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Voted for everything except for Pepe

 Pepe is now sad :( FeelsBadMan

I've been here for what, more than 2 years? Nothing beats the moment when the fan creation section of Hearthpwn kicked of. If I could I would make everyone a winner, not because of votes, because of the feedback the community gives to everyone. You, me, admins and weirdos alike. Which is the best of reasons to be here.

I hope to see you all through out the next year as well. And if you're new, welcome!

Good luck EVERYONE!

Why the Pepe hate?(retorical question) :P

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1st - Crok Scourgebane

2nd - Pepe

3rd - Promise of Power

3 great cards!

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Pepe is not a good card for beast druid but this isn't a poll about beast druid. Pepe is an interesting card design that could help ramp druid gain time against minion based agro decks like Zoo and Hunter.

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Pepe is not a good card for beast druid but this isn't a poll about beast druid. Pepe is an interesting card design that could help ramp druid gain time against minion based agro decks like Zoo and Hunter.

 It's people like you who ruin our competitions. You come in, don't give a shit that you have to create a card based on a theme, and vote for something with cute art and an effect that hasn't been thought through. This is about Beast Druid because Pepe was supposed to be about Beast Druid. By supporting Pepe, you are giving the middle finger to everyone else in that competition who actually tried to follow my theme. Plus, Pepe is a poorly designed card to begin with. Three classes can remove him with their Hero Power, while the others are required to use a spell. Maybe requiring a card to be removed in that way is okay, if it wasn't on a card that shuts down the entire game while it's out.

 Pepe is a 2 mana minion that prevents any other minion from attacking. Wait until turn 4 (or simply ramp with druid Innervate) and drop a Mark of Y'Shaarj or even a Mark of the Wild and it's not as easily removed. It's an excellent card against aggro decks, and honestly it was a fun card. Stop attacking people for voting for it because you don't like it. These competitions are about designing cards that people like. These are designed to be fun. It's a unique card with a powerful mechanic. CAN it be a broken card? Sure. But that's why it's a 1/1 that requires removal. It still isn't a Dr. Boom. So again, stop attacking people who support a card you don't like because it's people who do that that ruin our competitions. I would like to congratulate timmult on his victory in the 4.14 competition and I wish him luck in this one as well. He's got my vote (as well as Shadow Cultist and Moonkin Form).

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Pepe is not a good card for beast druid but this isn't a poll about beast druid. Pepe is an interesting card design that could help ramp druid gain time against minion based agro decks like Zoo and Hunter.

 It's people like you who ruin our competitions. You come in, don't give a shit that you have to create a card based on a theme, and vote for something with cute art and an effect that hasn't been thought through. This is about Beast Druid because Pepe was supposed to be about Beast Druid. By supporting Pepe, you are giving the middle finger to everyone else in that competition who actually tried to follow my theme. Plus, Pepe is a poorly designed card to begin with. Three classes can remove him with their Hero Power, while the others are required to use a spell. Maybe requiring a card to be removed in that way is okay, if it wasn't on a card that shuts down the entire game while it's out.

 Pepe is a 2 mana minion that prevents any other minion from attacking. Wait until turn 4 (or simply ramp with druid Innervate) and drop a Mark of Y'Shaarj or even a Mark of the Wild and it's not as easily removed. It's an excellent card against aggro decks, and honestly it was a fun card. Stop attacking people for voting for it because you don't like it. These competitions are about designing cards that people like. These are designed to be fun. It's a unique card with a powerful mechanic. CAN it be a broken card? Sure. But that's why it's a 1/1 that requires removal. It still isn't a Dr. Boom. So again, stop attacking people who support a card you don't like because it's people who do that that ruin our competitions. I would like to congratulate timmult on his victory in the 4.14 competition and I wish him luck in this one as well. He's got my vote (as well as Shadow Cultist and Moonkin Form).

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Pepe is not a good card for beast druid but this isn't a poll about beast druid. Pepe is an interesting card design that could help ramp druid gain time against minion based agro decks like Zoo and Hunter.

 It's people like you who ruin our competitions. You come in, don't give a shit that you have to create a card based on a theme, and vote for something with cute art and an effect that hasn't been thought through. This is about Beast Druid because Pepe was supposed to be about Beast Druid. By supporting Pepe, you are giving the middle finger to everyone else in that competition who actually tried to follow my theme. Plus, Pepe is a poorly designed card to begin with. Three classes can remove him with their Hero Power, while the others are required to use a spell. Maybe requiring a card to be removed in that way is okay, if it wasn't on a card that shuts down the entire game while it's out.

 

 Pepe is a 2 mana minion that prevents any other minion from attacking. Wait until turn 4 (or simply ramp with druid Innervate) and drop a Mark of Y'Shaarj or even a Mark of the Wild and it's not as easily removed. It's an excellent card against aggro decks, and honestly it was a fun card. Stop attacking people for voting for it because you don't like it. These competitions are about designing cards that people like. These are designed to be fun. It's a unique card with a powerful mechanic. CAN it be a broken card? Sure. But that's why it's a 1/1 that requires removal. It still isn't a Dr. Boom. So again, stop attacking people who support a card you don't like because it's people who do that that ruin our competitions. I would like to congratulate timmult on his victory in the 4.14 competition and I wish him luck in this one as well. He's got my vote (as well as Shadow Cultist and Moonkin Form).

I do agree with you in that you shouldn't attack someone personally for voting for a card they like (I mean, that's the point of the competition, to see which card people like the most). However, I do, PERSONALLY, think that Pepe is not a well designed card, and I will not be voting for it. But that's just my personal opinion.

First off, you have to remember that there are THEMES for the competition. Pepe is very, very bad in a beast druid deck. It is a Druid card and it is a Beast, but that doesn't mean it fits the theme. Secondly, it's just generally bad design to have a card that is easily removed by 3 classes and much, much more difficult for the other 6. It's also the very opposite of 'fun and interactive', because it literally kills minion combat, which is one of the major interactions in the game. It kind of makes some matchups depend on 'can I draw a spell that can kill Pepe before I get killed by some Malygos combo', which is pretty annoying, especially if you're running a Zoo type deck without much removal. Buffing it with spells can also make for a very frustrating game, where it can become near-impossible to remove the guy and leaving you helplessly watching as the little bird hits you in the face until you die.

 That is fair. The card certainly stops a huge mechanic in the game, and would probably be better as a battlecry effect that stopped minion combat for your opponents next turn (like a different-style Loatheb). Either way, I am still giving a vote to the card. It followed the static rules (see spoiler) therefore, since it was one of the rarest of memes (because Blizzard never does this) I stand by it deserving its victory.

#4.14 competition rules (Pepe was the winning card)

• • Your card must be a Druid card.
  • Your card must be a Beast, create a Beast in some way (i.e., summoning a Beast, transforming something into a Beast), or interact specifically with Beasts.
  • If your card is labelled a Beast but depicts something that is clearly not a Beast - for example a Dragon, Furbolg or Worgen - it will be considered to be subverting the rules.
  • Since the theme of this week is improving the Beast Druid archetype, any Beast interactions must be net positive. This means you can't interact only with enemy Beasts (e.g., "Destroy an enemy Beast"), and you can't purely hurt or destroy friendly Beasts without a secondary, positive effect. 
  • There are a number of example that meet these restrictions in the game. These are the ones that clearly promote the Beast Druid archetype: Druid of the Fang, Mark of Y'Shaarj, Knight of the Wild, Menagerie Warden, Wildwalker. 
  • Try not to make a card like these: Enchanted Raven, Jungle Moonkin. These technically meet the restrictions, but do not really do anything to improve the Beast Druid archetype.

   It may be arguable that it "like Enchanted Raven" but that card is a staple of Beast Druid, like Menagerie Warden, and Pepe would be an auto-include in any druid deck. So as stated before, if it's good enough to be an auto include, then it does not break the rule.