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As someone asked me, I'm posting some of the ideas I came up for my class.

The Technomage

Prestidigitation: I changed the name from Tweak to Prestidigitation as Tweak has already been used in this contest. This Hero Power fuels a game style of tricky plays, as you can always search the right answer to the situation and use situational cards being sure they won't end up sitting unused in your hand. I'm unsure if giving some minions a synergy with being drawn, maybe in a later phase. Surely Prestidigitation pushes the class toward combo plays and a responsive play style in general.

New keyword is Instill. It works as a general activator, but differently than with Gadgetzan Auctioneer or Mana Wyrm, Instill can only activate once each turn, being an 'If...' condition rather than a 'Whenever...' or 'After...' one. Some minions will still get buffs with Instill, mainly temporary ones, but the main function is to allow powerful effects each turn that would cost too much without an activator (as end or start of turn effects).

Three examples of Instill minions:

Another archetype I think would fit the class is a zoo/token style deck, because of the loose similarity between Prestidigitation and Life Tap. And because I don't want to give Technomage many big Tempo threats and still give it many good ones, abusing the Instill mechanic and some more traditional ones:

 Another concept I'm working upon is weapon, to give variety to the class and further distinguish it from Mage. But I'm thinking of some spell interation, much like Shaman. That's an obvious one:

Another thing I'd like to explore is some more Prestidigitation-like effect, as I said in my previous post. I'm thinking of some cantrip (as they're intended in MtG) but in Hearthstone that kind effect would cost more to prove effective:

Thank you

I'd want to change my name to DatBoi. Thanks :)

 When you say second keyword, do you mean the hero power? There's no dead keyword as I can see... As for the first one, if you mean Instill, well, it's a trigger, I can't see how you can't do much with a general trigger.
EDIT: Hero Power was indeed down, I think I fixed it.

I understand the concept's not defined so far, though.

@Wishmaster333 Diplomacy's probably not good enough to be an Epic. Sprint is a Basic card and it is a Rogue card, with Rogue having access to Counterfeit Coins and Preparation.

I'd like to know your opinion before I go on making the class up.
The idea I'm working on is Technomage, from the Warcraft RPG. Now, since Mech Mage has been a thing for two years or so, the first thing I have to do is making the class a sort of anti-mage (I'm talking about Hearthstone Mage) to just justify this class's existence. Technomage should be Mage for people who want a different take on the class.

So, I came up with a minion based class, playing on cheap spells rather than straightforward, high cost, high impact ones, and capable of fueling those spells with minions and vice-versa. So here's my Hero Power and new Keyword.

Instill: Class is based on minion/spell synergy. When you play a spell, your minions get some buff or trigger some new effects, as they absorb part of your magic. Unlike Mana Wyrm or Mana Addict, Instill can only trigger once per turn, and it also works if the spell is played before you summon the Instill minion, as it says 'If you played' and not 'Whenever...' or 'After you play'. Instill buffs tend to be temporary, while other times you get some Flamewaker style effect.

Tweak: Another main characteristic of the class is versatility; so your Hero Power gets you to see more cards than your opponent even if you don't get card advantage, like a Warlock does. This offers a powerful tool to adapt your hand to your opponent and to the current state of the game. At least one tweak-like effect will also be part of the Basic set of the class, to confirm it like a Control/Combo class.
EDIT: kaotico already used Tweak as a name for his HP, I'll come up with a new name before posting.

So, Instill and Tweak will be powerful Combo tools, while Instill also gains you Tempo along the way. Technomancer won't be a Tempo class, though, as core minions won't often be stats/cost efficient; instead, it'll tend to lose Tempo to generate cards and/or fill its deck in a controlled way (I'm thinking of Gang Up or Ghastly Conjurer).

As for class evergreen decks, I think of

• Some game-locking combo deck, where you fill your deck with combo pieces, keep drawing 'em and lock your opponent's draws/plays until it fatigues or just dies of some minor threats on board.
• A zoo-like archetype with token generating and Instill minions, maybe a tribal one with Mechs or some more gimmick one with tokens you keep putting in your deck and recruiting/drawing.
• A slow control deck with big threats, where you use your card generation to trade your opponent's resources and tutor your win conditions (things like the Old Gods or The Lich King/Ysera).

Technomage is a weapon class.

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 Thoughts? Should I continue farther down this rabbit hole 

 

Idea's not bad, but minions with Armor aren't balanced. I'm not saying they're too strong or too weak, I'm saying you should consider it more like Health, or even more valuable. Things like a 4 4/6 shouldn't be part of that. I'm not a fan of the choose your faction, too, but that's my personal opinion. It seems to me that you gave too much space to the faction thing and that your class wouldn't have a solid archetype other than the faction ones because of that.

A good player. I've been playing Secret Mage a lot these days and I can tell you that most of the games I won, I won it because my opponent didn't know my deck or wasn't able to play around my secrets, and I have two, basically, so...
I've seen people play 1 health minions while they got 5 health and I got a secret on or cast blizzard first thing in a turn when I got a counterspell, and no, they wouldn't have lost if they didn't, and I know they couldn't know what secret I played but you just don't take the risk or deal with it.
Another thing is players I beat often played their decks in a way that din't fit the matchup: you got to know when to be the offender, when you can be the defender, what turns you can push damage and what turns you have to deal with the board and other similar things. This is often not straightforward for newer players or for good players that just don't play enough of a specific class.
My advice, basically, is to play some games with the deck or watch some Mage player on YouTube/Twitch/whatever. Of course you can lose one or several games due to bad draw/RNG, but a lot of games are decided upon the ability of each player to predict other one's moves and possible plays. Think as they got the whole deck in their hand, weight risks and outcomes of different plays from you and your opponent based on their mana and the number of cards in their hand.

I'm aware some matchups need tech cards to be rebalanced, most just don't. There are games you can't win if your opponent is good enough, for that games you need tech cards to barely stand a chance. Most games are decided upon skill (in the form of knowledge, too) and luck.

Karazhan's still Standard, so you do need it to obtain the Valet.

This is not a new legendary, this is the BlizzCon promo card. It has to be fun, not good.

If it were even only playable it would have been bad, cause u can't obtain it through any means later on (until rotation at least, considering how it worked out for Elite Tauren Chieftain and Gelbin Mekkatorque).

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I reached Rank 5 wild last season, so maybe it's not high enough to be the good example. I only played against three or five giant decks (something like that) and it goes like:

• Opponent does nothing for four turns, I push damage.
• Opponent puts its combo out, I say 'Amazing'.
• I got lethal in my hand/board, opponent never gets to use its giants.

I watched my friend play at Rank 4 with his Pirate Warrior deck and it wasn't fast enough to take out this deck.  By turn six and seven my friend was in a good spot on board against hunter that was playing this deck and at least a few minions on the board.  The hunter played the giant combo on turn 6 and my friend wound up losing with a pretty good curve for a pirate warrior.  It's extremely effective for certain classes like hunter and druid because they have secrets like freezing and explosive trap for relatively low mana and druid can ramp this combo and draw like crazy.  I understand both sides and have been on both ends, the power level just seems insane, and for multiple people to say that about wild format is not coincidence.

I reached Rank 5 wild last season, so maybe it's not high enough to be the good example. I only played against three or five giant decks (something like that) and it goes like:

• Opponent does nothing for four turns, I push damage.
• Opponent puts its combo out, I say 'Amazing'.
• I got lethal in my hand/board, opponent never gets to use its giants.

That's my vision of the deck so far. I'd like to try it, I guess it can be fun, maybe I'll craft some giants this season and use the deck for some time, don't know in which class, I'll see. But I can't help but seeing it like a fun deck and nothing more. I guess it can be tweaked more, becoming more and more efficient... It's just that too many giants in your deck are just garbage right now, sometimes they don't even cost 0 with a Naga on board.

The deck could become problematic in future, though, that's true, it got the potential to be really boring with two or more cards that fit it.

You just read the patch wrong. First, you just can't find more than two copies of a common, rare or epic in the same pack. You can still find three copies of the same card in two different card packs. Then, once you got all legendaries, you start getting duplicates. So even if you had all commons and you couldn't get dupes, you would just open packs of dust, basically.

Naxxramas is enough, and more for the adventure that for the cards indeed. Most of the cards that are used are rares and commons.
If you want to start and see how the meta goes, there are also some budget aggro or midrange decks, or at least some that don't need that many wild epics/legendaries, and you can afford to craft what you need, if not now in some months.
For the rest, if you didn't dust all LoE and BRM, there's not that much you strictly need.

I don't have any GvG legendary and just some silly TGT ones (I never dusted them) and I still play wild. Of course I can't build every single deck I'd like to try, but I still have fun with some funny decks I made up, and you can't imagine how little dust it took me or how many standard cards are currently played.

Look at this, half of the most played legendaries are Standard, the rest, apart form one, is form LoE/BRM. Top epics are ALL standard, rares and commons are not that much dust.