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This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card must use the phrase "Mana Crystal" in its card text.
• Existing examples include Innervate, Living Mana and Felguard.

We have whittled down ~160 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 Broeck1
by LordofBots
by Teknician
by TheProgenitor
by ThisOtherGuyTox
by Jhamel
by Cogito_Ergo_Sum
by Sinti
by SvagoCorp
by RazorOfArtorias
by Turkeybag
by Celeritas
by Demonic_Tutor_Zardikar
by Zanywoop
by CptIglo949

This was a surprisingly difficult theme to moderate. Beyond the one that's been discussed before, there are several entries here that I erred on the side of leniency for, mostly because none of them seemed to be intentionally trying to subvert any rules with their questionable inclusion of the word Mana Crystals.

Having said that, there's a lot of entries I want to vote for in this final, a lot more than usual I feel. Really interesting effects on display.

I knew Dragon Tamer was the right call; nice one LordofBots :D Congrats to everyone else, too, of course.

Edit: I personally wasn't too keen on the idea that incorporating The Coin counted as including the phrase "Mana Crystals" in your card. Yeah tokens count, but the token in question isn't even a custom idea. That said, I am obviously in the minority, considering the aforementioned Dragon Tamer made it through, and various others had a decent amount of votes.

...I also voted for Dragon Tamer to get in, so my stance is shaky.

Quote from CheeseEtc >>

RIP page 8 :(

some nice cards here i wont say my vote cos i dont wanna influence anybody but goodjob to all the entries there all winners in my eyes :D

Good job everyone, best of luck!

cogito 4 weeks in a row

congrats

I feel like there is a good amount of excellent submissions this week around.

My personal favorites would be Prosperity, Ethereal Manipulator and Viper Sting.

And Kil'rek obviously.

Sorry to be that person, but why is Dragon Tamer on here?

It doesn't have the word Mana Crystal in it (Not that it's a bad design, I really like it in fact), or am I missing something here?

EDIT: Sorry just seen a earlier post explaining that, sorry. 

A lot of pretty good finalists this time around, good luck to everyone.

Here goes my review:

Gadgetzan Investor (5/5): The card as a whole is pretty good, nice flavor, balance and everything. Only small problem i have is that rogue is not about getting empty Mana Crystals, but it is incorporated well into the design and flavor of the card, so im ok with it in the end.

Spiritual Procrastinator (5/5): Decent card for relatively any shaman deck. Good flavor, good effect.

Dragon Tamer (5/5): Dragon Tamer Soraka confirmed, yaaaaaaay! :D Cute card, good balance and all, just its kinda wierd u get a coin for holding a dragon, as i said about this card before, i suppose it doesnt rly "have to" make sense, since most of "if you are holding a dragon" cards make zero sense with the effect they provide, so w/e :) Cute card!

Astral Beam (3/5): I still think its kinda a weak card, i mean i get it, it has to have some kind of cost attached to it and more so since its a druid card and Naturalize drawbacks and all that, but man, it does feel like basically a super win more card to me, which is not a bad thing i suppose, im just rly torn about it. Without actual playtesting (which obviously cannot happen) im not rly sure what to think about this one. I think u did a good job balancing it as well as u could, im just not too excited about the card, thats all.

Felemental (2/5): This card is strong AF, even if it read "Battlecry: Destroy on of your Mana Crystals." that card would be very much playable, so ... i dont know :P Art, name and flavor r good and i like the elemental direction, but it rly seems too OP.

Kil'rek (4/5): I do like the card, art, flavor and all is rly good, but might be a little scary in an aggro deck.

Bleeding Hollow Warrior (3/5): I suppse its not as strong as Felemental, tho i can draw the same argument, if it read "Battlecry: Destroy one of your Mana Crystals." (which is what it would do on average basically), it would most likely still be played. I kinda like how u went about it, incorporating the Mana Crystal wording into the card, tho it still doesnt rly seem like a warrior effect (apart from enrage ofc). Btw, small typo "...start of your turn.", not "turns" :p

Nether Aspirant (5/5): Good card, balance, art. The deathrattle wording still bothers me, but thats just my personal thing i guess :P

Blasting Furnace (?/5): My card. The best one, obviously. Muhahahaha :P

Prosperity (1/5): I like the idea of this card, but lets be real, the card reads "Gain an empty Mana Crystal.". Period. If your opponent wants to take an advantage of this, he will basically help u ramp even more, never be able to catch up anyway, this card is just waaaaaaaaaay powerful.

Latent Lightning Fanatic (5/5): I like this card, cute, flavorful, turns disadvantage into a possible advantage, nice! It doesnt even matter its plastered on a murloc, could be on anything and this doesnt disrupt the flavor of the card, so well done.

Ethereal Manipulator (5/5): I rly love this card, very interesting ability and the design is well put together. Incorporates the "ramp" into a mage class in a sneaky way. Good job! Tho i would have liked it to be an epic card, not rare :P

Brass Squire (3/5): Interesting idea, tho it has flavor for paladin playstyles (buffin a minion), it doesnt make much sense to be a paladin effect. Im not entirely sure about the balance either, i mean if u play it on curve and your opponent kills it, u basically got 1 Mana Crystal, if it survives, the worst thing is u will stay at 4 Mana Crystals ... but u can give it a buff and ramp up quite fast. Obviously its a pretty shitty card to get later in the game, but still, the early advantage it can provide is very scary.

Viper Sting (3/5): I rly like the idea of this card, but cant decide if its too strong or too weak. Most of the other hunter secrets u can check for without playing a spell or u can just play a spell as your last card. Honestly, dunno.

Diamondroot (4/5): I like the versatility it provides, if u didnt draw this card yet and ur on T8+, u can decide, if u want to make a play with what u have or have this summoned instead. Tho the "mana crystals" instead of "Mana Crystals" is rly inexcusable, shame on u, sir!

Tiny Infestation (0/5): This is a rly poorly executed attempt on a joke card. It has been done properly several weeks ago. This just tries to take another swing at it, but fails miserably, since this weeks rules force the card to alter some of its wording and the result is just awkward, we know what u intended, but u didnt rly deliver. Also once was more than enough, so no thank you ... honestly, the part that saddens me the most is that ppl still voted for this ...

Quote from Sinti >>

 Dragon Tamer (5/5): Dragon Tamer Soraka confirmed, yaaaaaaay! :D Cute card, good balance and all, just its kinda wierd u get a coin for holding a dragon, as i said about this card before, i suppose it doesnt rly "have to" make sense, since most of "if you are holding a dragon" cards make zero sense with the effect they provide, so w/e :) Cute card!

Quote from Zanywoop >>

Dragon Tamer - 2/5 - Neat, I just don't really see a world where Rogue starts running a dragon variation. Twilight Drake? Maybe?

Quote from CheeseEtc >>

Cards I voted for:

Astral Beam - Excellent removal. Its downside make it in line with other forms of Druid's hard removals. It would have been excellent in Warlock too.

Blasting Furnace - Well-designed early-game minion which has synergy with Tunnel Trogg. Also Mech Shaman pls.

Latent Lightning Fanatic - A flavorful card that still has uses.

Honorable Mentions:

Kil'rek - See what I said in the discussion thread.

Ok, I see you've received overwhelmingly positive feedback for this. I like the base concept too but I'm suprised nobody noticed how utterly broken the card would be with this statline. An invincible 3/4 on turn 3 in zoo ? Pls. Yes, you would lose Mana Crystals but zoo has a low curve so it doesn't matter, also it's unlikely that you would lose more than 1 crystal from this if played on curve. This shouldn't have vanilla stats, or it needs to have very low health to make it more risky. 3mana 3/2 or something like that would be better.

That said, given what I know and expect of the voting preferences of the greatest number, I expect Gadgetzan Investor to win with a large margin.