Let's start off by congratulating the top-voted finalists of our "Face is the Place" 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 Zukuu, whose Travelling Merchant was the winner of our "Mano a Mana" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card must bear the name of (and be inspired by) a game element from Warcraft III, whether it be a unit, a hero, a building, an item, a spell, or an ability. Not familiar with Warcraft III? That's fine! We have a handy database here where you can find plenty of stuff to inspire you. Each Warcraft III race has its own heroes and units (and there are also neutral ones), and each of those has its own spells and abilities. The races also have their own buildings, as well as their own items.
Your card may not have more than three (3) normal lines of card text. If your card produces additional unique tokens, their lines of card text do also count against this limit. If your card produces additional existing cards or tokens, however, the lines of card text on those can be ignored.
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.
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 7/June/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 7/June/2016, Ends 20:00 UTC 8/June/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 8/June/2016, Ends 21:00 UTC 9/June/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!
Had to make my favorite unit from WC3, the Troll Batrider. Added a token type with one of the Troll Batrider abilities in mind. Simple but very effective for the Warrior class in general.
I didn't notice Terminex's submission. I am extremely sorry to him, and I can make a new card if allowed, or it would be great if I was able to keep this card, because I think they are two pretty different cards even if they are inspired by the same thing!
Legend says that he's as destructive as he is productive.
A card meant to mill your opponent, but a mirror effect to make sure he can be used as a helping tool aswell (and so he isn't op as all heck, since only giving the enemy the spare parts would be unfair).
i want to do that as 0-cost spell, but i was too broken, so as a secret, i think is more balanced, and this a mage card because this a spell from a bloodmage unit.
Edit: I made the correction to look functional, not a secret anymore.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Week 3.18 Competition Results!
Let's start off by congratulating the top-voted finalists of our "Face is the Place" 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 RandomScribbles
2nd Place
by Hoax91 3rd Place
by Shadicar
Blast From The Past
This week's Card Design Competition comes from Zukuu, whose Travelling Merchant was the winner of our "Mano a Mana" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card may not have more than three (3) normal lines of card text. If your card produces additional unique tokens, their lines of card text do also count against this limit. If your card produces additional existing cards or tokens, however, the lines of card text on those can be ignored.
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.
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 7/June/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 7/June/2016, Ends 20:00 UTC 8/June/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 8/June/2016, Ends 21:00 UTC 9/June/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!
"Elephants guide me." -Thrall
Click here to check out my custom Warlords of Draenor Expansion Concept
Had to make my favorite unit from WC3, the Troll Batrider. Added a token type with one of the Troll Batrider abilities in mind. Simple but very effective for the Warrior class in general.
And as always, good luck everyone.
edit: For the mods to check that the number of lines match the rules - Here is a link for the first test I made to make sure it did.
Check out my submission for this weeks card design competition; or my other fan creations! Nullius in verba
This spell is based on the Warcraft III Wisp unit ability, Detonate.
Legend says that he's as destructive as he is productive.
A card meant to mill your opponent, but a mirror effect to make sure he can be used as a helping tool aswell (and so he isn't op as all heck, since only giving the enemy the spare parts would be unfair).
Check here for my new cards!Pokemon HS class!All the Pokemon as HS cards!
*EDIT: CHANGED WORDING TO FIT 3 LINES
What if one day you woke up and Big Game Hunter and Hemet Nesingwary switched card texts...
Just an attempt at making discard viable. Just like when we could transform a useless unit ,into a useful back then.
Edit: Forgot to make te card from warlock at first.
REMOVED
(Reminder: Deleting Submission Topic posts is against the rules.)
What if one day you woke up and Big Game Hunter and Hemet Nesingwary switched card texts...
"She can be my wingman any time."- Cenarius
i want to do that as 0-cost spell, but i was too broken, so as a secret, i think is more balanced,and this a mage card because this a spell from a bloodmage unit.Edit: I made the correction to look functional, not a secret anymore.
A wise man once said "don't be salty, be cool" "My Weekly Card Design Competition entry below"
not sure if hero power alternation counts toward the 3 lines or not. i'd like to see a control hunter someday.
Based on this ability. Total of three lines of text.
Mini-competition #1 - Buff your demons or have Yogg-Saron eat your face.