Let's start off by congratulating the top-voted finalists of our "Gambling with Life" competition. Fantastic work! And we'll be reaching out to our winner to help us determine what's in store for you all next week.
This week's Card Design Competition comes from Sneaky_Raptor, whose Fish Bait was the winner of our "All Things Mrrggl" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card must produce an existing card or Hero Power and reference it by name.
That card or Hero Power must be one that, thus far, has only appeared as part of an Adventure, Tutorial or Brawl and is neither itself collectible nor produced by any collectible card.
As part of your submission, you should link to the card you mention, so that others can easily judge your card. This can be done by typing out the card name, or it's Hearthpwn database number (which can be seen in the URL of its card page), highlighting that, and pressing the 'Card' button at the top of the text box, 3 spaces to the right of the one for inputting images.
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 currently no collectible cards with this mechanic (as is part of the rules), so go wild, I guess!
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 19/April/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 19/April/2016, Ends 20:00 UTC 20/April/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 20/April/2016, Ends 21:00 UTC 21/April/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!
I like how the image has the tentacles that go with the Old Gods theme. Could make for some interesting interactions with opponents being incentivized not to play certain cards.
Flavor: Summon: "X never marks the spot!" Attack: "Choose wisely." Death: "I chose... poorly..."
Murozond limits your opponent to one card per turn, while allowing you to play two, acting as a win condition for a control deck. Silencing this is an interesting idea, restarting the game.
Punishes the opponent for making greedy trades, although being already damaged makes the afflicted minion less valuable and easier for the opponent to remove.
while looking for a new card idea I saw power of the firelord and realized I could make an amazing shaman hero power :P while showing what a 10 drop should do in my opinion.
Because drawing cards is boring. So here you have an option to annoy the hell out of any control deck, and we're kind of missing some warlock destruction tools, aside from the random aoe here or there.
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Week 3.12 Competition Results!
Let's start off by congratulating the top-voted finalists of our "Gambling with Life" competition. Fantastic work! And we'll be reaching out to our winner to help us determine what's in store for you all next week.
by Goodman503
2nd Place
by HalfHalf3rd Place
by KittyB52
Like a Boss
This week's Card Design Competition comes from Sneaky_Raptor, whose Fish Bait was the winner of our "All Things Mrrggl" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card must produce an existing card or Hero Power and reference it by name.
That card or Hero Power must be one that, thus far, has only appeared as part of an Adventure, Tutorial or Brawl and is neither itself collectible nor produced by any collectible card.
As part of your submission, you should link to the card you mention, so that others can easily judge your card. This can be done by typing out the card name, or it's Hearthpwn database number (which can be seen in the URL of its card page), highlighting that, and pressing the 'Card' button at the top of the text box, 3 spaces to the right of the one for inputting images.
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 19/April/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 19/April/2016, Ends 20:00 UTC 20/April/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 20/April/2016, Ends 21:00 UTC 21/April/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!
I immediately thought of this:
Rare Spear
I like how the image has the tentacles that go with the Old Gods theme. Could make for some interesting interactions with opponents being incentivized not to play certain cards.
Flavor:
Summon: "X never marks the spot!"
Attack: "Choose wisely."
Death: "I chose... poorly..."
Spectral Warrior
Brood Affliction: Red, Brood Affliction: Green, Brood Affliction: Blue, Brood Affliction: Black, Brood Affliction: Bronze.
Deathcharger
She was extremely disappointed and found the ultimate way to seek vengeance.
For Lordaeron!
'Cause Deathwing is awesome and because Druid needs better removal.
Intense Gaze
Murozond limits your opponent to one card per turn, while allowing you to play two, acting as a win condition for a control deck. Silencing this is an interesting idea, restarting the game.
Lorewalker Cho Transcendence
Check here for my new cards!Pokemon HS class!All the Pokemon as HS cards!
Living Bomb
Punishes the opponent for making greedy trades, although being already damaged makes the afflicted minion less valuable and easier for the opponent to remove.
"Elephants guide me." -Thrall
"Now Rexxar can NEVER say that he hunts alone"
Wish for Companionship
Tries to put Swamp King Dred in every Hunter deck
Favorite Deck: Spell Damage Druid (Old days)
Favorite card: Ancient of Lore
Least favorite card: Ice Block
Locust Swarm
Went with Anubiros (one of the names of Crypt Lords from Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne) to avoid using Anub'arak (or Anub'rekhan).
You can't stop the signal.
Rolling Boulder
Mr. Bigglesworth
my initial card ideas weren't valid so this is a swap! for the five people who liked it sorry.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/14484-power-of-the-firelord
http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/14485-moira-bronzebeard
while looking for a new card idea I saw power of the firelord and realized I could make an amazing shaman hero power :P while showing what a 10 drop should do in my opinion.
Guardian of Icecrown
A wise man once said "don't be salty, be cool" "My Weekly Card Design Competition entry below"
When the shadow priests realized that mind control was fake, they had no other choice but to ask Kel'Thuzad to teach them the art of slavery.
Intense Gaze
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/527065-aggro-beast-druid
Here is my submission. I decided to incorporate one of the LoE adventure cards i enjoyed that also made it into a recent brawl.
Lady Naz'jar
On to the change your hero power train, featuring warlocks.
Rain of Fire
Because drawing cards is boring. So here you have an option to annoy the hell out of any control deck, and we're kind of missing some warlock destruction tools, aside from the random aoe here or there.