Hearthpwn

My second* idea.  Name is currently a placeholder, even though I'm kind of tickled by it.  Flavor-wise, I guess the minion that dies is the one who sacrifices itself to stop the damage?  Not sure if it's under or over costed.

*My first idea was an effect that dealt one damage to the left most enemy minion, then the second left, then the third left, etc.  When it hit the rightmost it would then start over from right to left, like a pendulum swinging back and forth across the line, stopping when a minion died.  But even trying to think of how to begin to word that succinctly was giving me a headache.

So I've been mulling over making a new class, and I wanted to do something similar to the Merchant class from the first Class Competition and have spells that dealt with enemies through ways other than "Deal [x] damage."  While it's easy to come up with ways to do that with individual enemy minions, I was having trouble coming up with novel ways to counter aggro and destroy all enemies at once.

So far, I've come up with two semi(?)plausible ideas.  Let me know what you think, and please let me know if you've come up with something else that could fit. Apologies in advance for the names/art, they were just placeholders.

My first idea isn't really a board clear as much as it is a board shutdown.  I don't think I've seen a consensus yet on how much giving an enemy minion "Can't attack" should cost.  Initially I had this at a flat (5), but the thought of locking down seven minions at once seemed a bit much.  I think a 10-Mana for 7 minions is reasonable?

Not sure if this is under or over-costed, since we don't yet have a vanilla "Destroy all enemy minions" card to compare. Naturalize v. Assassinate seems to say that "Opponent draws two cards" is worth about 4 mana, but as the minions affected go up it gets more likely that they'll burn some of those cards from the deck.

My first idea is to make the Blood Knight of Spell Damage, but I'm not really sure on the wording/if it's a good idea.

I think the first wording scans better, but also feels very OP since it relies on silence (silence against a small subset, but still).  The second wording is closer to Blood Knight and would have fun interactions with something like Dalaran Aspirant, but also doesn't scan well (to me).

These were my first ideas, based on something I've been batting around for a bit.

First, a Moat Lurker-y tool to enable combos.  Not sure how OP/UP this is, the numbers are more of a rough guesstimate:

If you know a way to cut the wording down to avoid the overlap that'd be very welcome.

My other idea was for a (balanced??) 7/7 for 4:

In most cases this is a (3) 4/3 to heroes and a (3) 2/3 to minions.  

However, if you use one turn of Emperor Thaurissan with this + Charge + Abusive Sergeant x2 + Inner Rage x2 + Rampage in hand you end up with a 15/1 charge minion that can hit face for 30. (Edited to add the card links and correct the maths)

Huh, that prompt got interpreted as "Have 'Last turn' somewhere in the card text" pretty fast.

So would this fit the competitions parameters, since it's based on the last Discover instance? I think this will be one of those week's where I'm constantly questioning whether I grok the rules or not.