Weekly Card Design Competition #4.02 [FINAL POLL]

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Poll: Vote for your favourite 'Building Bases' cards!

Ended Jul 27, 2016

#1 Jul 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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This Week's Finalists

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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?

We have whittled down ~120 valid entries to just 16 of the community's favorites.
Check out all the finalists below and vote in our poll (vote for as many or as few as you like) to help decide the winner and be sure to check back after the poll finishes for the announcement of the winner and the start of a new theme!

NOTE: Cards with a black border have additional material, like explanations or unique tokens, located in a spoiler at the bottom of the finalist gallery. They are listed in order of position in the final poll.

Innervate
by Bibikis
by MardyVain
Clockwork Gnome
by nobravery
by SWGolgoth
by yebaba
by Crucinel
by Patrick0o
by SMcB
by INSEKT
by Agithore
by Lathy
by Gomelus
by Repeaterblox
by Yuvalito
by Reorakur
by TheDuckOfDestiny

Goblin Laboratory

Lord Baraxxus

Gamesman's Hall

Each player can control 8 minions instead of 7.

Tomb of Relics
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#2 Jul 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Observatory Tower is such a cool card. It's... It just is. Jeez.

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Astounding!
#4 Jul 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Gotta say there's really good quality this week, there are a few balance tweaks I'd do, but pretty good overall.

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#5 Jul 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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> Submit Jaraxxus-themed card in competition

> Make finals even if theme is "Buildings"

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#6 Jul 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Quote from SMcB >>

> Submit Jaraxxus-themed card in competition

> Make finals even if theme is "Buildings"

Yep, I regret not submitting my Well of Eternity design now...

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Quote from AngryChicken >>

Quote from SMcB >>

> Submit Jaraxxus-themed card in competition

> Make finals even if theme is "Buildings"

Yep, I regret not submitting my Well of Eternity design now...

I rushed my design this competition, I'll have to put more work into it next competition. Definitely some great design in the finals.

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#8 Jul 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Quote from AngryChicken >>

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> Submit Jaraxxus-themed card in competition

> Make finals even if theme is "Buildings"

Yep, I regret not submitting my Well of Eternity design now...

It was a joke card, but pretty clever if you ask me lol.

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Siras Terra, the Geomancer
#9 Jul 26, 2016 (Old Gods)
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In my opinion, a building should be represented by a spell. Generally, buildings don't make a lot of sense as minions in this game. Something like a Watchtower would make sense, but not most of the stuff here. As such, I voted just for the spells.

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Quote from nurgling13 >>

In my opinion, a building should be represented by a spell. Generally, buildings don't make a lot of sense as minions in this game. Something like a Watchtower would make sense, but not most of the stuff here. As such, I voted just for the spells.

While I agree with you, that buildings as minions feels weird, I think spells with building names are just as, if not more, weird.

Those who have made spells have done a great job, but I personally think there would have been a lot of more suitable names for them, if such spells excisted, but given the limits of the competition, I totally get it. The only who fully lives up to it is "Pocket Factory", as it was a building as well as a spell in WCIII.

That being said, I really dislike that an entry as Lord Barraxxus made it to the finals. Great pun card, but...

EDIT: once again glad to see my card in the finals, thanks :)

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Just want to say thanks for the votes to get me here, to final poll. Some really hard competition here! Love it.

Good luck everyone.

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Quote from nurgling13 >>

In my opinion, a building should be represented by a spell. Generally, buildings don't make a lot of sense as minions in this game. Something like a Watchtower would make sense, but not most of the stuff here. As such, I voted just for the spells.

I disagree, it really comes down to how well designed the card is. For example; Moon Well and Observatory Tower worked really well as minions; and the Forge of Souls worked really well as a spell.

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Most of the finalists r pretty cool (Moon Well, Arcane Vault) and some rly rly cool (Old Armory, Observatory Tower), but two i dont like one bit ... Lord Trollaxxus doesnt speak to me one bit ... and how did broken ass Orc Burrow that is on top of it rly rly badly worded made it is beyond me :P GL to all anyway :P

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Quote from Sinti >>

Most of the finalists r pretty cool (Moon Well, Arcane Vault) and some rly rly cool (Old Armory, Observatory Tower), but two i dont like one bit ... Lord Trollaxxus doesnt speak to me one bit ... and how did broken ass Orc Burrow that is on top of it rly rly badly worded made it is beyond me :P GL to all anyway :P

The Jaraxxus card was only voted for since it was a troll card and I wish it didn't make it, but I do like Orc Burrow's design, but I do agree its wording is off but if it won it probably could be fixed to the correct wording.

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Quote from Lathy >>

Quote from nurgling13 >>

In my opinion, a building should be represented by a spell. Generally, buildings don't make a lot of sense as minions in this game. Something like a Watchtower would make sense, but not most of the stuff here. As such, I voted just for the spells.

While I agree with you, that buildings as minions feels weird, I think spells with building names are just as, if not more, weird.

Those who have made spells have done a great job, but I personally think there would have been a lot of more suitable names for them, if such spells excisted, but given the limits of the competition, I totally get it. The only who fully lives up to it is "Pocket Factory", as it was a building as well as a spell in WCIII.

That being said, I really dislike that an entry as Lord Barraxxus made it to the finals. Great pun card, but...

EDIT: once again glad to see my card in the finals, thanks :)

I think this is a misunderstanding both of what minions and spells represent in Hearthstone. First, there are plenty of spells that represent objects you use rather than actual spells. Examples include Thistle Tea, Forgotten Torch, Cabalist's Tome, and Explorer's Hat. Buildings as spells are a natural extension of this. The spell represents using the building and gaining its powers or whatever. Buildings as minions doesn't make much sense and seems to me to be an attempt at extending something like MTG's creature system, where you summon units like Walls and actual buildings, to Hearthstone. Hearthstone is not supposed to represent the sort of grand war like what is going on in MTG. In Hearthstone, you are supposed to be like fighting in an arena or something. Your minions are actual living creatures or small non-living mechanisms you summon such as Lightwells and Portals. It doesn't make sense to bring something such as a Blacksmith into an Arena battle. How did you just summon that? Hearthstone doesn't happen on timescales where you build things. It's happening in an Arena battle. And like in Arathi Basin, you gain the benefits of buildings in your fight, you don't build, attack, and destroy buildings. Even in Alterac Valley, the buildings are just captured, not destroyed.

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Man, I really thought my "building as weapon" card would be a contender-- especially since there's all this contention between minion vs. spell.

Maybe next time I guess. :(

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Quote from Sinti >>

Most of the finalists r pretty cool (Moon Well, Arcane Vault) and some rly rly cool (Old Armory, Observatory Tower), but two i dont like one bit ... Lord Trollaxxus doesnt speak to me one bit ... and how did broken ass Orc Burrow that is on top of it rly rly badly worded made it is beyond me :P GL to all anyway :P

I am learning English。

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Quote from PRKSlayer >>

Quote from AngryChicken >>

Quote from SMcB >>

> Submit Jaraxxus-themed card in competition

> Make finals even if theme is "Buildings"

Yep, I regret not submitting my Well of Eternity design now...

I rushed my design this competition, I'll have to put more work into it next competition. Definitely some great design in the finals.

I feel the same way, even though my card made it to the finals. If I could submit it now instead of then, would look more like

Edit: after a few moments of reflection, decided it would be best to remove this until after the competition concludes. Saved the raw code offline, will post later. :)

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I made it this week. Awesome. :D

Good luck to everyone. ^^

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Very pleased with the finalists this week, there were a lot of different interpretations and each of them is interesting to me - I'd love to see Buildings appear in some fashion in the game, and it was cool to explore the idea here.

Also, props to (most of) the finalists for creating cards that aren't broken by Inner Fire (and other Priesty shenanigans), well done!

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When you get dropped from 1st place on your page because the image disappeared as soon as the thread locks... :P Ah, well. Lots of great concepts here, and I'm glad to see that Gamesman's Hall and Way Gate made the finals. Also really liking Goblin Laboratory, and (of course) Moon Well.

Looking forward to next week!

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