WOW. hahahha. I feel like I missed seeing this in phase 1. This is hilarious and ridiculous and cool. Thoughts in spoiler:For your hero power, honestly I like the first/original one!! What can I say, I like simplicity. I definitely don't like the changing hero power because it just seems weak on top of being complicated. Also not crazy about keywords in the hero power... so if you end up changing it, I vote for the one where you add a hot meal card to your hand. But I like the original most.I prefer your bacon and eggs set to the cake and eat it too. I agree that the cake set is fun, but the effect is... a bit much. Save those concepts for other sets. HOWEVER, I just noticed your 2nd idea for "Have your Cake" and I much prefer that to the draw 10 cards one. Okay. I would go with your Fried Bacon and Fried Eggs for basic, and use the "Draw highest cost" spell in classic.If you go with the self-healing Beefy Vegetarian, I'd drop the attack, maybe to 5. Seems a bit too good as is. I prefer Butcher to Eat Alive, esp. for Basic. Also prefer Butcher to either of your Vegan Diet cards... Butcher just has great flavor, hah, I'd showcase that one. I'd keep Old School Cooking, especially if you stick with your original hero power. I'm not crazy about Roasting Drake, especially since there are no Dragons in basic (I know! it's true.) but I mean it's fine, I personally just wouldn't showcase it.I don't like Oven Malfunction's burst. It just doesn't feel right for the class... What about 6 mana deal 8 damage, that way you can't double down in one turn? Or make it target just minions. And Giant Barbecue is TOO STRONG. I would not include both this and Oven Malfunction... personally, I'd ditch Oven Malfunction and change Giant Barbecue to 7 mana.SO, I vote for:(but changing Giant Barbecue to 7 mana... also while you're at it, the text should say "next to it") and for your 10th card, I'd consider using Oven Malfunction's name and art and coming up with a new effect, maybe something with RNG because of the flavor of a malfunction ;D And if you're going to ditch a minion for an extra spell, I'd ditch the drake. He can fit into Classic pretty easily :)Hope this helps, and as always all my thoughts are just my own; you do you!!!!
Keep in mind that you have only 4 cards there with 2 or fewer lines of text, and you need 6: that means you'll have to pair down on some wording.
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Introducing...
An unusual warmth has settled over the wintery landscapes of Azeroth... from Northrend to Winterspring, snow is melting, flowers are blooming, and dormant beings are awakening. The rumors are true: SPRING IS COMING.
"The Great Thaw" expansion is all about the clash of Winter and Spring. We have Frostsabers, Ice Elementals, and Avalanches, as well as Forest Spirits, Flowery Glades, and Woodland Creatures. Similar to Goblins vs. Gnomes, this expansion is not set at a certain place or event, but is instead a general theme that permeates all over. Pushing for more control-style decks, this expansion includes a few more instances of the Sherazin Dormant mechanic, more board control spells/weapons, and two* new keywords:
*I also use the unofficial keyword Elusive (the Faerie Dragon effect) but since it's not a new mechanic, I'm not highlighting it here.
About the Keywords
- Chill -
Chilled minions have a shimmering light blue mist surrounding their token. The Chill takes place at the end of each player's turn. This mechanic encourages trading; it's not often that a Chilled minion will last long enough on board to accumulate a ton of damage from the Chill effect. Also, it should be noted that a Chilled minion is being debuffed, NOT damaged - and thus won't trigger Enrage and damaged minion synergy.
- Warm -
Examples of this currently in the game are Shifter Zerus and Molten Blade. Like these cards, your opponent will not see the trigger take place, the trigger will occur before the card is drawn to start your turn, and cards kept in your mulligan WILL warm on turn one.
Here's how Molten Blade looks with the new keyword text:
The sun icon tracks the number of turns a card has Warmed. In this example, Blossoming Nymph has been kept in hand for 3 turns and is buffed to 4 health. The icon doesn't appear on a card until the Warm count is at 1 or more.
Huge shoutout to ZardozSpeaks for helping me with this graphic!!
Class Cards
- Druid -
themes: Beasts, Control
Raven Idol
- Hunter -
themes: Beasts, Chill
Clarification: Minions that are already Chilled will not be targeted by Elondria's Ice Barrage (unless all enemy minions are already Chilled) similar to how Demented Frostcaller works.
- Mage -
themes: Chill, Secrets
- Paladin -
themes: Warm, Dragons, Divine Shield
- Priest -
themes: Warm, Silence, Elementals, opponent's hand
- Rogue -
themes: Chill, Stealth, Milling
- Shaman -
themes: Freeze, Murlocs, Elementals
Clarification: This class was created before Frozen Throne was released, thus before we had Avalanche in-game.
- Warlock -
Themes: Chill, Warm, Demons
Flame Imp
- Warrior -
themes: Chill (especially self-Chill), Warm, Taunt, Control
Neutral Cards
- Common -
Frost Whelpling is just learning his skills and can't control his Chilling frost breath (btw - see Frost Drake below for the grown-up version of this little guy!). This is also an example of the general push for control-style decks in this expansion... he's a strong 1-drop for decks that don't want to flood the board. Also, as the Elven Sharpshooter warms, her text would change in the way that text for spell damage does. So for example, after being in your hand for 2 turns, her battlecry text would read "Deal *3* damage to a minion."
- Rare -
Iceshard Elemental is an example of a minion that doesn't like to Warm in your hand. Play him as early as you can, or he'll melt altogether (if his health reaches 0, he can still be played - and would trigger things like Knife Juggler - but would die instantly).
- Epic -
The wording for Arboreal Giant was much debated, since the text could also read "Warm: Reduce the Cost of this card by (1)." However, I've chosen to keep it in line with the other giants, whose texts all begin with "Costs (1) less".
- Legendary -
Mith'ra, Spirit of Spring and Lae'ra, Spirit of Winter are Sister Spirits that are said to be battling over control of Azeroth. Lae'ra's hold over Northrend and other snow-covered regions is waning, and Mith'ra has taken the opportunity to Warm the lands and Restore life. Lae'ra, meanwhile, is filled with vengeance and is taking it out on minions that can't handle her Chill. And the others, well... she'll just Freeze them where they stand. Also, I feel like I should address how these two cards interact xD The ruling is that Kalecgos cannot be made Elusive. This is one of those unspoken rules of Hearthstone, something DisguisedToast would make a video about upon release ;)
Cards by Keyword
❄ Cards with Chill ❄
☀ Cards with Warm ☀
HUGE thanks go to the following amazing people, who helped me so much along the way:
Cogito_Ergo_Sum, The_Odinson, Otovent, Demonxz95, SnorlaxBR, ThisOtherGuyTox, Broeck1, Shatterstar1998, ShadowsofSense, Zence, ZardozSpeaks, Mewdrops, CecilHoshino, and Teknician
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Okay guys, I'm off to work for the next 6 hours. So I'm done.
*GIANT APPLAUSE FOR MY FELLOW FINALISTS!!!!!!*
:D Good luck.
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thank you thank you thank you!!!!
my thread is LIVE =O
...now to nail down those example cards...
Current set:
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okay guys, I know I've flaked on y'all these last few days. Well, life got in the way... I am officially off the market, in fact!! Livienna went and got herself a boyfriend. w00t!!! But yeah. I aim to have my 2nd draft of the goons classes posted no later than friday night. >.<
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Those following the expansion competition may recognize this as my Warm mechanic! It works in the same way as Nerubian Prophet and Shifter Zerus, where the effect occurs at the start of each turn.
In terms of balance: This is a strong card to keep in your mulligan in a control-style druid deck. The chance of top-decking this in the late game (and how bad that would be) is what makes this card balanced. Ideally, it fits the hole of the druid's lack of single-target removal since Mulch rotated. Hope you like!!
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So when do we get our fancy new border? ;D haha
Also, I posted the beginnings of my last 3 classes on the phase IV discussion thread, so instead of reposting it here I'm actually just gonna link it. Would LOVE some feedback from anyone who can spare the time!! <3 (thank you Shadows for the feedback you gave already!!)
CARDS AND STUFF!!!
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