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This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card's artwork must clearly depict either an Elf or a Dwarf as its central figure.
• Your card must produce or positively interact with Weapons or Armor.

We have whittled down ~140 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.

by Mewdrops
by JaffaCakeJam
by Aezuriel
by AngryChicken
Golden Monkey
by Spooga
by larvashu
by Zanywoop
by Enselt
by CheeseEatingEtc
The Coin
by Hereharehere
by Zence
by Dxiled
by Livienna
by Spaiikz
by Prod
by Nobroam

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Daedorn Cinderbeard

and make the following selections:

Choice 1:  Cost

 

Choice 2: Type

 

Choice 3: Imbuement

 

Ural the Grey

Grimestreet Sentinel

Ranger-General Sylvanas

Aurae Moonblade

Magni Bronzebeard

Woo! 

before I even look at these I wanna congratulate Dxiled for making it to finals with me and Hereharehare!

The first page was so intense! Here was always ahead but me and Dxiled were really close the entire competition.

I'm glad the mods brought all three of us over :D

I'm so used to being on pages not visited as frequently so seeing that many likes was incredible, ty

I'm pretty disappointed this week...a lot of the cards are really unoriginal or overpowered. Magni Bronzebeard even made it, and there's a Hero with the EXACT same name (Magni Bronzebeard). Could've at least given him a different title, like they did with Deathwing, Dragonlord.

Reload - 3/5: Simple, but effective. Not much more to say. 

Darnassus Soothsayer - 4/5: Creative. I don't know about viable, since Druid has a hard time gaining a lot of Armor. But its probably fun. 

Daedorn Cinderbeard - 1/5: Not creative at all, pretty much a Kazakus rip off. Not only that, he's overpowered as crap. Kazakus has -3 stats from vanilla, and has the no dupes condition. This has -2 stats from vanilla, has no condition, and only costs (1) more overall. 

Weapons Smuggler - 5/5: Some pretty cool interactions here. Some worth noting are Spirit Claws, Gorehowl, and of course, Cursed Blade. I like the way it makes your Hero Power better, but not necessarily better. 

Hokut, the Forge King - 4/5: A pretty hefty price, but could be game-winning. I also like how you can disrupt it. 

Dwarven Defender - 2/5: Thing from Below. Although it's not exactly the same thing, being notably smaller, I really don't like things that can cost (0). Nice try though. 

Backstreet Barber - 3.5/5: Again, costing (0) is problematic, but the condition is a lot harder to fulfill. Reminds me of the old Molten Giant, but as a standalone card. +0.5 for the Handlock flashback. 

Ural the Grey - 1/5: I can see this being extremely overpowered. You're guaranteed at least a Fiery War Axe worth of value from Lok'Thar, and Ural the Grey has a vanilla 4 mana body with the most annoying effect in the game. I would put this around Dr. Boom's level of power. 

Luna Moonsail - 3/5: It's basically a Fiery War Axe attached to a Stonetusk Boar almost every time? I mean it's creative, but I don't see it being used with Tinker's Sharpsword Oil being gone. 

Metal Merchant - 1/5: No more coins for Rogue please. I hate seeing twenty minute long turns. It would probably be fine if Gadgetzan Auctioneer wasn't a thing. It would probably be fine if it was a battlecry, so it would only ever grant one coin. 

Grimestreet Sentinel - 4/5: I really like cards that emphasize hand-buff in ways other than raw stats. I also named the gun, so creds to me :D

Forge Trap - 5/5: I honestly thought this through pretty hard. It can be teched against (Rogue Hero Power, Cursed Blade, other small weapons, Acidic Swamp Ooze). Similar to Mirror Entity, it costs (2) because not every class has full access to weapons (Medivh, the Guardian is a thing though). 

Ranger-General Sylvanas - 2/5: It's a bit too complicated for my liking, since it's composed of three cards with text. The only thing remotely close to that is Kazakus. Also, while Hunter does need a buff, I think this is falling into the Shaman trap. 

Ah, I gtg. I'll finish this later. Alright, back to it!

Aurae Moonblade - 1/5: Stealth minions should not be able to accomplish anything without leaving stealth. This essentially grants infinite value if your opponent doesn't dump AoE on it. Imagine if something like Gadgetzan Auctioneer had PERMANENT stealth. Yeah, it would be broken. 

Magni Bronzebeard - 0/5: Oh boy. For only 3 mana, you get a 2/6 (already over par), the equivalent of a full heal, an upgraded Hero Power, and enough Shield Slam ammunition to kill The Ancient One. Plus, the name and art are exactly reused from the actual Magni Bronzebeard. I struggle to see how this made finals. 

Muradin Bronzebeard - 2.5/5: This feels really forced. It's balanced, but I don't feel like interacting specifically with Fatigue should be in the Warrior class. We already have Violet Illusionist if you want anti-fatigue. 

Grats to all the finalists!

I have to say, trying to make my own "Craftable" card was a lot harder than I expected it to be, especially balancing ALL the costs and effects and finding a way to present the choices in a grokkable format.  It may not be perfectly balanced to live, but I'm just glad people enjoyed the direction I took with it.

Good luck everyone!

Wowowowow, made it to the finals :) Well done, and good luck to all the finalists.

Just a quick note about my cards (Darnassus Soothsayer) that you may have not thought about- even if you Hero Power for 1 Armor, you can still save your minions from one attack, so you don't need masses of Armor to make it good.

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Grimestreet Sentinel -  I also named the gun, so creds to me :D

 

Oh man it happened again... I was on the same page as three of the finalists were... sigh.

Still that aside, there are some really nice entries this week. I just wish we heard the announce for the expansion sooner. It may have helped to create some more unique ideas based on that new keyword. 

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Luna Moonsail - 3/5: It's basically a Fiery War Axe attached to a Stonetusk Boar almost every time? I mean it's creative, but I don't see it being used with Tinker's Sharpsword Oil being gone.

 It's true that there aren't many ways Luna can be used right now but it might in the future (or in wild) if Blizzard ever decides to print good weapons/weapon buff for rogues. Right now I can think of a 8-mana, 4 card, 15 damage combo with Luna, Shadowstep and 2xDeadly Poison.

Also even without synergy, a plain 3/2 Pirate with charge can't be bad for rogues.

Reload, Darnassus Soothsayer, Weapons Smuggler, Hokut, Dwarven Defender, Metal Merchant and Grimestreet Sentinel are all cool cards I'd vote for if I weren't among the finalists as well.

Grats all for the making the finals, page 1 was pretty frothy alright, Zense :)

 I actually like quite a few of the entries:

"Reload" by Mewdrops "Darnassus Soothsayer" by JaffaCakeJam "Weapons Smuggler" by AngryChicken "Dwarven Defender" by larvashu "Backstreet Barber" by Zanywoop "Luna Moonsail" by CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey

I agree with everyone on Reload@Mewdrops being succinct, really spot on, but I'm drawn to Darnassus Soothsayer@Jaffacakejam as my fav. Something nice about the hero being able to gain Taunt on inspire/spell. I think it could make for some interesting choices/gameplay.

@Dxiled ''Metal Merchant - 1/5: No more coins for Rogue please. I hate seeing twenty minute long turns. It would probably be fine if Gadgetzan Auctioneer wasn't a thing.'' 

Heyheyhey, what the hell!? :D 1/5? That's some kind of low blow Mr. Just based on your bias Tomb Pillager is out of next standard btw. Either way it's not 1/5 in any book. It's not even my favorite card that I created this week, but it's a fair design for mechanic/theme/stats :/. Boooo I say! :P (EDIT OOhhh, I see, just cuz I beat you on page 1 dxiled, you'll pay for this!*shakes fist* :D)

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@Dxiled ''Metal Merchant - 1/5: No more coins for Rogue please. I hate seeing twenty minute long turns. It would probably be fine if Gadgetzan Auctioneer wasn't a thing.'' 

Heyheyhey, what the hell!? :D 1/5? That's some kind of low blow Mr. Just based on your bias Tomb Pillager is out of next standard btw. Either way it's not 1/5 in any book. It's not even my favorite card that I created this week, but it's a fair design for mechanic/theme/stats :/. Boooo I say! :P (EDIT OOhhh, I see, just cuz I beat you on page 1 dxiled, you'll pay for this!*shakes fist* :D)

I didn't considered it as a neutral at all, but you're completely right it would've suited it better. It would be a nice arena option for 5 classes, vague possibility of  viablility in a Yog/spell Shaman/warrior? darn, *sniff* I shall never again look upon it in the same way ;D