Hearthpwn

Really nice theme going this week. Here are the first three ideas that popped into my mind. Couldn't find any good art with a quick research so I'll have to work on that later.

Unless the next expansion is insanely fun, probably nothing. Since Boomsday launched, I've been playing only the bare minimum, just enough to get the card back each month. I figure when I don't care about that anymore, then I'm not coming back.

Sure, the meta is crappy and stale, an entire year worth of cards is currently unplayable cus they're simply too weak compared to what we already have, but I know for a fact it's gonna get way better when rotation hits. Old Gods and Un'Goro were, after all, the most enjoyable expansions in their time. But I'm not looking forward to it, I just don't really care anymore. I think it's time I moved on from this game.

I wanted to try and incorporate Solemn Vigil and Dragon's Breath into a cycle, so I made these three cards. They're all really simple, just like the two I mentioned, and that's really the whole point of it. I couldn't come up with a better name for the Shaman spell, so I just copied the Dark Iron Arena Hero Power as a placeholder.

Now that I think of it, this probably won't work for the competition cus the cards are just not flashy enough.

I thought I'd just do a Wild brawl, but Standard looks more interesting as we might see some truly new decks and combos, though there's a chance you wouldn't be able to play with that card you liked before it got destroyed.

I don't like the art. If anyone's got any suggestions, just say the word.

Thanks everyone for your feedback. Now I'm gonna review the classes in the last 3 pages or so.

@Pircival

@Klipce

@SunnoxPL

@Shatterstar1998

@thepowrofcheese

@Demonxz95

@linkblade91

I came up with an idea for a DEMOLITIONIST class. It's in the middle-ground between a tinker and a sapper; basically, he's an inventor with a knack for making explosive devices and, while he takes a more careful approach to it than a sapper would, some of his inventions are still prone to fail in particularly dangerous ways.

Mechanically, this translates to one of the most prominent themes of the class, which is effects that have an inherent randomness to them, but you can control to a certain degree (mostly positional effects, but also other forms of limited RNG). Other frequent themes will be self-damage and disruption. Of course you'll see Mechs as well, but do not expect such an emphasis on that as you should from a Tinker class. Maybe in the future, if I feel I can't milk any more flavor out of bombs.

The idea is still in its early stages of development but it's coming to me quite easily. The class is turning out to be very control-y, with lots of damage-based removal. I thought Secrets might fit in as well.

This Hero Power has three possible outcomes: it can hit one minion if your opponent has an odd number of minions on board, two if it's even or the enemy face if he has no minions. I'm just gonna leave the cards I thought of so far so you can get a better grasp of the concept.

The biggest issue I'm facing so far is coming up with good art for the cards. As you can see, some of them don't even have one yet. I'm probably gonna have to draw from sources other than WoW TCG artwork and fanart.

I will return later to review other people's works as well.

This is a bit on the weaker side - on purpose 'cus I made it before the nerfs - and not very flashy, but I like the flavour. Any thoughts?

This works just like Toki's Hero Power from the Monster Hunt, but if you've done damage to your opponent, they are not healed. So in a sense, this spell could be used to duplicate damage spells and give your minions pseudo-Windfury.

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I've had three ideas so far. I think It's Alive! is miles better than the other two, but let me know what you think.

It's Alive! lets you skip the Zombeast crafting restriction. You can combine two Beasts that cost more than 5 Mana, two Beasts with text... Or heck, even two regular Zombeasts! Therefore, I think 10 Mana is more than justified, even though it literally costs 3 cards to play.

Nuclear Fission is the process to transform matter into energy. It might allow you to draw enough spells to finish your opponent, but that's it.

Drakkari Harmonizer fuses several 1-Cost minions into a bigger one. It's flavour is supposed to be the "One With The Universe" thing from eastern religions, that's why I made it a Shaman card.

I will give some feedback later, as I don't have time now. I'll priorize people who also feedback my cards, of course.

Just dropping by to point out, before I forget to do só, the amazing - if not opressive - combo potential of It's Alive with Young Dragonhawk and King Krush. It's fucking degenerate and I love it.

First of all, thanks guys for your feedback. I realize some of you are having trouble figuring out how the card's supposed so work, so I'll try to explain while using this as an excuse to bump the card.

When you start your turn over, it's just like Toki's Hero Power: it undoes everything you've done that turn. Any minions you played are bounced back to your hand, any weapons that might have broken are restored to their previous durability, and so on. So you can't set up for an Antonidas combo, nor does it work like Quest reward, 'cus you must already have an established board before playing it - and then you'll get to attack twice with each minion - otherwise it'll just return your minions to the hand.

Now to another round of feedback.

@MattyHooba Spurious Hero reminds me of that Tavern Brawl we had recently. And we all know how it turned out. The other cards, well... Being able to choose what your opponent's gonna discard is a HUGE deal but I think out of all classes, Hunter is the one who would benefit the least from it, due to the aggressive nature of most of its strategies, so you might get away with Arcane Sniper. Definitely not Lobotomize though, fuck that shit.

@Noah_McGrath Card seems weak, honestly. If it could destroy minions on board as well, like that Arena-only Warrior weapon, then I think it would be playable.

@ChildOfTheAtom12 Like linkblade91 said, it's probably fine at 6. Maybe even at 5, after all, it's worse than Spreading Plague.

@ColinthePyro Mage card feels somewhat generic. I'm pretty sure I've seen that Druid card done many times already. So we're left with the Warrior minion, which is actually pretty decent, if not a little overcosted. Good thing is you can Magnetize it to anything and get value out of this effect straight away.

@Echo_ Definitely don't like this kind of design. It costs a lot and sometimes you can't play it, even if you have the mana to do so, 'cus it just won't do anything.

Whenever I tried to make this mechanic work as a tactical advantage, it ended up underpowered or unimpactful. I thought maybe enabling it to multiply burn could make it viable, but perhaps it ended up a little too powerful. Depends whether Freeze Mage could ever become a thing again in Standard.

Some quick reviews of what I've seen so far.

@CheeseEtc I prefer the Hunter card just because the other is too similar to Astral Communion.

@Demonxz95 I like Witch Hunter better. The game could benefit from effects like this and, while the Rogue card is good on its own, I think Coin/Miracle synergy is quite boring. Tbh so is discard synergy, just nothing can be done about it this time around.

@linkblade91 Warrior version has the best wording, best framing for the art and is probably the best class out of the two, but it could be neutral as well.

@BOOOOOOO... Too disruptive. Could change it to only discard and redraw 1 card - and alter stats accordingly - but then it would be just another Gnomeferatu.

After a Secret is revealed, when your opponent hovers over it with their mouse, it shows which Secret it is, much like it would to you.

Probably should make it a 3/2. It feels quite weak as is right now.

I feel Goldfinger is kind of a poor design. With Auctioneer, you can draw your entire deck while turning some useless, more expensive cards into more mana to cast whatever you'd rather not turn into a coin and win the game.

Voted for Lathy, Turkeybag and Cogito.

I have a question: would an effect that works somewhat like MtG's Storm count for the second challenge? It can cast a card for a second time, but also a third, and a fourth...

For anyone who doesn't know, Storm reads: "When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn."

It's very late already so I won't review any cards for now, though I gotta say - and you could probably tell it even if I didn't - the idea for Aboom came to me after I saw linkblade91's card, so I guess you could think of this as positive feedback. They are not very similar apart from drawing inspiration from the same source, but if that bothers you just say it and I won't submit the card.