Hearthpwn

Alright, finished my example cards and I just need one more Basic Card. I'll post up my example cards for now, seeing as I got no feedback for my Pokemon card waaaay back.

After much thought, I finally decided on my Pokemon Ninja minion:

@MarioToast All of your cards seem pretty good, but I think Death Command can be 4 mana, since some things slightly similar are Soul of the Forest and Poison Seeds. The former is probably more useful in balancing, even if it only affects your minions, and requires a board already.

Ooooooh I love the second challenge. Greninja is a must for me! (Though I have a love/hate relationship with that OP pokemon)

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At present time, there are 29 disqualified posts, consisting of both my administrative posts, some "removed" posts, and some rule violations. That means a total of 91 valid entries. I have asked the other mods to weight in on some for which I could see applying some leniency, but unless there's some change, the proportional percentage equals ~53.531%, so...

49 entries will go to Phase II
27 entries will go to Phase III
14 entries will go to Phase IV
8 entries will go to Phase V
4 entries will go to Phase VI

This is not including Wild Cards.

 Suddenly, 49 seems like a small number O.o

Well, 91 is a small number compared to past competitions. We had like twice that for the last class competition.

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At present time, there are 29 disqualified posts, consisting of both my administrative posts, some "removed" posts, and some rule violations. That means a total of 91 valid entries. I have asked the other mods to weight in on some for which I could see applying some leniency, but unless there's some change, the proportional percentage equals ~53.531%, so...

49 entries will go to Phase II
27 entries will go to Phase III
14 entries will go to Phase IV
8 entries will go to Phase V
4 entries will go to Phase VI

This is not including Wild Cards.

Now that everything's been said and done, I gotta say the worst part of this competition is how you can't prepare cards for the rest of your class in advance due to the challenges. It has been kinda killing me lol. And, on a more serious note, since I like to create several cards at once, it can somewhat break the flow.

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So, to clarify: We're doing one card from DK, Monk, and DH each? And one of those cards goes into a separate gang?

No, you are picking one of those three factions and designing its three tri-class cards. There seems to be some confusions, so I'm going to work with Shadows to rewrite and clarify the perimeters a bit before submissions open tomorrow.

@AsylumRhapsody: Before balancing Ji Firepaw, I think clarification whether the 1 Attack persists through your opponent's turn is needed.

 It does. It is permanent. =)

So, to clarify: We're doing one card from DK, Monk, and DH each? And one of those cards goes into a separate gang?

@AsylumRhapsody: Before balancing Ji Firepaw, I think clarification whether the 1 Attack persists through your opponent's turn is needed.

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What about execute/shield slam?

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 What do you mean with crushing reno decks? You mean designing an OP Reno deck, or countering Reno decks? And yeah Slime is already a token which is summoned by Blood To Ichor and Mire Keeper

The minute you shuffle in two of your hero power tokens, Reno is dead. Kazakus is dead. My word, I just played a game against a Reno Mage and I got Weasel Tunneler off of Maelstrom Portal. Then I N'Zothed it and he forgot about and dropped his Kazakus.

 Well, now I really like my deck. Considering that Reno decks are controlling the top tier of the meta, it's only fair to have a strong counter against them (though they don't really NEED Reno to win)

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Ok so I went back to the drawing board to come up with something more original and this is what I have come up with.  The cards are not necessarily what will go in the submission but I would appreciate feedback on it all:

 

The Orator

 

As an Orator Kaila is blessed with the gift of the gab.  While her strength and magical ability may be lacking she is able to use the power of words to manipulate the battlefield.  This may come from a rallying speech to buff her minions or a well placed insult to Taunt a foe and keep others safe.

The class will revolve around shuffling cards into the deck, buffs/debuffs and control

These are the ideas I have come up with for cards:

 

 

Druids seem to a bit overlooked so far, so I tried to support Mill Druid, though in an unconventional way. This could possibly support a slightly more robust Mill Druid, where they could combo this with Naturalize or Coldlight Oracle. And since most mill decks have a fair amount of draw of their own, there is a good chance a Mill Druid with a small C'Thun engine can drop a 16/16 or so C'Thun to seal the game. Or perhaps they might run some sort of Brann + C'Thun combo with insane draw power.

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 What do you mean with crushing reno decks? You mean designing an OP Reno deck, or countering Reno decks? And yeah Slime is already a token which is summoned by Blood To Ichor and Mire Keeper

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After spending some time working on my hero and more example cards, this is what I've come up with... The Void Doctor.

                                              

Lore

Gendan was once a high ranking officer of the Scarlet Crusade as a Priest of the Light. He worked devoutly trying to purge the undead from the world, and was renown for his skills in torture and alchemy, particularly when combining the two. He served at Hearthglen until the Lich King and his Death Knights slew nearly everyone there. Gendan was one of the few who escaped, only to be taken prisoner by the forsaken. Tortured for his crimes against their people, he eventually forsook the light, believing it had failed him. Eventually falling into darker practices, Gendan became a shadow priest much like the forsaken he despises. During the Cataclysm, as the world tore itself apart, Gendan managed to make his escape. Tormented both by his past and what he became, he gathered what few followers he could corrupt, and began a new Inquisition, lead by Void Doctors. While little better than the Old Gods themselves, the Void Doctors still work to eradicate the undead using the powers of the void and dark alchemical practices.

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Example cards:

  

Blight - Basic set                 Escaped Leper - Classic set                  Inquisition Doctor - Whispers of the Old Gods set 

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Alright, well, considering all the feedback I got thought my hero power is a bit over-powered, I decided to change it up a slight bit and make it give the token as a weapon you need to play instead instead. The older version just equipped it.

So now you pay 3 mana for a 1/1 weapon that silences, as opposed to two. Is that more in line with the general hero power levels?

Well, technically... mathematically speaking, yes, this is balanced. You take damage, and you pay 3 mana for a silence, which is fairly in line with the nerfed Ironbeak.

But having Silence on-demand... man, that is really, really good. And sort of frustrating to play against. Even if you do take quite a bit of damage from whacking minions, having a Silence always ready doesn't allow your opponent to play Hearthstone.

(RIP, just noticed I double posted. Sorry.)

I guess this is just where I have to disagree. . If I hit a minion with it, I still have to deal with the minion, it's not like I have an on hand hard removal tool or anything there. Silence is a half-removal at best. I can't think this is any more frustrating to play against than anything else in the game, and silence, as it stands, is practically non-existent, despite having classes with easy cheap silences. You can argue that's because they compete with a deck-slot, but even still I find people are too worried about this. Can you provide me with examples as to why a class with an easier access to silence is too powerful?  It's an early game survival tool to a degree. In late-game there are plenty of scenarios where this hero power is essentially useless.

Sure, I can remove taunt, deathrattle, etc, for a cost of health, but in a game like hearthstone Health is a valuable resource, a lot more valuable than I think people give it credit in a place where a ton of burst damage is entirely possible to shove out on turns. It's not as valuable in most card games where you can interact on your opponents turn. However, you can't do that in hearthstone and it really just shows that health does matter.  Kripp has a whole video series detailing how it can come down to just 1 point of health or so mattering for a win. It's not like I'm designing an invincible class here. It will have weaknesses.

I'm not going to provide it with easy access to heals either, meaning your choices of what to attack is that much more important. People haven't even seen the whole kit of the class but are already worrying just about the hero power. It's truly a RIsk Vs Reward hero power, much like Warlocks is.