Bottled Starlight - Custom Hearthstone Card

Bottled Starlight

30th September, 2018 (TBP)

Made by Anonymous318

kala 5 years ago
I'd stay away from hall of faming sorcerer's apprentice though cause wild still exists but you know
LordeKrull13 5 years ago
"Better than Canned Sunlight or Boxed Moonlight!"
LordeKrull13 5 years ago
"The effects varies individually!"
Anonymous318 (creator)5 years ago
Alternately, Hall of Fame Sorcerer's Apprentice or nerf it to 'Your spells cost (1) less, but not less than 1', a la Summoning Portal. Opens up a lot more design space.
keyvnn9 5 years ago
New Mage card: 20 mana, deal 1 damage, Echo.
“Have we fixed the problem yet?”
Chame 5 years ago
@keyvnn9 jeez i didn't think about that either. just make this card 12 mana and call it a day
keyvnn9 5 years ago
@Chame Turn 6 OTKs are fun, then. Molten Reflection.
Chame 5 years ago
yeah sadly this would have to cost 3 because of sorcerer's apprentice but the card's idea is cool
keyvnn9 5 years ago
Turn 4 OTKs are fun.
Shoemanband 5 years ago
Maybe you could use similar wording to Death Coil? "Give a minion Spell Damage +1, or give your hero two copies of Bottled Starlight."
You also could've done "Give a minion Spell Damage +1. If cast on your hero, add two Bottled Starlights to your hand."
DestroyerR 5 years ago
@Quantum I know I’m going to sound like a massive hypocrite, but we can’t remove the core of the problem if it’s official in the game. We’ll just have to work around it :\
Quantum 5 years ago
As i said it can. Just make spell's cost irreducible.
petebar 5 years ago
the idea is so clever. But unfortunatly it can't exist because of Spell Cost reduction
Quantum 5 years ago
I think it is easier to just remove core of a problem than to create something over it. And that is pretty huge line, in some more complicated weapons it can make a card's text too huge.
DestroyerR 5 years ago
Actually, I retract my previous statement. We could just write “can’t be equipped over another weapon” in custom cards, I’m dumb lol
Quantum 5 years ago
Also we should pretend that all Echo (or other way repeating cheap cards) mage/priest cards have 'Cost can't be reduced'.
DestroyerR 5 years ago
@Anonymous318 you’re welcome!
DestroyerR 5 years ago
@PoodleFez y’know, for design purposes, we should all just pretend Twig reads “you can’t equip weapons”.
DestroyerR 5 years ago
@Lemons oof
PoodleFez 5 years ago
yeah you can, that's the one thing bad about this- awesome effect, great name/art but blizzard's own design faliures ruin this. like how people make really awesome Druid weapons and all people can say is "BREAKS TWIG OPOPOPOP" ;-;
Lemons 5 years ago
Can't I just go infinite with two Sorcerer's Apprentices?
Anonymous318 (creator)5 years ago
And thanks for the promote, btw!
Anonymous318 (creator)5 years ago
@DestroyerR Yep. 'To hand' is one less word than 'to your hand.'
Most straightforward way I could think of to keep the text as concise as possible. It pains my eyes every time I see a card with more than 4 lines of text.
DestroyerR 5 years ago
I’m assuming you tried writing ‘to your hand’ and it looked horrible? Nice card BTW
Anonymous318 (creator)5 years ago
Revamped the effect. Now has a pseudo-Choose One effect: either give a minion Spell Damage +1, or duplicate the spell. Previous version read, 'Add 2 Bottled Starlights to hand.'

Thanks to Shoemanband for the thoughtful feedback.