[Custom Expansion] FLIGHTS OVER PANDARIA (Regular Updates!)

Important Note: Due to studies and personal circumstances I'll give this project a break. I'm not giving up and it shouldn't take too long. Hope I can get back as soon as possible. Thanks for all the support!

Flights over Pandaria is my take on the Year of the Dragon 3rd expansion. Yes, this will set after Saviors of Uldum events (even thought we haven't seen the single-player content of it yet). My idea is that League of Explorers successfully dealt with Rafaam's plan and saved Uldum from the plagues. But League of EVIL still up there with Dalaran and now they are moving towards Pandaria! They are joining forces with Mogus, Zandalari trolls, Sha, Jinyus and even some Pandarens to continue their chaotic scheme. And what about the non-evil classes: Druid, Hunter, Mage and Paladin? Well, these will have some celestial companies.

Let's check it out the main features of the expansion:

• Explore the continent of Pandaria: Introducing Locations

Locations! These spells have a temporary effect that afflicts both players. The idea is similar to Boomsday project cards, but this time we have a ongoing passive and not just a card. Every location card specify the duration of turns (It counts turns from both players). It is not possible to play a location with another one already in play. Each class will receive one legendary location.

• Become a Monk: Meditate Keyword

Meditate is a signature ability of Monks and now its also a keyword! It triggers when the minion could but didn't attack.

• Devote to the Celestial Gods: New Highlander Card!

A familiar face is now stronger than ever. Wrathion* is bringing the power of August Celestials: Xuen the White Tiger, Yu'lon the Jade Serpent, Chi-Ji the Red Crane and Niuzao the Black Ox. Also each non-evil class is going to receive a celestial blessing spell.

OR...

• Serve to the League of EVIL: New Lackey and interactions!
  

Mischeavous spirits are now lackeys of League of EVIL. Expect to see more cards with lackey interactions!

*Note: Yeah, I know this art was used back in Gadgetzan (Wrathion). But i couldn't find at least a reasonable art... sorry for that, but I didn't want to put a bad artwork for such a important card for the set. If someone finds out a good art for this, send it to me please.
And the celestials gods card "tokens" are still in progress. (also need a great art for Yu'lon, Niuzao and Chi-Ji)

Latest Released Cards

Check out the Changelog for additional information.

All Cards
(29 out of 135)

• Druid

• Hunter

• Mage

• Paladin

• Priest

• Rogue

• Shaman

• Warlock

• Warrior

• Neutrals

It is important to notice that this custom expansion still in progress, so cards shown here are subject to change. Also it's very welcome any feedback, maybe there's a card with a bad interaction or you can send me card ideas and artworks.

Special thanks to Hearthcards for their fantastic card generator website and OOC for the greatest hearthstone content.

Dude, I love it!!!!! Although the Warlock location is a pretty lame card... You could've thought of something more creative, and that's a fact... I mean when i saw all the other cards they were amazing and super creative, therefore you should rework it. Personal opinion though, don't take my words as a demand. ^^

P.S. The keyword is the most original of the kewords yet. Well done!

Meditate Keyword is great, looking forward to seeing more cards reveals!

Perhaps we will see some Sha Cards that debuff, leech, etc, even have special interactions with Meditate cards?

Looks pretty good so far - i like it!

The only question i have right now is the why the Monk Card Broketooth Wanderer does not have a "Monk" tag ? As stated above the Meditate ability is for Monks only so i thought it should also have the Monk Tag below like the New Lackey is an Elemental :)

But the other stuff looks great so far - the Warlock Minion Cursed Pandaren seems a little to strong - of course depending what counts as an enchantment? If i would buff up  cards with Grim Rally for example - would he also get the buffs of all the buffed minions? 

The location cards kinda read weird. I think that instead of it saying "10 turns" and then the effect, it would say "for 10 turns, do X". 

The paladin spell, fortitude of niuzao, also reads kinda weird. I thin it would be better if it said "choose a minion, until your next turn that minion can only take 1 damage at a time" instead of "choose a minion, it can only take 1 damage at a time until your next turn"

The hunter minion having stealth and rush is kinda pointless, I get what you are trying to do, but there is almost no circumstances where you would rather keep it stealthed. 

other than that, the expansion looks well themed and mostly balanced. I really like the pandarian theme, and I hope blizzard makes a panda expansion in the future. 

*edit* I just noticed that your lackey is basically just Titanic Lackey but for one more health. you should probably change it to something else just for more variety. maybe something that gives a minion stats, like +1/+1, or +2/+0.

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We'll have Sha cards for sure still don't know the effects.. but debuffs and leeching are a possibility. Don't think they'll have interactions with meditate

Dude, I love it!!!!! Although the Warlock location is a pretty lame card... You could've thought of something more creative, and that's a fact... I mean when i saw all the other cards they were amazing and super creative, therefore you should rework it. Personal opinion though, don't take my words as a demand. ^^

 

P.S. The keyword is the most original of the kewords yet. Well done!

I agree, warlock location seems underwhelming. But I think it can be good if I push correctly the self-damage Warlock archetype and that's what I'm planning. Maybe there's a future for Duskbat and Deathweb Spider in hearthstone, probably not :/

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Meditate Keyword is great, looking forward to seeing more cards reveals!

Perhaps we will see some Sha Cards that debuff, leech, etc, even have special interactions with Meditate cards?

We'll have Sha cards for sure still don't know the effects.. but debuffs and leeching are a possibility. Don't think they'll have interactions with Meditate tho.

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Looks pretty good so far - i like it!

The only question i have right now is the why the Monk Card Broketooth Wanderer does not have a "Monk" tag ? As stated above the Meditate ability is for Monks only so i thought it should also have the Monk Tag below like the New Lackey is an Elemental :)

But the other stuff looks great so far - the Warlock Minion Cursed Pandaren seems a little to strong - of course depending what counts as an enchantment? If i would buff up  cards with Grim Rally for example - would he also get the buffs of all the buffed minions? 

I don't see the point of having Monk as a minion type tag. We haven't seen any class as a tag. In KofT we were expecting to see an Undead tag and that would make sense, but a Death Knight wouldn't. I think you get what I mean.
Enchantments are the same considered for Immortal Prelate, when a minion gets buffed. So if you Grim Rally your board, Cursed Pandaren would steal each +1/+1 given (if it didn't attack). But aura buffs like Flametongue Totem don't.

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The location cards kinda read weird. I think that instead of it saying "10 turns" and then the effect, it would say "for 10 turns, do X". 

The paladin spell, fortitude of niuzao, also reads kinda weird. I thin it would be better if it said "choose a minion, until your next turn that minion can only take 1 damage at a time" instead of "choose a minion, it can only take 1 damage at a time until your next turn"

The hunter minion having stealth and rush is kinda pointless, I get what you are trying to do, but there is almost no circumstances where you would rather keep it stealthed. 

other than that, the expansion looks well themed and mostly balanced. I really like the pandarian theme, and I hope blizzard makes a panda expansion in the future. 

*edit* I just noticed that your lackey is basically just Titanic Lackey but for one more health. you should probably change it to something else just for more variety. maybe something that gives a minion stats, like +1/+1, or +2/+0.

Good calls! Definitely going to make these changes regarding locations and the paladin spell. Sentinel Striker I think it's fine.. I mean it's a better Gilblin Stalker because its a class card and still common. Works well for arena.
About the lackey, I also think it is fine. It can be good in a quest priest and I'm going to make more lackeys interactions for them. Can be useful for warlock as it takes too much damage and for rogue as it lacks on healing. Also for quest shaman because of hero power + this lackey is restore 6 health for 3 mana which is really okay. The only class that kinda sucks with this lackey is warrior, but still can heal damaged minions.
*Edit: Relying on Time Out!, Conceal and Curse of Weakness texts apparently Fortitude of Niuzao wording is fine.

Thank you all for the replies!

I like what you've got so far! The Meditate keyword is a great idea, although I hope the rest of them are big enough effects to justify waiting 2 turns for the effect to happen (Cursed Pandaren is on the right track IMO). Are all of the Locations 1 Mana or is it just the Warlock one? Also, you could check here for some other Wrathion artwork if you haven't already.

The lackey that you've created is underpowered. All of the lackeys currently do something worth ~1 mana (easy example: Kobold Lackey) while your's has an effect worth 0 mana: Regenerate. You can up the health to 5 to be a Flash Heal if that's the direction you want to take. Otherwise, I love the expansion idea! 

Heart of Fear is a little underwhelming for a card that affects the entire battlefield and seems more like a detriment than an advantage considering as a warlock you're more likely to be damaged than your opponenet. 

Cursed Pandaren seems really broken though. I understand it's at the expense of not attacking but it has premium stats with a powerful effect.

Also Prey on the Weak is completely out of flavor for rogue. Rogue has historically never had effects that rely on minion attack; instead a better option would be to change it to say "Deal 2 damage to a minion. Add a random card from another class to your hand." Maybe that's not even balanced, but considering WANTED! has never seen serious play, I think it's fine.

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I like what you've got so far! The Meditate keyword is a great idea, although I hope the rest of them are big enough effects to justify waiting 2 turns for the effect to happen (Cursed Pandaren is on the right track IMO). Are all of the Locations 1 Mana or is it just the Warlock one? Also, you could check here for some other Wrathion artwork if you haven't already.

No, locations will have different mana costs. They'll be cheap cards, max of 3 maybe 4 mana. Thanks for the artwork suggestions but already had seen those and I didn't liked them all except his hearthstone art. For now I'll keep as it is :(

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The lackey that you've created is underpowered. All of the lackeys currently do something worth ~1 mana (easy example: Kobold Lackey) while your's has an effect worth 0 mana: Regenerate. You can up the health to 5 to be a Flash Heal if that's the direction you want to take. Otherwise, I love the expansion idea! 

Heart of Fear is a little underwhelming for a card that affects the entire battlefield and seems more like a detriment than an advantage considering as a warlock you're more likely to be damaged than your opponenet. 

Cursed Pandaren seems really broken though. I understand it's at the expense of not attacking but it has premium stats with a powerful effect.

Also Prey on the Weak is completely out of flavor for rogue. Rogue has historically never had effects that rely on minion attack; instead a better option would be to change it to say "Deal 2 damage to a minion. Add a random card from another class to your hand." Maybe that's not even balanced, but considering WANTED! has never seen serious play, I think it's fine.

You're absolutely right about the lackey. I was scary of quest shaman healing 10 with this but maybe that's not a big deal. I've updated it and Heart of Fear aswell.
Not sure about Cursed Pandaren, probably i'll take out 1 health. 3/5 still good stats.
Prey on the Weak I was thinking more about the card name itself... and I think the effect as it is now meets well with the card name/idea.. I don't think "deal 2 damage" would to fit in tho. Well I'll have to think about it. Anyway, thanks for the feedbacks!

Really like the expansion, but Locations should just be spells, like Quests.

For instance, the Warlock Location would read:

Location (10): At the start of each turn, deal 1 damage to both heroes.

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Really like the expansion, but Locations should just be spells, like Quests.

For instance, the Warlock Location would read:

Location (10): At the start of each turn, deal 1 damage to both heroes.

Locations were inspired from Hearthcards, so I directly made with their own location feature. By changing them to spells will make a Blizzard-like approach (I doubt they would make another special card design like they did for Hero cards). Also it'll allow to put the expansion watermark and make Location to appear as text keyword.
Going to update this right now, really thanks for the advice!