I find it very helpful when designing cards to dig deeper into what makes the classes unique. The distinct classes have many more themes than you may think, and rarely do they divert from the set formula. The following is a list of the class themes. I hope this can be a helpful reference guide for card creators everywhere. If anyone thinks I missed something, please let me know.
I will be excluding themes that appear in exclusively one expansion. (like big hand Druid, empty hand Hunter, etc.) If a class has very few cards with a certain theme, but still more than all other classes, I will be including it. (Immune in Hunter) Rastakhan's Rumble cards will be excluded for now, but will be added after release. All wild cards included, as well as ones from the Taverns of Time event.
Note: This is a fairly time-consuming process, so I will be editing this post with more classes as I go along.
Here are the themes, from most prominent to least, along with a few examples.
Weaknesses: Lack of card draw, lack of strong aoe (Deathstalker Rexxar and Exploding Bloatbat deal 2 to all enemies and that's it). Hunters have no way to heal themselves other than Rexxar armour and Lifesteal Build-a-beasts. The lack of other control tools allows Hunter to get powerful off-theme control Legendaries like Deathstalker Rexxar and Emeriss.
You forgot to talk about hunter's hero power that adds a 15 turn clock to opponents without armor or heals and is the one that benefits the most from Clockwork Automaton
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I find it very helpful when designing cards to dig deeper into what makes the classes unique. The distinct classes have many more themes than you may think, and rarely do they divert from the set formula. The following is a list of the class themes. I hope this can be a helpful reference guide for card creators everywhere. If anyone thinks I missed something, please let me know.
I will be excluding themes that appear in exclusively one expansion. (like big hand Druid, empty hand Hunter, etc.) If a class has very few cards with a certain theme, but still more than all other classes, I will be including it. (Immune in Hunter) Rastakhan's Rumble cards will be excluded for now, but will be added after release. All wild cards included, as well as ones from the Taverns of Time event.
Note: This is a fairly time-consuming process, so I will be editing this post with more classes as I go along.
Here are the themes, from most prominent to least, along with a few examples.
Hunter
Weaknesses: Lack of card draw, lack of strong aoe (Deathstalker Rexxar and Exploding Bloatbat deal 2 to all enemies and that's it). Hunters have no way to heal themselves other than Rexxar armour and Lifesteal Build-a-beasts. The lack of other control tools allows Hunter to get powerful off-theme control Legendaries like Deathstalker Rexxar and Emeriss.
Have all my upvotes! Love the idea.
You forgot to talk about hunter's hero power that adds a 15 turn clock to opponents without armor or heals and is the one that benefits the most from Clockwork Automaton
Winning!? Nah dawg *Meme-ing!*!! (but also winning)
Really cool list. Keep up the good work!
I am not sure about this but isnt charge kind of a theme in hunter?
Thinking of stuff like Huffer, unleash and King crush.