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Since deathrattles are allowed in basic set now, I proudly (again) present you...

(The Cook)

 

Everybody loves a good meal! Also, Pandaren. 

The class is shifted towards hero lifegain. Also, what could describe kitchen more, than constant Rush (sometimes poison). 

 

 

 

 

The Scaleborn

Heritage Cards:

 Born of love unnatural, of both man and dragon, these knights inherit powers of the 5 dragonflights within their very blood. With a family unlike any other, they rush into the fray, not giving the enemy any break. A ceaseless charge of a well aimed and prepared horde of dragons and riders, the apex of aerial combat.

Core Themes:

• Dragon Ancestry: From being able to partially shift into a half dragon form, to using the full power of the magic granted to the dragonflights by the titans, Scaleborns show a unique combat style of merging knightly cadence and tactics, with the raw power of a charging dragon from above.
• Family: A scaleborn has the weirdest and most interesting family tree of anyone in Azeroth. Some of the cards will show these core theme of family, and the self discovering journey you will take to discover your real ancestors.
• Swarm Tactics: Unlike the dragons we've seen before in hearthstone, Scaleborns take them to a new, aggressive level, focusing on Attacking Synergy and proactive mechanics.
• Tactics and Plans: The Hero power and connected Heritage cards let you plan ahead and empower your minions before playing them. This keeps true with other cards that prepare the field in advance, so when your flight finally descends they are in the best conditions for the win!

Strengths:                                                                                    Weaknesses:

• Sustain and stickiness due to Heritage cards                      ●  Recovering a lost board
  
• Card Draw                                                                                  ●  Late game threats
  
• Wide Boards                                                                              ●  Unconditional board clears
  
• Strong Buffs, but held back by RNG and delays.                 ●  Family Gatherings >_>
  
• Adaptability and Tools for any situation        
  

 

Showcase Cards

• Adopted Whelp is the ideal turn 1 play of the class, similar to Northshire Cleric, Wailing Vapor and (old) Mana Wyrm. It lets you gain an immediate impact for playing Heritage cards, doubling their effects in a way.
• Dragonshift is another delayed but powerful buff. It also gives you 3 Attack this turn, acting as a removal option as well. Scaleborns will have other Dragon transformation effects, all giving them temporary Attack boosts with additional bonuses.
• Unleash the Whelps! is the most important card of the Basic Set like Fireball for Mage. Runs Parallel with unleash the Hounds, but it is intended to control the board instead of going face. This cards is the main enabler of all the Attacking Synergy cards within the class.

Rest of Basic Set

 Tokens:

 

 

CARTOMANCER

Corpse token:

 Arcana Ma'jorr, gypsy traveller, fortune teller, wielder of the dark arts, cartomancer and some would even say witch. A woman who has travelled the globe dealing her cards and telling fortunes, now she has come to the hearth to defeat you with her excellent card playing skills. She likes to shuffle, draw and bring in some unique cards to shake up the game, defensive, aggressive and with plenty of combo potential; prepare yourselves, Arcana has arrived.

Themes and unique abilities:

• Tarot cards These cards will be a huge template for tech and synergies in the future, tying together archetypes and game plans. However, you must predict what the future will bring with these as Tarot Cards DO NOT trigger the turn you play them and always the next turn at least. These will be aura effects that need triggering, sometimes they will only be active on your turns, sometimes your opponents and they will have to avoid certain play styles. And rarely but sometimes, they will be active on both player's turns.
• Shuffle and draw Thematically I had to have it. Hopefully these will generally feel balanced without too many possible ridiculous shenanigans however the shuffle will allow for easy recycling to find answers along with possibilities of prolonging your reach to fatigue but also many other synergies with epics and legendaries will take unique twists on the concept of shuffling. The constant draw ability will also bring other strengths and synergies too.
• Buffs and heals Self explanatory, but many gypsies/ pagans don't just go around cursing people but also healing and helping others find inner strength and peace. Let's look at their positives too!
• Deja Vu A unique keyword that will feature in the initiate.

 

Reshuffle - A great way to get rid of cards that could be sat in your hand for a while and find good answers, also a good way to trigger effects like on Soul Bolt.

TC: Strength - A very powerful buff card of +6 health for 1 mana. However you must actually complete the requirement each turn for a total of 4 (including the one it's played on) It's slow but great for taunts.

Soul Bolt - A prime example of removal the class will have. Not much however 4 damage in total ain't bad and multiple reshuffles or copies of it and we could have an interesting Shotgun Cartomancer deck.

Rest of the cards:

 

THE BARBARIAN

"Get ready Stormwind! After defeating countless adventurers the Hogger has farmed enough equipment and xp to siege the capital! Now he comes, ready to make the capitals bleed for the gnolls!"

"Here you have a small demonstration of the horror we're going to bring to the tin mans of the Alliance! We've got the most brutish and wild soldiers to lay siege on sane civilization, once and for all!"

Showcase Cards

"Our tribe aims for pure chaos in order to bring doom upon our opponents. Don't expect fancy strategies or elegant wizardry, here we go full face into action! Be wary though, being a sadistic warcoholic isn't an easy task, you'll launch yourself into danger from time to time with our unpredictable effects! But worry not, we'll get some measures in the future to help you in case you bite your tail!"

Cards:

 "Last but not least, here you have our average troop, the Gnoll. We have a pretty... woobly hierarchy, to say th least, but as long as you throw a steak in the direction you want them to attack and whistle, they'll obey you without hesitation!"

Token:

 

 

Be wary, child, of Plaguelands plain...
Be mindful, child, of the infected grain...
For if throat is parched and of infected water sip...
Forever your soul will be in cursed Scourge grip.
So heed this warning, child, and if far from mother stray...
Let light from home's hearth guide you back your way.

ABOUT THE PLAGUEBRINGER

The Plaguebringer sees diseases and infection as the ultimate weapon, working tirelessly to master new pathogens and spread systems. A Plaguebringer has no remorse at unleashing his virus on his enemies, weakening the immune systems of his foes and spreading his twisted illnesses across Azeroth. These masters of infection arts keep their companions fighting far beyond their normal capacities boosting them with injections of mutated virus while debilitating and poisoning heir enemies. Disease is a tool and the Plaguebringer is its master. 

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Margrave Stradama, Queen of the Slimes and once leader of the House of Plagues before their seat was destroyed. It was believed that Margrave Stradama was annhileted in the explosion that brought down her house. In truth the explosion transformed her into a monstrous new form of slimes and bones, driving her mad, and leaving her at the heart of the fallen House of Plagues.  A source of plagues and disease, Stradama comes to Hearthstone to serve you global-pandemic realness. 

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INFECT / INFECTED 

 Infect, is the new Keyword added with the Plaguebringer class. Fatigue and lack of energy, these are the symptoms at the base of any disease and the Plaguebringer is ready to exploit every faceclass.  Once a minion is infected, its stats will progressively drop over the course of the battle, weakening even the strongest of the warriors. 

 

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BASIC SET

• Sludge Shot A slightly copy of Moonfire, which also boost the damage of your next Hero Power. Inexpensive card that can be quiet powerful with an array of Spell Damage minions on the board. It's a slime, slime world
• Pathogen: Green Fire Introduced in the basic set, the Pathogens are 1-cost spells charateristic of the Plaguebringer Class. This particular card enhance a mechanic that will be showcased in the future about shuffling cards into your opponent's deck. Looking for a GM to sanitize you? 
• Plagueland Clinician A nutty removal card to get rid of some insidious minions on the opponent board. Comes with a slightly boost to the Spell Damage and a 5/5 body that will definitely annoy your opponent. He went out to grab some mushroom and never came back. 

TOKEN

 As per the challenge:

 

 

The Winglord 

 Clean up yer deck slots lads as the famous Winglord - Commander of Gryphon riders - Kurdran Wildhammer and his loyal friend and companion - Sky'ree are making their way into Hearthstone and are taking command of more than just gryphons, with your help, of course.

Sky'ree herself (Token):

Showcase cards:

 

Wandering what more is in store for this class, including the rest of the Basic Cards? Then check this spoiler bellow:

The Secret Agent

So, the Agent. Quiet guy with a loud gun that has a job to do. What does he like?

• His good, old, a bit clumsy, but still, his very own Hero Power. And everything that upgrades it or interacts with it.
• Weapons. Because sometimes his good, old, a bit clumsy, but very own Hero Power ain’t enough
• Big lads. Because sometimes even weapons and his Hero Power ain’t enough
• Target removals with positioning requirements or other strange peculiarity. Because agents have style
• Getting info (and resources) from his opponent.

…and some other stuff but we will talk about it later. Someday.
However, there are a lot of things that James really dislikes or really bad at:

• Good, cheap and reliable AoE
• When his Hero Power misses
• Draw of his own cards
• Wide boards and tokens. His opponent’s wide boards are even worse!

Showcase cards

• Shot Right Through. A very good example of agent’s removal. It’s really useful if there’s only 2 or 3 minions on the board or if the key target stands near the edges. Or just prepare the board and kill what you need.
  The bad thing about this card is that you need at least 2 enemies for it to work.
• Marksman Scope. This card finally allows you to aim properly. When you’ll buff your hero power further, this tool will be irreplaceable. However, it has 0 attack, so sometimes you’ll have to think what do you need right now: more damage via weapons or more accuracy with your hero power.
• Decisive Partner. One of the most important cards of the class, this little guy can help you clean the board and deal face damage, all in 1 card. He’s even better if you can shoot with your hero power multiple times (and you can) or aim (and you can do that too).

The rest

 

CLASS CONCEPT: THE SOULBINDER

"Souls. By far the most wondrous contraption in the entire universe. What are they? How are they made? How are they unmade, severed, reconstituted? While so often bounded by the cycle, and thus the primordial energies, of life and death, it also extends its existence beyond those plains. Demons, elementals, even the timeless spawns from Light and Void, all of them have souls, and try to hold as many as they can possibly get. A power so vast it has become the center of the chosmic struggle. A power not many people actually dare to harness."

"The best and worst thing about being a Soulbinder, is never ever being alone again in your life. Specially depending on your opinion on cold dead hands in your shoulders."

So, as we all know, soul magic has been consistently frown upon on most societies. The fact most of its users turn out to be witch doctors, necromancers, evil ritualists and priests and warlocks who happened to realize a small part of the infinite potential of the dead made it somewhat unknown. But do not be mistaken, it's a magic with a strong grasp on Azeroth and beyond. The very soul of Argus, the homeworld of the advanced draenei, actually became a titan of death and... waaaaaait, this is not something to talk about this much before giving a proper presentation of the class gameplay, is'nt it?

Main strengths and weaknesses:

SHOWCASED CARDS

Archon's Blessing: This card has three purpouses. One, helps placing this class in the lore, since soulbinders have a mix of both mortal disciplines of life and death magic, and powers borrowed from the Shadowlands themselves. Its second pupouse is, of course, showcasing an important buff, with more of them coming later. And finally, it is an end of turn effect, wich, as previously stated, not only is a common theme for this class, but also something you can actually work on in a deck.

Corpse Run: What happens when a strong adventurer kicks the bucket? Sometimes, it just stays dead. But sometimes, turns out it was'nt the right time yet, and can actually return to its dead body to carry on. One of the most famous mechanics on World of Warcraft, this also helps us see the ways this class replenishes boards with actual planification required for maximum success.

Heartbane Ritual: The Coven rounds up the showcased cards, as a way to emphasise on this class ability to replicate minions and overwhelm the opponent with them, to establish the class spell lores in shadow, arcane, holy and bits of nature (last two coming later). Plus, Heartbane Coven is one of the biggest factions openly composed of soul casters, and thus, some other drust-like cards will show as well later.

Other cards here:

 Tokens:

 Flavor texts:

 If anything shown here motivates you to follow the path of the soulbinder, keep in touch and support this. Soon will show further mechanics of this class.

EDIT: Corrected a typo.

The Watcher

Isiset, Construct of Magic has departed her post deep within the heart of Uldum to carry out the will of the Titans as The Watcher. As a Titanic Watcher, she seeks to defend the almighty relics the Titans left behind from the greedy fingers of mortal races. To that end, the Watcher is accompanied by extremely powerful constructs, built to overcome any foe, even when terribly overwhelmed. If that isn't enough, the Watcher can reinforce these already formidable defenses, and then exploit that very same armor to crush any resistance. The Watcher does not act quickly, instead opting to wait for the right moment to strike. But should someone be foolish enough to intrude up the Titan's domain, they will come to regret their actions terribly. Just not for very long.

Core Themes:

Solitary Guardians: The forces of the Watcher are rarely numerous, but that is no cause for concern. Many of their minions and spells gain additional effects if the Watcher has no minions, in order to even the odds.

Impenetrable Bulwark: The Watcher has many ways to grant her minions armor, to better keep them alive. This is no simple defensive measure, however: once that armor is in place, the Watcher can use that armor to heal, deal damage, and more. Furthermore, armor helps to keep minions on the board for the class keyword, Endure (Which rewards minions for staying on the board for 2 turns).

Mighty Constructs: The proper protectors of Titanic Ruins are Titanic Watchers. Though they may take some time to come into play, as they only respond to the most dire threats, they invariably dominate the battlefield, through raw stats and effects alike.

In general, the Watcher is a slow paced class, taking its time to control the board until it can stick a few powerful minions on the battlefield, and/or preserve some from earlier in the game with armor. The Watcher must carefully use limited resources to build up power, as she will not generate huge numbers of resources. However, the gifts of the Titans are mighty indeed, and the unworthy mortal races cannot easily stand before them, no matter the number in which they swarm.

Remaining cards:

 Token (and class keyword):

 

THE CHRONOMANCER CLASS
The Chonomancer class is home to time mages, dragons, tinkerers, timekeepers, steam-punks, scientists, clockwork automatons, temporal monstrosities, and more. They utilize their control over time to defeat their foes or protect themselves. Chronomancers make use of timekeeping artifacts and carefully plan out their actions before taking them—though, if they mess up they can just try again!

Toki is a time-travelling gnome with a knack for bending time and messing with timelines. She's friends with the bronze dragon Chronormu (Chromie). She's a powerful wizard and with her affinity for artifacts, she plans on finding the keys to her future. She fears for a dreaded day in the coming years and will do anything to stop it from happening. This passion combined with her recklessness can drop her into some sticky situations.

THE HERO POWER
Inspired by the Temporal Loop hero power from the Monster Hunt game mode. Alter Time defines your last action to be your last input into the game this turn. That is, the last card you played or the last attack you made. If it is the start of your turn and you have not played any cards or made any attacks, Alter Time will rewind to the draw at the start of your turn allowing you the opportunity of drawing a different card for the start of your turn. The game state is completely reset, including but, not limited to, damage, triggered abilities, cards drawn, cards in deck, secrets triggered, etc. Your deck is random and as such a card you draw before Alter Time may not be the same as a card you draw after, unless the order was predetermined with something like Sightless Watcher.

With the introduction of Tradeable, Alter Time will include the use of a Tradeable card's ability as an action. This will result in the card drawn returning to your deck and the Tradeable card returning to your hand.

NOTE: Alter Time does not affect the actual time in each turn. Turns still take as much as time as normal, only the game state is reset.

If upgraded with Justicar Trueheart or Baku the Mooneater, Alter Time becomes Break Time. Here you will be able to use your hero power twice each turn for only two mana total.

 

STRENGTHS

Prolonging the Game. Plenty of control tools for dominating the end game.
Speeding up the Game. Can shorten the amount of time in each turn.  Close out games with fast minions.
Varied Removal. Unique removal for unique situations. Often bypasses Deathrattles.
Taunt. Focus on protecting your life total and important minions.

WEAKNESSES

Fast, small minions. Low curve decks may sneak through before Chronomancers have enough time to stabilize.
Minionless decks. Not great at interacting  with non-minions. 
Enemy chronomancers. Shortening your turn can get messy when your opponent also shortens your turn.
Weapon removal. Without artifacts, chronomancers tend to lose track of time.
Big minions. Chronomancer minions line up poorly against bigger minions.

 

SHOWCASE CARDS

LUCKY POCKET WATCH
Chronomancers love their timekeeping artifacts. They are represented as 0-Attack Weapons with their Durability representing the duration of time. Throughout the class you will find cards that care about Weapon Durability. Lucky Pocket Watch encourages you to slow down the game to maximize your other cards. Note that this class does not really use Weapons offensively, so have no fear of Weapon augmentations.

TEMPORAL ANOMALY
Although Chronomancers lean toward controlling the battle, there is some support for lower-curve or aggressive playstyles. Temporal Anomaly plays a big part in these decks, offering immediate power at the cost of future time. In certain decks, Temporal Anomaly fills the role of triggering the rope sooner for cards like...

RUN THE CLOCK 
Chronomancers love taking their sweet, sweet time. Run the Clock lets you draw 3 cards for only 4 mana... if you have the time for it. Typically, you are incentivized to play your cards that draw cards early in your turn to best maximize your options. Here, you'll have much less time to make use of the drawn cards and finalize your turn, so play smart. Note that you can still cast this card when the rope is not burning. Control decks may fancy this play as away to create hand-space while preserving deck size in fatigue mirrors.

REST OF BASIC SET

 

CHALLENGE BREAKDOWN

 

I've been working on this class for a few years, originally wanting to submit it for a prior design competition on here. Never got around to it back then, but hoping I can make it through a few rounds this time. Looking forward to everything!

The Necromancer

A class that needs no introduction.  Necromancers have been around since Warcraft 3.  They raise the dead, they blast people with evil magickz, and they wield wicked scythes. 

Mechanically, the Necromancer is a control class focused on improving their deck.  The initial Necromancer cards are weak, but constantly shuffle better and better cards in.  Then they use robust card draw and their Hero Power to dig up their power cards.  With so many cards being added to the deck, the Necromancer is sure to win in Fatigue (although Control classes with an actual win-condition can still fight Necromancers on an even field). 

Flavor-wise, the constant shuffling in of improved minions represents the endless grinding nature of warfare against that which cannot die.  You may win the battle against the first ghoul, but what about the third, or the fifth?  All the while the Necromancer is studiously upgrading and updating his spells with cutting edge magical invocations.  Also, the Necromancer has a minor theme of Resurrecting enemy minions.  Remember: Priests steal minions, Necromancers return them to cruel mockery of life.

• Stitcher Ghoul exemplifies the Necromancer strategy. River Crockilisk is unexciting, but having a chance to draw an overstatted minion later is exciting.  A rock-solid two-drop, that most likely gets cut in advanced builds screams Basic.
• Endless Death is the iconic weapon for the class (think True-Silver for Paladin).  As well it fits the basic three mana for a four damage removal that decks generally want.  Two of these technically go 'infinite' but realistically your deck is so bloated you are never getting to fatigue without help from Ticketus.
• Forbidden Research does exactly what the Necromancer wants to do: draw into those cool cards it has tucked away into the deck.
  

The rest of the Basic set:

 And finally, importantly for this class, the many Tokens:

 

The Bounty Hunter

 Hailing from the outlaw region of Westfall and the hot deserts of Tanaris, our Bounty Hunter: Jack Rayes.

This class features a unique keyword in the form of Bounty: X. In the future it will be used in both offensive and defensive ways. Offensively on ally minions and defensively on enemy minions in most cases.

Themes

• Rush is a prevelant theme in the class as a bounty hunter must always be on their toes and ready to attack their target faster than they can react.
• Taunt is another important aspect as it is one of the two survivability options available to the class. The other one is healing.
• Weapons are the last and the most important theme of the class. It will have multiple weapons and weapon interactions the first of many being the Hero Power.

Showcase Cards

• Tricks of the Trade - The name completes the 3rd Challenge as it is a rogue spell in the WoW game. Mechanically it is meant to use your Hero Power weapon or a deathrattle weapon (from later sets) for cheap and efficient board clear.
• Scorpid Duneburrower - This also completes the 3rd Challenge as it is an enemy mob in Tanaris, the main region this class is based in and a real location in WoW. Mechanically this can combo with your Hero Power for board clear. It also combos with another card in the basic set: S.A Crossbow. Since the poisonous will kill, the weapon will proc it's mechanic.
• Difficult Bounty - This is just an example of a token that the class will have called Bounty Hunter. It also showcases the ability of this class to go slightly wide and displays some of it's Rush capabilities.

The rest of the Basic Set:

 The Tokens:

 Edit: Adjusted sizing.

"I never cover up the things I'm proud of. If the world was gonna split in half tomorrow, I’d buy the Dark Portal, slap a toll booth on it, and charge refugees the last of their pocket change, the rings off their fingers, a bite of their sandwiches, and a contractual obligation to build me a rocket palace in the skies of Nagrand. It’s the goblin way! Supply and demand! Deal with it!"   ~ Trade Prince Jastor Gallywix

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"So they blew themselves up, you say? Now that's occupational commitment!" 

The Bilgewater cartel has always been a neutral organisation concluded mostly of goblins with a certain level of... moral flexibility. Especially since Gazlowe's takeover, it's main goal is to grow in power with a use of wits and rather risky... technological innovations. They reside in multiple locations all over Azeroth steadily raising their influence and monopoly over business in general. Siding with whomever it is more profitable to, they are a ruthless force one definitely shouldn't overlook...

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The Cartelist's class keyword is "Tribute". After playing a card with "Tribute", you can choose to additionally spend the specified amount of mana for a bonus effect. It is meant to represent the way a Cartel grows in strength by monopolising more businesses and thus... becoming more wealthy.

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Showcase Cards

 

• Out with a Bang - "A getaway plan is an essential part of every mission, let's make ours memorable!"  - Minions are probably an important resource, so why waste them with a stupid AOE, when they can just escape right back into your hand? "Out with a Bang" is a unique type of mass damaging spell, which helps you "save" your minions from potential death and make them usefull once again.

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• Backstreet Cutthroat - "Don't go against the Cartel, at least unless you value your life less than a silver piece" - The Cartel has it's ways to deal with it's enemies quickly and painfully... "Backstreet Cutthroat" represents one of those ways.

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• Gadgetzan Dream - "Only in Gadgetzan can someone start with nothing and achieve the Dream. If they get along with the Cartel, that is"  - "Gadgetzan Dream" represents a simple rule of the capitalist world. The richer you are, the simplier it is to make allies... and enemies. 

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The rest of the Basic Set

The lore challenge

 

 

The Oracle Class

Showcase Cards

Introduction
Hey everyone, Logovaz here. You may know me from the r/CustomHearthstone subreddit and/or the Discord. Decided to throw my hat into the ring for this competition.

What class is this and what is it about?
The class I am gracing showing you today is the Oracle class. Oracles see into the future! And the future is the Old Gods taking over the world, wahoo! This class uses the power of the Old Gods to power up to destroy the enemy. There is a catch however... the Old Gods don't give their power without consequence...

What is Oracle good at?
The Oracle class loves to use various different ways to destroy a poor, unsuspecting peasant for evil. Maybe even turn one or two into big ol' powerhouses. The Oracle seeks to further delve deeper into madness which powers up them up who is ready to bring the Old Gods power!
Translation (Strengths):  Single Target Removal, Single Target Buffs, Transform Effects, and Card Draw

What is Oracle okay at?
Oracles aren't by any means strong fighters or casters so their power to inflict pain on other Heroes is a bit limited. Also, just like any Old God loving ritualist, they have some tools to restore their health. They're not very versed in the whole blood sacrifice or actual healing, they just look at the future, okay? And since Oracles are very particular about the future, they tend to stick to their prophecies, but timelines can change!
Translation (Limitations): Direct Damage, Healing, and Card Generation

What is Oracle bad at?
Since Old Gods aren't physically around to help curb-stomp any mass resistance, Oracles have to be wary about angry mobs. Speaking of angry mobs, Oracles are hard pressed to create their own mob since most beings find them very... cuckoo.
Translation (Weaknesses): Swarming and AoE

Basic Cards Set

 And that's all for now, folks! Praise C'Thun, Yogg, Y'Shaarj, and N'Zoth!

This is what happens when you only find out about the comp two days in advance.

Bombers. Sure is a difficult job! It's a profession shared by gnomes and goblins alike, even if gnomes are more concerned with how, and goblins with how much. That's not to say that others can't get in on the fun, with dwarven artillerymen, human cannoneers, and even the vulpera getting in on some of that firearm fun every once in a while.

A Bomber doesn't waste time and throws themselves into the fray instantly. The fuses are too short to figure out long-term strategies, or to fall back and heal. Get in and blast your opponent and their minions sky high before they can do the same to you.

In combat, Bombers don't heal. They flex their inventions and ingenuity to protect themselves from foes and their own equipment alike, and then, they unload. A rich collection of Fire spells ensures that no board poses a threat to a Bomber, wide or tall. Truly, the greatest threat to themselves... is themselves.

Thanks to the wording of Rastakhan Rumble's Spirits, your Armor for 1 turn consistently breaks at the start of your turn, thus being clear for 99 % of the time. If it happens to get mixed with regular Armor, the interactions can be inferred by the rule that "Armor for 1 turn is to Armor what Armor is to Health", as in, you lose your temporary Armor first.

Class themes:
Armor for 1 turn, Fire spells, Mechs, big spells, damage to own face (recklessness, of course)

Strenghts: Board control, powerful spells, weapons and direct damage
Limitations: Card draw, resource generation
Weaknesses: Healing, wide boards

Basic Set:

Challenges:
 - Special Delivery costs (9), hopefully fulfilling the "7 or more" condition.
 - In terms of Warcraft lore, the following tidbits have been borrowed: Imbued Gunpowder being a perk from the Warcraft III Mortar Team unit, Goblin Shredder apparently being the title that just so happens to coincide with all the Shredders that spew fire, and, most important of all, Iron Star referencing the powerful goblin siege tool/explosive built by Siegecrafter Blackfuse. Too bad it doesn't boast a good piece of art to go with, so a giant explosion going off has to make up for it.

Border:
The custom border put together for the Bomber class is currently available on HearthCards when using the tag {{CCLASS=gunner6201}}, and composes of a minion, spell and weapon border. Heroes and Hero Powers are usually presented with the Neutral borders, and the border for a hero card may come in the future.