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This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card must use or interact with the Voodoo mechanic introduced in the expansion.
• Your card must correctly display the Voodoo mechanic, using the Blood Drop mana icon available in Hearthcards.

We have whittled down ~60 valid entries to just 8 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 Cogito_Ergo_Sum
by Turkeybag
by Ragnarocket
by Svaarn
by Lordinaryus
by CheeseEtc
by Shaveyou
by Toble

I am so happy to see I made it to the finals. I want to clarify something about my card:

It is not a deathrattle effect so excessive AOE spells can clear all Mosquitoes when the enemy board is full.

Goodluck guys!

Edit: Thanks Razor for this awesome consept!

Edit2: The summoned Mosquitoes do not have the voodoo effect!

Hey I made it to the finals for the first time! :)

Thanks everyone who voted for Torrent Totem! As a shaman player in WoW I really enjoy that theme and was glad to see Razor's expansion bring some focus back to that in HS. Great design competition!

It's a little bit weird to see the Deep Sea Totem up there too with the same art I have to admit. But it's a cool concept as well. I think my personal favorite that I didn't create was the Voodoo Doll. I'd love to make a deck around that self-destruction potential.

Damn, was kinda hoping for more than 8 finalists ... oh well :( CG to all of u, who made it ;-) PS: no Wild Card?:P

Ok, here is my opinion on the cards, love it or hate it! :p

• Voodoo Doll (4/5): i think that final form of this card is pretty cool, wording removed abuse with 2nd copy and some quite easy OTKs, so thats nice. Still kinda "cheap" way to deal a lot of dmg to your opponent for my taste, but at least it does seem balanced, so good job ;-)
• Orgoth the Relentless (1/5): Honestly, i dont like this card at all. Im not gonna say its a bad card, but this would have to be one of the easiest "exodia" decks ever ... u can just build heavy anti-aggro/taunt/armor up/deadmans hand/whatever deck and it will NOT be hard to keep high health+armor at all, even when u do use weapons to control the board, this is just a very easy "OTK" that most of your opponents will not be able to do anything about, anything at all. And thats talking about Standard .. in Wild this deck would be 100% unbeatable by anything but the Naga Sea Witch decks (if they had the correct draws) and could take u down around T5/T6 ... and u didnt have Brawl.
• Torrent Totem (3/5): This is a mix of Arcane Explosion/Spirit Lash, that will not damage your minions and will stay on board until delt with, so 1) it can heavilly snowball your games, since 5 hp is quite high to deal with efficiently early on or die to an AOE when behind taunt and 2) it heals for a f*** ton, since it will heal u from the AOE dmg and at least for extra 5 that is needed for killing this off ... AND it doesnt even cost u any tempo basically, since it is a totem and thus it does work towards your Thing from Below cost reduction. Not a fan of this at all. I suppose shaman aint very strong right now, so he could use some OP cards to make him relevant, but this feels like it does a little too much for a 3-cost card. Btw imagine coin this T2 + another one T3 ... gl ever gettin a minion on board without spending a hard removal and full turn to deal with this :D
• Witch Doctor Apprentice (5/5): Now this is a good card, simple, strong, effective, but not broken. Sure mby a bit boring comapred to other finalists, but i dont mind boring, when its just good all round card, that aint too OP. This is a very nice card that would fit into any voodoo deck and could be played at any point of the game to provide decent value. Nice!
• Mosquito (1/5): Wow, talk about broken 1-drops. if u dont have a way to kill this minion the turn its played, its basically GG, since it will attack into your minion next turn and basically replicate infinitely from that point onward, setting up easiest full board Savage Roar ever. And sure, your opponent can have the answer (and 3 classes do, with their hero power), but how perfect opener must a non-ping class have to not auto-lose to your 1-drop ? Thats insane ... and sure, u can AOE the full board of minions to get rid of them, but do u even hear how crazy that sounds? 1-cost minion will provide u with a full board of minions that had to be AOE'ed or your opponent basically died :d
• Deep Sea Totem (3/5): I suppose the 8 health cost makes this card somewhat balanced, but it still feels like its very very strong. Many unused shaman spells would become SO good with just +1 dmg and pretty much all already used spells, especially AOEs, would get OP given their already low cost. How often do u hope for anything but Wrath of Air Totem when u see shaman using his hero power, so he will not have the perfect clear? ... yeah. Its a nice and clean design tho, i just dont like the power level of it very much.
• Skullsplitter Sniper (3/5): As much as i want to like this card, i fear it would be very broken. Hunter is often the one setting the tempo of the game, so givin up 8 hp for a 2-cost Assassinate AND having a poisonous minion on the board that has to be delt with seems like an insane tempo gain in an already fast class. I would like to think this card aims to help control hunter, but as most such cards, it would be very much abused in faster decks for even bigger value.
• Voodon't (3/5): I love the flavor of this card, tho i think it would be a very weak secret in general. iIs actually cool to see not only OP cards making it to the finals :)

Btw am i crazy or are notifications F-up again? like 30 min delay (or even an hour?) :XXX

Quote from Sinti >>

• Mosquito (1/5): Wow, talk about broken 1-drops. if u dont have a way to kill this minion the turn its played, its basically GG, since it will attack into your minion next turn and basically replicate infinitely from that point onward, setting up easiest full board Savage Roar ever. And sure, your opponent can have the answer (and 3 classes do, with their hero power), but how perfect opener must a non-ping class have to not auto-lose to your 1-drop ? Thats insane ...

Quote from Sinti >>

Damn, was kinda hoping for more than 8 finalists ... oh well :( CG to all of u, who made it ;-) PS: no Wild Card?:P

Ok, here is my opinion on the cards, love it or hate it! :p

• Torrent Totem (3/5): This is a mix of Arcane Explosion/Spirit Lash, that will not damage your minions and will stay on board until delt with, so 1) it can heavilly snowball your games, since 5 hp is quite high to deal with efficiently early on or die to an AOE when behind taunt and 2) it heals for a f*** ton, since it will heal u from the AOE dmg and at least for extra 5 that is needed for killing this off ... AND it doesnt even cost u any tempo basically, since it is a totem and thus it does work towards your Thing from Below cost reduction. Not a fan of this at all. I suppose shaman aint very strong right now, so he could use some OP cards to make him relevant, but this feels like it does a little too much for a 3-cost card. Btw imagine coin this T2 + another one T3 ... gl ever gettin a minion on board without spending a hard removal and full turn to deal with this :D

Quote from Ragnarocket >>

Quote from Sinti >>

Damn, was kinda hoping for more than 8 finalists ... oh well :( CG to all of u, who made it ;-) PS: no Wild Card?:P

Ok, here is my opinion on the cards, love it or hate it! :p

• Torrent Totem (3/5): This is a mix of Arcane Explosion/Spirit Lash, that will not damage your minions and will stay on board until delt with, so 1) it can heavilly snowball your games, since 5 hp is quite high to deal with efficiently early on or die to an AOE when behind taunt and 2) it heals for a f*** ton, since it will heal u from the AOE dmg and at least for extra 5 that is needed for killing this off ... AND it doesnt even cost u any tempo basically, since it is a totem and thus it does work towards your Thing from Below cost reduction. Not a fan of this at all. I suppose shaman aint very strong right now, so he could use some OP cards to make him relevant, but this feels like it does a little too much for a 3-cost card. Btw imagine coin this T2 + another one T3 ... gl ever gettin a minion on board without spending a hard removal and full turn to deal with this :D

Thanks for the feedback! I understand I won't be changing anyone's minds at this point but I'd like to point out my counters to your points since I did try to balance this card for the shaman class in particular.

Yeah I understand that the card may be slightly strong for a 3 drop but I did try to balance the effect somewhat. 5 health is a lot but it also has absolutely no attack power. Placing this card on the field on turn 2/3 (depending on coin) helps you clear whatever is currently there yes...and it does put pressure on your opponent to deal with it but it is not enough pressure to stop them from playing their turn 3 I feel. In addition this play could be turned against the Shaman - Acolyte of Pain, smaller deathrattle effects, Enrage Minions, etc. The card applies no pressure to the enemies face. They don't have to clear it immediately since the shaman has no board presence from playing this.

I actually tried to cost the card in terms of health to be a net loss for anything other than a large board - the sort of board that would likely be able to deal with this card on the next turn anyway unless this is sitting behind a large taunt wall. Which I admit is possible with Shaman's ability to get out the Thing from Below and regular 0/2 taunts. The effect is as strong or slightly better than Despicable Dreadlord at the cost of 4 health instead of 2 mana and no attack power. I rated the demon tag as slightly better than the totem tag within the class it falls in as there is not a lot of current totem synergy while Warlock can do things with Krul and their Death Knight card.

And finally I just would really like to see some form of Totem deck eventually pop up for Shaman. I think in Wild it's probably likely but I just really enjoy that aspect of the class. I feel this style of card gives that deck some longevity and a little bit of AoE that they might need since most of the totems currently are no attack minions. 

Just some of the design thoughts that went in behind the scenes there. xD

Quote from Lordinaryus >>

Quote from Sinti >>

• Mosquito (1/5): Wow, talk about broken 1-drops. if u dont have a way to kill this minion the turn its played, its basically GG, since it will attack into your minion next turn and basically replicate infinitely from that point onward, setting up easiest full board Savage Roar ever. And sure, your opponent can have the answer (and 3 classes do, with their hero power), but how perfect opener must a non-ping class have to not auto-lose to your 1-drop ? Thats insane ...

It is not an auto loss, when you look at the meta cards you see that every class has at least 2 different answers to this card (except murloc paladin and pirate warrior which is a good thing). Like you said your opponent has to attack something which means that you have at least 2 turns to find an answer. You can clear everything by making enemy board full and playing an excessive AOE. If you cannot manage to do any of these in 2 turns and your opponent happens to have a Savage Roar, I am sorry but you deserve to lose. This card is almost a dead card to 3 classes so I think it is pretty balanced.

Edit: Also the reason I created this card like this is that it promotes to play mage or rogue (non meta heroes), punishes pirate warrior and murloc paladin, promotes to play control decks.

True but that was more of a high roll aggro deck. And you can't really do it anymore since tuskarr totemic only gives basic totems. Thunder bluff valiant is the only like big totem synergy card that comes to mind really.

Quote from Ragnarocket >>

True but that was more of a high roll aggro deck. And you can't really do it anymore since tuskarr totemic only gives basic totems. Thunder bluff valiant is the only like big totem synergy card that comes to mind really.

That's fair haha :D

Quote from Teknician >>

I like Voodon't just for how goddamn sassy the card is. Although I'm sure the 45 voodoo cost BS card will win because everyone in Hearthstone wants to OTK everybody else and Blizzard thinks that's totally fine.

Quote from Sinti >>

Quote from Teknician >>

I like Voodon't just for how goddamn sassy the card is. Although I'm sure the 45 voodoo cost BS card will win because everyone in Hearthstone wants to OTK everybody else and Blizzard thinks that's totally fine.

in Blizzard, we dont like OTKs, we like to call them "Destroy the enemy hero" instead :))) It feels more badass!