Hearthpwn

Doing my civic duty. By the way, what is this Behold Competition?

Rain of arrows and Moon Priestess are my favourites :)

I'll be voting for Durotan, mainly because I got second in that competition and feel like he was a worthy rival.

Rain of Arrows and Ebb and Flow, those could very well be real cards because of their flavor in both the art/card effect and flavor regarding the art/text relationship

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Just a heads up, the second Illiterate Hero should say Forbidden Knowledge.

 . . . The one competition I would screw that up would be the last, big, championship poll, wouldn't it? ;_;
Fixed, apologies.

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Doing my civic duty. By the way, what is this Behold Competition?

 The "LoE and Behold" competition, it's what we're calling the League of Explorers theme competition going on right now. I've added quotation marks and a link to make it more clear. =)

Quick note on the mini-competitions: Please keep at least a 24-hour voting window. Otherwise, people like me in a very different time (Japan, Australia etc.) zone will likely not be able to vote. For example, 17-19 UTC is 2-4 am over here. I's rather be sleeping, thanks.

If Giantslayer was called Ambush, I'd probably upvote it.

None of the rest are interesting at all.

Actually, I'll just do a quick rundown. I'm being harsher than usual because these are supposed to be finalists, as in cards that are really well made.

Aluna: Very meh feeling, and a combo cards for cards that rely on not being comboed (The whole idea is that you don't combo without a hand) is just plain backwards.

Stonelash Scorpion: Better than Aluna. I like the idea of it coming out of Shredder and you filling up the Mage's hand with useless cards. Not interesting enough, but good flavour.

Level Up!: Nope. That's not leveling up. Nor is it remotely balanced.

Earthquake: We already got Elemental Destruction.

Voodoo Doll: I get that it's a Demon to be used with Demonheart and Demonfire, but it's a doll, not a demon. Also very very slow, turn 4 to get a 2/3 and deal 2 damage to a random enemy minion isn't going to cut it, and with 1 Health, it isn't going to live as a 2-drop.

Dr. Bloom: Good pun. Reverse Dr. Boom idea is neat, but also just looks really lazy.

Nexus Stalker: Cool concept. A bit too good though. 3/2 or 4/1 stats would make it more manageable.

Moon Priestess: This one is actually rather well made. Too bad it's a Druid card so I can't vote for it.

Will 'o Wisp: Not a minion. Not even remotely balanced either.

Druid of the Talon: It's like Stoneskin Gargoyle, but it doesn't even retain the buffs you give it, so basically it's only use as a psuedo-immortal card is to make Druid's combo even more impossible to deal with.

Durotan: It's cool and all, but this is basically just a 7-mana deal 7, or a 9 mana deal 14 with Windfury. I'd rather not a second class get Druid combo.

Ethereal Drake: The fact that it has Enrage means a good portion of the classes in the game wouldn't be able to make much use of it. Also, as Justicar proves, most classes just don't want a better version of their crappy hero power. I'll ignore that Justicar exists because this card was made before it, but it's basically just a 5 mana 5/5 with 9 token hero powers around to make it seem more impressive than it is.

Eye of Kilrogg: Cool, but I don't like the idea of a card that flips the whole point of card games around.

Giantslayer: Why would you name it this, when almost none of the cards with >5 Health are Giants?

Illiterate Hero: Suffers from MC Syndrome in that the rest of the deck has to suck, except that the cards that this guy needs sucks even more than the cards MC needs. The dream would be to drop this on turn 8 with a bunch of Chillwinds and whatever... except you'd never have made it to that stage with so many vanilla monsters in your deck. No reason why he can't have 8/8 stats.

Forbidden Knowledge: Counterspell exists, and Spellbender exists.

Volley: This is best used against 2 3-health minions, but considering how a card that deals with board flood is countered by even heavier board flood... why?

Ebb and Flow: Very clever concept. I don't like how it's ~useless half the time and only above average the rest of the time. The numbers could easily be 5 and 5, or even 6 and 6.

Rain of Arrows: So it's an 8-mana deal 8 to the face, discard your hand, summon 3 pieces of crap. I actually like this one, but the Arena player in me knows that I'll hate this thing like no other.

Ogre Knight: Inspire effects don't get to target anything, and it's really not that amazing a card even if it worked in game.

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Ogre Knight: Inspire effects don't get to target anything.

Then it should be worded it as such.

Dr. Bloom and Will-o Wisp get my vote but there isn't really anything too fancy. Some the rest are obviously made for certain challenges and not really applicable as cards on their own.

The first of the Mini Competitions are up! Head over here to check it out.

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Quick note on the mini-competitions: Please keep at least a 24-hour voting window. Otherwise, people like me in a very different time (Japan, Australia etc.) zone will likely not be able to vote. For example, 17-19 UTC is 2-4 am over here. I's rather be sleeping, thanks.

Our current plan is a 24-hour submission window, followed by a 2-hour window for up-voting, followed by a ~21 hour final polling window. It's the in-between review/upvoting phase that is getting cut significantly shorter, but that's mitigated by the fact that you're still free to up-vote during the 24 hours of submissions.