Hearthpwn

This is a card I just recently made for an expansion and I'm not sure if it applies here.

The reason that this card says "1" is because it's affected by spell damage. When you have a card that's affected by spell damage, mousing over the card will show the increased damage surrounded by asterisks, so it would be rather strange if the card goes from "Draw a card" to "Draw **2** cards." It also clarifies exactly how spell damage affects this card, as that might normally be ambiguous, but by using the "1" it becomes pretty clear that the spell damage is affecting that number.

I see what you're trying to do, which is to cover the possible weaknesses of secrets. But this is something that you inherently shouldn't do... the thing that makes secrets somewhat interactive is that you can actually play around them, but when you make cards like these with reverse triggers it makes it so that there's literally nothing you can do aside from guessing based on which card is more viable or more common to draft in arena, even if you have a hand full of cards to deal with it with. 

From the thread title itself, it seems like you want to punish people for playing a certain way with regard to secrets, and from the triggers, it seems like you want to punish people for correctly playing around existing secrets. Why would you want to punish your opponent for doing the right thing? That's inherently unfair gameplay, and one of the reasons that Molten Giant got nerfed (and while I disagree with the extremity of the nerf, I think their reason was valid).

Hero powers are really hard to design and so I made this google doc for that exact reason.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZKPQwlbXOSktip3dle_gQCgZePshNG-T-gWFlT8qJog/edit?usp=sharing

You can also take a look at my Death Knight concept if you need any inspiration.

I will probably make Shadowmourne a 2/2 since it is really strong right now.

With this quest, there are plenty of cards that generate runes, so you don't need to run only the 1 mana runes (In fact, I'd expect you to only run two Unholy Runes and two Blood Runes). The Omega Rune itself doesn't count towards the quest, however, Death Runes will count as two runes since you play them and the rune that they generate.

- Generally, poisonous minions don't have more than 2-3 attack.

- There's (almost) no reason for this card to say "attacks and kills a minion" since it has Poisonous. The only time that this effect isn't the equivalent of "Whenever this attacks a minion" or "Whenever this kills a minion" is against Divine Shield, which isn't a big enough case to design around.

- What are the "Vodoo Rituals"? (It should be Voodoo, by the way)

- Depending on how strong the Rituals are this card seems weak, a 5 mana 4/4 is really easy to kill and this card doesn't do anything unless it lives through the turn, and even then it might not be very powerful.

Quote from Alkoviak >>

While trying to see how I would go making a quest DK is stumbled on the card Shadowmourne

Text is : "whenever this kills a minion, restore health to your Hero equal to its attack"

I think the "its" is a little confusing because it could mean :

• The minion attack (anything from 0 to 30
• The hero (2 or 3 depending of the hero power or more if there is a weapon buff card) The most probable meaning
• The weapon (meaning 2 unless in can be buffed with a card)

"Its" has probably been used to keep the description short but I think the description could be clearer:

1) "whenever this kills a minion, restore health equal to its attack to your hero"

2) "whenever this kills a minion, restore health equal to your hero attack to it " (following Truesliver Champion text instead of Ivory Knigth)

3) "whenever this kills a minion restore health equal to your weapon attack to your hero"

I think burning is a generally bad mechanic as Blizz doesn't like DoT to be too prevalent, as it's really hard to keep track of. Furthermore, relative to Corruption, DoT is usually going to be really weak (Especially in this case - 1 damage at the start of each of your opponent's turns is really weak). Cards that deal or take damage over time are best limited to a few instead of making it into a mechanic.

Furthermore, Burn has a really small design space, much like Poison or the "Freeze any character damaged by this character" mechanic. If you're making a keyword, you generally want it to be applicable in a variety of settings, and I'm not sure that this is the case with Burn.

The cards themselves aren't too bad (except for the legendary which is concerning, as it puts your opponent on a rope that gives them no room to outplay from the brink of death, especially against a class like mage that can already poke people down) but I don't think it's worth a keyword.

Quote from Zence >>

That's really cool! I know i'd be interested in trying it. I bet if Livienna has the time she would too.

Quote from Livienna >>

 omg im SO down. How can I get this?? xD

Quote from Livienna >>

Wish we could simulate your Classic Pillager deck versus my Classic Warden deck!!! If there's a way, I'm SO down. :P

 

Quote from Tyomcha >>

The card writeups seem to be fine, but in the part above the cards that explains the Frost archetype, Shatterstrike is still shown as Common despite now being moved to Basic.

After about 2 hours of work, 1.2 is out!

- Writeups updated through ONiK

- Lots of set changes to put spell synergy in classic as per feedback

- A few balance changes, some based on feedback others pushing new ground

- A few remove/replace and card reworks based on feedback

Swapping rarities and sets and moving the writeups appropriately was a ton of work and I wouldn't be surprised if I made any mistakes. Please, if you're looking through the sets and notice there are too many or too few cards, either in total or of a particular rarity, or a writeup is missing or it doesn't make sense, please comment so that I can fix it, like you guys have been doing so well so far :)

Feedback has seemed to calm down, so here are the patch notes for 1.2, in no particular order. If no one has any objections, then I'll get to work!

1.2
Ghoul wording "Charge. At the end of your turn, destroy this minion."
Frozen Fanatic capitalize T
Seer of Endless Ice reworded
Vrykul Icebringer Health 5 -> 4
Unstable Abomination damage 5 -> 4
Ebon Queen attack 6 -> 4
Crater Cultist -> 2 mana 2/1 "Reduce the cost of spells in your hand by (1)."
Frost Fever -> "Freeze a minion. Reduce its attack by 3, but not to less than 1."
Patient Zero -> Loses taunt.
Glacial Advance -> TGT
Soulguard Bonecaster -> Classic
Shatterstrike -> Basic
Army of the Dead -> GvG
Horn of Winter -> Classic
Vrykul icebringer -> Wotog
Encase in Ice -> TGT
Ravenous Skelesaur -> Ice Elemental

Note sure if it's as good as you're looking for, but I happen to have recently made this card.

Next: A stronger, but balanced version of this card.

Destroying all mana crystals is pretty anti-fun, especially in the way you described. Druid already suffers enough from being win-more, and a card like this just makes the problem worse. A 10-mana twisting nether also won't do very much to help you get back on board, unless your opponent is grossly overextended.

Also the lack of the period and the extra linebreak at the bottom of the text bother me.

Quote from nurgling13 >>

I like your concept of runes, but I don't like the way you distributed their synergy between the sets. In Basic and Classic, you created an additional way to get each rune, but you didn't create any rune synergy here. It seems to all be in later expansions. I think this should be the primary theme of the class, considering how you made the runes Basic spells. Stuff like Deathrattle and summoning token already has synergy from neutral cards. You need to have some synergy for your  runes anchored in the Classic set where it will never get rotated out of Standard. I think some of the token generation or synergy cards, like Ghoul, Soulblade, Army of the Dead, Plague Eruptor, March of the Damned, or Froustmourne, should be swapped with the Rune synergy cards from another expansion. You have way too much of this in the Classic set, and absolutely no Rune synergy. If this were a real class, it would be like the developers only came up with the idea of rune synergy a year after the class was created. I also think you don't need so much Freeze and Freeze synergy in the Classic set. Iceborn Knight in particular seems unnecessary, since it only even interacts with two Classic cards.