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For the record, we're completely open to discussion on how best to proceed, these are just ideas we are currently discussing internally.

Hard removal? What's harder than shooting someone's spell when it's not even your turn!

Messed around and came to this. It's a spell counter based entirely on your opponent knowing when it occurs. It costs nothing, but is always a dead draw. The fun part is you can tech it in or out depending on whether or not you think your opponent expects it and will burn a useless spell.

Debate is still out on whether I should do Paladin (Because they generally don't get AoE's thus it feels more shadowy and corrupt) or Pirest because it's the usual.

Counter-shot... I straight up don't know how to phrase this one. I want a card that somehow discards itself to counter, but I'm not sure what the best way to do that is.

Mark of Iplication; Please someone get the joke. More of a one-off if anything it's definitely too slow.

@Wailor Other than not being familiar with Transgenics, I like it, though it is a bit basic. Extinction sort of feels either too good or too bad, I can't honestly tell. It really depends on the decks that use it. Now Shadow Word: Predate, I really like conceptually I'm almost confident it's balanced, but I'm not sure it really feels like a shadow word in flavor. Maybe set the raptor on fire, make the fire purple?

@CovetousJ Singularity is probably not great, 4 mana to put all your minions into a single target doesn't feel great. I like the actual text of Absorb, but it's definitely at most 1 mana, possibly 0. As said before, Capitalize. Maker's Mark makes me happy.

@Deravcc I believe Blizz avoids +/- together because it's not intuitively obvious to the general masses who've not played MTG or similar games. Also, as removal it's too slow at 4 mana. Twilight words suffers from non-equal choose options (Full restore is 0 mana) and thus doesn't feel very choose one. 

@ZiombalaZoms I like it conceptually, but it's basically just 1 mana do nothing when drawn which feels bad. Good tradeoff? Maybe. But spells should theoretically do something (Maybe 3 mana draw 1 as a better tradeoff?). Still, I like it.

@FHillz Ooooh, slick naming. Now that we have sleep as an actual term this works, but I'd still try to fit in until the end of your opponent's turn if you can. I don't necessarily think losing taunt on combo is a necessity, it may need to be one or the other.

@Blightcaller I'm guessing Mongoose Bite's name changed and it just slipped through, I get that. Conceptually very interesting but I'm unsure how close it is to Cheap Shot. Looks pretty good, but I'm wary (And there's no real other way to balance it). Shadow Word: Insanity looks great. Blessing of Sanctuary... What does it mean. The problem with original state is, does that mean full stats? Would it remove buffs? Does it un-polymorph minions? It's a bit too ambiguous. If there's an ingame example, hit me up with it, I'm interested.

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Is this card allowed? It follows the rule of being a buff, but I'm not sure if Warrior is acceptable.

 I think this one’s fine, yeah. I will say that it’s not exactly a buff; Perhaps if you already have a weapon equipped it could add the random weapon stats to it instead? Still, I like the initiative of going warrior.

Sort of; It’s not really an example of a mark, but kind of fulfills that purpose. Like it’s effect isn’t similar to the other marks.

Just because you want a fair fight does not mean you should be giving our enemies Kingsbanes!

I challenged myself to reach the full four lines. Not easy. 

edit: Fixed!

These are all very interesting. Me and McF have been at this for going on five-six years now (most our old hero powers were so imbalanced and/or not fitting for the class) so I’m gonna give you two more rule suggestions;

6. All hero powers must fit three lines with the Hero Power line

7. Hero Powers shouldn’t have multiple dead zones.

the first one’s a style thing, and don’t worry, I never notice either. The second is Game Design. All current ingame HPs can be either be flatcast turn 2 (even Priest), and therefore it’s clearly part of design ethos. That being said, I’m kicking myself that To Arms! never occurred to me.

• The Fel Reaver16.7% of Users - 23 votes
• Lady Vashj34.1% of Users - 47 votes
• It Fel From Above34.8% of Users - 48 votes
• Magtheridon17.4% of Users - 24 votes
• Archimonde24.6% of Users - 34 votes
• Terokk Cultist29.7% of Users - 41 votes

Sorry about that, it does that sometimes. There was a single vote difference for the winner

IT FEL FROM ABOVE!

Congratulations to CakeEater (And seriously, reeeeal close one this time).

Big value if you can keep it alive and draw a lot, but also sets your boardstate to one 5/7 minion. Flavorwise her stats are the inverse of Illidan Stormrage's and she severely hamstrings the draws of anyone playing Illidan by shuffling all his Flame of Azzinoth into their deck.

EDIT: Had to completely rework my submission, I noticed that whilst unintentionally, I'd almost completely copped from another Akama entry.

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Congratulations once again to Kacman for winning WCDC 10.6. He wanted to return to glory days of Knights of the Frozen Throne... and there's really only one expansion as widely beloved as the Wrath of the Lich king...

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• The first restriction; you have to accept that you are not prepared.
• In the spirit of KotFT, you must make a card that represents the world of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade; We want Outlands, Demons, ridiculous helboar grinds in Hellfire Peninsula, fifteen-hundred potion raid nights... you get the picture.
• This week there are no mechanical restrictions. All you have to do is include the Mag'theridon Watermark, which I'll put a guide to below.

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  Step 2: Once you've formulated your entry, scroll the watermark wheel aaaall the way down (This can be wierd with things like Google Chrome's download bar. Trust me, if you scroll to the bottom the very last thing you can click'll do it). Select Custom.

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This is the Discussion Topic. Upvotes here do not count!
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Competition Theme: We're Outland of Ideas

Congratulations once again to Kacman for winning WCDC 10.6. He wanted to return to glory days of Knights of the Frozen Throne... and there's really only one expansion as widely beloved as the Wrath of the Lich king...

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• The first restriction; you have to accept that you are not prepared.
• In the spirit of KotFT, you must make a card that represents the world of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade; We want Outlands, Demons, ridiculous helboar grinds in Hellfire Peninsula, fifteen-hundred potion raid nights... you get the picture.
• This week there are no mechanical restrictions. All you have to do is include the Mag'theridon Watermark, which I'll put a guide to below.

  Step 1: Fire up Hearthcards as usual.

  Step 2: Once you've formulated your entry, scroll the watermark wheel aaaall the way down (This can be wierd with things like Google Chrome's download bar. Trust me, if you scroll to the bottom the very last thing you can click'll do it). Select Custom.

  Step 3: Press the spikiest boy in there. It's highlighted in blue below.

• You want examples? Fel Reaver, Illidan Stormrage, Wrathguard... examples aren't really useful. 
• No flavor points this week, the whole challenge is based on flavor. Zanywoop will intentionally upvote every single other card however if someone throws a pandaren in.  Adhere religiously to what was around in TBC; Anyone who's played through TBC, be sure to keep your Cursed Vision of Sargeras off so you can help anyone who hasn't slogged through Blade's Edge. Please note that not all the Mods have even earned Lady Liadrin, let alone farmed Netherdrake rep, so be patient if we miss a few flavor things.

 Competition Process

Below is a list of all the deadlines for this contest:

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Dog that’s The Beast, good deep cut.

Classic Doom Slayer x Wrathguard OTK. 

To give actual feedback though; We'd need the full class to judge against. As it stands, it doesn't need a cost reduction if it's already baseline 6 mana.

@CakeEater This spell is probably too strong as a neutral spell, several classes can abuse this (Including rogue, where this would fit best flavor wise). If it shuffled to your opponent, maybe, or maybe if you had a decksize requirement.

@Blightcaller Conceptually this is fantastic, though perhaps not quite spicy enough for most decks. Flavor wise, I'd give it a name (Though slick work fitting in tentacles).

@Shrinkkk I worry this makes the gamestate a bit uninteresting. Also, reeeeeally hard to remove. I don't think it's a terrible idea though; 1 mana fulfills the anti-aggro requirement but it's a lot of value for 1 mana. It's interesting, it's interesting.

@Nohva Spicy, I like it. It's kind of a huge buff to Tentacles for Arms, though I *think* it's fine (considering Bazaar Burglary). I like it. Nice tentacles.

@Covetousj The Leech King is theoretically fair but probably awful to play against. Tentagryff seems pretty balanced, and I love these sorts of warlock health tradeoffs (SICK tentacles). I also like The Great Devourer (great use of mechanics) but I think the enchantment portion should be in the Deathrattle, like in Immortal Prelate, though that would weaken it. I liked a lot of these.

@LeoFC More consistent than Lucentbark, though I think you can mess around with the flavor a bit. Maybe one of the (several) possessed Scarlet Crusaders, that'd fit the themeing.

@Sillyraptor Mind Bender has the same problem as Jade Idol, multiplicative effects that just get out of hand. I Like Reinforcements!, I have some tentacled art with a similar theme if you'd like.

@WhattheHeck N'zoth here is waaaaaaay too slow and way too expensive. Mindbender Gur'sha respawns way too often and way too powerfully. Not sure which direction I'd tell you to go in.

 @Kacman THIS. This is solid. I think the Plague phrasing should be "Cast to add to your opponent's hand."

@Ashkrell Jade Tentacles is wonderfully balanced. The only issue is having two in hand and spamming them at the end of game for 8 mana but like... Jade Idol existed...