Let's start off by congratulating the top-voted finalists of our "Recursion Is..." 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 HS_XxShrekxX, whose Eredar's Hope, Jaraxxus was the winner of our "Pawn Shop" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card must give a keyword and/or a beneficial enchantment (often colloquially termed a "buff") to a minion in play. This may be permanent like Mark of the Wild, temporary like Abusive Sergeant, or even an "aura" effect like Wee Spellstopper. If the "buff" also comes with a downside, like Power Overwhelming, then it may only be applied to friendly minions.
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:
Defender of Argus, Master Swordsmith, as well as the top examples are all examples of things we're looking for. I'm not going to list them all out, that'd take forever.
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 17/May/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 17/May/2016, Ends 20:00 UTC 18/May/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 18/May/2016, Ends 21:00 UTC 19/May/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!
A smaller Velen's Chosen that doesn't give as much health at first, but gives more over time if you can keep it alive. Great for a minor buff, especially on a hard to kill minion. Also, it makes 'on heal' cards like Northshire Cleric, Holy Champion, Shadowboxer, or Hooded Acolyte activate like crazy.
Have you ever wanted to run Cursed Blade or Tentacles for Arms in your deck, but realize that other weapons are clearly better? Well now you can. For example: If you have a Cursed Blade that haven't been used yet and a Frothing Berserker on the field you can play this card and gives the Frothing Berserker +2/+3.
Versatile warrior weapon that can be used to fend off aggro by giving your minions taunt, to bypass an enemy taunt minion by giving their priority target taunt and therefore making it attackable or for Bolster synergy.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Week 3.15 Competition Results!
Let's start off by congratulating the top-voted finalists of our "Recursion Is..." 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 Bibikis
2nd Place
by Rshig
by Prawnnoodles
by Sneaky_Raptor
by thepowrofcheese
Pump You Up
This week's Card Design Competition comes from HS_XxShrekxX, whose Eredar's Hope, Jaraxxus was the winner of our "Pawn Shop" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
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 17/May/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 17/May/2016, Ends 20:00 UTC 18/May/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 18/May/2016, Ends 21:00 UTC 19/May/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!
This works similar to Bouncing Blade but only targets your minions and stops when one of them has gained +3 Health.
Flavor: Ok, the Northshire Clerics are cut off!
The perfect combo card for Priests - use it with Shadow Word: Death or Big Game Hunter to remove those pesky 4 Attack minions that you usually can't do anything about. I'm looking at you Malygos, Ysera, Twin Emperor Vek'lor, Ancient Harbinger, Gadgetzan Auctioneer, etc.
Flavour text: If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
A simple but effective combo piece, it works with Combos, Damaging Spells, and Gadgetzan Auctioneer.
Explosive Shot => Meteor
Power Word: Tentacles => Spikeridged Steed
This card is based on the "Council of Elders" raid in Throne of Thunder. Gara'jal will periodically buff one of the council members.
Just because of the way a Stealth Taunt minion looks I thought of this card.
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
A simple cycle and situational buff. If you have at least two silver hand recruits on board, this can be seriously powerful.
Check out my Custom Undead Expansion!
...Or my Custom Elemental Expansion!
A smaller Velen's Chosen that doesn't give as much health at first, but gives more over time if you can keep it alive. Great for a minor buff, especially on a hard to kill minion. Also, it makes 'on heal' cards like Northshire Cleric, Holy Champion, Shadowboxer, or Hooded Acolyte activate like crazy.
Have you ever wanted to run Cursed Blade or Tentacles for Arms in your deck, but realize that other weapons are clearly better? Well now you can. For example: If you have a Cursed Blade that haven't been used yet and a Frothing Berserker on the field you can play this card and gives the Frothing Berserker +2/+3.
EDIT: Name changed so it's actually Warrior related.
This card is dangerous, because if your opponent can kill it, it could horribly wrong and give them lethal.
On the other hand... it can win games by triggering when you have a big board.
Versatile warrior weapon that can be used to fend off aggro by giving your minions taunt, to bypass an enemy taunt minion by giving their priority target taunt and therefore making it attackable or for Bolster synergy.
Buff becomes good at +2/+4 or more. Combos well with Auchenai Soulpriest/Circle of Healing, aswell as other board clears like Holy Nova, Excavated Evil etc.
"Elephants guide me." -Thrall
Originally posted on HearthCards: http://www.hearthcards.net/cards/9aba15c2.png
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