Welcome to Season 4 of Hearthpwn's own Weekly Card Design Competition! We've started this season off by trying something a little different. Rather than opening the Submission and Discussion Topic at the same time, we're going to open the Submission Topic 24 hours after the Discussion Topic and that week's competition theme have been made public. This should give everybody a day to more calmly and carefully consider their entries. If you missed the first week, be sure to see below for what out new weekly competition schedule will look like.
Competition Theme: BUILDING BASES
This week's Card Design Competition Theme comes from Beldak, whose Ancient Prophecy was the winner of our "Legendary Spells & Weapons" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Warcraft has in its history often been about building bases, from Warcraft I, II, and III to the recent garrisons in World of Warcraft. Now, the Heroes of Warcraft have gone long enough without bases of their own. Design a card that represents a building in the Warcraft universe. This is a theme-centered competition, which we realize is very different from our typical mechanic-centered restrictions. There are so many different ways to go about this concept that we decided it might be interesting to leave it mechanically open. Will you make your structure a high-Health minion that can't attack? A spell with a permanent symmetrical effect? Or something else?
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 or animated 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
Preview Phase (Started Yesterday, Ends 19:00 UTC 21/July/2016) During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme. Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 19:00 UTC 21/July/2016, Ends 17:00 UTC 25/July/2016) During this Phase, the Submission Topic is made available for your submissions. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like! Voting Phase (Starts 17:00 UTC 25/July/2016, Ends 17:00 UTC 26/July/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 18:00 UTC 26/July/2016, Ends 18:00 UTC 27/July/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!
This spell represents your hero and minions donning cloth armor, made at the tailoring shop, prior to entering the battlefield. The building is based on the Talismanic Textiles shop in Dalaran within World of Warcraft.
You basically put this on your opponent's side of the field instead of your own. He can use Abusive Sergeant or buffs to remove it from his field. Minions remain Frozen with fear until this is removed.
Ancient of Wonders is the shop for Nightelf in WC3. You can purchase items for your hero there, including various potions. Just like a normal shop, you have to pay for them tho, so the potions cost mana themselves and each of them has been carefully balanced.
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This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Welcome to Season 4 of Hearthpwn's own Weekly Card Design Competition! We've started this season off by trying something a little different. Rather than opening the Submission and Discussion Topic at the same time, we're going to open the Submission Topic 24 hours after the Discussion Topic and that week's competition theme have been made public. This should give everybody a day to more calmly and carefully consider their entries. If you missed the first week, be sure to see below for what out new weekly competition schedule will look like.
Competition Theme: BUILDING BASES
This week's Card Design Competition Theme comes from Beldak, whose Ancient Prophecy was the winner of our "Legendary Spells & Weapons" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
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
Preview Phase (Started Yesterday, Ends 19:00 UTC 21/July/2016)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 19:00 UTC 21/July/2016, Ends 17:00 UTC 25/July/2016)
During this Phase, the Submission Topic is made available for your submissions. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
Voting Phase (Starts 17:00 UTC 25/July/2016, Ends 17:00 UTC 26/July/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 18:00 UTC 26/July/2016, Ends 18:00 UTC 27/July/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!
Edit: Polished card text.
Mrglglgl!
I didn't have a signature so Flux added one for me.
This spell represents your hero and minions donning cloth armor, made at the tailoring shop, prior to entering the battlefield. The building is based on the Talismanic Textiles shop in Dalaran within World of Warcraft.
Flavor text: We were going to call it "Altar of Big Spooky Hooded Statues", but that didn't have quite the same ring to it.
You basically put this on your opponent's side of the field instead of your own. He can use Abusive Sergeant or buffs to remove it from his field. Minions remain Frozen with fear until this is removed.
A place said to bring peace to whoever goes there and so while this card is in play no characters will dare attack each other
The deathrattle effect is because once this place of peace is destroyed chaos and battle will begin
Flavour text: The Number One place to play hide and seek -Azeroth Weekly
If you have 0 unspent mana, it will put 0-cost card too
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The lighthouse is notorious for its guile, seamlessly blending in with its surroundings until ready to strike.
Murloc Raider
Hopefully I got the balance right, enjoy!
Here is my card, with tokens:
Warriors of the Fel Horde:
Doomguards' best friend.
Flavor text: "It's gettin' HOT in here!" Said no Drakkari ever.
Play: "We must resist!" Attack: "Till ma last breath!"
For those who don't know much about WoW lore, Drak'Tharon is a troll fortress that was conquered by the Lich King's armies, it's a dungeon from WotLK.
Click to see my Hearthstone projects:
Reporting for duty!
The house ALWAYS wins...
because everyone one loves a tavern brawl.
Just 'cause I like it old school.
The Arcane Vault is a building that sells you items. So here you go, a stat enhancing building.
Astounding!
Potions:
Ancient of Wonders is the shop for Nightelf in WC3. You can purchase items for your hero there, including various potions.
Just like a normal shop, you have to pay for them tho, so the potions cost mana themselves and each of them has been carefully balanced.