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Remember that, starting Season 2, the final polls of the weekly card design competitions will have their own topics. Continue your discussions here.

There are plenty of good designs there! Happy too see some creativity. Sad that I didn't make it in the end :-( I'm going to vote for the following:

• Master Mathias Shaw for the flavor it leaves to my mouth.
• Miracle for promoting a new play style.
• Curator for being a badass! This card is nuts, but balanced at the same time. This Enrage: Immune effect is very inventive.
• Brontes for helping Shaman. I would like to see its Cost increased, it's a Thalnos on crack as it is. 
• Jack Pot for the best artwork we've ever seen. At least for the dedication put into it. 

My opinion is the joke entries should not be qualified for the finals and not even counted towards the total amount of votes given. They affect so much to the overall voting score and the page score where the page position already favours some cards way over the others. In addition they cause that the other entries on the pages containing a joke entry will get scaled down way too much. This really discourages to create a proper entry when you have to plan do you want to submit your entry on a specific page with a joke card which is way more likely to get into the final.

Don't blame the entries. Blame those who vote. I'm against disqualifying troll cards. What's the definition of a troll card anyway? To disqualify them, a clear margin should be set, which, if passed, would judge a card as a troll or not. Which exactly that margin should be? To me, Magical War Golem seems perfectly fine. To others, it doesn't. 

There should be a rule where entries that are clearly not within the spirit of the competition are disqualified.

Why are there no names in the poll itself? I liked that about the old poll system. Also means cards with similar / identical names are easier to distinguish.

Also I only found the thread by chance. It has to be more visible somehow.

edit: As for the finalists themselves: Incredible weak community choices. Some effects are fine, but have formatting or spelling errors, making me not wanting to vote for them, since that is just as much part of a card design.

Two joke entries in the finals also makes me sad. "The card made me LOL, it's stupid and it won't win but I liked it anyway". Thanks again community, showing me that you have no clue whatsoever. You can design funny cards that  without being so obnoxiously uninspiring and make them actually balanced and fitting.

Other  entries are ridiculous overpowered like the 0/20. Seriously? When cards like Defender of Argus and Sunfury Protector exists it's a ridiculous dumb concept.

The Jack Pot wild card is also stupid and I don't like the trend that "animating" a card means you have a higher chance to get picked. Personally, I would just forbid gold cards as a whole to even the entry field and not penalizing people without photoshop skills.

I actually struggle to find a card I legitimately like. Fel Bolt is somewhat cool because it reflect its properties in WoW, but it's vastly overcosted and its ignoring effect is incredibly situational. The only other cards I find interesting are Brontes and Tugweed. Tugweed's effect is cool, but 7 mana is arbitrary and over the top. I know it's due to this week's, admittedly poorly thought out, contest theme, but that alone doesn't save it, leaving Brontes as sole choice. Decent card with a cool effect that I can actually see being played. 

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Why are there no names in the poll itself? I liked that about the old poll system. Also means cards with similar / identical names are easier to distinguish.

That's only for this week. Murloc and I had a ton of hands-on stuff to learn from some other moderators this week about setting up the poll topic for the first time. That's why the topic is pretty minimal in terms of words from us specifically about this week, because after double and triple checking entry validates and making sure we had the scoring algorithm all done correctly, we didn't have long left to get the Poll Topic up on time. I had meant to just edit the authors' names into the poll later, but it turns out that when you edit a topic's entries it resets all of the votes to prevent shenanigans, so I couldn't do that after all. XP

Voted for Relearn, Miracle and Warrior of Fate.

(I find that my flavor differs much from the community)

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Voted for Relearn, Miracle and Warrior of Fate.

 I'm curious as to why Warrior of Fate? It's broken as fuck. It's a Wargolem for 2 mana. Its "limitation" is true for ANY 7 mana card. War Golem costs 7 mana, guess what that entails... it can't be played before turn 7,  unless you have Wild Grow / Innervate or Emperor. 

If it would have 3 HP or something, MAYBE you could make a case for it, but even then only if it was a legendary, but it's a rare, meaning you can play 2. Two 7/7 on turn 7 with 3 mana to spare? Who would not run the card?

I forgot about Miracle. I like the design of the card. Simple and clean, but 7 cards is really over the top thinking about it, I would be too scared of aggro Priest. :O