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Option #1 : Quest "Summon with spells"

• PRIMORDIAL GENESIS [1mana spell] - Quest: Summon 10 minions with spells. Reward: Philosopher's Stone
  1. PHILOSOPHER'S STONE [2mana spell] - Discover a card. Return this tu your hand
• CHROMATUS [8mana 6/6 Dragon] - At the end of your turn, add 5 cards from 5 different classes to your hand.
• MASS EXTINCTION [7mana spell] Destroy all minions except those with the lowest Cost. Then Adapt them.
• DRAGON TURTLE [3mana 3/3 Beast+Dragon] Taunt. Whenever you add an Elemental to your hand, gain +1/+1
• AMBER DROP [4mana spell] Discover a 1-Cost minion. Summon 3 Copies of it.
• JUNGLE BOOK [4mana spell] Draw three minions from three different types from your deck.
• PREHISTORIC BANANAS [3mana spell] Give a friendly minion +3/+3. If you can't, summon three 1/1 Plants instead.
• MAGICAL ANKYLOSAUR [5mana 5/6 Beast] Battlecry: If you're holding a Dragon and played an Elemental last turn, deal 7 damage.
• EXPEDITION HERBALIST [1mana 1/1] Battlecry: Add a Bananas or a Razorpetal to your hand (at random).
• FISHY FISHERMAN [2mana 1/1 Murloc] Battlecry: Draw a Beast from your deck

Option #2 : Quest "Discover"

It's a new option compared to my last post.

• PRIMORDIAL GENESIS [1mana spell] - Quest: Discover 7 cards. Reward: Philosopher's Stone
  1. PHILOSOPHER'S STONE Unchanged
• CHROMATUS Unchanged
• MASS EXTINCTION Unchanged
• DRAGON TURTLE Unchanged
• AMBER DROP Unchanged
• JUNGLE BOOK [1mana spell] Discover a Beast, a Dragon, or a Murloc
• PREHISTORIC BANANAS [3mana spell] Give a friendly minion +3/+3. If you can't, summon three 1/1 Plants instead.
• MAGICAL ANKYLOSAUR Unchanged
• EXOTIC PET COLLECTOR [3mana 2/2] Battlecry: Discover a Beast from another class.
• SPELEOLOGIST [2mana 1/2 ] Battlecry: Discover a Secret from another class.

Remaining ideas I couldn't fit:

• ??? [3mana spell] Add five 1/2 Flame Elementals to your hand.
• ??? [3mana spell] Adapt a minion. Also adapt your minions with the same type.
• ??? [8mana 4/4 Beast] Battlecry: Destroy a minion with a type and gain its Stats.

KFT

• CULT LEADER PATRICIA [1mana hero, 5armor] Battlecry: Summon a 1/1 Skeleton.
  1. Passive Hero Power: Whenever a friendly non-Skeleton minion dies, add a 1/1 Skeleton to your hand.
  2. Hero Power: Add two 1/1 Skeletons to your hand.

The first one is the one people preffered from my first post. The second one is a non-passive one which I think may be more flexible, but of course it's identical to the base HP of the other cheese so I don't know.

• GRAND APOTHECARY PUTRESS [7mana 5/5] Battlecry: Transform all 1-Cost cards in your hand into random Deathrattle minions.
• SCHEMING DREADLORD [5mana 4/5 Demon] Whenever you generate a minion, give it +2/+2. (generate = creating a minion that didn't start in deck, whether it's summoned, added to hand or shuffled to deck)
• BRAINS IN JARS [6mana spell] Draw three spells. Cast any overdrawn spells. Also cast this if overdrawn.
• STITCH [1mana spell] Merge your minions into a single Aberration with their stats combined (the Aberration will have the "All" tribe too)
• BLOOD OOZE [5mana 3/3] Deathrattle: Summon three 1/1 Blood Clots. They transform back into Blood Oozes on your next turn.
• RAPID CONTAMINATION {5mana spell] Add five 2/2 Ghouls to your hand. Summon any excess.
• MUR'GHOUL [1mana 2/1 Murloc] Deathrattle: Give a random friendly Murloc +2/+1.
• DISEASE CLOUD [3mana spell] Give a minion Poisonous.
• REPLICA OF LEOKK [4mana 2/4 Beast] Your other minions have +1 Attack.

Remaining ideas

• ??? [7mana 4/4] Battlecry: Gain +1/+1 for each card in your hand.

Lich King Card

• Failed Experiments [1mana spell] Summon five 0/3 Spectral Trainees for your opponent.

"But Cheese! The Lich King card is supposed to highlight a weakness from your class! This highlights a strength!"

Contrary to what people believe, Lich King cards don't target a class' intrinsic weaknesses (except maybe the Rogue one) but rather forces them into a specific playstyle. Warlock must play Renolock, Hunter must play Spells, Shaman must play Murlocs, etc... My Lich King card does the same: it forces you to play a token playstyle. It is still a significant downside since the Trainess deal damage to you.

Surviving decks

• Token
• Treant
• Malygos

Rotating decks

• Togwaggle
• Mecha'thun
• Taunt
• Spiteful
• Undatakah
• Quest

Conclusion

Threatened

Druid unexpectedly survived the nerfs to its ramp tools, but without Togwaggle, Naturalize, or the Twig, he may not survive the rotation.

Blizzard seems to be wanting to push the Treant archetype further, so I assume we'll see a complete Treant Druid deck in the next expansion. Whether or not it will be viable remains to be seen.

Surviving decks

• Midrange
• Secret

Rotating decks

• Odd
• Spell
• Cube
• Recruit

Conclusion

Safe

A bit too safe perhaps, I'm genuinely worried about the power level of Midrange Hunter post rotation. Sure, the deck loses the insane Mole into Razormaw opening, as well as Deathstalker Rexxar, which can beat Odd Warrior on its own, but it still looks insane.

The good news is, without DK Rexxar, control-heavy decks (read: Warrior) are able to beat it. I think Warrior will become a tier 1 class thanks to Hunter alone.

Given the raw power level of Subject 9, Secret Hunter might also remain viable.

Surviving decks

• Tempo/Burn
• Freeze

Rotating decks

• Odd Aggro
• Odd Control
• Exodia
• Big spells
• Elementals
• Murlocs

Conclusion

Uncertain

Mage remained mediocre throughout 2018, and will lose ALL of its current archetypes!

Is the class doomed? Not necessarily. Mage has an excellent core set (the second best behind Rogue's I would say). In the absence of innovation, Mage might return to its Classic archetype Tempo Mage and Freeze Mage. Although the successive waves of nerfs and HoFs have weakened those decks, their win condition remains untouched and they fill a niche: the "SMorc with spells" niche.

Surviving decks

• Inner Fire combo
• Control

Rotating decks

•  Wall
• Resurrect
• Quest
• Mecha'thun
• Spiteful
• APM

Conclusion

Threatened

Priest players, take profit from the few weeks left before April because altar boy Anduin is going to get molested by the rotation. Priest's core set absolutely sucks and the class is therefore reliant on continuously getting good cards from expansions.

Two glimmers of hope for the class are Talanji and Zerek's Cloning Gallery. These cards are huge mana cheaters and can become very powerful with the right big minions.

Surviving decks

•  Secret
• Holy Wrath
• Mech

Rotating decks

•  Odd
• Even
• Murloc
• Exodia
• Cube

Conclusion

Uncertain

Paladin looked like the best class post-rotation, but the news about Genn & Baku changed everything. Without them, the class doesn't look as good.

With that said, it has Secret Paladin and Holy Wrath Paladin to fall back on. Mech Paladin might also leave tier 5 and become a viable ladder option now that other opressive decks will go away.

Surviving decks

• Tempo
• Miracle
• Pogo
• Thief

Rotating decks

• Cube
• Malygos
• Quest
• Kingsbane

Conclusion

Safe

Valeera always finds a way.  Tempo Rogue will pave the way and the full potential of Captain Hooktusk will be unleashed. (and yes, she's hot). Miracle Rogue, an evergreen archetype, will follow. However it will be less effective without Strider and Minstrel.

Big Rogue might remain viable even without the Cube. If it is viable, it will fill the mana-cheating niche and oppress slow decks.

Surviving decks

• Dragon
• Overload aggro
• Value Shudderwock

Rotating decks

• Even
• Elemental
• Overload Control
• Evolve

Conclusion

Threatened

Thrall seems to have been stuck in a time loop since Witchwood. With Even Shaman out, Shaman has no viable archetype left. However, Shudderwock's potential can easily be awakened again if the right battlecry minions are printed. Hagatha is also the closest thing to a infinite value generator in standard.

Electra, Krag'wa, and Zentimo might also constitute the shell of a spell-based shaman deck

Surviving decks

•  ...

Rotating decks

•  Zoo
• Even
• Mecha'thun
• Cube
• Control
• Discard

Conclusion

Threatened

In fact much more than other classes. Of all the threatened classes, warlock is the most critical. Unlike Priest and Shaman, Warlock only received bad cards in 2018 and therefore has almost nothing to fall back on. On top of that, the loss of Doomguard will likely kill Vanilla Zoolock, the class' flagship evergreen archetype.

What does the class have left? Blizzard keeps shoving Discard Warlock down our throat even though it's become obvious that the archetype simply can't work. Blizzard also wants to push Handbuff Warlock, but we've seen the effectiveness of handbuffs during MSOG. Omelette Zoolock might be a thing.

I feel like the closest thing to a non-T5 deck Warlock can build with 2018 cards is a Dragon Handlock from the ashes of Evenlock.

Surviving decks

• Rush
• Mecha'thun

Rotating decks

• Odd
• Quest
• Odd-Quest

Conclusion

Safe

For the first time since the nerf to Win Axe, Warrior might become relevant again. Even though Odd Warrior will never enjoy a meta without DK Rexxar, the class has enough tools to make non-Odd Control Warrior viable. Old favorites like Warpath and Execute will make a comeback.
On top of that, Rush Warrior might finally become a serious meta threat. It loses almost nothing and has a good matchup against Midrange Hunter, the probable future meta tyrant. However the deck is hampered by its high cost (9 legendaries!)

The Quest Reward is fixed. 2 mana might sound a lot, but 0 mana would be OP and 1 mana is anti-synergy with other Alchemist cards and is also hard-countered by Skulking Geist.

Now what I need is to choose between the three quests conditions listed below. Numbers can be changed, obviously. Please focus on concept.

#1 - "Summon 5 minions of 5 different types"

The set will then focus on cross-tribe synergy. Examples:

#2 - "Destroy 7 minions with spells"

#3 - "Summon 10 minions with spells"

There are already cards that almost complete this quest in my class basic set (see here). However this would be the occasion to use an old favorite of mine:

I liked the idea of a 1-Cost DK. Currently the cheapest DK is Thrall, Deathseer wich costs (5). I want to push this further.

I might change the battlecry to only one Skeleton. Two might be OP on top of what the card does.

#1 -"Summon a 1/1 copy of a friendly minion that died"

In the Deathrattle HP, the Skeletons make sense because it prevents you from getting broken value with a big deathrattle minion, since it would turn your summon into a 1/3 chance of getting the big stuff.

Anyway, my set will be full of snowballing small Deathrattle minions. Murlocs will be a secondary theme of this expansion.

#2 - "After a non-Skeleton friendly minion dies, add a 1/1 Skeleton to your hand"

Tokens and hand synergies will be key here.