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Challenge 1 is good, am a bit unsure about challenge 2, and challenge 3 is just really dumb. Challenge 2 is semi-interesting but seems like it would mostly create uninteresting cards. However, it does help explore the weaknesses of a class, so it's a bit more fine. Challenge 3 I just really dislike. The first part ("must utilize a core aspect of your class") is basically common sense when designing the classic legendary of a class, and I guess would be fine as a challenge. However, being forced to use your class' keyword (if you have one) is bad. For some keywords, it massively limits what sort of a thing the legendary could do. The legendary could easily stick to the main themes without using the keyword.
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THE RESEARCHER
The Researcher class is all about science and everything related to that. Its flavors can include artificer-like things, knowledge and information, sci-fi or steampunk themes and more. The class is good at card draw, but its cards are often situational or combo-dependent, so you'll end up needing the card advantage you get to make up for those drawbacks. The class is more focused on spells than minions, and has many cards that synergize with them, although we won't see that too much in basic yet. However, the class can play minions, and has ways of having them survive for long times and get a tempo advantage when combined with spells.
Keyword: Study
Study works sort of as a situational Combo, but also works if the previous card was played last turn, as long as it fits the condition. In cards, study would be formatted like " Study a Spell: X" where the word 'Spell' could be replaced with any other condition, and X is the additional effect the card gains.
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The Researcher
Researcher is a class that is all about knowledge, science, and everything related to those. The class can draw cards well, but to balance that out, many of its cards are combo-dependent, situational, or have drawbacks in other ways. Researcher is unlikely to have cards that can answer to a situation whenever and with no trouble. Spells are another important thing for the class, and many of its minions synergize with them.
The class also has its own keyword, Study, which gives you a benefit if the last card you played fills a specific condition. Here I have Replicable Results, a spell which uses Study, as an example of the keywords formatting and of what could be done with it. In card text, it is written like "Study a (condition): X", and while uncommon, some cards, such as this one, might refer to the card that has been Studied. Replicable Results itself could be used to gain value by copying some big minions, or to duplicate minions for combos.
Deduce to Reduce: Researcher gets good card draw tools, and Deduce to Reduce is one of them. Same cost and same amount of draw as Arcane Intellect, but this lets you have some control over what you specifically draw, and gets through your deck faster. In a combo or control deck, you could use this to get those combo pieces or answers you need at the moment.
The Cost of Progress: For just two mana, this destroys a minion, but with the hefty cost of discarding two of your cards. If you can overcome that cost, it's quite strong. You could draw more cards to replace those you've lost, use the hero power to avoid having to discard valuable cards (the token goes to the right side of your hand), or you could play a tempo-like deck where the efficient way to gain board advantage is more valuable than the card advantage you lose.
Brain Blast: A removal spell that is made more powerful by the card draw in the class. Especially strong in decks that tend to keep their hands large, like control and combo.
Laboratory Guard: One of many spell synergy minions in the class. Could be used as a finisher in a miracle-like deck, if you can keep it alive for a turn. Buff this up with an Abusive Sergeant or something similar, then spam as many spells as you can for a large amount of burst.
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Pretty much done with my submission post now, I think. Gonna leave this here now and post it later today or tomorrow probably.
The Researcher
Researcher is a class that is all about knowledge, science, and everything related to those. The class can draw cards well, but to balance that out, many of its cards are combo-dependent, situational, or have drawbacks in other ways. Researcher is unlikely to have cards that can answer to a situation whenever and with no trouble. Spells are another important thing for the class, and many of its minions synergize with them.
The class also has its own keyword, Study, which gives you a benefit if the last card you played fills a specific condition. Here I have Replicable Results, a spell which uses Study, as an example of the keywords formatting and of what could be done with it. In card text, it is written like "Study a (condition): X", and while uncommon, some cards, such as this one, might refer to the card that has been Studied. Replicable Results itself could be used to gain value by copying some big minions, or to duplicate minions for combos.
Deduce to Reduce: Researcher gets good card draw tools, and Deduce to Reduce is one of them. Same cost and same amount of draw as Arcane Intellect, but this lets you have some control over what you specifically draw, and gets through your deck faster. In a combo or control deck, you could use this to get those combo pieces or answers you need at the moment.
The Cost of Progress: For just two mana, this destroys a minion, but with the hefty cost of discarding two of your cards. If you can overcome that cost, it's quite strong. You could draw more cards to replace those you've lost, use the hero power to avoid having to discard valuable cards (the token goes to the right side of your hand), or you could play a tempo-like deck where the efficient way to gain board advantage is more valuable than the card advantage you lose.
Brain Blast: A removal spell that is made more powerful by the card draw in the class. Especially strong in decks that tend to keep their hands large, like control and combo.
Laboratory Guard: One of many spell synergy minions in the class. Could be used as a finisher in a miracle-like deck, if you can keep it alive for a turn. Buff this up with an Abusive Sergeant or something similar, then spam as many spells as you can for a large amount of burst.
Edit: done some adjustments, think I'm pretty much ready to post.
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Finally got some time, so gonna review some of other people's classes, starting with those on page 15. I'll probably continue later with more reviews of either pages before that, or ones after it if there's been new posts.
The bloodmage-like theme isn't uncommon, but you've done some things to make it different from the normal bloodmages, and originality isn't a huge issue in my opinion as long as you're not directly copying someone else.
Hero power seems fine. Simple, probably balanced, and fitting for the class.
Fresh Blood seems like a nice keyword. The hero power makes it usable in all the decks of the class, and it's usually stronger if you can trigger it in some way without using the hero power.
Overall, the cards seem balanced. They show self-damage as a pretty major theme in the class, and it seems to me that the class might even be too narrow with its themes, if it doesn't have other major themes. It does show other themes of the class, but they're mostly tied around the self-damage theme. If I were you, I'd replace maybe the weapon with another weapon to show other things the class can do with them.
I'm not a fan of the theme and don't think it would fit into Hearthstone.
The hero power seems weak and like it would limit the class into being able to only do a few types of decks. It does nothing if you don't have damage spells with it, making it bad in many situations. Not a fan of it, I'd recommend trying to find an alternate effect that fits.
The Transform keyword seems like it could be bad if you don't have cards that work with the different forms, making those cards bad in decks that don't want to commit to the theme that much, and even in decks that do commit to it if they can't draw both types of cards.
The Classmate tribe and Power of Friendship seem flavorful. However, Student Council President isn't a fitting name for a legendary, so I'd either come up with a name or reduce the rarity. Power of Friendship also seems like it could be really bursty and too strong, surpassing the damage of Bloodlust at 4 minions, and costing only 3 mana.
Really seems more like a Death Knight than a Lich, although I guess they can be very similar in some of their themes.
Hero power seems fine. Slightly weaker than a Mage hero power in some cases, but can trigger things that care about minions or minions dying (like Sacrifice)
Sacrifice is a reasonable thing to keyword, and fits the class flavor.
The cards seem mostly fine, but Shambling Horror feels like a boring card to showcase. It's a fine basic, but it doesn't feel like it shows the themes of the class as well as some other possible cards could.
Theme seems cool. I haven't seen it too often and it could have potential
Hero power might be fine. Ending the turn is probably a reasonable drawback to balance out drawing a card, but it means that you'll always have to do it at the end of the turn, and I'm not sure how to feel about that.
Countdown should have some sort of a visual indicator in game, but in my opinion UI stuff is something that shouldn't be considered as a limiting factor for design, so it's fine.
Your cards seem mostly fine. However, the basic cards you currently have seem too complex for basic. Also not a huge fan of the "Take extra turn, end it as soon as it starts" mechanic, because it does nothing outside of synergy. Also, I assume that those turns don't draw you cards or give you mana crystals, because that would be strong. If they don't, it's a bit confusing as there's no reason for why it is so.
Battlemage is a common theme, but it's got enough potential to allow different kind of flavors, and so far yours seems unique enough.
Hero power is kinda neat, it's something I haven't seen before and probably has a reasonable balance. Dealing 2 damage with a hero power is fairly strong, so having a drawback like that seems fine.
I like the cards.The mechanic shown in Conjure: Divine Armor is cool and has potential as a smooth pseudo-choose one. I think you should make Spellfury count all damage done by both you and your minions. Makes it a bit less strict, allowing for more archetypes to benefit from it.
Also, I have some cards of my own as well. I think I've decided on my five cards to showcase for this phase, and have a good grasp of the themes of the class. I'll write and submit my thing within the next few days, but here's the class and the cards I'm planning to use.
Researcher
Some themes: Card draw, spell synergy, efficient but situational/combo-dependant cards, controlled(-ish) discard, Study. The class will hopefully be able to support multiple archetypes, but some specific I'm pushing are Tempo (with some evasive minions and efficient removal to keep those minions safe), and combo (based on cards that synergize with spells).
Deduce to Reduce: card draw, slightly stronger than Arcane Intellect but that's in my opinion fine since the class is supposed to be good at that
Brain Blast: Potentially efficient removal, with the drawback of being bad when you don't have a lot of cards in your hand
The Cost of Progress: Also efficient removal, but with a steep card advantage cost. Maybe good for tempo?
Replicable Results: A neat Study card that can allow you to copy your value things or maybe set up some kind of combos.
Laboratory Guard: Spell synergy, also possibly a combo enabler.
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Responding to some of demonxz's feedback
Probably gonna try give feedback to other people's classes tomorrow, once I have more time.
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Here's what I currently have made for my class, the Researcher
Some themes in the class are card draw and things that synergize with it, spell synergy, solid single-target removal but limited board clears, discard but often in a more controlled way than warlock.
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@Shatterstar1998 Only taking a quick look through these cards at the moment, but here's a few things I want to say.
Mjönir seems very strong for me, basically giving your next 3 hero powers "give your hero +3 attack" for 1 mana, and that's without considering the possibility of having armor from other sources (not rare for a warrior). I'd nerf it.
Many of the start of game cards seem like net positives for me, even if the effects you get for playing them are not the best, and that's not good. It's arguably fine if the thing you get from start of game effect is only good in a specific situation/deck (even then i'm not a huge fan), but some seem like they could just go in almost any deck and make it better. The biggest offenders in that regard to me are the Rogue, Druid, and Warlock ones.
Both the rogue and druid cards guarantee that you'll have early removal in hand, and without the cost of actual card advantage, if they're just added to your hand. The warlock card gives you a strong boardclear that's also a big taunt, unless you get bursted down from above 10. To me that seems far too easy to get.
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The reason the Book is worded like it is is that this way, the number can update based on how many different cost spells you've cast this game so there's no need to remember or track the amount yourself.
Also, how large changes are allowed for submitted entries? I'm not very satisfied with the Irradiated keyword on my entry anymore, and would change it if it's allowed. The change would be changing its name (to Mutate) and making the player choose one of many negative effects (like negative Adaptations) that spread through damage. It's fairly different, but the soul of the mechanic is the same, being a negative effect that spreads through damage. And if I can't change it now, is it okay to change it in a later phase?
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The Year of the Mech
Welcome to the Year of the Mech. This sets gains its name from the first two sets, which both try to revisit some of the flavor themes last seen in Goblins vs Gnomes, and bring back the Mech tribe that has received an awfully low amount of support after GvG rotated out.
Set 1: Westfall Redemption
In the region of Westfall, law and order have collapsed. In the already chaotic region, a valuable material used for mechs discovered underground adds more complexity to the situation. Gangs fight each other and themselves for that material, opportunistic engineers offer their services for anyone willing to pay enough, or construct their own mechanical armies to take it all for themselves, all while Stormwind struggles with bringing the region back under control.
Westfall Redemption portrays, among other themes, the more volatile goblin side of engineering. Goblin engineers, ready to work for whoever pays the most or for no one else but themselves try to make do with what they have in the chaotic situation, Assembling impressive mechs out of nothing. Assemble is the keyword for the set. When you play a card that Assembles , you get to choose one of three mechs to summon . There's a total of four different mechs, but you will only have three to choose from each time you Assemble
You can see each Mech created by Assemble in the following Spoiler (Credits to ThePixelDash from the r/customhearthstone discord for allowing me to use Hard Puncher for this)
Example Cards:
Desperate Engineer uses Assemble to create small mech tokens that help it stay alive, even if you have no other mechs for it to destroy for survival.
Illegal Improvements is a prime example of volatile and explosive goblin engineering. Use it for a bit of burst and to make a mech that will be dangerous to leave on the board, but also potentially bad for your opponent to remove, or trade up with a mech and either get some face damage or remove another minion, if you're lucky.
Set 2: The Battle for Gnomeregan
From one field of battle to another, this time we join Gelbin Mekkatorque on his fight to take back Gnomeregan. Once the great capitol of the gnomish race, it fell when Sicco Thermaplugg deceived Gelbin to detonate a radiation bomb in the city against troggs, claiming that the gnomish citizens would be safe. The bomb only angered and mutated the attacking trogg force, and backfired on the gnomes, killing many of them and forcing the rest of them to flee. Now, the city is inhabited by leper gnomes, irradiated troggs, and the self-proclaimed 'King of Gnomeregan', Sicco Thermaplugg, driven mad by the radiation.
Here, we continue to explore mechs, but in different ways than what we did with chaotic goblins in the first set. This set also contains a new keyword, Irradiated . Irradiated minions spread their sickness to others, making any minions damaged by them also become irradiated. They however are doomed to die a quick death, taking 2 damage each time they attack.
Being damaged by Irradiated minions includes damage from other sources than attacking, so if you were to Irradiate something like Baron Geddon , it would be quite strong at spreading it to everything else.
Example cards:
High Inventor Mekkatorque is potentially a huge amount of value for some mech decks, filling your board with different mechs. The amount of mechs summoned is naturally limited by board size, and first summons copies of any mechs in hand, and then from your deck, starting with any at the top of your deck.
Sicco, King of Gnomeregan can really cause quite a chain of explosions with his first effect, while his second effect makes those explosions almost certain to happen sooner than later.
Set 3: Dalaran High
For the final set of the year, we leave the Mech theme mostly behind and venture from Gnomeregan to another grand city, this one much more lively. In the great city of mages, Dalaran High is accepting new students! Prided not only for its high quality education on magic, technology and various other subjects, but also for it's top-tier sports team, the Dalaran Gryphons. So take out your books and your writing instruments, and make sure to not miss your lectures.
Dalaran High has a new keyword, and a new mechanic seen in a cycle of 9 books, one for each class. The Study (X): mechanic gives you a reward if the last card you played was X, and the card could have been played on a turn before the current one. X could be many things, like card type (Minion, Spell, Weapon), specific cost, tribe or even some more specific requirements. Each class gets a Book card, which is a spell that becomes stronger as you play certain things during the game.
Example cards:
Field Study is a simple Study card for hunter. Being able to tutor a beast can come in handy, for example if you're playing a deck that runs mostly high cost beasts, you could play this in the late game after playing one of them to guarantee drawing another one. The part of the keyword in brackets not being bolded is intended, as with longer Study requirements, sometimes half of a card's text could end up being bolded, making it look very bad.
Book on Magical History is the mage card of the cycle of Book cards. As with all other Book cards, the text first states what the card does, and then in brackets and italics, the thing you need to do this game to empower it. The number on the card increases whenever you play a card that improves it, so there's no need to track how many of those card you have played so far. This one could be used in some deck that happens to run many different cost spells as a decent amount of damage later in the game, or one could build a deck around getting the most out of it and using it as very powerful burst.
Hall of Fame
Mana Wyrm : Mana Wyrm is an extremely powerful 1-drop, and can snowball out of control very easily. Because Mage is likely going to get a spell synergy theme in Dalaran High, this could get even more insane there, so it is being rotated out. As a replacement, Arcane Artificer is rotated into the Classic set so that Mage still has a cheap spell synergy card there, but not one that is good on its own and snowballs out of control easily.
Cold Blood : Cold Blood is both a very strong tool for aggressive decks and a cheap piece for combos. Rogue has a very strong Basic and Classic set that could do with removing one of their powerful cards. Gang Up is moved to Standard to replace it, as it is a much less powerful card that can be key to some really interesting decks. For example, it could be used in some combo with High Tinker Mekkatorque in a Mech Rogue.
Cabal Shadow Priest ; This might seem like an odd choice, as this has hardly been a problematic card at any point. That is true, and the main reason for this rotation is really the card brought to Classic to replace it, Lightbomb . With this rotation, Priest will finally have a good board clear in Classic, which means that they won't be so reliant on expansions now, and that Blizzard won't need to print more and more board clears to help the class. Cabal Shadow Priest was chosen as the card to go because like Lightbomb , it is a tool for control decks. Having so many good cards for Control Priest in Classic could make the archetype far too good, and removing one might bring it to balance.
And that is all. I hope you enjoyed reading it.
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Here's a draft for my submission, the Year of the Mech. Probably going to post it very soon, just writing it here first so I can have a look at how it looks before posting.
The Year of the Mech
Welcome to the Year of the Mech. This sets gains its name from the first two sets, which both try to revisit some of the flavor themes last seen in Goblins vs Gnomes, and bring back the Mech tribe that has received an awfully low amount of support after GvG rotated out.
Set 1: Westfall Redemption
In the region of Westfall, law and order have collapsed. In the already chaotic region, a valuable material used for mechs discovered underground adds more complexity to the situation. Gangs fight each other and themselves for that material, opportunistic engineers offer their services for anyone willing to pay enough, or construct their own mechanical armies to take it all for themselves, all while Stormwind struggles with bringing the region back under control.
Westfall Redemption portrays, among other themes, the more volatile goblin side of engineering. Goblin engineers, ready to work for whoever pays the most or for no one else but themselves try to make do with what they have in the chaotic situation, Assembling impressive mechs out of nothing. Assemble is the keyword for the set. When you play a card that Assembles, you get to choose one of three mechs to summon. There's a total of four different mechs, but you will only have three to choose from each time you Assemble
You can see each Mech created by Assemble in the following Spoiler (Credits to ThePixelDash from the r/customhearthstone discord for allowing me to use Hard Puncher for this)
Example Cards:
Desperate Engineer uses Assemble to create small mech tokens that help it stay alive, even if you have no other mechs for it to destroy for survival.
Illegal Improvements is a prime example of volatile and explosive goblin engineering. Use it for a bit of burst and to make a mech that will be dangerous to leave on the board, but also potentially bad for your opponent to remove, or trade up with a mech and either get some face damage or remove another minion, if you're lucky.
Set 2: The Battle for Gnomeregan
From one field of battle to another, this time we join Gelbin Mekkatorque on his fight to take back Gnomeregan. Once the great capitol of the gnomish race, it fell when Sicco Thermaplugg deceived Gelbin to detonate a radiation bomb in the city against troggs, claiming that the gnomish citizens would be safe. The bomb only angered and mutated the attacking trogg force, and backfired on the gnomes, killing many of them and forcing the rest of them to flee. Now, the city is inhabited by leper gnomes, irradiated troggs, and the self-proclaimed 'King of Gnomeregan', Sicco Thermaplugg, driven mad by the radiation.
Here, we continue to explore mechs, but in different ways than what we did with chaotic goblins in the first set. This set also contains a new keyword, Irradiated. Irradiated minions spread their sickness to others, making any minions damaged by them also become irradiated. They however are doomed to die a quick death, taking 2 damage each time they attack.
Being damaged by Irradiated minions includes damage from other sources than attacking, so if you were to Irradiate something like Baron Geddon, it would be quite strong at spreading it to everything else.
Example cards:
High Inventor Mekkatorque is potentially a huge amount of value for some mech decks, filling your board with different mechs. The amount of mechs summoned is naturally limited by board size, and first summons copies of any mechs in hand, and then from your deck, starting with any at the top of your deck.
Sicco, King of Gnomeregan can really cause quite a chain of explosions with his first effect, while his second effect makes those explosions almost certain to happen sooner than later.
Set 3: Dalaran High
For the final set of the year, we leave the Mech theme mostly behind and venture from Gnomeregan to another grand city, this one much more lively. In the great city of mages, Dalaran High is accepting new students! Prided not only for its high quality education on magic, technology and various other subjects, but also for it's top-tier sports team, the Dalaran Gryphons. So take out your books and your writing instruments, and make sure to not miss your lectures.
Dalaran High has a new keyword, and a new mechanic seen in a cycle of 9 books, one for each class. The Study (X): mechanic gives you a reward if the last card you played was X, and the card could have been played on a turn before the current one. X could be many things, like card type (Minion, Spell, Weapon), specific cost, tribe or even some more specific requirements. Each class gets a Book card, which is a spell that becomes stronger as you play certain things during the game.
Example cards:
Field Study is a simple Study card for hunter. Being able to tutor a beast can come in handy, for example if you're playing a deck that runs mostly high cost beasts, you could play this in the late game after playing one of them to guarantee drawing another one. The part of the keyword in brackets not being bolded is intended, as with longer Study requirements, sometimes half of a card's text could end up being bolded, making it look very bad.
Book on Magical History is the mage card of the cycle of Book cards. As with all other Book cards, the text first states what the card does, and then in brackets and italics, the thing you need to do this game to empower it. The number on the card increases whenever you play a card that improves it, so there's no need to track how many of those card you have played so far. This one could be used in some deck that happens to run many different cost spells as a decent amount of damage later in the game, or one could build a deck around getting the most out of it and using it as very powerful burst.
Hall of Fame
Mana Wyrm: Mana Wyrm is an extremely powerful 1-drop, and can snowball out of control very easily. Because Mage is likely going to get a spell synergy theme in Dalaran High, this could get even more insane there, so it is being rotated out. As a replacement, Arcane Artificer is rotated into the Classic set so that Mage still has a cheap spell synergy card there, but not one that is good on its own and snowballs out of control easily.
Cold Blood: Cold Blood is both a very strong tool for aggressive decks and a cheap piece for combos. Rogue has a very strong Basic and Classic set that could do with removing one of their powerful cards. Gang Up is moved to Standard to replace it, as it is a much less powerful card that can be key to some really interesting decks. For example, it could be used in some combo with High Tinker Mekkatorque in a Mech Rogue.
Cabal Shadow Priest; This might seem like an odd choice, as this has hardly been a problematic card at any point. That is true, and the main reason for this rotation is really the card brought to Classic to replace it, Lightbomb. With this rotation, Priest will finally have a good board clear in Classic, which means that they won't be so reliant on expansions now, and that Blizzard won't need to print more and more board clears to help the class. Cabal Shadow Priest was chosen as the card to go because like Lightbomb, it is a tool for control decks. Having so many good cards for Control Priest in Classic could make the archetype far too good, and removing one might bring it to balance.
And that is all. I hope you enjoyed reading it.
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Not vilegloom but made a symbol for my own set, and the glow's pretty easy to do in paint.net. Once you have whatever symbol you choose on the thing, you just need to select it, invert selection (Ctrl + I) to select everything but it and then go to Effects > Photo > Glow and adjust the settings on it until you have something that looks good.
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The set Celebrate will be on will be focused around a party held by Blingtron, so I felt like the word fit it.
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I think it's best to design the sets as if they were fairly far into the future with none of the current standard sets. And anyways I think it's best to design the sets of one year as existing together, without outside set influence, as it's a bit bad when half of the synergy cards of some theme rotate out, leaving the other half as useless.
Here's two keywords I'll use in sets in my year, which will be Year of the Mech. Here's the list of Mechs that Assemble can summon. It works like Adapt, you get three choices and get to summon one of them. The X in Celebrate can be a lot of things. For example, it could be Celebrate (A Spell), Celebrate (A 1-cost minion), Celebrate (A Mech) and so on.
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Are tokens as part of a keyword fine? I'm planning one that's a bit like adapt but creates small mechs instead of giving small buffs