Welcome to our Season Finale Mini-Competitions! These Mini-Competition serve three purposes. First, they provide us with some fun stuff to do during the Finale's week-long Championship Poll. Second, they're a way for us to reward competitions winners who've won multiple competitions, since we can only give them an avatar border once. And Finally, they provide us unique opportunities to have competitions for design concepts that would normally be too narrow for full week-long competitions.
Our third and final mini-competition theme comes to us (sort of, long story) from pui980178, who took a second victory during Season 3 with their Trapper's Rifle.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Following in the footsteps of cards like Lorewalker Cho and Shifter Zerus, your card should be a neutral, Legendary minion, it should cost no more than (3), and it should be a "fun" card. What is a "fun" card? That's a great question. The nebulousness of the concept is why it'd be far too difficult for us to judge to do a full competition based on it. It's not like existing "fun" cards don't often have some actual utility, after all (Cho technically being useful as an anti-spell measure, for example). However, we should maybe generally agree that a "fun" card is probably deliberately a bit under-powered because fun is its primary purpose. We expect and hope that the Discussion Topic plays a big role here, and we also invite you to join us in our new Curse community!
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
NOTE: Mini-Competitions have very different time-tables than our normal competitions, so please pay attention so that you're not caught off-guard!
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts Now! Ends 17:00 UTC Wednesday, 22/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! Note that this is only 22 hours! Voting Phase (Starts 17:00 UTC Wednesday, 22/June/2016, Ends 19:00 UTC Wednesday, 22/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! Note that this is only 2 hours! Final Phase (Starts 19:00 UTC Wednesday, 22/June/2016, Ends 19:00 UTC Thursday, 23/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 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
Note that Mini-Competition winners, unfortunately, do not get to select any future competition theme.
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! And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
Flavor tag: First Discovered in the great Orgrimmar infestation of 98, Where it took many months and much needed anti bacterial spray to finally solve the problem.
This works exactly like Golden Monkey except it can give you ANY random cards (except ones outside of the format you're playing). If its collectible, i can give it to you no matter what class it is, what rarity, etc. ANYTHING, it could even (although astronomically unlikely) give you 27 copies of the same card. Intentionally made a 1-cost card so you can play it on turn 1 and everything else is random.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
For players who need just a little more time to think. Or if you want to annoy your opponent for an extra 5 seconds every turn. You could even play it after Nozdormu and have 33% longer turns than your opponent!
Now you can have 4 copies of Angry Chicken! Anyways this card does have some tactical use as it copies your opponent minions too. Now it's not that difficult to remove but it's like a multiple use Mirror Entity, of course it's meant to be fun and man I would love this card in the game. Hope you shape it. (The bad puns are real) If you haven't figured out yet, like Shifter Zerus he keeps the ability through transformations.
Ha, slot machines are for suckers - Wait, ALL of your cards cost a multiple of three??
Goblin Gambler that gives you an ape named "Bananas" in WoW. When it plays there is obviously a slot machine/lottery animation flashing 3 Bananas in a row when you win.
Flavour Text: The tavern enjoys seeing big legendaries, so the Innkeeper figured he'd pass some around. Of course, he might just be trying to get you to buy more packs...
I think 1-3 is the best range for this card. There are a large number of useless spells, many neutral spells, and a select few super OP cards. That should be a good enough range to not be a "good" card, but definitely be fun.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Fun and Games
Welcome to our Season Finale Mini-Competitions! These Mini-Competition serve three purposes. First, they provide us with some fun stuff to do during the Finale's week-long Championship Poll. Second, they're a way for us to reward competitions winners who've won multiple competitions, since we can only give them an avatar border once. And Finally, they provide us unique opportunities to have competitions for design concepts that would normally be too narrow for full week-long competitions.
Our third and final mini-competition theme comes to us (sort of, long story) from pui980178, who took a second victory during Season 3 with their Trapper's Rifle.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you must host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards, such as Imgur or Photobucket.
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
NOTE: Mini-Competitions have very different time-tables than our normal competitions,
so please pay attention so that you're not caught off-guard!
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts Now! Ends 17:00 UTC Wednesday, 22/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! Note that this is only 22 hours!
Voting Phase (Starts 17:00 UTC Wednesday, 22/June/2016, Ends 19:00 UTC Wednesday, 22/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! Note that this is only 2 hours!
Final Phase (Starts 19:00 UTC Wednesday, 22/June/2016, Ends 19:00 UTC Thursday, 23/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 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
Note that Mini-Competition winners, unfortunately, do not get to select any future competition theme.
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!
And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
Good Luck!
A wise man once said "don't be salty, be cool" "My Weekly Card Design Competition entry below"
Just to clarify, this works in the same way as blingtron, you do not actually use your own secrets.
Flavor tag: First Discovered in the great Orgrimmar infestation of 98, Where it took many months and much needed anti bacterial spray to finally solve the problem.
Tribe Meaning Demon Beast etc
Flavor text: You should not conclude that a goblin invention doesn't work just because it blew up your entire army when you tried to use it.
Works better when summoned by Confessor Paletress, Sneed's Old Shredder, Evolve/Master of Evolution or Piloted Shredder.
Custom cards :
CLASSES : Alchemist (CCC#5 | Phase V) | Chef (CCC#4)
EXPANSIONS : Year of the Scorpion (Year Comp)
Flavor text: "this is the egg that Drakkisath hatched from. He did not lay this. That would make no sense.
(edit: changed art so it would be higher resolution and look nicer.)
This works exactly like Golden Monkey except it can give you ANY random cards (except ones outside of the format you're playing). If its collectible, i can give it to you no matter what class it is, what rarity, etc. ANYTHING, it could even (although astronomically unlikely) give you 27 copies of the same card. Intentionally made a 1-cost card so you can play it on turn 1 and everything else is random.
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
For players who need just a little more time to think. Or if you want to annoy your opponent for an extra 5 seconds every turn. You could even play it after Nozdormu and have 33% longer turns than your opponent!
Come Play Make the Keyword!!!
Check out my Worgen Class in the Class Competition
'♪ What's gonna work, TEAMWORK ♪"
<< vote for my creations
Note: Effects that will kill her at the end of the turn (Power Overwhelming or Ragnaros the Firelord)won't do anything.
Now you can have 4 copies of Angry Chicken! Anyways this card does have some tactical use as it copies your opponent minions too. Now it's not that difficult to remove but it's like a multiple use Mirror Entity, of course it's meant to be fun and man I would love this card in the game. Hope you shape it. (The bad puns are real) If you haven't figured out yet, like Shifter Zerus he keeps the ability through transformations.
The Nexus comes to the Inn with my set of Heroes of the Storm Legendaries!
Ha, slot machines are for suckers - Wait, ALL of your cards cost a multiple of three??
Goblin Gambler that gives you an ape named "Bananas" in WoW. When it plays there is obviously a slot machine/lottery animation flashing 3 Bananas in a row when you win.
He'll secure you safe passage. Until a better alternative comes along...
Favorite brawl? Miniature Warfare.
Flavour Text: The tavern enjoys seeing big legendaries, so the Innkeeper figured he'd pass some around. Of course, he might just be trying to get you to buy more packs...
All of the spells you can get from this guy:
http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards?filter-cost-val=1&filter-cost-op=3&filter-premium=0&filter-type=5&display=3
http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards?filter-cost-val=2&filter-cost-op=3&filter-premium=0&filter-type=5&display=3
http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards?filter-cost-val=3&filter-cost-op=3&filter-premium=0&filter-type=5&display=3
I think 1-3 is the best range for this card. There are a large number of useless spells, many neutral spells, and a select few super OP cards. That should be a good enough range to not be a "good" card, but definitely be fun.
Thanks to http://www.hearthpwn.com/members/TheDuckOfDestiny for helping me balance this card.