Those of you who have been keeping up with the Discussion Topic for last week will know that we had some issues with the system we use to calculate the finalists. We're going ahead with the competition as normal, and will get the poll for last week up as soon as possible, and run it a little longer than normal to make up for the time change. Our apologies for the wait!
Standardized Parts
This week's Card Design Competition comes from our very own Asylum_Rhapsody! Their Champion of Azeroth was the winner of our "Holding Hands" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Spare Parts are, unfortunately, going to be a thing of the past in the new Standard mode unless new cards get introduced, because all the cards that created Spare Parts are getting cycled out! Your task this week is to remedy that.
Your card must utilise Spare Parts. This can mean one of three things:
Your card produces Spare Parts cards.
Your card produces at least one specifically named Spare Part.
Your card interacts with Spare Parts specifically.
(Note: Clockwork Knight is worded "Battlecry: give a friendly Mech +1/+1." It is not worded "Battlecry: Cast Whirling Blades and Armor Plating on a friendly Mech." Trying to pull off anything like that will be considered a subversion of the rules and will be disqualified.)
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:
There are none, that's kind of the point!
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 1/March/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 1/March/2016, Ends 20:00 UTC 2/March/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 2/March/2016, Ends 21:00 UTC 3/March/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!
Thought I'd make a low cost, high survivability minion that you could more than likely get a few spare parts out of relatively easily. Also has some of that Hobgoblin synergy (in Wild of course). Could also benefit from buffs from the spare parts or self-damaging cards like Wild Pyromancer, Cruel Taskmaster, Whirlwind, etc.
Whirling Blade = +1 Attack. Armor Plating = +1 Durability. Reversing Switch = Swaps Durability and Attack. Time Rewinder = Returns the weapon back to your hand. Rusty Horn = Your hero has taunt until the start of your next turn. Emergency Coolant = Your weapon freezes any character it damages until the start of your next turn. Cloaking Field = Your weapon ignores taunt until the start of your next turn.
I've always thought that Justicar Trueheart was a really cool card that opened up a lot of options for deck archetypes, as well as just having an awesome effect. In my opinion, Gearmaster Mechazod does just that! Fill your hand with Spare Parts and wait for him to Enhance them, then use them on the Gearmaster himself to wreak havoc!
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Week 3.05 Competition Results!
Those of you who have been keeping up with the Discussion Topic for last week will know that we had some issues with the system we use to calculate the finalists. We're going ahead with the competition as normal, and will get the poll for last week up as soon as possible, and run it a little longer than normal to make up for the time change. Our apologies for the wait!
Standardized Parts
This week's Card Design Competition comes from our very own Asylum_Rhapsody! Their Champion of Azeroth was the winner of our "Holding Hands" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Spare Parts are, unfortunately, going to be a thing of the past in the new Standard mode unless new cards get introduced, because all the cards that created Spare Parts are getting cycled out! Your task this week is to remedy that.
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 1/March/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 1/March/2016, Ends 20:00 UTC 2/March/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 2/March/2016, Ends 21:00 UTC 3/March/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!
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Thought I'd make a low cost, high survivability minion that you could more than likely get a few spare parts out of relatively easily. Also has some of that Hobgoblin synergy (in Wild of course). Could also benefit from buffs from the spare parts or self-damaging cards like Wild Pyromancer, Cruel Taskmaster, Whirlwind, etc.
Whirling Blade = +1 Attack.
Armor Plating = +1 Durability.
Reversing Switch = Swaps Durability and Attack.
Time Rewinder = Returns the weapon back to your hand.
Rusty Horn = Your hero has taunt until the start of your next turn.
Emergency Coolant = Your weapon freezes any character it damages until the start of your next turn.
Cloaking Field = Your weapon ignores taunt until the start of your next turn.
Enhancements:
I've always thought that Justicar Trueheart was a really cool card that opened up a lot of options for deck archetypes, as well as just having an awesome effect. In my opinion, Gearmaster Mechazod does just that! Fill your hand with Spare Parts and wait for him to Enhance them, then use them on the Gearmaster himself to wreak havoc!
My submission for this week's competition, Mr. Freeze! It's my first time entering so I hope you guys don't give it the COLD shoulder!
Card Text: Battlecry: Add 2 Emergency Coolants to your hand. Freeze any character damaged by this minion.
Flavour Text: It's time to chill out! Literally.
Entrance Sound: Allow me to break the ice. My name is Freeze. Learn it well. For it's the chilling sound of your doom!
Attacking Sound: Let's kick some ice!
Dying Sound: Uh-oh!
Click here for the link to the photo on Imgur.
Best of luck to all who enter!
Predominantly an Arena player.. But Ranked is fun too... Sometimes.. When Secret Paladins don't ruin your day!
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Everybody loves Spare Parts right? Especially your opponent? He can have them all.
Advantage for the player is it forces a mill, Would be amazing in decks with Coldlight Oracle.
Advantage for the opponent is have lots of little extra tools to play with. Would be crazy with Flamewaker.
Enjoy.
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Now everyone gets to have Mech synergy!
Deny card draw for both players, but activate a Combo card for yourself.
Building Quirky Decks Every Week, Loving Life at Rank 15!
DIY AOE
He's all about versatility.
Upgraded Spare Parts are in the spoiler:
Just looked on the other page and saw this cards been done ....... feeling pretty awkward :/
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