Weekly Card Design Competition #23 - FINAL POLL
Poll: Weekly Design Competition #23 - "Places, everyone!"
Ended Jul 9, 2015
Ended Jul 9, 2015
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This Week's Finalists
Entry Restrictions:
Your card's effect must depend on or interact with minion board position.
Existing Examples: Wee Spellstopper, Ancient Mage, Betrayal, Foe Reaper 4000, Void Terror, Eruption
We have whittled down ~180 entries to just 21 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!
(Be sure to consider design, art and balance of the card when voting!)
Notes: Cards with a black border have additional art / comments in the Spoiler Tags below!
by mengdez
by Sinthuja
by Elyxie
by Vekka_hs
by aiDen
by Zadikiel
by BeastlyDecks
by BerserkMidget08
by HalfHalf
by YoThats
by Disturbed_God
by Quippish
by AleMental
by Elwiz
by Biscutbeck
by Ridelith
by randomaniac95
by Neopolitan
by TSMS
by Teurteul (Wild Card)
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UPDATE: Folks really need to learn their lesson about Hearthcards. Looks like another card bites the dust. Please ignore "Tavern Brawl" in the poll options. I'd just delete it, but I can't delete a poll option without resetting the whole poll. =P
Narrowing my picks down to three, gonna go with Lady Vashj, Recomblaster, and Strength of Earth Totem. All three seem like fair cards that could easily be real additions to the game. Silver Hand War Horse narrowly missed my vote, but I just have too many nitpicks about it; don't like the wordy name, don't like the card art, don't like that the A of adjacent is capitalized, etc. The rest are wonky.
Aah, good old custom cards that look like they could be in the actual game (Example: Chain Lightning)
Looks like (at the moment) The Nexus Stalker will take the cake.
Give a man a Murloc, and he'll eat for a day.
Give him a Murloc Knight, and people will hate him.
Also, a nice chunk of cards that aren't epic or rare this time. I'd be happy to see a common make the top 3.
Give a man a Murloc, and he'll eat for a day.
Give him a Murloc Knight, and people will hate him.
Something I think I should bring up: Tavern Brawl doesn't technically work as a card. What appears clockwise to you is going to appear counter-clockwise to your opponent. It was a cool idea, but it would need a change in wording to be understandably functional.
Being a Paladin player myself, I really like Silver Hand War Horse. It's one of those cards which really rewards you for playing your Hero ability, or Muster for Battle, much in the same vein as Quartermaster. By itself, a 2 mana 2/1 is absolute garbage, but a 2 mana 3/2 with charge is pretty good. And that's just it - it's an honest card design that turns a card into really good without making it OP
JH
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I really like Nexus Stalker, but Kilrogg Deadeye takes the cake for me for lore reasons alone. I mean, that is such a creative use of the mechanic.
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Same for me. A tad sad this card beat out mine, but I cant help but be impressed with it from a lore perspective. Also I'm kinda a sucker for orcs lol.
Aggra seems interesting too, aswell as Anzu (and I don't even play druid).
Good luck to all!
What's the lore behind him??
Well, he's called "Deadeye" because his left eye is gone. He therefore has trouble seeing to his left.
It's my first time voting in one of these, and I have to say, there are a lot of good picks! I just decided to whittle my picks down to an arbitrary three. Because I'm a sucker for techie stuff, I had to go with Smoke Bomb and Emerald Steed. The former, as the creator pointed out, could be used to bypass taunt. The latter, meanwhile, dodges BGH, while providing a nice health buff, and I love cards that have that kind of good, kind of bad feeling. Lastly, I went with Cleric Tovelo, because seeing a small card with a small body, but a potentially big effect, especially on a legendary, is something I'd like to see more of. Overall, though, this was a great week, and best of luck to everyone in it!
Voted for Tavern Brawl only, even though it has technical problems, even though it isn't included in the poll. It's the best idea I saw this week.
THERE IS NO GAME.
*Switches to lore nerd.mode*
Kilrogg Deadeye is the chieftain of the Bleeding Hollow Clan. The name of the clan is based of the rite of passage each orc takes before becoming chieftain, by going into the sacred hollows and performing a ritual, which involves cutting out and sacrificing an eye, to witness a vision of they're own demise. Deadeye, as suggested, is a reference to the fact he only has one eye
He fought in the 1st and 2nd war, and was considered one the most tenacious chieftains, going as far as killing his own grandsons and all but one of his sons, because they all thought they could rule better then him. He met his downfall In the Shadow Labyrinth in Outland, to Danath Trollbane, who took advantage of his half blindness and split his throat open.
Thats a shortened version of Kilrogg in the main timeline. Trying not to gove the full lore of him or WoD lore of him, unless ya want. I really like Kilrogg and his clan, one of my top favorite orc clans
@BerserkMidget08
I can see where's it's not as flashy as other entries. But it's balanced correctly. Unlike many other Legendaries in the contest this could be added to constructed today. If it was Epic it would be OP.
Concerning Legendary status I feel it's on par with Thalnos. The "FULL HEALTH" can turn a game through multiple means not possible with other life givers. It is balanced to provide this minion earlier than most legendaries because it needs to combo with other Priest plays like Injured Blademaster, Northshire, Shadowboxer, Lightspawn or even Auchenai+Nerubian or Dragon Omelettes (delicious).
Thank you so much for the feedback. I appreciate it. I know for next time to start earlier and get into the discussion thread to help refine my designs.
Cheers,
Quipp
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Oooh, seems after several hits and misses my entry finally took the cake! :D Thank a lot everyone who voted! And thanks for your review BerserkMidget!! :D Waiting for the review is actually more exciting than getting in to the finals in my opinion. Was afraid this week's contest would have hard time to get creative enough entries but luckily I was wrong. Good job everyone! :)
May your nets always be full! 🎣