ENDLESS CARD DRAW?! Top Custom Cards of the Week #68 | Card Review | Hearthstone

[@Gareon155]

This is still one of my favorite trump bits, I just wish it was actually weekly.

[@majstertheunlucky2272]

Honeslty with how awful 99% of those card are. I'm kinda glad he's not doing them forcefully every week..

[@RematodeRanger]

@@majstertheunlucky2272 seeing trumps deadpan reaction to a bunch of shitty card ideas never gets old.

[@DYMLikeABaws]

@@Doct0rLove Whoa there buddy!

[@robertlupa8273]

@@DYMLikeABaws Don't worry, I reported him.

[@purpleblah2]

What are you talking about? The Min’Tei card was only from January 1st, we’re practically caught up!

[@GigaGrumbles]

Just make it Custom Cards of the Year at this rate

[@goodryan8989]

XD

[@ViktorLoR_Mainu]

AGREED!!!!

[@Onmur]

1:50 "... it does require your opponent to have a low health minion to even do anything." Marsh Drake: "My time to shine."

[@ViktorLoR_Mainu]

Muck hunter? I think I would be a bit too strong while that card still exists

[@Lightn0x]

The weapon at 5:28 has synergy with itself. While the first one will be a bad fiery war axe, the second one will be a better (?) war axe.

[@morti3995]

The weapon will be the same as a war axe because the text reads «Draw a Fatigue card» which does 1 damage fatigue even with cards in the deck.

[@MRfilmixful]

@@morti3995 but if you playy the second sword, then it will deal 2, since you were already dealt 1 dmg by the first fatigue. The fatigue ramps up even if you have cards in your deck.

[@morti3995]

Błażej Sobczak Yeah but I was referring to him calling the first one a bad war axe when it would have the same stats and mana cost

[@Lightn0x]

@@morti3995 Except you take 1 dmg.

[@oliebol-fr9ft]

It would be cool to see a whole set of "draw a fatigue card" cards printed, so that it becomes a more versatile and balanced jade-ish mechanic. Examples: 2 mana 1/3: draw a fatigue card and gain its damage as attack 5 mana: draw a fatigue card and deal its damage to all enemy minions You get the idea

[@kennethmkline23]

In order for cheers to be a 5-star design, then it should also change your greeting emote to "Cheers:

[@grantzolldan]

I think Interrogate should instead read: "Each time an enemy minion survives an attack this turn, add a Secret from another class to your hand." It keeps the flavor, and in fact I think it even adds to it, while making it a bit more balanced.

[@cosie7954]

id say thats a bit too weak though you do need a board already and that would be too rare. you wouldnt get more than 3 secrets usually and on top you need to leave all their minions on the board after, and rogue usually whants to keep tempo

[@grantzolldan]

@@cosie7954I actually disagree about it being too weak! My proposed description does not require the enemy minion to survive the turn, but rather any attack that it survives yields a card. If you have a few small minions on the board then this card can have a huge output. Also, as long as you have a weapon equipped, you're almost guaranteed to get one card off it if you're willing to take a bit of damage. I think it does make it more situational, but I feel that including the enemy hero makes it too powerful, unless it were only allowed to yield one secret per target or something.

[@driftwisp2797]

​@@grantzolldanIf you make it survives an attack, it 'rewards' you for taking bad trades. Since it's a low tempo value card to begin with, I think if it's also changing how you're attacking you'd need to get at least three secrets, probably four, out of it for it to be worth it. That probably means having 3-4 cards on board already if you want to actually be killing things at the end, and your opponent having bulky enough minions to enable that. It feels like getting the opportunity to use it is already a high roll, so it's probably too weak like that. Maybe have it be 'survives damage' instead, so you can use things like backstab SI to trigger it, making it a bit less situational?

[@grantzolldan]

@@driftwisp2797 Maybe so. It could be that all the card needs to be balanced is to remove the enemy hero from the situation and just limit it to minions. I also considered having it so any damage can trigger it rather than just attacks like you suggested, but I was concerned that board clears would be too ridiculous in that scenario. Then again, those are pretty few and far between with Rogue (I think, I haven't actually played HS in a while). I also liked the flavor a bit more without it, but now I can still see it working.

[@bowser2onrs]

Sounds super weak

[@Nearthel]

I would change Interogate to "Each time an enemy survives an attack" (or even survives damage), as dead people are usually very good at keeping secrets

[@alexanderlevans8661]

I would give Riot Police 4/5 in design, solely on the fact that they might need taunt because the main idea behind police is too protect something while doing nothing

[@exantiuse497]

How I understood Ishani the absolute, "receives excess healing" means the minion needs to be damaged before it's healed, just like the 1/3 cleric doesn't draw if you heal an undamaged character. So it wouldn't just turn your hero power into assassinate or circle of healing into twisting nether

[@evgenybudko9713]

I also think this card works this way, but in this case it would be too weak for 5 mana.

[@rulsyran7208]

"Lorewalker Cho" + "Vargoth" + "Cheers" = Drunkhand

[@chhite7590]

Man, the fatigue-for-proportional-bonus thing was an idea this long ago?

[@gbm7690]

0:41 Trump thinks playing a quest for a 5 mana 20/20 rush that you can't play until around turn 10-15 would be too powerful? Does he not understand the opportunity cost of playing a quest? Edit: For the people who are skeptical, compare this card with galvadon (ungoro paladin quest). Although Miin'Tei has rush, all you need is a single removal card to kill it, and with the abundance of discovers in the meta that isn't an issue. Also, compare this card with siamat who can come down earlier on turn 7, doesn't need a quest, and has more flexibility with windfury and taunt options.

[@NivMizzet89]

Inevitability is a thing. A quest that guarantees you win after X turns is incredibly powerful, as it frees you from having to dedicate any other deck slots to winning.

[@fosso8803]

@@NivMizzet89 It is not a guaranteed win though

[@hihigocat]

@@NivMizzet89 you can only have 29 other cards in a deck though, and its only a guaranteed win in fatigue

[@GoingGameCrazy]

@@NivMizzet89 it is just a 20/20. Can't go face the first turn, and has no protection. It ends the game if your opponent has no removal which is abundant in this meta

[@d4s0n282]

@@GoingGameCrazy uh, that is what makes the shuffle in to deck so overpowered

[@morti3995]

I think the idea of warriors being able to draw fatigue cards and benefit from it is a great idea. Hurting themselves for an advantage is befitting for the class. The text «Draw a fatigue card» makes it so you could ramp your fatigue even with cards in the deck.

[@Yhsanave_]

I think riot police could be interesting in a taunt deck, since you can benefit more from the extra health and you don't need to attack with your minions. If a taunt deck were in the meta, riot police might also work as a tech card in aggro decks since they often have to spend turns not attacking if they can't deal with a big taunt all at once.

[@markonciox2353]

Or against resurect quest priest, you dont advance his quest and you get a bonus

[@justanoman6497]

Ishanah the absolute: A bit unclear, does it trigger if you heal a minion at full? If not (and only trigger if you heal but is excessive) it might be fine. But otherwise, as noted, combo with circle is a bit OP.

[@elRandomTk]

I was about to comment on this, I'm pretty sure a full health minion doesn't count as beeing healed

[@ianrey7899]

No, you can't overheal a whole health minion. There is a boss before that had a similar mechanic.

[@placeadrien5566]

Then it's really balanced

[@tandemic4232]

I don't know if I would still be watching Trump without his amazing editor Jens tbh. I like Trump don't get me wrong but Jens makes everything flow so well.

[@simsamsemsom]

"Of the Week"

[@ab_c4429]

The Cheers card art is really cute

[@grantzolldan]

It looks a lot like Rapunzel from Tangled.

[@synchronium24]

I agree with Trump's 1 star balance rating on A Year's Passing, but on the grounds that the card is too weak. Maybe I'm underestimating the ability of highlander decks to play every card before dying, but it seems quite implausible to pull off regularly. Maybe old mill decks or miracle rogue would have a better chance of completing the quest.

[@iamnotafarid2531]

Yeah, it is even more weak because the quest reward is not even possible to get without card generation shenanigans. Turn one you play the quest which requires you to play 30 unique cards. But after playing the quest, your deck only has 29 cards left. Even if all of them are unique, it is not enough to get the quest reward. Only way around is cards which generate another cards, and you need to get cards which are unique. And you need to generate enough cards that you have something to shuffle at the end of it all

[@thatweirdguyoverther]

Cards that generate cards (like flybooter, or lackey cards) also count towards the quest, you don't even have to play a Highlander deck

[@driftwisp2797]

@@iamnotafarid2531 Zephyrus is already enough to make you hit 30, so any card generation beyond that goes directly to how many cards you can have left when you get it. Dragon Queen Alextraza usually gets you two. Lackey decks should usually get at least 5 unique lackeys, Priest Galakrond gets a ton of stuff, Steal effects from Rogue and Priest both get there quickly, discover cards like Fire Tree Witchdoctor, Magic Trick, explorer dragons, the list goes on and on. If the game is over when you get down to 5 cards left in deck, then you don't really need to worry as much about super value late game cards, so you can focus more on tempo and anti-aggro with just enough card draw to keep you afloat knowing that you'll auto-win against any deck that's slower than you. You could even just run Elysiana as your only card generation card beyond Alex and Zephyrus, and you'd still get a pseudo-mecha'thun effect in any highlander deck.

[@iamnotafarid2531]

@@driftwisp2797 Thank you, that is a good breakdown of all the card generation effects that would be very useful for to this quest :)

[@gregsmw]

how is a years passing to powerfull? you need to play 30 unique cards, as in 2 fireballs doesnt count, playing 30 cards in a game is SUPER rare in itself, never mind they all have to be unique thats a harder version of mechathun in you need to go through your whole deck to get it realisticaly

[@darrendoesthings2021]

Well Highlander decks are all unique from the start anyways And if you have things like lackeys or adding things to your hand I'd say thirty different cards wouldn't be that hard

[@teddywebb6663]

2 words: Card Generation

[@bjarkecarlsen6619]

yeah it's way harder to pull off than c'thun aswell. Even Nomi is better Statwise. When you play quest turn one you only have 29 cards left which means that you need to discover a unique card aswell.

[@d007ization]

Your whole deck is a bit of an extreme take, I think with all the discover effects you'd put into it, you'd complete the quest at around 5 cards left in the deck, perhaps less. Though I must agree that a 20/20 hardly constitutes as a game ender, no idea why Trump said that. It's not like The Candle wins when you have a rush lackey.

[@allhailderpfestor4839]

@@bjarkecarlsen6619 it is definitely stronger than nomi in because unlike nomi who rarely goes more than 3 times its infinite 5 mana 20/20 (unless you're a fucktard who plays 5 mana 20/20 rush as your the last card) and honestly I think highlander galakrond rogue can finish that quest by turn 10-20 because lackeys will add 3-5 unique card by themselves and even more by discover. Also DQ, Zephyrs, togwaggle and dragon hoard guarantees extra unique cards. I dont think such tempo deck would run slow ass quest like that but the fact the quest is doable in turn 10-20 and it's auto win against control deck makes it a bad design.

[@artisticallyexpired3127]

A large minion for only 2 cards? It’s Op! Mountain Giant:

[@alexchristie7497]

For the priest card, my understanding is healing a full health minion does nothing as it was not technically healed. So it's much more difficult to lock someone out with it.

[@TeppiaxD]

Yeah that's what I thought too.

[@AssignedXInsanity]

That Riot Police card would be nutty with plague of locusts

[@averycharles2590]

Riot Police with rush cards would be dope.

[@AvelineMelena]

One Last Heist is definitely 4 stars design without the legendary tag, would've been perfect with it

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

2:56 I think this wuold be really cool, if it was only when a damaged minion is over-healed (probably also what was intended I guess)

[@Neirean]

Cheers! seems like it would be too polarising and must-play for control warrior - while yes, skill testing, it is a bit too good too often.

[@arifridwanabriyanto9286]

yeah and for the meme you can play it alongside vargoth and cho.. you give 3 cheers to your opponent, save more draw for upcoming turn and potentially mill your opponent too or atleast make his hand awkward.

[@DaydreamHoneybee]

3:00 you can't heal a creature if it is not damaged (if you do "+0" is clearly displayed) Therefore your assumption is incorrect

[@Puntilaser]

This is such an awesome series. Would love to see it being actually weekly

[@KuroroSama42]

5:15 That seems like a very narrow view for the review. I would rate that card with high design score, since it's basically just introducing a very interesting mechanic entirely. We could have a new keyword (maybe just call it "Overdraw" or "Fatigue") which means you progress your fatigue meter. It could just be a stright up downside to a powerful card (similarly to the Ornary Tortoise, you take damage to play it) but could also be used like this weapon - get a benefit based on how much you took. With 10 or so cards like this (some class specific for warrior, warlock and paladin, for instance) you could easily make a deck that allows for this weapon to actually be a 3 mana 5/2 All in all, as a standalone card, it's indeed weak and oddly placed... but it's good design since it adds a very interesting keyword.

[@Shero1337]

Agreed, his design score is always a bit all over the place.

[@jonathandavies1716]

"Exertion", could be a good name.

[@NivMizzet89]

Trump did give an explanation why it's not a high scoring design though. Fatigue is rarely relevant in games, so it's not a very good drawback component. In games that do reach fatigue you don't want to run these cards anyway, and in aggro decks it's just a plain (stacking) 'take 1 damage' that has no actual relevance for the rest of the game (outside of other cards with that mechanic). Either way you're not actually interacting with fatigue at all. The stacking damage as a drawback/powerup does have some interesting design space (yet not too much, as the mechanic itself already prevents you from feasibly running too many), but having it be counted as actual fatigue is pretty terrible design and basically unprintable, so 2 stars seems justifiable. It would be so much more viable if it just came with its own counter (a bit like evil Jade).

[@driftwisp2797]

@@NivMizzet89 I think counting it as fatigue does some interesting stuff in terms of allowing you to print cards that have above the curve value or defense without them being auto-includes in fatigue decks. Imagine "2 mana 2/2 Battlecry: draw a card, Exert", or 3 mana spell "Deal 3 damage to all minions, Exert". Maybe a warrior card that gives an armor boost but exerts, which would be strong against aggro but risky to play against control. You could also do something like print a Weasel Tunneler that has "Your opponent Exerts" added to its effect so it doesn't help the opponent as much if the game goes to fatigue. You could also do Lotheb style stun effects with things like "Until your next turn, each time the opponent does X they exert". That could punish fatigue decks heavily, obviously, but would also be good against midrange decks that didn't want to go to fatigue but got greedy with how many exert cards they ran. Maybe a sort of soft frost nova like 2 mana "Gain 3 armor. Until your next turn, each time the opponent attacks they Exert". It wouldn't stop the opponent from killing you often, but it could help you put the opponent in a spot where they need to play defensively, either to avoid Exerting or to avoid getting burst down after Exerting. There's plenty of interesting design space there, and it makes cards work in different ways in and against different decks, both with causing you to exert and causing the opponent to exert. I doubt Hearthstone would ever print it, but if they did I think it'd likely be a good mechanic, as long as the cards weren't garbage stuff like "1 mana 3/2 exert".

[@NivMizzet89]

@@driftwisp2797 Except you can't print those above the curve cards, as those'd be overpowered in any deck that doesn't reach fatigue (most of them). And if you do balance them to be fair for those, they become completely unplayable in any deck that can reach fatigue (even if accidentally). That's the main problem. (extra) Fatigue is way too inconsistent as a drawback. Until a game reaches fatigue (most games) any fatigue stack is meaningless*, and when a game does they suddenly become game-changing. (*in the sense that it has zero interaction or relevance to actual fatigue) All those exert mechanics you suggest do nothing to solve that problem, nor do they do anything with fatigue that couldn't be done just as well or better without it. Again, the basic concept of 'take increasing damage per card played' isn't the problem. It's the link with fatigue that makes the suggested card such a bad design.

[@calebwilliams586]

Cheers in control is a drinking contest, that goes till one person fatigues. Love the flavor

[@Jukantos]

Rework suggestion for the Morgau Foul Merchant: "Every time you discover a card, add a copy to your hand" or alternatively "Discover 2 out of 3 cards"

[@DusKnight7th]

Or even: "Every time you discover a minion, add a copy to your hand". It keeps the minion theme and makes it harder to exploit to oblivion (many spells discovers spells, so...)

[@MajorMystery]

9:17 I can think of a few meme decks I would use it in. Use it to help keep the board so you live long enough to get off your combo

[@Happydeon123]

Riot police with that 6 mana hunter spell that give u 6 rush minions seem pretty op

[@XFeuerFestX]

Riot police would be run for sure by Taunt Warrior and maybe by some Midrange Pally decks

[@tauntischeat8931]

where is heroic of the last chapter?

[@ropyb5972]

Maybe it's receiving some special editor's love in the editing

[@Victriona]

Cheers! Is just two people playing +2 uno cards at each other until they die

[@arifridwanabriyanto9286]

imagine you play it alongside vargoth and cho.. you draw 4 and gives 3 cheers to the opponent.. just draw and draw..

[@trucid2]

9:37 What's Kripp doing on the card?

[@legochickenguy4938]

1:02 keep in mind that the quest wouldn't count for it, so their deck would only have 29 cards in it. they'd have to generate one, and what percentage of games go all the way to fatigue anyway?

[@good_beans]

I don't like that One Last Heist doesn't do anything if you play it when your deck isn't empty, makes it too hard of a low roll when generated. So here's my version. 7 mana legendary spell: Fill your hand with random spells from other classes. If your deck is empty, change their cost to (1).

[@twokings316]

Does riot police work with rush though? Kind of breaks it imo

[@joaquinelias7092]

Two Kings Mechanics-wise, wasting rush or charge to get +1/+1 seems like a terrible trade-off, but raises the skill level of the card. Flavour-wise, sound perfect.

[@twokings316]

@@joaquinelias7092 fair enough, I was just worried about spawning multiple rush minions but I shall concede.

[@__nobody__]

Hunter (Halazzi or Locusts) plus Police makes 15/16 (12/12+3/4) in stats for 9 mana, once. Compare that with Druid's Forest's Aid after playing Goru once (8 Mana 15/15 Twinspell) and it looks fairly weak in comparison… so it's just about right?

[@Pendergast891]

how would riot police work with newly summoned rush minions?

[@dracoblizzard7944]

If the enemy has minions at the end of the turn the rush gets buffed. If you killed all enemy minions or the enemy has no minions so the rush couldn't have attacked so no buff

[@ViktorLoR_Mainu]

They couldn't attack heroes, so +1 health *obviously*

[@PurpleSidewalk1]

1:17 should not read "this weapon gains +5 attack" should be "Give your weapon +1 Attack." as is customary for any adding attack to weapons cards. Obviously your weapon is this weapon if you are attacking with it.

[@claudegreenbean9167]

One question for the riot police... (maybe should be answered by the designer) If you summon a rush minion, and you kill all the enemy minions with other friendly minions that already exists or with spell which causes this rush minion "don't attack". Would this be still regarded as "can attack but don't" and can gain +1/+1 from riot police?

[@justanoman6497]

Hellreaver: You can, however, just take a few fatigue before playing archivist. Also, if you have two copies, the second is 4/2. Meaning you take 3 damage for +1 damage on firey war axe. And there is the thing that cycles destroyed weapons, more self damage, more attack. And if the text ever comes on another card....

[@Alter292]

Huge fan of the cheers card. Cards with symmetric effects are cool. Weapons project being a good example. Research project is in many many ways, terrible and not symmetrical in practice. Essentially you pay 2 to draw 1 and opponent draws 2. Hard to make that good in your favor except in making them burn cards? Cheers instead is very symmetrical in a way that at least makes the mana cost even. I think that card can reasonably be used. Imagine cluttering hands with the lorewalker cho. Definitely an exciting card.

[@Kyro4Productions]

I think Morgau would be balanced at 5 mana. That puts it + a one-mana discover spell on par with Eureka on 6, except you trade deckbuilding restrictions for less consistency and potentially being repeatable.

[@shadoboy311]

Watching the last card In June like..😥

[@K9L_IA]

I think Morgau, Foul Merchant effect is return this summoned minion to hand, not him so u can trigger idk jugler? maybe pop a quest a little etc

[@whYLiE09]

Getting closer to episode 100. Keep going trump!

[@MisterPollaccio]

On T4 a legendary minion wont be so bad, we play Mountain Giant on four, or a really big Edwin. Having a “free” legendary minion but w/out his battlecry on a two card combo is fine for me. Yes, you can have Colossus of the Moon but also Jan’alai, the bat or some other not so good legend.

[@Sandlchi]

Pirate Warrior might run four copies of Fiery War Axe

[@atlas6538]

It already could in wild with kings defender. In standard ancorr and Lance are the only weapon you need for pirate warr

[@Kappi__]

Love the Trump card. But would a 0 attack ever get buffed?

[@dracoblizzard7944]

No, since it has 0 attack it can't attack, so it can't get the buff

[@creepykoala7255]

I assume it works exactly the same as the green glow around a minion. If the minion glows green by the time you press the end turn button it gets buffed, if not it will not get buffed.

[@reidmoore8754]

Ishanah would probably a little more fair if you put "Destory any damaged minion that receives excess healing" That way you can't just lock someone out as easily as they play a minion and you hero power it. You would still have to at least attack with a low enough powered minion and still lose resources.

[@sageq45]

I'm surprised you didn't mention eggs when talking about Riot Police. That's the first thing I thought of, honestly. They technically can attack, it's just that they have 0 Attack, so I would argue the card should work with eggs.

[@Hephaestus_God]

I think Ishanah won't work if they aren't damaged. It has to receive excess healing, but to even heal a card it has to be damaged. Therefore it can't have excess if it is not damaged.

[@alex-ix9jb]

2:43 would this work with full health minions? If they are full health they don't really get healing to begin with right?

[@trixmtll1393]

Riot police would be great for an into the fray, armadillo taunt control warrior

[@justinhanna9152]

Riot police would be great anti-quest priest tech

[@luknepo]

The riot police text could be a card mechanic, maybe call it Patience? If this minion could've attacked this turn but didn't, do blank.

[@shadowremorse]

after you played year passing, you only have 29 cards, unless you generate another card, its never gonna activate

[@rickard7031]

Which is why he mentioned highlander Galakrond rogue. You discover a lot of cards, especially with Draconic and Ethereal Lackey. Speaking of which, each lackey would count once as well.

[@FedeArgentina]

Hellreave should be (3) Mana - Weapon. 1 attack / 2 uses. Battlecry: Gain +1 attack for each damage your hero had this turn.

[@ViktorLoR_Mainu]

The quest is insane; any card that adds a random card to your hand will be 1 and then some progress. Cards like twisted knowledge exist you know. I would still run two copies of it in my deck. However, for new players, it would seem impossible to complete it. (30 cards in a deck; quest is one of them)

[@hoveringvan9961]

what does the first card mean with 'unique'? Legendary?

[@jonathandavies1716]

A card you haven't already played. Like a highlander deck.

[@hoveringvan9961]

@@jonathandavies1716 oh, isn't that an insanely hard quest then? you have to play every card in your highlander deck

[@jonathandavies1716]

You can generate cards too.

[@hoveringvan9961]

@@jonathandavies1716 Right

[@driftwisp2797]

@@jonathandavies1716 And you probably have to generate cards too, since I don't think it counts itself

[@OrangeCat69691]

3:28 man you discover a minion on the board... That minon can cost 1-10 mana... So you play this card, discover a minion it can cost 10 mana. Turn 1. 10/10 or you can discover a minion with *dead symbol* ( I forgot true name) for example 9 mana minion 9/8 when he die, all minions in hand take +3/+3.. that's isn't balance card... If you want to make this card balanced, this card must have "this minion will die on end of this turn and you can't discover minions with *dead symbol*

[@DusKnight7th]

Deathrattle is the keyword you were thinking.

[@shakeweller]

Riot police would be cool in Quest Hunter

[@EnderGrimm]

Trump are you going to do a series alongside this of the custom hearthstone cards made for battlegrounds

[@oireal7261]

I disagree with Trump's rating of the Merchant. A good comparison is Void Caller. Void Caller is one of the best cards in Wild Warlock since you can choose what you want to get cheated out. By this I mean you choose if Malganis or Voidlord is in your deck. With the Merchant, it's completely random. Not only do you have to run subpar cards, but it limits your discover options and you are forced to play the Merchant first. At least with Voidcaller, you can hold it till you have a demon you really want to develop. In Dragon Hoard's case, most powerful legendaries these days have powerful battlecry effects and mediocre stats. Meaning you'd be cheating out a poorly stated minion on average. Of course there are highrolls like Zzeraku and Catrina, however in Rogue's case, they could already create a massive Edwin on earlier turns or just straight up kill you. The card's effect is good but too random to be effective.

[@driftwisp2797]

I think Void Caller is a good comparison, but you didn't follow it through correctly. You mention that you can hold Voidcaller until you get a really good minion to develop, but with Merchant you get to hold it *forever*. Each time you discover you return it to your hand, while Voidcaller simply dies. With Dragon's Hoard as an example, you don't need something crazy strong. You don't even need to get an 8/8, which happens pretty often. Even just getting a 5/5 King Mulka gives you a 4 mana 5/5, which is pretty good. Certainly not OP, but pretty good. And having King Mukla as your best option is a pretty big low roll. There are only a few legendaries worse than him, and a ton of legendaries that are 6/6 or 5/7 or anything else, which is massive for four mana. And then sometimes you just hit Deathwing or Ysera or a fair number of other things, and the opponent is on hard removal or instant loss.

[@oireal7261]

@@driftwisp2797 The thing about holding Merchant forever is that you're facilitating a dead card for a chance to cheat something big out. Whenever you do want to discover, you are to play said card and are forced to pick the biggest stat minion. To get value from it, you have to tack 3 mana up front onto every minion discover card you play. These days there are tonnes of better and more reliable options. I mentioned Edwin since Backstab and Coin give you a 6/6 as early as turn 2. There's the whole meme about a 4 mana 7/7 but it's not even that amazing anymore in Wild. Don't get me wrong - cheating out stats is great, but Merchant is too unreliable and random

[@dtly50]

Riot police is kinda good anti quest priest tech where you dont wanna randomly hit face

[@CityState_of_Valletta]

Cheers + Lorewalker Cho + Chaos Gazer?? Spicy.

[@ltgaming1627]

Don't know how "Interrogate" works, if it's a spell, need to play it right away, however, its function is "when enemy attacks", then, I think this should be a secret card or a minion, or it won't work at all...

[@Melficzeero]

It's when you attack an enemy, not when an enemy attacks

[@ltgaming1627]

@@Melficzeero Oh, sorry, I miswatched, it's "an enemy is attacked", then no problem at all~

[@nomercy1712]

Trump also if your opponent for some reason is playing mechathun deck he won't be able to execute his combo to win on the same turn because the Cheers card gives the opponent a card that he HAS to play if he wants to execute his combo.

[@orangesilver8]

Trump reviews A Year's Passing as a subtle nod to how a year has passed since he last did a top custom cards of the week.

[@federicodassi6558]

Riot police is a buffed shade of naxxaramas

[@JackSparrow-gn1zn]

I feel like your ratings are adjusted to the powerlevels of 2015

[@lukeburt4838]

Riot police would make quest priest cry

[@yellowtrickster69]

inorder for morgau to work at it's current cost, instead of flat out summoning it should be a cost reduction of some size

[@catonaplank3429]

Or set the stats to 3/3

[@danielsmith5318]

Overkill is an effect from an older set, sooooo.... 1 star

[@luxgracetail4599]

Has the right set marking, so it's roughly assumed to have been released in that set.

[@yamuimofate1524]

I think a 10 mana 15/15 be better for first card

[@Junebug89]

lol for some reason, I read Morgau's text and just assumed it was 7 mana so I was surprised when Trump flipped out about it.

[@andhegames8669]

I see a Trump custom cards video, I click a Trump custom cards video.

[@ugriever9264]

hey, running start is KINDA like Athletic Studies...

[@Gothstana]

Min'Tei is a game-ender? it's a 20/20 with rush. Any deck being played right now could deal with that. Druid has constant big threats, priest has *Shadow Word: Death*, rogues kill you before that card is ever played, hunters have Deadly Shot, mage has heeeaps of freeze spells and removal, warlock has plague of flames. Despite all of this, even if Min'Tei had a big effect on the meta, highlander decks have Zephrys to find Big Game Hunter, and everyone else could very easily swap out their 30th card for BGH. And if anyone thinks that's a bad trade-off, adding a bad card to your deck to counter a popular deck, remember that deck is literally built around Min'Tei. You kill Min'Tei and they have nothing left.

[@dondada1661]

I would love to see a deck with cheers and Cho

[@amethonys2798]

Interrogate is probably fine at 2 mana. At 3 mana is pretty much worse hunter's pack and that card is incredibly fringe.

[@tobiaspause1775]

Riot polic is nice with odd paladin maybe?

[@KnownAsKenji]

Cheers already exists. It's Lorewalker Cho plus any Draw spell. Nobody plays it.

[@TheR-DaciousOne]

I'm confused on how Year's Passing is OP. You need to play 30 unique cards. 30 cards is the Hearthstone deck limit. One of those cards is a Legendary quest. It's literally impossible to finish the quest.

[@rhymeswithmoose228]

Discover Add a lackey Galakrond Rogue gets a bunch of lackeys, some of which discover other cards All in all it is pretty easy with card generation

[@vastowen4562]

card gen decks will easily get 30 unique. Rogue galakrond, mage card gen, (dune sculptor + mana cyclone), etc.

[@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758]

I think morgau could work on a quest reward

[@EricLinRiceBin]

Trump should initially try to guess the cost of the card based just on the text. I feel it's biased to judge balance on abilities never before seen in the game without him having to think about the cost first

[@SomersBugtopia]

What??

[@akbmfm]

I have a good feeling about the next Custom card reveal.

[@vonBelfry]

I'm here because I saw the thumbnail. I don't usually like seeing custom cards. My big statement is "NO. NO CHEERS. STOP. STOP IT. NO. NNNNNNO."

[@justinhanna9152]

Should deduct a design point from running start for having no rarity

[@GFCOLCQuote]

Riot police but you summon a bunch of rush creatures against 1 tiny enemy and keep it alive.

[@TheZombifiedGuy]

If Cheers! was ever printed, I'd run it and wait for a player to just bounce it back and forth every turn until one of us died. Death by politeness.

[@honzasimek8307]

Cheers is good design indeed, but Mtg already did it

[@Neirean]

That's hardly a reason not to print it. MtG has explored thousands of card game concepts, many of which enter Hearthstone piecemeal over the years anyway.

[@SuperSymn]

@@Neirean but the point of custom cards is to have the community come up with their ideas for cards, taking already existing cards from other games kinda defeat the purpose, it's like copying your homework. Although to be fair who made the card might not know the concept already existed in mtg.

[@Neirean]

@@SuperSymn meh, going to have to strongly disagree. It is not just as you say - there is also a current of custom cards that are focused on simplicity or elegance of integratation into the Hearthstone vibe, and that type of submission is certainly also acceptable, and this card does so excellently (especially if the creator does not play MtG at all). Just because you don't appreciate this other type of custom card, doesn't make it invalid as you suggest, so yeah, very strongly disagree with you there. Besides, this mechanic is not so specific or parasitic to be so clearly derivative. If it was something like the card Future Sight, I would be more inclined to agree, but this is far less intricate or unique to give the thought of being plagiarism anyway, even if I didn't already agree with its existence for the reason above.

[@BlakeFaeMorton]

Don't think Trump is right on A Year's Passing. It is maybe 3-4 stars on balance but definately not a failure. Overvaluing the big dumb creature and undervaluing how hard the quest is.

[@JackSparrow-gn1zn]

I think that the first card is really weak, even with the shuffle. Without the shuffle, having the whole purpose of you deck be executed or shadow worded or any other cheap destroy effect is really dumb. At least galvadon could get stealth

[@Noobie2k7]

It's amazing how he's done 68 of these yet still constantly marks cards down for design stating balance reasons for doing so. "Oh, i'll take 1 design star away before it should cost 1 additional mana" That's a balance problem not a card design one.

[@Luca48882]

Noobie2k7 It's amazing how you followed them yet still don't understand that certain effects cannot literally exist at certain mana costs, meaning that whoever designed them is dumb. A 1 mana 3/3 is overpowered. A 1 mana 2/2 that grows every turn is overpowered AND bad design. Get it now? I'd thank him for somehow having the patience and calm to even analyze and explain. If he had to be even a little bit objective 90% of those reviews would be just: "trash gimmick, retarded design and balance"

[@Fusrodog]

For the first card, what Trump doesn't realize is how often do you get to complete the quest. Yes, rogues would take advantage of this by drawing shit and playing shit for cheap, but what it comes down to is consistency, control, and not getting killed at turn 5. ***PLUS,*** If we were to balance it to be class specific (ie: put it into either Paladin or Priest [moreso on paladin] for having time legendaries like Nozdormu and Nozari), it would play out in the end like a Mecha'thun card, where your win condition is to try and outlast your opponent's deck until you can finally play your last highlander card. The best part about that deal is that they can't put cards like Baleful Banker in since it slows down their draws to get to the last card. (yes wild has Trailblazer Elise, but that's besides the point) The point is that I see this as a Mecha'thun card and honestly, I'm happy with it. Sure you have to build a deck around that quest, but balance should at least be 3 or 4 stars just by making that *one* change.