Ysera is a bit weird. The only hero power that is targetable is Mage's, so yeah, that works. Hunter's hero power isn't targetable, so it will go through anyway. Sure, spells won't work and that's a really interesting concept.
For the others, Noz is a bit left out. He's really uninteresting as a card and would only work for Hunters or maybe Warriors if they have 2x Shield Slam in hand. Also, for Maly and Alex to work, they need to be dragons themselves. So that their effect works even if they're alone on the board.
Good concept though, but the first thing I think you should do is make them dragons. I get it, it's their human form, but they're still dragons nonetheless.
interesting ideas, and the designs fit their respective dragons pretty well I think. I can't decide of the Nozdormu aspect is way too OP or way too UP though. I guess since you can only HP once on the turn you play him, and probably no more than twice on the next turn if he survives and don't already have a dragon on the board, its probably fine. Alex is probably the strongest if you already have a board with 2+ dragons, since you get the effect immediately (Noz is maybe stronger with 2+ IF he and they all survive, but that's a big if), but still not really any stronger than her dragon form would be no matter how many dragons you have, though better if you're above 15 or your opponent is already near or below 15.
another possible idea for Nozdormu would be to return ALL minions to full health at the end of your turn.
idea for Deathwing: at the end of your turn, destroy a random enemy minion if you have a dragon in play. (that could be too OP though, so maybe it would have to be at beginning of turn, or maybe add you discard a random card from your hand in addition to balance it a bit)
for Onyxia: at the beginning of your turn give all your minions +1/+1 (or maybe +1/+0 or +0/+1, but I don't think +1/+1 is too strong since your opponent has a turn to react before you get the bonus) if you have a dragon in play
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"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear turns into a cat and eats you." - Anonymous Druid
Ysera is a bit weird. The only hero power that is targetable is Mage's, so yeah, that works. Hunter's hero power isn't targetable, so it will go through anyway. Sure, spells won't work and that's a really interesting concept.
For the others, Noz is a bit left out. He's really uninteresting as a card and would only work for Hunters or maybe Warriors if they have 2x Shield Slam in hand. Also, for Maly and Alex to work, they need to be dragons themselves. So that their effect works even if they're alone on the board.
Good concept though, but the first thing I think you should do is make them dragons. I get it, it's their human form, but they're still dragons nonetheless.
It's funny because everything you pointed out were the actual things I thought about too when making them.
For me, Ysera was honestly the hardest to come up with. I originally wanted it to be something similar to [cardimg-gold]Wee Spellstopper[/card] but then...well...it wouldn't be unique. So I thought maybe to work it for heros.
I was thinking maybe I should just make it so that your hero cant be targeted by spells, and leave hero power out of it. Nozdormu already has an effect with hero power so we're good there.
I think noz is actually a great concept, it isn't overpowered or underpowered. It's like balanced. IDK though.
And yea, good idea, I should make them dragons, it would be much easier anyways than introducing a new type.
Thanks for your feedback.
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Deathwing suffers the same fate as Nozdormu. They're just going to remove him with Big Game Hunter, Polymorph, Sap or similar and he won't do anything. I'd like to see him have a battlecry, as well as being a Dragon (he's still classified as an Aspect in your card). Maybe he could be like Battlecry: Transform all of your minions into 5/5 Black Drakes with Charge. It's powerful, yes, maybe you could do 4, but he's 10 mana and you're using your whole turn to do that.
Deathwing suffers the same fate as Nozdormu. They're just going to remove him with Big Game Hunter, Polymorph, Sap or similar and he won't do anything. I'd like to see him have a battlecry, as well as being a Dragon (he's still classified as an Aspect in your card). Maybe he could be like Battlecry: Transform all of your minions into 5/5 Black Drakes with Charge. It's powerful, yes, maybe you could do 4, but he's 10 mana and you're using your whole turn to do that.
I've updated Deathwing to be a dragon and i've included a battlecry and changed his stats.
Decided to put my creative side to work. I know during closed beta, we had hopes for dragon synergy but that got tossed aside.
So, cards these go well with: Azure drake, twilight drake, whelps from onyxia/leeroy, onyxia, malyogs, noz, ysera, alexs, deathwing so far.
Came up with these:
Let me know what you think!
Hon. BSc. Medical Physics
University of Toronto
Class of 2017
Ysera is a bit weird. The only hero power that is targetable is Mage's, so yeah, that works. Hunter's hero power isn't targetable, so it will go through anyway. Sure, spells won't work and that's a really interesting concept.
For the others, Noz is a bit left out. He's really uninteresting as a card and would only work for Hunters or maybe Warriors if they have 2x Shield Slam in hand. Also, for Maly and Alex to work, they need to be dragons themselves. So that their effect works even if they're alone on the board.
Good concept though, but the first thing I think you should do is make them dragons. I get it, it's their human form, but they're still dragons nonetheless.
Reno Druid Rank 5 72% wr // Cards: Fix Shaman and Hunter
interesting ideas, and the designs fit their respective dragons pretty well I think. I can't decide of the Nozdormu aspect is way too OP or way too UP though. I guess since you can only HP once on the turn you play him, and probably no more than twice on the next turn if he survives and don't already have a dragon on the board, its probably fine. Alex is probably the strongest if you already have a board with 2+ dragons, since you get the effect immediately (Noz is maybe stronger with 2+ IF he and they all survive, but that's a big if), but still not really any stronger than her dragon form would be no matter how many dragons you have, though better if you're above 15 or your opponent is already near or below 15.
another possible idea for Nozdormu would be to return ALL minions to full health at the end of your turn.
idea for Deathwing: at the end of your turn, destroy a random enemy minion if you have a dragon in play. (that could be too OP though, so maybe it would have to be at beginning of turn, or maybe add you discard a random card from your hand in addition to balance it a bit)
for Onyxia: at the beginning of your turn give all your minions +1/+1 (or maybe +1/+0 or +0/+1, but I don't think +1/+1 is too strong since your opponent has a turn to react before you get the bonus) if you have a dragon in play
"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear turns into a cat and eats you." - Anonymous Druid
It's funny because everything you pointed out were the actual things I thought about too when making them.
For me, Ysera was honestly the hardest to come up with. I originally wanted it to be something similar to [cardimg-gold]Wee Spellstopper[/card] but then...well...it wouldn't be unique. So I thought maybe to work it for heros.
I was thinking maybe I should just make it so that your hero cant be targeted by spells, and leave hero power out of it. Nozdormu already has an effect with hero power so we're good there.
I think noz is actually a great concept, it isn't overpowered or underpowered. It's like balanced. IDK though.
And yea, good idea, I should make them dragons, it would be much easier anyways than introducing a new type.
Thanks for your feedback.
Hon. BSc. Medical Physics
University of Toronto
Class of 2017
Deathwing suffers the same fate as Nozdormu. They're just going to remove him with Big Game Hunter, Polymorph, Sap or similar and he won't do anything. I'd like to see him have a battlecry, as well as being a Dragon (he's still classified as an Aspect in your card). Maybe he could be like Battlecry: Transform all of your minions into 5/5 Black Drakes with Charge. It's powerful, yes, maybe you could do 4, but he's 10 mana and you're using your whole turn to do that.
Reno Druid Rank 5 72% wr // Cards: Fix Shaman and Hunter
I've updated Deathwing to be a dragon and i've included a battlecry and changed his stats.
Hon. BSc. Medical Physics
University of Toronto
Class of 2017
You do acknowledge that Deathwing himself won't count as a dragon, because it's a battlecry. So having two other dragons is really situational.
Reno Druid Rank 5 72% wr // Cards: Fix Shaman and Hunter
Yea, deathwing himself won't count towards the two dragon requirement. It will be very situational. I may need to work on him some more
Hon. BSc. Medical Physics
University of Toronto
Class of 2017