Awww, He's so Cute... ONE STAR 😡 - Top Custom Cards of the Week

[@mlp_firewind8129]

Other things that make ghost rager an interesting card; We haven’t had a rager in what feels like forever. If it isn’t infused it becomes 1 mana “progress all your infuses by 1” which I think is interesting. This set would be the one to print our first even instance of a 0 health minion.

[@Pepe-pq3om]

You should have used ":" after "interesting card"

[@thomasdickson3622]

Ghost rager coin ghost rager, get your 5/1 from the infuse of the first one dying heh,

[@BasicallyADiety]

Was Divine Rager the last one? I’m too lazy to look it up myself

[@mlp_firewind8129]

@@BasicallyADiety apparently we got one in darkmoon, rock rager. 2 cost 5/1 elemental with taunt. That’s not as long as I was thinking but it’s still a while, also rock rager is clearly a very forgettable one. Imo probably the weakest rager we have.

[@WhiteWolfRQ]

I’m not sure if Trump caught this for design, but the reason Rafaam has 5 treasures is because each treasure represents a different member of the League of EVIL

[@presidentbolbi1401]

I also want to point out that he makes the argument that rafaam should have you “discover from a pool of three,” yet hearthstone has had you choose from pools of more than three in the past, such as Siamat, and Azshara.

[@androkguz]

@@presidentbolbi1401 Yeah, but 5 is too much. It should be 3 out of those 5

[@heheheha1997]

@@androkguz five is fine, it's only one more than azshara and siamat

[@Barely_Edited]

@@heheheha1997 but four already takes a significant portion of mobile screen space You’re edging into portability/accessibility issues with the resulting small text on mobile. It’s not ideal

[@Pepe-pq3om]

It could simply be done by discovering between 3 cards in 5 cards pool, so you wouldn't be guaranteed to find a specific relic

[@GumshoeClassic]

Regarding "Negative Quests", I'd say make that a new mechanic, a sort of contract. Rogues accept a hit request, Paladins make a vow, Warlocks make a demonic pact and so on and so forth, a continuous buff that runs on a timer and punishes you if you don't achieve some goal.

[@jq4767]

I mean the simple answer is to just make the phylactery a warlock weapon. Basically a counterpart to the legendary Warrior bulwark where it loses durability each time it reduces/prevents damage, and give it 'deathrattle: you die, horribly'.

[@Aeivious]

@@jq4767 2 mana win the game, cool. I think it would be bad for balance if you can just kinda die because your weapon breaks.

[@netherin5686]

@@Aeivious That's not 2 mana win the game

[@justacryptid4687]

@@netherin5686 slime break weapon boom

[@Ceracio]

@@justacryptid4687 In that case "Deathrattle: if this had 0 durability, you die. Horribly."

[@shadowzking101]

I do find it amusing in Hearthstone that stealing cards is considered more of a Priest thing than a Rogue thing

[@catbot6037]

Rouge gets to easily burgle cards from every class randomly, Priest gets to, with some effort, steal cards directly from your opponent's deck.

[@brothersingame1759]

Its more like mind control aspects from shadow priests in WOW. Actually taking over your opponents minions and powers

[@hctaz]

The priest stealing thing is kinda strange, but I also understand it to some degree. It's playing around the Shadow Magic that priests use that affects the mind. Mind Control, Mind Vision, and Thoughtsteal all being examples.

[@bigd8122]

It being "Theft" is bad theming although it mechanically fits.

[@kcampos7306]

It was explained at one point idk who said it tho. Priests can control your mind and thus can get cards currently in your deck and hand. Rouges steal from your pockets and they get the cards in your 'collection'

[@moemm299]

Having Ghost Rager in the pool of 1 cost minions would also have the side effect of devolving/evolving minions to 1 cost occasionally just summoning a 5/0 that dies instantly.

[@MildlyInterested_]

which would be hilarious to be honest

[@auberry8613]

still better than evolving into The Darkness, though to be honest certain cards should just be restricted from the available options

[@RensReckluse]

good for infuse :)

[@Skullhawk13]

@@auberry8613 they did end up doing that. You haven’t been able to roll dormant minions that don’t wake up on their own even as far back as when you made that comment

[@fallendeus]

Squishy also has another problem. "Can't gain attack" is an on field effect... which means there is nothing stopping handbuff.

[@hagger4858]

No, they could just code it that way like saidan the scarlet.

[@Deathnom]

Is there a card example you could compare that to?

[@BradGreer]

IF you wanted to fix that particular flaw while ignoring all the others, you could just change it to "this minion's attack is always 0".

[@butttter]

@@Deathnom Not really but unless the card specifies so the text only works while on the battlefield.

[@fdlc359]

the real problem is that he can gain health and taunt and be a pain to kill cause he can be hit only 1 out of 10 times

[@feandwine]

4:30 the designers have used 'kill' as a stand-in for 'destroy' a TON of times over Hearthstone's life - just go to the online card library and search for 'kill'! Most recently one of the Mage skeleton spells from this very set uses the phrase "for each one killed" The one thing I'll give Trump on this is that the phrase "killed someone" is probably a little too gruesome, and would be better phrased as "killed something"

[@TheHalogen131]

And we are currently in the expansion, that's literally called "MURDER in Castle Nathria"

[@fredfoshizzle4891]

Yeah I'm perplexed by this as well. There's a whole mechanic called "Honorable Kill"

[@Neo-ln4pk]

And also there is a lot of 5 line text cards as well. Especialy legendaries, like Tess for exemple. C'mon Trump

[@AnglosArentHuman]

@@Neo-ln4pk I don't know what crack you're smoking but Tess is 4 lines of text.

[@floatyperson1979]

Trumps a little dumb its okay

[@flyingtoastr]

It's so funny to listen to Trump talk about poor templating for the Gnomish Escape secret and then see the way the actual Kidnap secret is written just a few minutes later.

[@Pepe-pq3om]

Kidnap makes sense, you play your minion, he gets kidnapped into a bag, than you can destroy the back to get your minion back to the safety of your hand, while gnomish escape... Summons a gnome?

[@flyingtoastr]

@@Pepe-pq3om Flavor =/= templating. Trump's first complaint about Gnomish Escape was that a replacement effect on a summon needed to be worded like Freezing Trap. Almost immediately Kidnap was revealed with a replacement effect worded closer to Gnomish Escape's templating than Freezing Trap. That's why it's funny.

[@somerandomgamer8504]

They aren't even similar though? At no point in Gnomish Escape does it tell you that it returns their minion to their hand. It reads like Potion of Polymorph.

[@ruvensanguir47]

@@somerandomgamer8504 Look at Ice Trap. Same thing: Prevents the opponent from playing the spell, but explicitly states to return it to their hand

[@ryanstudham640]

You missed the joke with Surreptitious Sorcerer! It's a Six mana Stealth with Spell damage +6 and Spellburst: Silence this mana. It's a Six Six. If you change the spell damage to 2, you lose another S sound. Of course, this doesn't translate well.

[@Pepe-pq3om]

Silence this mana? Lol

[@lollertoaster]

That warlock quest could say "consequence" or "punishment" instead of "reward". Hearthstone is known for weird card text that serves flavour more than consistency.

[@Icetea-2000]

But Rafaam is a 7/8, now that I realize it I kinda dislike that they made him a 6/6 in the game

[@MildlyInterested_]

true, they kept it up with boom aswell. maybe they deemed it too bad to be a 7/8 since it would be too slow?

[@popeneiad7968]

6 mana 6/6. 6 6 6 to fit his new demon theme

[@Icetea-2000]

@@popeneiad7968 yeah I guess that’s flavorful too, but it’s not rafaams flavor *grumble grumble*

[@Icetea-2000]

@@MildlyInterested_ Yeah probably, couldn’t be 6 mana then anymore but 7, but the effect is much more important than a slightly more efficient statline for a trade off of a turn later

[@michaelbowman6684]

Imp Warlock is really strong right now, I'd love to see Rafaam changed to a 7 mana 7/8 not only for flavor, but also to delay the Rafaam turn.

[@askehansen8620]

the judge, jo-e and executioner is also referring to a kangaroo court

[@Med1umentor]

Squishy have another problem - interaction with the legendary that make your deck 40 cards. It's not obvious which of them will take priority, and even if it will be 40 cards - it just means that any 40 cards decks become 39 card deck. Aka, same problem. Need to change wording as "deck need to include an additional card" instead, or something like "deck size +1".

[@Deathnom]

With the way its worded, I would assume these are mutually exclusive

[@Med1umentor]

@@Deathnom not at all. You can "suggest" it based on possible "mechanic limitation", but it's definitely not even tiny bit obvious based on wording. In 90% of games, it would be either "only biggest effect is active" or "effects applied in the order of playing" (in our case, may be the order of putting it in the deck [which is pretty scummy/exploity way of handling that], or the order by the cost). For the card to be mutually exlusive - it can't happen "by accident" or "by default", developersneed to make "custom rule" independently. And if they would do that, they for sure mention it in the wording as well. Easiest way out for them would be discarding "hard set" of deck size, and change both of the effects into relative change of it, like "deck size +10" and "deck size +1" respectively.

[@Deathnom]

@@Med1umentor One says you can have a deck size of 31, the other says 40. Obviously both of these cannot be active at the same time. If the wording was changed absolutely we could have them.

[@Med1umentor]

@@Deathnom What I meant is that in the case of both of them stating different value, the most "obvious" guess would be that 40 would overrule 31, as greater value. Cards being mutually exclusive while being "understandable", but certainly not "obvious" at all.

[@AnglosArentHuman]

@@Med1umentor Them being mutually exclusive doesn't need to be represented on the cards at all. This is a digital card game. You can just get an error message when trying to shove both into a deck (in the same fashion as when you go over 30/40)

[@Icetea-2000]

Card theft is focusing too much on the high roll. You can’t spend that much mana to steal one card from the opponents deck

[@CloudianMH]

you can't spend what mana exactly?

[@esist.7127]

I think it could be usefull in a very specific meta. Maybe you remember the time control priest and control warrior were just starring at each other and deciding which card they would throw away to stay under 10 cards. I wonder though if this kind of meta will ever come again.

[@belafeldbusch3397]

@@esist.7127 I hope not. It felt super un-fun for me

[@SeraphsWitness]

If it disrupts an entire combo, and you know exactly what piece they need, then it's certainly worth spending mana on. That's basically an instant win. And against quicker decks you can just throw it away on a low mana card. Very flexible.

[@freewilly1193]

@@belafeldbusch3397 I hope they shoot for balance, where there are some more aggro, some more control, and maybe the occasional OTK. C'thun was excellent in the first cycle of it, had support cards and sort of a balanced board presence while building to the ultimate, with maybe a shenanigans or 2. But if you didn't get enough of his support, if the opponent built too strong of a board, it might not finish the job. There were some good nailbiters back then.

[@aleon7774]

Nerzhuls phylactery. Legendary spell. Set your health to 10, you can only take one damage at a time, your hero can no longer heal or gain armor

[@davecroes3086]

I give Trump 5 starts (also on cuteness)

[@kylefitzhenry3048]

🧢

[@ZenofireX]

GUILTY! Would've made a good secret. 1 mana, when your opponent's minion destroys a minion, destroy it. Give it the 'slam' animation to represent the Gavel and you've got a good pally secret

[@MildlyInterested_]

isnt that pretty much reckoning?

[@Pepe-pq3om]

That's straight up better reckoning

[@badaboum2]

Even if you ignore the *Honorable Kill* mechanic there are tons of cards in Hearthstone that use the word "kill" or "killed" like Kill Command, Mortal Coil, Icy Touch, Outrider's Axe, Kargath Prime, Burrowing Scorpid, Tranpling Rhino, ... Pretty massive oversight when it's literally the name of a mechanic in standard right now. Also Blizzard does not care that puns don't translate, otherwise they wouldn't print cards like Goody Two-shields.

[@RibusPQR]

goody two-shields still makes sense if you change the name. that card only makes sense if jo-e sounds like jury. puns can add flavor, but they can't be the only source of flavor.

[@Begeru]

Goody Two Shields name is a pun, but its name is irrelevant to its effect. Unlike the Jo-E pun.

[@badaboum2]

@@Begeru Not really, she literally gets an extra divine shield on spellburst. Two shields. The French translation sure is awkward, which is why it sprung to mind.

[@fredfoshizzle4891]

@@badaboum2 Do any of the imp pun cards or Even the Odds work for the French translation?

[@barnabasverti9690]

@@RibusPQR Goody two-shields, if translated simply, doesn't actually work, because as far as I'm aware, goody two-shoes is a phrase that's very specific to English, and if you tried to use it anywhere else, people would wonder what's wrong with you. The name is also the only source of flavour for the card, there's nothing else other than the name explaining why they have two (divine) shields. All puns "make sense if you change the name." I mean, at that point, you're literally talking about deleting what's there and writing a new pun that makes sense, which is not that difficult. That's what studios have done for decades when dubbing pretty much any movie. Btw, if you want to talk about puns that don't translate, try implosion. I'm pretty sure that one doesn't translate to pretty much anything on any level, unless they also use the word imp to refer to a demon and derive their word for explosion/implosion from Latin. Blizzard obviously never gave a crap about puns being easily translatable, which is not a problem. I'm playing an American game and I don't have this surreal expectation that it make perfect sense in my language. No idea why Trump has such a stick up his butt about this. I mean complaining about this stuff would be like demanding that all references to WoW be removed from Hearthstone cards, because it's alienating to people who never played WoW.

[@richardmurray9026]

I made Squishy. He may be a 1* card, but he's a 5* little buddy.

[@lvolpatto]

"Judge, Jo-E and Executioner" would work surprisingly well with brazilian portuguese. Jo-E Bot was translated to "'Mecanguri'' and ''Jury'' is literally translated to ''Júri'' The saying in portuguese goes ''Juiz, Júri e Executor'', with the pun it would be something like ''Juiz, Guri e Executor'', which is a single letter difference.

[@felipegx4495]

Kkkkkkk ia ser um flavor q o povo ia adorar

[@dbfr2017]

Phylactery might make more sense as a 0/10 weapon: Every time your hero takes damage, remove one durability instead. Deathrattle: Your hero dies, horribly. From a flavor and readability perspective, this is way more sensible, but now it has the new problem of being hard countered by acidic swamp ooze, which is way more common than sacrificial pact and Jaraxxus. I dont know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@ZZZZordan]

"sacrificial pact and Jaraxxus" That interaction doesn't work since a while tho Jaraxxus as a hero is no longer a demon and pact can't target ennemies

[@fredfoshizzle4891]

3:28 I don't understand why Trump docks points for the card not working in other languages. Blizzard has made several cards that don't work in other languages. Even the Odds, basically any card that rhymes, and any of the imp pun cards.

[@zachall1573]

Gnomish Escape should have been called Out of Gnomewhere

[@bb-im6hf]

would get a point docked for not translating well, but I like that name very much and it also makes a lot more sense flavor wise

[@Meca-Mat]

[9:45] Fun fact, if you remove the Quest mechanic from this card and write it as: "For the rest of the game, your hero can only take 1 damage at a time. After taking 10 damage, your hero dies." it goes from 5 lines of text to 4, so there is just no reason to use the Quest except to get it in your starting hand which you most likely don't want.

[@BeefinOut]

Card Theft is unimaginably weak. Death Grip was universally considered to be the worst Death Knight card, and Card Theft will usually cost more, will have to be played as the last card of your turn, requires a ton of assumptions about what cards your opponent is playing and has in their hand, AND after all that it will still whiff and hit the wrong card more often than not. And as an added bonus, if they don't have any cards of that mana cost left in their deck (which is likely in the late game), it just does nothing.

[@froggy9710]

I see it like Immolate - theoretically really cool, but most of the time it's a dead card. At least you can still play Card Theft on 1-2 mana for tempo.

[@quentind1924]

You can also use it as a 1 mana card to steal a 1 mana card. Or to try with 0 but it doesent always works at 0

[@dylanqwe2338]

You can't compare a card you can run in your deck to a death knight card. Theyre all intentionally broken, and the soonest you could get them out was the turn after you played an 8 drop. Card theft also functions totally differently in that it's aimed at getting specific cards which is a much different game than getting a random one. I think it's a cool tech card, the problem I see with it is that for most players it will read as useless and be a disappointing legendary, but it's too dangerous of a card to have multiples of in a deck.

[@matteofinazzi5087]

@@dylanqwe2338 You could get em off of Arfus! Never forget doggo

[@dylanqwe2338]

@@matteofinazzi5087 true, Arfus best boy

[@menovat]

The word 'kill' is actually in the card text of 21 cards without even counting cards with Overkill and Honorable Kill.

[@hansdarmaputra]

Coincidentally gnomish escape is quite close to the new rogue secret but kinda mixed with potion of polymorph

[@ArchbardWava]

Kudos to the art on Surreptitious Sorcerer. Dude looks ominous.

[@riccardodellorto4267]

5:34 few hours later, blizzard made a secret that it's actually stronger than this one. We have been gnomed

[@GumshoeClassic]

Honestly, if Gnomish Escape just tranformed the minion into the 1/1, the flavour would make way more sense. You play a minion but it's a fake, a disguised gnome who pops out of their costume. Rename it "Gnomish Charade" and it kinda works. However, I would still rate the flavour fairly low, due to the fact that the secret would trigger AFTER battlecries. So for example Deathwing would still wipe the board and then.... it's a Gnome that did all that? How? That doesn't make sense. It would have to completely counter the card, but countering minions isn't a thing unlike in Magic. Edit: Actually it is. We have one card that does it, so the version I proposed would indeed work.

[@Zakading]

That one Naga legendary has "Counter the next minion played" so there is some precedent for it.

[@GumshoeClassic]

@@Zakading Oh right, forgot about that one.

[@Pepe-pq3om]

Yeah, is still kinda bad, because the minion is originally in your opponents deck and hand, so it wouldn't feel like is rogue messing you up with his dirty tricks, more like you just've been, GNOOOOMED!

[@eventm5368]

Squishy made me think that it would be a cool idea with a taunt card that had a text that made enemies miss the taunt 50% of the time. Call it "useless tank" or something and print it in a dungeon / raid based expansion

[@wombataldebaran9686]

you could make an entire set around "useless teammates" a 'dps' with 1 health and high attack that has stealth, but has a 50% chance to attack a random enemy as battlecry. (pulling aggro and dying without support). a healer that at the end of each turn has a 50% chance to either restore 1 health to all other friendly characters, or gain +2 health itself.

[@SH4D0W0733]

Your turn 1: Play ghost rager, coin, ghost rager. Opponent turn 2: Fireblast.

[@mintyfresh1322]

Is “kangaroo court” a phrase outside of english? Could use that for judge, jo-e, and executioner

[@harryh536]

I think the "GUILTY!" can be a paladin secret that "when an enemy minion attacks and kills a friendly minion, destroy it". I don't think "kill" is too much for HS because "honorable kill" exists.

[@Zhon66]

But that's just Reckoning, except usually worse.

[@harryh536]

@@Zhon66 lol. You are right. Maybe also silence it?

[@Snickersnek]

Surprised he didn't mention it, but Ghost Rager is also an Infuse _provider_ with if cast without being infused, neat little upside to infuse your hand for 1 mana.

[@theoguinness6344]

So happy this series is back

[@edschramm6757]

The Ner'Zhul's Phylactery i think should be as follows "Start of game : Cast this spell. Your life becomes 10. You can only take one damage at a time Your maximum life total cannot be changed" possibly give it no cost of its own (shifting scroll style) so it can't be cast later as a way to gain effective health. there may also be a problem surrounding damage permanence since warlock has cards like Drain Life. Possibly make it so you can only gain one life or take one damage at a time to counteract that, but still. that last clause also means you can't use cards like old Alexstraza to gain an extra buffer. or, heaven forbid a deathrattle thief priest gets their hands on it and uses this before the "battlecry, your life total becomes 40" As far as Surreptitious sorcerer goes, i think you could probably make it +3 spell damage, since it is a one-time effect, i think that puts it generally in line with the Kirin Tor Tricaster. its a spell damage boost, but with a downside. that one makes your spells cost 1 more, this one is a one-time effect. possibly rekey it as "when a spell you control deals damage", so it slips past those niche cases. though that might be a phrasing that doesn't work in hearthstone. i know that would work in MTG.

[@wolfVFV]

7:40 well clearly everyone gets a free squishy when the set releases

[@saltkeeper44]

But would change the meta drastically, especially in wild

[@Begeru]

Kudos to the creator of Squishy for making the perfect card to annoy Trump.

[@DapSchaf]

Just name the quest a curse. It's easy. I know you programmers want to be cute and you can do that in the backend. But that's not for the user to see.

[@Hephaestus_God]

Questline hunter can just kill the warlock with Ner'zhul's Phylactery in 1 turn whether they have it up or not lmao

[@alexkazakov7114]

I am surprised to hear music from "Getting over it with Bennett Foddy")) I see you are a man of culture, Jens))

[@Laggron93]

Ner'Zhul's Phylactery could be rebranded as a 0/10 weapon that says "Whenever your hero would take damage, this loses 1 durability instead. This weapon can't lose durability or be destroyed otherwise. Deathrattle: destroy your hero." It may be a bit wordy, but at least there isn't the bad quest reward. It's also a bit stronger because you can play it at 1 hp.

[@TrueNargin]

Imagine if Squishy was a 0 mana 0/0 with text that says: "When you draw this card, summon Squishy outside of the play area and draw a card. This card doesn't count towards the deck limit." and it'd be entirely cosmetic. That would be a kinda fun way to add cosmetics like Runeterra pets to the game. I imagine most people wouldn't want to wait for their cosmetic pet to be drawn and you'd have to make some special hidden rules that you can't summon it from the deck and it can't start in your hand. Or maybe have the text be "If this card appears in the game, summon it outside of the play area and continue the effect that made it appear as if that didn't happen. This card doesn't count towards the deck limit.". I think with this wording you could make it just happen basically at random when you take cards from the deck for any purpose (draw, joust, discover, summon) without interfering.

[@SerechII]

This is a horrible idea that complicates everything for no reason, at that point they are better off adding pets instead of making the most corner cases in a card possible

[@daniellucas5522]

Squishy: Start of game: Summon squishy, and replace him with a random neutral card. Immune, cannot be targetted, can't gain attack. He's just a mascot that takes a board spot, and your deck is random because of having him.

[@jingyulee96]

Highroll to get Peasant, proceed to win b/c you're drawing two cards each turn EZ Or Stormwind Champion, which is Keleseth without deck restrictions and having to draw and play a 2 mana 2/2 and makes minions immune to Equality. Or even Raid Leader. Or any Watch Post. Or a spell damage minion. Or Ozumat/Neptulon to instantly spawn 6 1/3s or 2 4/2s. Or Brann, Geddon, Gadgetzan, BGBM, Abominable Lieutenant, core set Onyxia, etc., etc. So no, one star design, one star balance. He's either crap that takes up a board space or an uninteractable aura. At least until someone uses mass hard removal, at which point deathrattle minions also become relevant. One of two players will feel bad each game.

[@daniellucas5522]

​@@jingyulee96 Why would adding a peasant to your deck cause you to draw extra automatically? Squishy goes onto the board as an uninteractable minion taking up space. The random card replaces it in your deck/hand.

[@monarkev]

Honestly Squishy could be interesting as just a 0 Mana 1/1 Beast, “Your deck has 31 cards”

[@twistedtachyon5877]

Strictly worse snowflipper penguin doesn't seem especially interesting to me.

[@Corcook]

Could the rager also be used as infuse fodder. Say you top deck it. Play it and have it due immediately, then play your hood infuse card the rager just activated

[@robbylava]

I'm honestly shocked that Trump liked Ghost Rager at all -- I would've guessed he'd rip it to shreds! But his reasoning for it being solid totally convinced me, I hadn't thought of the analogy to Pelican Diver.

[@MildlyInterested_]

14:00 i would probably make it a 6 mana 6/3 with spell damage +3 or something. In almost all cases Stealth minions have more attack than health, also it would make it a bit more susceptible to aoe. 14:50 i think the rager is common because (i believe) most/all ragers are common cards so it has to have that gem.

[@svenpapparoni9985]

Magma Rager is base set so it doesn't have a gem. It's still basically uncommon though

[@formerflash1901]

Had to pause the video to challenge trump on the "kill is too strong a word for Hearthstone". There are many many examples of kill being used in hearthstone. In fact even the verbiage use on the custom card is correct. In all cases I could find except kill command which is just the name of the card, the use of the word is always past tense or third person, such as "killed the target" or "after this attacks and kills a minion". The only flaw I could reasonably suggest in the text is that the word "someone" should be replaced with "a character" to remain consistent. Just a list of examples for anyone curious - Kill command, and all the following have the text "kills a minion", "killed the target" or some alteration still using "kill" as the action: Wing commander ichman, burrowing scorpid, hulking overfiend, outriders axe, soul rend, lotus assassin, finja, darius crowley, pyromaniac, trampling rhino, batterhead, bane of doom, holy water, wanted, giant sand worm, the boogeymonster, and many more. If you type kill in the client for yourself you can read what I didn't list here. This is of course also not mentioning "overkill", a mechanic not in standard at the moment, and "honorable kill", a mechanic which is in standard at the moment.

[@Señor-Donjusticia]

Trump: You can't play Ghost Rager on turn 1 Me: Oh no, no, no, sir! I'm playing it on turn one just for some cheap and early infuse!

[@TordBot69]

i would give card theft 4 design because all the "spend all of your mana" cards are called forbidden so it should be called forbidden theft

[@Skullhawk13]

All theft is forbidden

[@ziggyzaggy8840]

Surreputitios also benefits from nagaling (minions casting spells), it may limit future design space.

[@Okojamo]

Trump: "Killed may be inappropriate." Blizzard: Murder at Castle Nathria

[@Señor-Donjusticia]

For Gnomish Escape, I think the roguish flavor should be that of a secret agent ripping off a disguise to reveal that it was just a 1/1 gnome (or murloc, or whatever) the entire time. Oh, you thought you were playing Bolderfist Ogre? Well it was really me! DIO!

[@hannahbriarly4192]

Is that really an escape? They're still working for the opponent

[@Señor-Donjusticia]

@@hannahbriarly4192 I'd change the name so it was no longer "Gnomish Escape." It would have to be something like "Disguised Agent."

[@HumanZombie99]

A small extra for Ghost Rager is that in an emergency you can play it un-infused to infuse your other cards in hand. Very niche and you wouldn't put the card in your deck just for that, but still somewhat useful and unique to Ghost Rager

[@MildlyInterested_]

probably the 3nd least bad rager in my opinion (after stealth and divine, at least those can sometimes survive)

[@rat488]

otk shenanigans with clone effects on sorcerer in mage seem interesting

[@twanschrover3]

Squishy should be rated as a meme card in my opinion, no way anyone made that card unironically. Atleast I hope I can have that much faith in humanity

[@richardmurray9026]

It took me exactly 1 minute to make. I just wanted a cute friend. 😍

[@_TimelessX]

not to mention ghost rager at 5/0 would be a good infuser too

[@Solrex_the_Sun_King]

1 mana Common Squishy Battlecry: Draw a Murkwater Scribe from your deck. 1/1 Interaction: if it is on the board when Murkwater scribe is played, it will make vocal aquatic complaints after Murkwater Scribe says she’s busy.

[@PettyGamerBoy]

Did y’all notice that the ghost ranger looks like a penguin? Is it the ghost of the snow flipper penguin?

[@eisgnom7383]

You can also use ghost rager as a death trigger!

[@quentind1924]

For the first card, it can also be played for 0 or 1 mana to steal a card. I think its a more consistant way to use it

[@Ziggity]

The warlock "quest" could have been a weapon losing durability and killing the hero for a deathrattle

[@BradGreer]

Unplayable in any meta with access to weapon removal, sadly

[@william4996]

I feel like Gnomish Escape is a great card. I think some level of understanding has to be had considering they're probably working with limited images here. I see it as the Gnome disguised himself as the minion or hid within something the minion has and when you summon the main minion you're fooled and the gnome pops out instead.

[@Pepe-pq3om]

But what does a gnome disguised as your minion in your hand have to do with the ENEMY rogue secret? Like, he was already there since the beginning and only after it the rogue would play the secret. Also, it would have to "counter" the minion transforming it on a gnome, not summoning a gnome and returning the minion you played to your hand

[@HellaGust]

Rename it gnomish disguise, then. 'cause what you're describing doesn't sound much like an escape to me. Sounds more like an infiltration if anything.

[@freewilly1193]

Suggestion for "guilty", The card could read "Destroy an enemy minion that survived combat damage last turn" But this draws upon M:TG, and might be not only wordy for Hearthstone, but also such a niche card that it may not even be included for tech options. It fills a role in its own way, but could have equally been a "Deal x damage" card and fulfill more role than it might with current hypothetical design. Overall I like the idea though, there is definitive workable space there.

[@big_snake431]

gotta be 0 mana then or it's just a strictly worse execute

[@freewilly1193]

@@big_snake431 this basically

[@bishop8958]

it could also be something like: "Destroy a minion that attacked last turn"

[@hctaz]

Maybe, "Destroy a minion that dealt fatal damage last turn."?

[@hagger4858]

@@bishop8958 i think this is a great idea, cant destroy a big minion before it gets atleast one attack would be great balance for a 2 or maybe 1 cost card.

[@Regnier191]

Killed is strong for HS? The next expansion literally has MURDER in the title!

[@RPGManoWar]

ESRB gets really pedantic about that kind of stuff sometimes. Warhammer 3 has demons literally spewing vomit and diaharrea on enemies. T for Teen. The blood DLC? M for Mature

[@SeraphsWitness]

Yea but that's in reference to the murder mystery genre, not an actual mechanic in the game. To introduce it as a mechanic would be out of flavor, I think he's correct.

[@badaboum2]

Also Honorable KILL is a mechanic.

[@SeraphsWitness]

@@badaboum2 Right, that's a phrase external to hearthstone referencing something culturally specific.

[@anondescript1134]

@@RPGManoWar Yeah I dont know wtf they are doing there... Same as with violence vs nudity. Shooting people in movies? Sure, thats okay to have in mainstream media. Nudity and sexual acts? No way, thats not natural and must be 18+. Sigh.

[@sighmon5640]

squishy n/a mana 0/0 your deck size is 31 start of game: sits next to you, isn't he cute? aka he leaves your deck completely and becomes an interactable board element near your hero with no actual effect

[@gabrielsouzasilva703]

Noooo squishyyyy! Justice for the cute octopus

[@fearghalreid162]

Another custom video! Thanks for the great content!

[@giuliomancin4525]

7:13 Oh come on, still this old nonsense? Some cards have five line of text in other languages, why should the design of English cards be limited by that?

[@Bomsanchu]

QUILTY!!! is surelly holy thats the most paladin thing i have ever heard

[@theunknownleaf409]

Can the ghost rager also be played WITHOUT the infuse to trigger other cards' infuse? Cause 0 health means it dies and infuse is triggered by a minion that dies?

[@UndyingNero]

I think that the spell damage minion at the end would be powerful but not overpowered (except for the obvious cards that are a problems like gorrote and puzzle box) Because you can't really set up well with it in rogue and mage because a lot of there kit relies on spell usage. You have to make sure that your next spell is indeed the one ment to deal the damage. Because the card won't hold your hand, it is a spellburst which means even if you play a buff or card draw or anything else. It will trigger and silence the minion including it's stealth. So you don't have a lot of plays to make until you use up that spell damage in reality.

[@antonalmgren2250]

Bro murdered squishy 💀

[@Derpe69420]

Surreptitious sorcerrer is broken beyond belief. Play it on 6, on 7 you play a spell that does ~10dmg and he attacks for 6. Thats half the opponents hp with 2 cards

[@Kelarys]

I think that quest only works if it forces you to play it turn one. And also, sure, shouldn't be a quest because negative reward

[@wombataldebaran9686]

The other card also acts as a double pun. Because it clearly is a kangaroo court.

[@Mene0]

Ghost Rager has so much flavor. I like it

[@alexcaffri9091]

You know playing a (0) mana GUILTY! on Raidboss Onyxia would feel sooo good though

[@sepherous7418]

WOAH WERE BACK TO OG CLASSIC TRUMP OUTRO MUSIC?????

[@thatgamingfreak]

Surreptitious sorceror should also be stealth for 1 turn.

[@cricket5692]

Given the theme of the infuse mechanic, I think Blood Rager or even Anima Rager would have worked better as a name than Ghost Rager

[@typhoonlagoon4031]

My favourite series 😁

[@vavakxnonexus]

A 0-health minion: Perfect, intuitive A quest with a negative reward: A labyrinth of meanings, wholly indecipherable

[@callmeconvay7977]

There might be some weird Ghost Rager effects depending on how it works with a 0-health minion. Does it die when you play it, or can you not play it all if it has 0 health? If you can play it but it immediately dies, there would be some weird 'when a minion dies' or 'if a friendly minion died this turn' interactions if you top-deck it.

[@mojolotz]

It's actually quite clear: right after summoning, it will die, if not brought over 0 health by field effects or such.

[@callmeconvay7977]

@@mojolotz since (as far as I know) there has never been a 0 health minion, so anything COULD be possible.

[@mojolotz]

@@callmeconvay7977 There have been similar effects that appear right when a minion hits the board that show pretty well what would happen. Can't think of any card names right now but over the years i've seen some. (think "when x gets summoned, deal damage to it" and field buffs get applied first) There's some small details i suppose but all in all i would be willing to bet that's how it looks.

[@reeky4265]

@@callmeconvay7977 You can get 0 health minion in hand right now, so we can understand, what will happen

[@faustsies1366]

he missed the obvious kangaroo court joke

[@motivatedposter3980]

Honestly GUILTY! Would work better as a secret like reckoning

[@Daniel-Star]

Why did Trump use Puzzle Box as an example for the Sorcerer and not Rune of the Archmage, which is more likely to benefit from the spell damage and not backfire?

[@jellyxgun648]

Sorry but the first card should be "forbidden" theft because the forbidden stuff spend all your mana and it should be from whispers of the old gods because we got forbidden stuff in wotog(whispers of the old gods)

[@solarkadakiadam]

Love this series, awesome man, awesome!!

[@tiagogamer2540]

My problem with Surreptitious Sorcerer's design is just one little detail... Why this man got more spell damage than the legendary dragon of magic while costing 3 less? Surely powercreeping a legendary on an epic isn't a good idea right?

[@nastalovremya]

kill is a bit too strong but MURDER in castle nathria is completely fine?

[@RPGManoWar]

You'd actually be surprised the ESRB is weeeeird

[@SeraphsWitness]

Killed is not the proper wording for a card mechanic in hearthstone.

[@nastalovremya]

@@RPGManoWar it has the same ESRB rating as WoW and people are getting "killed" quite a lot in that game.

[@nastalovremya]

@@SeraphsWitness yeah, but something like charrrge is also not a proper wording. Hearthstone doesnt care nearly as much as most other TCG about wording. Killed just gives so much flavor to the card and doesnt affect clarity at all.

[@SeraphsWitness]

@@nastalovremya But "charrrge" is obviously a reference to the keyword charge, and it's a solid one-off card. In this case there's really no flavor reason to change "Destroyed a minion" to "killed someone". It's just needless IMO

[@ΜιχάληςΔιγγελίδης]

The 6 mama 6 spell dmg is too op because of nagalings as well

[@Fishman573]

You absolutely can have quests with downsides its Hack the System

[@Avatarbee]

Guilty! sounds like it should be a secret.

[@Happydeon123]

Card theft against hunter you could steal a 2 mana spell that would hurt their quest and has board clear also stealing tracking is good in the early game so the card is still useful

[@geasslelouch]

rafam has always been a 7 mana 7/8 though its like boom and sevens 😭

[@like2upload3videos]

Rafaam has never just been 7 mana the original rafaam was 9 mana

[@kylefitzhenry3048]

Mandela effect is strong here

[@Bob_Bobinson]

Isn't aquatic form already a 0 mana draw a card?

[@JustAHearthstoneNoob]

With a condition

[@namesareveryhard8329]

Hell yeah more custom hearthstone reviews