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LOVE IS IN THE AIR
A Special Edition Card Design Competition

Surprise, HearthPwn! This week, in lieu of our standard Weekly Card Design Competition, we decided to do something special to show you all just how much we love you. Given the huge success of our Winter Unveiling competition a couple of months ago, we've again partnered with MyMiniFactory.com, the world's largest curated 3D printing platform, to put on a special Valentine's-themed Card Design Competition: "Love is in the Air". The grand prize? Why, the winner will receive a Custom 3D-Printed model of their winning card!

Built by their excellent community members RicSal and 3DNA, These cards are roughly 15 cm in height and 10 cm in length, and once the model is printed, it will then be hand finished with acrylic-based paints and airbrushing to add more detail. What does a 3D-printed Hearthstone card look like? I'm glad you asked! (Click on each image for a larger version!)

And here, of course, we have Exorcism, the winner of our Winter Unveiling competition:
From winning card, to 3D render, to finished product!
  

Seriously, these guys are unbelievably awesome for doing this for all of us, and you should definitely check out their pages as well as MyMiniFactory.com in general, because they've got a lot of awesome stuff going on.
If you're a 3D designer, want to get into the 3D printing landscape, and you'd like to showcase your own work, upload your 3D models to MyMiniFactory.com.

If you've entered in any of our competitions before, you already know there are rules, so let's get right to them...

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• You must select (at least) one of the following three themed restriction to abide by:
• "That Special Someone" - Your card's text must reference an already existing card by name. The reference should be productive or synergistic, rather than negative.
  Examples: Ball of Spiders, Stalagg. Not an example: Tuskarr Totemic.
• "Tokens of Affection" - Your card must provide some benefit to your opponent. Note that being of detriment to you is not the same as being of benefit to your opponent.
  Examples: Grove Tender, Leeroy Jenkins. Not an example: Flame Imp.
• "Hearts Aflutter" - Your card's artwork must either depict two (or more, we don't judge) characters in a clearly romantic context (Note: Be classy. We said​ romantic, not​ erotic.), OR it must prominently depict a heart. And we do mean the classical Heart shape (<3), not an anatomically accurate organ.
  Example: Antique Healbot. Not an example: Mind Control.
• Your card may not produce any additional unique token cards, like how Beneath the Grounds produces Ambush! or Ysera produces Dream Cards. Your card must stand on its own, mostly because you're only getting 1 card printed if you win.
• We want your entries to be more "realistic" then we typically demand for our competitions. The following set of rules were created with that aim:
  • Your card may have no more than 4 normal lines of text, the current maximum on actual Hearthstone cards.
  • Your card may not include any invented keywords, especially not to get around the previous rule.
  • Your card may not include mechanics that are vaguely worded, again especially not to get around the previous rules. (An example of a vaguely worded card would be Lord Jaraxxus.)
  • Your card's mechanics may not be worded in blatantly non-standard ways, again especially not to get around the previous rules. (Example: "Battlecry: Choose a character. It takes 1 damage." would not be accepted, because there's plenty of precedent for us to know that should just be worded as "Battlecry: Deal 1 damage.".)
  • Your card must be for an existing class or be Neutral.
  • Remember that your card must be functional. Something with the card text of "Deal 1 damage." that forgets to include that it's a Battlecry will be disqualified, as will something with the card text of "Deathrattle: Discover a minion." that requires impossible interaction during your opponent's turn.
  • Your card's artwork may not be a photograph or an in-game screenshot. We're trying to encourage realistic-looking entries here, and taking the time to find good artwork for your card is to your benefit anyway.
• Finally, in addition to partnering with MyMiniFactory.com, we're also partnering with HearthCards.net. A lot of you already use HearthCards to create your custom cards, and dnikko (the person that runs HearthCards), made a special expansion watermark just for this competition!
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  • Your card must have the above Love is in the Air "Heart" HearthPwn-exclusive expansion watermark.
    How do you add the Love is in the Air expansion watermark to your card, you may be wondering?
    

    First, you can find HearthCards.net by clicking here. You should see a screen like this:
    

    To the right of where you write in the Card Text and under where you set the Card Rarity, you should see a drop-down menu for expansion watermarks:
    

    Under the Explorers watermark there, you should see the Love is in the Air watermark, made special just for us here at HearthPwn! Simply click on it, and your card will be branded with a heart:
    

    Note that the the Heart watermark will only appear after you select a non-Basic rarity for your card.

    Otherwise, HearthCards is a pretty intuitive tool. That's why we love it so much! If you have any questions about how to use it, though, please ask us over in the Discussion Topic, linked at the top of this thread.

  • Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you MUST host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. Save it and upload it to Imgur, Photobucket, or some other similar site. HearthCards has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your card disappearing part-way through the finals. 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.

General Competition Rules

These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition. Read them thoroughly, even if you've entered one of our competitions before. (Some of you still make mistakes like deleting posts or hosting your entry images on HearthCards.)

 Competition Process

Most phases of this competition have a longer time frame than usual. There are also a couple of other minor process changes from the usual, so it would be prudent for everybody to review this.

 Rewards

In addition to OMG, a 3D-printed card, there are a couple of things here different from the usual.

Good Luck and Happy Winter Veil!

Win a HearthPwn Trophy!

In addition to our lovely card design competition, we've partnered up with MyMiniFactory.com to bring you another special Hearthstone-flavored competition, but this time over on their website!

Participants will have an opportunity to take part in a new competitions to win a 3D printed Hearthpwn trophy - all you have to do is submit an idea to the MyMiniFactory "Ideas Board" page, the best idea with the most "Cheers" will be chosen as the winner.

Check out some pictures of the work-in-progress HearthPwn trophy below - the final one will have a translucent blue core and will light up!

The theme for this competition is anything related to the Hearthstone universe, your idea could be a weapon, character, card, novelty product, anything that is hearthstone related can be submitted as an "Idea" and will be entered entered into the competition.

Looking for a few ideas to jumpstart your creativity?

• Hearthstone Pendant
• Dr. Boom Bust
• Frostmourne

So head on over to MyMiniFactory.com/Ideas (requires account) to submit your Hearthstone idea and while you're there, go give some cheers to other submissions that enjoy to help choose a winner!

Circle of Healing

Each summoned pirate triggers the Cannon's effect.

Just remember to say "damn you caught me."

I do love me that little Wrath of Air guy, so giving some it love is fitting for this competition.