Let's start off by congratulating the top-voted finalists of our "Love is in the Air" competition. Fantastic work! We'll be reaching out to our winner to help us determine what's in store for you all in the competition after next.
This week's Card Design Competition comes from, well, me! My Guardian of the Grove was the winner of our "Stay Classy, Hearthpwn" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Magicians, Mages and Witches are well known for the familiars they possess, from traditional Owls and Cats to Lions, Tigers or Bears (oh my!). Since Hearthstone only has Mages, we'd better give them a pet!
Your card must be a Mage card.
Your card must either be a Beast, summon a Beast, transform a card into a Beast, or have the word 'Beast' in its card text.
EDIT: If your card is labelled a Beast but depicts something that is clearly not a Beast - for example a Dragon, Phoenix or Worgen - it will be considered to be subverting the rules.
This competition has a unique token card limit of 1.
As always, you may not delete any posts you make in this Submission Topic. Message one of the Fan Creation moderators if you've posted here in error or otherwise would like your post removed.
Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you must host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards, such asImgur or Photobucket.
Existing Examples:
The following are great existing examples of the sorts of cards we're looking for: Polymorph, Polymorph: Boar.
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. (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 toImgur, 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
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts Now! Ends 20:00 UTC 23/February/2016) 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! Voting Phase (Starts 20:00 UTC 23/February/2016, Ends 20:00 UTC 24/February/2016) 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 24/February/2016, Ends 21:00 UTC 25/February/2016) 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! They will be allowed to select the next card design competition theme. And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
Hey everyone! I'm a little sick of aggressive mages or mages that spam spells, I'd like more control sort of decks and decks with a cool flavor so I made this...
this can be any secret in the game from any class. A little RNG for both players ;)
Hello Everyone! Penguins were one of the animals options for the Polymorph spell in World of Warcraft (sheep being the default). Some of the other options are mentioned here. This spell basically turns a minion into the Beast version of the Snowchugger.
The Beastly Spells are: Polymorph, Polymorph: Boar, Snake Trap, Bear Trap, Animal Companion, Unleash The Hounds, Kill Command, Ball of Spiders, Power of the Wild.
This card seems kind of weak on its own, but given that Mage runs no Beasts as of now, its real use would be in decks that tech in a few select Beasts. Perhaps you'll run Maexxna now? Or a Stranglethorn Tiger or two for some beefy Stealth minions with Spell Damage? Gives some more variety to Mage decks, I think, which is what I wanted with this week's restriction.
Another staple for tempo mage to go with the existing trinity of Mana Wyrm, Flamewaker, and Sorcerer's Apprentice. He's a poor man's Malygos. Cheap spells get dangerous fast if you play them in succession right after this guy. Rhonin and Arcane Blast are his best friends. The turn after Rhonin dies, 6 mana gives you 12 missles lobbed, and an 8 damage blast, and a 2/3 that is up to +4 spellpower.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Love is in the Air Competition Results!
Let's start off by congratulating the top-voted finalists of our "Love is in the Air" competition. Fantastic work! We'll be reaching out to our winner to help us determine what's in store for you all in the competition after next.
by Hejiahua2nd Place
by mtmckinley 3rd Place
by timmult
Familiar Faces
This week's Card Design Competition comes from, well, me! My Guardian of the Grove was the winner of our "Stay Classy, Hearthpwn" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Magicians, Mages and Witches are well known for the familiars they possess, from traditional Owls and Cats to Lions, Tigers or Bears (oh my!). Since Hearthstone only has Mages, we'd better give them a pet!
Existing Examples:
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
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts Now! Ends 20:00 UTC 23/February/2016)
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!
Voting Phase (Starts 20:00 UTC 23/February/2016, Ends 20:00 UTC 24/February/2016)
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 24/February/2016, Ends 21:00 UTC 25/February/2016)
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!
They will be allowed to select the next card design competition theme.
And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
Good Luck!
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
Hey everyone! I'm a little sick of aggressive mages or mages that spam spells, I'd like more control sort of decks and decks with a cool flavor so I made this...
this can be any secret in the game from any class. A little RNG for both players ;)
Edited because I worded it incorrectly.
Hello Everyone! Penguins were one of the animals options for the Polymorph spell in World of Warcraft (sheep being the default). Some of the other options are mentioned here. This spell basically turns a minion into the Beast version of the Snowchugger.
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Edit: add beast tag
Now, you can actually play Polymorph: Boar and not suck! You can even stick a Polymorph in the deck as well.
Check here for my new cards!Pokemon HS class!All the Pokemon as HS cards!
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A cross between a lion and a tiger. Bred for its skills in magic.
The Beastly Spells are: Polymorph, Polymorph: Boar, Snake Trap, Bear Trap, Animal Companion, Unleash The Hounds, Kill Command, Ball of Spiders, Power of the Wild.
Currently working on the Tinker! K&C and WW / JUG and KotFT / Classic / Basic / Introduction
My Previous Classes: Apothecary (unfinished) / Chronomancer / Death Knight (old)
My Previous Expansions: Hallow's End
Obvious submission, but still hopefully good :)
Check out my entrant for the WCDC 9.12: Bilgewater Highroller
A fun card for Mage! Summoning Stone wasnt a total hit but this has lower mana cost and enables more combos.
http://imgur.com/7mlxB4R
"Glad to have you back, old friend! "
This card seems kind of weak on its own, but given that Mage runs no Beasts as of now, its real use would be in decks that tech in a few select Beasts. Perhaps you'll run Maexxna now? Or a Stranglethorn Tiger or two for some beefy Stealth minions with Spell Damage? Gives some more variety to Mage decks, I think, which is what I wanted with this week's restriction.
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
Another staple for tempo mage to go with the existing trinity of Mana Wyrm, Flamewaker, and Sorcerer's Apprentice. He's a poor man's Malygos. Cheap spells get dangerous fast if you play them in succession right after this guy. Rhonin and Arcane Blast are his best friends. The turn after Rhonin dies, 6 mana gives you 12 missles lobbed, and an 8 damage blast, and a 2/3 that is up to +4 spellpower.
He repeats everything you say in a squeaky parrot voice.
Examples:
"Hello" "Hello"
"My magic will tear you apart" "My magic will tear you apart"
"You face Jaraxxus. Eredar Lord of the Burning Legion." "You face Jaraxxus. Eredar Lord of the Burning Legion."