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This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your goal this week is to create a card with a Triggered effect. That means it must use the word(s); 'If', 'When(ever)', 'After', 'At the start', or 'At the end'. These words signal a Trigger.
• Additionally the effect may not be a one use Trigger, and must be something that occurs any time the condition is met. This means no Battlecry, Deathrattle, Secrets, or Quest cards, as these aren't multi-use triggers.
• Also your card cannot give a minion a trigger effect, like Blessing of Wisdom, as they give triggers and do not have a trigger themselves. The card itself needs to have a trigger. It cannot summon a token with trigger nor can it give trigger to a minion.

We have whittled down ~170 valid entries to just 16 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!

by Lathy
by Donnerfausuts
by Phoenixfeather
by HS_XxShrekxX
by Shanksyo
by Bibikis
by pui980178
by Livienna
Bananas
by CheeseEtc
by greg19
by ZardozSpeaks
by MyChalee
by Toxibrah
by HitSlender
by suhailabtu
by CastorT (Wild Card)

Thanks to everyone who voted for my card! It was a close one this time around.

@CheeseEtc Called it, your card, Agile Tiger and Ooze made it.

@ZardozSpeaks You said your card diden't do so well? Dosen't look like that to me :)

I'm voting Emulating Ooze and....BONE FLETCHER OMG, Dota 5.71c hypeuuuu :'D (yeah, I'm old xD)

MY PERSONAL FAVORITES:

Master of Illusions: Its my card, wub wub wub. 

Meteor Shower: My favorite card this week, by quite a lot. The idea of a board clear that might make it benifitting to throw out your own small minions to get it to trigger several times is amazing in my eyes. Great card!

Stolen Spellbook: Having the flexability of getting a new spell each turn is great, that might JUST suit the case is what makes this card for me, and this card is by far better than its minion counterpart Shifter Zerus, as class spells in general are stronger than random minions. I don't think it would be viable in any current Rogue deck, which might be what makes it not take my top spot.

Honerable Mention:

Jester's Gesture: I like the card, and i am obviously not the only one... But i think i have seen this card about 6/7 times before. I believe Fullas did something that was almost identical to it too. Although correct me if i am wrong.

This week certainly had many different card ideas, some creative and some similar to each other. I did find a high amount of cards that worked with adapt in some way this week, which makes sense, but I would've liked to see a bit less. My favorite this week are definitely Master of Ilusions, Darkshire Footman, and Stolen Spellbook. 

Master of Illusions has a unique effect that can have some use. If not dealt with, he could copy a powerful minion like Ysera provided they've been weakened. As a 3/2, it makes the effect fairly balanced.

Darkshire Footman has that wonderful Silver Hand Recruit synergy. He can help in the late game by combining it with cards like Stand Against Darkness. It makes any ability that summons Silver Hand Recruits into an ability that summons a Goldshire Footman instead. Could make a Silver Hand deck viable, maybe.

Stolen Spellbook is an interesting card. I think it is a wonderful idea, though I think it would've worked better as a spell maybe. It is fairly flavorful and has the potential to be incredibly useful. 

Darkshire Footman is the only card in the list that's even decently designed. A distant second would be Stolen Spellbook.

Quote from Toxibrah >>

Thanks to everyone who voted for my card! It was a close one this time around.

@CheeseEtc Called it, your card, Agile Tiger and Ooze made it.

@ZardozSpeaks You said your card diden't do so well? Dosen't look like that to me :)

• Stiches: This is pretty much a Void Terror that can last multiple turns. I'm not sure this needs to be a legendary? But I think it should be a warlock card, or at least some class card. This seems like the type of thing you lock into a certain class to avoid unexpected combos. I suppose the ultimate combo would be to swap this onto your opponent's board if they've played silvanas? Then you just keep it locked down with taunts or freeze.
• Vicious Shuriken: I like this card, pretty sure I voted for it. My only suggestion for improvement would be to make it a Boomerang instead, Shurikens aren't known for bouncing back to you.
• Emulating Ooze: I like this card too, I'd have made it a 1/1 minion though, just to keep it from being useless if you don't land the +3 health or +1/+1 adapt options.
• Northshire Pacifist: I almost like this card. The wording is a little off, and flavor wise it doesn't make sense as a Pacifist, for it to be building up attack. This could easily be a Warrior card like "Boiling Berserker" or something? The effect is an obvious one, that I bet will be added to HS eventually, but the flavor and identity of the card are very important. I don't see this kind of effect as a priest card. Back durring the Keyword competition, someone turned this "don't attack" thing into a keyword I believe.
• Dr. Dealwell: Not a fan of this card, too much of a setup for very limited results.
• Jester's Gesture: Nice card name, but I'm not sure exactly it has to do with the effect. Its also very similar to Mana Bind, which kind of does this idea better. This is one of the cards where I ask myself, "Would this be better without this weeks competition restrictions?" and I think it would be, as Mana Bind.
• Eavesdropper: A cute idea, I'm not surprised it's so popular. I generally play HS with the sound turned off, but I suppose if I don't play this card it wouldn't matter. Given HS's popularity as a mobile game, I don't think this will ever happen.
• Stolen Spellbook: Great idea... but why is it a 0/2 minion? It should be a 1 mana spell (until it transforms).
• Banana Tree: Good flavor on this! I love the idea of smashing a banana tree and watching the bananas fall out of it. I could see this in many decks, from Auctioneer stuff to Whirlwind/Ghoul warrior decks. An interesting alternative would be for the banana to go to whichever player triggered
• Agile Tiger: Not crazy about this as a Hunter minion. I'd think it'd be good as a neutral alchemist like Crazed Alchemist or Kooky Chemist. Hunter feels like the least likely class to put this use, I'd rather see it in Priest decks with Inner Fire or Warrior decks with Inner Rage
• Archimonde, the Defiler: My own card! I wanted to give Warlock a big legendary with a simple drawback. I purposefully had it discard at the end of everyturn to avoid combo use with the Warlock quest. That card needs some love, but this isn't for that.
• Bonefletcher: Not a bad idea, but this isn't a particularly balanced version of it. It should either cost more or have lower stats. Either way Swamp King Dred does this better.
• Master of Illusion: Neat idea, i just don't know how realistic it is to make it work. It's so dependent on whats in your opponents deck and what they're willing to play. While i see the comparison to Shadowcaster, it actually feels more like a priest card, like Mirage Caller or Cabal Shadow Priest. Still, it's a solid card design.
• Darkshire Footman: Another variation on Steward of Darkshire, Warhorse Trainer, Lightfused Stegodon. That last one, the stegodon, is what makes me question whether this card is needed or balanced. There's probably a reason all of these cards are 3 mana or more.
• Meteor Shower: Too unpredictable to make it into a deck. Even getting it up to the value of Hellfire is unlikely. Neat design idea, no easy way to balance it. At least it wouldn't be as disappointing as Bouncing Blade.
• Double Agent: neat idea, but I wonder if it'd actually get used, and if it did whether it'd ever flip sides. I think this kind of mechanic has promise, but probably on a bigger minion that is difficult to get off the board.

My Favorites: Banana Tree, Vicious Shuriken, Emulating Ooze, Stolen Spellbook. Not sure my own entry rises above these, tbqh

Quote from TheWamts >>

Darkshire Footman is the only card in the list that's even decently designed. A distant second would be Stolen Spellbook.

Quote from Lathy >>

 

I'm not sure I get the Voidcaller reference? Voidcaller summons a Demon from your hand, this does nothing like it. When you summon/play a minion, it gets destroyed and its stats and card text are added to Stitches. I don't find it fitting for a particular class, and I think it would be a shame to only have this option in one class when you could actually build something around this card in more than one class. It would take quite some effort to get it on your opponent's board and THEN use it as a huge benefit. That would be something for a Trolden moment, and not something I hope you judge it by. As for the rarity, I made it legendary so you don't get the bonus twice. Imagine playing Stitches (it wouldn't be named so if it wasn't a Legendary), then another one. Then the first one would gain the card text of the second, and whenever your played a minion, you would get two times the bonus. Say you play Stitches on turn 10, then another Stitches - that would make it a 2/4. Then you'd coin and play Ysera, and it would gain two times 4/12 (8/24) - you'd have a 10/28 minion that would proc Yseras card text twice.

EDIT: The idea is obviously you build the abomination from parts of other minions.

Quote from CheeseEtc >>Honourable mentions:

Master of Illusions: Yeah you were right Toxibrah. Your card has a cool effect but the art and flavor seems a bit out of place for rogues.