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Death Knight

Back when Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion came out, I was really disappointed as a big fan of the Warcraft franchise and an avid Hearthstone player that Blizzard decided not to implement an additional class. In my book the KotFT content never did the Death Knight player fantasy justice - so much potential was wasted back then. UI/UX limitations were always an issue with this I suppose (among other reasons). Now with the recent Demon Hunter announcement, I am wondering if the game's fundamental design space was opened up for even more character classes down the line. I sure hope so. I mean, when a new class was to be introduced, it made sense to pursue the Demon Hunter since the Death Knight player fantasy was sort of already explored. Anyhow, I decided to take matters into my own hands for now and designed a set of my own, a full-fledged Death Knight class. This is more of a starting point for further iterative work, an early draft if you will. All of the cards seen here would require a lot of playtesting if they were to be ever implemented into the game. Designing this set to keep it in line with the current Death Knight related content implemented was quite a challenge. I didn't want to reuse any cards, be it text or art nor to render them less meaningful in any way, shape, or form (even the ones from older/rotated out sets).

I tried to push boundaries with the designs, some cards are bound to be potentially game breaking - that is fine, I'd rather experiment and do something new and interesting, even if the entire set is scrapped after playtesting - an interesting gameplay aspect might emerge that can be further explored.

The permanent effect of Unholy Presence might prove to be problematic and as a result, will probably have to be further iterated upon into something like ‘Deal 1 damage to your hero and give it +2 Attack until the next time it attacks.‘ (2 mana). Still, I really want to prototype the initial 'bonkers' one and perhaps the playtesting sessions will give birth to something different and equally interesting.

Blood Presence probably needs an additional effect like 'If not used, restore 1 Health to your hero.'.

Disclaimer: This is a fan project that is completely non-profit, all the art assets belong to Blizzard.

https://imgur.com/gallery/QrbLeMC

Bob: That’s a great idea!

Nice guide, deserves more attention. But you are far from being safe with 10 health after clearing opponent's board if your opponent used a skull during the game and didn't yet Altruis yet... discounted kayn, glaivebound, warglaives, chaos strike & metamorphosis with slices also can reach 10 in one turn.

Didn't have Lay on Hands + Tirion Fordring, but added Feugen and Stalagg instead. Worked like a charm.

This guy isn't exactly a highlander card, but then again the competition never specified that it had to be, ha ha ha. 

The idea behind Lei Shen is basically that I miss seeing powerful minions that feel almost like boss battles, like Juraxxus and Ysera. Lei Shen is a powerful defensive tool, enabling his defenses, the conduits, to protect the player from spells and minion attacks. Your hero power is upgraded from summoning random totems to a random one of these conduits, and as long as the hero power is up there will be at least one conduit in play to protect you. The only catch is that with such a powerful effect, Lei Shen requires your deck to be "whole". If it isn't, he will enter the board silenced, which isn't terrible, as a vanilla 8/8 is no small matter, but you won't be given his full potential. If you draw your deck's last duplicate while he is in play, he will immediately withdraw his powers and your last conduit will not be replaced upon its death.

Here are the Conduits:

Yay!

We've once again completed the leveling rewards sticky. This is the only thread of its kind out in the Hearthstone world! Thank you to the 72 people who have made this thread possible in one way or another.

Leveling Rewards

After trying all of the top rated Gluth decks multiple times and failing miserably, I tried this one and was able to beat this encounter on my 2nd try with it.