Hearthpwn

It's my first time taking part, but I have been making my custom cards on reddit pretty regularly for some time now, so I figured I would give it a try here.

The Blood Mage

Short comment on the hero:  I wanted to use Lana'thel, who was generally known as "The Blood Queen", but I didn't do it for a few reasons. Firstly, she is now dead in WoW lore. Secondly, she has already appeared in Hearthstone as a Knights of the Frozen Throne card for Warlock. Moreover, (the most stupid reason) her name is too long. Most of the heroes have short names, so when the innkeeper introduces them before the fight, it sounds cool. Now, Thal'ena (Lana'thel's daughter) has a shorter name, so I decided to use her instead.

The Basic Set

Hello, people. I am about to introduce to you: The Witch

The Witch class is focused around controlling the board and summoning familiars to help you take down the enemy. The new keyword found in the Witch class will be Blood Pact.

Hero Power Tokens

Showcased Cards

 Tokens

My first time taking part as well, and I bring you the ever creative Monk!

Class Identity: 

Showcase Cards

Remaining Basic Cards

Token

Introducing the Illusionist class, featuring Myranda the Hag!

There are several themes to the illusionist class:

-A Hero Power that helps to control the randomness of other cards, or to avoid effects completely

-Making your opponent see things that aren't there

-A new keyword called "Morph", which condenses the phrase "At the start of your turn, destroy this minion and..." into a single word. Doomsayer, for example, would essentially be "Morph: Destroy ALL minions."

Additional Information:

 SHOWCASE CARDS

TOKENS:

 Remaining Basic Set:

 Remaining Token:

 Hope you like it!

Bloodmage

Basic Cards

The merchant

Hero Power coin:

 "Hey kid, have someone ever told you about true power? It's not light or sheer force or whatever those stupid priests, warriors and other dimwits told you! Money's where power is at! Money fluctuates like magic and is unstable as the elements, but if you plan your moves ahead you should be fine! Of course, we have an army of merchants to help you arrive to the top easily, an if you're more of taking your opponents economy slowly, we know a few guys that can help you dish damage constantly. Remember also that health is a resource, you should use it well! If you follow all my tips you'll be number 1 in no time! However, arriving there is only the first step. Once your pockets are full, then the fun begins! Unleash the big guys and glee as they destroy the competition, all while protecting all your properties with taunts and spells!"

Showcase cards:

Other cards from the basic set:

Flavour texts:

Hope you like my basic set! Also here's the keyword I'll us for the initiate set, it's like an inverse Overload:

Death Knight

Back when Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion came out, I was really disappointed as a big fan of the Warcraft franchise and an avid Hearthstone player that Blizzard decided not to implement an additional class. In my book the KotFT content never did the Death Knight player fantasy justice - so much potential was wasted back then. UI/UX limitations were always an issue with this I suppose (among other reasons). Now with the recent Demon Hunter announcement, I am wondering if the game's fundamental design space was opened up for even more character classes down the line. I sure hope so. I mean, when a new class was to be introduced, it made sense to pursue the Demon Hunter since the Death Knight player fantasy was sort of already explored. Anyhow, I decided to take matters into my own hands for now and designed a set of my own, a full-fledged Death Knight class. This is more of a starting point for further iterative work, an early draft if you will. All of the cards seen here would require a lot of playtesting if they were to be ever implemented into the game. Designing this set to keep it in line with the current Death Knight related content implemented was quite a challenge. I didn't want to reuse any cards, be it text or art nor to render them less meaningful in any way, shape, or form (even the ones from older/rotated out sets).

I tried to push boundaries with the designs, some cards are bound to be potentially game breaking - that is fine, I'd rather experiment and do something new and interesting, even if the entire set is scrapped after playtesting - an interesting gameplay aspect might emerge that can be further explored.

The permanent effect of Unholy Presence might prove to be problematic and as a result, will probably have to be further iterated upon into something like ‘Deal 1 damage to your hero and give it +2 Attack until the next time it attacks.‘ (2 mana). Still, I really want to prototype the initial 'bonkers' one and perhaps the playtesting sessions will give birth to something different and equally interesting.

Blood Presence probably needs an additional effect like 'If not used, restore 1 Health to your hero.'.

Stay a while and listen. This is the story of Cornelia Inkheart. May I say, she was not the greatest warrior, nor she could conjure powerful magic with her hands... all she had was her books, her fellow companions... and the ability to bring her writing to life. She didn't know this yet, but as soon as Harth Stonebrew called her, she was about to be known as:

THE NARRATOR

This lady has dedicated her life to store ancient books and scrolls, thus getting to use such knowledge in the most varied ways. Legends say, books themselves can turn into living things under the correct uses of magic. And thus Cornelia's library is often populated with stewards that protect the very knowledge that gave them birth:

For ages it was known there was some power in the written words. This is but a sample of the power of a true virtuous story teller, and guardian of knowledge:

Pandaren Loremaster: Pandaren have recognized from early times the power of the written word. Loremasters have consecrated themselves to the task of recovering hidden knowledge, and mostly, of filling the many gaps existing in their history. But this power may also be used to punish the aggressors who threaten them, if magic fills the air, they can become a force to be reckoned, specially by aggressive decks.

The End: A Narrator's power is barely known, but is something to be feared. Many unexpecting foes met their demise when a powerful enough narrator could write about it in a specially vivid and evocating way. Yet, such writing requires time, and thus this spell can't be used for hasty situations, like getting through taunt minions.

Codex Guardian: A big library needs a lot of people working to keep it clean, clear of bugs, and safe from thieves and brutes. The Codex Guardian's has devoted her life to keep some of the most powerful secrets in the library from wrong hands, although in time, she'll call for help, proving to be very convincing. In a deck strong on minions, Codex Guardian is guaranteed to protect your hero from many attacks, specially thanks to the Book Keepers. Also works as shield for other minions, altough later on you could see yourself giving taunt to a minion you don't want to be attacked.

 EDIT: Fixed a typo

Good luck, everyone!

The Sisters

Sometimes a hero is not enough. Sometimes even a hero is not what we want, we prefer to play a villain! So why not combine the two desires, by playing two bad guys at once?

 Showcase cards

Remaining Basic Set

Token

 And of course, good luck for all other participants !

"Good news, everyone! I think I perfected a plague that will destroy all life on Azeroth!" - Professor Putricide

The Scientist

"Mad" for not being remembered in the scientists' expansion, the greatest mind of the Scourge hails for vengeance. The Scientist class will count with the power of science to take down the opponent's plans. 

As for the class identity, it will consist mostly of card generation, AoE damage, poisonous and freezing minions, many random effects (we may never know the outcome of an experience, right?) and synergy with spells and the Concoctions, new mechanic of the Scientist's Hero Power. Upcoming sets will also feature deathrattles and secrets. It won't have good card draw, however, due to the card generation, and overall the gameplay is more reactive than offensive. 

Concoctions are 1 mana spells that do something simple, slightly better than a regular Hero Power. This feature was inspired by Shaman's totems and the Spare parts:

Showcase

Other cards of the set

Tokens

The Demigod loathes lesser unworthy beings. killing minions in creative ways is her specialty. She wants flashy finales and won’t hit face unless it looks really epic.

The Demigod loves a fair fight. Being a Demigod with near Godlike powers, she doesn’t mind playing with a handicap.

The Demigod lives life to the fullest. Good, bad and lucky things happen all the time, so expect plenty of 50/50s.

Unique things: The Demigod starts at 30 health, but can heal up to 40.

Unique keywords: Sure why not, but one phase of this competition at a time.

Remaining basic set

Blood magic is a vile thing, to use your own life force to create powerful spells. Who can survive this deadly cost, igniting their own veins to defeat their enemies? The reptilians of course, with their incredible regenerative nature.

Bloodburner

Class Overview: 

• Self Damage focused
• Powerful spells with drawbacks most of the time
• Powerful Hero power and many Hero Power synergies
• Dragons!
• Is introduced during  Rastakhan's Rumble

The Bloodburner is a fire and blood centered class, able to control the entire game but living on the edge due to many self damage effects. The class benefits often from being at low health which empowers a few cards. Health matters, both your own and the minions'. Just like priest plays with attack values, the Bloodburner plays with Health values. The Hero Power is the strongest asset besides your health pool, as many cards empower it and amplify it in some way. Because blood magic is so volatile most spells will harm you while the minions will protect you, either by being big taunts, healing or lessening the health costs of your magic.

Showcase Cards:

Rest of the Basic Set:

Heroes of Azeroth every day must face countless dangers and all types of enemies: World-destroying demons, unspeakable eldritch horrors, undying abominations and very hungry seagulls, how would anyone last a day doing such an ungrateful job? The answer is simple: Power.

Adventurers draw power from the most various sources, some rely on ther physical strength, others use the power of mind to cast powerful spells, but there are some who decide to use the dangerous powers of the Shadow.

The Shadow, or Void, is the opposite of the Light, is one of the most fundamental forces of the universe, represents corruption, madness and despair, and it's the thing Void Lords, the creators of the Old Gods are made of.

Void grants many destructive powers, allowing the users to absorb the lifeforce of their foes to become almost immortal, push their opponents to madness and make them fight each other without raising an arm (metaphorically), or just boosting their offensive power to destroy everything on their path.

Some Adventurers mix this devastating force with the strength of themselves and their arms to deliver crushing blows and support their melee capabilities.
This type of adventurers is called...

The Shadow Fighter

The Shadow Fighter represented by the Shadow Hunter and Warchief Vol'jin, is a class which specializes with the use of Shadow Magic combined with physical strength to wreak havoc upon the enemies. Its Hero Power, Shadow Fury, deals relatively heavy damage, but, as shadow as a force is very difficult to control, choosing a target is impossible and targeted, precision strikes are out of the question.

This class specializes on: Dealing Damage, both through burst and continued sources, Gaining resources through sacriice of Health or cards, Gaining health through draining effects, and can win by storming the enemy with strong and aggressive minions, or by gaining board control using efficient removal and staying alive by leeching the enemies' life.

The weak spots of the class instead are: No card generation and few defensive tools other than life draining effects.

The cards I've decided to showcase are: Devilish Voidcaster, Shadow Strike and Mass Drain.

Devilish Voidcaster represents the Early gane oriented part of the class and is a minion that sacrifices value to give a board presence which can value-trade or destroy a more expensive minion and showcases the remove from deck mechanic which will appear again in the Initiate Set.
Shadow Strike is a spell that, while not being a weapon itself, showcases the idea of a melee fighter who delivers powerful strikes in expense of its own Health, and can be used both as an aggressive burst and as efficient removal.
Mass Drain showcases both the Affliction part of the class (fun fact: Affliction Warlock uses, indeed, Shadow Magic.), gives an idea of a fighter who gains life by taking it from others, and its late game survival part by being a little control tool that acts also as an heal.

Other cards:

 Tokens:

Other Cards Explainations:

Flavor Texts:

 I hope you like this new class, and i wish good luck to all the other participants! To next week (hopefully)!

The Shrine Maiden!

    The Shrine Maidens are the ceremonial protectors of sacred places of worships. They do not seek to fight, but will defend their people and honor their ancestors at any cost. Through their worship, they are able to convene with the dead, and know their way around many rituals that guide their prowess in fighting. Through tradition, they are masters of wielding flames, manipulating them to scorch foes as well as empower their allies aura.

    Shrine Maidens have access to much card draw, but are not interested in playing fast. They deny their opponent's options with specific conditions and from there are able to benefit more from their symmetrical effects. The class supports both sides having a smaller board, with randomly applied buffs on their side, and punishes for wide boards on the enemy's side. With card draw and being able to play their pace, the class likes to set up scenarios for strong and flashy turns.

Some example cards:

Groundskeeper provides healing to both players keeping the game going. It also allows your discretion with the hero power to have some control on its ability. 

Though  your Hero Power grants your opponent options, cards like Fate's Edict deny their plays and can force sub-optimal plays. It also depends on your own play order, which could also allow for combo set ups.

Combustion is great burst, which is optimized by having a small board to mitigate the random effect. It works like Arcane Missiles, only instead of damaging enemies, it gives +1 Attack to your minions 10 times.

The rest of the basic set!

Class Details:

SHOWCASE CARDS

REMAINING BASIC SET

The Scholar

Class mechanics

Scholars are the students, the teachers and the intellectuals of Azeroth, studying every day to enhance their magic, to craft revolutionnary potions and, most of all, to gain knowledge. 

Knowledge Crystals are the new mechanic associated with the Scholar Class and are essentially a second mana type ressource that the class can use. Scholars can gain Knowledge Crystals through their hero power, or through several class cards (some of which will be revealed in the future). Unlike regular Mana Crystals, Knowledge Crystals are not gained at the start of each turn, and are not lost at the end of the turn. Knowledge Crystals can be acquired and stacked through different effects and will stay until they are used.

The main way to use Knowledge Crystals is through the Scholar's exclusive keyword: Study.

A card with Study will use up a certain number of your Knowledge Crystals to trigger an additionnal effect. Cards with this keyword will be unveiled when the classic set is released!

Class Identity

The Scholar's strength is card draw, heal and getting value with random spells. It will be limited when it comes to AOE and will be disadvantaged as far as direct damage and single targer removal goes. Furthermore, it has access to freeze cards. 

Scholar decks will consist of two main archetypes. A control freeze deck that relies on big spells to keep control of the board and an aggressive token deck that creates small minions and buffs them to quickly win the game. 

Now onto the cards!

Showcase cards

These three cards show the main strengths of the class. Scholars can heal themselves while setting up a powerful turn later on with Ancien Alchemist, they can make use of their knowledge crystals with Class Time! and they can finish off minions while keeping card advantage with Calculated Expansion.

Rest of the classic set

Tokens