This weeks theme comes from nurgling13, whose "Bribe" was the winner of our "Death and Taxes" competition. For this comp, it's all about beasts.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card must be a Druid card.
Your card must be a Beast, create a Beast in some way (i.e., summoning a Beast, transforming something into a Beast), or interact specifically with Beasts.
If your card is labelled a Beast but depicts something that is clearly not a Beast - for example a Dragon, Furbolg or Worgen - it will be considered to be subverting the rules.
Since the theme of this week is improving the Beast Druid archetype, any Beast interactions must be net positive. This means you can't interact only with enemy Beasts (e.g., "Destroy an enemy Beast"), and you can't purely hurt or destroy friendly Beasts without a secondary, positive effect.
Try not to make a card like these: Enchanted Raven, Jungle Moonkin. These technically meet the restrictions, but do not really do anything to improve the Beast Druid archetype.
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Speaking of the Discussion Topic, that is where any discussion of this competition should go. This thread is for submissions only. If you want to discuss your card or ask questions about the competition rules or process, 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.
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Accompanying the image of your card, you may offer some minimal additional commentary to explain its design, balance, and/or other qualities. Flavor text is also welcome.
You may not submit any Gold cards or animated cards. (It's just a cheap attention grab tactic that makes it unnecessarily difficult to determine what class your card is for.)
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Fun and even humorous entries are perfectly allowed, but "troll" entries will be disqualified. If you're worried that your card may be misinterpreted as a troll card, contact a moderator before you submit.
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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.
Competition Process
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 17:00 UTC 17/October/2016) During this Phase, the Submission Topic is made available for your submissions. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like! Voting Phase (Starts 17:00 UTC 17/October/2016, Ends 17:00 UTC 18/October/2016) During this Phase, the Submission Topic will be locked, so no more entries may be submitted. Instead, use this time to browse the submissions and up-vote your favorites! Final Phase (Starts 18:00 UTC 18/October/2016, Ends 18:00 UTC 19/October/2016) During this Phase, the Discussion Topic will also be locked, and a new Poll Topic will go up. Discussion will be allowed to continue in the Poll Topic, and it will also include all the qualifying finalists and poll to decide the winner of the competition!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? First, we'll pull up-vote data from each submission using the formula detailed below:
(ab) / (c) = x
Where, a = The total number of submissions on the same page as the submission. b = The total number of up-votes that the submission received. c = The total number of up-votes on the same page as the submission. x = The submission's final score.
The formula basically measures which cards stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality. It will be the entries that receive the highest final scores that move on to the Final Phase.
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.
But wait, there's more! During each Weekly Card Design Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderators will be given a Wild Card, which they can use to advance any one entry that they feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated to the Final Phase, regardless of its final score. 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. (Also, it should go without saying that, while we moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, we are not allowed to benefit from Wild Cards.)
Rewards
Bragging rights are always awesome, but as usual, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners: Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery! They will be allowed to select the next card design competition theme. And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
It has synergy with things like your hero power, Claw, Bite, Savage Combatant, etc. It creates some 2+ card combos at 6+ mana that can turn mediocre cards into huge buffs, assuming you have a board with some beasts. If you somehow have a board with both beasts, and Fandral Staghelm, you can get massive value with Feral Rage. A deck that was running all of these cards may even be able to take advantage of Savagery! Savagery in 2016?!
My second attempt at a Curator deck card. I think it's pretty balanced and provides pretty diverse gameplay opportunities, either get good tempo with a giant murloc (i initially though +3/+3 but seemed quite OP) or give up tempo for a big turn 4 minion.
This big, chunky minion, has a big wave deal for your opponent to deal, its very variated, and cause some struggle to your opponent, the beasts can be used for beast synergy or just with AoE buffs. It summons all the 4, not at random.
Here are the exotic Beasts:
I know, there is a mistypo on Exotic Buttefly, but its minimal.
EDIT: Reduced images size, fixed mistypo on Exotic Butterfly and added flavour text.
The wording may seem a little odd, its a simplified version of "Discover a Beast 3 times, Summon a 1/1 copy of each". This is a powerful card, similar to Nourish and Muster for Battle. Obvious Synergies with with Power of the Wild, Savage Roar and Addled Grizzly to name but a few.
Late game recovery tool for Beast Druid. Puts you out of the range of burst at the expense of both players' beasts, but gives you a way to re-beast your own board even if your hand is running low. Leaves behind all the synergy cards that aren't actually beasts so the tempo loss isn't too huge. Potentially unfair to Hunter or Druid opponents. Power level of card is still being evaluated.
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This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: Unleash the Beast
This weeks theme comes from nurgling13, whose "Bribe" was the winner of our "Death and Taxes" competition. For this comp, it's all about beasts.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
General Competition Rules
These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
These are the rules about your Submission:
TIP: Though not a rule exactly, we highly recommend that you insert your images using this icon on the bar above the post text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. Cards that are uploaded and attached to your post are not disallowed, but in our experience they will not do nearly as well, so this is for your own benefit more than anything.
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.
Competition Process
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 17:00 UTC 17/October/2016)
During this Phase, the Submission Topic is made available for your submissions. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
Voting Phase (Starts 17:00 UTC 17/October/2016, Ends 17:00 UTC 18/October/2016)
During this Phase, the Submission Topic will be locked, so no more entries may be submitted. Instead, use this time to browse the submissions and up-vote your favorites!
Final Phase (Starts 18:00 UTC 18/October/2016, Ends 18:00 UTC 19/October/2016)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic will also be locked, and a new Poll Topic will go up. Discussion will be allowed to continue in the Poll Topic, and it will also include all the qualifying finalists and poll to decide the winner of the competition!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? First, we'll pull up-vote data from each submission using the formula detailed below:
(ab) / (c) = x
Where,
a = The total number of submissions on the same page as the submission.
b = The total number of up-votes that the submission received.
c = The total number of up-votes on the same page as the submission.
x = The submission's final score.
The formula basically measures which cards stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality. It will be the entries that receive the highest final scores that move on to the Final Phase.
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.
But wait, there's more! During each Weekly Card Design Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderators will be given a Wild Card, which they can use to advance any one entry that they feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated to the Final Phase, regardless of its final score. 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.
(Also, it should go without saying that, while we moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, we are not allowed to benefit from Wild Cards.)
Rewards
Bragging rights are always awesome, but as usual, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners:
Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery!
They will be allowed to select the next card design competition theme.
And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
Good Luck!
You destroy a friendly beast and then at the end of your next turn it return back on the field and is given +2/+2.
It has synergy with things like your hero power, Claw, Bite, Savage Combatant, etc. It creates some 2+ card combos at 6+ mana that can turn mediocre cards into huge buffs, assuming you have a board with some beasts. If you somehow have a board with both beasts, and Fandral Staghelm, you can get massive value with Feral Rage. A deck that was running all of these cards may even be able to take advantage of Savagery! Savagery in 2016?!
My second attempt at a Curator deck card. I think it's pretty balanced and provides pretty diverse gameplay opportunities, either get good tempo with a giant murloc (i initially though +3/+3 but seemed quite OP) or give up tempo for a big turn 4 minion.
Clever Girl ...
Something to make Menagerie Warden even scarier. Plus, another stealth beast means an easier target for beast-related buffs.
Sometimes, he's really unbearable.
This card transforms into one of these, depending on the choice (or if Fandral is present):
Edit: Reduced mana cost.
Flavour Text: "Not the smalish beasts!"
This big, chunky minion, has a big wave deal for your opponent to deal, its very variated, and cause some struggle to your opponent, the beasts can be used for beast synergy or just with AoE buffs. It summons all the 4, not at random.
Here are the exotic Beasts:
I know, there is a mistypo on Exotic Buttefly, but its minimal.
EDIT: Reduced images size, fixed mistypo on Exotic Butterfly and added flavour text.
The joke is you.
If you play Menagerie Warden, you get to have your very own Malfurion minion!
You never know what he will transform into... Sometimes it's an angry chicken, sometimes it's a king crush...
When summoned, it transformed into some of the Best forms listed bellow:
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The wording may seem a little odd, its a simplified version of "Discover a Beast 3 times, Summon a 1/1 copy of each". This is a powerful card, similar to Nourish and Muster for Battle. Obvious Synergies with with Power of the Wild, Savage Roar and Addled Grizzly to name but a few.
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Here's my submission!
Flavor: Isn't he cute?! The ladies go nuts over him!
I've always liked the Choose One mechanic. Couldn't resist to do something that can both give value on the spot or later in the game as well.
Check out my submission for this weeks card design competition; or my other fan creations! Nullius in verba
A good early game beast (Maybe a tad op)
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
Late game recovery tool for Beast Druid. Puts you out of the range of burst at the expense of both players' beasts, but gives you a way to re-beast your own board even if your hand is running low. Leaves behind all the synergy cards that aren't actually beasts so the tempo loss isn't too huge. Potentially unfair to Hunter or Druid opponents. Power level of card is still being evaluated.
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