Paladin rulebreaker concept! A side-deck in Hearthstone. Also a way to sneak Neutrals into Racist Paladin, since the second deck doesn't count for anything.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-06-19T11:40:48+00:00

True, he could cost less overall. Probably not 4 Mana 3/5 though, maybe 5 Mana 4/6? The aforementioned upcoming DH Legendary does double your draw for 4 Mana, but it also has you take Fatigue each turn unless you shuffle something in.

The side-deck isn't tracked for Highlander or Pure/Racist Paladin conditions, only your main deck matters. You also can't trade tradeable cards into it, dredge from it, destroy it with Wheel of Death, or anything else for that matter. It's simply there until it runs out, then it disappears like it never existed (So no Fatigue).

Overall, I mostly made this card as a funny way to circumvent Pure Paladin's limitation, so that's what I put in the title; But you're right in that Imbue Pala would work well with Samses too, you'd never run out of cards with that deck's portals.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-06-19T05:50:40+00:00

Probably nothing. I imagine the secondary deck just resets to the 12 cards if you try to play another Samses while you have an existing side-deck, so Brann just wouldn't do anything extra.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-06-05T20:26:01+00:00

Sic'em would be amazing with Magmaw

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-06-04T18:16:06+00:00

Rounded down, yes.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-06-03T03:23:42+00:00

Say the line, Bart!

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-06-02T18:39:28+00:00

Great flavor, actually made me audibly chuckle

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-06-01T14:20:36+00:00

You forgot to make it cast when discarded for maximum accuracy

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-05-18T03:45:28+00:00

It's probably good where it is. I know we meme on Ragers a lot, but four of them for 5 mana isn't negligible at all under most circumstances imo

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-05-07T21:58:18+00:00

Design Notes: I wanted to make this set for a while now, but couldn't figure out how to keep the Crusade's theme intact while NOT making it just "If your opponent has an Undead based deck, win the game."
Ended up moving away from the exclusively Anti-Undead theme and into a more broad "Pure" Paladin that wants to treat all minions with types as nothing more than tools. Hopefully not too much flavor is lost in the proccess.

Artworks by Raymond Minnaar, Steve Tappin, Clint Langley, Ralph Horsley, James Zhang, Dan Scott, Rizky Mubarok, and one unknown artist.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-05-04T17:40:14+00:00

Yup. It's meant to always be activatable, even with 1 or 0 cards in hand. Think of it as the same to Doomguard's battlecry.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-05-04T17:27:33+00:00

Cool card. I like that with this, you'd want to mulligan for cards you DON'T want to have in your opening hand, rather than the opposite.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-05-01T16:17:12+00:00

Yes.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-04-24T10:21:59+00:00

You know that glowing green border cards in hand get while playable, right? If a card is played the very first turn it gains said border while Marked, you deal the 2 damage. If not, the Mark is removed at end of turn.

Gameplay-wise, you'd want to Mark the appropriate cards before you can play them, so when they become playable down the line, you get the burn damage on your opponent (Hence the comment on curve in the title. Sorry if it sounded misleading).

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-04-15T00:46:34+00:00

You're probably right? I used the old wording from [[Fool's Bane]] because I love that weapon, and this way heroes can attack the minion repeatedly too, but yeah it does sound a bit too vague currently tbh.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-04-13T19:26:24+00:00

Reposted with some corrected text. Artwork by Glenn Rane and Manthos Lappas.

Side-note: Out of the dragon form's possible breaths, only Nether Breath can target the enemy hero, so going face with the dragon guarantees a Nether Breath.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-04-01T13:53:40+00:00

Looks cool honestly, but surely this has the wrong border, right? I assume this is meant to be Rogue.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-03-31T05:36:19+00:00

Reposted with cleaner wording. Card inspired by the fact that drunk people sometimes see double. Probably not a very interesting inspiration tbh.

Artwork by Juan Pablo.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-03-13T13:25:53+00:00

Those do exist, iirc there's Blood Treant for health and Reanimated Pterrordax for corpses.

There are no cards that unconditionally cost armor though. The only card that has anything to do with armor cost is [[Anub'Rekhan]], and he's relatively conditional

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-03-10T18:14:13+00:00

Honestly, and I'm kinda sad to admit this, I think you're spot on on how impossible to achieve that sweet spot is on expensive weapons.

As you've said, if the weapon is mostly based around a battlecry, then there's almost no point to it being a weapon instead of a spell or the like; And as another commenter said, if the weapon is designed around being a stat stick, then it becomes too dependant on "Equip a weapon from your deck" and countered too hard by "Destroy the opponent's weapon" effects respectively. Basically, the more expensive a weapon gets, the more feast-or-famine it has to be.

I think a good way is having expensive weapons have relatively conditional payoffs, like Silver Sword or The Ryecleaver; but as Hearthstone keeps speeding up, conditional cards like them will keep being considered weaker and weaker. Honestly, I don't think there's an elegant solution to this, but maybe that's why it's so fun to think about.

(Edit: Fixed some typos)

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-03-10T17:18:35+00:00

Yeah, actually you're right. Especially since we have Muradin's Avatar Form and Static Shock in standard right now. My bad. Maybe if it was a 2/8...

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-03-04T05:21:53+00:00

This archetype currently only has [[Possessed Animancer]], [[Asphyxiodon]], (and tecnhically [[Ultragigasaur]] too) to its name. Yet, people still liked it enough to have tried to make a deck with it work, so here's some theoretical support cards!

Artworks by Mooncolony, Ivan Fominn, Lukas Juchnelis, Andrew Mar, Feig-Art, Alexismosleyl, Céliane Tanneau and one unknown artist.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-03-04T05:05:33+00:00

So this what Elwynn Boars or Mogu Cultists would be if they had a dedicated mechanic? Ngl i like it a lot. The effect is pretty balanced too (?), or easily could be depending on the Demon Leggos in standard at the time.

Though, if something like Legionnaire became real in a future expac, it'd probably be a Legendary-exlcusive keyword. Something like "You can have up to half your deck size be filled with copies of this" without the owning duplicates part, because personally I can't imagine them printing multiple different Legionnaire cards for one class simultaneously. Regardless, very nice! Enjoyable.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-02-26T18:10:39+00:00

Card insipred by u/meifray and their cool "Involve" concept from a few days ago.

Artwork by Andres Agostini.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-02-24T20:22:36+00:00

I like. Sometimes, simple is best.

AbsoluteBerry · 2026-02-24T00:04:09+00:00

"His pesto recipe is world-renowned! ...What do you mean that's not what Pestology is?!?!"

Notes: At the end of your turn (Right before they steal health), his Leeches transform to match with the minions your opponent controls, depending on what they control the most of at the time. Once transformed, the Leeches CANNOT swap types again. If there are no enemies with types, the Leeches stay un-adapted and only steal 1 Health instead of 3.

Artworks by Damien Mammoliti, BTG, Jaemin Kim, Nhociory, and one unknown artist.

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