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I'm a newbie to this process myself - are we able to post card ideas in this preview thread? I understand we'd also have to post in the submission thread, but I'd love to try and get in first with an idea before someone else has the same thought. :-P

Here's my two thus far:

Blessing of Divine Fire - on an average minion, ends up being a cheaper Blessing of Kings after 2 attacks, so I think the 3 cost is fair. That said, given the boost it could potentially give to lopsided minions (ie. if played on a 2 mana 1/4, it'd end up attacking as a 6/6) playtesting might be required - that said, that 6/6 would cost 5 mana and 2 cards, so it should still be fine. Probably most powerful thing would be putting it on a 1 mana 1/3 (ie. Northshire), and even then it's weaker than Divine Spirit + Inner Fire (though requires 1 less card) via the coin. But at this starting point the cost should be fine. While it's called Divine Fire, I felt like rolling Divine Spirit and Inner Fire into one card would be waaay too good, so went with a Power Word: Shield level health boost.

Mark of the Hunt - wanted something a bit different than just a stat boost, and while hunter has some other beast related card draw (Starving Buzzard), I don't think they have this particular effect. Very often may just be a 2 mana cantrip with potential upside, but that's also offset by the potential to be useful if you don't have a ready to attack beast out.

The first thing that came to my mind. Now i want such a card to exist.

"I mean, when you're shot you're usually left with a quite nasty mark."

An early removal or midrange buff which also nets you a card (not sure if that part is necessary, I mean both effects are kinda weak). Also may help heal pally.

If anybody cares about my take on these cards, here it is:

Blessing of Divine Fire: Of the first 4 cards, probably the best designed one. Not seemingly broken, being a 3 mana Inner Fire that gives +2/+2 (Because the Health buff is before the Inner Fire effect), if the minion only gets to attack once, which is about 2,5 manas worth. But, it is more expensive than Inner Fire, making it worse in a combo scenario. So unless you really need redundancy, it won't see play in that context, which is primarily where Inner Fire sees play, so pushing it more towards this, and further away from Divine Spirit, which might rotate at the end of the year, seems like a cool idea. As a value/tempo card in a big butt Priest deck on the other hand, it only needs one attack to be worth it, assuming the minion had 2 more Health than Attack, which shouldn't be difficult in a big butt deck. Though, maybe it should be printed while Tempo/Combo/Big Butt/Whatever Priest is in a worse state than it is now. All in all, an interesting card, that pushes a decent archetype, without being too powerful.

Mark of the Hunt: Compares incredibly unfavourably to Blessing of Wisdom, which mostly doesn't even see play. 1 more mana for more restrictions. And while yes, Hunters get less card draw, it doesn't mean their card draw should be that underpowered. Getting one draw from this is bad, and you can't expect to get more. While you could print this, there would be no reason to, other than technically giving Hunter card draw, which doesn't make sense since it's outside their class to do so. And I don't think the effect is salvagable, since at 0 mana it would probably be too good, and removing the restrictions isn't enough, though as is the card might benefit from being less restricting.

Mark II of the Wild: While it is an interesting pun, the name doesn't really make sense outside the pun, which I kinda dislike. And about the card itself, while a buff that makes a minion a Mech is intriguing, it is obviously absurdly underpowered in its current state, and I think I would prefer going away from being a Mark of the Wild clone, and alter the name, and going for something else, where making something a Mech is valued more like half a mana or less rather than 3-4 mana.

Power Word: Mark of the Shot: First off, and this might just be me not liking the idea of giving other classes things like Power Words, which is part of what this competition is about, but this doesn't make any sense, though it is kinda funny. And at least it both feels like a Power Word, a Mark and a Shot. But about the actual card, 2 mana deal 2 to a minion draw a card is already too good. That's like an unrestricted Backstab that cycles for 2 more mana, which is the normal cost for a card cycling. And the extra benefit just makes this even better, making it an arguably stronger Mark of Y'Shaarj, that only works on minions with 3 or more health rather than beasts. But this might be salvagable by raising the mana cost by 1. At 3 mana it's a bit weaker than you want when it is removal, with the flexibility of being a decent buff if you have a minion with 3 or more health, that also synergizes with healing effects. While the Blessing of Divine Fire might be better designed, I think I like the idea behind this card more. I also like the flavor text btw, quite funny indeed.

Just wondering, is a card that generates a token that is a PW, SW, Blessing, Mark or Shot eligible as well, or does the card itself have to be one?

Thanks for the feedback Rasmus - I'll take it on board and potentially tweak prior to the submission topic opening up (especially Mark of the Hunt; as you put it, it's way too weak compared to Blessing of Wisdom that doesn't even really see play).

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thoughts on other cards:

Mark II of the Wild: underpowered...I think making something a mech is minimally worth, maybe 1 mana, so total cost should probably be 3 instead of 5.

Power Word: mark of the shot: overpowered at 2 mana...either make the buff/damage smaller or raise cost to 3. I'm more partial to adjusting the power level than the mana if you can, since a 2 mana one would probably see more play.

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Here's my idea; a 10 mana legendary mark for hunters.

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