Temporal Magi
1-Mana, 2/1
Delay (3): If this minion is dead, resummon it.
Three turns after this minion is summoned, it executes the effect listed. It will try to execute this effect regardless of whether or not the minion is still in play.
For this minion specifically, it will resummon itself IF it died.
ah i see… now that you explained it looks like much more interesting.
3 turns delay for a 1 mana minions looks ideal, since if the minion is dead there’s a chance that your opponent forgot that there was an effect on delay and boom. great work
Edit: Added all the “Purpose” flavortext.
Hey what up guys, its ya boi @thefirstgokun here, bringing you another tasty set of card concepts. I was feeling a little burnt out on everything, so to shake things up around here I decided to design a full expansion and see how hard it is to fill space in a symmetrical release.
This expansion introduces 2 new mechanics, distributed amongst the factions like the past two expacs did. For size, this expac boasts 39 new cards, matching the Bloodborn style expansion model.
Now, I introduce you to…
The Gates of Vermillion
Fortify: You may play Artifacts on this minion. If you do, this minion gains the effects of the Artifact (instead of your General) and activates an effect.
Fortify: Deal damage to all nearby enemies equal to the original cost of the Artifact.
Rush, Fortify: The next minion this minion attacks is destroyed instantly.
Fortify: Your General gains “Grow: +1/+1.”
Your General gains +2 Attack. Your General cannot be counterattacked by enemies with less Attack.
Draw 2 Artifacts from your deck and reduce their cost by 2 each.
Rebirth, Friendly Rebirth minions cannot be targeted by spells.
Opening Gambit: Grant all friendly minions “Fortify: Place a copy of the Artifact in your Action Bar.”
Fortify: Restore Health to your General equal to the original cost of the Artifact.
Provoke, Fortify: Equip a Staff of Y’kir to your General.
Your General has +1 Attack. At the start of your turn, place a Sword of Creation in your Action Bar.
Equip a Staff of Y’kir to each General and friendly minion with Fortify.
Flying, Opening Gambit: Reduce the cost of each Artifact in your Action Bar by 1.
Celerity, Fortify: Equip the Artifact to this minion again.
Airdrop, Fortify: Draw an Artifact.
Fortify: Gain +1/+1.
Your Artifacts are immune to non-combat effects.
Steal 1 health from each of your minions. Draw a card.
At the end of your turn, steal 2 health from this minion.
Elude: You may summon a friendly minion from your action bar on this minion’s space. If you do, return this minion to your action bar and activate an effect.
Backstab(2), Elude: If the next minion has Backstab, give it Rush.
Ranged, Elude: Deal 3 damage to the closest enemy in front of this minion.
Elude: Move the next minion behind the enemy General.
Your General gains +1 Attack this turn each time the enemy General takes damage.
Equip a Befuddling Scroll to your opponent.
(Befuddling Scroll: Your General acts like a Battlepet.")
Opening Gambit: Give all minions in your Action Bar “Backstab(1)”.
Elude: Summon 1/1 Wraithlings in all nearby spaces.
Elude: Steal 2 Health from the enemy General.
Elude: Give the next minion “Deathwatch: Gain +1/+1.”
Your General gains the effects of all friendly Artifacts destroyed this game.
Steal 1 Health from each enemy.
Opening Gambit and Dying Wish: Give all minions in your opponent’s Action Bar -1/-1. Cannot reduce minions below 1 Health.
Elude: Stun all nearby enemy minions.
Elude: Summon two 2/1 Snowchasers in random nearby spaces.
Elude: Place a random Vanar spell in your Action Bar.
Whenever a minion returns to its owner’s Action Bar, deal 2 damage to a random enemy.
Transform all minions in your Action Bar into random spells of the same cost, and vice versa.
Opening Gambit: Return a friendly minion to your Action Bar to give it and Owlbeast Caretaker both +1/+1.
Provoke, Whenever this minion takes damage place a random Artifact in your Action Bar.
Your General takes 1 less damage from all sources.
Opening Gambit: Return a friendly minion to your Action Bar to restore 3 Health to your General.
Triple Agent
3 mana
neutral 2/4
Sentinel: minion summoned
This minion, the minion that transformed this, and a random friendly minion gain +2/+2.
Who likes Abyssian?
WE like Abyssian.
Who likes Deathwatch?
Not Counterplay, that’s who.
Here’s a new cycle of card concepts heavily featuring Abyssian minions and Deathwatch mechanics. It’s a short one this time, so don’t worry and just dive into it!
Bloodsurge: Grant a random friendly minion +2/+2.
Return a minion to its owner’s Action Bar. Restore health to your General equal to its mana cost.
At the end of your turn, destroy all other damaged minions.
Flying, Give the first Flying minion you summon each turn +1 Attack.
Flying, Cannot be attacked by units without Flying.
Whenever you overdraw a minion, summon it in a random space nearby your General.
Frenzy, Opening Gambit: Transform a Furious Wraithling into a copy of this minion.
All joined Wraithlings have +1 Attack.
Whenever you summon this minion by any other effect, summon a copy of it nearby.
An enemy minion Provokes the enemy General. Draw a card.
Deathwatch: Your opponent draws a card.
Deathwatch: Draw a card.
Deathwatch: Your General and this minion may move 1 additional space this turn.
Destroy all non-Deathwatch minions.
When you summon this minion, destroy all other minions and stun this minion.
Destroy an enemy minion that is nearby at least 4 friendly Abyssian minions.
Stunned units cannot counterattack.
Opening Gambit: Deal 3 damage to the units directly in front of and behind this minion.
Has +3 Attack when fighting an enemy your General has attacked.
All friendly joined minions have +2 Attack.
The friendly minion directly in front of this minion deals 2 damage to a random enemy at the end of your turn
Here is Alplod’s hybrid/synergetic cards compedium. Proceed at your own risk - cards may be unbalanced as hell, but I hope some ideas may be interesting. I’d be glad to discuss them here: Fan Card Design Hub: Discussion (+Card Design Contest Discussion), if you’d like to.
Since most of the cards here are made for certain (mostly hybrid) archetypes, I will name them per archetype. Also I’d like to mention that I know that I’m terrible at naming, so please don’t be cruel to me 
Let’s start.
Obviously, only relevant for Abyssian. I feel that archetype is fun, but only one card (Nocturne) is not enough to glue it together. Other than that, swarm and creep in Abyssian are like parallel universes - no interaction whatsoever. I try to change that in subtle and not so subtle ways.
Airdrop.
OG: Summon wraithling and shadow creep on every nearby space.
Not subtle at all. Well, maybe too powerful - it may be treated as giving 16 mana effect (8 wraithling and 8 creep) for 7, not counting almost useless structure itself. But there’s another way to view it. Creep can be treated as halfmana (it mostly comes with an effect attached - draw a card or deal one damage), wraithling can also be treated as halfmana with Lilithe’s BBS. Main concern here is directly fueling Obliterate in a very card efficient way, so it may be fine with generating not 8 but, say, 6 or even 4 creep.
Still - nice with Variax and obliterate.
Destroy all token minions. Summon Shadow Creep on their tiles.
Also counters mechazor, wall Faie and dervish/fault Zirix as a bonus.
Until the start of your next turn whenever you summon a wraithling, summon a creep on the same space and vice versa. Draw a card.
Obvious Nocturne duplicate.
Summon a wraithling onto each nearby friendly shadow creep at the end of your turn
OG: All friendly minions standing on friendly shadow creep gain +2 attack. All enemy minions standing on friendly shadow creep gain -2 attack.
Cause, why not? We already have Kindred Hunter after all, aren’t we? Let’s make more steps in this direction. Just for fun.
Ranged
This minion also belongs to arcanyst tribe. Any minion attacked by this one is stunned
Flying
OG: This turn all your arcanysts have flying
Summon 3 vespyr 0/2 walls of reflection with dying wish: summon 2/1 illusion on a random nearby space
A fairly silly card that plays with the replace mechanic as well as incorporate more risk and strategic decisionmaking to the game.
Opening Gambit: Add a Hot Potato to your hand
20 mana
Articfact
When played, you win the game. When you replace this, add it to your opponent’s action bar. When this is in your action bar, deal 3 damage to your general and subtract 3 from its mana cost at the end of each turn.
Do you risk giving your opponent lethal? Or do set up lethal yourself at the cost of 3 life each turn? The reason I made Hot potato an artifact is so that you cannot cheat it out with cards like Ghost Seraphim for spells or Arcane Devourer for minions.
like i said on the faction identity:abyssian post, WE NEED MORE DEATHWATCH
all the other factions got expansions to their faction keywords, but all abyss got was neutral dying wish for keyword support
4 mana 2/4
deathwatch: give a random friendly minion dying wish: summon a wraithling on this space
3 mana 2/3
deathwatch: add a random faction token minion to your hand
4 mana 1/5
deathwatch: deal 1 damage to EVERYTHING(including self)
2 mana 1/3
deathwatch: increase your opponents BBS mana cost until the end of their turn
5 mana 0/4 structure
deathwatch: increase the cost of a random card in your opponents hand until the end of their turn
4 mana 0/3 structure
deathwatch: decrease the cost of a random spell in your hand until the end of your turn
deathwatch: give a random minion -3 attack on the opposing side of the dying minion
2 mana 3/2
deathwatch: give a random minion in your hand +1 health
4 mana 3/4
deathwatch: add a creep tile on that space
5 mana 8/8
deathwatch: deal 1 damage to your general (it doesnt have to be positive)
5 mana 5/5
deathwatch: return the dying minion to its owners hand
3 mana 2/5
give your general deathwatch: restore 1 durability a to random equipped artifact
4 mana 3/4
deathwatch:add a random arcanyst to your hand
4 mana 3/4
deathwatch: destroy a random minion of the same tribe as the dying minion
5 mana 5/3
deathwatch: summon a random faction battlepet
6 mana 4/4
deathwatch:gain a random faction keyword
6 mana 6/6
deathwatch: your general gains +1 attack
1 mana spell
give a minion deathwatch: this minion can move an additional space this turn
Now that it’s closed, might as well link over to this post:
Lot of good Submissions in here, in the standard format too. When I’ve completed everything I’ll move the /details tags over to here.
Conceal: This minion cannot be targeted by attacks or spells until the end of your next turn or until attacking. This minion cannot have Provoke while it has Conceal.
Flow: Whenever a nearby friendly unit moves or is moved, this minion moves the same way, if possible. Will not follow Flying minions or teleport effects.
To clarify, when an effect reads, “Do X to all joined units,” it affects all units joined to your General by other units. If it is more specific, for example “all joined enemy minions,” it will affect all units joined to your General by that specific type of unit. On a spell, the effect starts from your General unless otherwise specified.
The U’ami are a coalition of secluded mages and outcasts, hailing from various city states across the entirety of Mythron.
During the Age of Decay, wherein the planet showed the first signs of its descent into chaos, an enigmatic Aestari Archmage revealed her intention to abandon the continent to her coven. A’u’ala insisted to her peers that Mythron was already doomed to collapse by Draug’s greed, and that the only alternative was to join her own personal city state, one that could sustain itself indefinitely and survive whatever environmental threat would manifest in the coming years. The Counsel rejected with her designs, but a select few mages joined A’u’ala in constructing the floating city of Ala’i, an independent biosphere powered by whatever crystals her coven could secret away from the new crystal mandates. They worked for one year in secrecy until Draug’s inquisitors caught wind of their efforts, at which point A’u’ala propelled the unfinished project into the sea. She, her allies, and the common folk who lept at the prospect of starting anew piloted the mobile city across open water, evading Draug’s warships until the Consular’s influence was far behind them.
The first generation of U’ami would not set foot on land for another fifty years, living off of the livestock and produce that the city could produce. Food was never too little, thanks to the tireless study and adjustments made by A’u’ala and her Coven of Nine. Magic also returned to the lives of the common Aestari, who relearned the truth of their race’s arcane proficiency under A’u’ala’s supervision. Even in the face of the ever growing storms, A’u’ala’s magic stood strong and turned chaos away without issue. The research of the Archmages continued as they pored through A’u’ala’s extensive libraries, and without ever touching the shore they founded two more floating cities, Solace and Syr. Floating free from the shackles of Aestaria, the U’ami studied the arcane arts, voyaged to all seven continents, and even descended to the ocean floor, discovering unclaimed petals of the Great Tree of Eyos and deadly creatures such as the enormous horned Kalkalan. Wherever they made land, new spirits would join their ranks, seeking the life of unbridled exploration on the high seas.
Though she lived to the age of one hundred and fifty seven, artificial life extension could only sustain A’u’ala for so long, as she was but a mortal being. In her place, sons and daughters of the original Coven of Nine were left to govern the fleet of floating cities. Among them were architects, sages, artists, and mages, all committed to the same path of study and seclusion. However, among these children were also Generals, who knew the use of combat proficiency and military tact. And once the Bloodbound emerged amongst them, the U’ami understood that their existence could not be forever spent as fugitives from the continent…
A long removed descendant of the Songhai Empire and genius military commander. The potency of her storm magic is only rivalled by her deadly precision on the battlefield.
Bloodbound Spell - Stormcrafting: Deal 2 damage to ANY joined unit.
A long removed descendant of the Lyonar Kingdom and expert naval tactician. Subtle manipulations of water currents allow his troops to outmaneuver any enemy on the high seas.
Bloodbound Spell - Tideweaving: Move an enemy minion 1 space.
A sketch I made of what Solace and Syr might look like now, as Mythron enters the age of anti-entropic fields and floating citadels. Though they are no longer strictly bound to the turbulent ocean below, the U’ami still associate closely with water. Water pools at the bottom of the arcane biosphere in a floating sea, then is filtered, collected, and reused once more. The reliance on crystals has concerned many of the Coven of Nine, who debate the appropriate environmental mandates to reduce the need to participate in Duelyst.
Note the design inspirations from Lyonar and Vetruvian architecture, as the cities themselves were founded out of respect for these empires’ great accomplishments in the arcane. The U’ami have become increasingly diverse over the years, recruiting apprentice mages, free thinkers and common folk from the nations they pay visit to. Some form smaller, segmented communities within the U’ami cities, such as the Thunderpoint Clan of Ala’i, comprised primarily of rogue electromancers from Xaan.
An early art direction for Kahako Shockmage, Prismarine Assistant, and Xaanborn Thunderpoint. Turtle shells and Nautiluses play into the water theme of the U’ami, while balls of Lightning and pink highlights demonstrate their arcane inclinations. We already talked about the Thunderpoint Clan, who draw plenty of influence from their Songhai brethren, so let’s discuss the Prismarine Harvesters.
The U’ami’s most prosperous age, immediately after the founding of Solace, began with the discovery of the Prismarine Spires at the bottom of the Restless Sea. These natural formations were simultaneously smooth as marble, hard as steel, and bright as the sun, emitting enough light to illuminate an entire ecosystem on the deep sea floor. Prismarine would serve the U’ami as a useful material for aspiring architects, sculptors, and artificers, as well as an excellent resonant for magical energy. The central tower of Ala’i in particular is commonly described as “overrun” by Prismarine constructs, carrying messages between researchers in the various wings and archives.
The city of Ala’i, pictured with two curious sea serpents. While the cities Solace and Syr, lighter and more experimental, adapted easily to the advent of anti-entropic levitation fields, Ala’i was slower in taking to the skies. Still, the seas grew more turbulent, and the people of Ala’i were increasingly taxed by the effort of diverting arcane storms. The Coven mage Ulu’ala devised a solution: to submerge the city below the thermocline, where the storms could no longer affect the city’s barriers at all. Deep in the ocean, Ala’i could devote less crystals and less manpower to maintaining their barriers, instead relying on Ulu’ala’s anti-entropic designs to protect the city from the undersea pressures.
Today, Ala’i cruises along the sea floor most of the time, allowing researchers easy access to arcanobiological phenomena and the Vents of Eyos. This, along with the fact that the central tower houses some of the deepest and most revered tomes in its massive libraries, makes Ala’i a veritable mage’s paradise. It is a heavy decision to abandon natural sunlight, but many immigrate to Ala’i in pursuit of the most prestigious academic institutions the Coven has to offer. When the city must ascend to make contact with the world above, the central tower of Ala’i activates a process known as Breach and breaks the surface with the speed of a charging Hippokamp. The city Breaches once a month on a strict schedule, rising into the air to join directly with Solace and Syr, passing information and people back and forth.
One of many sea monsters attacking a lowtech tradeship. The seas of Mythron have devolved into madness, making them unsafe for nearly all intruders. Manastorms tear through most materials with arcane lightning, striking with what seems like malicious intent and setting unfortunate naval vessels ablaze. The water itself moves in unpredictable, impossible ways, befuddling navigators until they finally pilot themselves into a swirling vortex. Finally, the creatures that dwell in the seas will prey on any adventurer who can successfully bypass all other obstacles. Kalkalan and Ala’ian Rake are among the smallest, while Dagona and Gulpers such as the one pictured above come in larger variants.
The U’ami are comprised of many different people from all factions, which inevitably results in stark cultural boundaries being drawn. These distinctions are blurrier within academic institutions, but within the markets and industrial districts one can easily distinguish Lyonar neighborhoods from Songhai and Abyssian. Architecture, cuisine, and customs may vary wildly from region to region, along with clothing and beliefs. Mixing of cultures, however, is extremely common, creating strange combinations of tradition only seen in the enlightened halls of the U’ami.
Many cultural societies exist within the three U’ami cities, providing a beacon for others of their heritage. The Xaanborn and Windcliffe societies are most prominent in the universities of Solace, training students in meteorology, naval combat, and diplomacy. The Kaeran and Magaari are well established in the artificer’s guilds of Syr, crafting the strongest tools and most precise arcane instruments Mythron has ever witnessed. The Shartouched, who are most accustomed to darkness, have the strongest following in the city of Ala’i, refining the art of elemental manashaping to the point of godliness.
When designing this new faction concept, I put a lot of thought into what thematic niche could be filled in Duelyst that had not been filled before. We already had sun knights, desert robots, fire ninjas, nature dinosaurs, shadow monsters, and ice barbarians. What element/archetype wasn’t explored? There were angels, cowboys, and aliens, but none of them felt truly unique from the existing factions. It was honestly pretty annoying: there weren’t even any simple color palettes available (the main 6 have all primary and secondary colors already). 
I figured Water was a good element to start from, and just extrapolated from there. I played around with Pirates (an idea I’d already done before) and Scientists (an idea I’d seen before), but always considered both ideas to be too tropey. Duelyst’s factions are all about classic archetypes “with a twist”. Then it hit me: I could just combine the two. Sprinkle a little Pacific Islander theming into the mix, and it started looking like a real faction! Seafaring Magic Scientists with a water attribute and deep sea knowledge: what a concept 
Oh, and for colors, I decided a pink/teal combination would be expressive enough for Duelyst and unique enough from the other factions, if only just to fill some design space in my mind.
You might notice that a lot of minion names are made with the Hawaiian alphabet in mind, though they’re mostly gibberish or puns (example: Pa’ua = Power). Some are also corruptions on words from other languages (example: Hippokamp = Hippocampus, Kalkalan = Karkadann)
All the names are still subject to change, especially some of the more basic ones (Kahako Shockmage feels a little forced)
The U’ami (according to what I can put together) fall into 3 basic archetypes: Conceal Control, Midrange Swarm and Aggro Flow.
Aggro Flow functions like a semi-combo archetype revolving around building a big enough board presence to acheive lethal with Flow shenanigans. Pa’ua and Windspeaker’s Blessing are powerful yet cheap finishers which will challenge your positioning skills and run down your opponent, while Warfarer can dominate the early game. From there on, you can load the deck with the best aggro tools: Dual Imbue will turn even the simplest Primus Fist or Flameblood Warlock into a killing machine, especially with the aforementioned Windspeaker’s and Pa’ua. As a bonus combo piece, one might equip a Prismarine Lodestone: if you have a Pa’ua on the field, even your General can become a 10 damage threat.
Midrange Swarm is a terrifying beast to face when up against the U’ami. Aquaveil Clerk and Swashwater Guard are star players when it comes to tossing heavy board states at your opponent, along with the standard Zyx and neutral 2 drops. Eventually your opponent will run out of aoe and you’ll overrun them with the card advantage from Voracious Knowledge, making them easy targets for Strength of Many as a finisher. Dual Imbue and Xaanborn Thunderpoint also make appearances as secondary finishers. Even without these finishers, a good turn with Daze will allow you to push massive face damage for few repercussions.
Conceal Control is a monstrous deck that takes full advantage of the Conceal mechanic’s ability to stow away expensive minions. Spirit Guard, Seal Away, and Memoriam Locket deter early aggression, allowing you to deploy the Ghost Frigates and A’u’ala’s Tempests. Late game onwards, the U’ami can play Silent Curator into 2 consecutive value minions, allowing them to build stronger board states than any other faction can in the cutthroat, remove-or-die meta of the ladder. Waterweave and Veil Breaching continue to be key players through all stages of the game, and Path of Pa’ua gives a surprising amount of mobility to heavy bodied Neutral threats. If all else fails, Forgotten Kalkalan will make your opponent tear their hair out trying to get rid of it.
Million Manashapers is a jank deck based on the abuse of certain Opening Gambits. Consider the following turn: Ash Mephyt -> Zyx -> Manashaping Experiment. The following turn, you play the Archon, giving you 9 3/3s for 3 Mana. It gets even more hilarious if you have a Silent Curator, Ghost Frigate, Wayfarer or otherwise value oriented minion out. Imagine: 9 3/3s that summon 3/3 Ghost Wolves with random effects.
Move ANY minion in a straight line, but not through units.
Deal 2 damage to all enemy minions nearby your General.
Stun and dispel a minion for 2 turns.
Deal 3 damage to all joined enemies.
Give a friendly minion +2/+2 for each joined friendly unit.
When this Artifact is destroyed, draw a card.
Conceal
Flow
Opening Gambit: Summon a copy of this minion nearby.
Reduce the enemy General’s attack to 0 this turn.
Give a friendly minion Conceal. Draw a card.
Give a friendly minion +1/+1 for each time it moved or was moved this turn.
Destroy all minions joined to your General.
Flow, Whenever this minion is moved, gain +1/+1.
Opening Gambit: Give all joined enemy minions -1 Attack.
Flow, Cannot move.
Conceal
Give a Concealed minion +2 Attack. Conceal it at the end of your turn.
Give 2 friendly minions +2 Attack and Flow.
Destroy an enemy minion. Your General gains Forcefield until the end of your turn.
Flow, Rush.
Conceal, Frenzy.
Opening Gambit: Move this minion and all units in front of it forward 2 spaces, if possible.
At the start of your next turn, all friendly minions gain +2 Attack until the end of your turn.
Your opponent summons a 0/2 Rainsprite with “Dying Wish: Your opponent draws a card.”
Draw 6 cards. Deal 3 damage to your General for each card you overdraw.
Your General has Flow.
At the start of your turn, destroy this minion and draw a card.
Conceal, At the start of your turn, gain Conceal.
Place a 3/3 Experimental Archon in your action bar with the abilities of all friendly minions.
Grant all friendly minions Conceal. Draw a card.
At the end of your turn, deal 2 damage to all joined enemies.
Conceal, The first minion you summon from your Action Bar each turn gains Conceal.
Flow, When a friendly unit Flows, grant it +2 Attack until the end of your turn.
When a friendly unit attacks the enemy General, grant it +2/+2.
Shim’Zar brings a number of new tools to the U’ami, many of which center around supporting control decks and patching up certain weaknesses. As usual, all cards are subject to change.
Has Forcefield on your opponent’s turn.
Flow, Whenever this minion is moved, restore 1 health to your General.
Dying Wish: Draw a card.
Enemy minions joined to this minion cannot move.
Conceal, Takes no damage when attacking from Conceal.
Flow, Opening Gambit: Give a nearby friendly minion Flow.
Forcefield, Dying Wish: Your General has Forcefield until the end of your next turn.
Whenever your General damages the enemy General, your General gains Conceal.
Summon a Mana Orb on your starting column. Draw a card.
Transform an enemy minion into a 0/2 Rainsprite with “Dying Wish: Your opponent draws a card.”
Your General swaps spaces with a friendly joined minion.
Place a random Battlepet into your Action Bar. Give it +1/+1 for each friendly minion.
Draw 3 Cards. Give all minions in your Action Bar +2/+2. Gain 6 Mana.
That’s right, the U’ami are on the side of the Golem factions in Ancient Bonds. All of their Golems are crafted from the finest deep sea mana crystals, and interact with mana manipulation in some form or another. Be prepared when facing off against these casters: they’ve got reserves to spare!
Bond: Gain 3 Mana this turn.
Cannot Attack, Gain Health equal to your maximum Mana.
Conceal, You have +3 Maximum Mana.
When this Artifact is destroyed, deal 3 damage to all nearby enemies.
Trigger a friendly minion’s Opening Gambit.
The U’ami join their cohorts in Unearthed Prophecy with a new tile and a number of unique effects. Their research has brought them to the very bottom of the magic warped oceans, revealing Crystal Veins of fantastic wealth. If you can’t undermine their plans in time, you may find yourself upstream without an arcane paddle.
Tile: Crystal Vein
At the start of your turn, if a friendly unit is standing on this space, gain 1 Mana.
Give all friendly joined minions +1/+1.
Turn an enemy minion’s tile into Crystal Vein. If it dies this turn, draw a card.
Dispel all tiles nearby your General. Turn your General’s tile into Crystal Vein.
Move all joined enemies to random spaces.
Summon a Mana Orb on each friendly Crystal Vein.
Exhaust all friendly units. Restore 4 Health to your General for each unit exhausted.
Conceal, Opening Gambit: Turn this minion’s tile into Crystal Vein.
Joined allies take 1 less damage from all sources.
At the end of your turn, turn the tile directly in front of this minion into Crystal Vein.
When you replace a card, destroy it.
Can only be damaged by enemies directly behind this minion.
Flow, May be moved through enemy minions, destroying them.
Whenever you cast a spell, your opponent summons a Rainsprite nearby their General.
Hey guys, your favorite naughty word here. I’ve got another expansion-level set cooking right now, but I wanted to put some of these miscellaneous ideas down. Tell me… how much do you guys like Drawmar? 
Our theme this time around is deck manipulation and build around cards. Get reading and go crazy with theorycrafting!
Grant all 2 Mana or less minions in your deck +2/+2.
When this minion attacks or is attacked, draw a Paladin of the Horn. If you cannot, put a copy of this minion into your deck.
Immune to spell damage, Opening Gambit: Summon a copy of this minion directly above and below this minion.
Forcefield, Cannot be targeted by spells while the shield persists.
Whenever this minion deals damage, give all spells in your Action Bar “+1 Spell Damage.”
Permanently stun all stunned minions.
AirDrop, Opening Gambit: Draw a Vespyr. If you have a Vespyr in play, draw one more.
Draw 3 cards. At the end of your turn, return them to your deck.
Return a friendly Flying minion to your Action Bar. Your General gains Attack this turn equal to its Attack.
Takes no damage, When this Artifact is destroyed, deal 1 damage to the enemy General, Gain +1 damage whenever your General damages an enemy.
Flying, Opening Gambit: Summon a 1/1 Flying Remora in a random space for each friendly non token Flying minion that died this game.
Target minion deals damage to itself equal to its attack.
Your General cannot be counterattacked. Restore 3 Health to your General when you destroy a minion.
When a minion moves or is summoned nearby this minion, devour it. Dying Wish: Summon all devoured minions on their owner’s starting side.
When you draw this card, discard it and draw another card.
A lot of the following cards relate to this token spell or reference it specifically, so just keep that in mind. Here are a bunch of concepts that support draw synergies.
Opening Gambit: Fight a nearby enemy minion.
When you draw a card, gain +1 Attack.
Whenever this minion takes damage, transform one of the lowest cost cards in your deck into a Constellation Step.
Frenzy, Whenever this minion deals damage, transform a random card in your opponent’s deck into a Constellation Step.
When you draw a card, deal 1 damage to all nearby enemy minions.
Opening Gambit: Fight all nearby enemy minions.
At the start of your turn, summon a 1/3 Komodo Charger with Rush nearby your General.
Place 3 Constellation Steps in your Action Bar.
Your General gains +2 Attack. Whenever you damage an enemy, turn that space into Primal Flourish.
When your opponent would draw a card on your turn, place a 1/1 Magma in their Action Bar instead.
Whenever either player draws a card that costs 2 or less, they must destroy it and draw another card.
Opening Gambit: Transform all cards that cost 2 Mana or less into Constellation Steps
Ranged, Whenever this minion deals damage, summon a 1/1 Minijax with Ranged in a random corner.
And here’s a few card ideas that could fit into pretty much any faction! Depending on the thematic spin, you can go ahead and interpret these into whatever factions you want.
Return each card you replaced this turn to your Action Bar.
Costs 0 when your maximum mana is 6 or more.
Target two minions gain each other’s attack and health.
Destroy a minion and all copies of it in both players’ decks and Action Bars.
Remove the three lowest cost minions from your deck. Draw a card.
Place 2 1/1 Meddling Toads with “When this card enters your action bar, summon it in a random space.” in your opponent’s deck.
Place a random card from ANY faction in your Action Bar. If you replace it, place a Soulsearch in your Action Bar.
Flying, Opening Gambit: Draw a card. Place two copies of this minion in your deck.
I came up with an idea for a new keyword, but I’m not totally sure how it should work. For now, I’m calling it Search and the idea is to give you more control over your replaces. I’m not sure if it should apply to replacing itself, like Dreamgazer and Astral Crusader, or if it should apply to any card you replace, like White Widow and Kron. (If it’s like Widow and Kron, it would probably be best to make it be an opening gambit that applies to the next card you replace).
Here’s some example texts for each one:
Type 1: Search: x = Whenever you replace this card, replace it with an x.
Search: Spell = Whenever you replace this card, replace it with a spell
Search: Faction Minion = Whenever you replace this card, replace it with a faction minion
Type 2: Search: x = Opening Gambit: The next time you replace a card, replace it with an x.
Search: Strong Minion = Opening Gambit: The next time you replace a card, replace it with a minion of a higher mana cost than this one. So if it’s on a 5 cost minion, you get a 6+ cost minion.
Search: Faction Minion = Opening Gambit: the next time you replace a card, replace it with a faction minion.
Type 3: Search: x = Whenever you replace a card, replace it with an x.
Other thoughts: If we use the first definition (Search: x = whenever you replace this card, replace it with an x), should your opponent see that you replaced a Search card? Or should they not see a difference between searching and replacing? With either definition, if no cards match the criteria, or if the only card that matches the criteria is itself and any copies itself (like a faction minion with search[type 1]: faction minion), or the only card that matches the criteria is the card you’re replacing(in the case of types 2 and 3), search doesn’t do anything and it’s just a regular replace. So what do you think? Which type is best? Which, if any, types are broken? For the types that aren’t broken, what criteria makes them broken? Is this something you’d want in the game? What criteria would you want? What stats or other effects would you want on Search cards? And most importantly, what are better ways to give players more control over their replaces, or are you against Search altogether?
Maehv got no support in her debut expansion.
5 mana 3/6
Arcanyst
Opening gambit: your BBS is now resentment
Token BBS spell
2 mana
Summon a random friendly token minion that has died this game on a random nearby space
Its an abyssian geomancer that is specifically better in maehv than lilithe or cassyva. It can work with mech or other token generators like khymera. And the best part is that it gives husks without the need to sacrifice minions or health at the cost not knowing where it goes or if youll get a wraithling.
Heavily countered by spinecleaver.
4 mana artifact
When your general takes spell damage, summon that many husks nearby
An artifact that actually rewards you for hitting youreself in the face (lets just forget about releaser)
5 mana
2/5
Frenzy
Whenever your general takes damage, this minion attacks a nearby minion
A powerful minion, but specifying “minion” as oppsed to “an enemy minion” or “an enemy” gives it some serious counterplay despite giving it what is close to rush frenzy since your opponent can trigger it to hit your own minions and its ability wont hit their face unless positioned into it.
2 mana structure
0/6
Build 2
Blood surge: summon all minions killed by a destroy effect this turn nearby
While good with many abyss cards, its only really consistent with maehv
3 mana spell
Target a friendly minion, give it dying wish: summon a shadow creep on this space and give this effect to all nearby friendly minions
Maybe not a maehv card, but reverse infest is a great way to combine swarm, dying wish, and creep into a single deck
7 mana artifact
Both players Treat enemy minions as friendly and vice versa
Massive artifact that is pure chaos. All effects that target friendlies (malice, darkfire sacrifice, ability to walk through friendlies) is only available to enemies while all effects that only target enemies can only target your own minions (maw, frostburn, ability to attack enemies) itd be nuts and an easy way to use your opponents board for yourself
Lyonar 4 mana 3/4
Has +1/+1 for each nearby friendly minion.
A cheap minion for swarm Lyonar.
Songhai 6 mana 5/5
Whenever you cast a spell, spells you cast that deal damage deal +1 damage this turn.
The idea is basically cumulative spell damage, so as you cast more spells your spells become stronger, but only for that turn.
I think this screams Mantra if it survives.
Fear
Abyssian spell
6 mana
Enemies cannot attack or damage friendly units until next turn. Gain 1 health for every enemy minion.
More of a support card used to deal with swarm and it also stalls the game. Great way to get back some health and deal damage without damaging your General or your minions. Could be used in Doom decks.
Oh god I didn’t think about that.
new keyword
reserve(x)
replace this card to reduce its mana cost by x
when replaced, you do not get a card back like normal replacing
4 mana 2/4
reserve(2)
if this minion is summoned for 0 mana, heal your general 5
5 mana 3/5
reserve(1)
10 mana 10/10 (lyonar)
provoke
cannot be targeted by enemy spells
reserve(2)
12 mana spell (abyssian)
reserve(3)
dispel and destroy all enemy minions and summon that many husks on the same space
Rework astral crusader as well then. As reserve doesnt seem better than crusader
Harambe
3 mana neutral
69/1
Dying wish: add a burning orb to your hand
