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The Bronze Guardian

As a member of the Bronze Dragonflight, Moradormi has extensive knowledge about the future. She knows exactly what is meant to happen, and what isn't. Or so she thought. Discovering the ultimate fate of her flight, their corruption into the Infinite Dragonflight, turned the once optimist dragon into a full-on cynic. Still, she strives to make the future a better place, perhaps trying to atone for deeds not yet commited.

Class Keyword

Classic Card Examples

Unstable Wormhole: Unstable Portal? That hasn't been released yet! 

A very cheap soft removal that only works the turn it's drawn. Occasionally, its secondary effect can be used to fight off fatigue, but that's a rather rare use. If you don't get to use it right away, you'll be technically paying 1 additional mana to play it on top of having to draw it again.

Time Wraith: The spirit of someone that was erased from the timeline.

A big minion with average stats, its effect will most likely always go off unless its topdecked (in which case it's still not a bad topdeck at all). Unless the 'Can't be targeted by spells or Hero Powers' effect, this one can still take damage from any source, but destruction effect (even ones such as Emperor Cobra's or Twisting Nether or Brawl) will unfaze it.

Protector of Memories: What was he supposed to protect, again?

A rather straightforward example of a theme of the class: effects that trigger while on hand. There's a variety of triggers, this one in particular being friendly minion's death. Similar to Thing from Below, though a tad slower unless you run a myriad of early game minions, which the class isn't inclined to support.

Doomsday Clock: Time takes us all.

Another card that changes while on hand, though this simple does it once per turn, growing in power the longer you hold it. Inspired by Shield Slam in that it uses the class theme to do act as removal (Armor for Shield Slam, card draw for this one). Clearly not meant to act as early game removal unless the situation is dire. Gets its name from a song by Smashing Pumpkins.

Full Classic Set

Commons

Rares

Epics and Legendary

Basic Set

 And that's all there is for now.

The Bronze Guardian

As a member of the Bronze Dragonflight, Moradormi has extensive knowledge about the future. She knows exactly what is meant to happen, and what isn't. Or so she thought. Discovering the ultimate fate of her flight, their corruption into the Infinite Dragonflight, turned the once optimist dragon into a full-on cynic. Still, she strives to make the future a better place, perhaps trying to atone for deeds not yet commited.

Class Keyword:

 Basic Card Examples:

Time Skip: I'm rather proud of this one. It's a spell that works in a myriad of different situations. It can be used like Frost Nova with Doomsayer, but if it's past turn 4, you can still play stuff afterwards. Turn 8+ with Ragnaros for an extra Fireball. It will affect cards with Latent making them trigger one turn earlier. It also works with the next card by cancelling the debuff it places in the drawn cards.

Time Mirage: A cheaper Arcane Intellect with a drawback (much like Ancestral Knowledge) which synergizes pretty well with positive latent effects as well as "Each turn this is/was in your hand" cards.

Sand Guardian: I'm taking the opportunity to reinforce the theme of the class: holding stuff in your hand to get stronger effects later on. This particular line of effects, in contrast with Latent effect, scales with the time spent in your hand instead of being a fixed effect on a specific threshold of turns. Much like Latent effects, though, both positive and negative effects exist.

Full Basic Set:

 Challenge Cards:

Past Moradormi: Mechanically, it's a reverse Bolf, though functionally it's more reminiscent of a weapon. The class has some healing, but it's not particularly healing intensive, so this should be used with care. It cannot be destroyed by damage unless silenced, but any other kind of minion destruction works. It also enables burn from cards that only target minions like Shield Slam and Flame Lance.

Temporal Anomaly: A rather straightforward card, it can get potentially infinite value, but its stats are suboptimal. This one went through many iterations but I finally settled for Latent (2) on the effect to balance it.

The Bronze Guardian

As a member of the Bronze Dragonflight, Moradormi has extensive knowledge about the future. She knows exactly what is meant to happen, and what isn't. Or so she thought. Discovering the ultimate fate of her flight, their corruption into the Infinite Dragonflight, turned the once optimist dragon into a full-on cynic. Still, she strives to make the future a better place, perhaps trying to atone for deeds not yet commited.

Certain events are just meant to happen, and there's nothing one can do to stop them, though they can always be delayed or, for better or worse, brought about earlier. This Hero Power has gone through some revisions, but this version is the one I found most balanced yet. Inevitability and Temporal Bomb set the main theme of the class.

Much like the Warlock's Life Tap, this Hero Power gives you a net total of 1 draw, but instead of paying with Health, the drawbacks of this Hero Power are manifold, the most evident one being the 1 mana cost of Temporal Bomb. There's also the fact that it's placed at the top of your deck, meaning it's on a 1 turn delay (if you don't have additional draw) and it denies your own next draw if not played immediately, which its second effect encourages. Speaking of, the second effect also serves to introduce the class' unique keyword: Latent.

Latent is meant to represent the ability of the Bronze Dragonflight of being 'just in time' by giving cards additional effects if they've been held long enough just to play them at the best possible moment. Mechanically, the easiest paralel to Latent effects are Rogue's Combo effects, except their trigger condition is different. Temporal Bomb's Latent effect is meant as a soft enabler for combo decks (since the cards hit by the reduction are random). 

All in all, the Hero Power is meant to enable control archetypes by providing them resources throughout the game, with Latent effects such as Temporal Bomb's being particularly powerful in slow greedy decks. It also enables combo decks by giving them access to consistent draw to get their combo quickly while also reducing card's costs. Faster decks also see benefit from the Hero Power in a manner similar to Zoo Warlock, being able to play multiple cheap minions while having access to draw (although unlike Life Tap, the draw isn't immediate).

Example Cards

Incoming Meteor: A very straightforward example of a Latent card. An overcosted Arcane Explosion that becomes much stronger if held for a few turns. One of the best sources of non-destruction AoE in the class.

Uncertain Death: An example of a "counter" Latent effect. Uncertain Death is a 4 mana Assassinate the turn your draw it, but becomes a 4 mana Deadly Shot afterwards. It is part of a rather small subset of Latent effects that are better off played right away, but are undercosted because of it.

Preacher of Destruction: Having all 3 example cards have Latent effects would defeat the point, though rest assured there are minions with Latent on them (since it works just like Combo would, the have Latent instead of Battlecry). This card embodies another theme of the class: each turn this is in your hand effects. Much like Shifter Zerus or Nerubian Prophet, these effects always happen at the start of your turn. These particular effects go hand in hand with Latent effects in the sense that you don't want to play them right away but rather squeeze the most value out of them.

Honorable mentions for effects the class features: "When drawn" effects, "For each turn this was in your hand" Battlecries and "At the start/end of your turn" effects.

So I haven't been able to shake the thought that my original idea is inherently too self-centered (and by that I mean that it doesn't want anything to do with neutral cards) by design and, since there's still time, I've been toying around with some other ideas that might be more in line with what you'd expect from the real classes:

@sashashepto: How about 'Give cards in your hand random Costs without changing the total sum.'?

The Bronze Guardian

As any other Bronze Dragon, Moradormi is tasked with protecting the timelines. She uses her time powers to gain knowledge of the future and get an advantage over her opponents.

Note: Prophecy is the Class Exclusive keyword while Scry is meant to be a generic keyword you could find somewhere else like Taunt or Battlecry.

Herald of Torment: "Herald of X" is a kind of card type like Druid's "Druid of the X" cards, and therefore will have similar effects on the range of "Battlecry: Scry (1). Do something depending on the Cost." Scry (1) is worth practically 0 mana (it's worth more for Scry (2+) since then you can start rearranging your deck) so this is the equivalent of a Fire Elemental with an Attack penalty since it can deal more than 3 damage.

Foretold Defender: There are two kinds of Prophecy cards, the ones that buff themselves and the ones that have an immediate effect. This is an example the former. One tick of Prophecy makes it a Tazzdingo while further ticks make it stronger at the expense of delaying the time you play it.

Vision of Death:  An example of the latter Prophecy effect, this has affects the battlefield immediately. Because the effect can be triggered with your Hero Power, this kind of cards can either have neutral effects like this one (can destroy a minion from either player), negative effects (in which case the card will be undercosted for its normal effect) or positive effect (in which case the card will be overcosted for its normal effect). "Vision of X" is also a card type like Heralds, in that they will always have a Prophecy effect (and they are the only spells to feature them).

@kamanchee1: The concept is fine I think, and I like how you designed your Hero Power, but if you're gonna have multiple sources of cost increase, then you should make cards that get stronger the more they cost. As far as I've seen, your cards benefit from a +1 cost but a +2 cost is already detrimental (4 mana 5/6 vs 5 mana 5/6). The only card that benefits from multiple cost increases is Blasting Giant, and that card is confusing as it is. Is the effect a battlecry? An 'At the end/beginning of your turn effect'? I'm imagining it's a battlecry since Hearthstone doesn't remember cost changes once a card is on the board (technically you could get away with it but I like my designs to fit the game's engine, personally).

Which reminds me, @McF4rtson: Shouldn't your Hero Power generate different tokens of varying mana costs like the Jade Golems? (at least, it should to keep in line with Hearthstone mechanics so far, since as I mentioned before, the game doesn't remember mana cost changes).

@sashashepto: The concept seems fine overall. Dark Ritualists are good board clear protection, but they look annoying to trigger (and I know you said there's going to be enablers, but still). Shrouded Vanguard seems fine (I imagine the effect is like an aura so if the adjacent minion dies before it, it loses the deathrattle it had), but if that one represent the concept behind the Hero Power enablers you're gonna be in trouble insofar as having a board full or 0/1 you can't kill off.

Chained Evil: The wording right now is a little confusing imo, and if I understood it correctly, you should make it a battlecry (mechanically speaking, once a card is played its cost is the one printed on the card, it won't keep the discounts, so if it were an aura effect as it's now it would never get any buff). Rather, I'd make it a 7/7 that gets -1/-1 for every crystal spent playing it, up to -4/-4, as a battlecry. That way it's mechanically the same but clearer in how it works (besides, 4 mana 7/7 is the pinnacle of blizzard balancing anyway).

I don't have a lot to say about Summoning: Chaos without seeing more cards from your class, but it does look interesting.

I originally had a whole different class concept in mind, but after posting it on the discussion thread and it not even getting noticed (which may or may not have had something to do with the fact that I didn't know how to resize the images so I hid them under spoilers (I figured it out now, though. I'm dumb)), and after reading some comments on other classes, I decided to ask myself the question: would someone else ever pick my Hero Power from Sir Finley? The answer was quite clearly no (it was a passive around which the class revolved). So I decided to start over and come up with something different:

CLASS: High Priestess

HERO: Angel Keeper Lilith

The class itself draws no inspiration from any particular universe (not that I'm consciously aware of, at any rate) but is rather something I kinda came up with myself. Now, the Hero Power was the whole starting point for the class theme. As you might notice, it's rather similar to the priest card Mind Vision. Originally, it was going to be literally just that: Mind Vision into a Hero Power. Then I realized that even though the pseudo card draw I was getting, because it was a random card from my opponent, might not have been as good as the straight card draw from Life Tap, it wasn't bad enough to have no downsides. In fact, one might consider the fact that we're getting information from the opponent's hand strong enough by itself. So I decided to mirror the effect for the opponent (that way it's fair, right?) much like some cards have done before. That was how the class theme was born.

I'm going head-first into the strong stuff here. This is just an example of many similar cards, though I might have to admit it's the most flashy. This card draws inspiration from the Curse of Rafaam cards mixed up with Iron Juggernaut/Beneath the Grounds and Excavated Evil. It is however different from all but the later in that it's not quite a token that you put into your opponent's hand/deck, but rather a standalone card. The clear downside of this is that while YOU hold it, you are the one that's handicapped. In this case, by giving Immune to your opponent. The upside of this, though, is that, as this isn't a token, your opponent might as well get it from your Hero Power. This might need some balancing, but I'm still not quite sure how I'd go around it.

Another card from the disruption theme, this one draws inspiration from Ancestor's Call. That and from all the times a Priest player was stuck with a Deadly Poison/Blade Flurry/Shield Slam. So, this is a risky card to play. I mean, you might end up discarding something valuable, like a Guardian Angel your oppenent's already gotten through your Hero Power :P. The point of this card is that, unless all other cards in your hand are minions, playing this is a gamble that might pay off or may summon a minion with battlecry (and the class has some of those). Regardless, it would be quite unbalanced if you managed to pull a huge minion for 3 mana, so regardless of the outcome, your opponent gets the card afterwards. Now, your opponent might be playing zoo, in which case he probably IS full of minions, but they're probably cheaper than 3 anyway. Or he might be playing a class that has a healthy mix of minions and spells, in which case he risks discarding something valuable (or again, playing a battlecry minion without the battlecry). If you opponent doesn't feel like gambling, though, then he's got a dead card on his hand, and our job is done. Bonus: add Lorewalker Cho to the mix for double the fun.

Now this last slot was really tough. I could've put the class legendary that keeps coming back stronger, or a minion that will switch sides whenever it dies, but I just couldn't not put this one in. This minion has gone through lots of iterations (specially when I was working on the previous class concept), but I think this one is acceptably balanced. It's an example of a card that you DON'T want to pull from Last Stand, though giving it to your opponent with the Hero Power may be acceptable. It even synergizes with Guardian Angel. As you can see, this card is rather similar to the Dalaran Aspirant in that the battlecry will help you and the deathrattle will compensate for it. Some of the iteration had it simply taking control of a minion/random minion, and it was then more reminiscent of Sylvanas/Cabal Shadow Priest, but within the class theme, I think it works rather well. This is extremely good for removing deathrattles you don't want to trigger, or even battlecries you'd like to use, but unless you silence it or otherwise get rid of it without triggering the deathrattle (and this class CAN do that, as exemplified by Guardian Angel, where the return minions to hand downside becomes an upside) then your opponent is getting this card and can thus take back the card you stole in the first place if their timing is right. Of course, this has to be removed first, but given its cost and stats, that's not really that hard. And then they have to pay the mana for it, or it gets stuck in their hand. And then you can take it back. It's a cycle, really.

As for the Angel tribe introduced with this card, there are some cards that take them into account, namely the class Legendary, which will get stronger for each dead Angel (and isn't it great that this card keeps coming back and dying if your opponent wants to keep up?)

So, as you can see, the class revolves mostly around disrupting your opponent's gameplay, but always playing by the rules (you might have noticed that at no point do the cards do something Blizz hasn't implemented, except maybe the discard/summon part of Last Stand, but then that's just a mix of mechanics, the thing is that at no point do you disrupt your opponent's play by discarding his cards (unless he plays Last Stand, but that's on him)). The class is reminiscent of a Priest/Rogue hybrid that focused mostly on the fun stuff. It has several other spells that will find their way into your opponent's hand/deck, minions that don't quite die but don't quite keep playing for you (and some that do), among other things like a vanish to the deck and an anti-fatigue card.

At any rate, thanks for reading and I hoped you liked it. And I would certainly take this Hero Power from Sir Finley.

"I told you, I DON'T WANT DEATHWING ON TURN ONE !"

Hide-and-seek with Rexxar and his friends? Hell yeah! :p Who will Rexxar find first i wonder :o

Beast Companions: Leokk, Huffer, Misha.

"C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER !!"

Decided that there was some unexplored design space for a secret that re-casts itself under the right conditions, since the effect would only re-occur when a new trigger comes along. It turned out to be quite a tricky design space, but I think I came up with something interesting.

Don't invite Rexxar to your witch hunts, he always gets the wrong idea.

The reason why the boogeymonster sleeps with the lights on.

The Ingreediessence Spells:

• The idea of Horrormoonculus is to create your own minion through interactions with the battlefield;
• It works like Prince Malchezaar (shuffeling) and C'Thun (creating);
• You can create a powerful monster, but it slows your draw. Also, sometimes you have to wait to play an Ingreediessence spell and it holds a place in your hand;
• The Ingreediessence spells are just spells, so you can Shadow Visions them. The effects stack;
• May I Get a Pet? doesn't add a Discovered minion to your hand. It gives your Horrormonculus Battlecry, so Brann Bronzebeard works with it;
• We are Many! counts all minions with the same name as copies. If your opponent has two Magma Ragers, you have one Magma Rager and you choose a Magma Rager with this spell, it shuffles three copies of Horrormoonculus into your deck. Imagine if your opponent plays, for example, Stand Against Darkness. Heavy breathing...

So Ben Brode and Kripp will be on Toast`s channel where Noxious will be host FeelsStangeMan