TOP CUSTOM CARDS of the Week #42 | Card Review | Hearthstone

[@stormrage19901]

To be fair on the Dr.Boom, he did make the boomship, the boom reaver, boom bots, and his mech suit. So he would be a Master Builder

[@jamaalcooper225]

Yup. Good comment, beat me to it.

[@xuklysc]

the solution would be to add boombot's deathrattle to the mechs for flavour (this way dr boom is, basically, incorporating bombs to mechs, totally lore flavourful) and, somehow, nerf it, like instead of legendary mechs, 3 or fewer cost mechs or something like thas

[@djrekin7312]

Simple change - Remove all bombs from your opponent's deck. Summon a 1/1 boom bot for each bomb removed. Boom, fixed

[@Fwckthemall]

@@djrekin7312 so..like the already existing legendary but 10 times worse?

[@exantiuse497]

And the Hero card creates mechs with the hero power (the three 1/1s and discovery). Just because his minion cards deal with bombs doesn't mean that's all he does

[@alexandremendes7475]

Why wouldn't Doctor Boom build the legendary mechs when in the lore he actually build Zilliax and The Boom Reaver?

[@moosegoose3159]

In the lore, he is just some goblin who has lots of bombs in Netherstorm. You can't compare Hearthstone and WoW lore.

[@FizzleDrizzleYuh]

@@moosegoose3159 But this is Hearthstone, not WoW.

[@Slaanash]

@@moosegoose3159 ...But this IS Hearthstone? He built Zilliax and Boom Reaver in Hearthstone, not WoW.

[@alexandremendes7475]

@@moosegoose3159 But I was talking about the Hearthstone lore

[@kuro13wolf]

@@moosegoose3159 "You can't compare Hearthstone and WoW lore. " Oh the irony

[@NoOneAnymore520]

1:37 It lacks... SAY IT.. Creativity to play with. NOOOO LACKEYS! IT LACKS LACKEYS!

[@goRoberth]

T H E B O M B M A N

[@TeddyTentacle]

I felt the same way

[@djrekin7312]

8:25 Yogg wasn't hall of famed... he was nerfed and he rotated out

[@aymonverheij1863]

yeah i was so confused when he said that but you schould move the time stamp to 8:25

[@djrekin7312]

@@aymonverheij1863 wdym 😉

[@aymonverheij1863]

@@djrekin7312 lol

[@eddyhypnotizer2481]

Fucking lmafo

[@Fusrodog]

Yogg did nothing wrong, people just get salty from the times he was good.

[@LEMURJJP]

Incorporating gambling themes would be looked down upon? So the whole random packs gambling things doesn't count?

[@plus9775]

It's just gambling with extra steps

[@djrekin7312]

Its a card game, so the entire premise of a card game is the random cards from packs. If what you are implying was correct, there wouldn't be any card game out there (or at least not in the form we know them today). Hearthstone is accualy preatty f2p friendly so you never get to the point where you MUST buy packs with real money. I kinda understand what you are implying but i highly disagree

[@exantiuse497]

@@djrekin7312 He didn't say Hearthstone should be illegal, on the contrary he said the game already has pseudo-gambling mechanics and hasn't gotten into trouble so adding a "gamble" card shouldn't cause any issues either

[@LordHypnos4]

@@djrekin7312 The entire premise of a card game is to play cards, only because of the business model of certain intellectual properties has gambling been introduced. When you buy a normal pack of cards in real life (for poker or other such), you know exactly what you're getting, what changes is how you play with the cards. In order for card games to make more money however, they introduced gambling. Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh, Hearthstone, you're only familiar with card games being about opening packs because you're used to their business model of giving you random rewards so you are incentivized to buy more and more packs. That is otherwise known as gambling, and it isn't necessary for card games, its the easiest and most tried and true way for companies to extract more money from you. There are card games you can play that aren't about random rewards but about the replayability of the cards and the interactions they have together. Slay the Spire is a great example of this. I'm not really against the practice, but if you have to be 18 or 21 to gamble I don't know why companies get to target kids with gambling like card packs. This extends to loot boxes too

[@thegoodoldays911]

@@djrekin7312 But that's wrong though. I own several card games where you just buy the game and you just get the game.

[@NataliaNeko]

Scrap Crab, more like SN1P-SN4P

[@johnnyw4607]

S A T A N A It wasn’t released yet

[@lyreanaladylight7666]

Thanks so much for reviewing my Emerald Pixie, Trump! You're right about a pixie doesn't have enough connection with Ysera, quite some people talked about that in the subreddit comments as well. I'll be more careful about things like that in the future. 😜

[@placeholder6974]

Hi, are you still making custom cards? I tried to look up your username in the video to see if you had any more but couldn't find you

[@WolfBergMenace]

Summoning Ysera for Druid makes more sense than Ragnaros for Mage.

[@lolosh99]

Summoning ragnaros for druids makes more sense then for mages (because the whole druid of the flame stuff)

[@dardelius9648]

@@lolosh99 What About shaman, who, you know, is known for using elemental powers and mostly consists of calling the elements to assist him?

[@lolosh99]

Dardelius yeah but would the full of himself proud ragnaros “assist” a shaman ? I dont think he would willingly soo in mage it makes sense since mages enslave the elementals to do their bidding (but it makes more sense in druid)

[@Skullhawk13]

lolosh99 Mages Don’t enslave elementals, and even if they did that’s ONLY water elementals and only for frost mages, fire elementals are summoned by shaman, and point of fact Ragnaros’s successor answered the call of a mortal shaman. But more to the point, Ragnaros was summoned by Emperor Thorissin ((spelled that wrong)) who was a mage. So the lore fits the class. The real issue is a troll loa summoning Ragnaros.

[@EonaLieksCheese]

Not really. Mages summoning ragnaros follows the wow lore

[@Evil-lf8sh]

Imagine paying 3 mana for a secret This post was made by the kabal lackey gang

[@RazorOfArtorias]

You're right. My idea with EVIL Invocator was designing a card that with the next two expansions you have more Lackey generators (I'm expecting a new Class Lackey generator for each EVIL Class + Neutral ones) to create a solid base for running even 2 copies of the Invocator.

[@xhantTheFirst]

It's not impossible either that next expansion the "good" classes get class lackey generation too

[@SkyeWint]

Hey, also, your card doesn't have crazy combo potential. It just seems like a way to get rid of lackeys and make bigger bodies, added to another reasonably large body. I think it's actually a lot better than Darkest Hour, balance-wise. And, I don't think Trump really considered how the actual effect of the two are *very* different.

[@christopherlundgren1700]

@@SkyeWint I was thinking that too. I wish that they'd make a card more like this instead of Darkest Hour. That card is stupid.

[@andreasstewart2197]

How about calling it "VILE invocator" for some extra design points? Edit: Cus you're transforming lackeys into demons - transforming EVIL into VILE

[@ilyarudnitskiy8122]

Don't get it

[@ΒηταΙσοβιτης]

@@ilyarudnitskiy8122 lol

[@aellin-jz9el]

Nah, invocator should be LIVEMUFFIN

[@Shero1337]

That edit at 14:00 so smooth it looks like nobody here in the comments actually noticed it!

[@trevorstewart7081]

Lmao good catch "SEVen mana"

[@ILFarin]

Sneaky Jens (and Trump)! Thought you could get away with covering up the blooper where trump got the number wrong at 14:01 xD

[@KlousePlayer]

He got it right, added 1 mana because it generates a card (2 cards in 1)

[@ILFarin]

@@KlousePlayer ok maybe. I just noticed the short audio clip of saying number was obviously added in

[@KlousePlayer]

@@ILFarin ye didnt notice that

[@exantiuse497]

8:25 "Yogg Saron got Hall of Famed because it was too extreme"? What, no. Yogg didn't get HoF'd, it got nerfed, and it wasn't because the RNG was too extreme but because the card was too strong. Did Trump really forget how it went?

[@AfricanRituals]

I think he was probably getting yogg confused with rag

[@justinhanna9152]

What no the card wasn't too strong it was strong enough to be competitive in a way that blizzard didn't like

[@obesechicken13]

@@justinhanna9152 Most people didn't like that competitive games came down to coinflips.

[@solarblast5959]

So I'm the only one who found it fucking hilarious to watch Yogg release all hell Sadlyfe

[@decycle2912]

5:23 if you keep the card on your opening hand, it won't transform on the first turn, like shifting scrolls.

[@purpleblah2]

How would you discover a weapon in a class that doesn't have weapons in standard? You can only discover within your class unless otherwise specified, also even in wild, discovering a weapon in like priest or mage or warlock would be just one sad, legendary weapon popping up.

[@lifetake3103]

Well if we were to base it on effects like revive priest when you have no dead friendly minions. Nothing happens.

[@0IIIIII]

Another example of trash card design

[@pokemonmaster6016]

Well, hydrologist discovers a paladin secret for non-secret classes. It would probably just discover a random weapon from any class

[@purpleblah2]

But it's a neutral card, so it would only discover from your class.

[@pokemonmaster6016]

Chairman Meow Uhhh then how do you explain stonehill defender?

[@kazuya9288]

Introduce gambling? what do you think buying card packs is lol

[@LordHypnos4]

@TjosTDings I consider 25 dust to be as close to nothing as to merit the term gambling. Besides if your goal is a specific card you will keep buying packs. It's not unheard of to spend hundreds of dollars on this game

[@Nukepositive]

@Jack Reaver It's kind of like if casinos gave you tokens that could be used every once in a while to buy the exact poker hand you wanted. It makes it a very different game, then.

[@tortoise-chan]

he means gambling imagery, i.e. slot machines and other casino related things, may not be seen as age appropriate

[@magesmax9851]

Jack Reaver this is hilarious to me 😂

[@ShaneshaS]

Edwin Jackson gambling is only gambling when you can win, or bet {money} If you were “gambling” with stones, for sticks, then it wouldn’t be gambling.

[@rickard7031]

What you forgot to mention about Herbert, Highest Roller is that rolling "Discover" and "weapons" wouldn't work on a lot of classes. Unless you would discover a weapon from any class?

[@Movie_edits111]

Already this card is unplayable it's pure crap coz there is 27 scenario and there is only 12 good ones so u have 44% chance to get a "good" result

[@hypethekomodo6495]

The Dr. Boom card really bothers me, just because "boom" and "builder" are lowercase. Yeah, there's the actual mechanics, but that bothers me the most.

[@azteranzo]

You are not alone

[@МихаилПенев-ф6с]

The description of shield toss should be YEET

[@purpleblah2]

Hamuul Runetotem could turn Ancient of War in a 15/5, 5/15, or 10/10 because it doesn't transform, just add stats on.

[@DylDoe_xD]

The shadow agent card is actually great, the effect and battlecry are useful both times you play the card, especially if the shadowform upgrades like it would if casting the card!

[@newpgaston6891]

4:40 About Dr Boom being out of flavor because he builds... I haven't played WoW so I don't know about the lore, but does Ragnaros converts to the light at some point? Because if he doesn't, would you also takes lots of design stars out for a card that was actually printed, Ragnaros Lightlord?

[@0IIIIII]

newp gaston Ragnaros the Lightlord was printed in a set with an alternate reality. So it’s ok for him to be a LightLord

[@NightWing1800]

newp gaston There actually is a lore precedent. The light does actively convert creatures into Lightbound versions. So for that alternate timeline, its not completely outlandish. Its just whether or not the Naru could do that, and given how it was sure it could convert Illidan it probably could.

[@SuperBBQgaming]

Trump, I think you miss the point of the highest roller, it's intentionally weak as the creator said, it's just meant to be a non competitive fun card people can play in decks like casino mage.

[@eriks1765]

Yeah, like the old Mayor Noggenfogger was

[@rodlopes4327]

Yeah but to have fun you have to sometimes get some cool effect out of the card, even if sometimes. Drawing or discovering is just meh.

[@thegoodoldays911]

It would be more fun if it wasn't as high risk low reward as it is. It doesn't have particularly interesting results either.

[@ace_jaye]

With the shifting mercenary, why not make it say “at the end of your turn, if this is in your hand, transform into a random lackey” because then you can’t play it on turn 1 but you still keep the overall flavour of the card

[@0IIIIII]

Because the card is trash and will never be printed

[@DiZz147]

This Scrab Crab looks kinda familiar...

[@paulmayaux5313]

I believe you missed the point on the gamble guy, its not only the top row that gets activated, its all three. So you would get 2 of the three activated, meaning you could discard 2 cards and draw one, discover 2 cards discard one etc (of the specified type of course). so it would be pretty cool, but it does indeed lack some flashiness

[@GubbiGap]

That last one reminds me of the 3 mana 4/3 that lets you play a free secret. That one is strong, but doesn't seem too bad and this one also gives your opponent the information of what secret it is. I feel like that sounds more fair, but idk?

[@roppis9258]

My problem for the design of Shifting Mercenary is that your opponent has no knowledge if you have a Lackey. So far the only way to get a Lackey has been to play a card which clearly says "Add a Lackey to your hand". It's impossible for your opponent to play around it unlike with all other Lackey generation cards.

[@riccardodellorto4267]

that's not a real problem

[@panPompa]

Playing around 1 mana "card" is not that important tbh, the effect is so minor that enemy can always have something similar to dealing 1 damage or so that a lackey would provide.

[@Slaanash]

8:35 Yogg wasn't HoF'd, his battlecry was changed so it ended if he was transformed or destroyed.

[@ヴァイス-m2p]

Dr.Boom build Zilliax and Boom Reaver tho.

[@gamagosh11]

SLAAAAAVE, GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!

[@MrRicklion]

13:58 SEVEN xD Love that editing.

[@itsrudetostare673]

I could see scrap crab being played since zilliax is so common, a 6 mana 5/5 rush taunt lifesteal is pretty nice.

[@Thugzor-uk6wb]

The illustration for shadow agent is a magic card called augur il-vec.

[@dragosprodan889]

Sad foe reaper moment 4:48

[@samueltom4044]

And now scrap crabs art is used!

[@DefinitelyNotJerry5]

12:54 *I would prefer cast pyroblasts for both heroes until one is dead*

[@iDeathSparky]

Why both heroes? Pyroblast can target anything, enemy or friendly

[@DanilegoPlays]

It's funny seeeing the snip snap card art here, I didn't know the art was shown as an "unused art" before the card was revealed

[@professormohawk1]

Runetotem lets you play a transform minion, so it can take a snipe on its high health form, and then switch to the rush/charge form and go for lethal

[@theomniscientomnipotent5988]

Yogg Saron didn't get Hall of famed. It got nerfed so that if it died or was removed it wouldn't cast anymore but it stayed in until rotations

[@maurice4348]

Correct me if I'm wrong. But I believe all they said was that they'd be adding more lackeys to the pool. Meaning the current lackey generation cards esentially get a wider pool as the year progresses but it doesn't have to mean that they're going to print more lackey generators. Also warlock flavour is a joke in this expansion anyway, transforming your deck into random legendaries? EVIL Invocator seems far closer to the warlock soul than blizzards own cards do this expansion

[@snowyfoxs7297]

7:30 dammm shadow agent is rated 6 stars as balance

[@SeriousGranade]

I actually find the idea of Dr. Boom, Master Builder a little bit interesting in that it reminds me of the theme of Whispers of the Old Gods where some evil characters become their good counterparts, like Ragnaros, the Lightlord.

[@fergusgraem3625]

12:00 what if you have this minion, fandral and the new 2/3 legendary (forgot the name) on the board and you cast a choose one card. Can't figure what will happen

[@azteranzo]

I think only Hamuul will trigger becuase the other cards only affect Choose One, and Hamuul makes them Choose Twice, which is a different Keyword.

[@Nerdnumberone]

For certain cards (not sure how many are still in standard) giving your opponent a secret can be beneficial.

[@XemnasKH]

The wording of shield toss means you don't HAVE to spend armor to get the damage. If that should be the case, it should read: "Spend 2 armor to deal 2 damage"

[@2011supergamer]

6:27 I would have docked points for design, since minions that cast a specific spell should describe what the spell is in parenthesis like Lady in White

[@SuperSymn]

we are always almost cought up

[@jocem0097]

One could say Warlock currently lacks the Lackeys

[@aciarduce]

The High Roller Goblin. I could see it better implemented as a face down discover mechanic where you choose one and get that first effect, and then do it again for the 2nd. Kinda like the old make your spell selection. Also with that stat line, I would almost say get RID of the discard option and go with something else. I would never seriously pay 5 for a 2/3 that could make me discard 2 cards..... maybe in certain 'Lock decks maybe? I know that gamble includes risk of failure, but the card isn't a risk of failure atm. There's no gamble there.

[@UrienOld]

There are so many mistakes in this video...

[@nicholasligtenberg6617]

Not all EVIL cards added lackeys to your hand, EVIL recruiter destroyed a lackey to summon a 5/5 demon which is very similar to the EVIL Invocator

[@The3lolek]

With the Highest Roller card it would also be a design problem from the stand point of "discovering weapons" on classes that don't have any weapons, that would just mean they either get nothing so that card would be incredibly bad in most classes or they would have to discover weapons from other classes which would make it too strong, its a big miss in my opinion, id nick one extra star from design for that one

[@The3lolek]

@@namelessliberty9869 we are talking about standard meta where at least half the classes has zero weapons right now, it would literally only work in wild and you could get 2 copies of twig of the world tree with it on druid if you highroll, on standard it's a gigantic design flaw

[@chrisnorskov877]

choose twice should work as the card says ex. druid of the claw: choose one - Charge; or +2 health and Taunt where the option to gain +2 health should stack.

[@rickhaavisto9023]

It would...

[@BronzeOrwin]

the "listen to trump nitpick at minor details" show

[@whYLiE09]

There's an entire reddit page that does that already. It's called "custom hearthstone"

[@keiganogrady7481]

The Emerald pixie is from ysera's realm and so if you used magic to heal you would attract a pixie, and if it was alot of magic then the pixie would summon ysera to cleanse it.

[@Magykk105]

I think the reason that scrap crab isn't a mech is because the crab is scrapping the mechs and making himself more powerful even though is just a normal crab

[@EDoyl]

Isn't Brandelmar's sole purpose to push the game towards a mindless game of biggery-numbery where you smush your warlock minions upwards into the enemy without worrying about interactions? Isn't the idea that that's terrible the reason they're so careful about adding silence cards?

[@CL-jq1xs]

Because without aggro you will have a who is luckier in drawing their combo faster meta

[@Maltesfilm]

Funny how he loves the new yogg card... guess he had a change of heart.

[@GmodErki]

I think it would be pretty cool if Trump reviewed basic cards

[@uranusnationalsecurityforc8788]

Hi I been watching several of your custom card videos and I think those cards are amazing, just one thing I want to ask, it’s lower the star means better? I saw those brilliant card been rated really low star and some bland card been rated really high( just my opinion)

[@crazylasagna3576]

Crazy and powerful effects are often bad balance or design. Just because it looks cool doesn’t mean it’d be a good card for hearthstone.

[@fergusgraem3625]

2:00 will there be more lackeys the next expansions? Thought it was just a one expansion think just like echo en adapt.... Thinking about it now that will be the case with twinspell

[@tobiaspause1775]

I think it transform completely into the lakey. So it will have that lakeys manacosts too.

[@draw2death421]

Umm... and Spinning a slot machine to win legendary, common or Rare cards isint gambling to you? Loot boxes are gambling and the game has plenty of those!

[@garynemis9041]

in highest roller, perhaps you could change discard to play.

[@jubeatrb5552]

Shifting Mercenary would also have a design problem because "good" classes should not be able to gain Lackeys.

[@L0LWTF1337]

Yogg was nerfed not Hall of Famed.

[@anthonypalumbo1057]

My thought is, should every class have access to counterspell? And I don't think they should.

[@Tubleorne]

Scrap Crab not being a Mech is just stopping it from degenerate plays where you scrap crap an opponents mech, then he scrap crabs yours etc. It would just end in an unhealthy format where you have to run that card if you play mechs because people might play it against you. So the way I see it, it's fine not being a mech.

[@placeadrien5566]

Yeah but in theory a mech can only be magnetized into another mech

[@somerandomdude3476]

Who else is watching this during Uldum? The druud card with 12 health seems way to overpowered right now

[@karllambert713]

Scrap crab Is a 6 mana mindcontrol that's a bit powerful when a lot of the top teir decks runs mechs

[@rickhaavisto9023]

Don’t run mechs...(taps forehead) This Card could never be overpowered...

[@eagleeye5189]

8:15 "Incorporating gambling into the game may change the rating" Lol, in a game where you pay for overpriced card packs with completely random results inside?

[@andyspendlove1019]

Drinking game: Take a shot every time he says "lackey."

[@gregsmw]

-1 off the design of pixie because there are no pixies in the warcraft universe

[@thechipster88chipster17]

There is a neutral pixie noob

[@Marceau.]

there are in the Emerald Dream

[@OneOfTheLoveless]

Finally One of the Custom Card Guys got that hamuul is a druid Not a shaman. 6* Design.

[@knottseli5057]

each turn this is in your hand effects are end of turn, so no you can't have the summon a 2 cost on your first turn

[@iliakatster]

Brambleback could also be a good backup to go w/ secret eating effects

[@ellaenalange9866]

For the pixie at 3:40 just make it Aessina and it would make the card a 5 star design

[@sweatymilk8590]

Am I the only one who thinks Hamuul would be crazy just with power of the wild in a token Druid? 2 mana give all minions +2/+2 kinda. You could argue it’s 7 mama give all minions +2/+2 with a 3/5 body with it but that still sounds kinda crazy too me.

[@josephward4918]

That's not too far off of Cenarius; it's 2 mana cheaper but takes two cards from your hand instead of just one. Archmage Vargoth with Blessing of the Ancients already does something close to that for 7 mana with a 2/6 body, and it even gives you two extra Twinspelled copies where Hamuul wouldn't give you any.

[@danielmeunier3898]

The evil invocator should be a 8 mana 6/6 with taunt and battlecry... add 2 random lackeys to your hand... and deathrattle.. destroy all lackeys.. Summon than many random demons.

[@tminusboom2140]

EVIL Invocator rework: Battlecry: Destroy your lackeys. For each one, discover a Lackey.

[@uberpownage3577]

Shifting mercenary wouldn't transform if you keep it in your opener so it would only ever be a 1/1 for 1 mana on turn 1. I assume same mechanics as spellshifter and it stays the 1/4 on your first turn.

[@AleskanderPog]

It's more akin to compare it to shifting scroll and shifter zerus, who do change into something on your opening turn

[@lethargictroll6788]

as far as shifting mercenary goes, blizzard gave priest the ability to play the one cost lackey that summons a random two cost on turn 1

[@substndard]

Hey trump you should make a seperate rating for some of us who play mostly wild

[@andrejoss475]

Shield toss is an epic because of the shield in the art

[@esadmujic6723]

But does counterspell counter brandlemars battle cry if it’s already in play for the opponent? I know it’s a minion casting it but it’s still a spell being cast by the opponent technically

[@dragonlogos1]

No counter-spell doesn’t activate on yogg or servant of yogg or the turtle caster. so it shouldn’t counter this

[@thegoodoldays911]

Yes the most explosive thing of all the amazon delivery drone and giant war mech. Like yeah his name is dr boom but he does do other things

[@NivMizzet89]

@10:31 I assume Scrap Crab isn't a Mech to prevent it from countering itself, especially with the 99 random mechs most mech decks can get. It can't really counter Mechs if Mechs can easily steal it back.

[@christopherlundgren1700]

I was looking to see if someone had picked up on this. The art definitely looks like a Mech, but if it was a real card it would be better to make it a Beast and conceptualize it as a giant crab that's collected mech parts to wear as a shell. As you say, if it's got the Mech tag, then the players are frequently going to get into crab fights where they just steal each others' giant mech over and over. That sounds funny the first couple times you see it, but it would get old pretty fast.

[@SwiftCatSteve]

Dr.Boom, Meta Killer Battlecry: Turn all mechs into bombs (wherever they are)

[@spukduk5632]

Foe reaper is also a legendary mech.

[@friczadam6322]

5:03 anyway in wild sneed old sreder?or the bigger harvest golem

[@MichaelGabrielR]

2:54 - Just name her "Shanalotte, Emerald Herald" XD

[@asheviere]

Haircut: 5 stars

[@samothran1998]

Sooo, is no one going to mention that inserted 7 in the audio at 14:02. Sounds like he said the wrong thing changed the audio

[@enestayyare192]

spending armor consept do have a potential actually

[@griffvideoman]

13:56 that random "SEVEN"

[@LordRydag]

Elder brandlemar is unbalanced because one player always has the coin, which negate one players counterspell.

[@ironmuro]

3:17 Ardenweald quest line prediction?

[@unforseenconsequense]

If scrap crab were a mech then mech decks would run it to counter the counter to them

[@ireacttoeverythingeverythi4833]

1:41 you forgot warlocks can discover a lackey!