In the last article, Qingfeng mentioned that some versions of the new keywords have actually appeared prototypes before, so the new mechanism in the future may also be hidden in the current single card, the first day of the new year, naturally to look forward to the future, let's look forward to guess what keywords may appear in the future!
Frozen
The key word frozen is actually already there in Hearthstone, that is, frozen mammoths. The frozen keyword is not the same as the ordinary freeze, the companion with this keyword attribute will not be frozen like the snow guardian, the next turn can be unlocked, must meet certain conditions to unlock the frozen state, if the conditions have not been met will always be frozen. Iksar's twitter Q&A mentioned earlier that the version with the theme of the four elements is a good idea, and this keyword is quite suitable for this theme.
However, this keyword has a "savior", that is, to activate the dragon's breath, when the activated dragon's breath is present, all the followers will not be frozen, and the entourage that has been frozen will be thawed, the frozen mammoth is no exception, if you really want to design a large number of "frozen" keyword cards, it is worth thinking about whether the mechanism of activating the dragon's breath needs to be modified.
Consumes the remaining mana points
The druid's crystal cap in the new version can be raised to 20 points, which makes the upper limit of the forest king Eves very high, in fact, under the usual expectation, the king of the forest can reach 5 fees 3/3 raids, holy shields, taunts. It is very close to the model of Chilias, and the higher the cost, the more the king of the forest will be supermodel. However, this mechanism of consuming all remaining mana has actually appeared once a long time ago.
In the Ancient Gods version, the Forbidden Series mechanic is a bunch of cards that consume all mana to increase the effect of the cards, of which the Forbidden Ancient Tree can be said to be the prototype of the King of the Forest, Ivers. The advantage of the taboo series is flexibility, you can control the cost to choose the effect you need, especially the taboo distortion, the eight fees of the year all kinds of powerful big brother followers, so whether it is the arena or the ladder, everyone will choose to control the cost to eight fees to open the taboo distortion.
The Forbidden series is now in many versions, and it is not impossible to become a keyword again. However, compared to the King of the Forest, Qingfeng felt that mechanisms like the Cemetery Summoning, which were also related to mana points, were more likely to become new keywords in the future, such as finding a war roar card, triggering its war roar if there was enough mana value to use, or discovering a mystery, and automatically hanging up this mystery if the remaining cost was enough to use this mystery. This mechanism is not only more novel, but also much stronger than the taboo series.
Aim for distribution
When he saw the new card "Goliath, Sneeder's Masterpiece" during the Death Mine Preview Season, Breeze became interested in him, mainly in small words in parentheses: The target is chosen by you. As we all know, there is no double selection function in Hearthstone, and there are five goals in this sub-order, how to achieve it? After the official launch, it was quite interesting to select the target selected by each rocket through the point five, and it was also very useful, which also led to Sneeder killing all sides in the arena, and finally the tunnel engineer was disabled.
In the future, if there is a goblin dwarf or dwarf technology theme, this mechanism aimed at distributing damage is very suitable for making keywords, but there is also a small problem, if this type of mechanism is too many cards, it will make hearthstone flavor strange, like playing FPS games.
Repeat the effect
In the new version of Otranc, several cards that repeat the effect if certain conditions are met, such as Snowball War, The Arcane Magician, and Air Force Commander Ekman (like Dai Jiawei's card), this mechanism has been very common before, from textbook blasphemy to mentor fire heart is a similar effect, and this mechanism will not confuse novice players even if it is upgraded to a keyword, and maybe in the future version of this mechanism will officially become a keyword.
Can't put it down
The horde of rats and the Omega Destroyer are both storm city versions of the new cards that join Hearthstone, but one comes to the ladder to build, and one goes to the wargame tavern, which is most likely the product of the internal communication and inspiration of different departments within Team5, but this mechanism performs much better in the tavern wargame than the ladder, because the tavern wargames are easy to fill up in the later stages, and the ladder is not so easy to pave to the full field, so even if the 1-fee 5/5 rat looks tempting, not many people carry this card. However, tavern wargames may also design new cards with similar mechanics in the future.
What other interesting cards do you think will be the prototype of the new mechanic in the future? Feel free to express your views in the comments section!