• Balance: Extremely OP even outside of a mill deck and broken if combined with Preparation. Rogue has no token-summoning spells for a reason (EDIT: Jade Shuriken excepted).
• Flavor : Falvor is perfect though. The card "tells a story" which is what we want from a winning card.
• Effort : Disappointing. Simple token summonning is boring af. Also you could have taken an original art instead of one already IG.
• Gameplay: Obviously perfect for mill rogue and versatile enough to be included in most rogue decks. Being broken helps though.

No penalties.

Global rating : 2.08/5 | Meh.

To be honest, I was very disappointed to see this card win especially coming from the best fan card maker of this forum. Yes, the flavor is awesome but that's it. Cards shouldn't win on flavor alone IMO.

Token(s):

• Balance: Curvestone at its finest.
• Flavor : I supposed these are supposed to be monks taping into their Chi. If I'm right then flavor is ok, though it's not what I think of in priority when thinking about monks.
• Effort : The theme required 3 cards which kind of forced this effort. However the effort put into the thematical and mechanical cohesion of the cards is appreciated.
• Gameplay: A "Monk" deck will obviously be a midrange one. That said, with the possible exception of Meditating Hermit, I don't see those fitting anywhere. They all seem very good in arena though.

No penalties.

Global rating : 3.33/5 | Good!

This week's theme was hard since it requires to invent not one card, but 3, and to maintain cohesion between them. Overall this submission was successful at doing just that.

• Balance: Crazy effects like those are hard to balance but the creator managed to do it anyway!
• Flavor : He's a kid, he wants to play. This card "tells a story".
• Effort : Well, it's a combination of Nozdormu and Patches the Pirate.
• Gameplay: This is mostly useless against non-aggro decks while aggro decks... don't always take turns that last more than 1 minute so even though it's "numerically" balanced it's pratically underwhelming and is at best a tech card.

-0.5 for inconsistency with WoW lore. The art is Anduin as a child!

Global rating : 2.42/5 | Meh.

This card has very lopsided subscores. I actually quite like the card but I want to keep things as objective as possible. Again, flavor is not enough.

• Balance: You're unlikely to trigger this card's effect more than once, but it's still unbalanced due to the low-mana threat it represents. I know zoolock is bad right now but let's not make warlock
• Flavor : There's no cohesion between the card's character and effect. Murloc parodies are also overdone.
• Effort : This effect has been done several times but this time it's stuck to a murloc version of Illidan. 1 crystal for the pun in the card name.
• Gameplay: Obviously an auto-include in zoolock. Being broken kinda helps though.

No penalties.

Global rating : 1.25/5 | Bad...

Well this card can be proud of almost joining Pepe in the Hall of Shame of fan cards! ...Oh wait both were made by the same guy.
Sarcasm aside. Timmult, I don't know if you will be reading this but I supposed you're aware of how badly your cards were received by veteran card designers even though it won. This is because they were entirely focused on the "cuteness" of the art and the fact they are WoW pets at the expense of the quality of the cards themselves. Making cards based on WoW pets is fine but it shouldn't be the ONLY thing that matters. Your cards won thanks to the large amount of voters who come here from the front page and don't always take time to fully analyze all the cards. They see a cute WoW pet, they upvote.
If you want to improve your cards, ask yourself how it fares at least in the 4 dimensions (balance, flavor, originality, gameplay value). These dimensions are slightly subjective but they give you an idea. I wish you good luck for the future!

Mind Vision

• Balance: It has vanilla stats and an effect that is worth (0) mana on average. Therefore it is balanced.
• Flavor : The name fis the art perfectly. The art itself is not Warcraft-themed though.
• Effort : The card barely fits that week's theme (cards that cast a spell) and could have very well been written texutally.
• Gameplay: A very fun RNG card but not a very useful one. Good in fatigue priest I guess?

No penalties.

Global rating : 2.92/5 | Meh.

Obviously this is a fun card but I wonder whether it might turn out to be the new Yogg-Saron, Hope's End since it allows you to compensate for the weak link in most priest deck, tempo, by getting cards from you opponent who contrary to you probably mulliganed for tempo unless priest himself. It would also be frustrating for your opponent whenever you get a Brawl or a direct damage card for lethal.

• Balance: This would shut down aggro almost completely. Some might think it's a good thing but I don't. Aggro is only a problem when it's too powerful like this was the case during the Gadgetzan meta.
• Flavor : Eonar is the titan of life so the effect fits nicely. Having a titan as a minion is still weird though (see below)
• Effort : This card was made before Amara, Warden of Hope was released so I won't take the similarity into account. Even then, the effect is not particularily original or impressive. I did it (equally unbalanced) and I'm sure many other people did it too, despite the effect not existing in the game at that time.
• Gameplay: An obvious auto-include in any Reno deck. Gameplay-wise it's not very interesting though, since the effect does not add depth to deck-building or decision-making.

-0.5 for inconsistency with WoW lore : Eonar is a titan. There's no way she can fit into the battlefield! (Old Gods really are the upper limit of what Blizzard can do in terms of size).

Global rating : 2.00/5 | Meh. (borderline Bad...)

This card made me re-evaluate how I rate cards on the "utility" subscale. I realized that just evaluating whether the card would see play (and Eonar obviously would) is not pertinent since any OP card would be a 3/3 on this scale. This is why 'Utility' was renamed into Gampeplay which takes into account not only whether it could see play, but whether it adds depth to the game (in terms of deck-building or decision-making).

Eonar is obviously a big fat control card (and by 'fat' I mean the size of a planet, because that's what titans are) and, contrary to most other big fat control cards, this one will probably work. I like big fat control cards but this one is too bland and not flavorful enough for me. Just in case, don't take negative reviews personnaly.

Token(s):

Well, this one is mine so there's no need for a detailed review to know that it's obviously 5/5!

• Balance : Given that you should have a weapon equipped to work, it's probably slightly overpowered (see below).
• Flavor : The name and effect blend perfectly. The art is off though (see below).
• Effort : I actually made a card almost identical to this and forgot about it during 5.08, therefore I won't evaluate your card on this scale. Weighing will be done accordingly of course.
• Gameplay: This card requires more and better Hunter weapons to be viable. If this happens one day, it will be awesome and may finally make control hunter viable!

-0.5 for the art which probably isn't an elf (which was that week's prompt) on top of not being very Warcraft-y. Not to mention she's not acutally reloading...

Global rating : 2.28/5 | Meh.

As said earlier, I recently remembered that I made a nearly identical card for my Troll expansion (mine costs (2), which I think is better since it can't be played without a weapon) but forgot I made it during 5.08. This is why I didn't rate this card on the "effort" scale and instead adopted the "great minds think alike" mentality. Still, I intended Reload to be a filler since it is exceptionally bland for a WCDC winner, despite good flavor, and while it was the best card for this particular week it looks pale in comparison to other winners.

• Balance : This is the Drakonid Operative of paladins, but they need it. I'm a bit afraid of Divine Shielded Faerie Dragons.
• Flavor : Name and effect blend well. This is clearly not a WoW whelp but I won't take this into account since there are no bronze whelp arts available on the Internet (I tried to find one too).
• Effort : Basically a miniature Dragon Consort. Too bland.
• Gameplay: This would def push Dragon Paladin but could also fit into a Menagerie Paladin or even any paladin deck using some dragons.

No penalties.

Global rating : 3.33/5 | Good

A co-winner of mine! With the effect of Dragon Consort, the Mana Cost of Twilight Whelp and the OPness of Drakonid Operative, Helpful Whelp would definitely push curve Dragon Priest or Menagerie Priest which is what I had in mind when I made the theme.

Well, this one is mine so there's no need for a detailed review to know that it's obviously 5/5! I'm proud to be the first person here to win his own contest :D

• Balance : The effect is powerful but very hard to get off, therefore it is balanced.
• Flavor : This little pest is hiding behind other minions. The flavor is good and straightforward.
• Effort : I know the art fits perfectly, but could have taken another one than one that comes from the cinematic.
• Gameplay: Token decks will love this. Why the Grimy Goon restriction though ? Is it to prevent Druid and Warlock to have access to this ?

No penalties.

Global rating : 4.16/5 | Awesome!

It's strange that this card needed a Wild card to access the finals because it fitted 5.10's theme (interact with adjacent minions) perfectly on top of being mechanically interesting! Its only weakness is the art which comes from a cinematic and isn't great even though it fits the character.

• Balance : The effect is powerful but requires a deck built around it, therefore it is balanced.
• Flavor : Yes "Manasaurus" is a simplistic name, but the flavor is still here.
• Effort : Although I've already come across "refund" effects, I never saw something like this.
• Gameplay: I doubt this would see play in the current state of the game, but if a buff-beast druid ever becomes viable, Manasaur would be part of it.

No penalties.

Global rating : 4.58/5 | Awesome!

Come on Blizzard, why didn't you put this into the Un'Goro expansion ? It would fave fit perfectly! I can already see the Trolden video where a guy wins because he Moonfired his own Manasaur to play a Feral Rage for lethal! My third favorite from the bunch (the first two being my own cards of course).

• Balance : This is basically a board clear and/or a 2-mana Vanish. Seems extremely OP against midrange or even aggro decks to me.
• Flavor : Everybody is afraid of this big dinosaur. Devilsaurs don't really fit Rogue though.
• Effort : The effect is original.
• Gameplay: This card is mechanically very interesting and would provide Rogue with a reliable anti-aggro tool and an alternative to Vanish (if it were balanced).

No penalties.

Global rating : 2.92/5 | Meh.

Lack of balance really screwed this otherwise good card. It has good flavor and I feel like decks could be built around this, but as it is it would screw everything that isn't aggro.

• Balance : Hard to evaluate. The body is too weak in most matchups while certain adaptations are underwhelming but this provides late-game value that is absolutely enormous. Ultimately I fell it would fall flat like Lakkari Sacrifice but UP is better than OP and the effect is numerically balanced I guess.
• Flavor : I'm confused here. Charles Darwin because of adaptation ? It feels hyper weird for HS.
• Effort : The wording is super weird. Why not "Battlecry: Adapt SHRs summoned by your Hero Power this game" ? Nice take on the Adapt mechanic though.
• Gameplay: Hard to evaluate again. Seems useless against aggro but broken against fatigue decks. Still gonna give only one crystal because the latter is non-existent on ladder.

No penalties.

Global rating : 1.67/5 | Bad...

IIRC I voted for this card because I really liked the base concept of summoning adapted Silver Hand Recruits but the concept was badly used. There's no flavor besides the vague connection between Darwin and Adapt and the card is unplayable in most metas.

Token(s): Flame Elemental / Fireball

• Balance : The card requires a buildaround to work and the effect is not immediate. Seems balanced to me, except for...
• Flavor : Flavor is spot on. Poor lil' Elementals who get killed to serve a cancerous deck!
• Effort : An original take on the week's them that we didn't expect. That said the are is not Warcraft-y. I think there are enough fire mage arts to choose from.
• Gameplay: Yeah, it might make Elemental Mage a real thing but...

-1 for pushing "fun and interactive" mage. Yes, current cancerous mage archetypes are not based on Elementals, but this card might allow them to just do that. Freeze and Exodia are already too much.

Global rating : 3.16/5 | Good

The fact that this card still has a reasonable note despite the -1 penalty actually shows that the concept is very good. Sadly, Alexstrasza and freeze effects exists and I would hate to see this in game. As said at the beginning, I'm far from the only one to hate "fun and interactive" mage. Asylum, it's not your fault if F&I mage exists but you should have known better.

• Balance : Comparable to Thing from Below, so probably slightly OP but not game-breaking.
• Flavor : I would have preferred a sniper rifle though.
• Effort : Any "Cost (1) less for X" card was an obvious solution for this contest.
• Gameplay: Hunter isn't a class that like to hoard cards I'm afraid.

No penalties.

Global rating : 2.5/5 | Meh.

On the one hand, I said it doesn't fit Hunter playstyle. On the other, Hunter playstyle itself is an issue. The Hunter class has always been restricted to somewhere between face and midrange while all other classes have had very diverse archetypes to choose from. That said, restricted or not, I do not feel like Hunter can use this card optimally. The flavor is nice though, although as I said a sniper rifle would have made more sense.

• Balance : This is almost plain RNG so, yeah, it's probably balanced. There's a slight probability that it's good in midrange decks by providing them with late-game steam.
• Flavor : Basically, it does the same thing as adventure Rafaam.
• Effort : Well sorry but I can"t give you any point on this one. It's just adventure Rafaam made into a card.
• Gameplay: This looks like a fun card, but it would actually be super cool for noobs with almost no collection by providing them with a decent pre-made deck: their opponent's deck. That said, it's also a very frustrating card. I wouldn't recomment Blizzard to print it.

No penalties.

Global rating : 2.08/5 | Meh.

Like "An interview with Nat", this card is very disappointing. It's a c/p of adventure Rafaam with an effect that pops up regularily on fan card forums. The effect itself isn't "bad" but imo it's not worthy of a WCDC winner.

• Balance : The effect hardly provides you with a significant advantage, most 2 drops are better than this.
• Flavor : Spot on. Art, name and effect blend perfectly.
• Effort : "Meta" effects are rare. I definitely think there should be more of them.
• Gameplay: Veteran players will obviously benefitiate the most from this card. That said, I doubt it would have any utility in the actual game except maybe in Arena.

No penalties.

Global rating : 2.91/5 | Meh.

I was really impressed by this card during 5.15 but time has passed and while I don't think it's as bad as some says, it's definitely not god tier of fan card creation either since its effect is negligible most of the time.

Token(s):

• Balance : Has below-vanilla stats for a negligible effect that don't directly impact the game.
• Flavor : No one else than Ner'zhul could have been appropriate for this effect.
• Effort : Ner'zhul has already won the very first competition, also the "meta" effect is very close to the precedent card.
• Gameplay: I honestly think it won't have any gameplay impact...

No penalties.

Global rating : 2.5/5 | Meh.

This was bound to happen. The same legendary character won twice. In this case, however, flavor justifies it. The famous Shaman-turned-Warlock-turned-Lich-King couldn't have been replaced. That said the effect is ridiculous. Knowing the future outcome of your hero power doesn't matter if you can"t act on it anyway and I doubt that knowing this information would seriously impact your decision making. Which is bad since the minion has vanilla stats.

• Balance : You can't play this from scratch contrary to the Glyph so it's probably more balanced that said glyph.
• Flavor : "From the Twisting Nether" was more appropriate lore-wise but it was already taken.
• Effort : Primordial Glyph says hi.
• Gameplay: This one is generally better than Glyph since it only gives you cards you considered worthy of being in your deck but it's also harder to trigger and unlikely to compensate for the inconvenient of losing a card to a discard effect.

No penalties.

Global rating : 2.5/5 | Meh.

From the Void was probably the winner with the largest margin ever. I think people just looked at the effect and it was cool because it reminded them from that time when they got 5 Ice Blocks in one game. While not bad per se, the card is a c/p of Primordial Glyph into the Warlock class and I think it would never have won if PG wasn't a thing.

• Balance : Like all quests, it requires a deck built around it. The fact that you can choose between all other quest rewartd makes it automatically balanced.
• Flavor : Even though there's a flavor, it does not feel very Quest-y.
• Effort : An unexpected take on the Quest mechanic as well as on the week's theme.
• Gameplay: Unfortunately "Burgle Rogue" is way too random to be viable. It would have fun value but not much else.

No penalties.

Global rating : 3.75/5 | Good

A great card with an original effect. Here sir, take this "Good" mention.

Token(s):

• Balance : Whoever is the luckiest wins. Since the rogue has the first blow, it will likely be him.
• Flavor : Yes it has good flavor, although I've never heard of any gunfight in Azeroth.
• Effort : Well it sure is an effect we don't see everywhere. Not particularily impressive though.
• Gameplay: Trolden material here. Gameplay-wise it will turn out to be a tournament killer like Yogg.

-0.5 for the art that is ugly, not Warcraft-y and badly centered.

Global rating : 1.17/5 | Bad...

I originally gave a positive review of this card, however I neglected the "draw a card" on the base card which gives the Rogue player the initiative, and rogues have Preparation and a shitload of card draw so this card IS NOT A GOOD IDEA! This is basically Yogg 2.0.

• Balance : Hard to evaluate. On the one hand, the condition is very restrictive. On the other, the card becomes super-borken when it's met...So hard that I'm gonna pass on this one. Weighing will be done accordingly.
• Flavor : Knock knock who's there ? My fist!
• Effort : An original concept. Feels too much like it was made for that particular week though.
• Gameplay: Make Control Warrior great again.

No penalties.

Global rating : 4.44/5 | Awesome!

I only gave three "Awesome!" ratings, and 2 of them were for Lathy so GG to you dude! Plated Knuckle was one of the few cards that made me go "Wow!" like Anduin when I saw it. However, this may be because I was unable to evaluate this card's balance. Others have been more severe than me on this card and I may re-evaluate this card's balance rating depending on feedback.