Hey guys, it’s Amaz! After the success of my Death Knight class concept I decided to do another one from the Warcraft universe. So here is the Monk class! Focus is our new ability this time around. Focus will give an extra ability to some of your cards if you use all your mana on that spell. For example, if you cast a two drop with only two mana it will trigger focus. If you have extra mana after casting a Focus card, it will not trigger.
Quick Notes
- All artwork is from Blizzard and WoW TCG, to my knowledge. - All cards were made on the hearthcards.net site, a big shoutout to them! - And of course, Blizzard, for making Hearthstone.
Chen Stormstout Emotes
Game Start - "For Pandaria!"
Greetings - "My respects, friend." Well Played - "Hahaha...well played!" Thanks - "I thank you for that." Sorry - "A fault is at hand." Oops - "Ooo, drunken mistake." Threaten - "Prepare to get trashed!"
Opponent plays Sylvanas Windrunner, she will say - "Vengeance is mine!"
When Thrall is your opponent, Game Start is instead "Hahaha, we meet again friend!"
I know you just pointed out on stream that Shadopan Trainee is a turn 3 play to get the most out of the battlecry. But even without the battlecry a 2/2 for 1 mana is completely solid (compare with every other 1 drop). The battlecry is pure upside for drawing it later in the game and its still perfectly fine as a turn 1 drop because it'll typically trade favourably, as a minimum evenly.
The comparison to Ironforge Rifleman makes sense, but this is also strictly better than that because you get two points out of your hero power for it. As well as being perfectly fine to drop earlier on.
Say you have a 2 mana card on turn 2. You play the 2 mana card and if it has Focus it triggers, as it has used exactly the amount of mana you have left.
If you played the same 2 mana focus card on turn 3 first, it would not activate the Focus ability. If you used a 1 mana card first and then the 2 mana focus card, it would trigger. Make sense?
On September 23 2014 00:20 Mackin wrote: Focus works this way:
Say you have a 2 mana card on turn 2. You play the 2 mana card and if it has Focus it triggers, as it has used exactly the amount of mana you have left.
If you played the same 2 mana focus card on turn 3 first, it would not activate the Focus ability. If you used a 1 mana card first and then the 2 mana focus card, it would trigger. Make sense?
Amaz is streaming this atm.
I see. Does the change hero power thing allow you to use hero power more than once a turn (like shadowform)? If yes, then you can always activate Focus using hero power as 1 mana fillers.
On September 23 2014 00:20 Mackin wrote: Focus works this way:
Say you have a 2 mana card on turn 2. You play the 2 mana card and if it has Focus it triggers, as it has used exactly the amount of mana you have left.
If you played the same 2 mana focus card on turn 3 first, it would not activate the Focus ability. If you used a 1 mana card first and then the 2 mana focus card, it would trigger. Make sense?
Amaz is streaming this atm.
Thanks, I am watching it right now, but I missed the beginning when he talked about Focus.
The class looks pretty cool, if a bit Focus-heavy. The only actual change I'd make is Afterlife -> 7 mana. The concept is indeed "win more", but you could manage to get a 3rd turtle right as you need it (or a second Niuzao), which always have turnaround potential.