with only neutral resource generators

NEUTRAL

WARRIOR

WARLOCK

Don't pay attention to eye of Kilrogg rarity pls, it's an old card

 Which configuration is best?

 I like the thought about having the Resource generator be Neutral. It opens up more room to develop class identity. Especially important given that you only have 4 class cards per class.

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Should I have 1 resource generator per class (and less neutral ones) or should all the resources generator be neutral?

Sample with 1 resource generator/class

NEUTRAL

WARRIOR

Notice how the resource generator clutches the set

WARLOCK

Don't pay attention to eye of Kilrogg rarity pls, it's an old card

Sample with only neutral resource generators

NEUTRAL

WARRIOR

WARLOCK

Don't pay attention to eye of Kilrogg rarity pls, it's an old card

 Which configuration is best?

The first option look rounder. The cards you put instead of the class resource producers seem more like old cards you used for filling. Sry if I'm wrong. I think I like the first option more. You can probably find nice Resource producer for every class and make more neutral cards that interact with Resource. From balancing perspective it is maybe better since some classes can abuse the neutral producers better than others. It's actually pretty hard to tell. Both options are viable and have their pros and cons. Either is fine. In the end it's what feels best to you.

So, based on the reception, we completely reworked Acolyte of Nightmare:

Old version:

 

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So, based on the reception, we completely reworked Acolyte of Nightmare:

Old version:

 

 I feel this card is strong, a bit too much on Warrior, I'd reduce it's Health to 3 (Also for [deck]Acolyte of Pain[/deck] flavour), it would feel less abusable with damaging cards, current version is a lot better than the old one though.

K, so I finished ALL my cards, wild cards, etc, just have to do the last details. Also, I'll keep Possess as it was before, I feel linkblade made a good point about beign frustating beign permanent or stronger, not that I'm lazy, but I want to keep it balanced y'know ;)

Banshees, Ghosts and lots of Pumps, these were the perfect ingredients to make the perfect Haunted House, but the owner of it forgot about the "Nocheaur Curse", which made the his house, now called The Phantom House, creepier than ever, but where does this house hold the mysteries? You'll have to go to it, creep down the halls and scream as much as you want, because no one will hear you other than your own echo.

Possess is a new keyword featured in this expansion. This is shown in a good amount of Neutral cards and some class cards, however not all classes are going to have this keyword. I didn't wanted to clutter it between all classes for just beign a keyword, not saying it shouldn't be allowed on other classes though, but cluttering all the space with cards that Possess things isn't very good.

Druid

 Hunter

 Mage

 Paladin

 Priest

 Rogue

 Shaman

Warlock

Warrior

Neutral

 

So, I'll sum up a bit the different type of cards this expansion has, just for personal convenience.

Possess Cards (Includes synergy and undirect synergy)

Total Set Card Type Balance

 Any feedback is appreciated! Of course I've rode everyone's feedback carefuly, and I consider those comments, and most of the times apply it into my set/cards/whateverthingimworkingon. I guess this will be the penultimate post of my expansion before starting to format it.

Also I'm kind of picking on my set for the lack of spell cards, not sure what you think by the amount, I have a lot of struggles of balancing a ration between spells and minions.

I'm 80% 100% done with this set, so I'll go ahead and post what I have. Any feedback, of course, is appreciated!

Discoveries at Dalaran

Flavor and mechanics:

Neutral:

Druid:

 Hunter:

 Mage:

 Paladin:

 Priest:

 Rogue:

 Shaman:

 Warlock:

Warrior:

 How "Choose a number" works:

 EDIT: Additions to Neutral and Hunter

EDIT2: Additions to Shaman and Warlock

 @LarryMoments

Neutral: Suit of Armor. Use Wandering Monster or Noble Sacrifice wording. Archispectre Corduroy: Rush is irrelevant. You don’t get to interact with minions at the end of your turn. If a minion is summoned for you on your opponent’s turn, you are able to attack with it when your turn starts. 

The Flying Dutchman: Do you only get the weapon the first time this takes damage? When or whenever. If it’s the former, make it a battlecry “the first time this takes damage equip a weapon with Attack equal to damage taken.”

Horrifying Nightmares: Better than Corruption in most cases  Good  Hatpot Ghost: Not really atrong enough  Wilfred Fizzlebang was terrible, and this is only average, so it could be reduce by 2 to make for the hero power cost and be a 2/4.

Divine Shield on a warlock card seems rather strange  Id go for more health instead  Like 5 or 6 health

Ancient Treasure seems too random and swingy  Feels bad to play against this because it’s sometimes a better preparation and other times just awful. Spike Trap seems weak.

Illusionary Librarian should be a 3/3 imo. Former Self is OP. If your opponent can’t remove a big minion fully they end up sinking damage into nothing and then another big minion takes its place.Silver Mirror is too long. Why not just shuffle it into your deck? You don’t want to be copying this from your opponent’s deck.Hallways Monitor seems too complicated. Higher Health and no draw a card imo.

If the wraiths survive they transform back into Recruits? If so they must transform into 1/1s, buffs completely forgotten.

Experimental Infusion has the same problem as the rogue one. On the other hand, it is a 2 mana cycle card. Li-Quantifier should say ‘duplicate’ rather than ‘duplicated’.

Use ‘Animal Companion’ instead. Beast companion is only used on the basic card. To my Side and Call of the Wild use animal companion.

J. Creetz is really weak. You could draw the 10/10 on an empty board, or on a friendly board. I would rework it entirely.

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Neutral: Suit of Armor. Use Wandering Monster or Noble Sacrifice wording. Archispectre Corduroy: Rush is irrelevant. You don’t get to interact with minions at the end of your turn. If a minion is summoned for you on your opponent’s turn, you are able to attack with it when your turn starts. 

The Flying Dutchman: Do you only get the weapon the first time this takes damage? When or whenever. If it’s the former, make it a battlecry “the first time this takes damage equip a weapon with Attack equal to damage taken.”

Horrifying Nightmares: Better than Corruption in most cases  Good  Hatpot Ghost: Not really atrong enough  Wilfred Fizzlebang was terrible, and this is only average, so it could be reduce by 2 to make for the hero power cost and be a 2/4.

Divine Shield on a warlock card seems rather strange  Id go for more health instead  Like 5 or 6 health

Ancient Treasure seems too random and swingy  Feels bad to play against this because it’s sometimes a better preparation and other times just awful. Spike Trap seems weak.

Illusionary Librarian should be a 3/3 imo. Former Self is OP. If your opponent can’t remove a big minion fully they end up sinking damage into nothing and then another big minion takes its place.Silver Mirror is too long. Why not just shuffle it into your deck? You don’t want to be copying this from your opponent’s deck.Hallways Monitor seems too complicated. Higher Health and no draw a card imo.

If the wraiths survive they transform back into Recruits? If so they must transform into 1/1s, buffs completely forgotten.

Experimental Infusion has the same problem as the rogue one. On the other hand, it is a 2 mana cycle card. Li-Quantifier should say ‘duplicate’ rather than ‘duplicated’.

Use ‘Animal Companion’ instead. Beast companion is only used on the basic card. To my Side and Call of the Wild use animal companion.

J. Creetz is really weak. You could draw the 10/10 on an empty board, or on a friendly board. I would rework it entirely.

 Thx for the feedback!

Again, I'll change Corduroy once I start submitting, of course along with the tokens.

About The Flying Dutchman, yes, it's whenever it takes damage, it does not trigger a single time, multiple times, that's how it was designed, beign extremely swingy, you could either control the damage it is dealt by clearing small threaths or making it block big minions, for then to get a really big weapon, though it replaces itself after the Dutchman takes damage, "gaining" a new attack.

Good point, I was slightly scared about making the reduction too high, since, Warlock! I'll make it a 4/2 though, I feel I have way too many +Health/-Attack minions.

Ethereal Manor Kitty will be changed, as discussed in the Discord. Same for Ancient Treasure, though that'll be modified entirely.

I could make either Ghostscaper a 4/4 or don't transform the card and THEN summon the Spike Trap, again, same feeling as Hatpot Ghost, way too many cards with the same stat distribution.

Remember Illusionary Librarian gives the value inmediatly when drawn though, so it's two cards in one, and that's quite a big deal tbh, additionally of beign a free without any effort, except drawing him, I'll keep him the same. I disagree with Former Self, what about healing? What about Evolve? You can sink damage against big minions and then get that value completely wasted by those things. Silver Mirror just shuffling would be a WAY better Recycle, I may consider about shuffling it into your deck, not sure. You can compare the monitor with a more complicated and risky Second-Rate Bruiser, you may get a good free last measure when you draw it, but if it isn't, then you're just left with a 6 mana 4/5 with Taunt, which is below average, while Second-Rate Bruiser isn't that risky, it serves as a tech card against aggro decks, and a 5 mana 4/5 with Taunt is not bad either.

Yes, buffs forgotten, just like they returned to normality, kind of.

Experimental Infusion may be changed, I had problems finding concepts for Mage Spells without including "damage" on it's text. Same as all other wrong wording cards, they'll be fixed.

Thus why cards like Wisp Maiden or Druid of the Beak exist, you can see how close is Noctunesque or the Mana River, DotB is used to play along those, Spell Damage for River and DS + Lifesteal for easy low health minion removal. Though now I notice I should change Mana River, since it does nothing if you draw it at the start, probs.

Thanks for the feedback though, really needed some after 84 years to see if everything was fine, which of course wasn't XP