Hearthpwn

Alright, big powerful spells! My Tammy side likey! Your thoughts?

Woo! Alright, making an entire HS year! It's gonna be quite challenging to think of 3 distinct mechanically and flavourfully interesting expansions, but I'm sure people will come through and it'll be quite fun doing so. Let's get started with my list of expansion ideas:

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It's an interesting premise you've put here, but unfortunately, there's some rather clear flaws in your experiment.

1. For one, you have way too little instances of times you checked what Death Knight card you recieved. It's like if I were to ask 24 people what their favourite fruit is, and since a majority of 24 humans (out of the 7.5 billion humans on the planet) said they liked strawberries, I induced that most humans like strawberries because...reasons. In other words, your experiment is too liable to problems of chance. You could improve your results by checking more Death Knight cards (since the chances of say, receiving Doom Pact repeatedly would be smaller), but to be frank, I think this might be a waste of time for you.
2. For another, this isn't verifiable/repeatable. I haven't checked this out yet, so I suppose you can take this with a grain of salt, but I'm pretty sure you can't replicate these results in any close form if another person tried to get 24 Death Knight cards or if you retried your experiment.
3. Finally, there is no evidence from Blizzard that this was intentional and looking at your results, there doesn't seem to be legitimate reason/motive as to why these odds would be rigged.

Regardless, you have brought up the ever so intrigung idea of probability and how we see the world and the concept "random". From the so-called rigged lottery which randomly produced the numbers "1","2", "3", "4", "5", "6" to the fact that Apple actually installed a "true random" option into their itunes app when too many people complained that the "shuffle" feature in the app didn't truly . These were of course false accusations since the "shuffle" feature did in fact played their song list in a random order (sometimes, it would just have the chance to do things like play a song repetitively or play a number of songs in the order of the song list), but they added a feature anyways that ironically seemingly made the "shuffle" option more random when it actually just rigged the odds (e.g. a certain song wouldn't be played more than X times repeatedly and it would not be able to be played again after X amount of songs).

Fascinating stuff. I honestly know little about probability and its science, but in a card game where luck is a constant factor, it is indeed quite cool to see you bring up this topic.

TL; DR Chance is a fickle thing, and 25 cards is too little of a scope to get a good, repeatable result for what you're going for; plus, there's no reason why the odds should be rigged anyways.

(Btw, to answer your question, no I did not get a similar outcome. Ironically, I got Death Coil the most times (10 times out of 24)).

I'm hoping they add these Monster Hunt Heroes and as alternative hero skins for classes (like Medivh and Arthas Menethil). Their emotes are great, and I'd love to see a new themed animation for their hero powers!

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Hmmm, your thoughts?

LOL. It's a tie! Congratulations to thepowrofcheese and CheeseEtc! You're the last champions of the season! (I hope you guys come up with a good theme together :3)

Completely Professional Review 7.20...the End of Another Season :(

Finally a card that can make use of your accidental Life Tap while your hand is full in Handlock!

THE BATTLEMAGE

Notes:

• Your right is your opponent's right as well. Otherwise stuff like the Dorothee Brawl wouldn't work. You may think an enemy Battlemage Hero Power will hit your left -most minion, but this isn't the case.
• If your opponent has no minions, the Hero Power will hit their hero. If they have one minion, it will hit that minion.

In other fantasy games and forms of media, Battlemages are people who specialize in forms of armed combat with weapons, and magic. Battlemage specializes in spells, weapons, and armor. In many ways, Battlemage can be thought of as a combination of Mage and Warrior. That's not to say there's no room for originality in this class because there certainly is.

Unlike most other classes in this competition, Battlemage does not have its own keyword. You don't need a fancy keyword to create a new class (although it's more than welcome if you do). Not that it could use it in this Phase anyway, because this is the Basic set.

Speaking of Basic Set, here is 5 cards from the Battlemage's Basic set.

Example cards

• Freeze in place! (Cryoball) - Cryoball gives Battlemage a very simple cantrip card for the Basic set to showcase Freeze as a Battlemage theme. Kind of like Shiv , but for Freezing
• Armor Up! (Horde Hatchet) - Horde Hatchet is a very basic weapon (no pun intended), essentially Battlemage's Fiery War Axe . Although not as strong as pre-nerf Fiery War Axe , it fits the job dealing with 2-Health minions played on your opponent's turn 1 or 2. The 2 Armor it gives may be used immediately to kill your opponent's 2-drop, but then there's also Armor synergy.
• Weapons AND Spells (Ember Seeker) - Mages get spell synergy. Warriors get weapon and Armor synergy. Battlemages get all of the above, even combining them into one card. Ember Seeker in particular is Armor and spell synergy all in one card. Although gaining 2 Armor for one spell isn't much, cast a bunch of spells and suddenly you're set to go.
• Minion Position Matters (Violent Slash) - But Battlemage is not just simply a combination of Mage and Warrior. It gets some things to set it apart from all of the other classes. The importance of minion position for both players is one of these thing. Against Battlemage, you will need to think about where you play your minions. The Hero Power is one example and deals 1 damage, but Violent Slash will outright kill it. Perhaps it may be a good idea to play your biggest minions in the center.
• Intense Combat (Phalanx) - Battlemage does not get any self-damage synergy that Warrior does, but its Warrior side is showcased in other ways, through intense combat tactics. Raise your shield and your burning spear, remove small/weakened threats and gain some defense at the same time.

But there are 5 more cards to look at:

Remaining cards

Click here to go to my Phase I post.

THE ENCHANTER

Was there ever a time when you were playing mage and you thought to yourself "Hang on, this class has like, almost no weapons"? Do you want to be edgy and different from other classes (and people), playing cards but like, not in their boring original form? Do you want to play as yet another unnecessarily scantily clad female character created by Blizzard Entertainment? Look no further. As the Enchanter, you can make your opponent really annoyed with your excoriating night-elf-but-not-night-elf emotes, hit your opponent in the face with a magic stick, or cast spells that break your stick because they're too OP . All that and more after the break.

Class Keyword [preview]

The Phase keyword isn't in the basic set, but can be found in the classic set on minions and spells. Weapons can also have the keyword. If a Phase card is played a) with a cost reduction, b) in the case of a minion or weapon, a stats buff, and c) in the case of spells, empowered by Spell Damage, it gains a bonus effect. For example, equipping a Leyline Staff from your hero power activates Phase on spells, as their text changes.

Example Cards

• Leyline Control is a handbuff card for empowering your spells, but it has to land on a playable minion. This helps you to set up combos for later in the game.
• Invigorate can be used as removal, when paired with Mystic Flux , for a 2-card, 7 mana combo of "Deal 4 damage to a 4-Health minion. Draw 2 cards." That will usually kill it!
• Ley Walker is Shattered Sun Cleric but better on a bigger board. Think Fungalmancer .
• Scroll of Divination is a good tutor card and one of the Enchanter's essential draw tools.
• Astral Fire is like Pyroblast when paired with your hero power, but is more flexible and is more powerful the greater your spell damage is.

Remaining Cards

Previous Phase

Here's my Phase I post, with some more details about how the class works.

Format shamelessly stolen from Demonxz.

The Archaeologist is a weapons-based class; however, it also can support plenty of other archetypes, such as Armor, Discover, Deathrattle, and more in the future. Decay , which is a reasonably simple keyword, is used to allow the existence of passive aura weapons because of the way Decay weapons naturally lose Durability without attacking, which Archaeologist has several of, it being the core use of the keyword. Additionally, Decay can affect minions and heroes.

Showcase cards:

Deathrattles, Deathrattles, and more Deathrattles! Being a class that digs up artifacts after they're dead, it only makes sense that Archaeologist has Deathrattle synergy. Deathrattle decks in Archaeologist will be unique from other Deathrattle decks because Deathrattle minions are temporarily removed for turns at a time, instead of quickly dying and resurrecting, or just triggering their Deathrattles . One unique thing about Divvy Digger is that she benefits off of survivability - each of your turns she survives, she draws an extra card on death because the Deathrattle does stack indeed.	Decay Weapons The class's core mechanic, Decay , finally finds its way onto a card. Right from the get-go, Decay is already being used uniquely on Timesnipper . Because you don't want the weapon to break, the Decay actively works against you for a powerful weapon such as this. It's similar to Moat Lurker which that it temporarily removes a minion, but instead of the resurrection based only on a minion's destruction, it's based on time. Because it's cheaper than most removal options, it can also destroy your minions, and it doesn't sacrifice much tempo to trigger their Deathrattles .	The Big Guy Rejan, Arisen is very much a card to be afraid of. A potent threat on the board, it benefits a lot off of weapon removal, and your Aura weapons, which might make the opponent think twice before oozing. Rejan gives the class a way to close out games, by making the player do one of the things it does best, breaking weapons.

When making a custom class, the Basic Set is arguably the hardest set to get right. We all want to get to our flashy cards as soon as possible, but the Basic Set is the most important set. It defines the groundwork for the class. The quality of your Basic Set will greatly impact the rest of your class. The other hard part about it is that they can't be very obscure, because they're intended to be... Basic. They're cards that are intended to be very simple, yet very essential for the class. With the current Class Competition (Trial and Errors) about to start Phase II, now is the best time to get this out there.

Each class's Basic set should include:

Single Target Damage:

• Druid: Moonfire, Claw, Starfire
• Hunter: Arcane Shot, Kill Command
• Mage: Frostbolt, Fireball
• Paladin: Hammer of Wrath
• Priest: Holy Smite
• Rogue: Backstab, Shiv
• Shaman: Frost Shock, Fire Elemental
• Warlock: Soulfire, Mortal Coil, Shadow Bolt, Drain Life
• Warrior: Heroic Strike

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 AoE:

• Druid: Savage Roar (friendly), Swipe
• Hunter: Multi-Shot
• Mage: Arcane Missiles, Arcane Explosion, Frost Nova, Flamestrike
• Paladin: Consecration
• Priest: Holy Nova
• Rogue: Fan of Knives, Vanish
• Shaman: Totemic Might (friendly), Bloodlust (friendly)
• Warlock: Hellfire, Dread Infernal
• Warrior: Whirlwind, Cleave

Every class should have access to at least one non-friendly AoE with Shaman being the odd one out, presumably because they have Lightning Storm in the Classic set.

Card Draw:

• Druid: Starfire, technically Wild Growth also counts because of Excess Mana.
• Hunter: Tracking, Starving Buzzard
• Mage: Arcane Intellect
• Paladin: Hammer of Wrath
• Priest: Northshire Cleric, Power Word: Shield
• Rogue: Shiv, Fan of Knives, Sprint
• Shaman: N/A
• Warlock: Mortal Coil
• Warrior: Shield Block

Shaman once again is the odd man out here. We can assume this is because Mana Tide Totem is a thing.

Removal/Neutralization:

• Druid: N/A
• Hunter: Hunter's Mark
• Mage: Frostbolt, Frost Nova, Polymorph
• Paladin: Humility
• Priest: Shadow Word: Pain, Shadow Word: Death, technically Mind Control also counts.
• Rogue: Sap, Assassinate
• Shaman: Frost Shock, Hex
• Warlock: Sacrificial Pact, Corruption
• Warrior: Execute

Druid this time here is the exception to all of the other classes. We can assume this is because removal is supposed to be a weakness for Druid and they make up in other aspects.

Once you get past that, you can also add cards that specifically fit your class's themes. For example:

• Beasts for Hunter (Timber Wolf, Animal Companion, Kill Command, Houndmaster, Starving Buzzard, Tundra Rhino)
• Healing/Health Buffs for Priest (Northshire Cleric, Power Word: Shield, Divine Spirit, Holy Nova)
• Ramp for Druid (Innervate, Wild Growth)
• Totems for Shaman (Totemic Might, Flametongue Totem)
• Discard for Warlock (Soulfire, Succubus)
• Weapons for any weapon class (Fiery War Axe, Truesilver Champion, Assassin's Blade)

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A class's Basic set usually only has 1 or 2 minions.

The class with the most is Hunter with 4. If you have more than 4 minions in your Basic set, you should cut a few of them. Meanwhile, Rogue is at the opposite end of the spectrum with 0. For reference, here is the number of minions in each class's Basic set:

• Druid: 1 (Ironbark Protector)
• Hunter: 4 (Timber Wolf, Houndmaster, Starving Buzzard, Tundra Rhino)
• Mage: 1 (Water Elemental)
• Paladin: 1 (Guardian of Kings)
• Priest: 1 (Northshire Cleric)
• Rogue: 0
• Shaman: 3 (Flametongue Totem, Windspeaker, Fire Elemental)
• Warlock: 3 (Voidwalker, Succubus, Dread Infernal)
• Warrior: 2 (Warsong Commander, Kor'kron Elite)

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Top tip: It's also a really good idea for cards to follow more than 1 aspect, increasing utility and space. For example:

• Fan of Knives (AoE and Card Draw)
• Power Word: Shield (Health Buff and Card Draw)
• Frost Nova (AoE and Neutralization)
• Pretty much all tribed minions count as well (such as Tundra Rhino, Water Elemental and Dread Infernal)

This doesn't mean you should try to make every card like this, but it's nice to have should it happen. Some classes (Shaman and Druid) in particular may not follow some of these categories, in part because they have easy to access cards in the Classic set (Mana Tide Totem, Lightning Storm) or are intended to be weak in a particular aspect. You could possibly justify skipping one of these should that come up.

The enchanter uses spells, minions, and weapons to weave a magical tapestry.

Was there ever a time when you were playing mage and you thought to yourself "Hang on, this class has like, almost no weapons"? Do you want to be edgy and different from other classes (and people), playing cards but like, not in their boring original form? Do you want to play as yet another unnecessarily scantily clad female character created by Blizzard Entertainment? Look no further. As the Enchanter, you can make your opponent really annoyed with your excoriating night-elf-but-not-night-elf emotes, hit your opponent in the face with a magic stick, or cast spells that break your stick because they're too powerful . All that and more after the break.

⟣ ⟝— NEW KEYWORD —⟞ ⟢

If a Phase card is played a) with a cost reduction, b) in the case of a minion or weapon, a stats buff, and c) in the case of spells, empowered by Spell Damage, it gains a bonus effect. For example, equipping a Leyline Staff from your hero power activates Phase, as you have acquired Spell Damage.

These first showcase cards show only a hint of the class; Spell Damage, Phase, and hand-positioning. There will be collectible weapons and more impactful buffs for minions and spells, without enabling crazy combos.

The enchanter has several playstyles, including:
• Spell Damage
• Low-Attack Weapons
• Cost Reduction
• Minion Buffing
• Left-Most Card Matters

⋆⋅⋋≬∘⋄——— SHOWCASE ———⋄∘≬⋌⋅⋆

Leyline Control [Basic]	Ping of Power [Classic]	Mistveil Drake [Classic]
Leyline Control: Enchanters take great pride in empowering their subjects, and the basic set is no exception. The perfect way to trigger Phase effects on your minions without having to rely on cost reduction.	Ping of Power: Comparing this card to Eviscerate, it's easy to see how this might be a powerful card. With the use of your hero power, this becomes a 3 mana deal 4 damage combo, an example of one of the limited burn options Enchanter has access to.	Mistveil Drake: A big discount for your hand on the back of a 5/5 body on turn 7. The effect is scary and easily triggers Phase ,

Nucleomancer [Boomsday]	The Grave Keeper [Witchwood]
Nucleomancer: Particle Physics is the Enchanter's purview in The Boomsday Project, infusing minions with the power of energetic particles and exploring the very foundations of minion existence. Practically, the Nucleomancer limits your performance while activating your Phase effects and providing you with discounts for your cards.	The Grave Keeper: This powerful effect can swing games, and the most important part is that it can require significant set-up to be part of a game-clinching combo which pairs hand positioning with order of play in order to buff minions, clear the board, and burn your opponent down.

Thanks for your consideration!