He's wrong about both. Renathal was *just* worth playing, from a pure power level perspective, when the health gain and deck size were equal. +5 Health is way too low of a reward for +10 cards. Similarly, just removing a single card from your deck is too marginal of a benefit for giving your opponent a free card with decent stats.
What? How does that relate in any way? You make it sound like renethal has no advantage just like everyone who complains about trump putting renethal into decks. Which he only overdid for like a short time when castle nathria came out
29 cards is a large advantage... for combo decks. Renethal is a large advantage... for control decks. You have more control tools at your disposal and previously 40 health allowed you to outlast agro decks.
@@etherealg3940 But that was exactly what he said, Balnazzar needs to be weak, because every other card that has no disavantage would be an auto include in every single deck
For corpsapult I think changing it to a "start of turn" instead could work. You will solve 2 problems, one is so Unholy not dealing direct damage from hand (you have to control the board) and two you can trade your other swarm minions to both protect AND feed this engine (its more flavorful).
Not sure how to balanced this, but how about "when you generate a corpse, launch it at (the enemy hero OR a random enemy OR a random enemy minion) and deal X damage".
For Fabulo at 6:00 it would be much better if it instead was "If your deck has no duplicates, one of your runes becomes a death rune" which was a mechanic DK's had in wow for a bit. A Death rune can be used as a blood, frost, or unholy rune.
Worth noting that his would also be a buff to the card as you'd technically have 5 runes. For example 2 blood + this would be the same as 3 blood, 1 frost, 1 unholy.
@@formerflash1901 Maybe death rune can only be one or another like 3 blood 1 frost or 3 blood 1 unholy Or if somehow you had it 11 times then 3 blood and 11 frost or 3 blood and 11 unholy
But again we should not break such important balancing rule early on in live of DK maybe in 5-10 years blizzard will print card like that and we all go batshit insane over OP DK
Balnazzar is also a funny combination with warlock's sacrificial ritual. Your opponent wastes 5 mana to give you a heal for 5. Also, Illegal Smuggler could probably change name to something like Retired Totemcarver. He used to make those air totems, but alas, he had to go into retirement. Could even have its enter play voiceline be "they don't make them like they used to..."
I think you need to make it on your hero power to add the 2 mana tax of using it, but I agree if you just make it this turn, so like "choose a friendly beast, your hero power gains it's base stats this turn" so then if you cast it on a 4/4 its pretty comparable to bit and hey if you manage to shellfish with it thats an 8 mana combo deal 7 damage, maybe it could give questline druid some fun tools idk
Moral Dilemma could actually be insanely strong as a tech card in a Meta where a class with weapons is top-tier. Imagine someone drops a Frostmourne or DoomHammer or assassins blade or something, and then you play this as a zero cost destroy their weapon and get a 1/1 on board.
i have some balancing tweaks for "millhouse, crazed genius" instead of gain 10 crystals it could be "for one turn gain 10 crystals" and similar treatment for your opponent. it would prevent the more unbalanced aspects of being a big minion deck with no wind-up as well as your opponent having the ability to ignore mana-costs for the rest of the game.
It'd probably have to be for a very specific couple years where mana cheating is not heavily pushed to prevent turn 1 otks and decks such as Miracle Rogue that makes huge boards and draw their entire deck. Even then, it probably won't be printed since it makes opening hands and going first way more important than it should be and screws over opponents who don't mulligan around that card (which is even more problematic if there's multiple decks of the same class that run and don't run this card; it makes those matchups even more rng) It's also a long term wild problem for the same reasons and while they have banned cards before, they'd have to redesign the card anyway when it rotates out which is a massive headache
Corpsapult changed to "at the end of your turn, sacrifice your lowest attack undead to deal this minions attack to the opponent" would be interesting. Would be a very good damage pushing tool with board buffs.
For Balnazzar, my only complaint is it probably shouldn't be neutral. Not sure who should have it but warlock has had some weird off-theme legends before so could work there.
Balnazzar famously infiltrated the Scarlet Crusade so maybe Paladin or Priest? That said I don't know WHY it's Balnazzar the Traitor when Varimathras is the famously treasonous Dreadlord. Varimathras would work as Neutral because he's a Forsaken character and iterations of Sylvanas usually appear as neutral, but failing that either Hunter or Rogue (Rogue often picks up Forsaken-themed cards).
So i totally misunderstood Mimic Form initially. I thought it meant summon that Beast, or a generic beast, with those stats and cost. That would be fafr more fair if you ask me, and pretty fun too.
Still for 2 mana that could be like the examples Trump gave a 4/3 every turn after turn 1 or 2, or a 7/7 every turn. It would be paladin on crack (especially when you add in beast buffs)
@@JD-wu5pf I meant the cost of the spell itself. In comparison to hero cards that change the hero power which are all 5 mana plus. And because of examples like the 1 mana 4/3 that's not even a good defence of the card
For moral dilemma, would 0 mana weapon 'removal' be acceptable? Like replacing Cariel's weapon with the 1/1 sword, or destroying a warlock's runed mithril rod and breaking their combo for 0 mana? Like it's balanced in a void on an empty board but I feel like there would be weird balance issues as there are with pretty much all 0 mana cards in hearthstone and especially 0 mana spells.
Weapon removal and all other tech cards are unplayable because of opportunity cost, not mana cost. Viper can be traded, moral dilemma would be a slightly better wisp 90% of the time or more likely used as a zero cost spell for a combo like auction master Beardo otk in wild
@@byeguyssry With upside. It's a 0 mana Lost in the Jungle that "gives" your opponent an answer to one of the 1/1s, thus it's a "Wisp" that deals 1 damage to the enemy hero in 99% of cases, making it better than a Wisp. However, it can also be buffed on board by cards like Dun Baldar Bridge, which effectively turns it into a 2 card 4 mana summon 2 3/3s and destroy your opponent's weapon if they have one. Is that too strong? I don't know, but it seems much better than a card like Acidic Swamp Ooze, at least to me.
@@michaelbowman6684 dude come on the hearthstone power crept have been around for decade and you say it’s better than wisp and like who the hell is out here playing wisp? If it’s weaker than wisp then it’s good balance it’s needed to be stronger
4:08 What Trump missed in assessing Balnazzar is that while the greatest benefit of a 29 card deck is felt by combo decks, the deck type that least cares about giving opponent a 5 mana 6/6 (and which also benefits greatly from the decreased deck size) is aggro. You would be very happy if opponent played a 5 mana 6/6 on turn 5 most of the time and increasing the draw consistency of your most powerful cards can also be greatly beneficial.
I feel like Moral Dilemma shouldn’t be a paladin card. A paladin going through a moral dilemma is fitting, but for a paladin card to hand your opponent a sword and say “welp which of these adorable creatures are you gonna kill” is more giving your opponent a moral dilemma and is kinda evil. Would be more flavorful as a death knight card.
One version of this effect on custom hearthstone gives the card a rune requirement of 1 of each rune. I think that variation did a good job of preventing unintended combos; the rune system is balanced around it being impossible to have 2 of 2 runes.
Makes me wonder why Discover cards let you Discover 3 Rune cards... Death Knight even has their own flavor of 3 mana minion that "Discovers a spell" printed in the exact same set.
I kind of feel like Balnazzar should have stronger downside. Like if it was a 1 mana 2/2 or something you’re essentially guaranteeing your opponent has initiative to contrast your consistency.
Strong disagree. I think it could be a 5 5/5 and still probably be too weak. A card in the hand is just worth more than a card removed from the deck. Yes, card advantage doesn't matter as much as it used to, but it still matters a lot. And a 29-card deck is an advantage, but it's a fairly minor one.
I actually designed something similar to Balnazar, but I was really fixated on it being 0 or 1 Mana and just couldn't balance it lol, plus I couldn't find a good way to flavor it.
"the death knight system is balanced around having three runes and it would be very poor form to break that rule so fast" well thank god that death knight is really strong in the meta right now and the rune system is the only thing stopping the entire meta from being about it /s
would be terrible, but I make the Corpsapult a 5/6 but cant attack. so only goes face with the effect. or make it so it deals 2 damage to two random targets instead?
4:53 just make it so 1 there is a time limit, and 2, minimizing the window during the effect makes it auto fail, thus preventing you from looking it up
I think is Saima presented cards like Zephyrs it would be interesting; like can you guess what the AI would take right now? Cool consept but would need cost/stats to be adjusted
Maybe you can earn a perfect card like that. Like, first you are asked "what class is Saima's choice from" and then the mana cost or something. If you correctly identify for example Warlock, 4 for Shadowflame, you get it
The amount of times I've seen Customhearthstone overrate the power of lowing your deck's effective size by 1 is stupid. We already have Aquatic Form, a card which can give you an effective "28 card deck" with its 0 mana draw a card effect. And that doesn't have some wild debilitating downside like giving your opponent a 6/6.
The millhouse card would be quite amazing in midrange aggro decks. Theoretically your oponent wouldnt know the card is in effect untill after the mulligan so theyd mulligan out big cards keeping small cards and your first turn would consist of 2 5 mana cards or something similar, maybe even a deathwing like card. To me it seems far stronger than you argued it would be and in case itd ever become meta you could switch it up and play mega aggro without it and your oponent would keep a dead big card in their hand. Not to mention at some point you *mostly* calm down into a similar strength deck where everyones drawing 1 or 2 cards a turn and youll just outvalue them with a higher than average costing deck.
12:30 - And this card basically locks druids and demon hunters from attacking your face, unless they can equip a weapon. It should be without "can't attack heroes"
I think 1* on Saima was a bit harsh. Saima could simply just have a small, very specific card pool to choose from, which would make it a lot easier to create the card (still would take some extra investment compared to creating other cards, but not that much more than creating a new mechanic).
The secret to Millhouse is that both you and your opponent need to play him in your deck so that you and your buddies can get up to some REALLY crazy shenanigans.
Moral Dilemma is so cool. At worst its a 0 mana 1/1 deal 1 damage, at best its also a 0 mana weapon removal and maybe you can buff the summons with tribal synergys
I absolutely CANNOT BELIEVE my luck (or lack thereof) that when I make a custom HS card that is one of the top (if not the top) most upvoted of the week, Trump does a "best of the month" and I miss out, lol
5:22 maybe if it was a choice of neutral legendary minions only? To thin the pool a bit? And tbh deliberately getting it wrong if you don’t want the card offered in the quiz is an option lol Or it can be a custom card thing, where the card gives the option of a small pool of his own and like.. he shows you the options then flips them all over, you have to follow where the card is and pick blindly hoping you tracked it correctly? Maybe that would have a different flavour though
Problem with balnazzar is that *everyone* plays it. Now everyone has a 29 card deck and a 5 mana 6/6 from their opponent in their opening hand. It's a completely "free" card to run when absolutely everyone will be running it.
@@greyep3145 Then no one would play it. Is a +0.5 for your opponent, and you NEVER want that unless you want to use fatigue damage, something that card can't do. Is just a very bad disruption.
2 corpses for 5 damage feels weird, should probably be 3 for 3 or something like that, 2 relatable numbers. dunno why 1 flung corpse should do 2.5 damage.
Millhouse, Crazed Genius would be my favourite card when I'm playing miracle rogue, I just get a 30 attack weapon and ghosts that alone kill the player twice with how much attack they have
It is unfortunate about Saima, really really cool idea but yeah, people would just look up the answers and it’d be far too much work to have a bunch of those riddles
5:00 another problem is if they dont make it (or even if they make it) every card in the game able to be found in wild or something i bet u can have a thing like deck tracker and know what card its thinking of unless its like holmes where its based on the enemy deck and even then has some way of making the same description have a differing answer has its like get a random card (making the card weak has well unless it was like a 3 mana 3/4 even then is it good? no holmes can get a high if not 100% success rate and give 3 cards thats good where the enemy is willing to put it in there deck) maybe its like "guess the perfect card i am thinking about" making it a bit worse then Zephrys the Great but might be cool! has it lets u maybe get 2 copys of Zephrys (i think the stats should be very different like a 2 mana 3/2 and then a 3 mana 3/3 making it worse but without the condition and can be cool on odd decks in wild :D
7:35 how about that to fix millhouse: 2 mana 4/4 (because its millhouse he needs that) start of game: if both players have this card in their deck, both players start with 10 mana crystals (or if both have it the first card each turn costs 0 mana) I would argue making it like that would fix the issue that aggro would get megacucked by random and if you want to put in a 2 mana 4/4 as an aggro deck you take the gamble that the opponent doesnt also run millhouse and ruins your gameplan which is a neat mindgame in my opinion
How is Balnazzar a handicap? If you're running a 29card aggro list, then you're killing on turn 456 anyway. It needs taunt or some kind of other defensive to be a handicap.
I dont know if that was the intent but if mimic form updates with the beast I dont think it would be too good. Like if the beast dies then your Hero power is back to normal. Would that be too weak even?
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That ''I would choose the penguin'' really came out of the left field. Gave me a good chuckle
Trump said "lets get political"
Technically the suboptimal choice since paladin has more murloc synergy than beast synergy
but is he choosing the penguin to live or die?
@@busty1985 the answer should be obvious
Moral Dilemma is probably the coolest custom card I've ever seen.
Is it really that interesting? It's broken weapon removal, the flavor is cool but not that crazy
@@Vict0rRezn0v yeah weapon removal for 0 mana is a bit scary
And for the flavor, should’ve probably gotten a meme rating too
also trump choosing penguin is probably against the geneva conventions
@@Nightknight1992 he's also clearly wrong. This card could be good in Murloc paladin, so it is wrong to leave tiny fin up
Same, easily one of my favorites. So many different interactions for a 0 mana card
i still find it funny that trump clearly thinks having a 29 card deck is a huge advantage but still proceeds to use renethal in every deck
He's wrong about both. Renathal was *just* worth playing, from a pure power level perspective, when the health gain and deck size were equal. +5 Health is way too low of a reward for +10 cards. Similarly, just removing a single card from your deck is too marginal of a benefit for giving your opponent a free card with decent stats.
What? How does that relate in any way? You make it sound like renethal has no advantage just like everyone who complains about trump putting renethal into decks.
Which he only overdid for like a short time when castle nathria came out
29 cards is a large advantage... for combo decks. Renethal is a large advantage... for control decks. You have more control tools at your disposal and previously 40 health allowed you to outlast agro decks.
@@fallendeus Quite a few of people still put it into Secret Mage for whatever reason which I don't understand.
@@etherealg3940 But that was exactly what he said, Balnazzar needs to be weak, because every other card that has no disavantage would be an auto include in every single deck
For corpsapult I think changing it to a "start of turn" instead could work. You will solve 2 problems, one is so Unholy not dealing direct damage from hand (you have to control the board) and two you can trade your other swarm minions to both protect AND feed this engine (its more flavorful).
Just give it can't attack
yeah but it would be unplayable because it'll be a 5 mana 4/6 99% of the time
Not sure how to balanced this, but how about "when you generate a corpse, launch it at (the enemy hero OR a random enemy OR a random enemy minion) and deal X damage".
Also mimic the mechanism of an existing catapult-ish card "Demolisher". This is genius.
I don't think a 5 mana 4/6 that has to survive a turn would ever see play. Maybe if it were a 4/7?
For Fabulo at 6:00 it would be much better if it instead was "If your deck has no duplicates, one of your runes becomes a death rune" which was a mechanic DK's had in wow for a bit. A Death rune can be used as a blood, frost, or unholy rune.
Worth noting that his would also be a buff to the card as you'd technically have 5 runes. For example 2 blood + this would be the same as 3 blood, 1 frost, 1 unholy.
@@formerflash1901 Maybe death rune can only be one or another like
3 blood 1 frost
or
3 blood 1 unholy
Or if somehow you had it 11 times then
3 blood and 11 frost
or
3 blood and 11 unholy
thats even worse
But again we should not break such important balancing rule early on in live of DK maybe in 5-10 years blizzard will print card like that and we all go batshit insane over OP DK
@@penguin4313 That's would just be the original effect of the card though
Balnazzar is also a funny combination with warlock's sacrificial ritual. Your opponent wastes 5 mana to give you a heal for 5.
Also, Illegal Smuggler could probably change name to something like Retired Totemcarver. He used to make those air totems, but alas, he had to go into retirement. Could even have its enter play voiceline be "they don't make them like they used to..."
I really like that Retired Totemcarver flavour
Genius
I thought Sac Ritual didn't target enemy minions anymore?
@@hikarikouno yup
@@hikarikouno Pretty sure it just doesn't target characters anymore. At least, last I saw.
I can see Mimic Form working as a one-off, maybe for 1 mana:
"Choose a friendly beast. Give your hero its attack this turn and its health in armor."
At 1 mana this is pretty ridiculous - it's roughly 'give a friendly beast charge'
I think you need to make it on your hero power to add the 2 mana tax of using it, but I agree if you just make it this turn, so like "choose a friendly beast, your hero power gains it's base stats this turn" so then if you cast it on a 4/4 its pretty comparable to bit and hey if you manage to shellfish with it thats an 8 mana combo deal 7 damage, maybe it could give questline druid some fun tools idk
Maybe instead of this turn, it changes the next use of your hero power?
For Corpsapult, i'd say giving it "can't attack" would be good. it's a catapult, it shouldn't be able to attack
Moral Dilemma could actually be insanely strong as a tech card in a Meta where a class with weapons is top-tier. Imagine someone drops a Frostmourne or DoomHammer or assassins blade or something, and then you play this as a zero cost destroy their weapon and get a 1/1 on board.
i have some balancing tweaks for "millhouse, crazed genius" instead of gain 10 crystals it could be "for one turn gain 10 crystals" and similar treatment for your opponent. it would prevent the more unbalanced aspects of being a big minion deck with no wind-up as well as your opponent having the ability to ignore mana-costs for the rest of the game.
It'd probably have to be for a very specific couple years where mana cheating is not heavily pushed to prevent turn 1 otks and decks such as Miracle Rogue that makes huge boards and draw their entire deck.
Even then, it probably won't be printed since it makes opening hands and going first way more important than it should be and screws over opponents who don't mulligan around that card (which is even more problematic if there's multiple decks of the same class that run and don't run this card; it makes those matchups even more rng)
It's also a long term wild problem for the same reasons and while they have banned cards before, they'd have to redesign the card anyway when it rotates out which is a massive headache
Corpsapult changed to "at the end of your turn, sacrifice your lowest attack undead to deal this minions attack to the opponent" would be interesting. Would be a very good damage pushing tool with board buffs.
Saima should show the flavor text of the card as you quickly mentioned. Would still be a very fun meme card and be much more practical.
Corpsapult could be
At the end of turn Spend up to 5 corpses deal 1 damage for each to the enemy hero
For Balnazzar, my only complaint is it probably shouldn't be neutral. Not sure who should have it but warlock has had some weird off-theme legends before so could work there.
Balnazzar famously infiltrated the Scarlet Crusade so maybe Paladin or Priest? That said I don't know WHY it's Balnazzar the Traitor when Varimathras is the famously treasonous Dreadlord. Varimathras would work as Neutral because he's a Forsaken character and iterations of Sylvanas usually appear as neutral, but failing that either Hunter or Rogue (Rogue often picks up Forsaken-themed cards).
So i totally misunderstood Mimic Form initially. I thought it meant summon that Beast, or a generic beast, with those stats and cost. That would be fafr more fair if you ask me, and pretty fun too.
Still for 2 mana that could be like the examples Trump gave a 4/3 every turn after turn 1 or 2, or a 7/7 every turn. It would be paladin on crack (especially when you add in beast buffs)
@@greatmightypanda It's not for 2 mana, it's for however much mana the beast cost.
@@JD-wu5pf I meant the cost of the spell itself. In comparison to hero cards that change the hero power which are all 5 mana plus. And because of examples like the 1 mana 4/3 that's not even a good defence of the card
For moral dilemma, would 0 mana weapon 'removal' be acceptable? Like replacing Cariel's weapon with the 1/1 sword, or destroying a warlock's runed mithril rod and breaking their combo for 0 mana? Like it's balanced in a void on an empty board but I feel like there would be weird balance issues as there are with pretty much all 0 mana cards in hearthstone and especially 0 mana spells.
Weapon removal and all other tech cards are unplayable because of opportunity cost, not mana cost. Viper can be traded, moral dilemma would be a slightly better wisp 90% of the time or more likely used as a zero cost spell for a combo like auction master Beardo otk in wild
All cards with Battlecry Destroy the enemy weapon have vanilla stats (2 Mana 3/2, 3 Mana 3/4). This is a 0 Mana 1/1
@@byeguyssry With upside. It's a 0 mana Lost in the Jungle that "gives" your opponent an answer to one of the 1/1s, thus it's a "Wisp" that deals 1 damage to the enemy hero in 99% of cases, making it better than a Wisp. However, it can also be buffed on board by cards like Dun Baldar Bridge, which effectively turns it into a 2 card 4 mana summon 2 3/3s and destroy your opponent's weapon if they have one.
Is that too strong? I don't know, but it seems much better than a card like Acidic Swamp Ooze, at least to me.
@@michaelbowman6684 dude come on the hearthstone power crept have been around for decade and you say it’s better than wisp and like who the hell is out here playing wisp? If it’s weaker than wisp then it’s good balance it’s needed to be stronger
@@sometime2530 Power Creep is something to be avoided if at all possible. I can't believe I need to point that out, but here we are lol.
4:08 What Trump missed in assessing Balnazzar is that while the greatest benefit of a 29 card deck is felt by combo decks, the deck type that least cares about giving opponent a 5 mana 6/6 (and which also benefits greatly from the decreased deck size) is aggro. You would be very happy if opponent played a 5 mana 6/6 on turn 5 most of the time and increasing the draw consistency of your most powerful cards can also be greatly beneficial.
The 5 mana 6/6 has a funny edge case of you draw it in the Mulligan and it's just a card you get to play
Corpse-pult should be *at the start of your turn shoot up to 3 corpses at random enemies, they deal 2 damage each
The corpsapult should be a mech, BTW.
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I feel like Moral Dilemma shouldn’t be a paladin card. A paladin going through a moral dilemma is fitting, but for a paladin card to hand your opponent a sword and say “welp which of these adorable creatures are you gonna kill” is more giving your opponent a moral dilemma and is kinda evil. Would be more flavorful as a death knight card.
Or even better as a Death Knight/Paladin dual class card.
@@genzo454 that's a terrible suggestion lol
If they ever let you have four runes, they should either force you to have at least one of each, or no more than 2 of a rune.
One version of this effect on custom hearthstone gives the card a rune requirement of 1 of each rune. I think that variation did a good job of preventing unintended combos; the rune system is balanced around it being impossible to have 2 of 2 runes.
Makes me wonder why Discover cards let you Discover 3 Rune cards... Death Knight even has their own flavor of 3 mana minion that "Discovers a spell" printed in the exact same set.
Isn't moral dilemma just zero mana 2/2 weapon removal
He was too focused on the flavor and missed the strongest part of the card lol
0 mana 1/1 weapon removal is a better way to look at it
@@bang_lihathe literally said it : "if your opponent has a weapon it is really good", or something similar
Maybe it should cost 1 mana instead?
I think antique collector might work better than illegal smuggler for that cards name
I kind of feel like Balnazzar should have stronger downside. Like if it was a 1 mana 2/2 or something you’re essentially guaranteeing your opponent has initiative to contrast your consistency.
Strong disagree. I think it could be a 5 5/5 and still probably be too weak. A card in the hand is just worth more than a card removed from the deck. Yes, card advantage doesn't matter as much as it used to, but it still matters a lot. And a 29-card deck is an advantage, but it's a fairly minor one.
Slight problem with the flavor. Why is a dreadlord a 1 mana 2/2?
@@passerby4507 not all Dreadlords are bosses. Even as far back as classic wow
I actually designed something similar to Balnazar, but I was really fixated on it being 0 or 1 Mana and just couldn't balance it lol, plus I couldn't find a good way to flavor it.
The clue for every hearthstone card is super easy. Just use the flavor text
"the death knight system is balanced around having three runes and it would be very poor form to break that rule so fast" well thank god that death knight is really strong in the meta right now and the rune system is the only thing stopping the entire meta from being about it /s
To be fair if death knight didn’t have runes and still had its current card list it WOULD be meta-shattering
would be terrible, but I make the Corpsapult a 5/6 but cant attack. so only goes face with the effect.
or make it so it deals 2 damage to two random targets instead?
Mill house “in a meta where everyone plays this is the dumbest meta of all time” 😂😂😂😂
9:00 maybe something like “Temporal Totem Toter” 😂😂
I think you would also play the traitor in a mill deck since it would make it easier to burn the opponents cards
NOT THE PENGUINE 😭
4:53 just make it so 1 there is a time limit, and 2, minimizing the window during the effect makes it auto fail, thus preventing you from looking it up
The Lich King disagrees with your choice of the moral dilemma, Trump (he loves the penguin)
I think is Saima presented cards like Zephyrs it would be interesting; like can you guess what the AI would take right now? Cool consept but would need cost/stats to be adjusted
It would always offer temple enforcer
Maybe you can earn a perfect card like that. Like, first you are asked "what class is Saima's choice from" and then the mana cost or something. If you correctly identify for example Warlock, 4 for Shadowflame, you get it
I feel like mimic form should only affect your next or your next two hero powers or something.
The amount of times I've seen Customhearthstone overrate the power of lowing your deck's effective size by 1 is stupid. We already have Aquatic Form, a card which can give you an effective "28 card deck" with its 0 mana draw a card effect. And that doesn't have some wild debilitating downside like giving your opponent a 6/6.
Is basically a manathirst effect. And reminder, the card is only in a tier 2 deck because it's not that good to have bricks on early turns.
The millhouse card would be quite amazing in midrange aggro decks. Theoretically your oponent wouldnt know the card is in effect untill after the mulligan so theyd mulligan out big cards keeping small cards and your first turn would consist of 2 5 mana cards or something similar, maybe even a deathwing like card.
To me it seems far stronger than you argued it would be and in case itd ever become meta you could switch it up and play mega aggro without it and your oponent would keep a dead big card in their hand.
Not to mention at some point you *mostly* calm down into a similar strength deck where everyones drawing 1 or 2 cards a turn and youll just outvalue them with a higher than average costing deck.
12:30 - And this card basically locks druids and demon hunters from attacking your face, unless they can equip a weapon.
It should be without "can't attack heroes"
I think 1* on Saima was a bit harsh. Saima could simply just have a small, very specific card pool to choose from, which would make it a lot easier to create the card (still would take some extra investment compared to creating other cards, but not that much more than creating a new mechanic).
The smaller it is the easier it is to predict, making the gimmick even dumber since everyone doesn't even need to think about the riddle anymore
If he has a small pool, then he isn't suddently very wise. I'd say anyone who upvoted you isn't either lol.
TBH the illegal smuggler could just be called the Totem Smuggler.
Wait, the flies Cadaver summons are like risen corpses right? I thought that part was thick because of that reason.
No they're not, in the original card it's not bolded
Trolley Problem: Your opponent equips a 10/1 fat person...
The ending got me. "I would choose the penguin". You monster Trump.
The secret to Millhouse is that both you and your opponent need to play him in your deck so that you and your buddies can get up to some REALLY crazy shenanigans.
When Trump said he'd choose the penguin... Does he mean he'll spare the penguin or kill it?
"I would choose the penguin" TO LIVE OR TO DIE?! Which kind of monster are you, Trump?!
Moral Dilemma is so cool. At worst its a 0 mana 1/1 deal 1 damage, at best its also a 0 mana weapon removal and maybe you can buff the summons with tribal synergys
I absolutely CANNOT BELIEVE my luck (or lack thereof) that when I make a custom HS card that is one of the top (if not the top) most upvoted of the week, Trump does a "best of the month" and I miss out, lol
Saima doesn't need to have a sentence for all cards. Somewhere in the range of 30-50 cards would be enough, more is just a bonus.
Mimic Form would work if it was "This Turn" or something where it was only one cast.
saima would be a good arena card and probably not even the best pick there, but i do like the idea of discover ANY minion technically
5:22 maybe if it was a choice of neutral legendary minions only? To thin the pool a bit? And tbh deliberately getting it wrong if you don’t want the card offered in the quiz is an option lol
Or it can be a custom card thing, where the card gives the option of a small pool of his own and like.. he shows you the options then flips them all over, you have to follow where the card is and pick blindly hoping you tracked it correctly? Maybe that would have a different flavour though
Problem with balnazzar is that *everyone* plays it. Now everyone has a 29 card deck and a 5 mana 6/6 from their opponent in their opening hand. It's a completely "free" card to run when absolutely everyone will be running it.
Not necessarily. Like trump mentioned, everybody would have to decide it was worth it
@@greyep3145 Then no one would play it. Is a +0.5 for your opponent, and you NEVER want that unless you want to use fatigue damage, something that card can't do. Is just a very bad disruption.
Moral dilemma being a weapon removal is crazy and so fun
I feel like you could reduce the first card stats to 3 attack and 5 health, with a cost of 4 and add a "can't attack"
Imagine mirror matches with that millhouse. All only run high mana cards and they all cost 0
Choosing the penguin is a fools move. pali could buff murlocs more easily.
2 corpses for 5 damage feels weird, should probably be 3 for 3 or something like that, 2 relatable numbers. dunno why 1 flung corpse should do 2.5 damage.
Illegal Smuggler should just be "Totemic Elder" or something to fix the flavour issue.
saima the wise could work if it only pick from the same pool as zephrys
Temporal Smuggler would be a better name. Love the card idea!
The last one, moral dilema, is really cool, but isn't it like way too good as a weapon removal?
for saima u can just use the descripton/joke thing already on every card in the my collection thing
Saima the Wise would probably be best of it gave you the expansion release as a clue, and maybe allowed wild cards as a result
WHAT? WHY THE PENGUIN ?
"Totem-loving Timebender" might be a better name for Illegal Smuggler, but it may be a little long.
Moral Dilemma is just the Tavern Brawl Trump did a few years ago, with the Snowflipper Penguins and Mortal Coil
Thanks jens for making captions 😁
Millhouse, Crazed Genius would be my favourite card when I'm playing miracle rogue, I just get a 30 attack weapon and ghosts that alone kill the player twice with how much attack they have
Balnazzar would also be great for mill strategies
Moral Dilemma really good with Great Hall? I think it is way better with Dun Baldar Bridge
Honestly, ChatGPT could probably write all the rhymes for Saima the wise.
Trump: "I would choose the penguin."
ME: HOW DARE YOU!!
Saima could just have a select pool of cards, might even have been the designer’s intention
10:39 kind of funny that another renounce-like card actually exists now and he’s called that one a meme
Moral Dilemma is 0 mana weapon removal that has tribe synergy
i tought the tumbmail card said : "if this card is in your opponents deck, your opponent draws it"
What about using Balnazzar in a mill deck
0 mana 2/2 destroy the oponents weapon.
Sure.
It is unfortunate about Saima, really really cool idea but yeah, people would just look up the answers and it’d be far too much work to have a bunch of those riddles
5:00 another problem is if they dont make it (or even if they make it) every card in the game able to be found in wild or something i bet u can have a thing like deck tracker and know what card its thinking of unless its like holmes where its based on the enemy deck and even then has some way of making the same description have a differing answer has its like get a random card (making the card weak has well unless it was like a 3 mana 3/4 even then is it good? no holmes can get a high if not 100% success rate and give 3 cards thats good where the enemy is willing to put it in there deck)
maybe its like "guess the perfect card i am thinking about" making it a bit worse then Zephrys the Great but might be cool! has it lets u maybe get 2 copys of Zephrys (i think the stats should be very different like a 2 mana 3/2 and then a 3 mana 3/3 making it worse but without the condition and can be cool on odd decks in wild :D
Trump’s opening is like every student trying to fill a word count on an essay. love it
Wait how is a 0 cost weapon removal balanced? What the heck?
Saima the Wise is the kind of card AI could make possible thats pretty cool
Moral dilemma broken alsi with Taunt and After summon buffs
7:35 how about that to fix millhouse: 2 mana 4/4 (because its millhouse he needs that) start of game: if both players have this card in their deck, both players start with 10 mana crystals (or if both have it the first card each turn costs 0 mana)
I would argue making it like that would fix the issue that aggro would get megacucked by random and if you want to put in a 2 mana 4/4 as an aggro deck you take the gamble that the opponent doesnt also run millhouse and ruins your gameplan which is a neat mindgame in my opinion
How is Balnazzar a handicap?
If you're running a 29card aggro list, then you're killing on turn 456 anyway.
It needs taunt or some kind of other defensive to be a handicap.
5:36, well they could just make it so that you automaticaly loose if you look it up
I dont know if that was the intent but if mimic form updates with the beast I dont think it would be too good. Like if the beast dies then your Hero power is back to normal. Would that be too weak even?
It says “base”
You always choose the penguin...what are the odds its a beast paladin compared to murlock
From a competitive standpoint you're probably correct but from a moral standpoint you're a monster.
I 100% needed to have Trump explain Balnazzar to me.
Why is nobody talking about how they basically printed mimic form? It is less op but still pretty bad
Imagine mirror matchups with Millhouse
Always the penguin
The idea behind Balnazzar's design is alright, but it would feel terrible to a new player. I'd feel cheated opening this as my first legendary.
But you can't choose Snowflipper!!!!!
Cause Paladin obviously has Murloc and not Beast synergy.
Illegal Smuggler should be called "Old Totem Carver"
9:10 Totem Hoarder, Totem Historian, Totem Collector