TOP CUSTOM CARDS of the Week #43 | Card Review | Hearthstone

[@stevethebarbarian9876]

Am I Bluffing was my card, and I am truly proud.

[@ajohnymous282]

Stevethebarbarian that was my favorite well done on the design

[@Jack-el7iv]

Good job man

[@shaolinfang3520]

By far the coolest designed and best card on this video imho.

[@daanstrik4293]

Thats one of the best designed cards i have ever seen and I love it

[@braydenbuckle84]

Good job, Steve

[@newpgaston6891]

Hearthstone players: Odd warrior is so annoying, too much armor to go through for just 2 mana a turn! Also Hearthstone players: 3 mana gain 100 armor over the course of the game? LETS VOTE THIS TO THE TOP OF CUSTOM CARDS!

[@juanmatiasohara775]

newp gaston welcome to r/customhearthstone

[@liamtaylor9257]

Dr booms scheme lol

[@tgo1848]

Oh yeah that card that you can only use ONE time and you have to wait like 20 turns for 20 armor CLEARLY THE SAME

[@Thundrfox]

It’s almost like they love the creativity over the balance

[@crunchytoast6007]

sim sparck then you have to have a new armor counter that’s like phantom armor and if you’re going that far you are probably giving that feature to other classes and then it becomes a hassle

[@sora8711]

0:55 If the creator DID make it Twinspell, Trump would just shit on the design saying "Shaman is EVIL, it can't have Twinspell, it's a good guys effect!"

[@jeffthebiglizard8099]

Echo is probably more in line with the set as echo was shaman's returning mechanic

[@azalakhir918]

@@jeffthebiglizard8099 Really? they never printed a card with echo this set

[@jeffthebiglizard8099]

@@azalakhir918 the wording they used was "repeatable this turn" (witch's brew) but functionally they are the same

[@azalakhir918]

@@jeffthebiglizard8099 Yep. but its not echo. echo synergy cards doesnt work with it

[@derrilazkia1002]

@@jeffthebiglizard8099 not functionally the same. Echo cards that got Countered by Counter spell doesn't get back to your hand. Evolve and Witch's brew, on the other hand, does.

[@dimitrijeljotic6029]

6:29 Should be named "Malygos, while damaged"

[@earlgreen2030]

Man of culture, take my appreciation!

[@Mrcrazy80]

I... I miss when Enrage was a key-word... ; _ ;7 ; o ;7

[@Willowisp927]

Nah the card name is good. He is enraged because he is never gonna see play.

[@whYLiE09]

Ha I get it! Because they removed the enrage keyword! Clever!

[@N.Doughnut]

@@whYLiE09 dude you must be fun at parties

[@josholocko1132]

"3 Mana deal 4?! overpowered" *Right now they just printed a 3 mana 4, 1, rush minion, draw a rush minion from your deck. Which is arguably more powerful*

[@erwinmatys]

It's class card so i would say it's kinda on the same level current

[@antonkaagthorndahl4484]

And it's also a beast

[@marioruiz1530]

Also, “1 mana 1/1 taunt that discovers you a 3 mana or less taunt minion? Busted!!!” Saviors of uldum: warrior gets a 2 mana 2/2 taunt that discovers ANY taunt minion.

[@ГенийЖизни-л7ю]

Yeah the 1/1 taunt is definitely not overpowered. Put a dislike because of his bullshit rating. It is good,would be run in some decks,nut boy it is not fuckkng overpowered.

[@kaianderson9920]

This was from May!

[@noidea2568]

1:00 but twinspell is a mechanic only for druid, hunter, mage and paladin (the good classes), and shaman is qualified as the "evil" class, which doesn't fit the expantions' theme.

[@DT-yw4ob]

I'm still salty that Witch's Brew doesn't have the Echo keyword, but works like an echo card.

[@JamesHutner]

AND he said the card was too weak, then nerfed it by removing echo for twinspell...

[@zaksmith1035]

@@JamesHutner Yeah, that was confusing, to say the least.

[@JarrettMvM]

@@DT-yw4ob echo was specific to witchwood

[@2themoon865]

Hmm how about having it be a scheme then reduce 1* random enemy cost by 1 Upgrades each turn

[@r3yndria]

You can't name it Noggenfogger Elixir *and* have it be targeted. 2 mana Echo "Transform a *random* enemy minion into one that costs 2 less." while it's pretty weak in wild, in standard right now this can be pretty rough, especially against control decks.

[@noot-noot3397]

One of the most Sharming heroes in hearthstone.

[@isaiahswartz991]

No no Random mana transform a random enemy minion into a random minion with a random mana cost

[@genericalias6307]

It's called Noggenfogger Elixir after the Noggenfogger Elixir in WoW which randomly transforms your model.

[@Corrupted]

Why the hell isnt magic shield called mana shield?

[@vihaanabdullah6107]

instablaster...

[@kurgo_]

Soooo... About that stonehill offender...

[@kroebear6377]

that's what i was thinking

[@emir2591]

Lol became a hunter card

[@returnedword]

And draw is probably better than discover because it's more reliable and of course works better with your deck most of the time

[@NA-nz9lv]

It's not even that good though, at least not when you compare it to other rush minions they added.

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

@@NA-nz9lv yup, and just a year ago it was "overpowered" according to Trump.

[@nehuenrivas4891]

0:57 its a shaman spell on RoS it cant have twinspell

[@noidea2568]

As I was writing my comment I didn't see that you commented on the same topic first, hope you're not mad about that :)

[@nehuenrivas4891]

@@noidea2568 nah everything's Cool bro

[@Keleox-]

Didn’t Trump also take flavor points away from someone’s card a few weeks ago for putting twinspell on an “EVIL” class?

[@hecticgods6159]

@@Keleox- he did, but ppl can be forgetful

[@freddiesimmons1394]

Then they probably shouldnt have limited twinspell to those classes. It seems very arbitrary

[@sunnycyberbum]

Magic Shields worst design decision is to not call it "Mana shield"

[@Zelosis_]

How did Magic Shield get upvoted?! I think that might be the most overpowered and unfun card I've seen you review thus far...

[@Zelosis_]

@Superintendant Chalmers Yeah I mean that card is super busted, but most of the Hero cards are pretty busted... (Guldan, Rexxar, Jaina, Malfurion). Some definitely are better than others though.

[@Willowisp927]

Simple, we got a meta full of braindead control warriors hiding behind infinite removal and armor for more than 20 minutes each game. Now, they want that boredom to become available to other classes.

[@judemccabe1242]

Fix for the card "If you have unused mana crystals at the end of your turn, gain 2 armour" something around that number, its a card that says you have a 1 mana version of the warrior hero power in the best situation, maybe make it 3 armour instead for a power upgrade

[@SeisoYabai]

@@judemccabe1242 It it replaced your hero power, that might be okay actually. Probably not at 3 mana since its effectively "your hero power is Warrior's and costs (0)". Maybe like 6 mana spell or something.

[@TheDisarminghinkle]

Stonehill Offender is an excellent case of not realizing that Health and Attack are not equal.

[@blahthebiste7924]

I think it's more to do with Taunt and Rush not being equal. A 4/1 is generally worse than a 1/4 (health is usually worth MORE than attack.) But Rush is significantly better than Taunt. Taunt limits your opponent's trades, Rush actively lets you select a trade the moment the minion is played. Taunt generally costs 1 attack on a vanilla minion, and Rush generally costs 1 mana. So you can think of Stonehill Defender as a 3 mana 2/4 Discover, and that custom card as a 2 mana 4/1 discover.

[@TheDisarminghinkle]

@@blahthebiste7924 You're right. I suppose it's more of a formula where the "faster" the card is, the more valuable attack becomes.

[@blahthebiste7924]

Yup.

[@TheGrimbler]

@eshel ahrak no

[@CanuckMonkey13]

For Karhuu, just change the "armor reaches zero" text to be "your current and maximum health become 1". Sure, it means your opponents have to deal one more damage, but it also means that nothing can put you into a position where your health can go above 1, giving basically the same effect. For Magic Shield, I would make it into some sort of minion who has "at the end of your turn, convert your unused mana crystals into armor". That way at least the effect doesn't necessarily last for the rest of the game. (I'm not good enough at this to suggest stats or mana cost for this minion, though!)

[@etiennemahe4879]

normal human : " double mana cost" Trump : "add 100% mana cost"

[@Szadols]

He said it that way to specifically show how significant the increase is

[@etiennemahe4879]

This totally went over my head You think maybe that's why he didn't say +1 mana?

[@officiallyjan8596]

@@Szadols It's kinda narmy though since the card doesn't actually get much worse when the amounts thrown around are so low anyways. He tries to make it sound bigger by saying *100 PERCENT* but it really isn't a big deal at all. That card is a really strong card at 1 mana, but raising it to 2 mana doesn't nerf how good it is by much. You wouldn't run it because you need to play it on turn 1 or because you plan to play 10 of them in a turn. 99% of the time it would be played as a throwaway 1/1 to get a free 2 mana cost is essentially irrelevant.) I love Trump, but sometimes he really gets his head lost in numbers and ends up drawing odd conclusions that don't add up well.

[@akiwi8091]

11:40 Karhuu would be interesting if the effect persisted even after you replaced the hero card, could show it by making your armour orange or yellow or something

[@mzxrules]

The better thing to do would be to set your max HP to 1, since it's a more familiar mechanic

[@davidpavel5017]

Trump: A deck that only has spells isnt that healthy. Blizzard: * *laughs in Rhok'Delar* *

[@SeisoYabai]

Yeah but that's mainly spells that make minions. And it was a tad unhealthy imo

[@avelarrh]

Blizzard: *laughs in apexis blast*

[@trondordoesstuff]

@@avelarrh Deep Freeze, Font of Power, Apexis Blast, and probably a few more spells I'm not thinking of right now all generate minions.

[@ktownpunkjr.1946]

Karhuu *theoretically exists* Platebreaker: "Allow me to introduce myself"

[@ironcladguildhand9321]

5:09 It makes sense for Blizzard to print this card because they're dead-set on Druid not *having* an identity.

[@Mrcrazy80]

I miss when Fandral Staghelm was still in standard. Really gave every Druid deck some s p i c e . . .

[@Willowisp927]

Druids's identity is the flexibility of having completely different roles each expansion.

[@robertlupa8273]

I mean, it makes sense, since in World of Warcraft Druids have 1 more specialization than other classes (except Demon Hunters, which have 2 specs instead of the usual 3).

[@firedrake110]

Druids have always been either quite good or the best at several of their respective roles in WoW. They very frequently can perform 1.5 roles, so it's no surprise hearthstone has them adopting 3 classes worth of identities lol

[@ironcladguildhand9321]

They have healing (Priest/Paladin), armour (Warrior), tokens (Shaman/Warlock), attack power/ramp (Their own, but similar to Rogue/Warrior's weapons), draw power (Mage/Warlock), versatile spells (Mage). I'd say 4.5 at minimum.

[@tomka1418]

11:03 imagine for ex. you play Yogg-saron and he plays reckless flurry

[@trondordoesstuff]

But why would you run a yogg + karhuu warrior deck?

[@олександрдмитрієв-н9в]

9:21 the picture taken from another card game Elder Scrolls Legends

[@maxjohnson1448]

A good game

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

Effects like "Magic shield" should always be attached to a minion, so you can interact with it. The death-knights showed how meta-warping cards are that can generate value and are hard to interact with.

[@captaincroissandwich6950]

6:29 Maybe alter the text to say "Spells deal no damage to all other characters." That way for a damage spell-heavy deck, the opponent would still be able to use damaging spells to remove the Malygos, while still achieving the general intended effect.

[@MaxSmart579]

A more elegant fix? Apothecary Hunter - Battlecry: Summon a Test Subject, cast random targeted spells on it until you can't.

[@LumosX]

"Cast 3 spells on it." Done. If it lives, you get a buffed(?) subject with three spells coming out of it down the line. If it dies prematurely, you don't cast any more spells on it but get any cast ones in your hand immediately. Simple and easy. Tweak the base body's stats and/or the number of spells if needed to achieve balance.

[@davidchristiansen7756]

@Zhizhou Chen It's meant to die from the battlecry tho

[@thatevilchicken]

Lumos much better.

[@firstlast446]

Magic shield is neat, I'd want it changed to temporary armor (lose all temp armor at start of turn) even then it's probably still too strong.

[@UM96lol]

Jens, the HUGE asterisks on Malygos, Enraged weren't huge at all, how could you do this to us

[@Eric998765]

Karuu is one of my favorite cards of all time on this series. With a little tweaking to the hero power it would be a lot of fun

[@crunchytoast6007]

10:30 the card that’ll make Dr booms scheme maybe playable 4 mana gain maybe 30 armor that’s needed to win the game

[@taylorolson6228]

Stonehill defender flavor text reads "Briefly tried stand-up comedy under the name "Stonehill Offender", but turtles are just too thin-skinned." The card at 3:25 was referencing that, which i thought was clever, but i bet allot of you (and trump) missed that so I thought i'd point it out.

[@Epi1479]

It's funny rewatching those custom card reviews. "Blizzard would never support a deck with only spells and its unhealthy" 2 years later no minion mage is ruling the ladder. XD

[@DrgoFx]

8:15 So imo, I think this card would work best if you kept the text but added a limit to how much armor the mage gets at a time. Like yes your unused mana becomes armor, but you can only have 10 Armor maximum. You still get the late game survivability, but are weak to possible burst options.

[@mindscapejem]

Iron Drake would never survive in a meta where Platebreaker still exists. >Iron Drake Meta >People start using Platebreaker >Iron Drake no longer played >People stop using Platebreaker >Repeat until rotation

[@Inept_Adept]

I feel like playing bouncing blade or any “...until a minion dies” like the Apothecary Hummel with Malygos, Enraged would basically just break the game.

[@myhr2320]

Just pointing that Trump's criticism of Apothecary Hummel seems a little unfair, because Blizzard is no stranger to printing cards that have implicit text. See Yogg-Saron for example.

[@catzblu999]

Yeah he's failing pretty hard on this review and his mind is starting to slip and there are plenty of other more on-point streamers out there for HS so might be time to unsub. Screwed up on the twin spell mechanic as well for nogginfogger.

[@myhr2320]

@@catzblu999 Hu, I emit criticism, not hate, so feel free to unsub, I see no reason why I should, as I appreciate Trump's content for what it is : entertainment made by someone awkward, intelligent, cocky yet self-conscious.

[@alexholker1309]

Dragon Claws deserves a lower design score, IMO. Holding a card in hand is the second-easiest requirement to satisfy. Instead of making the weapon cheaper and thus opening up the possibility of locking down the board with a turn 3 4/3 weapon, how about if it was a ~5 mana 3/1 weapon with "Battlecry: Gain +1 durability for each dragon in your hand." That way you can still get something ridiculous with a hand full of dragons, but not so early that it wins the game before it had a chance to get going.

[@MerleAmbrose]

out of curiosity what is the easiest requirement to satisfy

[@lawrencecobb2107]

Same

[@alexholker1309]

@Herr Coco Deck requirements. For example, it's easier to have a Demon in your deck for Possessed Lackey than one in your hand for Voidcaller.

[@WickedStyx]

2:35 yeah but commanding shout isn't a targeted spell so I don't think that one would be cast

[@tuxicorn39]

Wicked_ _Styx Trump’s point there was in a Priest v Warrior matchup, you *could* steal a commanding shout with other cards in your deck and cast it

[@WickedStyx]

I didn’t think about that. Thanks

[@THRAKORZOD]

@@tuxicorn39 but you cant cast it on the test subject cause he's part of the battle cry

[@tuxicorn39]

Smitty forgive me if I’m wrong, not sure if the card can actually do this. Based on how the card is worded, you should be able to cast a commanding shout, then play the legendary and the test subject will be affected, as it’s “your minions cannot be reduced below one health _this turn_”

[@tuxicorn39]

so it’s a lingering effect for the duration of your turn

[@seanfulldark]

I know how to balance the magic shield, turning into a secret that works differently. : When you are hit with a spell, convert all unused mama crystals into armor. That way. One, you're automatically only going to have a maximum of 10 armor, and to this only triggers when your opponent hit you with a magic spell instead of the minion.

[@fesinax4440]

Stonehill Offender: Get THE FUCK out of my jungle!

[@guka4876]

Hummel : the spell are onli Priest Dragon hero: change the effect into a battlecry Like that even drboom still have the effect

[@trondordoesstuff]

You could play Commanding Shout and then play Hummel, and the Commanding Shout would still be active on the Test Subject.

[@bloodbane93]

Another thing about Malygos design wise. All big 9/10 mana dragons have typically been an 8/8, 4/12, or 12/12. 10/6 just seems random and out of nowhere especially since the stats don’t even add up to his other card.

[@ajohnymous282]

bloodbane93 they do add up... that’s why they picked that stat line.

[@mancubwwa]

@bloodbane93 You really suck at 1st grade math, don't you?

[@Willowisp927]

@@mancubwwa Not just him apparently. What's even more laughable is that he got more upvoted.

[@sparty23ful]

Karhuu could sat " Battlecry: For the rest of the game, if you run out of armor you lose

[@henchjobb]

Apothecary Hummel fix 4/5; battlecry: summon a Test subject and cast a random spell on it that kills it. (Or 3/4; summon two test subjects)

[@josiahkrodel4656]

9:23 for the rest of the game your unused mana crystals are converted into 2 armour each, then destroyed. Fixed

[@travelkingable]

8:15 using tesl card arts now?

[@randomguy8461]

9:32 this would be a great treasure card in dungeon run game modes, maybe even in the form of a passive treasure

[@roppis9258]

"Card is too strong because it is a card (shadow bolt) + discover." Silverback Patriarch BibleThump

[@leobastian_]

But Shadow Bolt is a okay Card and a class Card(which should be Stronger than neutrals),while Silberback is a terrible Card. Also,stonehill was a disgusting strong cards and Run in every non Combo Deck,Aggro and Control. We dont Need a second Silberback,and we definitly dont Need a Stronger more aggressive card.

[@Willowisp927]

Which still don't break his argument that the card is completely busted as it is.

[@roppis9258]

@@leobastian_ Yeah I know Shadow Bolt is a much better card. I meant it as a joke as in Trump not counting Silverback Patriarch as a card.

[@trondordoesstuff]

Silverback Patriarch is a Beast though. Therefore, Stonehill Offender is underpowered.

[@voidmage8241]

8:14 How about a 3 mana that reads “At the end of your next turn, your left over mana crystals are converted into armor”. Anyone like this change?

[@rubenizquierdo9190]

3 mana... I think its to expensive. I mean, you would have to give up a turn in order to have 10 armor. (If u are at turn 9+). And if u draw this in turn 1-5 its rather useless. Idk if the idea can be saved

[@trondordoesstuff]

Maybe "For the next 3 turns, your unspent Mana Crystals are converted into Armor." This would include the turn you played the card.

[@AceOniFlyer]

3:37 It is funny coming back to these to see cards that have been put into the game. Stonehill Offender is Diving Gryphon (but worse?).

[@cyruslupercal9493]

Magic shield should be. For the rest of the game Gain 3 armor at the start of your opponent's turn and lose 3 at the end of it.

[@variousnumber891]

Reasonable fix for Hummel. "Cast Random Targeted Priest Spells on it Until it dies" Insofar as I'm aware, no priest spell gives Immune or returns it to the hand, so edge cases removed. Commanding Shout however would still be an issue...

[@ΣερτηςΠαπας]

On one hand I question how some of these op cards are picked for the top custom cards but on the other hand I really like watching Trump react to them

[@e3Gewinnt]

Apothecary Hummel: how about: "Battlecry: Summon a Test Subject, cast random priest spells on it until it dies" ?

[@justinz9225]

Seems even crazier. Priest has a ton of buff spells

[@Willowisp927]

And then people complained about the animations of Shudderwock... Let's make that possibility infinite now!

[@robinlindgren6429]

if malygos enraged is on the board and I play bouncing blades, I take it that this will make my bouncing blade ineffectually bounce around 80 times which is its maximum amount of bounces?

[@leobastian_]

When bouncing Blades Deals 0 damage without removing divine shield,it stops,as Seen with the 1 health or less effect.

[@OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa]

@@leobastian_ But are you sure that's not just because the damage that would have occurred WOULD have killed the minion but just didn't? You never know with Blizzard's spaghetti code.

[@luminous3558]

Tbh malygos enraged seems really strong in a variety of decks, he shields your board from AoE, protects face from combos and can just outright kill some opponents if they dont have the specific cards to deal with him.

[@chaosmastermind]

It's also basically entirely useless against all other decks.

[@sadbanana5896]

2:10 where does yogg say that it stops casting spells when it dies or is returned to hand???? Are you really going to nitpick that?

[@azalakhir918]

Yes. he is

[@leobastian_]

But yogg was nerfed,so His Cardtext changed without actually changing.

[@sora8711]

4:05 While I do agree Stonehill Offender is insanely good, Shadow Bolt is a base set card, being better than a Base Set, Power Creep even, is nothing new.

[@TheMirksta]

Yes, but shadow bolt is so barely bad, and would maybe even be played if it was in some other classes

[@maurice4348]

1:58 Docking points from Apothecary Hummel for not addressing the fact that if the test subject is bounced or transformed is quite weak. Over the past few years the design team has specifically been designing cards like Tess that stop working if they're transformed or bounced. Just like how Yogg was nerfed back in the day to include that clause. It's well enough established within the Hearthstone scene that a card like this stops working when it is transformed/bounced. Yes it doesn't say on the card, but there are some things in Hearthstone that you just have to find out through trial and error. Don't get me wrong. I think it's poor design on the part of the Hearthstone team to obscure this information. But I'd rather custom cards be created in line with Hearthstone conventions. Imagine the chaos if everyone who made custom cards started using their own format for conveying information just because they think it is better than Blizzard's. Random spells, by the way, are also capped so even if somehow the creature were to be immune or whatever eventually it would stop having spells cast on it. Yeah, that might be super strong but like let's be real here for a second, how often would that realistically happen? Trump names commanding shout as if it's one of many, many spells that could accomplish this, but it's literally the only spell in the game that could set up a state where the test subject is immune. There are other cards that grant immune, but you don't have a window to play other cards between the minion coming into play and dying. In other words, you can't play this card and then quickly throw another card into play to make it immune before it would be targeted by spells. Lastly, Priest does indeed have copying cards from your opponent as part of their current class identity. But unlike rogues, they don't simply create cards from your opponents class, they copy cards from their hand and deck. So in order for the state of immune test subject to arise you would have to be playing against a warrior, that _purposefully_ put the commanding shout into their deck and then also get lucky enough to hit it. It's also extremely unlikely that warriors would randomly generate the spell as warriors are by far the weakest class when it comes to spell generation, having next to none of it

[@randomguy8461]

8:35 this would be an excellent passive treasure in dungeon run type modes

[@ryujinjakka4518]

Lol 10:22 Now that card would be a fun addition. Every class can run the neutral that breaks all armor to 0. Haha

[@ryujinjakka4518]

I love captain imposter. Such a disruptive card and so fitting for an imp to teleport all over the place. That one and the rogue secret have to be my absolute favorites. I wish blizzard would have a contest every month and let people create cards and then pick one or two to add to standard. It would keep things fresh.

[@animagamer2]

I hate this "Some decks wouldn't be able to do anything about this" argument being presented; *there are already decks like that which exist within the meta*. And they've almost always been decks like that; if you were a control deck of old and you matched up into freeze mage, that was like an 80% chance to lose even with all the tech cards. Today, as an aggro deck, if you match up into warrior and they have Dr.Boom on 6 or 7, your chances of winning that game just become negligible. There are already cards within the game that super index one way or the other, this idea that you can't print a card that would dick on certain archetypes is ridiculous.

[@davidchristiansen7756]

While I see your point, there is a difference between archtypes countering eachother, and a single card countering archtypes

[@Willowisp927]

And I hate people that believe such matchups should keep being decided with single cards instead of actual skill.

[@rickhaavisto9023]

David Christiansen That’s a great point, the 2 mana 2/3 that destroyed a pirate was great against pirates, but it was not such a great card against pirates that it shut them out.

[@modulo8571]

Best card ever: Whenever minion gets silenced, silence a random minion. :D

[@minimatxman]

For Magic Shield I think they meant that you don’t gain armor, but instead, you have 10 armor if you play nothing but on your turn it’s still only 10 you won’t ever gain more than that from the card. Still op having basically a neglect 10 damage next turn, or whatever amount you have left.

[@neofritzdorf7777]

I think the redeeming factor of the first card is on tall boards. For instance you could recast the spell 2 or 3 times and make their only minion(s) useless.

[@princecuddle]

Magic Shield gave an idea for an interesting potential for a card. ? Mana - Fiendish Vigor (spell name from d&d) "For the rest of the game gain temp hp equal to half your unused mana rounded up, minimum of 1." So you end your turn with 10mana and gain 5 temp hp. In d&d you cant stack temp hp. instead you can recast a spell to gain temp hp again refreshing your current temp hp.

[@cakeyeater7392]

Apothecary dude might be more interesting with the added condition of "spells from your opponents deck" or "priest spells"

[@Roxanneredpanda]

4:08 Steel Rager is a card, and that's also a neutral 3 mana 5/1 with rush and that sees 0 play

[@fma0420]

Note: the 5/1 rush is not actually 3 mana like the other ragers, but 4 mana.

[@AmberFaraj]

Magic shield can say something like "the next 3 turns your unused mana crystals are converted to armor.

[@amortal3248]

With apothecary hummel (2:30) It's weird that you address the fact that random cards like hex could stop the ability as a problem. Like shudderwok and other 'printed' cards have that same issue, so why is it a problem with this design?

[@TheWookieDavid]

Apothecary Hummel could just not mention the untill it dies part. Casting spells on test subject kind of implies that if test subject is removed from play be it dying or something else it will have no target to cast spells on. The spell limit is very important tho

[@snakeking5009]

cast random spells on it until it dies or leaves the board, is a good way to keep the flavor and also make sense.

[@lavandereisly4194]

Malygos Enraged could also be used in Warlock to stop things like Backfire from hurting you.

[@nicholasb9279]

Noggenfogger elixir to devolve is like unstable evolution to evolve

[@HackersRUs]

1 mana cost difference is much more impactful on echo cards

[@nicholasb9279]

@@HackersRUstotally, it makes it way worse, but i see why they thought making it the same mana cost as devolve would work

[@isnanesavant]

fixing Hummel is easy. "Summon a test subject, experiment on him until he leaves the board (by any means)"

[@OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa]

You don't need to change the wording. Cards like Yogg-Saron, etc. already set precedent that these kinds of details are decided/tweaked behind the scenes so the card text can be kept short. Yes, even if that makes it confusing, contradictory to other cards worded the same way, or you'd have no way of knowing what the card even does without playing it.

[@randomguy8461]

8:35 does it CONSUME the entire unused mana Crystal? Like the Crystal is destroyed?

[@kaylaroehrig4385]

With iron Drake image how crazy convert all but one of your health into armour would be

[@danielrabinovich6185]

When you talked about Apothecary Hummel you said that a fix to the card might be to cap the amount of spells. I think that a better fix might be maybe "Battlecry: summon a Test Subject. Cast random Priest spells on it until it dies". And since priest has some buff cards maybe lower the stat line of the Apothecary its self to 2/4 or 3/3 or 2/3. If anyone can tell me his or hers opinion ill be happy to hear it :)

[@oldpoppywasop5038]

4:00 swap back the stats to be the same as Sonehill Defender (1/4) and leave everything else as it is.

[@leobastian_]

Would be the old powercreep again,there is a 3 Mana 1/4 Charge.

[@leobastian_]

@Erick-Emil Szelitzky still it is much Better then the 1/4 Charge.

[@oldpoppywasop5038]

@Erick-Emil Szelitzky Well it is a ping effect, plus it should give you a good minion since there aren't a lot of bad Rush minions (when there are a lot of bad taunts in the classic set alone). Plus it can high roll with Shivalla, Akali etc or even the new 2/1 beast should be decent.

[@morriganpandora3787]

That's one thing that is frustrating about Hearthstone's design. Citing the Stonehill Offebder discussion health by that logic is inherently less valuable with a corresponding keyword than is attack with its keyword. The same logic that allows 1 mana 1/3s to see print and never 1 mana 3/1s. We can essentially equate it to 3 mana heal 4 being far less valuable than 3 mana deal 4. Cards aren't balanced with this in mind and that's interesting to me.

[@maxischmidt1299]

The art of "Magic Shield" is from a minion of The Elder Scrolls Legends, nice! ^^

[@r3yndria]

IMPoster was 4 mana because of Godfrey, I think. Ruling out the obvious that IMPoster into Godfrey would crash Blizzard's game (at the start. :P) I do love the synergy with the Jumbo Imp demonology decks people are trying to run, so I could see it being playable with the change to 3 mana.

[@ApedogMophead]

After godfrey triggered twice it would just transform the godfrey into IMPoster and end his battlecry though

[@klemerton1633]

Not really, I made it 4 Mana because I thought that polymorphing almost Everytime if there are minions made it too op if 3 mana

[@erictaupier3479]

What if Karhuu's effect read, "Can only be played if your deck started with no other Hero cards"? I think that would help balance it so Dr. Boom and Karhuu even in Wild couldn't co-exist in the same deck.

[@pronneeqspronnee9025]

I can already feel the tears of my enemies when playing darkest hour lock on wild ( with malygos,enraged)

[@maxdeth2333]

“it would be fun to push warrior into dragon archetype, so more dragons would make this card better” -Descent of dragons comes out -Highlander Galakrond Warrior Nonononono

[@trondordoesstuff]

Scion + Scion + Coin + Barista + Dragon Claw (with another dragon in hand). Just a casual 18/12 Rush + 4/5 minion + 4/3 weapon + 6 good cards for the cost of 5 cards.

[@KuroroSama42]

13:20 To be fair... it JUST about always clears the board completely. The first wave kills your Captain IMPoster. Enemy minion transforms. Second wave kills THEIR Captain IMPoster. One of your minions transform. Continues until either everything died to the Defile or Captain IMPoster dies against an empty board. If you have Captain IMPoster and a single 3+ health minion, then you're randomly killing 2 enemy minions (the 1rst with more than 1 and the 2nd more than 3 health) AND dealing 5+ to everything. Without the 3+ health minion, it's still an auto-kill on 1 enemy minion along with 3+ to everything.

[@leobastian_]

Only If you have the same amount of Minions,If you also Count imposter.

[@loganpaulapologyvideo2971]

7:16 ok understandable but what about the spell hunter weapon

[@jadeamulet2339]

Magic shield on a 5 mana creature with your unused mana crystals are converted to Armor at the end of your turn

[@joaquintomorrowwefall8856]

8:41, are you sure you gain 10 armor each turn? Cause "transform" sounds to me like "you lose this crystal".

[@rickhaavisto9023]

Then that makes the design even worse because it isn’t apparent while looking at the card.

[@tiziank.6975]

"its really creative" design 2 stars.....

[@NivMizzet89]

Trumps design rating is (partially) based on how feasible the card is to print, not how interesting it is. Creativity is neat, but irrelevant when the card is unprintable anyway.

[@sy-py]

Trump said numerous times that Design rating is how likely a similar card to be printed in HS.

[@andijacobsen9148]

@@NivMizzet89 Trumps design rating is also wildly inconsistent and completely pulled out of his ass to pump out these videos cause they get clicks. That's fine, these videos are entertaining, but lets not act like theres a science to this. If you look at his card reviews it's clear that he doesn't know what impact a card would or wouldn't have on the game either.

[@ChoppersRevenge]

If you cant even salvage the idea of the card, it gets a low rating despite being creative

[@Willowisp927]

@@andijacobsen9148 There is a lot of logic on what he says when he is rating. Cards like gaining infinite armor while doing nothing is quite a bad design, not just because Trump said it.

[@PeterDivine]

I currently am running a Dragon Warrior deck with four legendaries, and it's the biggest waste of dust you can imagine. Token Druid and Murloc Shaman shit on DW in the early game so hard and so quickly that your best minions never get to come out.

[@justanothergamer6300]

For Karhuu, the Iron Drake, I think if it set your max health to 1 that would be much more balanced. The hero power should also change

[@thebitterfig9903]

Another way to adjust Dragon Claws would be to adjust the reduction method. Instead of a per-dragon reduction, you could have a fixed number of dragons in hand to get a fixed reduction. "Reduce the cost by 3 if you're holding 2 dragons." would be an example, but some other number of dragons or cost reduction could be possible. This would prevent extreme cases and make the weapon more consistent. For Magic Shield, I like the core premise that unspent mana each turn "does something" but it's clearly too strong. Would it be acceptable as "At the end of each turn, for each (3) unspent mana, gain 1 armor"? That caps armor gain at 3 per turn, and would only grant 2 on a turn you used your hero power. There could be other similar spells... Could there be a Paladin version "At the end of each turn, for each (4) unspent mana, summon a 1/1 Silver Hand Recruit." No, those are still massive infinite value cards. Probably not feasible, even if the premise is fun.

[@ImaginaryMdA]

"Really creative and flavorful" Design: 2 stars.

[@Willowisp927]

"And yet it can't be printed". You know, it's not that hard to understand when the idea is creative but on the game it isn't healthy?

[@eewweeppkk]

He's explained it before. Design is basically rating how plausible it would be for a card like it to be printed, even if it needs balance tweaks. Balance rating should be obvious. 95% of the time the balance and design ratings are very similar because the idiots who design these things make extremely unfun cards that are blatantly too strong or they make uninspired cards that no one would really play. Creativity is all well and good but Trump is gauging if it could be an actual HS card and how strong it would be if it were. If you wanna know about a cards creativity then just go to the subreddit because thats generally the only metric they use to upvote/downvote a card.

[@ImaginaryMdA]

@@eewweeppkk That's kind of a useless distinction...

[@officiallyjan8596]

@@eewweeppkk A balanced card will always be printable, that's what being balanced means. He's essentially made the "Design" rating pointless since they're gauging the same thing. Making things worse, he's not consistent in how he rates design. Sometimes he allows flavour to effect it and sometimes he doesn't, it's a mess. *Everything* that has to do with card balancing should be addressed under Balance. Design should refer only to creativity and flavour. It's what people want, it makes more logical sense and it would be more informative.

[@eewweeppkk]

@@officiallyjan8596 That is very incorrect. You can have a balanced card that feels absolutely AWFUL to play against because perhaps it slows the game down. For example, there was a custom card called "Swap to a different game" or something of the sort and the card made it so that both players could do one thing and only one thing each turn, they could play one thing OR attack with one thing, etc. That is a card that is symmetrical but playing with it is completely unfun. It is disgustingly unfun. It was actually extremely imbalanced because building a deck around that one card makes it extremely good. Imagine a murloc shaman going against something like that; its an auto lose. In this example, the fact that playing against certain decks makes the card an instant win makes it incredibly unbalanced. The fact that it takes away control from opposing players and is disruptive makes it bad design. If it were a useless distinction, then there would be cards with 5 star balance and 1 star design and vice versa, which there have been multiple times in the past of these videos. Just an example of a 1 star design 5 star balanced card, try a super Nozdormu effect. Each player's turn lasts only up to 5 seconds instead of 15. That is completely fair and balanced if the stats make sense, no problem. Its also completely unhealthy for the game and the _design_ makes the card a terrible idea to print. Balanced. Unprintable.

[@Citrasloth]

How do you feel about magic shield now that a card like Platebreaker is in the game?

[@zanben4848]

Oh boy i love the idea of karhuu. I wish they would balance him right and implement him into the current meta.

[@sparkythespooderduck8723]

Karhuu would probably kill you regardless of weather or not you're karhuu when your armor hits 0, a static effect like dr booms rush or jaina's lifelink

[@davemehew6259]

Those effects are battlecries

[@sparkythespooderduck8723]

@@davemehew6259 oh, you're abesolutely right, my bad. Although my point was that if this was templated the same it would be significantly more balanced.

[@princequincy5421]

What if Magic Shield cost 10, and SET your Armor to however many unspent mana crystals you have at the end of each turn? (I.e, end with 10 mana, set armor to 10 regardless how much you had; end with 0 mana, set armor to 0.)

[@justanoman6497]

It would be interesting if Magic shield provides temporary armor for just the opponent's next turn. Though I'm not 100% sure on how that would work.

[@xdelisiusx]

Stonehill Offender is fine, you compared it to Shadow Bolt which isn't fair as Shadow Bolt isn't subject to taunt or Secrets (other than Counterspell) and Shadow Bolt COULD hit your own minion. I feel like the downsides balance it just fine.

[@joshuawenninger6439]

5:36 But uhh that's the point if you were sneaky and cast double! now it is their weak spell that has been doubled and they played around a secret they actually didn't want to play around. So it becomes either take a risk and at the worst their weak spell has been doubled or counter a weak spell which can still feel pretty good (since it gets a card out of their hand) Sorry, about the wordiness, I tried to defend the card as well as I could.

[@stevethebarbarian9876]

To be fair, he gave it 5/5, so I don't think it needs to be defended much.