If you're not smart you'd better be annoying

You know what? Yesterday I posted about educating the Ogres; making them smarter. Well today I want to punish those who are smart :D Let's annoy the pro-players!

Almost all pro-players tend to think for a long time before they act. Other people pretend to think for a long time and use 'turtling' as a tactic. Now those are the annoying people. So in return; let's give them a reason not to do this. Why not add a card that would punish people for waiting for the rope. 

Abilities that trigger when the rope appears should be easy enough to avoid for anyone. Just be a little quicker with your thinking. Also, such abilities would works nicely combined with Nozdormu. When these two get combined, you will trigger the ability every turn! Now that would make this card strong and would make Nozdormu more powerful. 

So when I thought about this, that would mean that the minion should have decent stats

on it's own (the ability doesn't work in most cases). It also would mean that the card should have some link to the Bronze Dragonflight. So, i decided to make the card a Timewalker.

The first idea was to create a Timewalker warrior that gives Taunt whenever the rope appears, but I couldn't find any good art for it. My next idea was to have a Warlock Timewalker, that would Shadow bolt a random minion, but there wasn't any decent Timewalker art for that either. So then I found this art and decided to make it a Mage for now. I mean, common it's Winter Veil; let's freeze some stuff!

I didn't really focus that much on the stats. I just wanted to try some new idea's out that would help Nozdormu and revolve around time (the rope). Let me know what you think of such abilities. Would they work of be much to situational and thus be bad?

Furious Warstomper

Here is that Tauren card I promised in my previous post. I had some trouble with the art for this one, but I think the card would be rather fun to play with. The idea is that if you drop the Warstomper on the battlefield, he stomps the ground and all your opponent's minions fly into the air. Once they hit the ground, their sequence has been rearranged.

It's fairly obvious with what cards this would be useful. For example if your opponent is buffing adjacent minions (Dire Wolf Alpha or Flametongue Totem) that you want (or need) to kill. Also it might mess with your opponent's future plans (like playing a Sunfury Protector). Ofcouse, heroes like Hunter and Rogue may find it useful with some of the spells they have in their arsenal. It might help with casting a lucky Explosive shot or Betrayal in a situation that woul not have been possible before.

To be honest, I don't know if the card would be played that much, since you might call it too situational. However I do think the ability is fun and still unused in the game. With Blizzard creating all these RNG effect, its interessting they have not yet introduced such an effect. Is that because it might be to weak? Or is because they don't like dealing out negative effects to opponents?

Let me know what you think of it. The idea for this ability came up to my while riding the train today. Should I have left it there? :) 

Just a random thought

Darkspear Mystic

I'm on a roll! (not saying it's a good one :P) This is the third card dripping from my half-sleeping mind. So, the idea was that I wanted to create a card that had the "vibes" of a Stoneforge Mystic from MTG. I Really like that sweet old Kor card. She's a cheap costing minion with a huge ability. When I saw the art that I used for this card I immediately felt like Stoneforge Mystic. The only problem was the ability. I had no idea what to give to him and I didn't want to make it as strong as the Stoneforge Mystic.

That's when I came up with the idea to stop Hero Powers from working. It allows the player (Shaman) to control the board a little bit more. Not that they needed it, I was just too lazy coming up with any other idea. I hope you like the card. As always, leave comments below. I'm going to bed right now :)

PS: Now I think of it, maybe it's better to be a Warrior card (?)

Servitor Shade

So, late last night this ability popped in my head. It's a bit similar to the Void Terror's ability, except that this minion keeps using that ability over and over. The first ability seemed rather overpowered and that's why I had to tweak the ability a bit. Resulting in the cards your looking at.


This Servitor Shade absorbs the power of all minions that die. Except, they have to die one by one. So using a Hellfire or Abombination won't make this minion so huge that you can instantly kill the opponent. Besides that, whenever the minion gets buffed, he loses one Health. Bringing him within Burn rage of most small spells. I think this is a nice and cool minion. I love Shades / dark themed elementals.

At first I wanted this minion to be Shaman, but I think it's way more favorable for Warlocks. Besides that, I don't think absorbing power fits the Shaman's theme. That would rather be the nature giving power to an minion.