These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
You are allowed to submit only one entry. An entry normally consists of only one collectible card, plus any necessary additional material or commentary (explained below).
You are allowed to post in this Submission Topic only once, only to submit your one entry.
You may not delete ANY posts you make in this Submission Topic, not even accidental ones you may make over your one allowed, such as by double-posting or by accidentally posting something here that you meant for the Discussion Topic. If you do accidentally post more than once, inform any of the Fan Creation Forum moderators via PM, and we will handle it.
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.
Once you have submitted your one entry, you are allowed to make only minor changes to it. Minor changes are things like correcting typos or making balance changes that do not alter the spirit of your entry as determined by we the moderators. If you want to make any changes and have any doubts as to their legality, ask us first.
These are the rules about your Submission:
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.)
Your entry must be a card of your own creation. We've been doing this for a while, so if you blatantly rip off somebody else's idea, we will know.
Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you MUST host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. Save it and upload it toImgur, Photobucket, or some other similar site. HearthCards has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your card disappearing part-way through the finals. We understand that there are some HearthCards memberships that will allow you to save your card there for longer (and you should totally get one of those just for general fan creation purposes, by the way), but we don't know who has those memberships and we can't tell from the URLs.
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.
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 20:00 UTC 11/Sept/2017) 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 20:00 UTC 11/Sept/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 12/Sept/2017) 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 20:00 UTC 12/Sept/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 13/Sept/2017) 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!
Looking for more information about the WCDC or Fan Creations in general? Why not check out this FAQ to see if your question is answered there?
The way he interacts with Moat Lurker the Deathrattle becomes a Battlecry that does nothing and the Battlecry becomes a Deathrattle that kills a random minion.
Greetings and well met everyone! This is a very exciting competition for me as it's my second competition involving custom Hearthstone card creations. I look forward to seeing all the different ideas people come up with.
With that said... allow me to introduce....
Summon the Legion, a 1-casting cost Quest for the Warlock class.
Flavor Text: "Gul'dan always wanted a pet; he wasn't expecting Mannoroth though."
When you've paid it's price you are rewarded with an 8-casting Legendary
Enter the Battlefield: "Taste true power!"
Attack: "The Legion Rises!"
Death: "I will return for your SOUL!"
When this card enters the battlefield you become...
You may truly feel powerful, but power isn't enough to completely annihilate those who choose to face you in battle. You also acquire the mighty weapon...
A mind control effect with the drawback that you give your opponent a 4/4 minion, which then can't be targeted by Priest hard removal because of the 4 Attack.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: Top of the Swaps
This weeks theme comes from Sneaky_Raptor, whose "Dirty Spellslinger" was the winner of our "Teamwork Time" competition.
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 20:00 UTC 11/Sept/2017)
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 20:00 UTC 11/Sept/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 12/Sept/2017)
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 20:00 UTC 12/Sept/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 13/Sept/2017)
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!
Looking for more information about the WCDC or Fan Creations in general? Why not check out this FAQ to see if your question is answered there?
Good Luck!
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
"It seems useless until The Coin + Resurrect turn one."
Phoenix! WHY have you created such an Abomination? WHY???
Well, I wanted to buff a few guys for some cool combos... And I changed the 0 mana pool.
Buffs/Combos: Jungle Giants, Sword of Justice, Stormwind Champion, Brann Bronzebeard, Resurrect (And all it's friends), Naga Sea Witch, Bright-Eyed Scout, Kel'Thuzad, Aviana, Every Single "Dragon in Hand" effect, Alarm-o-Bot... and many other combos.
Debuffs: Tortollan Forager (Kinda), Devolve
Edit: Fixed the links on The Coin and Tortillian Forager.
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Who's the Pirate Warrior now?
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
"It's Chaos Time!"
The way he interacts with Moat Lurker the Deathrattle becomes a Battlecry that does nothing and the Battlecry becomes a Deathrattle that kills a random minion.
Climmy The Noob Cat (Don't ask. I don't know why ether...)
"You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Johnny Sparrow"
EDIT: I accidentaly put her cost as 5, when it should be 4, I changed that.
Card clarification: The spell cannot be casted if you yourself do not have a weapon equipped, as you can't really swap something you don't have.
Flavor text: I like your weapon. I think I will TAKE IT!
"When stirring your depths, be sure to add just a pinch of Deathwing and at least 500 grams of salt."
Greetings and well met everyone! This is a very exciting competition for me as it's my second competition involving custom Hearthstone card creations. I look forward to seeing all the different ideas people come up with.
With that said... allow me to introduce....
Summon the Legion, a 1-casting cost Quest for the Warlock class.
Flavor Text: "Gul'dan always wanted a pet; he wasn't expecting Mannoroth though."
When you've paid it's price you are rewarded with an 8-casting Legendary
Enter the Battlefield: "Taste true power!"
Attack: "The Legion Rises!"
Death: "I will return for your SOUL!"
When this card enters the battlefield you become...
You may truly feel powerful, but power isn't enough to completely annihilate those who choose to face you in battle. You also acquire the mighty weapon...
Bring Glory to the Legion!
As an extreme example: If you have deathwing and gorehowl in your hand, you can have a 1 mana 12/12 weapon and a 7 mana 7/10 deathwing.
https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-discussion/240800-hearthstone-board-improvement-idea#c6
Here's my entry for the week. Given the narrow theme, decided to try shooting for flavor. As always, good luck everyone!
Flavor: "Look! It's injured! This'll be easy!" - Last Words of Hemet Nessing-UNwary
A mind control effect with the drawback that you give your opponent a 4/4 minion, which then can't be targeted by Priest hard removal because of the 4 Attack.
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.