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This effect is overridden by Barnabus the Stomper if you manage to activate him.
Notable targets for this card include; Twilight Drake, Faceless Shambler, Big-Time Racketeer, and of course Elder Longneck's more powerful cousin, Magma Rager.
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Come my child. No need to fear. The spirits are friendly around here. This forest is mine after all.
I am the Enchantress. And so are you...
Do watch yourself child. You have no doubt noticed the lights that dance around. They are my power. And my protectors. Few who enter can resist their charms. It helps us survive. We are known for being hard to find after all.
Playstyle and Lore;
The Enchantress is a defensive focused class with two main aspects, both of which are shown within the Hero power. The first is the protective aspects. Unlike Priest and Warriors whose defensiveness comes from their ability to negate the effect damage, the Enchantress is much more elusive in nature, using a variety of spells, effects and secrets to proactively guard against damage dealt to both themselves and their minions, and to weaken the opponent. In a pinch, the Enchantress also has a lot of ways to make up for lost ground by filling the board.
The second half is the class focus on Spell Damage, but not in the conventional sense. For the Enchantress, spells that are actually able to deal damage are both rare and hard to procure, so Spell Damage is used in other ways. Various minions and spells have effects that scale directly with how much spell damage you have, and some of the more advanced cards will give you bonus effects if you are in control of enough spell damage when you play them.
Lore:
Asha Kalleih, the woman known to most as simply "The Enchantress", is an evasive and mysterious figure. Most of the knowledge of her and her kind is spread through hearsay and rumor. Never seen outside of the forest she inhabits, some claim she might be as old as the wood itself. Her appearances are famously sparce, always seeming to show up in times of destruction, and always ending it soon after.
The powers of Asha and her kin are as unknown as they are. What is known, is that unlike the Druids that reside nearby, the Enchantress does not merely draw power from nature, their power is nature itself. All the powers of both the forest and the sprites that inhabit are seemingly at her beck and call. Maybe she does in fact control them, or maybe they simply have enough respect to heed her request, but when even the darkest aspects that you can fear are at her command, I wonder if it truly matters.
(Basic Set)
I see you garnered a few friends along the way here. What? You only see one? Yes, I supposed you do. I see them. Waiting. But don't worry. When she has enough strength, she will call them just for you. In the meantime, please sit down. You have a long journey ahead of you. I always find a fire can help you to prepare for what comes next.
Wait... I sense something more. You're hurt, aren't you? I understand. That's why you are here. You want power. More than you had. Very well. I can do that. It might take time, but I can certainly give what you need.
Card example Explanation:
Spirit of the Pack: The perfect example of how Spell Damage synergy works in the Enchantress. Played or summoned on its own, the card is really weak, but with a single spell damage, most likely from your Hero power, it turns it into a decently stated minion, and any more that that, and the card can start getting out of control.
Spirit Beast:
Firelight: A cantrip-esque spell that places emphasis having a large amount of minions. On a full board, this gives 7 Health and draws a card, but much more reasonable is to give 2 or 3. It isn't a lot, but it can make your board slightly more challenging to kill in a number of cases.
Reparation: The only basic card to show a commonly recurring mechanic for the Enchantress: Spell-creating cards. To balance out the effect of having a constant source of spell damage, most of the damaging spells from the Enchantress come from this method: playing a weaker than average card, that then produces a much more balanced spell. In this case, also helping the case of minion survival.
Reckoning:
Other Basic Cards:
Discussion:
Sighting: Themed on self protection. A board full of minions now works as an irritating wall.
Glimmer and Emerald Sprite: Fitting for a class I described as "elusive" the un-keyworded effect appears a number of times. Glimmer works in the same vein as Sighting, except this time it helps protect your minions, and Emerald sprite is just a decent thematic 4-drop.
Changling Grove: Creation of spells and minions is a common trend within this class, and this card works to create a very specific idea of turning your opponents power against them. The limitation of the card to only target enemy minions is made up for in this case with a small buff built in.
Mist: One of the very few direct damaging spells that the class has. The benefit you can get from spell damage is mitigated in this case by limiting it to minions and also destroying your board (and thus by extension, likely your spell damage as well.) Also starts to show a slight thematic idea to the class in which the more expensive cards also include dark shadowy artwork in contrast to the lightness of the cheaper ones.
Night Mother: A high cost card that can swing back lost board presence to start challenging an amassed board, or just dramatically increase your own. In turn it provides decent synergy with cards like Firelight and Sighting, and a few other class cards whose power is in turn proportional to the number of minions you have.
Crow Token:
Silent Lights: Another board filling card, this one producing the same tokens that spawn from your hero power. Mostly to be used as a temporary wall of small Taunt minions rather than having any actual use for the Spell power it contains, as even at it best this card produces 7 stat points, that would require very little cost to clear.
(Bonus Challenges)
You noticed that thing did you? Shifty little thing that. I found it during a very dark period of this place. That fog... its always around it. I'd say it doesn't want to be seen, but its doing a pretty poor job if that's the case.
Anyway, we had best be moving. Its a long way to where you want to be. Luckily, I know someone who can help us. Plus, he's a great singer. If you're ever in trouble, just listen for his voice. He'll give you a hand, one way or another.
Card Explanations:
Flower Doll: While making minions hard to hit is certainly a theme of this class, usually Stealth is not directly involved. The single exception to this is during the WotOG expansion. In keeping with the dark and murky theme of the expansion, the cards given to the Enchantress are just as murky as the forests that they live in, focusing on themes of shadows, concealment, and just generally dark and scary parts of nature. (A giant spider is involved)
For this card specifically, the effect is inspired by the "Misty Terrain" move that Florges can use in the games which surrounds any nearby Pokemon in a wreathe of fog to protect them from status effects. Since the only effect to protect from in Hearthstone is taking damage, Stealth was defiantly the way to go.
Voice of the Forest:
Forests Song Secrets:
Secrets are defiantly a part of the Enchantress class. Similar to Hunter Secrets but a lot less aggressive, most of them are based around protecting in one way or another. To that end, the Voice of the Forest produces its own unique secrets, thus making it a slightly weaker form of the Mad Scientist due to the random nature.
The Secrets however should make up for it, but each one is defiantly biased for uses in a token heavy deck
Ballad of Strength has the ability to work as an psudo-Explosive Trap, but stronger in the right conditions, Song of Humility is an more powerful Equality, depending on how your opponent plays around it, Hymn of Shelter is weak against aggressive decks, but allows a powerful counter-push (and absolutely breaks "Mist" in Spell Damage decks), and Melody of Echoes changes the Voice of the Forest into a miniature Cairne Bloodhoof, with the benefit of making sure the Deathrattle minion survives to work with. Each secret is also designed to have a radically different trigger condition, meaning that trying to find the right order to secret test may change every time.
I'm ready to go. Are you ready to join me?
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Yeah that was my thought too, complete with the cost reduction. I also had a fourth idea, but that one is much better suited to be an epic. Submission should be up in a few minutes.
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ARRGH! Deadline's approaching and I'm still one card short.
I've got three quick options for the last spell. Which one do you think is most balanced/suited for the basic set?
I'm not sure of the cost of any of these; Sprites Aid is trying to find a way to deal damage without getting wrecking from spell power, Firelight only works if you use the board filling cards, and Divinate I was saving for a rare card. Ideas?
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A desperate last minute attempt to ask about balance for the basic set.
And for my Pokemon card and 3 mana (Pokemon) legendary:
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Okay, good to know. That means means that the cards I was concerned about are now good to go.
Any advice on the other ones I placed up earlier?
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Okay, I've locked in a few cards with some slight tweaks, (but as a quick question to Asylum_Rhapsody, is the "Cant be targeted by spells" effect acceptable for the basic set?)
Onto the cards I need to ask about:
As I do want some Spell Damage synergy in my basic set, is this simple and balanced enough? (Also would it be too much to make this a Deathrattle effect? I personally would prefer that, but I think that might not be "basic: enough)
Is this balanced?
I've bolted down on the number of spell creating cards, but I wanted to have at least one in the basic set.
Okay, so I lied when I said I only wanted one card on each of the previous subsections. The second one I'm almost certain is too much, but is the wording on the first version simple enough to count as "Basic"?
And finally the Pokemon card/3-mana Legendary card. (which also happens to be a Pokemon. Secrets under spoilers)
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Okay, a quick look at my cards, and a few questions to go along with them
A reminder of my class:
The Enchantress:
Hero Power:
Basic Cards I have so far:
Basic Spell that forces minion combat.
An example of a recurring theme of card that produce other cards, mostly for the sake of card balance from consistent spell power.
One of my three example cards, showcasing both spell making and Spell Damage synergy.
A card that focuses on a recurring theme of my class. In fact I'm considering simply renaming the effect to "Elusive" for the simplicity. What do you think?
A simple, basic minion that I showed in my original submission.
One of the unwritten themes for this class is that every card over 5 mana is going to be dark in theme. Heres an example.
The third and final minion of the set. One that has decent synergy with the other minion focused cards in the set.
Will-o-wisps are the tokens summoned by the the class Hero Power. Does this now break rule Number 1 by being classed as a "minion" card?
I have 2 cards remaining, What parts of a base set would you say I am missing/need to work on?
Pokemon Card:
Celebi seemed perfect as a representive for my card. For the record, the "Forest Song" secrets are going to be one of 5 2 mana secrets, each with a different effect. (No examples to show right now though)
My question is related to question 3. Since this card works for both, does that mean I need to come up with a second card for rule 3? I'd rather not make this pokemon a non-legendary, so if someone has an idea for another pokemon I could use, that would be helpful.
Hope you enjoyed it, I'd appreciate the feedback.
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Alright, theres been a lot of stuff going on, so I'm already a bit behind, so time to get moving.
First things first: how exactly am I meant to use this forum? You would think that would be something that was obvious, but I really don't know what I'm supposed to be doing here. Essentially, how far can I go with previews, questions, balancing. etc. (although if anyone has anything they would like to say straight up, that would be appreciated.)
Also, (as I think I'm safe with this one) in regards to the first rule of this challenge, would the following card count as one of the three:
Keeping in mind that a Will-o'-wisp is the token spawned from my classes hero power.
My assumption is no, as it doesn't spawn a unique minion, but I would rather be sure.
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Oh dear, this is such a tricky one.
Could it be Flamewreathed Faceless (Overload (2)) and War Golem (7 mana)
I think I'll go with another diffuclut one: 4 mana, Deal 5 damage to all characters. (2 answers, 1 change each)
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I... wow. I actually made it through to the second stage. I was not expecting that.
Well, I'll say this. I'm definitely going to be using this discussion topic more liberally for this round. Now to actually come up with some ideas...
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Well since I'm clearly not getting through to the next round, any chance of getting feedback as to where I went wrong with my submission?
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The forests in Azeroth have always held an ancient magic. It was only recently that the source of that power was discovered.
Asha, the Lady of Green, rumored to draw magic directly from the Emerald Dream itself, emerged to restore what she calls the "True Nature" to the land. Surrounded by a veritable army of sprites, fey, and titans of the earth, she may be lithe, but her followers and powers are not.
Introducing: The Enchantress Class.
The Enchantress class will contain a lot of green in it.
A mid-to-late game based class, Enchantress's are a class focused on the idea of using diversionary tactics so the opponent has to hit anything except the hero, with cards centered on making combat, especially minion-centric, rather difficult for the opposing player. Similar to preists/Druids they lack any real direct damage, and rather aim to gradually overwhelm the opponent.
As such they are weak against any form of aggro-deck, and also slightly unfavorable against some types of Rogue and Minion-centric Tempo Mages, particularly when it come to the Hero Power.
(I tried to fit the description on the Hero Power, but it ended up taking to much room. So I left it with the Shaman Totem issue of "play it and see.)
The center piece of the Enchantress Class, the Will-o'-wisps lend themselves to the 2 basic archetypes: Rock, and Glimmer. (Because I'm really bad at naming)
Rock Enchantress's focus heavily on direct minion combat, using hard to kill minions and buffs to force unfavorable trades, while keeping them hidden behind a line of protection.
Glimmer Enchantress's rather focus on the Spell damage synergy aspects. Not Spell damage itself, but rather Synergy with the effect, as the Enchantress contains a large number of cards with a similar aspect to Spirit Claws, that give effect or bonus effects if you currently have enough Spell Damage at the time. (Note: This is not a keyword, as the bonus can either be a one time thing or ongoing.)
Example Cards.
Explanations:
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North Sea Kraken deals 4 damage, not 5.
Also Ironforge Rifleman is a 3 mana, 2/2, Battlecry: Deal 1 damage.
Lets see if I remember how to do this:
9 Mana, 3/4 Demon. Battlecry: If your deck contains no duplicates, Summon a demon from your hand. (2 answers, 3 changes each.)