These card designs were submitted by Nocturnal Advantagefor Task 6 of the Wulven Apprentice. After you have reviewed them and those of the other team, Random Heroes, please cast your vote as to which team you thought did the better job.
Three Cards They Selected and Refined
Originally submitted by Drekall.
Originally submitted by Caitlyn.
Originally submitted by d3ath.
Two Cards They Designed
Rationale for Decisions
To help you judge their cards, the team were given the opportunity to share design insights on the cards they produced. What they wrote has been pasted here verbatim:
Our Mission Statement:
We wanted to find cards which would strengthen some of the less prevalently used heroes and strategies in Shadow Era, and thereby add more variety to the metagame. Our goal was to help bring some of the unsung heroes and deck archetypes of Shadow Era into the limelight, and help them compete with some of the more popularly played options.
CARD JUSTIFICATIONS
Quelling Force:
We were attracted to this design because we wanted a weapon which Logan Stonebreaker
Even with these small adjustments, Quelling Force should still be a powerful tool. Logan
The Green Knight:
The primary thing that attracted us to this card was its ability to be a win condition for more control-oriented deck archetypes. We wanted there to be more options for decks which choose to play a heavy permission strategy, and The Green Knight seemed like a perfect contender for this role. After all, what control deck wouldn't love to use an ally big enough to provide a credible win condition on his own while simultaneously keeping the opponent's army in check?
The initial design of The Green Knight as submitted to the contest cost 6 resources to play, and had 2 attack and 5 toughness. He was also submitted with his -2 damage from all sources reduction, but his "kill target opposing ally" ability originally could target any opposing ally! He retains most of this flavor in his final version, but we felt we had to restrict his ally-killing ability to allies of 4cc or less, to make sure the card was balanced. To make up for it though (and to decrease his similarity to Armored Sandworm
And what stats he has! With 6 health and a hide as tough as an Armored Sandworm
Wildfire Trap:
We selected this card primarily to address Victor Heartstriker's difficulty in dealing with aggressive rush decks, but it should prove to be a versatile tool for all of the Hunters in the game. The card was submitted with the name "Land Mine," but we felt that a more fantasy-oriented title would match more closely with the Shadow Era mythos. Wildfire Trap should be a staple for any Hunter deck with a relatively slow early game, allowing you a bit of time to set up before your opponent bum-rushes you with Aldon the Brave
One other subtle point is worth mentioning: Since Wildfire Trap has a cost of three resources, it can cause the opponent to confuse it with a Death Trap
Conviction of Faith:
With this card, we wanted to create a tool that specifically helped Jericho
Value of the Ill Gotten:
In going along with strengthening the lesser used heroes, we turned our attention to Rogues, although to be more specific, towards Serena
In summary, we think these five cards would help the overall metagame of Shadow Era by creating more variety in the competitively played strategies, and bolstering some of the heroes which are currently enjoying less success. We sought to have five powerful designs, since our goal with these cards was primarily to support lesser used archetypes. It is possible that we erred slightly on the side of "more powerful" rather than "less," but we felt that having memorable, impressive cards was our primary concern. We hope you will enjoy them, thanks from Team Nocturnal Advantage
-Sean & Caleb (Shadowryou and DukeDemonKn1ght)
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Originally Posted by Jo3yb0i
it makes his ability weaker than this guy, and basically I can have Amber and 
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