I think you've all done really well to make it this far, and I could not begin to predict a winner. This is the final stretch! We extended our phases for this competition compared to previous years, and I do think it has resulted in a higher quality of submissions throughout, so especially strong congratulations on beating out some tough competition.
Good luck, have fun, and may the best class win!
GENERAL RULES
Even if you're already a veteran of our competitions here on the Fan Creation Forum, you should read the general rules before you get started. This competition does introduce new rules, like image limitations and formatting requirements.
* The Submission Topic is for submissions only. If you want to discuss your entry, another entry, ask questions about the competition rules or process, or anything else, you can find a link to the Discussion Topic at the top of this thread. Plenty of folks there will be happy to help you out. * You are allowed only one submission , consisting of the materials specified by each competition phase. These materials must, of course, be of your own creation. If you'd like, you may collaborate with another user on a single submission, but this must be specified during Phase I. * You may make only minor edits to your entry once you have submitted it. Minor changes are things like correcting typos or making balance changes that do not alter the spirit of your entry as determined by we the moderators. If you want to make any changes and have any doubts as to their legality, ask us first. * You may not delete any posts you make in this topic. No, not even if you post here by mistake or accidentally double-post or something. Deleted posts screw with the system we use to help us calculate up-vote scores, so don't do that. If you to post here by mistake or accidentally double-post or something, simply edit your post to just say "REMOVED" and leave it at that. * You may not create your own topics on this forum for competition-related material. If everybody goes off and creates their own topics for specific discussion of their entries, this board will be flooded with nothing but, and so competition material must remain restricted to official competition topics. If you want to enter the competition with a class that you already have a topic about on this forum, then your topic will be locked in the interest of fairness to the other competitors. Not deleted, just locked, and it can be unlocked after your entry gets knocked out of the competition. You also may not reference or link to your topic in official competition topics.
* You must host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. We encourage you to create your entry material using Hearthcards.net , but please remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, it has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your cards disappearing part-way through the competition. After you create it, save and upload it to Imgur , Photobucket , or some other similar site. We understand that there are some Hearthcards memberships that will allow you to save your card there for longer (and you should totally get one of those just for general fan creation purposes, by the way), but we don't know who has those memberships and we can't tell from the URLs. * You may not submit any Gold cards or animated cards, nor may you include any images in your post other than the requested submission materials. A single banner or border, to introduce the class, is allowed. We get it, everybody wants their entry to stand out, but our pages are going to be heavy enough as it is without everybody heading their submissions with animated banners. * You must insert your images into your post using this icon on the bar above the post text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. We realize that it's also possible to upload and attach images to your post. Don't do that, though. We know from experience that, because those images are much smaller and require more work to view, entries that enter their images that way just don't do as well, so this is for your own good. * Format your entry concisely by sizing your cards appropriately and placing them beside one another rather than in a column or completely separate. The first example below is acceptable while the second is not. Entries that unnecessarily inflate the size of the submission topic and make it more difficult to get through will be disqualified. How should you size your cards? Well...
Adjust cards to a width of 250 , and you should be able to get three in a row!
Adjust cards to a width of 180 , and you should be able to get four in a row!
Adjust cards to a width of 150 , and you should be able to get five in a row!
* "Troll" entries will be disqualified. Fun and even humorous entries are perfectly allowed (this is Hearthstone after all), but if you're worried that your entry may be misinterpreted as a troll entry, contact a moderator before you submit.
Finally, know that manipulating votes in any way is strictly forbidden. Any violators will receive an official warning, and will be banned from this and all future HearthPwn Card Design Competitions.
PHASE VI: The Boomsday Project + Rastakhan's Rumble
Here we are, finalists! In the last phase of our competition, you'll be giving us your class's Boomsday Project and Rastakhan's Rumble sets, as well as constructing your own custom Finale Topics:
FINALE TOPIC There will be no Submission Topic for the competition Finale. Instead, you will create your own Finalist Topics. All that you have to do is create a normal topic here on the Fan Creation Forum and title it as such: [Class Competition Finalist] TURTLE (Replace TURTLE with your own class's name, of course.) Then, bring it to our attention, and we'll link to it from this topic. That's it. How you format and present your final product is entirely up to you. You've put in a lot of work to come this far, so you've earned the right to show us your completed original Class however you think is best.
BOOM & RR CARDS In addition to including the required material from all previous phases, you must add the following:
3 Common cards, 3 Rare cards, 2 Epic cards, 1 Legendary minion and 1 Legendary spell with the Boomsday Project watermark. These may not have Overkill or other mechanics that did not exist until later expansions.
3 Common cards, 3 Rare cards, 2 Epic cards, and 2 Legendary cards with the Rastakhan's Rumble watermark.
One of your non-Legendary cards should be a Spirit of the same animal as your Legendary Loa.
EXAMPLE CARDS These don't need to be part of your Finale Topic, but by the end of the Submission Phase, you should send ShadowsOfSense 8 example cards from your completed collection, preferably via PM, to be included in the Final Poll Topic. The Final Poll topic will look very similar to this one from our first CCC, except that no token cards will be included.
As always, we return with the Keywords. Don't judge us, we tried to keep the challenges more focused this time around instead of off-the-wall asks, which resulted in a lot of them feeling the same. Oh well. Something to look for feedback on at the end of the Season.
That is, we're looking for cards which have an additional effect when you have 10 Mana Crystals and have 'Omega' in their name, or cards which have a symmetrical effect for both players and have 'Project' in the name. There were a lot of interesting ideas in Boomsday, weren't there?
What, more cards!? Yeah, but you don't have to design a whole set for these ones, just pick an expansion and create an appropriately themed card for it.
To clarify, the Wild years we're talking about are:
Curse of Naxxramas and Goblins Vs Gnomes
Blackrock Mountain, The Grand Tournament and The League of Explorers
Whispers of the Old Gods, One Night in Karazhan and Mean Streets of Gadgetzan
NOTE: All stages of the competition begin and end at 22:00 UTC. ALSO NOTE: This timetable is subject to change at any time, even after the competition begins, if it seems like too many folks are struggling.
* During Submission stages, Submission Topics will be unlocked and (remaining) participants may submit their entries. During Phases I-II, you may also use this time to go ahead and up-vote submissions that you like. * During Up-Voting stages for Phases I-II, Submission Topics will be locked. Use this time to up-vote submissions that you like. Note that advancement during these Phases depends entirely on up-votes. * During Polling stages for Phases III-VI, Submission Topics will be locked, and all eligible remaining participants will have their submission material included in a separate Poll Topic to determine advancement. Phases III-IV include two Poll Topics because I anticipate we will have enough participants remaining that we will not be able to fit everybody in one Poll Topic. Note that up-votes in the Submission Topics are irrelevant to advancement during these Phases.
How will eliminations be done, and how many competitors will advance from each phase to the next?
I'm glad you asked! We will be taking a equal proportion of competitors from each Phase of the competition to the next, and we will be ending with exactly four finalists. That being the case and their being five total eliminations before the final round, that proportion can be found by solving for x: [# of valid Phase I entries] * x^5 = 4 The higher the number of valid Phase I entries, the lower that proportion becomes. Just so you have an idea, the proportion hits 50% when we hit 128 entries, which is likely, but it only hits 33.3% when we hit 972 entries, which is less likely.
As mentioned above, advancement to Phases II and III will be determined by up-votes only. However, these up-votes are weighted using a formula identical to the process used by our Weekly Card Design Competitions: ( ab ) / ( c ) = x (Where a is the total number of up-votes that your submission received, b is the total number of valid submissions on the same page as your submission, c is the total number of up-votes on valid submissions on the same page as your submission, and x is your submission's final weighted up-vote score.) Why bother with this formula rather than just taking each submissions up-votes directly? Because earlier pages simply get a lot more views that later pages do, and we do not want rushed, early submissions to have an advantage over later submissions that took more time to get their entries just right. The formula basically measures which submissions stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality. The bottom line is that, although entries on the earlier pages of the Submission Topic are much more visible and thus receive many more up-votes than entries on later pages, you don't actually have to rush to get your entry in as soon as possible, because the up-votes end up being weighted by what page your entry ends up on in order to determine its final score.
As mentioned above, advancement to Phases IV, V, and VI will be determined by polls. These polls will be multi-choice, meaning that voters can vote for every entry that they like. Whenever we have to split a Phase's poll into two to make it more manageable for voters, advancement will be determined by looking at each class's final percentage scores, not by looking at the direct number of votes they received, since we can't guarantee that the same number of voters will vote each day. Poll results will always be hidden until the poll has concluded, and for polls split in two, this does also mean that the results of the first poll will not be revealed until the second poll has concluded as well.
The winner of Phase VI, and thus the entire competition, will be determined by a poll much like the ones before, except that it will be single-choice, requiring voters to pick their single favorite class, and will have a much longer polling phase than usual to give us plenty of opportunity for promotion and such.
In the event of a tie during Phases I-IV for the last possible advancing position, all entries involved in the tie will be allowed to advance; the more the merrier, I say. We will absolutely not have more than four finalists, however, and so in the event of a tie during Phase V, the three Fan Creation Forum moderators (that is, Cogito_Ergo_Sum, ShadowsOfSense, and PupleMD) will vote to break the tie. In the event of a tie during Phase VI to determine the competition's winner, the title will simply be shared unless both finalists request and agree to a tie-breaking round.
But wait, there's more! During Phases I-IV of the Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderator (ShadowsOfSense, PupleMD, Phoenixfeather, ThisOtherGuyTox, Otovent, linkblade91) will have a Wild Card , which we may (though are not required to) use to advance to the next Phase any one entry that we feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated, regardless of its performance with voters. No entry may be awarded a Wild Card more than once, and it should also go without saying that, while some moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, they are never allowed to benefit from Wild Cards. Wild Cards are our way of spicing things up a bit, but please don't ask to be given one or be upset if you aren't given one. These are just supposed to be fun.
REWARDS
In addition to truly epic bragging rights, ALL finalists will receive a special Forum Title and Avatar Border, similar to those given to winners of our forum's Weekly Card Design Competitions, as shown below:
Furthermore, the winning contestant will have a Season 7 competition themed around their winning class!
ARCHIVES
Want to see how things went during our first four Class Creation Competitions? Want to see what the winners and other finalists did during each phase? Then check out the links below!
Note, that some competition rules, especially formatting rules, may have been different for past competition.
Woo! I made it! So pumped that I got this far in my first comp, and congrats to tek, shatterstar, and link. Your classes are awesome. It's a shame this competition could only have four finalists, all of the top 8 classes were awesome.
As promised, I will be writing flavor texts for each of the finalists.
A note about Challenge 2. Every Omega card has the Greek Omega letter in their card art, which will end up complicating things a lot, therefore I recommend you use Projects for this challenge.
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Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
To add on to what Demon was saying, if anyone particularly wants to do an Omega card but is struggling to find artwork, I offer my mediocre-at-best Photoshop skills to them. Send me an artwork and a suggestion for where you'd like the Omega symbol, and I'll see what I can do.
I've messed around with card arts before as needed for my own cards, and I also make all the banners for the WCDC now, which I've been steadily getting fancier with. I won't promise miracles, but I'd like to help out where I can.
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
My finalist topic is ready, and I added myself to the main post above. Any feedback on TBP or RR would of course be greatly appreciated, plus anything else anyone would like to say about the post ^_^
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Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
With exam all done, I can focus on Finals and not kind of half-ass like I did during the last Phase. Here's some cards:
In Wow, Jani is the Loa of trash and discarded thing (like orphans), so the idea is that he will turn your "trash" disposable tokens into champions. His lore is perfect for the effect, but the only problem is that he doesn't fit with Astromancer like Quetz'lun does as well as maybe overlapping the animal (a "saurid", a kind of fantasy raptor) with Druid.
Boomsday Project: Not sure which scientific field to follow:
Physic:
Token:
Psychology: (This theme means I can reuse the Nightmare cards I planned to print last expansion)
Stage of Grief: Anger (1 mana deal 2 damage). Acceptance (1 mana restore 5 Health), Bargaining (1 mana Discover a Demon (from any class). Take damage equal to its cost.), Denial (1 mana your Dream cards cost (1) less this turn), Depression (1 mana, deal 4 damage to a random friendly minion when you discard this).
With exam all done, I can focus on Finals and not kind of half-ass like I did during the last Phase. Here's some cards:
In Wow, Jani is the Loa of trash and discarded thing (like orphans), so the idea is that he will turn your "trash" disposable tokens into champions. His lore is perfect for the effect, but the only problem is that he doesn't fit with Astromancer like Quetz'lun does as well as maybe overlapping the animal (a "saurid", a kind of fantasy raptor) with Druid.
Boomsday Project: Not sure which scientific field to follow:
Physic:
Token:
Psychology: (This theme means I can reuse the Nightmare cards I planned to print last expansion)
Stage of Grief: Anger (1 mana deal 2 damage). Acceptance (1 mana restore 5 Health), Bargaining (1 mana Discover a Demon (from any class). Take damage equal to its cost.), Denial (1 mana your Dream cards cost (1) less this turn), Depression (1 mana, deal 4 damage to a random friendly minion when you discard this).
I say Quetz'lun fits the Astromancer theme better.
I prefer the first scientific field for Boomsday.
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Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
My finalist topic is ready, and I added myself to the main post above. Any feedback on TBP or RR would of course be greatly appreciated, plus anything else anyone would like to say about the post ^_^
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
I really feeling the psychology theme, so I think that's the one I'll going with. I even managed to redesign the two physic ones into two psychology flavor:
Sweet Dream and Amateur Shrink really need a better name.
So, does anyone with good photoshop skill can make this image of my hero into a banner for me? I'm current also entertaining the idea of just making a solar system image to by banner (using the Environment card tab in Hearthcards), but it certainly isn't as beautiful as the original image:
Hey Shatter, in your submission post, all the spoilers just appear as "Put your spoiler here".
I'm in the process of complying all my cards into one posts, which will take time. Those spoilers are just copy and paste format so I don't have to bother redo the text box.
This is the Discussion Topic. There is no Submission Topic.
We've reached the final stages of the competition. Congratulations to our four finalists:
I think you've all done really well to make it this far, and I could not begin to predict a winner. This is the final stretch! We extended our phases for this competition compared to previous years, and I do think it has resulted in a higher quality of submissions throughout, so especially strong congratulations on beating out some tough competition.
Good luck, have fun, and may the best class win!
GENERAL RULES
Even if you're already a veteran of our competitions here on the Fan Creation Forum, you should read the general rules before you get started. This competition does introduce new rules, like image limitations and formatting requirements.
* The Submission Topic is for submissions only. If you want to discuss your entry, another entry, ask questions about the competition rules or process, or anything else, you can find a link to the Discussion Topic at the top of this thread. Plenty of folks there will be happy to help you out.
* You are allowed only one submission , consisting of the materials specified by each competition phase. These materials must, of course, be of your own creation. If you'd like, you may collaborate with another user on a single submission, but this must be specified during Phase I.
* You may make only minor edits to your entry once you have submitted it. Minor changes are things like correcting typos or making balance changes that do not alter the spirit of your entry as determined by we the moderators. If you want to make any changes and have any doubts as to their legality, ask us first.
* You may not delete any posts you make in this topic. No, not even if you post here by mistake or accidentally double-post or something. Deleted posts screw with the system we use to help us calculate up-vote scores, so don't do that. If you to post here by mistake or accidentally double-post or something, simply edit your post to just say "REMOVED" and leave it at that.
* You may not create your own topics on this forum for competition-related material. If everybody goes off and creates their own topics for specific discussion of their entries, this board will be flooded with nothing but, and so competition material must remain restricted to official competition topics. If you want to enter the competition with a class that you already have a topic about on this forum, then your topic will be locked in the interest of fairness to the other competitors. Not deleted, just locked, and it can be unlocked after your entry gets knocked out of the competition. You also may not reference or link to your topic in official competition topics.
* You must host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. We encourage you to create your entry material using Hearthcards.net , but please remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, it has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your cards disappearing part-way through the competition. After you create it, save and upload it to Imgur , Photobucket , or some other similar site. We understand that there are some Hearthcards memberships that will allow you to save your card there for longer (and you should totally get one of those just for general fan creation purposes, by the way), but we don't know who has those memberships and we can't tell from the URLs.
* You may not submit any Gold cards or animated cards, nor may you include any images in your post other than the requested submission materials. A single banner or border, to introduce the class, is allowed. We get it, everybody wants their entry to stand out, but our pages are going to be heavy enough as it is without everybody heading their submissions with animated banners.
* You must insert your images into your post using this icon on the bar above the post text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. We realize that it's also possible to upload and attach images to your post. Don't do that, though. We know from experience that, because those images are much smaller and require more work to view, entries that enter their images that way just don't do as well, so this is for your own good.
* Format your entry concisely by sizing your cards appropriately and placing them beside one another rather than in a column or completely separate. The first example below is acceptable while the second is not. Entries that unnecessarily inflate the size of the submission topic and make it more difficult to get through will be disqualified. How should you size your cards? Well...
Hey, look! Some cards!
Open the Waygate : Look at how nice this is.
Frost Lich Jaina : All neat, organized, and concise.
Aluneth : What a great post.
Wait, what are you doing?
Seriously, please don't.
This is painful. Why are you doing this?
You are a monster.
* "Troll" entries will be disqualified. Fun and even humorous entries are perfectly allowed (this is Hearthstone after all), but if you're worried that your entry may be misinterpreted as a troll entry, contact a moderator before you submit.
Finally, know that manipulating votes in any way is strictly forbidden. Any violators will receive an official warning, and will be banned from this and all future HearthPwn Card Design Competitions.
PHASE VI: The Boomsday Project + Rastakhan's Rumble
Here we are, finalists! In the last phase of our competition, you'll be giving us your class's Boomsday Project and Rastakhan's Rumble sets, as well as constructing your own custom Finale Topics:
There will be no Submission Topic for the competition Finale. Instead, you will create your own Finalist Topics. All that you have to do is create a normal topic here on the Fan Creation Forum and title it as such:
[Class Competition Finalist] TURTLE
(Replace TURTLE with your own class's name, of course.)
Then, bring it to our attention, and we'll link to it from this topic. That's it. How you format and present your final product is entirely up to you. You've put in a lot of work to come this far, so you've earned the right to show us your completed original Class however you think is best.
In addition to including the required material from all previous phases, you must add the following:
These don't need to be part of your Finale Topic, but by the end of the Submission Phase, you should send ShadowsOfSense 8 example cards from your completed collection, preferably via PM, to be included in the Final Poll Topic. The Final Poll topic will look very similar to this one from our first CCC, except that no token cards will be included.
COMPETITION SCHEDULE AND PROCESS
How long do you have to work on your submission?
PHASE I: CLASS CONCEPT
Submission: 9/January - 20/January
Up-Voting: 20/January - 23/January
PHASE II: BASIC SET
Submission: 23/January - 10/February
Up-Voting: 10/February - 13/February
PHASE III: CLASSIC SET
Submission: 13/February - 2/March
Poll #1: 2/March - 4/March
Poll #2: 4/March - 6/March
PHASE IV: Journey to Un'Goro + Knights of the Frozen Throne
Submission: 6/March - 30/March
Poll #1: 30/March - 1/April
Poll #2: 1/April - 3/April
PHASE V: Kobolds & Catacombs + The Witchwood
Submission: 3/April - 28/April
Poll: 28/April - 1/May
PHASE VI: The Boomsday Project + Rastakhan's Rumble
Submission: 1/May - 26/May
Poll: 26/May - 29/May
NOTE: All stages of the competition begin and end at 22:00 UTC.
ALSO NOTE: This timetable is subject to change at any time, even after the competition begins, if it seems like too many folks are struggling.
* During Submission stages, Submission Topics will be unlocked and (remaining) participants may submit their entries. During Phases I-II, you may also use this time to go ahead and up-vote submissions that you like.
* During Up-Voting stages for Phases I-II, Submission Topics will be locked. Use this time to up-vote submissions that you like. Note that advancement during these Phases depends entirely on up-votes.
* During Polling stages for Phases III-VI, Submission Topics will be locked, and all eligible remaining participants will have their submission material included in a separate Poll Topic to determine advancement. Phases III-IV include two Poll Topics because I anticipate we will have enough participants remaining that we will not be able to fit everybody in one Poll Topic. Note that up-votes in the Submission Topics are irrelevant to advancement during these Phases.
How will eliminations be done, and how many competitors will advance from each phase to the next?
I'm glad you asked! We will be taking a equal proportion of competitors from each Phase of the competition to the next, and we will be ending with exactly four finalists. That being the case and their being five total eliminations before the final round, that proportion can be found by solving for x:
[# of valid Phase I entries] * x^5 = 4
The higher the number of valid Phase I entries, the lower that proportion becomes. Just so you have an idea, the proportion hits 50% when we hit 128 entries, which is likely, but it only hits 33.3% when we hit 972 entries, which is less likely.
As mentioned above, advancement to Phases II and III will be determined by up-votes only. However, these up-votes are weighted using a formula identical to the process used by our Weekly Card Design Competitions:
( ab ) / ( c ) = x
(Where a is the total number of up-votes that your submission received, b is the total number of valid submissions on the same page as your submission, c is the total number of up-votes on valid submissions on the same page as your submission, and x is your submission's final weighted up-vote score.)
Why bother with this formula rather than just taking each submissions up-votes directly? Because earlier pages simply get a lot more views that later pages do, and we do not want rushed, early submissions to have an advantage over later submissions that took more time to get their entries just right. The formula basically measures which submissions stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality.
The bottom line is that, although entries on the earlier pages of the Submission Topic are much more visible and thus receive many more up-votes than entries on later pages, you don't actually have to rush to get your entry in as soon as possible, because the up-votes end up being weighted by what page your entry ends up on in order to determine its final score.
As mentioned above, advancement to Phases IV, V, and VI will be determined by polls. These polls will be multi-choice, meaning that voters can vote for every entry that they like. Whenever we have to split a Phase's poll into two to make it more manageable for voters, advancement will be determined by looking at each class's final percentage scores, not by looking at the direct number of votes they received, since we can't guarantee that the same number of voters will vote each day. Poll results will always be hidden until the poll has concluded, and for polls split in two, this does also mean that the results of the first poll will not be revealed until the second poll has concluded as well.
The winner of Phase VI, and thus the entire competition, will be determined by a poll much like the ones before, except that it will be single-choice, requiring voters to pick their single favorite class, and will have a much longer polling phase than usual to give us plenty of opportunity for promotion and such.
In the event of a tie during Phases I-IV for the last possible advancing position, all entries involved in the tie will be allowed to advance; the more the merrier, I say. We will absolutely not have more than four finalists, however, and so in the event of a tie during Phase V, the three Fan Creation Forum moderators (that is, Cogito_Ergo_Sum, ShadowsOfSense, and PupleMD) will vote to break the tie. In the event of a tie during Phase VI to determine the competition's winner, the title will simply be shared unless both finalists request and agree to a tie-breaking round.
But wait, there's more! During Phases I-IV of the Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderator (ShadowsOfSense, PupleMD, Phoenixfeather, ThisOtherGuyTox, Otovent, linkblade91) will have a Wild Card , which we may (though are not required to) use to advance to the next Phase any one entry that we feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated, regardless of its performance with voters. No entry may be awarded a Wild Card more than once, and it should also go without saying that, while some moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, they are never allowed to benefit from Wild Cards. Wild Cards are our way of spicing things up a bit, but please don't ask to be given one or be upset if you aren't given one. These are just supposed to be fun.
REWARDS
In addition to truly epic bragging rights, ALL finalists will receive a special Forum Title and Avatar Border, similar to those given to winners of our forum's Weekly Card Design Competitions, as shown below:
Furthermore, the winning contestant will have a Season 7 competition themed around their winning class!
ARCHIVES
Want to see how things went during our first four Class Creation Competitions? Want to see what the winners and other finalists did during each phase? Then check out the links below!
Note, that some competition rules, especially formatting rules, may have been different for past competition.
Class Creation Competition #1 - Class Design Competition
Phase I: Submission ( Merchant , Twilight's Hammer , Demon Hunter , Lich ), Discussion
Phase II: Submission ( Merchant , Twilight's Hammer , Demon Hunter , Lich ), Discussion , Poll
Phase III : Submission ( Merchant , Twilight's Hammer , Demon Hunter , Lich ), Discussion , Poll
Phase IV: Discussion ( Merchant , Twilight's Hammer , Demon Hunter , Lich ), Final Poll
Class Creation Competition #2 - Worlds Beyond Warcraft
Phase I: Submission ( Bard , Agent , Nightmare , Pokemon Trainer ), Discussion
Phase II: Submission ( Bard , Agent , Nightmare , Pokemon Trainer ), Discussion
Phase III: Submission ( Bard , Agent , Nightmare , Pokemon Trainer ), Discussion , Poll 1 , Poll 2
Phase IV: Submission ( Bard , Agent , Nightmare , Pokemon Trainer ), Discussion , Poll
Phase V: Discussion ( Bard , Agent , Nightmare , Pokemon Trainer ), Final Poll
Class Creation Competition #3 - Asylum's Gauntlet
Phase I: Submission ( Worgen , Chronomancer , Flame Wielder , Alchemist ), Discussion
Phase II: Submission ( Worgen , Chronomancer , Flame Wielder , Alchemist ), Discussion
Phase III: Submission ( Worgen , Chronomancer , Flame Wielder , Alchemist ), Discussion , Poll 1 , Poll 2
Phase IV: Submission ( Worgen , Chronomancer , Flame Wielder , Alchemist ), Discussion , Poll 1 , Poll 2
Phase V: Submission ( Worgen , Chronomancer , Flame Wielder , Alchemist ), Discussion , Poll
Grand Finale: Discussion ( Worgen , Chronomancer , Flame Wielder , Alchemist ), Final Poll
Class Creation Competition #4 - Deathwing Needs A Friendwing
Phase I: Challenges , Submission , ( Chef , Necromancer , Sea Witch , Summoner ), Discussion
Phase II: Challenges , Submission , ( Chef , Necromancer , Sea Witch , Summoner ), Discussion
Phase III: Challenges , Submission , ( Chef , Necromancer , Sea Witch , Summoner ), Discussion , Poll 1 , Poll 2
Phase IV: Challenges , Submission , ( Chef , Necromancer , Sea Witch , Summoner ), Discussion , Poll
Phase V: Challenges , Submission , ( Chef , Necromancer , Sea Witch , Summoner ), Discussion , Poll
Grand Finale: Challenges , ( Chef , Necromancer , Sea Witch , Summoner ), Discussion , Final Poll
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
Woo! I made it! So pumped that I got this far in my first comp, and congrats to tek, shatterstar, and link. Your classes are awesome. It's a shame this competition could only have four finalists, all of the top 8 classes were awesome.
As promised, I will be writing flavor texts for each of the finalists.
A note about Challenge 2. Every Omega card has the Greek Omega letter in their card art, which will end up complicating things a lot, therefore I recommend you use Projects for this challenge.
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Wow. I beat the Tinker by 2 votes. It's really is anyone's game. Congrats to my fellow finalists.
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Class Creation Finalist: The Astromancer
Best cards vote by community:
To add on to what Demon was saying, if anyone particularly wants to do an Omega card but is struggling to find artwork, I offer my mediocre-at-best Photoshop skills to them. Send me an artwork and a suggestion for where you'd like the Omega symbol, and I'll see what I can do.
I've messed around with card arts before as needed for my own cards, and I also make all the banners for the WCDC now, which I've been steadily getting fancier with. I won't promise miracles, but I'd like to help out where I can.
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
If you have trouble conceptualizing what your final submission-thread might look like, do what I'm doing: look up what the past winners did heh
https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/fan-creations/214117-class-competition-winner-sea-witch-boomsday-set
https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/fan-creations/187853-class-competition-finalist-the-worgen
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
To bring something else, Boomsday has an overlooked theme of positioning, whether in hand or on board.
The Boomsday Project would be the perfect expansion to make a card based on positioning if you want to do this.
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My finalist topic is ready, and I added myself to the main post above. Any feedback on TBP or RR would of course be greatly appreciated, plus anything else anyone would like to say about the post ^_^
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
With exam all done, I can focus on Finals and not kind of half-ass like I did during the last Phase. Here's some cards:
In Wow, Jani is the Loa of trash and discarded thing (like orphans), so the idea is that he will turn your "trash" disposable tokens into champions. His lore is perfect for the effect, but the only problem is that he doesn't fit with Astromancer like Quetz'lun does as well as maybe overlapping the animal (a "saurid", a kind of fantasy raptor) with Druid.
Boomsday Project: Not sure which scientific field to follow:
Physic:
Token:
Psychology: (This theme means I can reuse the Nightmare cards I planned to print last expansion)
Stage of Grief: Anger (1 mana deal 2 damage). Acceptance (1 mana restore 5 Health), Bargaining (1 mana Discover a Demon (from any class). Take damage equal to its cost.), Denial (1 mana your Dream cards cost (1) less this turn), Depression (1 mana, deal 4 damage to a random friendly minion when you discard this).
Click here to visit my Timestream Tracking Finalist Year of the Dragon in collaboration with Demonxz95
Class Creation Finalist: The Astromancer
Best cards vote by community:
I say Quetz'lun fits the Astromancer theme better.
I prefer the first scientific field for Boomsday.
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I kind of like the idea that Dr. Boom and co. would attempt to open a portal to the Nightmare Realm, for whatever nefarious (and/or stupid) reason.
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
Change the artwork on Mini Repair Bot.
The artwork is already used by Upgraded Repair Bot.
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Damn it, I knew the art was taken but couldn't find it. Edit: Thanks for catching that, by-the-by.
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
I really feeling the psychology theme, so I think that's the one I'll going with. I even managed to redesign the two physic ones into two psychology flavor:
Sweet Dream and Amateur Shrink really need a better name.
Token:
Click here to visit my Timestream Tracking Finalist Year of the Dragon in collaboration with Demonxz95
Class Creation Finalist: The Astromancer
Best cards vote by community:
So, does anyone with good photoshop skill can make this image of my hero into a banner for me? I'm current also entertaining the idea of just making a solar system image to by banner (using the Environment card tab in Hearthcards), but it certainly isn't as beautiful as the original image:
Click here to visit my Timestream Tracking Finalist Year of the Dragon in collaboration with Demonxz95
Class Creation Finalist: The Astromancer
Best cards vote by community:
Hey Shatter, in your submission post, all the spoilers just appear as "Put your spoiler here".
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I'm in the process of complying all my cards into one posts, which will take time. Those spoilers are just copy and paste format so I don't have to bother redo the text box.
Click here to visit my Timestream Tracking Finalist Year of the Dragon in collaboration with Demonxz95
Class Creation Finalist: The Astromancer
Best cards vote by community:
Here's my new cards. I'll post them onto here later.
THIEVERY!!!
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lol, that's a pretty weird coincidence. Maybe I was subconsciously influenced by your card.