Weekly Card Design Competition 3.17 [Final Poll]

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Poll: Vote for your favourite "Mano a Mana" cards!

Ended May 26, 2016

#27 May 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Yay I made it! I really like the Heavy Goblin Artillery but oh god the "'s" on the end of minions made me cringe :D Still got my vote though!

Wording that fits the syntax of HS probably should have been "Gain +1 Attack for each Mana you spend. After this minion attacks, set its Attack to 0."

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#28 May 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Quote from waterwaIker >>

Damn, didn't expect my entry to make it to the finals. It's even more of a surprise now that I've seen Traveling Merchant; both are so similar, and mine was submitted so much later.

It's funny how I have to agree with most people when they point out how the Merchant would be a better card (simply 'cus of it's cost, which would make it much more flexible), though I have to disagree with someone who said my wording is worse, 'cus the text in Merchant is ambiguous (one could assume the card you draw changes its cost to match the amount of Mana you have).

It has neither "set" nor "change" in the text, so it would be unnatural to assume it would do so. (:

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#29 May 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Quote from Zukuu >>

Quote from waterwaIker >>

Damn, didn't expect my entry to make it to the finals. It's even more of a surprise now that I've seen Traveling Merchant; both are so similar, and mine was submitted so much later.

It's funny how I have to agree with most people when they point out how the Merchant would be a better card (simply 'cus of it's cost, which would make it much more flexible), though I have to disagree with someone who said my wording is worse, 'cus the text in Merchant is ambiguous (one could assume the card you draw changes its cost to match the amount of Mana you have).

It has neither "set" nor "change" in the text, so it would be unnatural to assume it would do so. (:

I'm just saying it seemed a bit ambiguous to me (not as much as Molten Giant for example, but still), and that's why I tried to specify when I rewrote the text of my card.

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#30 May 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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I think his wording is correct but I can see where it can trip some people up. If you replace "has" with "is one with", it's clearer but doesn't fit Hearthstone's syntax quite as well.

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#31 May 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Quote from binza >>

Yay I made it! I really like the Heavy Goblin Artillery but oh god the "'s" on the end of minions made me cringe :D Still got my vote though!

I literally copy/pasted that part from Validated Doomsayer so it should be correct. Just changed the 7 into 0.

Keeper of Uldaman, Humility and Aldor Peacekeeper also have this "'s".

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Quote from binza >>

Yay I made it! I really like the Heavy Goblin Artillery but oh god the "'s" on the end of minions made me cringe :D Still got my vote though!

Wording that fits the syntax of HS probably should have been "Gain +1 Attack for each Mana you spend. After this minion attacks, set its Attack to 0."

I wrote "mana" with lower case because Blizzard did it in Forbidden Ancient for a similar effect. The second sentence is in line with Validated Doomsayer but i like your wording because it is a little shorter.

edit: As I understand HS syntax, upper case "Mana" refers to the entire mana as a value, but lower case "mana" refers to a single measurement unit or a single point of mana.

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#33 May 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Congratulations to the winner! See ya all in the next competition!

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#34 May 27, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Wow, I'm second! It's the first time I go that far. Thanks to those who voted for me and gg to the winner.

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#35 May 27, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Quote from The_Edel_Bernal >>

As much as I am happy that I got in, what happened to Manabender at the same page? (Page2). It has more votes than me but didn't make it to Final, and I don't think it breaks any rules?

Yeah, I was hoping my card would make it. I'm pretty sure it follows the rules because the amount of mana crystals the opponent has will be the amount that you had previously, so it does do something based on the amount of mana crystals you have. Maybe the judges didn't understand this?

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