Yey! Good to see those back here, I was afraid you were done with the series, glad that is not the case. The set is very cool too, i frecking love a reference heavy set.

I have, and it's been performing amazing! You don't need Cage Head, trust me, instead remove one Mosh Pit, put two Rowdy Fans and see the magic.

Often I've find the lack of turn 1 plays to be annoying, so i've put Whispers of EVIL  in it. It's been performing better than expected. I recommend more people to try it to improve the data.

Update 2: Now as promised the battle pass and the misc, my favorite part of doing a custom set, let's get going!

Pre-order

But first, let us pretend the there's a pre-order for the expansion, I don't feel using the OG one again, so let's that by pre-ordering you will (or rather would) get acces to the amazing Darkreign cardback, along with a skin 100% designed and drawn by my me, the legendary Warlock guitarist Mattheus Darkreign!

If you've checked the original expansion, you problably already knew that Mattheus art was my work, however after a bit more studying and pratice, he received some nice upgrades. Check the new art, and once again, feel free to use it on your cards if you feel like it.

Signature Cards

The Festival of Legends brought us some nice new signature cards, and althought I lack the skill and time to make some flashy and inotvative sig cards, I've decided to edit the Lich King ones to fit with the Rock in Azeroth flavour. So now, let's take a look at the Rock in Azeroth's Signature Cards:

Diamond Cards

Now we have the Diamon Cards, they may be not anymated, but I assure you they look cool noetheless, check'em up:

Shaggrath: Obtainable by having 25 Rock in Azeroth's legendaries.

E.T.C, Solo Master: Obtainable by purshasing the Battle Pass.

MAttheus Darkreign: Obtainable by pre-ordering the Let's Ride to Metal Land Mini-Set.

Battle Pass

For the Battle Pass, we'll have the following items:

The Skull Coin, Death Metal Knight Darion, Thrasher Aranna, Gothic Malfurion, Showrunner Sylvannas, Hardcore Jaina, Metalhead Uther, Punk Anduin, Edgywin VanCleef, Biker Thrall, Corpse Paint Nemsy, E.t.c, Detonator Bartender, Guitar cardback, and the Treble Clef Coin for having 145 cards from the set.

And that is...NOT ALL!!! There's a bit more things planed for the set, and that is the balance "pacht" and the battlegrounds update, so once again, thank you for taking a looking at my work, and see y'all sooooooooon.

Update 1: The Mini-set is live, go take a look!

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Some are too powerful (like Paradise lost text is, in reality, Win) but I like what you did here

Balance has always been my weekness, but I'm glad you've liked it nonetheless.

 Heeeeeeeeello llo lloooo, I'm back here again to present you the remake of my most aclaimed custom expansion ever, and that expansion is Rock in Azeroth! An expansion fully themed around Metal music, which was going to get some new cards due the Death Knight class, but then I've decided to remake the whole thing. And to be clear here, the remake has been under development way before the Festival of Legends were anounced, so the fact I'm revealing it along side a music themed expansion was a mere coincidence. But enough talk, let's get to the introduction, so ladies and gentlemen, welcome, to ROCK IN AZEROTH!!! REEEEEEEEEEMIXEEEEEED!!!!

So for those who don't know, Rock in Azeroth remixed is a expansion that brings the thunderous power of metal music to Hearthstone. Inspired by the classic Rock in Azeroth expansion, this remixed version adds a fresh twist with new  mechanics and updated card designs. The set brings 145 cards + Mini-set attached to the expansion! Yes, it's attached, Co's I won't wait for the set to lose relevence to post new cards.

Each class in the expansion is themed around a sub-genre of metal music, adding a unique flavor and personality to every deck. Whether you're a fan of power metal, black metal, or any other metal sub-genre, you'll find a deck that fits your style in here.

One of the expansion's mechanics is Solo, which rewards players for controlling only a single minion on the board. Solo minions have powerful effects that trigger at the end of the turn if no other minions are present, unlike the soloists from Festival of Legends, who let's be honest, really sucks.

Another mechanic in Rock in Azeroth Remixed is the Band Member keyword. These 2/2 minions come in pairs and are summoned through other cards, adding a layer of depth and strategy to deck building. Each Band Member has a unique set of keywords that work in tandem with their partner, and unlike the originals, they are instantly summoned instead of going to your hand.

In the original expansion, there's was the Stages, spells that repeated their effects at the start of your next three turns, and now the Stages are back, but they have been reformulated. Now the Stages are Locations, and ALL classes will get one now.

So now, let's introduce the classes and their themes:

Note: Once again, 80% of what you'll see was made before the Festival of Legends was even announced, so the fact I've decided to posting this remake right after an official music set came out was merelly a coincidence.

Note 2: Reading is good, but reading while listeling to music is even better! So why not listen to the Rock in Azeroth Playlist while looking at the set? It features all songs and bands refenced in the expansion, so if you didn't catch one reference or two, be sure to check it!

OR CLICK ON THE CLASS ICON TO GET TO A MORE FITTING SOUNDTRACK!!!

ROCK IN AZEROTH'S PLAYLIST

Death Knight: Death Metal

By the time the original expansion came out, Death Knight wasn't a class, so to incorporate them into the remix, I had to make an adaptaion. Originally, Death Metal was Warrior's theme, but since the genre fits Dk waaaaay more thematically, I had to swicth themes, and now Warrior has a new one, but I'll get to that later. So, let's start the festival with one the most famous and loved (and also fearded) Metal genre, which is Death Metal. The first one the line is Schuldiner, the Death, who'll forcelly start a mosh pit and bring all enemies together with us to celebrate. And then we'll have Geor'di, the Corpsegrinder, so who'll make sure everyone on the audience get a bit of his corpses (ew).

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Demon Hunter: Thrash Metal

Let's start the show with one of the most famous and loved Metal sub-genre, Thrash Metal, which is represented by Demon Hunters here, aggressive, fast and heavy, very fitting for the class. Mus'taine, the Demon Hunter legendary got reject buy his former band members, now he must gather new members to show that his better then them. On the other side of the stage, rumors says that James Heatfiend is influciencing his young audience to make sacrifices and summon demons, is the rumors true? Watch the show and find out!

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Druid: New Metal

Next "band " on the line is Druid, with the most modern and popular genre nowadays, New Metal, or Nu Metal for the intimates. Heavy and slighlly melodic, and this will be represented by cards like Drai'man, who will eventually pack a punch on your ears with his music, and also Malakian, who'll show the crazy side of the show.

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Hunter: Heavy Metal

The good old Heavy Metal, who came before all the labels, represented by Hunters, who are just as aggresive and straight forward as the class. Rustwyx is back, and is leading the show for Hunters now, but a random person throwed a bat at the stage and he ate it! Help him to vomit the bat away before its too late. On the other stage, Eddie the Beast is turning fallen beasts into zombeasts, are they real or just animatronics? See below.

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Mage: Prog Metal

Mage's is going for a more progressive vibe with their Progressive Metal, playing long songs which avoid repeting the melody by not playing the same cards over and over, and eventually play a powerful riff who'll wipe all enemies from the stage, and Paul Me'under is keeping the song on with his amazing guitar skills.

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Paladin: Power Metal

Power Metal! My favorite music style who will be portraited by paladins, with fast and melodic songs about heroes and dragons, and speaking of Dragons, Hermangonos arived at the stage to show the force of the Dragons, while Kai'han's band will show you the real power of metal.

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Priest: Symphonic Metal

And here we have Priest, hanging in the balance between Light and Darkness, with their dark and yet beautiful Symphonic Metal. The beautiful and epic side will be represented by the Nigth Priestess Tarja, while the dark and mysterious side will be portraited by Therion, the shadow dragon who created the genre and are more than whiling to play it for you.

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No time to writte, Rogues are playing their Speed Metal too fast here, Yngwie is playing some unbelivible fast solos, while Stump is leading the audince to Headbang in the music's rhythm and...Oh! I guess someone broke their neck...anyway, the show must continue!

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Shaman: Folk Metal

 

The next one on the line is Shaman, playing their Folk Metal with two completly different flavours. First we have the god of the north Týr (not to be mistaken by the Titanic Keeper) bringing the cold winds of the north to the stage. And then we have Captain Morgan, who's making everyone on the audience drunk with his Storm of Ale.

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Warlock: Black Metal

 

Here we have Black Metal, dark, obscure and menacing, like the average Warlock, my favorite class mixed with my least favorite genre, what will come out of the combination of them? Let's find out. The stage has turned dark, a mist is slowlly growing, them Virg arived and killed one of his band members! Well, no way this is real, it must be just part of the show...wait, now demons started to appear on the stage and...OMG! It's Shaggrath, the Impure, and he is not known for his tolerance, so if you don't like Black Metal, you better get out QUICKLY!

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Warrior: Metalcore

So originally, Warrior's theme was Death Metal, but since this is DK's theme now, the new Warrior's theme is Core Metal! (Metalcore, Deathcore and Grindcore), so I hope you like melodic riffs, aggresive guitars and pig squeaking. To end the festival with style we have Mattuck Demonwaker, with his heavy and yet melodic and romantic songs, and then we'll have Shane Enfury, who'll grind the core out of the audience.

Neutral

And that is the neutral part of the show, If you didn't find your favorite band on the mains stages, you are sure to find them here, so check them out!

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So as promised, i've returned with the mini-set, and now it's not merelly a mini-set, now it has a name and a theme. So ladies and gentlemen, i'd like to introduce you to the land so far away, where the heavy metal plays, people uses always black, there's no place for any gray. To this land there is no plane, to this land there's only one bus, get a taxi? There's no way, headbangers, come with us, to the land placed somewhere between Norway...and India, the Rock in Azeroth festival has come to the promised land, so...

LET'S RIDE TO METAL LAND!!!

In Metal Land, we'll met the son of the Metal God himself, Detonator, and his almight guitarist Metal Avenger, who shared a little bit of his power to improve the band's performance, and that is the power of the new keyword exclusive to the mini-set the Perfect Solo!
Just like the Solo mechanic, the effect triggers at the end of your turn if you have no other minions, BUT...the minion must stay alone on the board for (X) turns, such powerful effect wouldn't come so easylly obviouslly.

Along with the Perfect Solo, he also brought us instruments, a set of neutral weapons that can turn your hero into a Band Member.

So now, let's see which bands are in the line-up this time.

Death Knight

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Demon Hunter

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Druid

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Hunter

Mage

Paladin

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Priest

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Rogue

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Shaman

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Warrior

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Tokens

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And that is it for now, the mini-set is up as promised, but there's still the misc stuff to come, the battle pass, diamond cards and even signatures cards! So do'nt forget to come back later. Also, leave a upvote so I know you've enjoyed the remake, and be free to share your oppinions, want to make obsevations? Point a typo or mistake? Say a card is too OP and needs balance? Just say it, don't be shy. With that said, I'll take my leave, don't forget to check out tomorow, Até logo!

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Amazing card, 5 stars from me! 

But for Yogg's sake check the timeline in the initial post, you can only submit until Wednesday! 

For some weird reason I thought it was Monday when I posted that comment, oh well, anyway, here's the feedback, sooner than promissed, and given the nature of the comp, I've decided to be more straight forward on my comments as well:

I've waited years to make that stupid card, and now it's the time! Feedback on thursday.

If you're angry because your favorite legendary got "copied", imagine me who JUST finished remaking the Rock in Azeroth expansion! Its a hella bittersweet sensation, now I just hope the Festival of Legends won't mess with the reception of the remake :/

HELL YEAH!!!!

Good to see the comps are back with some nice changes now, so I'll try to participate on the less busy and troublesome weeks. So, here's some old designs of mine I that fits here perfectly (And in case it's not clear, Construct Quarter is 3 Unholy, but Herthcards doesn't have a Rune layout for Locations yet, so I had recur to good old Paint. Tell me if it's interesting enough and I'll make a decent version in photoshop later).

Bonus Update: To celebrete the well deserved GOTY Elden Ring received, I decided to add a bonus hero to the thread, and that is Godrick the Grafted, the first big boss of the game.
Godrick portrays the Warrior class, but he also got a neutral side, side that will be filled by his hero powers, which represents his favorite gimmick, grafting, which is basically tieing the limbs of others beings into yourself to gain their power.

Hero Powers

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You're right, I'll do some adjustments before the expansion release.

I'm fucking crying, thanks everyone for your comments, they realy helped to cheer me up. As for the problem I'm facing, I may have it sounded like depression, but I actualy have BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder), which basically turn one's emotions into a complete chaos, and is the main reason why I don't interact more here as much as I want, I don't feel welcome anywhere, not even on-line, no matter how nice the people there are, cause I always manage to ruin my realations. Here's a proper explanation:

I have this shit since I was a kid, but the mental disorder reached the highest peak ever due to some IRL events. I'm completly fucked, and it's not about feeling sad, it's about feeling EXTREMELLY FUCKING HAPPY by a hour, EXTREMELLY FUCKING ANGRY on the other, and EXTREMELLY FUCKING SAD on the other, one day I feel like killing myself, the other, about killing someone, it's not a nice thing to think or say, I know, but it is what it is and I can't control it.
I'm already getting help from a psycologyst and psychiatrist, and that's the thing though, in order to have a reasonable normal day, I have to fill me with anti-psicotics and sedative to shut my emotions downs, now tell me, how am I supposed to make creative projects without feeling emotions? Because that's how I'm living my life now, like a robot, I have to feel nothing so I don't feel everithing with exageration. It's simply impossible, emotions are an essential part of making art, and custom cards and expecially expansions are art to me.
Well, I gues that's it, the treatment is long and painful, but I know it will end, just not sure when.

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As for your project, I don't think I'm in a position to take it from you. I'm not making much progress on my own endeavors, including some IRL stuff: I don't want to get into the details, but I'm on the cusp of a pretty important life-changing decision and that needs my attention. I would be honored to work on it for you, but I can't give the expansion its due diligence right now :(

The flavor of the expansion is pretty cool, though, I must say. "Radioactive" could be a fun Keyword to experiment with.

That's ok, I hope everything turns out good for you too, you deserve it. Thanks for your words and for showing interest.

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Hey mate, I'm sorry to find you in such a dark place. My Hearthstone time has gone way down during the last months and I'm not the guy to take over your project, but if I can be of any other help, please let me know. Even if I'm lucky enough not to have any personal experience with what you're dealing with, let me know if you need someone to talk to. Chances are we're living in the same corner of the world as well, I think I saw something in your text that hints at a fellow country - person.

Anyway, I wish you all the best. Don't forget that you're doing great even when you're at your worst. Every little effort is appreciated and worth it. And like linkblade said, please accept help whenever it's possible. Sending a virtual hug, if you want one <3

Thank you very much anchor, you are awesome, you always showed interest in my custom stuff , I miss seeing you around here more often. As for the country, I think you're german, right? Well, I'm actually brazilian, but as an avid metalhead, I love german music (and beer, Erdinger is the best), and often make reference to them in my cards. I mean, come on, you guys have Hellowen, Blind Guardian, Rammstein, Gamma Ray, Kreator, Sodom, etc. And ironically enough, people often reffer to me as "alemão" IRL(german in portuguese) So I'm just a brazilian that likes germany (except for the 7-1, that shit was traumatizing)

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Wow, I'm so sorry to hear that… Depression and similar stuff is really hard to deal with, but it can be done. I recommend seeking the help of a professional, it really helped me when I was dealing with anxiety and impostor syndrome back when I started working.

Speaking of impostor syndrome, I don't think your creativity is gone. I mean, you've been killing almost every comp you've participated in this last season. I don't want this comment to come off as frivolous, I know you're dealing with much more heavy stuff right now. I just wanted to point out that we usually perceive ourselves in a much more negative light than people around us.

I really hope you manage to feel alright as soon as your emotions allow you. I also hope to see you around if you ever feel like it. And if you don't, it has been a pleasure sharing this hobby with you and I wish you luck in all facets your life :)

Impostor symdrome and anxiety are my last names dude, It's horrible to feel like the best person of the world in a hour, and a piece of shit in the other, but I'll  know it will pass, thank you for your words too.

and thank you too Dragon, all of you guys are awesome. The expansion sharing offer are still up for everyone, and if anyone can't complete it by themselves for any reason, perhaps just a little help with making the cards would be enough to finish it, but as I stated before, I just don't feel comfortable asking for anyone, even on-line (and none of my IRL friends play Hearthstone, which complicates things even more)

Ok, I lowered the durability to 5, the reason I choose to go for 10 initially was because of the Turtle's Health, and since locations have a 1 turn cooldown before you could use them again, I tought you be fine as it is, but since most people didn't agree with me, I toned it down. And here's more complex version I talked about, I don't plan to submmit it, but feel free to share your toughts about it. And now, the feedback.

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Linkblade: The card in general is cool, but the flavour is quite week. It really makes no sense that a Paladin is bringing weapons to life, Shaman or Warrior would make a lot more sense as you stated, here's some art I found that could fit their respective flavours.
the anvin's art is meant to represent the idea of a magical smith/ anvil who make weapons alive, the others are the same, expect that the weapon animation comes from an arcanist of some sort.

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Wailor: Both look awesome, but I like art of the pure shaman one more, so I would go for it. Just be sure to give more proper explanation of the effect on the description.

AeroJulwin: Awesome card! I would like it more if it only transformed minions, but it makes sence as it is too, since founding the crime weapon could also build a crime scene up.

R: Such an cool idea, but alas it doesn't fit the theme, maybe I should've included hero powers when I suggested the theme, but now it is too late, so I suggest you to make another card, since I don't really know how to adapt the current one to fit the prompt.

Demonx95: Brutus is better for sure, I think it's good to go. My only complain is that I found those class icons watermarks ugly, not a real problem for sure, just thinking loud here.

Just a simple one for this week, there's some more complex versions in store, but I would like some feedback on this first.

It seens most people already submmited, but here's my feedback for those who haven't.

Going with these two this week, a safe option and a bold one. Mischievous Sea Witch is supossed to only Discover targetable spells, and I hope the text in Multi-Arrows is clear enough, let me now if it is not.

Ok then, I'll go with the Bounty Hunter, one question thoght, is it good as it is, or maybe it would be better as a 2/5? Making it more likelly to stick on the board and loot more coins for you? Anyway, Feedback time.

I finally have time to participate again, so I'll go with these two this week. Honestly I was just going with the Bounty Hunter, but since I'm still inspired to make warlock cards, I made another one, thoughts?