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- Chill -

Chilled minions have a shimmering light blue mist surrounding their token. The Chill takes place at the end of each player's turn. This mechanic encourages trading; it's not often that a Chilled minion will last long enough on board to accumulate a ton of damage from the Chill effect. Also, it should be noted that a Chilled minion is being debuffed, NOT damaged - and thus won't trigger Enrage and damaged minion synergy.

- Warm -

Examples of this currently in the game are Shifter Zerus and Molten Blade. Like these cards, your opponent will not see the trigger take place, the trigger will occur before the card is drawn to start your turn, and cards kept in your mulligan WILL warm on turn one.

Here's how Molten Blade looks with the new keyword text:

The sun icon tracks the number of turns a card has Warmed. In this example, Blossoming Nymph has been kept in hand for 3 turns and is buffed to 4 health. The icon doesn't appear on a card until the Warm count is at 1 or more.

Huge shoutout to ZardozSpeaks for helping me with this graphic!!

Raven Idol

Clarification: Minions that are already Chilled will not be targeted by Elondria's Ice Barrage (unless all enemy minions are already Chilled) similar to how Demented Frostcaller works.

Clarification: This class was created before Frozen Throne was released, thus before we had Avalanche in-game.

Flame Imp

Frost Whelpling is just learning his skills and can't control his Chilling frost breath (btw - see Frost Drake below for the grown-up version of this little guy!). This is also an example of the general push for control-style decks in this expansion... he's a strong 1-drop for decks that don't want to flood the board. Also, as the Elven Sharpshooter warms, her text would change in the way that text for spell damage does. So for example, after being in your hand for 2 turns, her battlecry text would read "Deal *3* damage to a minion." 

Iceshard Elemental is an example of a minion that doesn't like to Warm in your hand. Play him as early as you can, or he'll melt altogether (if his health reaches 0, he can still be played - and would trigger things like Knife Juggler - but would die instantly).

The wording for Arboreal Giant was much debated, since the text could also read "Warm: Reduce the Cost of this card by (1)." However, I've chosen to keep it in line with the other giants, whose texts all begin with "Costs (1) less".

Mith'ra, Spirit of Spring and Lae'ra, Spirit of Winter are Sister Spirits that are said to be battling over control of Azeroth. Lae'ra's hold over Northrend and other snow-covered regions is waning, and Mith'ra has taken the opportunity to Warm the lands and Restore life. Lae'ra, meanwhile, is filled with vengeance and is taking it out on minions that can't handle her Chill. And the others, well... she'll just Freeze them where they stand. Also, I feel like I should address how these two cards interact xD The ruling is that Kalecgos cannot be made Elusive. This is one of those unspoken rules of Hearthstone, something DisguisedToast would make a video about upon release ;)

Elusive - This is simply the Faerie Dragon effect. I know Brode said they don't intend to make this a keyword as it would be too confusing for new players, but hey this competition is just for fun and I want it :D

Chill - Chilled minions have a shimmering light blue mist surrounding their token. The Chill takes place at the end of each player's turn. This mechanic encourages trading; it's not often that a Chilled minion will last long enough on board to accumulate a ton of damage from the Chill effect.

Warm - Examples of this currently in the game are Nerubian Prophet and Shifter Zerus. Like these cards, your opponent will not see the trigger take place. I should note that most Warm effects encourage you to hold cards in your hand, however some are still stuck in winter, and will lose value as they Warm.

Here's how Nerubian Prophet looks with the new keyword text:

The sun icon tracks the number of turns a card has Warmed. In this example, Blossoming Nymph has been kept in hand for 3 turns and is buffed to 4 health. The icon doesn't appear on a card until the Warm count is at 1 or more.

Huge shoutout to ZardozSpeaks for helping me with this graphic!!!

Commons

As the Elven Sharpshooter warms, her text would change in the way that text for spell damage does. So for example, after being in your hand for 2 turns, her battlecry text would read "Deal *3* damage to a minion." 

Rares

As you can see, this expansion has flavorful tribal synergy cards (and will continue to with the class cards!!)

Epics

The wording for Arboreal Giant was much debated, since the text could also read "Warm: Reduce the Cost of this card by (1)." However, I've chosen to keep it in line with the other giants, whose texts all begin with "Costs (1) less"!

Legendaries

I feel like I should address how these two cards interact xD The ruling is that Kalecgos cannot be made Elusive. This is one of those unspoken rules of Hearthstone, something DisguisedToast would make a video about upon release ;)

Tokens

In terms of flavor, the idea here is that the Murlocs make such a racket that they wake up the Leviathan, and the damage spells release the Dryad from her roots by cutting away at the vines. Hope you like!!

Elusive - This is the Faerie Dragon effect. I know Brode said they do not intend to make this a keyword as it would be too confusing for new players, but hey this is just for fun and none of US are new players... so yeah. basically, I WANT THAT TEXT SPACE!!! xD

Chill - Chilled minions have a shimmering light blue mist surrounding their token. The Chill takes place at the end of each player's turn. This mechanic encourages trading; it's not often that a Chilled minion will last long enough on board to accumulate a ton of damage from the Chill effect. There are effects that Chill minions and minions that are Chilled from the start, as a drawback.

Warm - An example of this currently in the game is Shifter Zerus. Like Zerus, your opponent will not see the trigger take place. Most Warm effects encourage you to hold cards in your hand, however some are still stuck in winter - and will lose value as they Warm.

Imagine the blood icon under the mana cost is a flame icon instead. This tracks the number of turns a card has Warmed. In this example, the card has been kept in hand for 3 turns and is buffed to 4 health.

Blossoming Nymph - This nymph is thrilled about the warming lands, and grows tougher with each passing turn. She is a basic example of the Warm keyword in action. Unfortunately the only card in my showcase with spring flavor, but just wait 'til you see what I've got in store!!

Greater Wind Spirit - A spirit borne of the winter, this guy starts worse than even a Wisp. But with a quick self-heal, the spirit grows and changes, and becomes a burly 3/4 for 3 mana (of course, you get the heal as well!). Perfect for turn one when you don't have a turn 2 play, and a nice example of the design space opened up with the Dormant mechanic.

Spectral Tiger - Stranglethorn Tiger's more epic brother (see what I did there?). He's an example of the Chill mechanic (impacting both sides of the board, in this case!), as well as Elusive. And yes, he's meant to not have the Beast tag - just like the Spectral Spiders that spawn from Haunted Creeper ;)

Kalecgos - Current ruler of the blue dragonflight, this guy resides in Winterspring and is thus witness to the might of the Great Thaw. As you can see, his arcane power brings all the spells to the yard him. This is the anti-Elusive, useful to protect other minions and also your hero from pesky burn-from-hand lethals! Also interferes with the Priest and Mage hero powers. And as a former servant of Malygos, he has mirroring stats. I know this 'spell taunt' concept has been done before, but it's a good example of the flavorful, control-style cards you can expect from this expansion.

The Warden is a versatile class and can thus be played in many different ways. A control Warden uses removal to control the board and overpower their opponent in the late game with hard-to-remove minions and burst damage. An aggressive Warden uses these burst spells in addition to a strong early game, often taking advantage of the class’s Beast synergy. The Warden also supports a Mill style of play with ways to add cards to your opponent’s hand and draw cards for your opponent. And with good ways to heal their hero, Wardens are able to keep up with aggressive opponents that benefit from extra draws. Finally, the Warden-only keyword “Chill” (introduced in the Expert/Classic set) helps to control the board with a damage-over-time mechanic.

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Upgraded Justicar Trueheart Hero Power: