Tbh I created the deck because of the Expired Merchant interaction with C'Thun, but I didn't play a lot of games with it because currently I'm trying out Shudderwock decks. This was more of an idea to save and refine later.
In the games I played I found Barista to really be unnecessary value, and Spirit Bomb also hasn't shown itself so great versus aggro. I'll remove 1x Spirit Bomb and Barista and add 2x Crystallizers for early game.
Expired Merchant is great against control decks. Having 3 C'Thuns with Taunt helps piercing Druid and Warrior Armor. But even if you don't have the Eye in your hand, you can copy Godfrey or Riftcleaver for control, Vek'lor for Taunts or even Soulwarden for infinite Soulwardens!
Speaking of which, Soulwarden can give you more copies of the Merchant's card, but honestly, it's the meme card of the deck and you can replace it with any card you want. Maybe a second Defile would be a good idea.
Again, since I didn't play this enough, I can't be certain, but I think Khartut Defender can fill Vek'lor's slot since they are both Taunts and Khartut even heals you. Brann is important because he can double the buffs on C'Thun, but his main interactions are with Zola and Vek'lor, so if you replace Vek'lor with Khartut, you can replace Brann with another Khartut or a cheaper Taunt like Vulgar Homunculus.
Hope this helped. If you're planning to play this deck, please leave some feedback on how it went!
Well, I don't want another Patchy, so I'll think of something in the morning.
Also, I'm just gonna throw this out there: The other idea i had for a free legendary was Zul (from WoW, unlike Khun) as a high-Attack low-Health Rush minion with "Overkill: Shuffle a Corrupted Blood into your opponent's deck." Something like 7 or 8 Mana 5/2. Eventually I dropped the idea because it seemed to be a BIG counter to any control deck, even if Elysiana started to be played as a counter. Do you think it's an idea worth salvaging?
The division into fair and interesting is more aesthetic than real, but I did try to organize the cards properly. [Hearthstone Card (Halazzi the Lynx) Not Found] with Rush seems interesting... I might change it if others agree. I will probably remove Blast Wave soon, maybe with Scorch, but then I'm buffing two Elemental cards. Glad you're happy with (mostly) all else.
About Khun, I don't know. Yes, it's consistent, but as a guaranteed Stonetusk Boar that could mess up your strategy if it shuffles a 2-Cost card. But didn't we all get Vargoth, "the best Legendary of RoS" for free?
p.s. I think the problem with Rain of Toads isn't the Cost or effect, but the big Overload, just like with Elemental Destruction or Crushing Hand. I didn't want to tamper with the Overload as it is an important part of the card's effect.
Inspired by ZardozSpeakZ's Screams of the Old Gods, I decided to do a buff event for Rastakhan's Rumble. Why this expansion particularly? For a last expansion of the year, it seemed to have very low impact. Sure, some cards like Da Undatakah or Zul'jin were really powerul (and still are), but mainly it was just a lot of support for existing archtypes or support for Gonk Druid, Discardlock and Healadin. But I'm not gonna go so much in detail because that's not really the point and also because I'll give a brief explanation of my choice on each card.
But first:
A new Loa, Rezan the King!
And another use of the Start of Game ability. Similair to Sir Finley Mrrgglton, it gives you a new starting Hero Power, however you cannot choose which one. But if you don't like what you get, you can return your original hero Power by playing Rezan.
And a Spirit to accompany the Loa, Spirit of the King!
The King gladly helps the meek. Useful in any deck that wants its low Cost cards or some drawingconsistency .
And yes, all players get Rezan and two Spirits of the King for FREE!
Onto the buffs:
Fair buffs
Interesting buffs
Druid
It seems unfair that one option is so obviously worse than the other one. It's not a big buff, but I think the card would start to see some play, if anything because of versatility.
Big Beast Druid seemed promising, but Undatakah was just better. The card has been lost ever since, but with this buff someone might stir up a viable Big Beast Druid.
Hunter
Halazzi is pretty useless now, even in casual decks. Reducing the Cost by 1 means you can play it turn 5 with a Lynx, but it would probably still see no serious ranked play.
There's some experimentation with this in Highlander Hunter, but that's it. With 3 Attack, it becomes much better when played without a Weapon and great when played when you have one equiped.
Mage
Making Elemental support 4 months before Un'goro and Frost Lich Jaina leave Standard. At least now it's more versatile andcomparable to Vendetta.
Not only is Dragon Priest arguably better than Elemental Mage, they also make Elemental Duskbreaker cost 6. It could see play if Elementals become Mage's class identity (like Beasts in Hunter).
Paladin
Spirit of the Tiger has potential, but it's too slow and Paladin doesn't have many good high-Cost spells. Reducing the Cost by 1 helps getting more value from it with midrange spells like Blessing of Kings.
Since the current Bloodclaw has too big of a downside, even in occasional Healadins, making it 3/2 would make it much better for early control as well as aggression.
Priest
Was designed mainly as CC nerf, but it's still a Nomi/Spell Priest buff. Also, Evolve Shaman can now get this from evolving 10-Cost minions. Take that as you want.
Surrender to Madness 2.0! Get 2 dead Keleseths, but pay 1 now and the other throughout the game! Probably still not nearly viable, but definitely much cooler.
Rogue
Although you might be lucky enough to get Twig or Dragon Soul in Wild, that chance is shrinking with every new weapon, not to mention how ineffective this is in Standard.
Theoretically, 5-Cost Gral is good as long as it eats a 3/4 or 4/3 or higher stated minion. So a 4-Cost Gral needs to eat a 2/3 or 3/2 or higher to be good. Again, just theoretically.
Shaman
Still bad, but hey, this wouldn't be realistic if there wasn't at least one badly thought-out change, now would it? *laughs in Flark's Boom-Zooka*
Easily one of the least played and known cards of the set. By reducing the requirement, the card becomes a lot more accessible and easier to play at any point of the game.
Warlock
A card occasionally used by Zoolock. Since Warlock sucks right now, having a better answer to big minions is fine. Best part is that it can now cost 0.
Definitely the biggest buff of all, and Warlock could really use it right now. Unlike Luna's Pocket Galaxy, this gives you no value, but it can easily mess up your opponent's deck.
Warrior
Rush Warrior isn't a great deck, and Spirit of the Rhino even there isn't worth a slot. With 0 Mana, it is much simpler to play Rush minions in the same turn, but it's still only good as a part of a bad deck.
The only Dragon Warrior card that wasn't played. With almost vanilla stats it can give you better control to play those copies. And with DoD coming up, this might just become relevant.
I'm curious, how does Nine Lives interact with Weasel Tunneler? Do you get a weasel and shuffle a weasel, or is the added weasel immediately shuffled in the deck?
Here's the thing about Prismatic Lens - the card itself is fine, essentially a 4 Mana Arcane Intellect, but with a chance to make high-cost cards cheaper. The problem is PL consistently pulling TTS. A good change, as JoeyJojo48 suggested, would be to make Prismatic Lens draw any 2 cards and swap their costs and maybe bring it down to 3 Mana. That way it won't become completely unplayable in every deck.
Infernal Prince is definitely overpowered. It's a 6/6 minion that casts Fireball for only 6 Mana. True, it can't go face, but it's still an amazing control card. Possibly better than Omega Devastator because you can play it earlier, and it's neutral.
Also, may i point out that Fel Chieftain Jubei is essentially a Hellfire with a 4/4 body.
Great work on the rest, I really like the Hunter cards! (Is Warglaive of Azzinoth accidentally Neutral?)
I just had a really fun game versus a warlock in the tavern brawl. I was playing Warrior with Rogue, opponent was Warlock with Paladin. First, the guy plays Renounce Darkness turn 2 and gets - Paladin, of course. Turn 6 he plays High Priest Thekal + Silvermoon Portal and gets Kangor (Wow!). And yes, of course he played a Dinosize on Kangor turn 7 and went face. But if you think the worst has passed - oh dear! The very next turn his Unseen Saboteur managed to pull - yes, you got it right - Myra's Unstable Element. Yup, this guy got 20 Armor, Thaurissaned half of his deck and destroyed my deck before he even got to turn 10. But I still didn't give up, as I actually had some pretty good cards in my hand, and his Kangor had only 2 Health remaining. That is, until he played Lay on Hands on him...
Tbh I created the deck because of the Expired Merchant interaction with C'Thun, but I didn't play a lot of games with it because currently I'm trying out Shudderwock decks. This was more of an idea to save and refine later.
Zola is usually necessary because she can copy cultists, Loatheb, Riftcleaver or even Godfrey and Vek'lor.
In the games I played I found Barista to really be unnecessary value, and Spirit Bomb also hasn't shown itself so great versus aggro.
I'll remove 1x Spirit Bomb and Barista and add 2x Crystallizers for early game.
Expired Merchant is great against control decks. Having 3 C'Thuns with Taunt helps piercing Druid and Warrior Armor.
But even if you don't have the Eye in your hand, you can copy Godfrey or Riftcleaver for control, Vek'lor for Taunts or even Soulwarden for infinite Soulwardens!
Speaking of which, Soulwarden can give you more copies of the Merchant's card, but honestly, it's the meme card of the deck and you can replace it with any card you want. Maybe a second Defile would be a good idea.
Again, since I didn't play this enough, I can't be certain, but I think Khartut Defender can fill Vek'lor's slot since they are both Taunts and Khartut even heals you. Brann is important because he can double the buffs on C'Thun, but his main interactions are with Zola and Vek'lor, so if you replace Vek'lor with Khartut, you can replace Brann with another Khartut or a cheaper Taunt like Vulgar Homunculus.
Hope this helped. If you're planning to play this deck, please leave some feedback on how it went!
It happened.
It actually happened! (I mean, it IS simple...)
Well, I don't want another Patchy, so I'll think of something in the morning.
Also, I'm just gonna throw this out there: The other idea i had for a free legendary was Zul (from WoW, unlike Khun) as a high-Attack low-Health Rush minion with "Overkill: Shuffle a Corrupted Blood into your opponent's deck." Something like 7 or 8 Mana 5/2. Eventually I dropped the idea because it seemed to be a BIG counter to any control deck, even if Elysiana started to be played as a counter. Do you think it's an idea worth salvaging?
Thanks for the detailed feedback ZardozSpeakZ!
The division into fair and interesting is more aesthetic than real, but I did try to organize the cards properly.
[Hearthstone Card (Halazzi the Lynx) Not Found] with Rush seems interesting... I might change it if others agree.
I will probably remove Blast Wave soon, maybe with Scorch, but then I'm buffing two Elemental cards.
Glad you're happy with (mostly) all else.
About Khun, I don't know. Yes, it's consistent, but as a guaranteed Stonetusk Boar that could mess up your strategy if it shuffles a 2-Cost card. But didn't we all get Vargoth, "the best Legendary of RoS" for free?
p.s. I think the problem with Rain of Toads isn't the Cost or effect, but the big Overload, just like with Elemental Destruction or Crushing Hand. I didn't want to tamper with the Overload as it is an important part of the card's effect.
Which brings us back to Brightwing, because you can use her in any class for extra Millhouses.
Inspired by ZardozSpeakZ's Screams of the Old Gods, I decided to do a buff event for Rastakhan's Rumble. Why this expansion particularly? For a last expansion of the year, it seemed to have very low impact. Sure, some cards like Da Undatakah or Zul'jin were really powerul (and still are), but mainly it was just a lot of support for existing archtypes or support for Gonk Druid, Discardlock and Healadin. But I'm not gonna go so much in detail because that's not really the point and also because I'll give a brief explanation of my choice on each card.
But first:
A new Loa, Rezan the King!
And another use of the Start of Game ability. Similair to
Sir Finley Mrrgglton, it gives you a new starting Hero Power, however you cannot choose which one. But if you don't like what you get, you can return your original hero Power by playing Rezan.
And a Spirit to accompany the Loa, Spirit of the King!
The King gladly helps the meek. Useful in any deck that wants its low Cost cards or some drawing consistency .
And yes, all players get Rezan and two Spirits of the King for FREE!
Onto the buffs:
It seems unfair that one option is so obviously worse than the other one. It's not a big buff, but I think the card would start to see some play, if anything because of versatility.
Big Beast Druid seemed promising, but Undatakah was just better. The card has been lost ever since, but with this buff someone might stir up a viable Big Beast Druid.
Halazzi is pretty useless now, even in casual decks. Reducing the Cost by 1 means you can play it turn 5 with a Lynx, but it would probably still see no serious ranked play.
There's some experimentation with this in Highlander Hunter, but that's it. With 3 Attack, it becomes much better when played without a Weapon and great when played when you have one equiped.
Making Elemental support 4 months before Un'goro and Frost Lich Jaina leave Standard. At least now it's more versatile and comparable to Vendetta.
Not only is Dragon Priest arguably better than Elemental Mage, they also make Elemental Duskbreaker cost 6. It could see play if Elementals become Mage's class identity (like Beasts in Hunter).
Spirit of the Tiger has potential, but it's too slow and Paladin doesn't have many good high-Cost spells. Reducing the Cost by 1 helps getting more value from it with midrange spells like Blessing of Kings.
Since the current Bloodclaw has too big of a downside, even in occasional Healadins, making it 3/2 would make it much better for early control as well as aggression.
Was designed mainly as CC nerf, but it's still a Nomi/Spell Priest buff. Also, Evolve Shaman can now get this from evolving 10-Cost minions. Take that as you want.
Surrender to Madness 2.0! Get 2 dead Keleseths, but pay 1 now and the other throughout the game! Probably still not nearly viable, but definitely much cooler.
Although you might be lucky enough to get Twig or Dragon Soul in Wild, that chance is shrinking with every new weapon, not to mention how ineffective this is in Standard.
Theoretically, 5-Cost Gral is good as long as it eats a 3/4 or 4/3 or higher stated minion. So a 4-Cost Gral needs to eat a 2/3 or 3/2 or higher to be good.
Again, just theoretically.
Still bad, but hey, this wouldn't be realistic if there wasn't at least one badly thought-out change, now would it?
*laughs in Flark's Boom-Zooka*
Easily one of the least played and known cards of the set. By reducing the requirement, the card becomes a lot more accessible and easier to play at any point of the game.
A card occasionally used by Zoolock. Since Warlock sucks right now, having a better answer to big minions is fine. Best part is that it can now cost 0.
Definitely the biggest buff of all, and Warlock could really use it right now. Unlike Luna's Pocket Galaxy, this gives you no value, but it can easily mess up your opponent's deck.
Rush Warrior isn't a great deck, and Spirit of the Rhino even there isn't worth a slot. With 0 Mana, it is much simpler to play Rush minions in the same turn, but it's still only good as a part of a bad deck.
The only Dragon Warrior card that wasn't played. With almost vanilla stats it can give you better control to play those copies. And with DoD coming up, this might just become relevant.
Thoughts are welcome!
I'm curious, how does Nine Lives interact with Weasel Tunneler? Do you get a weasel and shuffle a weasel, or is the added weasel immediately shuffled in the deck?
Love how the crafting cost is a clean 10000.
I don't think so. I played Skull of the Man'ari and it pulled my Toxfin, but maybe you're right about Voidcaller.
Could be really powerful if you destroy Cult Master in the same turn.
Next up, a Druid card that somehow involves Bees from BEEEES!!!
Next, a Rogue minion with a C'Thun cultist effect.
Here's the thing about Prismatic Lens - the card itself is fine, essentially a 4 Mana Arcane Intellect, but with a chance to make high-cost cards cheaper. The problem is PL consistently pulling TTS. A good change, as JoeyJojo48 suggested, would be to make Prismatic Lens draw any 2 cards and swap their costs and maybe bring it down to 3 Mana. That way it won't become completely unplayable in every deck.
And now something a little less weird - a spell that deals damage or destroys (or both).
Next:
Infernal Prince is definitely overpowered. It's a 6/6 minion that casts Fireball for only 6 Mana. True, it can't go face, but it's still an amazing control card. Possibly better than Omega Devastator because you can play it earlier, and it's neutral.
Also, may i point out that Fel Chieftain Jubei is essentially a Hellfire with a 4/4 body.
Great work on the rest, I really like the Hunter cards! (Is Warglaive of Azzinoth accidentally Neutral?)
Thanks, I always love a good twist on Shudderwock.
Can't believe one of my decks is actually here! And it's even the first one listed :)
I just had a really fun game versus a warlock in the tavern brawl. I was playing Warrior with Rogue, opponent was Warlock with Paladin. First, the guy plays Renounce Darkness turn 2 and gets - Paladin, of course. Turn 6 he plays High Priest Thekal + Silvermoon Portal and gets Kangor (Wow!). And yes, of course he played a Dinosize on Kangor turn 7 and went face. But if you think the worst has passed - oh dear! The very next turn his Unseen Saboteur managed to pull - yes, you got it right - Myra's Unstable Element. Yup, this guy got 20 Armor, Thaurissaned half of his deck and destroyed my deck before he even got to turn 10. But I still didn't give up, as I actually had some pretty good cards in my hand, and his Kangor had only 2 Health remaining. That is, until he played Lay on Hands on him...
I preffer salami sandwiches.