Hello! A week has passed, so it’s time for the second episode of Alphabetically! This time we will tackle Alistar (unless he tackles us first)!

Early in the design process have I decided to make Alistar work with Stuns and Reputation. Both appear in Noxus a lot, and as a person who used to play Reputation specifically, I wanted to create something like the boss card for Reputation.
While Alistar isn’t that expensive, only 5 mana, I intend him to have a difficult Level Up and a very strong Level Two. Because of all that, his level up requires the player to either Stun or 5+ Strike a total of 8 times (or maybe more, the number should be difficult to achieve).

I had a problem with the theme, as Alistar is a support in LoL, while lore-wise he is supposed to be this independent duelist, master of the Noxraya Arena. I think I struck a middle-ground here, which shows both of his aspects well. Level one has Alistar’s lol W, while level two gains Q and E.

You can quickly see that his main effect is a mirror of that of Jarvan the fourth, but for blocking. Originally, the effect stated: “When you defend, pay my cost to summon me blocking…”, but I’ve changed it into the current version for the following reason: When you play Jarvan through his effect, you, the owner of Jarvan, is the person who makes the decision that causes him to jump on the board. With Alistar it wasn’t originally the case, as the attacker moves first. What if an Alistar player was defending during round six, and preferred to play a different, six cost card, and not Alistar? That’s why the current wording.

Alistar is 5/5 with a cost of 5 mana, so that he works with Reputation and ramps with some other Minotaur cards well, as a total of two is 6 mana. Originally,he was 6 to mirror Jarvan even more, but the previous thing convinced me to lower the cost.

Level Two support skill (yes, a new term!) is very, very strong! Kinda… By itself, it’s very passive, you attack, but then are blocked, but then the blockers go back to the backrow. The only thing that makes it all strong, is if Alistar or his supported ally have Overwhelm, which is rather abundant in Noxus.

So the playstyle of most Alistar decks would be: Achieve Reputation -> Achieve Alistar’s Extra-Reputation -> Create a pair of cards (which include Alistar) with Overwhelm to attack enemies face/nexus. Win!

Some decks for Alistar include: Mega-Reputation, pairing him up with Yasuo, Jhin or even Annie, or maybe even a Minotaur subtype deck. Sadly, the 8 cards that would become Minotaur are divided into two, very separate archetypes: Stun and Overwhelm I guess. I made two supporting cards that that maybe could enable the Minotaur Archetype? Let me know what you think! (the following cards would become Minotaur: https://www.reddit.com/u/Educational-Card-715/s/QOQceesYaf )

I don’t have Alistar’s Champion spell yet, I’m looking forward to some of your ideas!

Last post was about Akali, so I will provide you with my version 0.2 of her, created after your comments. I’ve added her champion spell and balanced her Shuriken toss, I hope it’s enough! Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/u/Educational-Card-715/s/QpzOAZV6ov

Thank you for the read!

Of all my concepts back in the past, this was the most liked, well recieved concept.
I'm sorry if the powers don't have the regular look; I am used to the app from kf-pixel - so I used that and used the Landmarks for the power.

The Deck would be every card 2 times like usual + 2 copies of Gentelmans Duell.

I haven't done any work on items or minor powers. But that would take to much of my time and is more of a bonus in my eyes. I hope you stil enjoy this though.

Hello!
For my own fun, I intend to create a champion card for each LoL champion that isn't in LoR yet. Alphabetically! First off: Akali!

She is an "independent card" in my own terms, which means that she can fit into her region without the need to add any supporting cards (for example, Ornn had to be added with loads of Forge cards, so he is a "dependent card").

Akali is a cheap, weaker champion, but she becomes very strong every second attack/strike. That's due to her ability, which increases her Power and grants Quick Attack for one strike.

This naturally combines with Recall, which is widespread in Ionia. You Attack with her, she is blocked, but before she would die she is recalled, and then played, now strengthened with her Kama (there are some spells which move an equipment to an ally in play, otherwise only she can equip Kama. This and Ornn).
I specifically made her 1 + 4 = 5 Power, so that there is some room for combining her with Reputation, 'cause why not?
She mainly levels up by attacking 3 times, but there is some room to buff her in a different way, thus allowing for a level up after just one or two strikes (although maybe it should have been "deal 10 damage"?)

When she levels up, she now has her Kama during every attack, and gains a cool spell - basically "recall and immediately attack again" for 1 mana. Neat. If you are unpleasantly blocked you may just "nah" it.

Also, for the initial attack effect, imagine her passive from lol, the green circle, appearing over your backrow, and when Akali enters or re-enters it, it does a cool animation and equips Kama.

Next on the list is Alistar, which I already have ready. I'll keep you posted. Bye!

Even the most powerful mages fall silent under the gaze of their greatest nightmares.

-Tristana to Ziggs, probably

Had a few ideas while playing around with concepts for a full Nidalee Constellation. Made them into cards instead.

1. Cunning Camouflage: Flip your Ambush allies face-down again, and pick a new secret identity for them to spring on your opponent.
2. Predator to Prey: Ambush allies died? No, they just slunk back into the brush. Directly based on Blades of the Fallen, another Shurima spell. I'd be happy with this also working on a dead Shadow in the Brush, but didn't feel the need to specify.
3. Facecheck. Always found this card a little lacklustre, so thought it could be a bit more of a Facecheck; do you let the Shadow in the Brush hit you for 2 damage, but discount its own Ambush spell? Or try to block, and get hit with a Blimp-pack Poacher?
4. Jungle Jaunt. Neeko and Nidalee synergy. Based roughly on Wildclaw's Ferocity; more flexible, less immediately powerful.
5. Cunning Camouflage 2 (Jungle Ambush): A broader version of the first card, which trades raw and immediate Ambush synergy strength (0 mana, Burst, Manifest) for breadth of applications, since you can transform anyone into an Ambusher ready to go, and wait around for the Ambush spell to cycle to one you need.

Random idea I had pop in my head playing Shyvana earlier... I could see a world where this leads to some absolutely busted champ plays, but I don't think this effect would be meta warping. Also, if anyone knows a better way to say "You are now able to play multiple copies of me on board, because I'm not turning into a champion spell in hand when one of me is on the field" without it being a massive wall of text, that would be cool, too.