TOP CUSTOM CARDS OF THE WEEK #10 | Card Review | Hearthstone

[@Extrinoo]

Trump: Echo is off the table for now. Snip Snap: Am I a joke to you?

[@HollyDevil100]

Trump: You can't print cards with numbers instead of letters, its frustrating to search for those. Sn1p-Sn4p: It seems I am indeed a joke to you.

[@SkyllerSY]

trump: dr. boom only care about bombs. dr boom : wtf i just built like 5 mechs and Attached a cannon to a wasp

[@inquaanate2393]

Corrupting mist would be way better in warrior

[@AnD333]

Inqu'aanate very true with all that armor gain warrior could afford to wait to clear the board

[@olivetom1599]

And proposed card is nothing like corrupted myst. Its more like a situational doomsayer. If opponent plays a mech : almost deny his next turn minion drop. Trump is always so wrong on his analysis...

[@inquaanate2393]

Oliv étom trump once said, a different card in a different class may be better or worse, he didn’t apply it to this situation.

[@iBasheveryone]

+Oliv étom Spend all your mana for the turn on a clear that destroys all minions and does nothing else you play when you are unable to clear all the minions. I don't see it.

[@blahthebiste7924]

Also it doesn't destroy friendly minions unless you run mechs

[@RazorOfArtorias]

My custom HS cards (Charlock & Watts-ON) reviewed by Trump and with a low star rate. My life goals are complete. I can die in peace.

[@toniconge7003]

I wouldv'e given you 5 start design for the puns.

[@owenkanaal3457]

They were actually the best cards of this episode, well done!

[@olivetom1599]

And obviously your cards were really good ! Not too OP and not center of a deck but a nice add to freeze/tempo mage :)

[@jacobblodgett3032]

Design should be 5 star. He's getting confused with his rating system

[@cutecommie]

The problem is that if you have both on the field, you still need a secret/discover to start the engine. And you need your opponent to activate your secrets to keep the engine going.

[@roymclovetoy9041]

His rating system seems kinda dumb. To me it seems like hes treating design and balance as almost the same. I think design should be about the idea and creativity of the card and not how good the card is.

[@drewpeacock9087]

I think he should include how it is in terms of game design (such as the snowballing 3 cost) as that is very much design too. But yeah it can be confusing in terms of the idea/creativity, but then you have to think how to factor in the name, and should it be for creativity or for names that could actually be seen in game. t's always going to be a bit conflated I think but it wouldn't hurt to clear up the rankings.

[@KabanchikKabanovskiy]

"I'll give it 1 star because Echo keyword is reserved for Witchwood", what kind of arbitrary rating is that? Unstable evolution was in Kobolds and worded almost the same as Echo... I'm speechless

[@drewpeacock9087]

Yeah that one I didn't like the reasoning for so much, but I don't think it was a too well designed card anyway.

[@petardimic8647]

Desing includes how good is it in nowaday meta and how balanced it is.Whats the big problem to understand that?

[@k0l0nkby54]

I've always felt the same way. He keeps interweaving design and balance. Design should stay to cleverness (mechanics, interaction, name, flavor, etc), and balance should stick to gameplay.

[@jonathanperigo6853]

I absolutely hate the way you justify your ratings. You barely dictate a difference between design and balance. Often you state a balance reason for a design score and vise versa. Super inconsistent. However, I still love that you do these.

[@juniorberdahl6031]

Actually very true and I've hated the way that he's done it for a while. Not once within this series has a card EVER had a 2-star design and a 5-star balance, or vice-versa. He literally bases them off of each other :/

[@jonathanperigo6853]

@@juniorberdahl6031 for real. Design category should be about creativity or uniqueness of the card effect. Balance should be about how close to a reasonably releaseable card it is.

[@iBasheveryone]

I'm sure it makes sense for him, but the label is arbitrary. Maybe he could clarify what it means? I don't know. Can't say I see 2-star design and 5-star balances coming up very much. It's not like most card designs are universablely recognisable as good (Kappa). But seriously.

[@poisonthorns]

*Spoiler Alert* Trump is bad at this.

[@jonathanperigo6853]

@@poisonthorns love him anyway

[@rofik1476]

Okay it's official even Trump doesn't know how his rating works. For example at 8:20 balance is all about how the card is in game and how balanced it is, now that card is perfect balanced, yes on the weaker side but it's stats are fine at least 4 stars for balance.

[@Dattyification]

Trump is the mayor of Valuetown, the ultimate guru in Combo Priest and a sex god for all of the female twitch streamers. Who are you to dare question his ratings?

[@DevilcakeLive]

I agree with Rofik, but i also believe in the cult of trump, let the hearthstone pimp be in peace.

[@foggy9900]

I was just thinking that the rating system is super inconsistent lol.

[@TrumpSC]

You're right actually, I was inconsistent on this one. Rusty!

[@Mail_]

But isn't the rating based on how much play they'd see? At least that's how he does his official card reviews

[@chingshunyung8796]

I think that Watts-on card is really good. Just don't play it with Charlock. It works with Glyph, Stonehill and Keysmith, which are playable cards. Card can even be play on curve since 2/4 is hard to kill, cheating out a 3-mana secret is not weak at all. Even though you have no control over it, you get it for free like mad scientist, not like Kirin Tor Mage that cost you a card from hand.

[@PrimeGamator]

Actually Mad Scientist costs you a card from your deck so in terms of fatigue Watts-on is even better. And i think both cards are decent, even if you can't play them together they give decent value for an Elemental deck or just Tempo or Control deck

[@Fanofstuff]

glyph can even get u another free glyph in the best case for super secret value!

[@exantiuse497]

Yes that's true. He got totally distracted by Charlock and didn't evaluate Watts-on individually. The card is a must-kill card because the opponent can't risk you playing two Discovery cards next turn and getting 6 mana worth of secrets, or even more if you get glyph from a glyph, for free, and the stats are decent for the mana cost. The balance rating of 3 stars is fine imo, but for the wrong reason, the card is too powerful and should lose an attack or a health

[@mancubwwa]

On the other hand Putricide never saw much play even though most Hunter decks are secrets heavy, so the condition is much easier to get...

[@void-ue8xi]

mancubwwa because 4mana 5/4 at turn 4 is easier to kill than 3mana 2/4 at turn 3

[@Peaceisalie]

Anyone else think Jens should put the card creators username on screen while their card is being reviewed? I see that he has them in the description, but I feel like they deserve a little more.

[@kaasloo1303]

TheSithCode who the frick cares? Complaining about the smallest things.

[@emersonl8225]

@@kaasloo1303 it would give validation to the designers considering I've watched all of these vids and never noticed the names in the description I think it would be nice

[@kaasloo1303]

Emerson L A mention in the discription is already a blessing. People that make these cards just take art from the internet and slap some text on it. They are not real disigners or artist.

[@someoneidk3995]

@@kaasloo1303 theh may not be "real" designers or artists, but they are the Creators of the cards. They spent some time working on the cards They made.They should still have their name on scrern. It's not like the name is big enough to take up the whole screen. That and their names in the description isn't a "blessing" Trump is not some god, he is another gamer who happened to be confident enough to put himself out there and make some people happy and informed about the game.

[@Jay-zd2pz]

kaaslol kaasje bro really trying to argue in a hearthstone comment section lmao.

[@1Crivella]

I think there is still lots of confusion on the design vs balance. I think design should be just about the idea of the card and not on how strong it is. That should be left for the balance, but the 2 too oftem mix Eg the charlock and watts-on should've been higher in design in my opinion. The idea and reference is very cool, it just lacks strength balance

[@MHSlypher1]

Maybe have a third star rating for flavour, rather than lumping it in with design?

[@Begeru]

I agree.

[@bambae7669]

ditto

[@AM-we1es]

Too many ratings

[@trevbequick]

design shouldn't be based on whether it would appear in the expansion, but the actual design, it's uniqueness, and thought.

[@gumeniucion9023]

Shhhh he is good at rating cards

[@iBasheveryone]

1 star card, 6 star meme, I predict this will be the biggest meme of the next expansion

[@cattata01-_-38]

But then you have to realize,some of these are not even drawn

[@blyatsuka8624]

1:55 Interesting design and then rates it 1 star... NotLikeThis

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

something can be interesting but still done terribly wrong. It's interesting because it sparks new ideas, but it could still be an awful idea to begin with.

[@MrDragonorp]

trump is wrong with the rating system you sould add also execusthon wich is how the though of the card is being executed

[@NivMizzet89]

Also the card might have multiple elements. One aspect of a card might be interesting enough to warrant some stars on its own (even if it is already impractical), but then other parts of the card can still drag it down. Here the 'target a spot' mechanic is already flawed, and then the card doubles down on bad design by also having a terrible mech restriction. If the card had just targeted 'a spot', or 'even-cost minions', or anything else you're likely to encounter in any deck, I imagine it could've gotten some extra star value for being interesting.

[@sibanbgd100]

אור פאר the card is executed for 2 mana by the enemy warrior

[@Zemkezis]

Yeah he seemed bitchy today, seeming to forget to separate design and balance. Charlock made me smile, it's brilliant.

[@powmod]

The card at 1:25 is not delayed corrupting mist in the best case scenario. It's untargeatable doomsayer only for the opponent board in the best case scenario where your opponent has a full board of mechs and you manage to play this 2 mana card and clear his board while you don't own mechs. I think the comparison with corrupting mist is not correct, this card can affect the minions that the opponent plays on his next turn. If it was to all minions it would be an auto-include in control warrior. Play this card on full opponent board + brawl and the guy can't play minions on his next turn.

[@olivetom1599]

So true

[@iBasheveryone]

It is like Corrupting Mist in that you use it to get a mana as well as a board lead over your opponent. In the case that you clear all the minions, it delays the board for another turn. In the case that you don't, they can play cards on top of it. It may have 'at the start of your next turn' in common with Doomsayer, but I don't think he was wrong with his assessment. You can clear and use it like Doomsayer to get a better Doomsayer. But you can still also play Doomsayer.

[@iBasheveryone]

Trump noes that Doomsayer isn't used right now in the meta.

[@Monjijii]

I love how trump is terrible in rating things.

[@mindscapejem]

I don't think *Drop the Bombs* would be powerful enough to justify it being a Legendary spell, it is also slightly better than Corrupting Mist (if it targeted all minions instead of just Mechs) as your opponent can typically trade off Corrupted minions and play new minions, but with Drop the Bombs they would be prevented from doing so if they're board was mostly full. Even if it could target all minions (instead of just Mechs) I still don't think it would be powerful enough to justify it being a Legendary Spell. *Proud Father/Firstborn Son* is pretty weak to most board clears at 4 mana. Though it has some viability in Arena, in Constructed I'd doubt it seeing any play. Also, some Rank 26 players might complain about the terminology of Proud Father's Deathrattle, demanding it be changed to 'Give "Firstborn Son" +2/+1.' so that the "him" isn't confused as giving another "Proud Father" +2/+1. Firstly, is *Fish King* supposed to be a Neutral Legendary or a Shaman Legendary, as the token cards all have the Shaman border? Beyond that, it probably should be 4 mana 3/3 Murloc with Taunt to balance the cost efficiency and delay the snowball effect a bit. The Fishstick should probably be 3 mana to match Frostmourne's mana cost/effectiveness; Fishy Broil is okay, but it feels like it should have an overload effect or be increased to 2 mana (it feels a bit too strong, but I can't really explain it); Army of the Frozen Aisle is a bit too overpowered at 2 mana or it should be nerfed to only removing 2 cards as in Murloc decks you are typically trying to thin your deck to get to your win condition as quickly as possible; and Bubbles! is actually balanced and in line with the Lich King's variety. *Charlock, Burning Detective,* would probably see no play as it plays like a 3 mana, 4/3 Elemental that does nothing, and that your opponent can actively play around it. (Though, as it's worded, it appears you could trigger opponent's secrets and get the Element-ary cards.) The Element-ary cards aren't that good on their own either as 1 mana "draw 1" cards are typically weak in classes that can't use them in combos and Control Mage probably wouldn't use enough secrets to justify this Elemental being added. *Dr. Watts-ON, Assistant,* would probably see some play especially in Control Mage, Secret Mage or Burn Mage. Most Standard Mage Secrets see some play and Watts-ON lines up with other Mage minions that have similar effects. I don't think its Mech tag would really come into play much, but it's pretty balanced overall. I think these two cards should have been rated separately. *Majordomo Executus,* if it were printed, would probably have to be 8 or 10 mana to fit Blizzard's design of preventing two hero cards being used by one Even or Odd deck. It would probably be 8 mana as it doesn't have enough impact at 10 mana to justify the +2 mana cost. (i.e. Lord Jaraxxus is 9 mana/Bloodreaver Gul'dan is 10 mana, Dr. Boom is 7 mana/Scourgelord Garrosh is 8 mana, and Hagatha is 8 mana/Thrall, Deathseer is 5 mana.) *Generous Spirit* is a slightly worse Fallen Sun Cleric with some flexibility. Still pretty garbage in constructed, but I'd probably pick it in Arena. As a 1 mana 1/1 minion with the same effect, it would be in EVERY druid deck as that is so absolutely insane and an awful suggestion overall. Enchanted Raven was played in nearly every Druid deck and especially in Token decks, but now you can give a minion +1/+1 instead, I would hate the card. *Overclock* would make Mech Hunter actually viable as you'd have a reliable way to activate the Goblin Bombs and deal significantly more face damage. Play Boommaster Flark on 7 mana, next turn play Necromechanic and Overclock to attack with the 4 Goblin Bombs, play Overclock again to destroy the Goblin Bombs and deal 16 damage. For a total (if the opponent didn't play taunts) of 20 face damage and you still have 1 mana left over. (Overclock does not give your minions Charge and most opponents tend to ignore the Goblin Bombs focusing only on killing Boommaster Flark instead.) *Omega Thrall* wouldn't be printed as Shaman already has two hero cards, and I completely agree with all the other points that Trump mentioned. The only way this card could exist would be as a Priest Variant, the only class that has a class Omega card that doesn't already have two "hero" cards (if you consider Jaraxxus as a Hero Card). The mana cost would be fine, armor gain dropped down to 5 and the hero power would probably revolve around Silence or some other bad Priest mechanic (e.g. Muted Energy: Summon a 0/1 Shadow of Nothing that gains the stats and effect after *you* silence a minion. So if a Stonetusk Boar had +1/+1 and you silenced it, you'd get a 1/2 Shadow of Nothing with Charge. [Though, now that I write that out, it would probably have to be increased to 7 mana]) Also, Omega Anduin sounds sick as hell. *The Mothership* is a bad card that costs too much, though it is an okay card to play in conjunction with Paladin's Legendary Spell, but it's still pretty bad overall. It is important to note that it would nerf Spiteful Summoner decks, but that is such a fringe case that it shouldn't be considered at all. *Celestial Giant* might see some play in Hand Mage, and would definitely see at least some experimentation in Wild, but overall it doesn't seem powerful enough to see play at 10 mana. At 8 mana, it would see some experimentation (do note that Celestial Emissary only affects spells), as you could play one Giant on 8-mana with one Cosmic Anomaly or two Giants with two Cosmic Anomalies, which is pretty in-line, in terms of power level, with other Giant decks. *Murloc Engineer* is a specific counter to the Fish King at its current mana cost with a 50% chance of destroying the Fish King, while still playing on curve (if going second) and still works as a decent minion if Murloc Fueled Engine only eats Murloc Engineer, unlike Hungry Crab which is only good if it actually eats a Murloc. It's also good to note that this card would be great against Murlocs with stealth or 'Can't be targeted' as it isn't a targeted effect.

[@Jinzoningen]

Just spitballing here, but would mothership work if you were to magnetize Beryllium Nullifier to it? It would make it harder to remove and more likely to survive another turn. I'm sure losing four cards to one voodoo doll or twisting nether would still make it a very boom or bust card, just throwing the idea out there.

[@luissandoval244]

Don't forget you can also magnetize cards that aren't from boomsday, 1/4 windfury plus a high stat mech PLUS either nulifier or a mech that has stealth (don't remember if their is one but I think there is)

[@iBasheveryone]

It is a good card. Once I saw it I would have wondered if they would put a card like it in the expansion (if I saw it before it came out). I think Recruit turned out to be a weaker power than it sounded like, as we saw from K&C onward, or that the power level was elevated so much from recent expansions it's not as relevant that it sounds. I don't think that it's power level would be bad either. Just very specific, and yes, the final design for mechs and magnetise did weigh it down a bit. It's a better card than what was designed for it.

[@iBasheveryone]

We do have 'the Gunship'. It does the same thing except without using magnetise.

[@chingshunyung8796]

It's also works with egg, meatwagon, annoy-o-module and zilliax. I think it is solid in paladin because of the legendary spell.

[@kingbling7571]

Mothership with berylium mechathun 1/4 windfury n coppertail imposter is a 20/23 stealth windfury

[@BunnyChamberX]

Proud Father's flavour gives me pixar level feels for a damn card and thats pretty cool

[@NoESanity]

11:45 Thing you seemed to miss about the mothership... it magnetizes all mechs not just mechs with magnetize. So this could be used to get some non-magnet buffs, like bulldozer or molchmuncher.

[@Cadrid]

That Big Mac quip was great. Even in Imaginary Hearthstone World it's impossible for Trump to avoid Jen's snarky humor.

[@shazzakip2]

"Echo is only witchwood so 1 star for design" Wat What are you doing

[@LioLemur]

11:50 I love you Jens

[@faisal_xx3779]

We all do...

[@jaeusa160]

Is "Army of the Frozen Aisle" a typo (supposed to be isle) or a pun in that you find Fishsticks and Fish Filets in the frozen aisle of a grocery store?

[@visoth7791]

That murloc engine card is probably the coolest card I've seen in ages. Wish Blizz would print that. It even counters murloc decks in case murloc gets out of hand.

[@Liverator]

Lol, I love the "nuclear launch detected" from starcraft!!!"

[@doublechindoge7]

What I'm surprised I haven't seen yet is a custom card with a reverse can't be targeted by spells or hero powers. I'd really like to see that. Like a card immune to random targetting and board clears. A "This can only be damaged by targetted attacks and effects" would be cool, especially a swarmy late-game card, because due to board clears swarmy late-game cards based on stats cannot be good without an ability like that. Like, what about this: 7 Mana 3-2 Battlecry: Summon 2 copies of this minion. This can only be damaged by targetted attacks and effects maybe that needs to be rebalanced, idk... You could also make it conditional and you get more copies depending on how many times you fulfill that condition if you wanted to spice it up...

[@olivetom1599]

2/3 makes it less OP

[@doublechindoge7]

@@olivetom1599 I see your point but would people run a 7 6-9 even with the immunity to board clear and random targetting? I more watch HS than play it, but I feel it wouldn't see play unless it was a 7 9-6... I see what you mean tho...

[@olivetom1599]

I guess since you can buff the card with monotargetting buffs and creatures, The remaining 3/2 & 3/2 would be too much of a threat for a tech card. It would require testing though to be sure :p

[@luliby2309]

Sherlock Holmes designs were way underrated. Generous Spirit was too. Making Spirit a 1 mana 1/1 with those abilities would edge out over Enchanted Raven. The Mothership could not cost less than 10. The fact that you can make such an obscenely strong creature with potential protection means it would be dangerous and overpowered if it cost less.

[@iBasheveryone]

I don't think of a 1 mana 2/2 as a good card, and it wouldn't do anything for the meta right now or at any time. Charlock is fun. They wouldn't make cards like that anymore now that adventures are gone, and that's a shame. I also think he assessed based on whether we'd see the character in Hearthstone. Probably not.

[@iBasheveryone]

"The fact that you can make such an obscenely strong creature with potential protection means it would be dangerous and overpowered if it cost less." Shudderlock/Watering Lady meta.

[@luliby2309]

Uh, what? 1 mana 2/2 with flexibility to be a buff for fast damage is quite good. Enchanted Raven saw play in the past and there's been Token Druid hanging around for a while now which could use it. And why wouldn't they make cards like Charlock without adventures? They can still design what they want, it's just delivered through an expansion and not an adventure. Not to mention, they wouldn't make cards "like that" anymore...what do you mean by "like that"? Also, Shudderwock has been a point of contention since being released and could arguably be nerfed if it warped the meta too much. Dreampetal Florist is not exactly the same thing. She's only 4/4 in stats, so she's easily removed, and she's more of ramp to allow a combo rather than a massive and maybe immediately game winning threat if opponent has no removal. Mothership's presence would even mean watching to never make a mech with charge or some ability to do direct damage, so the danger is there. It's like how Shudderwock's presence means every Shaman battlecry has to be watched carefully.

[@iBasheveryone]

You sound like someone who's seen the cards, rather than someone who's played the game. There isn't much to explain, but here it goes. Everything in this game is a one shot meta at the moment, and must compete with a one shot meta. To be viable, you must have that minimum power level to be competitive, and balance ratings would be affected on that standard. Everything has to judged on that level because the power level of cards for every class is at the point where that is always possible. Druid? Pogo Rogue? Emeriss? There is literally a stronger version of this card in every way right now, and that is Boomship. So my final classification of it is as 'fair', rather than 'overwhelmingly strong'. I've praised this card in other comments for keeping to the theme more than cards we've actually got in Boomsday, but that's nothing to do with praising the design of the card for it's power level, which is useless reddit circlejerking. I dislike filler cards. You're giving a lot of praise for what is essentially a mole. Just because it's used, doesn't mean that it'd mean anything for it's meta. It'd have as much impact as any powercreeped stat card for 1. For fastness, it is literally a Sergeant. Let's not pretend it's anything but a 2/2 in stats that already exists in many cards before it. Yeah, I can describe these cards as 'decent if they existed'. Is it possible they would? Yes, because most cards in packs are filler and Blizzard is fine with that stuff. Are they good design? No.

[@iBasheveryone]

I like Charlock but I don't think having a character like him is likely because it'd take too much to explain. There are legendaries that are characters right now, but Charlock is too over the top and I wouldn't see him fitting into a set (these were designed for the Boomsday set). I could see him in a set that fit him, and I imagine that because he seems like something that would be fun. For the purposes of Blizzard's design philosophy however, he is a multistep, underpowered legendary that has mechanics that don't fit in with any pushed meta, and it's not just because the expansion wasn't released yet that someone wouldn't know that. I wouldn't mind him having a different (mechanical) relationship with Wattson either. I do miss legendaries with decent stats.

[@travelkingable]

Mothership can magnetize even mechs without magnetize, that might get her out of hand

[@AstorThalis]

Well, I got a good laugh at that Big Mac. Thank you Jens.

[@minimg6725]

Woo more custom cards! I’ve been really into your videos recently past week or two and some new content I want to watch is amazing! Keep up your great style and everything man

[@marker9196]

Drop the Bombs: I think the best way this card would work would be just to make it a Hunter card, then it can serve the dual purpose of a delayed board clear as well as being a method for activating your deathrattle mechs, when you think about it, Warrior really doesn't have much incentive to destroy their own minions a lot of the time while many Hunter archtypes do revolve around finding activators for your deathrattle minions. Proud Father/Firstborn Son: Yeah, agree with you, this card is pretty good as it is. Fish King: I'm not sure how out of hand this kind of card could get outside of a Murloc deck but within one this could very easily spiral out of control (but the same can be said of most Murloc cards in general). Charlock/Wattson: The main problem with these are that they are too fragile (as you noted) as well as the fact that they both cost 3 mana (the same as most secrets), I would say you could get away with buffing the stats of them and raising their mana cost to 4 and 5, give them a bit more staying power (and thus be more likely to have an effect) along with making it more likely you'll have a secret on the board to protect them when they come out. Majordomo Executus: Big problem I can foresee with this card, how would it work with the legendary minion version or if you play another hero card? Would it be possible to become Ragnaros twice? (effectively acting as a heal) Would playing a hero card trigger the Majordomo hero deathrattle (since you've technically 'killed' the hero and displaced them with another one, similar to how equipping a weapon 'kills' the previous one you had) or would the deathrattle simply be transferred over to your new hero? (effectively turning this card into a deferred Ice Barrier). A lot of things would need to be clarified with this card as it could result in a lot of very confusing interactions. Generous Spirit: It's alright, nothing too much to say about it, seems like the kind of thing Blizzard would print, actually. Overclock: Admittedly, it kind of annoys me that Blizzard keep coming up with so many mechanics that are interesting (such as Inspire, Echo and Magnetize) that simply get abandoned, you would have imagined that with the popularity of Odd and Even decks (that do use hero powers quite frequently) that Inspire would have been a natural fit for that style of deck etc. Omega Thrall: Yeah, agree with your assessment on this one. Mothership: There are combinations of mechs that could work with this, the Beryllium Nullifier, for example, although it would suffer from the main weakness that Magnetize minions do of being huge targets for silence (although that is the risk of the mechanic). Celestial Giant: I see no reason why this couldn't follow the pattern of other giants of costing only 8 mana, actually getting 8 spellpower to stay on the board (or playing it and having both giants in your hand) is a difficult enough set-up that I wouldn't say this is any more or less valid a card design than the other giants. Murloc Engineer: It's a decent anti-Murloc card, sort of like a crab that keeps on eating.

[@jords382]

Its good to see this outro back, I had to go to great depth to figure out how he made that awesome outro, video from an anime I've watched but would never have realized. Music from donkey kong, and on top of that a dance from space dandy with face tracking trumps face on it. That sort of work is impressive he can keep reusing it as long as he wants imo.

[@jords382]

for people who care, the anime is Pop Team Epic

[@AllStarAMV]

Really glad to see you're still doing these, this is one of my favorites series. Also, I joined the subreddit so I'll be on here soon enough :D

[@Junebug89]

Eyyy I recognize the art of overclock. It's the mad kings clocktower from gw2! Also that downrate for echo c'mon... it's just shorthand for the effect. I actually think it's pretty cool.

[@kennethokubo3435]

Mothership looks like it could work with the warrior mechs. The rovers and beryllium nullifier would make the minion just have all these passive effects while being very difficult to kill.

[@majordomoexecutus1448]

7:56 I absolutely love this card. Idk why.

[@CuriousMoth]

8:40 Oh hey, it's the Mad King's clocktower. Damn I can't wait for Halloween now.

[@DanilegoPlays]

5:25 wow, this card would be such good flavor in Castle Nathria

[@ninjocswtf5833]

4:11 thé murloc chaman hero also gets fully healed

[@Mejido]

Love the reddit reviews. Keep it up! 👍👍

[@ModrunOfficial]

i dislike some ways the rating works. 1. just because a blizzard isnt going to use a term in the future doesnt mean the card desing is bad. unless you rename the series to custom future printable cards of the week or something. 2. copy pasta comment cos too tired to formulate my own sentence: I absolutely hate the way you justify your ratings. You barely dictate a difference between design and balance. Often you state a balance reason for a design score and vise versa. Super inconsistent.

[@newpgaston6891]

4:50 I hate Lich King for the same reason. Sometimes it gives you an unplayable card (would hurt you more than it helps) and sometime it wins you the game on the spot. Big RNG swings are the worst.

[@arraneon7982]

For the first legendary card you reviewed we could change it to something like this :"target mechs, neutral, murloc, dragon, beast minions at random".

[@TomJerry12933]

using supercolider on proud father is thematic in that its incredibly effective yet equally morbid

[@richard-pv4ff]

that gw2 art on overclock... damn i hated that jumping puzzle at first

[@MenardiChan]

I thought, I was the only one to notice, phew :D

[@OptimalTronal]

I can think of a rework to fix the Mothership a bit. Instead of recruiting mechs, you discover 2 or 3 (cant decide if 3 is too strong) mechs and magnetize them on to the mothership. Don't know whether the base stats/mana cost should change based on this. This rework fixes the problem of not drawing the mechs you want to magnetize. You get to keep the mechs as well since you discover them and this somewhat mitigates removal like silences or sap/banish.

[@RenzZlax]

Hes forgetting that the mother ship in mech paladin is insane. If you get zilliax with anything its insane and it can come back with kangor’s. Also annoy o module could also make it an extremely big and annoying taunt

[@mr.paperbag771]

One keyword *silence*

[@iBasheveryone]

I don't think he forgot. Recruit isn't consistent. I think he thought of it in the context of Kangor's. All these effects like recruit mechs and magnetise mechs aren't consistent, because the counters are prevalent and easy. I think anything less than 5 stars design isn't accurate though.

[@iBasheveryone]

I don't think having magnetise be powerful enough to the point where you have to play removal for it, instead of silence and hex, is a bad thing. Yeah, you can put Beryllium Nullifier on it. No, this isn't a bad thing. EMP Tech is a bit direct but I don't really think it's bad to have. Recruit, however, is very rarely fun past the times you see big things put on the board quickly the first few times considering how easily it can be messed up, especially by late game.

[@RenzZlax]

iBasheveryone i see where youre coming from, but i thought that when a silenced magnetized minion dies they still keep the magnetize affects. Idk i still believe the mothership is still good, maybe not 5 stars but definitely not what he gave it in terms of balance Edit: came back did some research and did find out that silence does in fact erase the magnetize affect. So yes now i would say i agree with trumps rating

[@Kurliston]

The interesting part of the mothership to me is that it allows to magnetize non magnetic mechs

[@Gingenus]

Overclock would be very op I think. if you make a minion immune for a turn with deathspeaker, and then use the rest of your mana, that’s like, a lot

[@TheMouseMasterYT]

Ok, so... do you do these edits ad-hoc, or does Trump instruct you to them? because I can see you doing them yourself, and then showing them to trump to get his opinion, and him seeing the Big-Mech plug and cracking up. I can see it... on the next episode of "Trump reacts"

[@feelmypuddle4963]

Overclocked would more than likely lead to a powerful miracle hunter. 1 mana echo with gadget seems strong

[@infernalz1337]

Murloc Fueled Engine would be sick if you magnetized a zilliax onto it, then had it keep eating murlocs to get stronger, with divine shield it would probably eat at least 3 mulocs before it could be removed, by minions anyway.

[@KrazzyKazza42]

one thing you didn't mention with Mothership is that you can summon venomizer and missile launcher (or w/e/ it's called) with it, which is cute if nothing else

[@Gingenus]

The mothership could get 2 Bull Dozers and Zilliax. OP

[@TheOblomoff]

Overclock - have 3-4 durable mechs on the board and next turn you spend 5 mana to hit for 15 more. Seems balanced (not) At the very least it should have costed 2. Yes, there's a risk of killing your stuff - but you hit with your one health mechs before playing another one. But wait you say, doesn't bloodlust do the same thing, just for fixed +3 damage, no need for mech tribe and no damage to minions? Sort of, but overclock is in hunter, and we definitely don't need huge burst spells in tier 2-3 or whatever mech hunter. Plus overclock would have been super flexible, maybe even the most flexible card in the game (disregarding the need to run mech tribe with it)

[@xWeazR]

11:52 Hahaha, that killed me.

[@AMageOldAsDirt]

I was kinda ticked off he stopped and I immediately got three top 5 cards in one week, glad it's back, can't wait to see my cards

[@lnsatiabie4364]

At the end of your turn, summon a minion with cost equal to your overloaded mana crystals. Would be a cool shaman hero card passive hero power.

[@Begeru]

I'm not sure why you would give Drop the Bombs 1 star in design? You admit it's very creative and interesting, I think that warrants more than 1 star right? Also The Mothership with Beryllium Nullifier would be very strong.

[@MrDragonorp]

charlock should put elementary when a secret is being put on board, and then you can get a lot of discovered card for like 9 mana which is charlock, watt-on, a secret. its balanced and fun flavored

[@coopypoopy7500]

Mothership - Zilliax, Beryllium Nullifier, Replicat-o-tron.

[@gtacazador]

I honestly never take Trump ratings seriously. Plenty of expansions have already shown he's 99% of the time wrong about those lmao, but it's still really really interesting to hear the logic behind his arguments.

[@MrDragonorp]

i can see the mothership in a mechathun deck,you are down you card and than you magentize the remaing card to it, also i think that you can add "all mechs can be magnetize to this mothership" and than it would be pretty good

[@akaliislifeakaliislove5968]

I seriouslу have watched this video like 5 times alreadу just to laugh when Тrump saуs "What is an Omega Тhrall? everу single time

[@swiftdasher]

Mothership would absolutely see play, but it'd need to pull Beryllium Nullifier. It'd also make Mechathun hilarious.

[@blakearius]

Fish king would be great if it was just a battlecry, and maybe murloc in hand for effect.

[@zekkdraws]

The first card it didn’t specify enemy minions, maybe you can target your own mechs

[@tricksterking9490]

The ratings are so inconsistent, I think we need more categories

[@spongeb27]

I feel like he looks at balance too much when looking at design. It's kinda... Why even have two columns when you're saying cards are poorly designed because they're not powerful enough? Give it a 5 star design and a 1 star balance if it's a good concept but underpowered, don't dock design points for balance 🤔

[@laszlojusztin949]

I see people saying that he is inconsistent with how he rates, but I can't really see why. I think he is pretty consistent.

[@KingSolomonJedidiah]

Who else is in love with his outro?

[@ndarkk]

I haven't watched Trump in a while... But this outro fucking kills me lol, that being said glad to see this series is back

[@jamescrowe8069]

Looking back on this, theres a boomsday card with echo now.

[@theodor3800]

How about a separate rating for flavour i.e.you rate for flavour, design and balance? In my opinion flavour is an important aspect of custom cards

[@digal321]

Mothership could be good as a big non target taunt with something like foe reaper

[@shaneguzman2144]

The Mothership magnetized with Zilliax, Beryllium Nullifier, and Bulldozer = a 10 mana 20/22 mech minion with rush, life steal, taunt, divine shield, and "can't target with spells or hero power"...basically an active The Darkness card that gains you 20 health...OP OP

[@reye_bruh]

You need to get to ten Mana,and then it's a win more card, and in the match ups it's not a win more card it it will just get removed. It's quite bad anyway. Could see it played if it just recruited the mechs dou. I dunno

[@shaneguzman2144]

Its a savior card if you're on the brink of losing...and it can only get removed if the divine shield is broken and a poison minion attacks it Even then, that's already a 40 health restoration in one turn

[@vladimirhorejs3412]

Trump: "And then you play the Shutter wick 6 times." Me: "Are you fucking kidding me! How! How would Shaman do that!"

[@vittoriosavian9964]

But the celestial giant is an Eldrich ( eldrazi ) from magic?

[@2far774]

Love these videos so much trump, do more please :)

[@BIGhappyG33]

What if The Mothership recruits Beryllium Nullifier?

[@stampfertnilpfert4485]

Omega thrall. Stronger thrall?

[@CameronDauler]

7:29, fam, why isn’t majordomos hero perk summon a 1/3

[@somehuman1901]

You need to tell us how you would fix the cards it’s my fav part

[@MazorKuziaki]

Hi I'm Trump, and I rate cards' designs based on their balance!

[@samu_make_game]

9:20 - SN1P-SN4P has joined the chat

[@kikuc3919]

Much love for Starcraft nuclear launch reference

[@Eegor0920]

Why not :Mothership 10 Mana 5/5 Battlecry : Recruit 3 Mechs and Magnetize them to this minion. Deathrattle : Re-summon any Mechs magnetized to this minion.

[@definetlynotsupp]

that Big Mac Ad caught me ^^

[@adamxue6096]

Celestial giant is an Eldrazi titan XD Think it is Ulamog...

[@TheIronDrapery]

8:40 The Mad Kings Clocktower.

[@27245adri]

11:52 such a bad but cool Joke ! :D

[@eliya.iguess4579]

magnetize zilliax on a big mech, im lovin' it

[@SixCubitMan]

Trump seriously underestimated Mothership. If it eats 1-2 beryllium nullifiers and just about anything else, you suddenly have a drastically overstated minion that's basically indestructible barring one-shot AOE. This think is a brutal endgame play for warrior.

[@lolialf]

that random mcdonald moment made me laugh so hard

[@trevbequick]

Proud father should be over statted a bit, then summon the 1/2 firstborn which if dies, kills the proud father but if proud father dies first it gives firstborn +/+

[@Kalo_]

I hate how Trump decides his design ratings lol "This is really interesting, but *any minute thing* so 1 star" Yikes.

[@jemsuper]

The mechs summoned from the mothership don't need to have magnetize....

[@Some-Dingus]

Mothership would be good if you discovered the mechs

[@nahfamalam3]

Wait, the murloc fuled engine would trigger at the end of each turn. So you would have 3/4 mech that could snowball ridiculously if your opponent played murlocs.

[@tadeus1457]

Im new to this series and I think he rates design diffrent than I. But I dont like that the proud father summons a firstborn son since you can double a battlecry. It just doesnt make sense to have two firstborn sons

[@tadeus1457]

but good idea in generell. (no hate)

[@Ghostone11]

now i wish the fish king card existed.