Hearthpwn

Ay, gonna compete in this, just finished getting stuff ready. Not got too much longer for feedback, but I'm lazy and left this late. I'll be sure to get to any classes posted here after mine, I want to get back into the swing of things reviewing classes and all that. Enough talk though for now, might as well just put the cards forward.

Regina, the Ringleader

Signature Explanation:

Themes and Basic/Classic List:

Showcase Thoughts:

I'd like to give a quick thank you to Nikko, for allowing me to use the border I made way more easily than it would be otherwise, and just being a fantastic developer in general. All feedback for the class is appreciated, and now that I exist again I'll be sure to try and provide some off my own. Also if there are any formatting errors with this post, I'll get to it eventually don't worry. From what I've seen of what other people have been making so far, I'm pretty excited for this years entries. Post ended up becoming longer than it probably should have been for the discussion topic so I'm just gonna cut myself short here, toodloo for now.

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Ay, gonna compete in this, just finished getting stuff ready. Not got too much longer for feedback, but I'm lazy and left this late. I'll be sure to get to any classes posted here after mine, I want to get back into the swing of things reviewing classes and all that. Enough talk though for now, might as well just put the cards forward.

Regina, the Ringleader

                   

Signature Explanation:

Right, this keyword is another shot at a concept I've been coming back to continuously while making custom Hearthstone cards, spell manipulation. A signature spell is a trick that you, as the center of your circus tent, are most known for. Or at least, what that circus is most known for. When you start building a Ringleader deck and include a card with the word Signature on it, a slot appears at the top of the decklist, which starts off being populated by a banana, which is essentially the default option for a signature spell, alike Sense Demons' Worthless Imps or Mindgames' Shadow of Nothing. Should you obtain a Signature card but aren't using a deck that has a Signature, like many thieving priests and rogues, a banana shall be your Signature. The text is golden and slightly larger to make it distinguishable from normal cards in your collection. From there, you can simply drag any Ringleader spell you include in your deck into that slot to replace it, as seen below.

But this prompts the question of what a Signature card actually does. Well, I'll show a couple of the cards and explain.

As it's your signature technique, you'll be able to acquire more copies of it over the course of the game, and change the way it works. Every good Ringleader can walk up on stage and perform any of these tricks, but not every ringmaster can perform that specific trick in the way you can. As a Ringleader, I could be running a deck built around the basic spell Star Performance.

During deckbuilding, I know that I could potentially have quite a lot of star performances triggering this game, and can then build the whole deck around that. I could use token generation to keep the board full and then use a conal Star Performance as a finisher, I could use large quantities of it in general as burst, I could pack healing synergies to be seen later to take great use of the triple Star cone. After all...

Three times the targets doesn't just mean tripling the amount of minions affecting, it's giving you triple the spells. Ideally, if I handle Signature correctly it should allow for exceptional diversity between archetypes, allowing for more deckbuilding choices than usual. But I'd like some feedback on the concept of Signature as a whole, as thoughts on how to best implement it. Balancing out the levels of Signature generation might be hard, for starters. But for now, that's the keyword concept.

Themes and Basic/Classic List:

Below are a brief look on each of Ringleaders gimmicks and the first proper draft of its basic and classic cards, likely to be significantly updated as the class is better explored.

Themes:
Healing
Tokens
Buffs
Cones
Draw
1 Attack
Spells, Aura Spells and Spell Manipulation

Basic:

Ringleaders have a lot of flexibility, but some of their weaknesses include burn spells and wide AoE. They have lots of cones, hitting three minions at a time, but hitting 5 requires cards like Blazing Display or a dedicated Chain Dance or to be seen Meteor Spin deck with a Firedancer, with a cone-cone, which hits 5 minions. They also suffer from potentially being great at a lot of things, but are mostly just decent at the things that's not the signature card of their deck.

Classic:

Ringleader likes spells, but like them in a different way than perhaps a mage or a priest. They have their own aura spells, which last the turn you cast them like an aura attached to your hero. They're quite alike Lock and Load as well as Stampede. They also have cards like Bungling Busker, a cute but sad little chap who's trying his best but isn't playing that lute quite perfectly. Consider sticking him into a Blazing Display or Stage Fright Ringleader, or maybe a Ringleader that's going all in on utilising Brutal Tango with something like Meteor Spin. Showstopper Leon's a fan favourite at the circus, and can present the threat of being a slighty smaller King Krush that may just come back at the finale of the show... Albiet a tad different looking.

Tokens:

Every circus needs an illusion trick or two.

Showcase Thoughts:

Right now, for the showcase, I'm thinking the way to go's gonna be:
Dining Dash
Firedancer
Star Performance
Talent Seeker
And Finale Architect, who's a spell manipulation epic like Bungling Busker, but from the Boomsday Project or Goblins vs Gnomes, I'll decide on that fully later.

She represents Ringleader miracle plays through massive turns with a whole lot of spells going off at once. In general, in the showcase, I want to show off Aura spells, a potential card to be used as a signature as well as a strong Signature synergy card like Firedancer, Signature generation like Talent Seeker which also represents token synergies, and something rather wacky to finish it all off. Talent Seeker could end up being replaced for the showcase with Costume Draft or Show Planning, and I'd like some thoughts on which is best here.

I'd like to give a quick thank you to Nikko, for allowing me to use the border I made way more easily than it would be otherwise, and just being a fantastic developer in general. All feedback for the class is appreciated, and now that I exist again I'll be sure to try and provide some off my own. Also if there are any formatting errors with this post, I'll get to it eventually don't worry. From what I've seen of what other people have been making so far, I'm pretty excited for this years entries. Post ended up becoming longer than it probably should have been for the discussion topic so I'm just gonna cut myself short here, toodloo for now.

The wording of Brutal Tango looks a little bit weird. I'm assuming the effect is that it deals 2 damage to the enemy hero for each minion the Signature kills. In that case, better wording would probably be "deal 2 damage to the enemy hero for every minion it kills." Bungling Busker also looks weird, and I don't quite understand the point.

Fragment of Thrill's artwork also looks like it should be a Beast.

But I really like this class. Everything else looks great, and I absolutely love the art style.

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can someone help with this class naming? i have an idea of merchant/investor/businessman but im not sure

Characteristic: 
1. Cast When Drawn
2. Mana Destroy
3. Temporal Mana
4. Deck Manipulation

The first thing I'm noticing that that every card of your has artwork already being used.

Saving Coin/Saved Coin - Gallywix's Coin

Interest - Bag'o'Coins

Thief - Cutpurse

Paid Riot - Hired Gun

Bragful Bodyguard - I Know a Guy

T-1-Rantus - Robosaur

You need to change these. The "When you draw this" effect didn't appear until GvG, so Paid Riot being Basic feels off to me. T-1-Rantus also should say "2 of your Mana Crystals". The Hero Power also looks weak because it does nothing immediately and you get little benefit that you're not even guaranteed to use.

Also, I think Investor is the best name.

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Quote from maxlot>>

Ay, gonna compete in this, just finished getting stuff ready. Not got too much longer for feedback, but I'm lazy and left this late. I'll be sure to get to any classes posted here after mine, I want to get back into the swing of things reviewing classes and all that. Enough talk though for now, might as well just put the cards forward.

Regina, the Ringleader

                   

Signature Explanation:

Right, this keyword is another shot at a concept I've been coming back to continuously while making custom Hearthstone cards, spell manipulation. A signature spell is a trick that you, as the center of your circus tent, are most known for. Or at least, what that circus is most known for. When you start building a Ringleader deck and include a card with the word Signature on it, a slot appears at the top of the decklist, which starts off being populated by a banana, which is essentially the default option for a signature spell, alike Sense Demons' Worthless Imps or Mindgames' Shadow of Nothing. Should you obtain a Signature card but aren't using a deck that has a Signature, like many thieving priests and rogues, a banana shall be your Signature. The text is golden and slightly larger to make it distinguishable from normal cards in your collection. From there, you can simply drag any Ringleader spell you include in your deck into that slot to replace it, as seen below.

But this prompts the question of what a Signature card actually does. Well, I'll show a couple of the cards and explain.

As it's your signature technique, you'll be able to acquire more copies of it over the course of the game, and change the way it works. Every good Ringleader can walk up on stage and perform any of these tricks, but not every ringmaster can perform that specific trick in the way you can. As a Ringleader, I could be running a deck built around the basic spell Star Performance.

During deckbuilding, I know that I could potentially have quite a lot of star performances triggering this game, and can then build the whole deck around that. I could use token generation to keep the board full and then use a conal Star Performance as a finisher, I could use large quantities of it in general as burst, I could pack healing synergies to be seen later to take great use of the triple Star cone. After all...

Three times the targets doesn't just mean tripling the amount of minions affecting, it's giving you triple the spells. Ideally, if I handle Signature correctly it should allow for exceptional diversity between archetypes, allowing for more deckbuilding choices than usual. But I'd like some feedback on the concept of Signature as a whole, as thoughts on how to best implement it. Balancing out the levels of Signature generation might be hard, for starters. But for now, that's the keyword concept.

Themes and Basic/Classic List:

Below are a brief look on each of Ringleaders gimmicks and the first proper draft of its basic and classic cards, likely to be significantly updated as the class is better explored.

Themes:
Healing
Tokens
Buffs
Cones
Draw
1 Attack
Spells, Aura Spells and Spell Manipulation

Basic:

Ringleaders have a lot of flexibility, but some of their weaknesses include burn spells and wide AoE. They have lots of cones, hitting three minions at a time, but hitting 5 requires cards like Blazing Display or a dedicated Chain Dance or to be seen Meteor Spin deck with a Firedancer, with a cone-cone, which hits 5 minions. They also suffer from potentially being great at a lot of things, but are mostly just decent at the things that's not the signature card of their deck.

Classic:

Ringleader likes spells, but like them in a different way than perhaps a mage or a priest. They have their own aura spells, which last the turn you cast them like an aura attached to your hero. They're quite alike Lock and Load as well as Stampede. They also have cards like Bungling Busker, a cute but sad little chap who's trying his best but isn't playing that lute quite perfectly. Consider sticking him into a Blazing Display or Stage Fright Ringleader, or maybe a Ringleader that's going all in on utilising Brutal Tango with something like Meteor Spin. Showstopper Leon's a fan favourite at the circus, and can present the threat of being a slighty smaller King Krush that may just come back at the finale of the show... Albiet a tad different looking.

Tokens:

Every circus needs an illusion trick or two.

Showcase Thoughts:

Right now, for the showcase, I'm thinking the way to go's gonna be:
Dining Dash
Firedancer
Star Performance
Talent Seeker
And Finale Architect, who's a spell manipulation epic like Bungling Busker, but from the Boomsday Project or Goblins vs Gnomes, I'll decide on that fully later.

She represents Ringleader miracle plays through massive turns with a whole lot of spells going off at once. In general, in the showcase, I want to show off Aura spells, a potential card to be used as a signature as well as a strong Signature synergy card like Firedancer, Signature generation like Talent Seeker which also represents token synergies, and something rather wacky to finish it all off. Talent Seeker could end up being replaced for the showcase with Costume Draft or Show Planning, and I'd like some thoughts on which is best here.

I'd like to give a quick thank you to Nikko, for allowing me to use the border I made way more easily than it would be otherwise, and just being a fantastic developer in general. All feedback for the class is appreciated, and now that I exist again I'll be sure to try and provide some off my own. Also if there are any formatting errors with this post, I'll get to it eventually don't worry. From what I've seen of what other people have been making so far, I'm pretty excited for this years entries. Post ended up becoming longer than it probably should have been for the discussion topic so I'm just gonna cut myself short here, toodloo for now.

The wording of Brutal Tango looks a little bit weird. I'm assuming the effect is that it deals 2 damage to the enemy hero for each minion the Signature kills. In that case, better wording would probably be "deal 2 damage to the enemy hero for every minion it kills." Bungling Busker also looks weird, and I don't quite understand the point.

Fragment of Thrill's artwork also looks like it should be a Beast.

But I really like this class. Everything else looks great, and I absolutely love the art style.

Pai also mentioned the wording on Tango being potentially made more clear and I was waiting to see how many people could understand it here, so it being criticised almost immediately is something I appreciate. I'll be sure to think of something better for it. You've got the effect right though. Bungling Busker being weird is partially the point of it, it's a strong 3/1/5 spell damage minion but only really that effective of one should it not be a targeted spell, which a lot of Ringleader damage spells are. It should also come up every once in a while when there's something specific in an expansion that it synergises well with. Might work, might not.

Fragment of Thrills is an illusion, like Leon's token. It's a scorpion, but it's not a real one. Also, thanks, I've spent quite a few hours looking for art, so hearing that it's paid off is good to hear. Thanks for such quick feedback!

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Ay, gonna compete in this, just finished getting stuff ready. Not got too much longer for feedback, but I'm lazy and left this late. I'll be sure to get to any classes posted here after mine, I want to get back into the swing of things reviewing classes and all that. Enough talk though for now, might as well just put the cards forward.

                                                                   

Regina, the Ringleader

                   

Signature Explanation:

Right, this keyword is another shot at a concept I've been coming back to continuously while making custom Hearthstone cards, spell manipulation. A signature spell is a trick that you, as the center of your circus tent, are most known for. Or at least, what that circus is most known for. When you start building a Ringleader deck and include a card with the word Signature on it, a slot appears at the top of the decklist, which starts off being populated by a banana, which is essentially the default option for a signature spell, alike Sense Demons' Worthless Imps or Mindgames' Shadow of Nothing. Should you obtain a Signature card but aren't using a deck that has a Signature, like many thieving priests and rogues, a banana shall be your Signature. The text is golden and slightly larger to make it distinguishable from normal cards in your collection. From there, you can simply drag any Ringleader spell you include in your deck into that slot to replace it, as seen below.

But this prompts the question of what a Signature card actually does. Well, I'll show a couple of the cards and explain.

As it's your signature technique, you'll be able to acquire more copies of it over the course of the game, and change the way it works. Every good Ringleader can walk up on stage and perform any of these tricks, but not every ringmaster can perform that specific trick in the way you can. As a Ringleader, I could be running a deck built around the basic spell Star Performance.

During deckbuilding, I know that I could potentially have quite a lot of star performances triggering this game, and can then build the whole deck around that. I could use token generation to keep the board full and then use a conal Star Performance as a finisher, I could use large quantities of it in general as burst, I could pack healing synergies to be seen later to take great use of the triple Star cone. After all...

Three times the targets doesn't just mean tripling the amount of minions affecting, it's giving you triple the spells. Ideally, if I handle Signature correctly it should allow for exceptional diversity between archetypes, allowing for more deckbuilding choices than usual. But I'd like some feedback on the concept of Signature as a whole, as thoughts on how to best implement it. Balancing out the levels of Signature generation might be hard, for starters. But for now, that's the keyword concept.

Themes and Basic/Classic List:

Below are a brief look on each of Ringleaders gimmicks and the first proper draft of its basic and classic cards, likely to be significantly updated as the class is better explored.

Themes:
Healing
Tokens
Buffs
Cones
Draw
1 Attack
Spells, Aura Spells and Spell Manipulation

Basic:

Ringleaders have a lot of flexibility, but some of their weaknesses include burn spells and wide AoE. They have lots of cones, hitting three minions at a time, but hitting 5 requires cards like Blazing Display or a dedicated Chain Dance or to be seen Meteor Spin deck with a Firedancer, with a cone-cone, which hits 5 minions. They also suffer from potentially being great at a lot of things, but are mostly just decent at the things that's not the signature card of their deck.

Classic:

Ringleader likes spells, but like them in a different way than perhaps a mage or a priest. They have their own aura spells, which last the turn you cast them like an aura attached to your hero. They're quite alike Lock and Load as well as Stampede. They also have cards like Bungling Busker, a cute but sad little chap who's trying his best but isn't playing that lute quite perfectly. Consider sticking him into a Blazing Display or Stage Fright Ringleader, or maybe a Ringleader that's going all in on utilising Brutal Tango with something like Meteor Spin. Showstopper Leon's a fan favourite at the circus, and can present the threat of being a slighty smaller King Krush that may just come back at the finale of the show... Albiet a tad different looking.

Tokens:

Every circus needs an illusion trick or two.

Showcase Thoughts:

Right now, for the showcase, I'm thinking the way to go's gonna be:
Dining Dash
Firedancer
Star Performance
Talent Seeker
And Finale Architect, who's a spell manipulation epic like Bungling Busker, but from the Boomsday Project or Goblins vs Gnomes, I'll decide on that fully later.

She represents Ringleader miracle plays through massive turns with a whole lot of spells going off at once. In general, in the showcase, I want to show off Aura spells, a potential card to be used as a signature as well as a strong Signature synergy card like Firedancer, Signature generation like Talent Seeker which also represents token synergies, and something rather wacky to finish it all off. Talent Seeker could end up being replaced for the showcase with Costume Draft or Show Planning, and I'd like some thoughts on which is best here.

I'd like to give a quick thank you to Nikko, for allowing me to use the border I made way more easily than it would be otherwise, and just being a fantastic developer in general. All feedback for the class is appreciated, and now that I exist again I'll be sure to try and provide some off my own. Also if there are any formatting errors with this post, I'll get to it eventually don't worry. From what I've seen of what other people have been making so far, I'm pretty excited for this years entries. Post ended up becoming longer than it probably should have been for the discussion topic so I'm just gonna cut myself short here, toodloo for now.

 Oh wow, this is a lot! Props to you for all the work you have done, this class is looking great. I'm going to comment on just a couple things, but overall I think this is a very well thought out class.

The first thing is your Keyword. Signature is a really interesting mechanic, one that promotes innovation and experimentation, so I love it. However, there's a very little thing I'd like to mention. Without a card that generates Signature spells, cards that interact with Signature will be textless when used by other classes. And well, I guess that if a rogue, for example, manages to play a card that creates Signature spells, Bananass will be used in place of them, am I right? I guess I like it so much that this doesn't seem like that big of a problem, but you might want to mention this special cases.

The second thing is more subjective and mainly just flavor, and that is that I'm not really seeing how a Ringleader, reckless and authorative in my mind, is linked to healing. Just asking here, it felt kind of odd. The interactions and overall synergies are cool though. Also, there is a couple cards I'm not feeling so sure of. The whole "set a minion's Attack to 1" bundle reminds me a lot of Paladin, with Humility and Aldor Peacekeeper. Oh, and compare Jaunty Tune to Force of Nature. Maybe two 3/3s instead, to make them more different?

Finally, I really like that you have created both the classic and basic sets already, just to have a bigger sample of the class. However, for this phase I think you should try to push the boundaries of the class a bit more, foreshadowing possible mechanics of future sets like you did with Finale Architect. This is also personal opinion though.

So yeah, really cool class you have there. Very interesting and flavorful! I think you will do well. Take a look at my Chronicler from last page if you have the time!

"Should you obtain a Signature card but aren't using a deck that has a Signature, like many thieving priests and rogues, a banana shall be your Signature." was added to my original post a little bit afterwards, but when it comes to the submission post, I'll definitely elaborate on it, yeah. It's probably fine, since any class that's stealing some of your cards is probably gonna steal quite a few, and they'll hopefully hit a Seeker, Draft or Planning eventually, and'll have charged up a pretty large banana over time hopefully. Brutal Tango is a complete miss unfortunately though, alike Glacial Mysteries and other such cards.

I think you and I think of different things when we think of Ringleaders. Sure, they're the authority of the circus, its face and its ruler, but a Ringleader doesn't necessarily have to be too authoritarian. The class takes good care of its performers, it's important for them to do so. That said, despite that, most of the healing cares more about you healing yourself anyway. The class was originally going to have weapons which would be stuff like whips and all that but I dropped it due to art concerns, but maybe in an alternate timeline Ringleader might've been more commanding. Think of the class as the circus as a whole rather than as a Ringleader specifically.

I am also a little unsure on Jaunty Tune but since Doppelgangster exists I feel that Force of Nature might just not really be an actual card, but the remains of one. I do have some cards started for later sets, now that you mention it, I just only recently finished my classes border and only basic/classic/Architect have been updated. I could definitely throw out some more stuff later, though I wanna keep some behind my back, don't wanna spoil too much. Thanks for your thoughts in general, I'll be sure to check out Chronicler in a second.

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Hey guys! I have finally finished my first pass on my class, the Chronicler. It is based on historians, explorers and lorekeepers, the like of Lorewalker Cho, Brann Bronzebeard and a bit of story magic. I'm gonna post it below, using some spoilers so as not to clutter the thread. I hope you like it! I'd love some feedback on my keyword, hero power and preview cards. Thanks in advance!

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The Chronicler

The Chronicler is a class based on harnessing your memories and the power of the places you have visited or studied, summoning beasts of alien worlds or making your opponent feel what an eruption is like. Roaming through Azeroth and beyond, these explorers and scribes have witnessed or read about nearly everything, but their thirst for knowledge and adventure lingers on.

Karnik, one of the most important members of the Explorer's League, is also in charge of keeping the Great Library of Ironforge in order. However, he is no ordinary archivist. As adventurous as any other member of the Guild, he has travelled the world, personally adding dozens or hundreds of new entries to the library. With a basic knowledge of arcane magic, he has travelled through Outland and Azeroth, catalloguing each new landmark or race he encounters. He then uses this knowledge in battle if needed, making enemies shiver with Winterspring's blizzards or drown in Vashj'ir depths. He has even caught a glimpse of the Shadowlands, a realm usually for the dead... or worse.

 

Hero Power tokens

This Hero Power functions in a very similar way to the Shaman Hero Power. This means that, when you use it, a Scroll that you don't already have is added to your hand. So, the probabilities of getting the Scroll you want improve every time you use it without casting the others. However, you can't have more than one of each, so once yo have all four you must cast one before being able to use the Hero Power again. This exactly how the Shaman Hero Power works. Improving your Hero Power makes it so that you choose which Scroll you add to your hand, and you can now have duplicates. Once again, this behaviour is exactly the same as Shaman's improved Hero Power.

Some cards will interact with your Scrolls in different ways. Some minions add an specific Scroll to your hand, others transform them. These are just some of the many things a Chronicler can do with their archives.

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Preview

 

• Westfall Settler is an example of a simple Recall minion. If you play it on curve you are likely to lose its effect, but if planned correctly it can heal you without you doing anything special. In dire situations it could also be played directly for the heal, making it a {3} mana 1/2 that heals you for 3 and gives you a Scroll.
• On the other end of the spectrum, Nether Storm is a really powerful spell, with most of its weight in its Recall effect. The powers of the Nether tamper with all magic, silencing all minions. But that is the calm before the storm. A storm you can recreate when you check your narration of the event.
• Cartographer Merian is the Fandral Staghelm or Brann Bronzebeard of Recall. As long as she lives, you will be able to relive any event any number of times, increasing the value of any Recall card considerably.
  
• Prophecy is an example of the Chronicler's draw engines. Its methodical and studious nature makes them very precise, making you play around their predictable outcome. This card acts as a potent refuel for the more aggro or tempo archetypes of the Chronicler, at the cost of considerable tempo.
• But the Chronicler doesn't just study. Mountain's Gift is an example of the relationship between Battlecries and this class, having an abundance of them and some cards that synergize directly with them.

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Other cards

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Alternate Hero and Improved Hero Power

 

Hope you like it! Any comments are welcome.

I definitely like this class, it's been handled really well. The class concept feels a lot fresher than stuff like Tinkers and Alchemists which show up each year (Not that they're bad though), and you've done a good job describing said concept. I'm often turned off by random token hero powers, they're often hard to manage and suffer from the same RNG issue as shaman. While it's still technically true for this, there's a lot less reliance on the RNG due to the way they're stored in the hand and can't stack. Good job there. Recall is a fantastic keyword. Generally applicable, fits the class well, lots of design space, etc etc. Reminds me a lot of Combo in it being a simple battlecry alternative trigger.

Westfall Settler is a really nice simple 1 drop for the class. It definitely does a good job of showing off the keyword; Voodoo Doctor is often a wasteful turn 1 play because the healing is wasted, yet Recall allows this to put that healing in the fridge for later. Definitely include it in the showcase.

Nether Storm is playable as a 9 mana silence and destroy all minions, yet the card is a lot more than that. I'd definitely recommend keeping recall effects more towards the low end of the scales, but having exceptions is fine. Chronicler so far seems like it's a little slow naturally, and though it works well like that, I'd avoid making it much slower than it has to be.

Cartographer Merrian is a card I have a few problems with. To preface this, I'd like to go over her status as the Fandral Staghelm or Brann Bronzebeard for the class. At first, while I was working on Ringmaster, my classic legendary was this dude: (Mind the old border)

He was intended to fill a similar role, and I'm still unsure on his design in general but regardless of how good he is for the class, the spot he'd belong simply isn't classic. I feel similarly about Merrian. Fandral Staghelm also isn't the classic druid legendary, and there's a few reasons for all this. The classic legendary for the class is quite important to get right. Classic as a whole is meant to be rather simple, but the legendary for each of the non-warlock classes are especially so, despite being in the rarity that holds the most potential for complexity. King Krush has one word in the text, Grommash Hellscream is that same word with an Enrage effect, Tirion Fordring was two keywords and a big stick, etc etc. The classic legendary should be a simple, yet extreme version of the fundamental principle of the class. Hunter has a bunch of scary beasts and to smack you with the beasts, thus the legendary is a really big one. Warrior has angry guys and punches his own guys in the face which makes them angrier, thus they get a really big one. Shaman's a mess and therefore their legendary is a really big one. Mage's entire principle is spells so they gave their legendary a condition of play spell with a reward of get spell. Classic Legendaries are intended to be cards that often lead to the game finishing when they hit the board, which is why a third of them have charge, a couple of them are exploitable otk fuel, Tirion represents 15 damage you can't really deal with, Edwin is an all in card that gives you a minion your opponent literally can't deal with at such an early stage of the game and Jaraxxus is borderline impossible to sustain yourself against in classic.

That was all a bit long-winded but hopefully my point's clear enough. The classic legendary best fits the set when it's simple, extreme and causes your opponent to die soon after. That said, as for the card itself, it feels like it could probably reduce design space for Recall effects, but not really much else.

Prophecy is a card that I'm happy exists but might need some tuning down. A lot of people making classes, I feel, like to make their class a "control" class with no considerations for anything else. Drawing 7 for 5 is a lot though, golly. If you have 3 cards in hand, it's still a draw 4, so I think maybe it could go down to 6. That said, it's power is, moreso than most dependant on the power of other cards that enable more aggressive or tempo focused iterations of chronicler to exist. Keep this card in the back of your head at all times I suppose.

Mountain's Gift, I feel, is a bad card to showcase. Showing off that you have battlecry synergies is nice, but there aren't any other battlecry cards in the showcase. For highly synergistic card like this, my first thought is to think of what cards I could use it with obviously, yet since this is my first sight of the class, that pool of cards that I could use this on is dry. I'm a little skeptical of battlecry chronicler in general regardless, because their recall keyword typically means that they'll actually have a lower than average battlecry count unless you go out of your way to make sure otherwise.

On a side note, happy with the art you've used for all of your cards mostly, only real outliers are Merrian being too zoomed in, and perhaps Nether Storm not looking destructive enough. In the other cards shown, I'm mostly happy with them but have a couple of criticisms. Trauma feels quite strong, being 1 damage off of vanilla damage spells and having an attached boardwide freeze. Gilnean Reveler and Oblivious Ruin and both quite cool but their text is very filled out, the presentation of the cards could be better.

I think the class overall is great, easily in the top 3 other classes I've seen in the comp so far, I mostly just don't like Merrian, that's about it.

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Out of the Alchemists, I'd say I prefer the first version.

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Overall, the second Alchemist is the best, IMO.

Uh, so which one is it?

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HEy, I'm almost done with my Phase I cards for THE DETECTIVE. Here's my final draft (very different from previous drafts but it's ok, I think this one is THE one) :

I think these cards showcase the themes, mechanics and playstyle of the Detective.

Themes : Investigation, fairplay

Mechanics : "Both players", card draw, removal, revealing cards

Playstyle : Slow (Control, Combo), Mill

What do you think ? I'll probably post it tomorrow or the day after that.

Happy CCC to everyone !

I think making cards that do nothing but reveal information without doing anything with it could be a mistake. Hearthstone cards that reveal information already exist, many priest cards perform that role for example, but they all do something on top of revealing information. The power of revealing information should be valued at next to nothing, for it would provide little impact to decision making against a lot of archetypes and ends up being quite matchup dependant. Adding cards to your hand, doing something that scales with stuff in your opponents hand, etc, all do other things while revealing just as much if not more, it's more interesting to add information cards like that.

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The Killmonger

The Killmonger can easily take down enemy minions with his weapons and hero power. As the class name says, his main goal is to kill as many enemies (or random creatures that found themselves in a wrong place in a wrong moment) as he can. So here comes the first class mechanic - minions or weapons that gain bonuses after killing an enemy minion. But why would you kill just one of those weak creatures when you can kill so many of them? 

Here's the first weapon that shows the flavor of my class and it could easily be the core of many decks:

Seems strange? Maybe this weapon would be weak without our hero's faithful assistants and other tools that help him bringing slaughter and gore:

When the Killmonger can't find any prey for a long time, he feels a very strong Lust. Of course, it doesn't mean that he becomes weaker. He is even stronger and more alert. After he finally finds his prey, there's no way it can escape. His helpers feel Lust too, although he doesn't care much about them. They're just like puppets

The only assistants he truly cares about, are those strong enough to live on their own in the wild, but they've decided to stay with him and kill for him. Here's his favourite one:

So, my main questions are

• Does the class look interesting?
• Is it balanced?
• Are all five cards balanced?
• What could I change?

I personally think that the legendary is too good, so i have prepared two different versions of it:

The last question: Which one do you like the most?

I hope that my experience from previous Class, Year etc. Creation Competitions helped me and i made no huge mistakes here.

To me everything looks pretty balanced and consistent. For the Karg, I think his 4 mana 3/4 version is the one that feels more like a legendary minion from the classic set. The only card I have a problem with it is the assistant, right now it is a stronger Wolfrider and if you hold it in your hand it becomes a stronger Kor'kron Elite, maybe make it a 2/3 instead with the same text?

Now this complain it's mostly about aesthetic. You should probably find better art for your Hero and Hero Power. For the Hero Power you could find a dagger with blood or something along those lines and for the Hero, maybe this could work?

Remember to end all your card texts with a period and your keyword has to be Bold. And also Lust sounds kinda weird, maybe Blood Lust or Impatience would sound better.

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Anyone have a problem with including a natural keyword in the Hero Power?

 I don't, as I'm using Freeze in my Hero Power. Some take issue with Keywords in Hero Powers but in my opinion, the Shaman's Spell Damage and Taunt Totems undermine those arguments *shrugs*

 Sounds good. Right then here's what I have for the class so far.

The Enchanter

A spell-casting, weapon-using, secretive class.

The Enchanter is about change; altering, transforming, improving. The Enchanter's basic and classic cards set up several potential playstyles. Spell Damage, buffs, spell positioning, token creation, Secrets, mana manipulation, and weapons.

The Enchanter has two potential major tribe synergies: Dragons, and Demons. Demons will be explored as an archetype from K&C onwards, while Dragons will have their day in Un'Goro, KFT, and Witchwood.

The Enchant and Enchanted keywords function similarly, but their triggers are slightly different. Think of it kind of like what Choose Twice is to Choose One. Enchant will be used more often, as a triggered effect that does something when targeted with an enchantment (e.g with Shattered Sun Cleric), and can be activated multiple times. Enchanted will be used for aura effects, that is activated while the card has an enchantment—whether it is targeted, or granted by an aura (e.g. Dire Wolf Alpha), for an aura effect.

The Enchanter doesn't have good healing or survival by default, but they have exceptional spell damage synergy, albeit with a limited selection of damaging spells. Each expansion will help the Enchanter to survive or find a new win condition. Secret synergy does not exist in classic, but these 2 mana Secrets provide some measure of defence that circumvents armor or healing.

One win condition in classic is the 'machine gun' tactic that involves Mistveil Drake and other left-most card synergies, playing cards out all at once.

≻—— BASIC ——≺

Token:

≻—— CLASSIC ——≺

≻—— Other Cards ——≺

That's what I have for now. I need some advice on a few things:

1) Are there enough damage dealing spells to justify/render useful the Hero Power?
2) Are the buff spells/enchant effects too strong?
3) Is the class too aggro?
4) Is the hand-positioning idea intuitive enough? It may not have the most amazing synergy so far, but the idea is to plan ahead with your hand (see The Grave Keeper).
5) Does the class have enough draw? Does it need more?
6) Does it need more survivability?
7) Is Nightwell Tome OP?
8) Am I going in the right direction here?

Thanks!