I don't want to enter the argument about whether it's overpowered or not, I just wanted to make it "visual". Even if I haven't seen the original concept I'm pretty sure that it was Sindragosa, because the effect really fits.

Yes it was Sindragosa.

A 7/4 with pirate tag or deathrattle costs 5 mana. And both are really crap. So it's reasonable to say that a 7/5 vanilla no tag would also be worth 5 mana, and even then it might not see much play because a 5/5 with ability is just BETTER. So we can say Baron Geddon's effect is worth 2 mana? Which obviously isn't true. Baron Geddon's effect is obviously worth more than 2 mana, but gets a heavy discount because it's on a 7 drop. Which is kind of the point. The biggest creatures have to have really powerful effects to be relevant, which is kind of what they've been doing recently.

Similar, an 8/8 is worth almost, but not quite, 7 mana. It would not be playable at 7 mana, but it would be better than Boulderfist Ogre at six. But to be blunt the game could easily survive an 8/8 at 6 mana, since the only ones we currently even see a lot are giants, fel reaver, and alex. But let's say seven mana. Then again, a freeze and 2 damage to everything, giving up the recurring, doesn't seem to be that big of a deal for 2 maan, especially since it's on a 9 drop instead of a seven drop so the ability is allowed to even be a little bit better.

Freezing everything is perfectly fine at 9, possibly even weak since it hurts you as much as your opponent.

Now I'm invisioning a combo deck where you freeze everyone the B silence your stuff abd win.

need more combo enablers


idk

Rogues need a card that will let their hero power combo.

Like 1 mana 1/3, "Your hero power triggers combo"

That's what mown made.

Gross

Freezing all your own dudes is bad design. Just tack a Blizzard on it. But really Sindragosa should have been a 9/9 for 9 that summons 3 3/3 Twilight Bombardiers, like how she worked in WoW.

Anyway, I always thought the DK hero power should be:

that feels too similar to the druid power. I know it's different in that it ducks taunts while druid can attack creatures, but if they're introducing new classes it has to be something that feels fundamentally different, not just a slight tweak on an existing thing.

that's probably the worst hero power honestly.

Rogues should have 0-cost secrets.

(Seriously why do Paladins have secrets and not Rogues this has always bothered me)

apparently Rogues were supposed to but then paladins had basically no identity so they gave them secrets instead

What would a zero cost secret even look like?

I don't know if Rogues get this ability, but it could be something like "when the opponent summons a creature, silence it"

Paladins have no identity anyway they're just the big dumb whatever I can do anything class

Secrets doesn't help with that. If anything it only makes it worse. (Why?! NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.)

I was thinking Secret: At the beginning of your turn, draw a card.

Secret: Whenever your opponent attacks one of your dudes, your dude gets +4 attack this turn

Secret: Whenever your opponent plays a card, the next card they play this turn costs 1 more

Secret: If your weapon would be destroyed, instead reduce it to 1 durability

Etc.

DK hero power could be a spell version of shaman's hero power, with different spells that represent the different DK presences.

The problem here is that 1, 2, and 3 are worth more than 0 mana.

Justice demands favorable stat distribution!

but are they worth more than 0 mana and a card?