The third mini-WCDC's theme comes from our fabulous mediocre Fan Creations mod Phoenix!
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
The name of your card must relate to your Hearthpwn user name in some way.
For example: Linkblade91 can make something titled "Linkblade91", "Linkblade", "Link", or "Blade"
Sorry to everyone who has a string of random letters as their Hearthpwn username.
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 forsubmissions 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. (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
NOTE: Mini-Competitions have very different time-tables than our normal competitions, so please pay attention so that you're not caught off-guard!
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 15/11/17) It is during this Phase that you may submit entries to the Submission Topic. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like! Note that this is only 24 hours! Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 15/11/17, Ends 22:00 UTC 15/11/17) 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! Note that this phase only lasts for 1 Hour. Final Phase (Starts 22:00 UTC 15/11/17. Ends 21:00 UTC 16/11/17) 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 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. Out of curiosity, if you actually read this, feel free to say a "idliketoredeemafreecookie" in the chat. (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
Note that Mini-Competition winners, unfortunately, do not get to select any future competition theme.
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!
To be clear, it can target minion from both sides of the board and return spells cast by both players to your hand, including debuffing/damaging ones (except Salty Cheese itself as specified by the "other").
When the town Oolacile became threatened by the dark corruption of the Abyss created by Manus, the brave knight Artorias and his wolf companion, Sif, arrived there in an attempt to save Oolacile and rescue the abducted Princess Dusk. However, the two were overwhelmed by Manus dark power, and Artorias sacrificed himself breaking his left arm to protect Sif using his shield, erecting a barrier around the young wolf. Swallowed by the Dark, he became corrupted, he became Artorias of The Abyss .
Thousands years later the Great Grey Wolf Sif, after Artorias passed away, became the guardian of Artorias' grave in the middle of a dark forest that grown over Oolacile's ruins. Sif wields Artorias' Greatsword and uses some of his fast moves in combat defending the place of rest of his dead friend.
Artorias is a character from Dark Souls 1 DLC, Artorias of The Abyss (included in the PC version Prepare to Die).
The
Mask
is the most-straightforward, giving him 1 Attack and
Windfury
.
Bypass road-blocks, fight for board control, or go straight for the kill; it's important to equip the right item for the situation at hand, to maximize Link's effectiveness.
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: Nomenclature
The third mini-WCDC's theme comes from our
fabulousmediocre Fan Creations mod Phoenix!Competition-Specific Restrictions:
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
NOTE: Mini-Competitions have very different time-tables than our normal competitions, so please pay attention so that you're not caught off-guard!
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 15/11/17)
It is during this Phase that you may submit entries to the Submission Topic. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like! Note that this is only 24 hours!
Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 15/11/17, Ends 22:00 UTC 15/11/17)
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! Note that this phase only lasts for 1 Hour.
Final Phase (Starts 22:00 UTC 15/11/17. Ends 21:00 UTC 16/11/17)
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 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. Out of curiosity, if you actually read this, feel free to say a "idliketoredeemafreecookie" in the chat.
(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
Note that Mini-Competition winners, unfortunately, do not get to select any future competition theme.
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!
Good Luck!
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Oh boy this will be fun.
To be clear, it can target minion from both sides of the board and return spells cast by both players to your hand, including debuffing/damaging ones (except Salty Cheese itself as specified by the "other").
Custom cards :
CLASSES : Alchemist (CCC#5 | Phase V) | Chef (CCC#4)
EXPANSIONS : Year of the Scorpion (Year Comp)
Yes. This would make all future Silver Hand Recruits Poisonous. No. I'm not crazy.
Tox=Toxic Guy=Paladin "Guy" synergy.
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
I hope this is close enough :P
"Science isn't about why! Its about why not!"
"Our vents are so good they're capable of multiexpansional time traveling!"
Mod Working Reaaaaally Hardly
Lore inside:
When the town Oolacile became threatened by the dark corruption of the Abyss created by Manus, the brave knight Artorias and his wolf companion, Sif, arrived there in an attempt to save Oolacile and rescue the abducted Princess Dusk. However, the two were overwhelmed by Manus dark power, and Artorias sacrificed himself breaking his left arm to protect Sif using his shield, erecting a barrier around the young wolf. Swallowed by the Dark, he became corrupted, he became Artorias of The Abyss .
Thousands years later the Great Grey Wolf Sif, after Artorias passed away, became the guardian of Artorias' grave in the middle of a dark forest that grown over Oolacile's ruins. Sif wields Artorias' Greatsword and uses some of his fast moves in combat defending the place of rest of his dead friend.
Artorias is a character from Dark Souls 1 DLC, Artorias of The Abyss (included in the PC version Prepare to Die).
"GOLDEN HAND! -The Innkeeper"
Doubles as a surprisingly effective tickling device.
Well. Hope y'all enjoyed this mini-WCDC! Iron Hide for comparison.
-Nix
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Because Discovering new things is just half the fun.
You could say tidewalking is a more specific form of waterwalking.
The Lich King maintains an ice sculpture company in his free time!
Who am I?
None of your business!
Link, Hero of Hyrule 's Battlecry is basically a super-Adapt, with options specific to him (in the spoiler).
Bypass road-blocks, fight for board control, or go straight for the kill; it's important to equip the right item for the situation at hand, to maximize Link's effectiveness.
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
"Not so pale as the original one."
"Right head likes hats, but can't find any that fit."
Fireball , Flamestrike , Dragon's Breath , that kinda stuff.
In hindsight I should have made Mario be completely drunk, that kind of toasted.
I blame Phoenix on the name, Paint on the artwork and K&C on the card text.