Welcome all readers and happy late Valentine day. In the spirit of the holiday I present to you the expansion Love is in the Air! The expansion was finished on Valentine day but I was having problem with my Twitch account and thus cannot log in until now.

Set Introduction

Love is in the Air is a 135 cards with the overall theme is Love! While the expansion is released on Valentine Day, it will not only focus on romantic love, but all kinds of Love! From love between parents and child, brothers and sisters, to friend and comrades and pets. Or even the unhealthy sides of love like obsession and dependency!

Note: The expansion is created with the assumption that the Core set is the same but the previous year expansion has been rotated out.

What would be a better way to introduce the audience to the set than with a free Legendary? And we got just the right one to kick off the new expansion:

Calphrodite is a very powerful mid-range Legendary that will allow for some crazy swing turn in the mid game. Her transformation nature also represent the heavy card-generation expansion and the diversity of love that will be the main theme of the expansion. Her name is a reference to the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite and Aphrodite's Roman counterpart Venus.

Keywords and Mechanic

There is only one new keyword this expansion but there is a returning keyword from our old friend the Boomsday Project:

Magnetic need no introduction. It's one of the mechanic from the Boomsday Project. However, it is refitted here to be the way machine and our newly introduced Allie Race Mechagnome express their love, and is almost exclusively seen on Warrior cards.

Devote is very simple: It is a reverse Acolyte of Pain effect: Instead of being triggered by you taking damage, the minion or even the hero themselves are so hurt by something else taking damage that they trigger an effect! Because what is love if not affection for something else and the emotion that arise when they are hurt? Do note that any Devote effect that deal direct damage will not trigger itself as to avoid infinite loop and thus unfun scenario or balance  breaking nightmares. Any Devote effect by minion will last until the minion or the other target is destroyed, but any Devote effect by spell will only last until the end of the caster's turn.

While only two keywords to be noted, another significant mechanic of the expansion are Love Cards. They are 1 mana spell that create resources and they themselves can only be generated by certain cards. Fitting the diversity and spectrum of love, each class will have a different Love cards that they will generate that will hint at the Legendary cards that they will receive. If a card generate a Love card, they will generate the Love card of your respective class regardless of the original class they came from unless said otherwise.

The Love cards are as follow, sorted alphabetically by the class they are from:

Demon Hunter:

Demon Hunter in this expansion will focus on the Devote keyword itself, with the Legendaries both being minions which is a huge difference from the other classes (one Legendary minion and one Legendary spell) and both being Illidan followers, signaling the Love Between Comrades and with their leader Illidan. Another theme they will have is the merging of Demon and Murloc - the first were pretty prominent while the latter has some minions in their class like Furious Felfin in Hearthstone and other Murloc in World of Warcraft like Murgulis

Druid

Druid for this expansion will of course focus on their Love for Nature, with their Legendaries all both protectors of Nature. Their cards this expansion focus on swarming the board with Wisps to protect Nature and buffing up the Beasts that inhabit the natural world that they cherish. They are also the only class to have a Hero Card this expansion, as oppose to the other classes having one Legendary minion and one Legendary spell

Hunter

The Legendary Hunter cards this expansion will focus on Sibling's Love, most specifically the extremely complicated relationship between Sylvanas and Alleria Windrunner. The rest of their cards will be Deathrattle themed to support Sylvanas and their Love cards while also have a small weapon theme as befitting of a class using a bow and arrow in a holiday famous for another bow user Cupid.

Mage

Mage Legendaries will focus on the Love Between Mother and Daughter, specifically the extremely complicated relationship between Jaina and her mother Katherine. The rest of their cards focus on fresh interaction between Spell and minions, whether from minions benefitting from Spell Damage while discouraging you from casting spells or from Elemental minions and spells.

 Paladin

Paladin Legendary and theme will focus on a darker side of love, Anger at losing someone. The class has many cards that will allow them to deal swift retribution to the enemy that killed their minions, whether it is buffs, card draws to replace them or board clear. The class will also have Silver Hand support to have fodder to activate these effects.

Priest

Priest's Legendary will focus on Fatherly Love, more specifically the relationship between Anduin and his father Varyan, with Anduin struggling to live up to Varian's legacy and duty to protect the people of Stormwind against his peaceful nature, as symbolize by his card set focus on "Can't attack" minions and Silence his own minion effects.

 Rogue

Rogue's Legendary and theme will focus on a darker side of love, specific the Love Between Criminals and Outlaws. They will have many cards that reference both Criminal Activities borne out of love or assist by love, like their Legendary outlaw couple Connie and Blyde, based on the outlaw couple Bonnie and Clyde. And for the adults out there, there will be reference to "adult business" in their set. Their set will focus on card generation and Coin generation.

Shaman

Shaman main theme and Legendary will be Accepting in Love, with the class accept and even empowered by the diversity in minion type they will receive. They also have an Elemental theme to their spells and minions.

Warlock

Warlock, befitting their dark nature, will have another darker side of love: The Unhealthy Love. Many of their cards reference the dark dependency of love and their two Legendaries will reference the infamous Betrayal of Gul'dan to his tribe and mentor Ner'Zhul.

Warrior

And last but certainly not least, Warrior will have their card set focus on Love of Machine, specifically the question of how does sentient robots (which exist in Warcraft universe) and people who replaced their body with machine parts express love. Well, the answer is obvious: By attaching themselves with Magnetic of course! Of course, they will also normal ways of expressing their affection, with Devote cards to be another way.

 Neutral

Thank you so much for your attention. Leave your feedback and balance suggestion if any.

https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-discussion/212005-group-therapy-need-to-blow-off-steam-mega-salty

Congrats on everyone who made this far (further than me at least lol) but especially for the winner the Fisherman.

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Changes:

• Exploring alternative options for the second legendary
• Made an edit on the art of Warp Star to better fit the effect
• Reworked Weeping Blades into Whirl of Blades (for balance comparison: Evryfin is Awesome)
• Reworked Imprisoned Verminlord (again) to be more interesting.
• Replaced Poison Distiller with Plague Furnace

I feel like Thanquol feels too frustrating to play against and swings too hard when played. The Prime shuffle also makes it possible to get the avatar away earlier than it's supposed to. So here are some alternatives:

Version 1:

Fairly simple in concept, the enemy either wastes 5 mana or slowly loses health as they draw cards.

I like this version more so i am including it again, but smaller. While the total damage does rank up to a big 15, keep in mind it's over the course of the game. The last plague will be as strong as a bomb from all those warrior cards.

Now this i think may be the best one. 5 unique plagues that all are very strong and disrupting but come in a random order at random times. They range from giving you free tokens, to mass dispelling the enemy board or even making them discard a card. Yes, this last one will be controversial, but i think it's ok though. It is a very delayed effect, perhaps happening at the end of the game. But if people really don't like it i'll change it.

 My cards so far:

Legendaries:

Tokens:

Epics:

Tokens:

Rares:

Commons:

Tokens:

Feedback time!

Quote from Klipce >>

 

 

Quote from Klipce >>

Thanks everyone for your feedback ! I've reworked some cards, made new ones and confided with Mvon to get our common cards made. Her goes !

As some people pointed out, Omen didn't make much sense for Paladin and that Andrik didn't feel like a Seer card. I hope it's a better combination of the two classes.

This is the set of cards the Seer and the Traveler share. We are still workshopping the flavor but we're quite happy with the blend of mechanics.

A few new cards and a tweak to Divination Major's stats. I'm pushing the core identity of the Seer while having a tone of fun with the flavor of SA. I'm really glade that I chose this expansion !

Other cards I didn't change:

Only 5 more cards to finish the set ! Right now I need some rest but why not getting feedback in the meantime ?

 

•  Detention is too strong now lol. It's a straight up better Freezing Trap. Not only it costs less, but it also denies the enemy a draw.
• Coach Andrik is a cool way to get a pay off from playing Omen cards, something you really needed.
• Protection Sphere is a cheaper Sap in 90% of the cases. Enemy plays a minion, you yeet it back to their hand for 1 less mana than rogues do. It also comes with an added benefit, of maybe returning stuff to your hand too if you want to. It really should cost at least 2, it's way too much of a power creep at 1.
• Alagalon is really cool, but the Omen on it feels kinda out of place. Not really contributing to his effect.
• Educated Welp needs a keyword, probably battlecry. Also it's spelled 'wHelp', not 'welp' (Whelp)
• Divination Major feels a bit too strong still. Compare her to Onyx Spellscribe. That is has 3 more health for the same cost, but adds 2 random cards. A card drawn from your deck always has higher value than a randomly generated card, so in my opinion the Major should only draw 2 cards. Loses 3 hp compared to the dragon, but draws you cards from the deck instead of randomly generating some.

 

 

I honestly think I like the first version of the Legendary the best. The second one is way too swingy with different types of effect that it can lose / win the game on the spot.

 Skyre Knowledge is way too weak compare to the other options, given that you have to pay 4 mana for it. I would make it adding 5 Shards to your hand.

Skuba Skaven is way to strong compare to Stitched Tracker or Shadow Visions. I think it should be 3 mana.

Quote from Klipce >>

Thanks everyone for your feedback ! I've reworked some cards, made new ones and confided with Mvon to get our common cards made. Her goes !

As some people pointed out, Omen didn't make much sense for Paladin and that Andrik didn't feel like a Seer card. I hope it's a better combination of the two classes.

This is the set of cards the Seer and the Traveler share. We are still workshopping the flavor but we're quite happy with the blend of mechanics.

A few new cards and a tweak to Divination Major's stats. I'm pushing the core identity of the Seer while having a tone of fun with the flavor of SA. I'm really glade that I chose this expansion !

Other cards I didn't change:

Only 5 more cards to finish the set ! Right now I need some rest but why not getting feedback in the meantime ?

 

 

As Noah said, Detention and Protection Sphere is way too strong. Protection Sphere should not be better than Sap, given that Rogue is a class renowned for removal while Detention is out of flavor for Paladin whose class doesn't have removal that isn't stat modifying.

Divination Major is one of those cards you only print if you think your class is in a bad spot and you want to push it. I think it is safer at drawing 2 cards.

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 Holy cow, 15 cards... and still some left!

Having this in a week, then making a thread on it, it's gonna be craaaaazy!

Well, anyway, I tried to apply critics so far, and ended up doing this. Let's see what do yout guys think.

Still wondering some things like probably taking Lifesteal from Aeon Keeper but make its battlecry heal the hero still.

Kraem's wording means that if you discover or get some card that costs more than (5) after you play it, it costs more than (5). And yes, I am aware of the Malygos synergy. That said, this class has no way to discount cheap spells, and not many ultra cheap reliable  direct damage spells, wich sort of balance things.

And now... well, turns out Warrior likes the travellers crazy gadgets and combat skills!

Yep, it's a Thanos reference. No, I regret nothing.

Idea behind the mixed set is, both classes like control gameplays (even if they have aggressive ones too), can heal in a way or another, like rush minions (taunts are more of a warrior thing, but who tells a traveller will reject help when needed?) and tried this expansion to go for big plays, like this minion Thanael.

 

 

 Engineering Intern seems extremely dangerous at 1 mana. There's no token generator with that low of a cost in Hearthstone, especially since the token is guaranteed to be playable card, unlike something like Sethekk Veilweaver. I would increase this thing cost to at least 3 mana with a stat adjustment.

I honestly don't get why Aether Corsair is a Pirate given that it doesn't have anything to do with other Pirate or Weapon. I think it would be more useful if he is an Elemental to boaster your Elemental synergy.

Overall your set have an interesting synergy with casting spells and Elemental. I would print a couple more cheap spells to make sure the spell synergy part actually have a chance to fire off instead of drawing dud.

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Alright, so i've decided to go with the second prime due to feedback. These are the cards i have so far, they are all first ideas, throwing to see what sticks.

Warpstone Ninjitsu:

 Eshin Tricks:

 

 Swarm Aggression:

 I'll try to complete the set tomorrow. I might rework Weeping Blades into something more useful. Still thinking what my second legendary and epics might be, i'm open to suggestions if you want to see more of certain stuff.

•  Gutter Runner for some reason strike me as really unfun. If you have this card and against another aggressive deck (or just certain class like Rogue or Druid), are very likely to snowball out of control based on sheer board presence.
• I think your Epic and Legendary should focus on drawing / tutoring. Your Prime minion is really powerful, it just needs some way to consistently draw into it.

Aw. Too bad. Miss the cut off by 1 vote. Congrats to all those who make it. Will drop in here and there to give my feedback.

 McF4rtson, you're linking the wrong link to my entry. The link led to Week Two instead of Week Three.

The Detective: Apprentice's Dossiers

Anticipating the dangerous mission ahead of her in order to get to the bottom of the truth at Scholomance Academy, Christie enlist a new generation of Apprentices in training to help her. Before they can venture into the darkness of the Academy, she brought out her old case files in order for these newbies to familiar themselves with her work.

The class's Basic set & first half of the set:

A quick rundown of the class's strength and weaknesses:

Class Keywords:

What better ways for the Apprentices to learn is to look through a few of the most famous cases solves by Christie and her other students or fellow Detectives? Cases are basically reverse Secrets where you will activate a powerful spell that will last until you or your opponent can satisfy the Solve requirement. Cases are designed so that your opponent will have to quickly solve them before they snowball out of control. However, you have to play carefully or else you'll end up solving the Cases yourself and lose the advantage. Of course, if the Cases are also hurting you, you can Solve them yourself. Cases took the place of the Secret slots, which mean you can only have 5 Case with different names active. All of the Cases and their supporting cards are named after detective novels and short stories.

Showcase cards:

• Arthur Holmes is one of Margaret's Christie brightest and most famous apprentice. He has the uncanny ability to reveal every single detail about a person just by taking one look at them. His effect is a Deathrattle because in this universe, he unfortunately didn't make it after the infamous counter with Professor Doyle Moriaty at Elrendar Fall since Moriaty a Worgen in this universe. He is an important activator for all the "reveal" cards that are present in this and later sets. His name is of course a reference to the famous detective Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Draconic Partner introduce the class's most prominent tribal synergy: Menarie synergy. And not just focus on three minion types like Warrior, the class is encouraged to run as many types as possible to get the best outcome for this cards. Other solid stand alones minions from different types will be printed in this and later sets to assist this card.
• Four Little Apprentice cover the 0-Attack / 0-cost card theme covered previously as well as the class's most prominent card with Case / Solve in it. This isn't only a very potent survival tool but also gives the class's token decks some anti-board clear / recovery options. The card's name is a reference to the novel Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie.

The rest:

 Explanation:

Quote from Klipce >>

Thanks everyone for your feedback ! I'm making a few changes to cards that seem out of line, whether the balance is off or the effect isn't interesting enough. I'm also changing the flavor of my legendary from one character to another that I think makes more sense for the class.

Small clarification on this card :

I should have stated it in my first post as this is a kinda weird mechanic. What this does is give you the option to select any number of cards in your hand that will be shuffled into your deck and replaced by other cards. Just like in the Mulligan phase at the start of every game. This mechanic would not count as drawing the cards. I felt it was better to put it in bold, kinda like Counterspell does but maybe that's not allowed ?

 If Novice Diviner work like you mentioned, I don't think that will work since Hearthstone UI is only ever designed to pick between 3-4 options, especially since the mulligan is always 3-4 cards.

The new Sisters are way more interesting and fitting the theme of your class. Well done.

Quote from McF4rtson >>

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Xoroth Brigand isn't entirely backbreaking, DH can achieve a similar board state with Satyr Overseer (to compare to your proposed 3 mana nerf), or any decent 1-mana drop into Umberwing. If it goes to 2/1 (or 1/2), it is a worse Dreamway Guardians. In addition, 3 mana 3/2 actually makes almost no difference since you weapon up turn 2 and pass, then play this turn 3. On coin, yeah you can get 4/4 turn 2, but that definitely isn't something tempo DH can struggle to put up with coin. (And, mind you, tempo DH is currently a tier 3 deck)

Mogger is 6 mana since it isn't just him that Humilities, any attack you do will proc. I mentioned it combos very well with a weapon.

 You're arguing this but also forgot that this minion also draw you one card and thin out your deck. I think this alone justify it being a little worse in stat compare to the other cards that don't draw you a card. And the 1 mana penalty might not be different in the early game but will make an impact with combo or the midgame.

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 Changes:

• Broodmother and Broodhorror are now beasts.
• Added tokens and preview cards.

Preview:

• Throt the Unclean, Master Mutator of Clan Moulder and this phases' iconic legendary. He takes the title "Mad Scientist" to a whole new level. With the cheap price of 3 Warpstone Shards, you too can have your own custom minion! Suited for any situation, you can have a 1/1 with Poisonous and cleave attack, you can have a 10/10 that explodes on death and has Lifesteal, with no morals and creativity, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
• Moulder Packmaster is part of the "Attack Synergy" package, being the highlight of the bunch. It basically doubles the attack triggers and generates tokens every time an ally attacks.
• The Flesh Laboratory welcomes anyone. We almost guarantee you'll survive too, but if you do you'll be so much better! Throt's mind gone wild, buffs the entire board with useful keywords, similarly to Enhance-o Mechano.

 

Throt crafting options:

Lab Rats for experimentation:

Augments (Discovers from the pool twice, like Kazakus):

 

Rest of the set:

Warpstone cards:

• Warpstone Deposit serves both to generate potentially a lot of Warpstone Shards, but also to protect your weak minions in the early stages of the game. Just hit it and watch the beautiful magic crystals rain.
• Constract Loopholes allows you to play big minions earlier, with an overall cost reduction of 2, great for jump-starting some of the synergyes of the class. Never trust a normal lawyer. Run from skaven lawyers.

Swarm Tactics:

• Battle Plan guarantees you will have 2 surviving minions at the start of your turn to be buffed, though the delay can also be a negative when you need more pressure now. Sometimes the Skaven Council does agree on things, but very rarely.
• Ravenous Appetite turns bad situations where you have to trade into taunts or threats into upsides, letting you make a small rat mega chonky.
• Broodmother Is a solid constant threat that births small rats non stop. Just don't ask more details about the process.

Attack Synergy:

• Ratling Gunner is part of the "Attack package" in this set. It can work well in token decks but especially well paired with Brood Horror and Moulder Packmaster. And yes he does scream RATATATATATA!
• Brood Horror is what happens when a baby rat eats the rest of it's litter and then is engorged by Throt with warpstone and flesh magic. It's so ravenous it attacks anything on sight, takes years to train him to not munch friendly troops.

 

 Tokens:

 

 

 

Your class looks good and ready to go. And you managed to print out a mid-range deck from your class. Good job.

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Sorry for being absent for discussion this week, I'm quite occupied by preparing for exams recently : (
Anyway, I finished the set, meanwhile I still need your suggestions.

I made a Dragon for the Innkeeper as well, but I wonder if it is balanced.

Big spell set:

Sashimur Banquet also brings in a series of token: 

Tokens are as followed:

Three new Elemental (Tempting Icecream for the aggro, Brew Elemental for the big spell set, Candle colossus is just a pack filler):

I've already made a few cards that I'm content with for the Darkmoon Faire, but I'm not sure whether I can make it to the final week : ( so I really need your help to polish this set.

 

 

You really have out of the box thinking and how to synergize with your class's gimmick. Good job.

• Tempting Ice Cream is way too complicated for a common. I think it should swap the Rarity with Traveler's Package.
• What does the secondary option on the tokens even mean? Is it like the Druid Choose One options? You really need to explain how they work.
• Candle Colossus is really overpower. Compare to Ragnaros and Blazecaller.

Quote from Klipce >>

Wow I'm late... Let's not waste more time ! Second part of the Mystic set for the Seer :

When I made Queen Azshara, I thought Naga would fit into this set but I ended up not using them so maybe Ner'zul would make more sense in that spot...

 

 

• Lunar and Solar Sister's effects aren't impactful enough for them to get a punishment in their stat. I honestly think they should both cost 1 less to have vanilla stats.
• Spark of Life is so weak compare to Divine Hymn. I'd make it cost 5 or even 4 since Priest is supposed to have the strongest healing card.
• Novice Diviner need a wording change since there's no "Mulligan" in any of the cards in Hearthstone. Reword it like Plot Twist. 

Quote from McF4rtson >>

Busy busy busy, so little time to make my own cards. I'm going to run through the biggest card dumps I saw on the thread before posting half of what I got.

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• Customized Feast is cool on paper, will be clunky in practice. You want a sturdy deck that can contest the board with minions, which means you can't run a ton of high-cost cards. This spell needs to draw a 5-mana card just to break even so it may not be a good fit in many decks.
• Dishonest Accountent needs a lot of support. I don't remember if you printed a lot of expensive cards in the past, but you'll have to be careful to do so if you haven't. As it stands, only two spells synergize with this minion from what I can see.
• Tempting Icecream definitely needs to be higher rarity than Common, it is a very unique interaction.

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• Personally, I've never been a *massive* fan of Kazakus-like cards as I've seen this concept just done to death over the years. From a more technical standpoint, nothing is wrong with the card.
• The Flesh Lab scares me a bit seeing as your class is so token centric and this card is twice as cheap as Enhance-o-mechano (which was played for its effect, not the 3/2 body). You also threw in two extra keywords, which lessens the chance of getting the worse one, Taunt, though, at the same time, it does lessen the chance of getting the best, Windfury.
• Ratling Gunner is probably broken. It turns each and every single 1/1 token into a huge problem due to the threat of this card. They just go face and clear an opposing board. It is a massive punisher and comeback mechanic.

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• Arthur Holmes does not specify which turns. Your turns only? Or your and your opponent's combined?
• Four Little Apprentices is a pretty gross anti-aggro tool. Either they keep clearing it, letting you heal 8 a turn, or they are forced to skip attacking, in which case this is a double Frost Nova. It's a lose-lose situation for the opponent.
• Sign of the Four Types is broken, it's infinite value for no upkeep.
• Killing Spree is a direct upgrade to Twisting Nether. You could make it 9 and it'd still see play.
• I don't understand the design choice of Revendeath Mystery. You already had a very expensive single-target damage spell last week. Why have a second?

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•  Aberration Father's wording is wrong. "Graduate: Reduce the highest Cost card in your hand by (5)."
• Unforeseen Potential is pretty weak. You lose 1 minion, potentially a second, just to summon a 3/4, at best. I'd just keep it simple and have it summon something like a 2/3 or a 3/3 after a friendly minion dies. A lot of the time, less is more.
• Gearshaft Senior is gonna be a dead card. if Pint-sized Summoner never saw play, this will not.
• I would say Replicating Abomination was too good, if fatigue control still existed nowadays. As it stands, this card is a liability.
• My overall feelings: A lot of your plays are based on usage of Hero Power, which reduces a random card's cost. Without your Hero Power hitting the right card and the right time, the risk of playing vanilla minions on curve will forever be present. At this point in time, your class may be too reliant on your Hero Power which, in turn, makes your entire class a game of chance. At the same time, if you introduce too many cards that reduce specific cards' Cost in your hand, that's mana cheating, a problem everyone knows is rampant in the modern meta. You're in a bit of a bind, a Catch-22 here. I think you've done the best you can do though, for what it is worth, and if you have enough control tools, you can maybe leverage Graduate in the later turns.

Here are my first five cards:

• Xoroth Brigand, along with one more Pirate card, is the first step in introducing a new archetype. But since there are just 2 Pirates, they will simply just be used to continue the trend of seamless combining of Riftwalker's playstyles: Weapons, summoning from deck, Taunts.
• Alliance Warpsmith is just a simple value card. Vitality is another one of those cards that have vastly different effects whether you have a weapon or not.
• Lore-defiant Mogger is a strong 2-for-1 removal option and also reflect one of the Velf's racial talents. Also combos well if you have a 1/1 weapon equipped on the turn you play him.
• Magister Umbric is more middlemost shenanigans and can work in almost any sort of deck. He is also deadly when combined with Taunts.

EDIT: Rip, Seer got posted while I was typing this out...

 

 

• Xoroth Brigand is ridiculously overpower given how easy it is for your class to fulfill its condition. I think it should be either a 2/1 or cost 3  mana 3/2.
• Lore Defiant Mogger seems a little weak for its effect (basically deal 6 damage to a minion and summon a 6/1 because no way will this thing live next turn). I would make it 5 mana.
• Revendreth Mystery is printed for redundancy. Combo decks love having flexible combo pieces (aka Freeze Mages) as well as face damage can stack up to each other really well in control match ups.

Change:

• Arthur Holmes is now a 5/1 and clarify it will "count" your card in your turn.
• Four Little Apprentice got a mana increase from 4 to 5. The class is supposed to have good survivability but maybe 4 mana is a little too much.
• Change the upkeep condition of Sign of the Four Types to play an Elemental last turn to make it harder to upkeep it.
• Killing Spree got a mana nerf to 9 but still is reduced to 4 after it is revealed.
• Sleuth Sidekick got its effect buff to reveal a card from both player's hand.
• Write up the submission post template.

The Detective: Apprentice's Dossiers

Anticipating the dangerous mission ahead of her in order to get to the bottom of the truth at Scholomance Academy, Christie enlist a new generation of Apprentices in training to help her. Before they can venture into the darkness of the Academy, she brought out her old case files in order for these newbies to familiar themselves with her work.

The class's Basic set & first half of the set:

A quick rundown of the class's strength and weaknesses:

Class Keywords:

What better ways for the Apprentices to learn is to look through a few of the most famous cases solves by Christie and her other students or fellow Detectives? Cases are basically reverse Secrets where you will activate a powerful spell that will last until you or your opponent can satisfy the Solve requirement. Cases are designed so that your opponent will have to quickly solve them before they snowball out of control. However, you have to play carefully or else you'll end up solving the Cases yourself and lose the advantage. Of course, if the Cases are also hurting you, you can Solve them yourself. Cases took the place of the Secret slots, which mean you can only have 5 Case with different names active. All of the Cases and their supporting cards are named after detective novels and short stories.

Showcase cards:

• Arthur Holmes is one of Margaret's Christie brightest and most famous apprentice. He has the uncanny ability to reveal every single detail about a person just by taking one look at them. His effect is a Deathrattle because in this universe, he unfortunately didn't make it after the infamous counter with Professor Doyle Moriaty at Elrendar Fall since Moriaty a Worgen in this universe. He is an important activator for all the "reveal" cards that are present in this and later sets. His name is of course a reference to the famous detective Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Draconic Partner introduce the class's most prominent tribal synergy: Menarie synergy. And not just focus on three minion types like Warrior, the class is encouraged to run as many types as possible to get the best outcome for this cards. Other solid stand alones minions from different types will be printed in this and later sets to assist this card.
• Four Little Apprentice cover the 0-Attack / 0-cost card theme covered previously as well as the class's most prominent card with Case / Solve in it. This isn't only a very potent survival tool but also gives the class's token decks some anti-board clear / recovery options. The card's name is a reference to the novel Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie.

The rest:

 Explanation:

Quote from Noah_McGrath >>

• I am sorry for my absence, i had exams this week.

  Skaven Warlord set part 2:

  Warpstone cards and Big Monsters:

  

   Ratty shenanigans:

  

  The mad scientist, Master Mutator of Clan Moulder:

  

  Lab Rat options:

  

  Augments:

  

  You will choose one of the Lab Rats and then discover 2 augments similar to how Kazacus works.

  I know i am missing 1 common but i'm too tired to think of one right now. 

• Someone noticed before that you printed too many Warpstone cards. This might led to the problem of "force feeding" a playstyle. Look at the Soul Fragment Warlock and Demon Hunter. Each of them only print around 6-7 cards and that is enough to make them playable decks. I would at least cut out Council Scheme because it is way too gimmicky and clunky to run in what I assume is an aggro / mid-range deck that you want these to fit in.
• Brood Horror is way too overpower with the stat addition effect. Compare to Vilespine Slayer, a card that is widely considered extremely good in Rogue. I would increase its base stat but remove the stat addition effect.
• Moulder Packmaster's wording should be "whenever a friendly character attacks"
• Throt the Unclean's condition seems way easy to activate compare to Kazakus. I would increase either its cost or discard condition. Maybe even both.

Quote from whatTheHeck >>

I've got already 10 cards, not sure if I'll use them though. The challenge didn't really affect me because I've already planned the second legendary to be Nergeld, Dr. Terrible's flesh beast from WoW. In this second half I've tried to add some more Graduate cards and a few cost reduction suport, plus two more secrets.

I've got 4 Secrets in total like Paladin's Classic Set and 6 Graduate cards, which I consider it's a good number of cards for a new mechanic, specially if we take into account that cost reduction is rewarded via other cards (Nergeld for example isn't intended to be casted without being reduced a lot). Also Replicating Abomination serves as a win condition, not sure if it's too broken.

 

 

• Aberration Father's wording should be "your highest cost card". There's no "expansive" in any of the effect text in HS.
•  Replicating Abomination is extremely unfun. Put this in a mid-range or control deck and you will win the fatigue game given that it has Rush to avoid being silenced. I would replace the Rush keyword with Taunt so that the enemy react with Silence / transform effect. The fact that it's an Epic and not Legendary just made this worse.
• Flow Change seems horribly weak compare to Oh My Yogg!. I would remove the cost reduction or even make it a cost increase (that don't exceed 10 of course)

Quote from MvonTzeskagrad >>

@Shatterstar1998

Well, my question was, if the murloc discovers the case and it is in play inmediately, or you have to play the case as well.

 The Case is added to your hand and not in play immediately. The wording is similar to all the other Discover cards.

Repost my cards and decided on showcase cards:

Showcase cards:

• Arthur Holmes represent the "reveal card" theme that will include him, Killing Spree, Sleuth Sidekick and Find the Weapon!
• Draconic Partner represent the "menagerie" tribal synergy of Sign of the Four Type and Amalgam Sidekick as well as "generalist" card that can fit into the deck include Sleuth Sidekick and Murloc in a Brown Suit
• Four Little Apprentice cove the 0-Attack / 0-cost card theme covered previously that also have Amalgam Sidekick as well as the class's keyword Case / Solve.

The rest:

Quote from MvonTzeskagrad >>

After some thought, today I managed to give in my first idea of what this week's Journeyman set could be.

As you can see, this time the idea revolves around faster gameplay, big spells, and elementals. Thus, most of these are designed towards getting early advantage, bring in elementals, or make synergies that allow a deck full of strong expensive spells to be competitive. Funny thing, Navigator synergise with Ethereum Stalker even if the affected spell costed less than (5) to begin with.

 

 

• Dimensional Anomaly is incredibly unfun. Just the possibility of buffing the enemy minion is enough to not making want to run this card or it will became an extremely unfun card that will either win you the game or horrible backfire. I would increase its cost and make the effect buffing only friendly minion.
• Captured Aether Vortex is again extremely unfun. Dropping this card when you're ahead or just even will basically win you the game against mid-range decks since you can ping off their mid-range threat. And your class has a healing Hero Power just make this thing worse.
• Aether Corsair Baggrund is ridiculously overpower. Every deck will run this card just for the effect of playing with a 29 card deck, not to mention it is a decent turn 1 play. Remember how overpower Patches the Pirate were? This card is like that but on steroid with no tribal requirement and less chance to dead draw it.
• Aether Portal seems to run into the problem of not having enough Elemental in your class to give good result.
• Your Big Spells package seem to be on a good path although it's going to need more support in a future set as it is now.
• Yes, Murloc in the Brown Suit will only work with the Case you Discover. Its wording is exactly like Stasis Elemental.

Quote from Ozymandias >>

I appreciate all the feedback, it has been quite a dry week in creativity and the artwork for blood trolls was hard to find, only wow ingame stuff that look horrible.

@MvonTzeskagrad Dimensional anomaly has a typo (minions). Captured aether should have less damage for that effect, but over that think should have an effect more like Wrathspike Brute to simplify it. Navigator should say "change the cost". "Set" is used for minions. I don't see the reason for the legendary to be a Pirate, maybe if it was a wow character that fit in your class, but if is not the case why don't use an elemental.

And yes, the names and effects similarity are on purpose, i have "Crimson waves - Crimson tides and now Crimson surge" and "Blood fury - blood boil and now blood frenzy". There are supposed to mean sub themes and increase the rarity and effect complexity as they go.

Also, anyone know have to submit a custom emblem to hearthcards? About my cards, I make changes in wording, rarity and effects. Remember Sanguinate allow  me to use a minion health instead of mana. I thinking on change stoneborn cost to 4. 

 

 

 

• Nazmani Ritualist is ridiculously overpower. When Flare was 1 mana every Hunter deck run it. This card is even better than that because the upside is guaranteed 100% of the time instead of just situational like Flare was. I would increase the cost to 2.
• Your set need more Sanguinate representation. Only 1/10 cards have the class keyword is kind of neglecting.

Fix the wording on Draconic Partner:

Looking back at Dawnbreaker, I think it just isn't a good card. The idea is unoriginal, the wording is overly long, the condition though clever is hard to activate and clunky as well as just not seems to fit with what I already established with my class. I redesigned it to version #2:

Old version:

Quote from Ozymandias >>

Made 7 cards so far, don't mind the rarity on some of them, probably will change it later. Remaining three will be some Sanguinate stuff.

@Shatterstar1998  Why isn't dawnbreaker work for any dragon in hand. It would make the wording more simple and is not like your class is dragon sinergic, so it wouldn't be a easy condition (counting that amalgam). That conditional fireball seems ok to me at 6-3. If you're going to cut a common, yes the pistol is the less interesting.

@MvonTzeskagrad Constellars are space elementals, maybe you should go with that. Demons could fit also as voids. The wording and cost of the first version on the legendary is better, i think you can give it Divine Shield or Spell Damage +1.

 

 

• Vampiric Aura seems weak compare to Preparation. I would raise the discount cost to 4.
• Stoneborn Watcher seems awfully weak. Nesting Roc is a 5 mana 4/7 with very likely have Taunt and a less conditional activation and still doesn't see play. I would lower the cost of this minion to 5.
• Your class need AoE small damage. A whole lot of these cards would sit in your hand without a damaged minion. Blood Frenzy is fine because it's a "win more" card, Ateena and Crimson Surge are meant to be combo and comeback cards and they really need some activation. I'd focus on printing more class high health minion and small AoE to support these cards.

I simplified Dawnbreaker's card text by Ozymandia's suggestion and make the payoff for revealed the holding Dragon more powerful, with changing its cost to 5. And I finally managed to find a suitable reference for Seasoned Detective:

Name is a reference to The Man in the Brown Suit novel by Agatha Christie.