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OLD GODS, NEW TRICKS
A Special Edition Card Design Competition

Well met, HearthPwn! This week, in lieu of our standard Weekly Card Design Competition, we're doing something special to celebrate the launch of the new Whispers of the Old Gods expansion. We've once again partnered with MyMiniFactory.com, the world's largest curated 3D printing platform, to put on a special Old-Gods-themed Card Design Competition: "OLD GODS, NEW TRICKS". The grand prize? As usual for our MMF-sponsored competitions, the winner will receive a Custom 3D-Printed model of their winning card!

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!

For this competition, TWO 3D-Printed cards will be awarded! The first winner will be determined through our usual competition process. The second? Well, you'll just have to check back tomorrow to find out. ^_~

Built by their excellent community members RicSal and 3DNA, These cards are roughly 15 cm in height and 10 cm in length, and once the model is printed, it will then be hand finished with acrylic-based paints and airbrushing to add more detail. What does a 3D-printed Hearthstone card look like? I'm glad you asked! (Click on each image for a larger version!)

Here we have Exorcism, the winner of our Winter Unveiling competition:
From winning card, to 3D render, to finished product!
  
The winning card from our Love is in the Air competition is not yet completed,
or else we would show it off as well, but it is actively being worked on.

Seriously, these guys are unbelievably awesome for doing this for all of us, and you should definitely check out their pages as well as MyMiniFactory.com in general, because they've got a lot of awesome stuff going on.
If you're a 3D designer, want to get into the 3D printing landscape, and you'd like to showcase your own work, upload your 3D models to MyMiniFactory.com.

If you've entered in any of our competitions before, you already know there are rules, so let's get right to them...

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card must be a Whispers of the Old Gods card. In Hearthcards.net, you can mark your card with the Tentacle emblem watermark by looking to the right of the "Card Text" section and clicking on "Swirl, Vanilla Set" to bring up a drop-down menu where you can then click on "Old Gods, New Expansion".
• You must select (at least) one of the following three themed restriction to abide by:
• "Ancient Abominations" - Your card must be a 10-Mana, Neutral, Legendary Minion. We ask voters to favor those entries that fit well alongside existing Old Gods, both thematically as Lovecraftian horrors from beyond and mechanically as having effects one builds their decks around.
• "Crazed Cultists" - Your card must interact with either an existing Old God (referring to it specifically by name) or 10-mana minions in general. This was just going to be "C'Thun Synergy" category, but we decided to broaden it to let you name other Old Gods if you want, as well as make room for cards like Ancient Harbinger.
• "Forgotten Fears" - Your card must be "Forbidden". That is, it must spend all your mana and do something based on the amount spent. Be warned, these are trickier to design than they may first appear...
• Your card may not produce any additional unique token cards, like how Beneath the Grounds produces Ambush! or Ysera produces Dream Cards. Your card must stand on its own, mostly because you're only getting 1 card printed if you win.
• We want your entries to be more "realistic" then we typically demand for our competitions. The following set of rules were created with that aim:
  • Your card may have no more than 4 normal lines of text, the current maximum on actual Hearthstone cards.
  • Your card may not include any invented keywords, especially not to get around the previous rule.
  • Your card may not include mechanics that are vaguely worded, again especially not to get around the previous rules. (An example of a vaguely worded card would be Lord Jaraxxus.)
  • Your card's mechanics may not be worded in blatantly non-standard ways, again especially not to get around the previous rules. (Example: "Battlecry: Choose a character. It takes 1 damage." would not be accepted, because there's plenty of precedent for us to know that should just be worded as "Battlecry: Deal 1 damage.".)
  • Your card must be for an existing class or be Neutral.
  • You may not include certain keywords or mechanics outside of classes in which they currently exist. Specifically, we're looking at Choose One, Combo, Overload, Secret, and Weapons.
  • Remember that your card must be functional. Something with the card text of "Deal 1 damage." that forgets to include that it's a Battlecry will be disqualified, as will something with the card text of "Deathrattle: Discover a minion." that requires impossible interaction during your opponent's turn.
  • Your card's artwork may not be a photograph or an in-game screenshot. We're trying to encourage realistic-looking entries here, and taking the time to find good artwork for your card is to your benefit anyway.
• Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you MUST host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. Save it and upload it to Imgur, 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.
• Please remember that You may not delete ANY posts you make in this Submission Topic, not even accidental ones, 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.

General Competition Rules

These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition. Read them thoroughly, even if you've entered one of our competitions before. (Some of you still make mistakes like deleting posts or hosting your entry images on HearthCards.)

 Competition Process

Most phases of this competition have a longer time frame than usual. There are also a couple of other minor process changes from the usual, so it would be prudent for everybody to review this.

 Rewards

In addition to OMG, a 3D-printed card, there are a couple of things here different from the usual.

Share Your Creation on Twitter!

While not necessary to enter the competition, we invite everyone to share their card designs on Twitter with @HearthPwn and @MyMiniFactory by using the hashtag #OldGods3D. Include all of those in your tweet, upload your card image, and don't be afraid to link to your competition entry here on HearthPwn in your Tweet.

We're looking forward to seeing your card creations on Twitter!

Best of Luck!

Makes it worthwhile to have a Battlecry themed deck build around him. There is nothing too majorly broken about the effect since it requires you to have those cards in your hand AND it applies to your opponent as well. There are many interesting applications and combos possible and the effect is worthy of a god.

He's forgotten both because he's one of the old gods blizzard hasn't mentioned yet in the lore and because he gives you access to cards that would otherwise be out of the game by that point.  Meant for tempo/freeze mages, fatigue warrior, mill decks, randuin priests, or anyone who wanted more ways to play their opponent's cards.  

A very high Tempo card, would be great for getting rid of dead cards in a control deck or just going full YOLO with a hand full of Spells/Coins/Spare Parts for a potentially sneaky lethal/board clear :P

 Edit: Fixed Emblem.