This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is
here
.
Special Competition Theme: You No Take Candle!
In celebration of the upcoming Kobolds and Catacombs expansion, we've decided to
Recruit
you adventures to our special expansion competition! So, get your Spellstones ready and hold on to those Unidentified items, because it's time to dive into the dungeon!
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card
must
be a
Kobolds & Catacombs
card. In
Hearthcards.net
, you can mark your card with the Candle watermark by looking to the right of the "Card Text" section and clicking on "Swirl, Core Set" to bring up a drop-down menu where you can then click on "Kobolds, Newest".
You
must
select (at least)
one
of the following three themed restrictions to abide by:
"An Adventurer Has Joined Your Party!"
- Your card must contain the
keyword
Recruit
in its card text. Your card can
Recruit
minions, interact with
Recruit
cards, give cards the ability to
Recruit
, or pretty much do anything that directly uses/interacts with the keyword
Recruit
. Your card, however, does not satisfy this restriction if it just uses the words "Silver Hand Recruit" (Nice Try).
Examples:
Oaken Summons
,
Possessed Lackey
,
Kathrena Winterwisp
.
"Roll a D4!"
- Your card must be "Unidentified"; in other words, your card must randomly gain one of 4 bonus effects when it is drawn.
Alternatively
, your card must interact with Unidentified objects.
Examples:
Unidentified Elixir
,
Unidentified Shield
,
Unidentified Maul
.
General Competition Rules
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 to
Imgur
,
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
Preview Phase
(Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 7/Dec/2017)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase
(Starts 21:00 UTC 7/Dec/2017, Ends 21:00 UTC 11/Dec/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 21:00 UTC 11/Dec/2017, Ends 21:00 UTC 12/Dec/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 21:00 UTC 12/Dec/2017, Ends 21:00 UTC 13/Dec/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
!
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? You can also PM one of us Fan Creation Mods!
Any dwarf that returns from a raid
throws a feast at the Inn for his mates.
He raises his beer -
"EVERYONE, GET IN HERE!"
After that - somehow - everything breaks.
A versatile and powerful card for Rogue that allow them to have more resources, whether it be card draw, health,
Spell Damage
or token.
Balance: Costing 2 is a deliberate decision to not powercreep
Deadly Poison
,
Razorpetal Lasher
,
Shiv
. and even
Leeching Poison
as the Lifesteal isn't guaranteed. The stronger effect has the
Combo
requirement in order to make them balance and equally powerful as the other two.
Paladin's got absolutely no new Secrets throughout this whole year and we need more Paladin Secrets that are playable standalone (without needing MC). Using this
Secret
effectively requires careful deckbuilding and you will want to make sure the right minion dies to trigger it, but it can be very powerful if you make it work.
Yes that means it only brings out additional copies that are still left in your deck so it's unlikely to pull out any Legendaries and the longer the game goes, the more minions die but also the more minions you draw both copies of.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here .
Special Competition Theme: You No Take Candle!
In celebration of the upcoming Kobolds and Catacombs expansion, we've decided to Recruit you adventures to our special expansion competition! So, get your Spellstones ready and hold on to those Unidentified items, because it's time to dive into the dungeon!
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Examples: Oaken Summons , Possessed Lackey , Kathrena Winterwisp .
Examples: Lesser Ruby Spellstone , Lesser Onyx Spellstone , Lesser Sapphire Spellstone
Examples: Unidentified Elixir , Unidentified Shield , Unidentified Maul .
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
Preview Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 7/Dec/2017)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 7/Dec/2017, Ends 21:00 UTC 11/Dec/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 21:00 UTC 11/Dec/2017, Ends 21:00 UTC 12/Dec/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 21:00 UTC 12/Dec/2017, Ends 21:00 UTC 13/Dec/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 !
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? You can also PM one of us Fan Creation Mods!
Good Luck!
Had the idea for a Finja-esque Murloc Hero which aids in completing the Shaman Quest by Recruiting Murlocs. Here's the result.
Side note: the link to the Discussion page is broken. Please fix.
Edit: link is fixed.
Funny thing: I thought about this card while being unable to sleep last night.
Tales of Azeroth- 150+ card expansion!
I do cards and stuff. I'm cool, right? :3
"Delusions of Grandeur" is a guild just like every other. But mention ONE Chuck Norris joke and you're out!
Summon : "Join the Guild!"
Attack: "YOU'RE banned!"
Die: "I should've kicked you out when I had the chance..."
Beginning of Turn action: "Welcome Adventurer!"
End of Turn action: "You're OUT!"
Don't trust everything you find in a dungeon.
I'm not so sure you want to be unwrapping this one...
Potential Outcomes
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
Can be upgraded by Potion of Madness , Shadow Madness , Embrace Darkness , Mind Control , Mind Control Tech , Cabal Shadow Priest .
bepisAny dwarf that returns from a raid
throws a feast at the Inn for his mates.
He raises his beer -
"EVERYONE, GET IN HERE!"
After that - somehow - everything breaks.
SoonTM
Outcome:
Kobold Geomancer , Razorpetal
A versatile and powerful card for Rogue that allow them to have more resources, whether it be card draw, health, Spell Damage or token.
Balance: Costing 2 is a deliberate decision to not powercreep Deadly Poison , Razorpetal Lasher , Shiv . and even Leeching Poison as the Lifesteal isn't guaranteed. The stronger effect has the Combo requirement in order to make them balance and equally powerful as the other two.
Click here to visit my Timestream Tracking Finalist Year of the Dragon in collaboration with Demonxz95
Class Creation Finalist: The Astromancer
Best cards vote by community:
Paladin's got absolutely no new Secrets throughout this whole year and we need more Paladin Secrets that are playable standalone (without needing MC). Using this Secret effectively requires careful deckbuilding and you will want to make sure the right minion dies to trigger it, but it can be very powerful if you make it work.
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
Yes that means it only brings out additional copies that are still left in your deck so it's unlikely to pull out any Legendaries and the longer the game goes, the more minions die but also the more minions you draw both copies of.
EDIT: Added watermark
JMAP94. The best way to love the artist is to love the art.