Hearthpwn

K&C

Individual cards

• Lord of Candles is too similar to The Darkness.
• Ryxtaz: Deal 1 damage to who?
• I think Rotating Fire could be simplified as "draw the bottom card of your deck"

Overall

I think your cards have too much text. There's also the issue of art I probably mentioned in earlier phases.

Witchwood

Individual cards

• The Blood Moon is too dangerous. We're seeing it in wild right now with Bloodbloom.

Overall

Same comments as K&C. Also, as Wailor said, it's weird for you set to have weapon synergy but no actual weapons.

STRENGTHS

• Minion swarming - The class has a lot of 1-Cost minions, and the HP generates further of them. However the class has also many other ways to summon minions.
• Value generation - Patricia loves to concoct new stuff! Like Priest and Rogue, Alchemist is a class with lots of value generation. Alchemist's way of generating value is either to generate 1-Cost cards or to generate cards from random classes (as opposed to Rogue which is only your opponent's class).
• Versatility - Like Druid, Warrior, and Rogue, Alchemist has a good variety of playstyles and can adapt to any situation during games.

WEAKNESSES

• Few direct damage - Alchemist has trouble dealing direct damage. Most of its damage will come from minions.
• Few big midrange-y minions - Alchemist has a lot of low-cost minions at her disponsal, but few high-cost minions, and the few high-cost minions she has are big effects rather than big bodies. If Alchemist wants big minions, she will have to create them herself (through buffs or card generation).

Sporemen scale up like tigers from Spirit of the Tiger .

• LOOKING FOR GROUP - Improves deck consistency, as it minimizes your changes to draw a useless 1-drop in the mid-to-late game. The drawback is that you don't get the minion's Battlecry if it has one, a minimal issue for 1-drops. Might make Gravelsnout Knight viable!
• UNIDENTIFIED MUSHROOM - Multi-tribe synergy. Encourages a multi-tribe deck.
• MYCOCALYPSE [see Sporeman token below] - Big summoning spells. Useful in "Big Spell Alchemist" as well as Quest Alchemist (see my phase IV post). Alchemist already has a lot of big spells in its core sets (basic & classic). It is a natural fit for a Big Spell archetype.

• RADIOACTIVE SPORES - Spiteful Summoner -like synergies for Big Spell Alchemist. Synergizes well with itself.
• LESSER TURQUOISE SPELLSTONE - The spellstone. Support for a control-oriented Big Spell Alchemist, but it can also be used in a non-Big Spell deck provided it runs enough spells. Thanks to @teknician for providing me with art for 2 of the spellstone steps!

• INFINITE AGENT - Indirect hand size synergy. I already had overdraw synergy in my last set in the form of Rapid Contamination and Brains in Jars . Also a reference to my Chef class.
• KABAL SUPPLIER - Obviously, "custom 1-Cost Potion" refers to the 1-Cost option from Kazakus.
• MUSHHUCKSTER MAX - Kazakus ' official supplier! (but don't tell anyone!) Max allows to "store" 5 mana (he's a 6mana 2/2) for later use. Extremely useful in combo decks and/or midrange-y control decks. Although Alchemist doesn't have a lot of direct damage, it has Cocktail Throw in its basic set, which can deal up to 14 damage with Malygos and the Elixir. And more if you further cheat mana!

Tokens

Sporemen scale up like tigers from Spirit of the Tiger .

• TINY AMALGAM - You saw it coming. Powercreep on the Penguin, but hey, it's a class card.
• FERAL MURLOC - There's no reason for the Worgen Curse to be limited to humans and night elves! Note that it starts as a 1/3, so you can't summon a 3/1 on turn 1.

• FELBLOOD HAG - Challenge #3 card. Obvious synergy with my legendary weapon. Giving Lifesteal to a minion is costed about 1.5, so I think this is fair.
• ESCAPE THE WITCH! - Very good in "Zoo Alchemist" with tons of 1-drops. Huge tempo in an odd deck!

What Cookie does is transform minions with a type into a spell that corresponds to its type. All Meals are 1-Cost. All-types minions are transformed into a random Meal.

• SKILLED GRAFTER - This was my winning card for WCDC 8.20 (recycling is good for the environnement). It works like Build-A-Beast : you will be proposed a vanilla 1-Cost minion and a minion with a more complex effect. Minion types will also be combined if relevant.
• LORD WALDEN ( Nightmare Amalgam ) - Lord Walden was one of Lord Godfrey 's associates and a powerful alchemist. He is similar to Khadgar except Walden works better with small spells that summons lots of minions rather than big spells that summon a few big minions.
• CAPT'N COOKIE - Throwback to my Chef class again! The "meals" are listed below.

Tokens

Commons

Rares

Sporemancer should probably be nerfed to "up to 10" like Geosculptor Yip, otherwise that Spellstone will create 20/20s and that's degenerate...

Epics

Legendaries

Tokens

Commons

Rares

I opted to keep Felblood Hag, as it received better feedback globally. Chromatic Potion will be included in later sets.

Epics

I know, the gem is wrong, will redo later.

Legendaries

I know, the tribe tag is bad. Will fix later

Tokens

The possible meals I originally made for Cookie are too numerous to my taste. 8 tokens for 8 type + 1 for the "all" type sounds too much. I will probably group up the meals together according to flavor (Murloc+Pirate = Sea Food, Dragon+Demon = BBQ, etc...)

OR

New choice, I hope the last one.

I was looking for a D&D-like name for a dragon and then, well, duh.

I will not include Chromatic Potion and Liquid Sun in those sets (perhaps in phase VI if I somehow make it) as I couldn't find any room for them.

More inter-expansion synergy! Your Legendary Weapon should define an aspect of your class, so it shouldn't be difficult to create a card which benefits it or benefits from it. We'll be pretty lenient about this anyway - after all, who can say what Shaman spells help or hinder the Runespear?

Twilight Canticle is my legendary weapon. Felblood Hag is currently my Challenge #3 card. However the mods mentioned they will "be pretty lenient" on which card passes the challenge. Any attack buff like my Mutating Potion technically qualifies as synergy with my weapon since it would restore more Health with Lifesteal. Yes, that's obscure synergy but synergy nonetheless.

Mods, do you validate this? It would free a spot

All classes except mage received an echo card in Witchwood. It wouldn't be too serious if I don't have one but I'd still rather have one.

Most people I asked preferred the grafing to effect to One More (which I should have named "Just One More" for flavor clarity). I tried to make a compromise in the form of Graft. But people still seem to prefer the minion version.

Should I give up on Echo?

I made Lord Walden very quicky at the beginning of the phase. It was a scrapped idea for my classic leggy, but I just had this cool idea in line with Flying witch.

Which is best?

Most probable submission

Commons

Rares

Epics

Legendaries

Tokens

Upgraded Hero Power

Commons

I think Feral Murloc is cool but doesn't fit my class flavor-wise. I'm thinking of changing it.

Rares

I know Felblood Hag has a common gem. I will change it later;

Epics

Legendaries

Tokens

Decision #1

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VS

I know most of you already gave your opinion on this one, but so far it's mostly split. I personnaly prefer Sporemen but might go with Spiteful for balance reasons as well as the fear voters would find this weird.

In addition, there's also this pseudo-big spellthat I find cool but can't fit

Decision #2

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The Muhsroom options:

 

Decision #3

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 Decision #4

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Snake Oil Potions are just 1mana "do nothing". It's the joke. It's supposed to synergize with hand effects.

From the Swamp has been toned down and now summon only a maximum of 3 minions.

Decision #5

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Molten Drake is very similar to Infinite Agent from Decision #2. I will not pick both at the same time.