What if Hearthstone's Mage Class Released Today? 

Thanks! I’ve almost got the next class done and should have that one out very soon! I plan on eventually tackling all of the first 10 classes and I look forward to it! I love making these fun concepts and I’m glad others enjoy them too!

Thanks! And yah that was definitely one of my goals going into this. I wanted to make a more groundwork system that future deck arcetypes could be supported by.

Thanks for deciding to stop by! I completely agree with you on Paladin and I look forward to tackling it!

This is actually almost exactly how I had the system work originally, but the problem I was having was what if a deck decided it didn’t want to run spells or wanted to run a deck with the same amount of spells from two of the spell schools. Say a deck wanted to run 4 fire and 4 frost spells. What Study would they get put into? So I opted for adding a beginners stage with no restriction to it so every deck had the opportunity to get the thematic hero power and choose a study without the need for the deck building restriction. As for the smaller Discover pool. You could very well be completely right there. It is honestly a smaller side mechanic that I added to ensure adept decks couldn’t discover adept spells from other spell schools, but it probably isn’t necessary.

@@bionicdoor I mean death knight already abuses discover to get high tier rune cards so ~ and also i think its fine to leave just basic mage archetype (though the default fireblast heropower would have to be changed) and then you wouldn't have to retrofit old cards as much but rather incorporate new mechanics into new cards

Thank you so much for such incredibly kind words! I’ve got plenty more videos in the works and can’t wait to get them out there!

Well, you won’t have to wait much longer…

Thank you so much! If you have a class you’d like me to revisit next let me know!

@@bionicdoor Warlock would be nice. It has 3 different specialization's: demon's, curses, and brute fire power that damages you too. (love Affliction Warlock from WoW Cataclysm expansion)

Warlock is one of my favorite Hearthstone Classes. I will certainly try to do the class justice!

@@bionicdoor Well you build interesting concepts, maybe someday you will be official designer for Hearthstone card's. Necrotic is really interesting keyword, but i want to know it's multiple use or single use and it stays on enemy or clears after turn ?

Oh from my Year of Rafaam project! Made that one awhile back, not to found of the Necrotic keyword myself now haha, but Necrotic damage does only happen once it does not stay on the enemy

Thanks! I love custom hearthstone myself and felt there was a lack of RU-vid content for it, glad to help fill that gap a little bit!

I’m so happy you like the content! I’ve got a lot more on the way!

I’m glad you like it! I’m honestly quite excited to see what I myself come up with, it’s been a fun process to relook at the old classes

Thanks a lot 😊

Thank you so much! I’ve got the next one in the works should hopefully have it out very soon!

Just checked your channel out, that PvZ game looks very well made! Nice work, yourself!

@@bionicdoor Why thank you! Sadly the game has been scrapped due to a lack of content, but I'm trying to get back into it! Can't wait to see more of your work!

Thanks! Also I’m sure Arcane could definitely suit some casino archetypes!

I do plan to revisit Demon Hunter!

Thanks!

So happy you enjoy it! I have a ton of fun making these sort of things and it’s even more fun to share them!

You have no idea how much that means to me! Thank you so much for leaving such a nice comment ❤

So glad to here that! What other topics would you be interested in?

I definitely agree that the Master hero powers would probably work best with a legendary minion instead of a class core mechanic. Though I do still like the idea of each mage being able to choose if their hero power deals frost, arcane, or fire damage. Could open up some interesting outlets for design.

That’s the dream! I would love to someday make my own card game, or at least work on one. I find the card game genera to be one of the most fun and interesting game genera’s!

You don’t have to be exclusive to a specific spell school, you still always pick a study but as long as you remaining a beginner in that study, no deck building restrictions are added

is the discovering pool always restricted?

I originally had a section of the video where I discussed exactly that, the first thought was that Baku would always just give the Upgraded Form of the Beginner Hero Powers even if you are a Master Deck. But I cut it because I am honestly just not sure what the right choice is there. So for now, it is tbd

Which art are you specifically talking about? The art in the background is partially just the art of different mage hero skins, and the custom card art I find on Pinterest or the Custom Hearthstone discord server.

I almost did something similar with the frost hero power. It was gonna be deal 1 damage to a random enemy and freeze them. But I really didn’t like the idea of a freeze effect being on a hero power, could be annoying to have your big minion frozen over and over consistently.

@@bionicdoor There is a Mage minion that does It. And i think It would fit into Frost control aspect much better. I woundlt make It random. Just straight up 1 damage to target minion and freeze It.

Will do!

I do plan on covering Demon Hunter as well. Even though it is new, it really didn’t get its own distinct thing, so it’s only fair that it gets one too

Perhaps…

Haven’t decided on anything for Druid yet. I am using the WoW specializations as inspiration for each class rework and I may very well include all 4 of the Druid ones, but I am not sure just yet

Totally understand and even somewhat agree. I think it is possible to add deck building restrictions with different subclasses while still keeping deck building open and fun. How I look at it is that each set a class gets 10 cards already and not every deck in that class wants to run all 10 of those cards. An agro deck may want to run the 5 agro cards that fit there deck and ignore the other 5. A subclass system that puts 5 cards from a set into an agro subclass ends with that same result, as the other subclasses/deck types won’t want those cards anyways. Of course you have to be careful with this and I do think there should still be a lot of cards that can be run in any subclass or multiple subclasses to make sure options are always available. For what I’m suggesting here for shaman, I think would have very few cards exclusive to a single path. Which is my way of showing this ideology.

I have a couple of time, we’ll see what happens!