Harry Potter - Chosen One

Some random and disorganized feedback: 
On the color assignement point of view I would have done many things differently: for example, Snape is all but red in my opinion. Ginny is red for sure. Mundungus probably U or B
I would not bother having card types that you don't use, like "horcrux" , "book" , "totem", "muggle", "chess" (!?) or "web" (very marginal design space).
Not sure about the choice of having some characters as Planeswalker (especially very marginal ones, like bathilda).
It could have been interesting to having a bit of houses subdivision among students, and matching every house with a color pair or a single color even. For example:
Gryffindor: W or RW
Ravenclaw: U 
Slytherin: B
Hufflepuff: G
It's already like this to some extent
I see a lot of Clue tokens, but in my opinion these don't really fit with the HP story. Treasure as well honestly. Food is fine.
The room theme is pretty fitting. It would be interesting to see if your implementation works nicely in draft.
I like the potion theme as well, but again, you need to playtest it to see if it's achievable.
The whole unicord hair theme feels strange: I mean, the unicorn hair is surely not a recurrent theme across the wizarding world, so why this choice?
Not sure if I like legendary creatures as commons. It's fine to let them have names, but just keep them non legendary I think
Clever idea to have the house elves add mana: fif the theme of "helping in the house"
Some cards clearly broke the color pie (e.g. expelliarmus should be blue for what it does). Be careful on that!

Goblet of fire: definetely not an equipment in my opinion.
Seamus: I don't find very fitty your kicker approach. When does seamus become a 5/5 in the story? Why not play around with some random damage instead? (flip a coin: if you win, it deals 2 damage to any target, if you lose, it deals 2 damage to you)
Hagrid and Maxime: should be Giant Human, since they are half-giants
Felix felicis: really underpowered, and I don't really feel the flavour (pun intended   )
Dumbledore army: if this is the only card that uses "wizard tokens" I would change it to something else. And again, not super thematic imo
Hallow theme: I see why you put this Hallow subtype, but in draft there are 0 chances that one can assemble all three pieces, so what's the point.. You can maybe come up with something else (e.g. if you control three legendary artifacts: easier to accomplish and keep the exact same feeling of collecting hallows)
Honestly, I liked the idea of having chess pieces. The abilities are fitting as well. Just, remove "chess" as subtype imo, and maybe change the "My move" keyword into a pseudo keyword (My Move - This creature is indestructible during your turn.)
Secret Passageway: no dungeon interaction?
Golden snitch: nice flavour. Not sure if it should be 0/1 tho
Sorting Hat: not what I would have imagined. I would make up something around card colors instead
Cycle of enchantment lands: they all should have the "land" layout. Moreover, I can't see the readon why they are enchantments..


Flavourly speaking: Overall you did a great work capturing a lot of characters and items of the wizarding world. With some more iterations, this can became a great set!

Galva,
I've mulled some stuff over.




Felix Felicis---

Thought Process: I wanted to capture getting lucky. Stacking the top of your library so you draw what you want felt like a good way to make your own luck.


Other Note: I think the original had some subtle power, but I'm tinkering with it.


Potential Change: I could make it give a clue, since that would strengthen it (and Harry uses it to extract a “clue” from Slughorn).





Clues and Treasures-

Thought Process: Each Harry Potter book is to some degree a mystery. Who is trying to get at the Sorcerer’s Stone? What’s the Chamber of Secrets, and how is it opening? Who are the Marauder’s, really? I enjoyed the idea of solving these mysteries. For treasures, there is the whole Gringotts aspect. I also liked that I could give riders that give clues and treasures that are slightly weaker than just giving a card, or to have artifact and token synergy.


Other Note: I used food less then treasures and clues, yet food bothered you the least! 😊


Potential change: Not sure.




Goblet of Fire and Dumbledore’s Army-

Thought Process:  Initially, these cards were there to strengthen the “equipment” draft archetype. Dumbledore’s Army makes tokens so you have a stream of things to put your equipment on. Note that 1/1 blue wizards are also used for the wizardseek mechanic (the one that lets the wand choose the wizard). This means wizards aren’t in the set just for Dumbledore’s Army; it was the other way around—I was reusing a token already present. The token also went on a couple of other things (Defense against the Darks Arts Position, and one of the dungeons can make wizards).


Other Note: I’m not that attached to either of these designs.

Potential change: I've cut Dumbledore's Army (as a card) and changed Goblet of Fire to something hopefully more flavorful.





Kicker (Seamus as an example)-

Thought Process: In the first book and film, Seamus accidentally sets things on fire and makes them blow up during Charms. In the seventh film, he blows up a bridge with a bunch of Death Eaters on it. I liked the idea of capturing how he developed from this small moment to being a big weapon during the battle.


Other Note: This is a more recent edit to this post--I've opted to get rid of kicker.


Change: I've removed the "Dumbledore's Army" card.  I've removed kicker from the set.  Some cards got activated abilities in their place.  Some creatures in Dumbledore's Army now have triggers that give you riders where you pay for an extra effect when a legend enters.  This represents them teaming up.





Colors (Snape as an example):

Thought Process: Red is the color of emotion and impulse in Magic. Snape is largely motivated by his love of Lily Potter, and has difficulty overcoming his emotions toward Harry and the other Gryffindors. Red is also a creative color. Snape is very creative when he makes his own spells and potion variations. I don’t think he’s white or green hardly at all; this might be my biggest contention with your ideas. White is very rule-oriented and someone who is like a double-agent spy and doesn’t enforce the rules consistently doesn’t seem very white to me. Green is about connecting with nature, your wild side, and growth; Hagrid is green. Snape is not green in my mind.


Other Note: Because characters tend to be complex, there’s often a case to be made for several different colors, especially at different points in the story. There’s also the matter of fleshing out the different draft archetypes and making sure each color is represented, so this can pull you to choose a version of a character with a given color. For instance, I agree that Ginny is probably not blue—most of the time. But the version of her Hoodwinked by Voldemort has a blue tinge, since blue is a mind control color. At any rate, I changed her to “Hoodwinked Student” to cut down on legends.


Potential change: I could see Snape as blue or izzet. Overall though, I doubt groups of people would come to consensus on what colors a bunch of the characters are. I remember Maro writing posts about what colors a bunch of TV characters would be and everyone squabbling in the comments—it’s pretty subjective, since characters are more complex and mixed than the color philosophy they are supposed to map cleanly to.

I am happy with the idea of having the houses be more color-centric or draft archetype centric. Maybe a cycle of Prefects/Heads of Houses/enchantments that are more loud about the house colors and giving boosts?

I liked my execution on Sorting Hat, sorting the cards into four groups, but I’m willing to explore other options. If I were to make it color-centric, I wonder what that might look like. Maybe like “{T}: Choose target creature without a counter on it. Then choose one of the following counters to put on it--

Deathtouch. It becomes black.

+1+1. It becomes green.

First strike. It becomes red.

Flying. It becomes blue.

Activate as a sorcery.



Current design:




Miscellaneous-

Thought Process: I thought it would be fun to design some Planeswalkers that play into the set mechanics. While Lord of the Rings didn’t have Planeswalkers, the Dungeons and Dragons set did, which says to me there is some internal debate on whether its okay or not. I’m honestly kind of confused about Wizards recent relationship with the Planeswalker card type.  I think I'll leave them be for now.

Other notes: The enchantment type was for some lands was to make them more kill-able and make them searchable by the Saga that seemed like it would be cool if it could grab the Great Lake.  Not attached to them being land- enchantments.

Changes: I’ll get rid of the enchantment type on some lands so they are just lands. For now, I’ll just make Triwizard Tournament search out “Room, Island, or Cave”. Maybe make a few more cards in the set that can blow up lands. I gave Secret Passageway a dungeon interaction.



EDIT: This used to contain a section on unicorn hairs, a mechanic I've now removed.