Flamewreathed Faceless: Excellent design and demonstrates Blizzard’s ability to design cards to adjust the metagame according to the current situation. The Overload effect was clearly thoughtfully designed with Tunnel Trogg synergy in mind.
Tuskarr Totemic: Sheer brilliance. A huge degree of skill is required to play this card, as the player must quickly adapt to the situation after a new Totem is summoned. For example, if it’s a Totem Golem, it is often ideal to go face. If it’s a Flametongue Totem, skilled Shaman players will … go face. How about Mana Tide? Go face (and draw a card)... Okay, those were not the best examples. Actually, I believe the beauty of this card’s design stems from the decisions it gives your opponent. Suddenly, the opposing player has an obstacle (e.g. a 3 mana 6/6) that requires a lot of skill to handle.
Firelands Portal: In Arena, it was previously too easy for skilled players to play around Flamestrike by playing less small minions, so I believe it was an excellent idea to print a Common card that punished them instead for playing less, medium-sized, minions (Big sized minions, of course, get Fireballed/Polymorphed/Flame Lanced, so that’s been dealt with as well). Of course, this greatly increases decision making for both players - the opposing player needs to be prepared to play minions that aren’t small, medium-sized nor big, and the Mage player would need to use Firelands Portal correctly, which can be difficult, as the overwhelming urge to target face instead of a minion even when the enemy has a high amount of health can be detrimental to the judgment of many players. As Mage was clearly struggling as a class in Arena and was lacking enough removal and value generating cards, it was obvious that a card that generated both value and tempo would help the class greatly.
Call of the Wild: Allows players to come back and instantly win the game is an extremely fun thing. All players should know the satisfying feeling of winning after a comeback. It is, however, frustrating to have a win taken from you, so Call of the Wild was clearly also designed with this in mind, making it impossible to lose if you are ahead.
Yogg-Saron: As discussed in my notes on one of the cards I made, I believe RNG is essential to the game because it promotes skill. Additionally, this card appears in many Trolden videos, and is one of the most talked about cards currently. This card has become central to Hearthstone, demonstrating its importance. I believe that moving this card to the Classic set would be ideal, as rotating it out would damage the soul of the game.
Below are my 40 cards, sorted into classes. I have tried to keep them as authentic and close to Blizzard's own design philosophy as possible; this, of course, includes the odd text inconsistency and orphan.
Mage:
http://imgur.com/a/R0GMm
Rogue:
http://imgur.com/a/L0UKD
Hunter:
http://imgur.com/a/yrzvP
Druid:
http://imgur.com/a/bjFqY
Warrior:
http://imgur.com/a/nOFuZ
Paladin:
http://imgur.com/a/XUk8I
Warlock:
http://imgur.com/a/1DicC
Shaman:
http://imgur.com/a/VvpqU
Priest:
http://imgur.com/a/3NwqO
Neutral:
http://imgur.com/a/8QfVK
I hope you have enjoyed looking at my ideas, especially those regarding the future of Hearthstone. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
