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This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card must have a significant detriment/drawback that compensates for its good stats or strong effect.
• The "detriment" cannot just be poor stats or a high mana cost.

We have whittled down ~ 80 valid submissions to just 8 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  revalista
by  AngryChicken
by  THRONEofBONE
by  CheeseEtc

by  alexbroxman
by  Soulbattle
by  Electronite
by  KingSevault

Congrats to all finalists! Pretty small pool this time; I guess most people had as much trouble coming up with a drawback as I did

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Congrats to all finalists! Pretty small pool this time; I guess most people had as much trouble coming up with a drawback as I did

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Wow. No one from page 2 got in.

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Wow. No one from page 2 got in.

Fun Fact: the art for Broken Bow depicts Nephi, from the Book of Mormon

Definitely suicide squad. It’s just so fun, and the name link makes it hilarious. Could also see it working (in wild) with Violet Illusionist 

My only issue with Suicide Squad is that Wrathguard is a TGT card, and this one is supposedly from the Witchwood. Having a Wild card in standard seems really weird.

Yes, I know, Toki, Time-Tinker adds cards from "the past" to your hand, but it's a legendary. It's a unique effect. Then only other case of a regular card referencing a Wild card was Ball of Spiders, but that was before set rotations were announced.

Does Suicide Squad even follow the rules? It doesn’t actually do anything bad when you play it, and it synergizes decently with Skull of the Man’ari if you run out of demons in your hand.

CG to the finalists, these r actually pretty decent. Im glad none of the overstated minions for 1-3 mana made it and the one 3-cost that did is actually pretty good, so ... me likey :)

I voted for: Broken Bow, Threatening roar.

Here's reviews for ones I didn't choose:

Annihilate: Don't see how this is playable except in rare circumstances

Suicide Squad: This card has no penalty. It gives you cards that you can choose to play that have penalties.

Chew: This card also has no penalty. Sometimes it doesn't work. That's not a penalty IMO. 

Climb on Back: I really like the theme, but in Hunter this seems too good (imagining a turn 1 4/5 mole with coin).

Renegade Medic: Perhaps useful in control, but I think there's better uses for the 3-slot on most control decks.

Crash Lighting: This was borderline for me, but I think it's a little too powerful with totems. Maybe if it also overloaded 1.