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This Week's Finalists

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. 
• There are a number of example that meet these restrictions in the game. These are the ones that clearly promote the Beast Druid archetype: Druid of the Fang, Mark of Y'Shaarj, Knight of the Wild, Menagerie Warden, [card]Wildwalker[/card]. 
• 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.

We have whittled down ~140 valid entries to just 17 of the community's favorites. 
Check out all the finalists below and vote in our poll (vote for as many or as few as you like) to help decide the winner and be sure to check back after the poll finishes for the announcement of the winner and the start of a new theme! 

NOTE: Cards with a black border have additional material, like explanations or unique tokens, located in a spoiler at the bottom of the finalist gallery. They are listed in order of position in the final poll.

by Thorwaller
Claw
by CheeseEatingEtc 
by CasmX
by yebaba
Squirrel
by Telefonkabel
by binza
by The_Edel_Bernal
by TwoSeconds27
by Clord
by CGDPodcast
by Hieii
by Broeck1
by timmult
by Lathy
Druid of the Claw
by Reorakur
by Zence93
by Bibikis (Wild Card)

Mammoth Calf

Broll Bearmantle

Nightsaber Leader

Big Game Hunter's Hunter

Okay, I think this competition went pretty well. There are a number of cards that I think responded to the theme in really interesting ways. I want to go over some of my favorites, but first, I wanted to lay out some cards that I think really missed the mark by not even fitting the Druid theme. You had to make a Druid card for this competition, and it wouldn’t be fair if a card that is basically a Hunter card with the Druid colors slapped on were to win it.

NOT DRUID CARDS

Mammoth Calf (thorwaller) - This is a Hunter card. Hunters are the one that tame all sorts of Beasts, and that’s why they have all sorts of Beasts in their set. Druids have only a few Beasts that aren’t transformed Druids, and that’s species that are aligned with them, like Moonkin. Mammoths don’t make sense in this regard. Some people made cards representing minions like Nightsabers and Hippogryphs, which make more sense, as these are Night Elf-aligned.

Queen Krush (TwoSeconds27) - This is the worst offender. A re-skinned King Krush is not an appropriate Druid card. Druids have nothing to do with Devilsaurs. This is just a lazy design and a real affront to the competition. A giant Beast with no Beast synergy is also definitely not what Beast Druid needs.

My Favorite Cards

Wolpertinger (CasmX) - One thing I think the Beast Druid cards really need is better ways to get out cheaper Beasts to trigger their effects. Wolpertinger provides a continuous source of cheap Beasts, so it fits this need perfectly. It’s like a much less reliable (but 0 mana) Dreadsteed for Beast Druid.

Nutty Watcher (Telefonkabel) - Again, this provides a continous source of cheap Beasts for your deck. I also like how this is a “Can’t Attack” minion that encourages your opponent to remove it. If they don’t, they’ll have to deal with a continuous stream of tokens. It’s like a much better Moroes.

Nightsaber Leader (Hieii) - A very simple design that gives you a lot of value for it’s cost (4 mana worth of stats for 3 mana). But, you don’t get to control when that 1/1 Taunt comes out. This also helps Druid get out more, smaller Beasts.

The Beast Within (Lathy) - This was actual the alternate name I came up with for this competition. This one is like an Evolve for Beast Druid. You can use it in the same way, gaining more value from damaged minions, or ones with low stats for their Cost. Probably a little weak, but it’s not clear how you can buff it without making the description too long.

Tribal Convocation (Bibikis) - This was my wild card. It got a bit lost on page 1. I like the versatility of this card. I’m also a fan of Journey Below, and this gives Beast Druid a similar option. I also like the play on the 1/1 copy mechanic, which could be useful to create combos with cards like Jungle Moonkin.

Quote from tabuhli >>

Wolpertinger is an easy vote for me. Anyone who can design a balanced 0 mana minion clearly knows what they're doing.

Dang it, that was a close one! I almost got in, however, feeling Bibikis deserved it more than me, although I got more votes, doesn´t matters, he deservet it more, somewhat dissapointed I didn´t got in, but, meh, at least it was worth the try.

Although how much score I have for someone count it?

I voted for Mana Beast, Tribal Convocation and Wolpertinger, funny designs.

Especially, a message to Bibikis, that was a close one, our entries had similar amount of votes, however, your card was better than mine, it deserved to go, not mine, although I am a bit sad after it, but you deserved it.

Quote from LarryMoments >>

Although how much score I have for someone count it?

This week's theme is an interesting one, mainly because it specifies a class, and in doing so, makes me vote for entires other than the ones I would usually have voted for (For example, Hibernation is really cool, but would be better as a Hunter card). There's some pretty good stuff here this week, though.

Mana Beast and Tribal Convocation are my favourite. I like the first one because it's kind of like Malchezaar's Imp, except it promotes ramping instead. Simple and probably balanced. The second one is just cool all around.

Oh, and a quick question: I've noticed that the number of cards/wild cards are different every week. How does that work? Under what circumstances are wild cards chosen?

Call of the claw is a nice troll :D But obviously too strong. Perhaps it should have: "cost one less for each beast u played this game" and the mana cost at start 15 ? To be sure to synergize with beast decks !

Quote from Lighi87 >>

I think I'm missing something, if the calf transforms at the start of your turn doesn't it only get to attack three turns after you dropped it? I mean, it's a new different creature, not a buff, right? 

Tribal Convocation is a good card, it's weird that it had to be wildcarded. Maybe it wasn't flashy enough ? (still going to vote only for myself though :D)

@mods: Just to be sure, did you read my very last PM ?

Thank you nurgling13 for your wild vote. 

Good luck everyone.

Quote from omgnametakenwtf >>

Woah I completely missed the Wolpentinger in the submissions this thing blows my mind gj!

I wanna ask something regarding the whole final poll process. Straight to the point - why can you vote for as many entries as you want? I think most people are decisive enough to pick out 1 favorite or if that would create a vote deficit then maybe up it to 3 cards as in your top 3. That just makes more sense to me. Have any of these 2 variants been tried before and resulted in issues?

And we have a winner! Congrats to timmult. =)