Your card must be a Paladin card (minion, spell or weapon)
Your card must positively interact with Dragons (so no destroying Dragons, dealing damage to Dragons, etc.)
Note that while your card (if it's a minion) doesn't need to be a Dragon, merely being a Dragon does not count as Dragon synergy
Some advice from our theme creator - but specifically not part of the rules, just a suggestion - is to try and focus on what would make Dragon Paladin different from Dragon Priest. While Priest focuses on good stats on curve and healing them, Paladin could be more about Divine Shield, or token production like Nightbane Templar.
Competition Process
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 19:00 UTC 6/March/2017) 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 19:00 UTC 6/March/2017, Ends 19:00 UTC 7/March/2017) 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 20:00 UTC 7/March/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 8/March/2017) 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!
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
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 19:00 UTC 20/February/2017) 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 19:00 UTC 20/February/2017, Ends 19:00 UTC 21/February/2017) 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 20:00 UTC 21/February/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 22/February/2017) 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!
It's basically AoE protection. Damaging spells that don't have a target, whether board-wide like Flamestrike or random like Arcane Missiles, will fail to deal damage to your Dragons.
So I had a little extra time away from my desk this week and wanted to get in early with a design that not only fit the Theme, but also told its own little story.
This trusty little guy comes in early and has an immediate impact on board state. But when he dies, he leaves behind his weapon, allowing you to take up his cause, and charge into battle alongside your own "dragon-mounts" For a couple turns anyways.
The card that pushed Dragon Paladin back in BRM was Dragon Consort. With this card, I want to push Dragon Consort's effect, while also using an unconventional mechanic in an unconventional way.
It has premium stats because its effect isn't immediate, and isn't guaranteed to trigger.
It isn't a Dragon because the card focuses more on the rider as opposed to the Dragon, similarly to how cards like Argent Horserider and Dalaran Aspirant don't count as Beasts even though they ride horses.
Basically, it's not only a 1-drop Dragon, but it returning to your hand allows you to repeatedly use Dragon synergies. It basically is supposed to (almost) guarantee that you have a Dragon in your hand for effects in which you need to hold a Dragon.
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Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
Alexstrasza, Malygos, Nozdormu, and Ysera. Basically a sized up Doppelgangster that works well in Paladin, given they love hand buffs, buffs, tokens, and have the ability to make the game go long if need be. It was pointed out in my original design that of all 5 dragons, only Ysera mattered, so I changed the design to make all 5 hold some weight. Still horrible against board clears, especially if topdecked.
"Before Draenor became Outland, a rare species of Faerie Dragons was used by the Draenei of Shattrath as mounts. They were the brood of Hallowing, who once made an ancient oath with the Dreanei. Sadly, they didn't survive the disaster wrought by Ner'zhul."
* Aggro deck, value deck, combo withSmall-Time Recruits * Minion of every cost can be transform, battlecry won't be activated if played after * Sort of sacrifice concept but with very high value trading
Thought this would make an interesting card for both an inactive future value threat, or something as a Dragons "ONLY" Paladin(Slow Dragon Flood?) deck when possible. Would make it viable to perhaps win via some Taunt duplicates. Not immensely powerful, but it certainly promotes a unique deck in it self.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: The Scales of Justice
This weeks theme comes from CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey, whose "Il'gynoth" was the winner of our "Ready,Set..." competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Some advice from our theme creator - but specifically not part of the rules, just a suggestion - is to try and focus on what would make Dragon Paladin different from Dragon Priest. While Priest focuses on good stats on curve and healing them, Paladin could be more about Divine Shield, or token production like Nightbane Templar.
Competition Process
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 19:00 UTC 6/March/2017)
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 19:00 UTC 6/March/2017, Ends 19:00 UTC 7/March/2017)
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 20:00 UTC 7/March/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 8/March/2017)
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!
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
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 19:00 UTC 20/February/2017)
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 19:00 UTC 20/February/2017, Ends 19:00 UTC 21/February/2017)
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 20:00 UTC 21/February/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 22/February/2017)
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!
Paladin Dragons really needs a 7 mana card for Curvestone before the big T8 Legendaries.
I was unable to help myself. Please forgive me.
It's basically AoE protection. Damaging spells that don't have a target, whether board-wide like Flamestrike or random like Arcane Missiles, will fail to deal damage to your Dragons.
So I had a little extra time away from my desk this week and wanted to get in early with a design that not only fit the Theme, but also told its own little story.
This trusty little guy comes in early and has an immediate impact on board state. But when he dies, he leaves behind his weapon, allowing you to take up his cause, and charge into battle alongside your own "dragon-mounts" For a couple turns anyways.
The card that pushed Dragon Paladin back in BRM was Dragon Consort. With this card, I want to push Dragon Consort's effect, while also using an unconventional mechanic in an unconventional way.
It has premium stats because its effect isn't immediate, and isn't guaranteed to trigger.
It isn't a Dragon because the card focuses more on the rider as opposed to the Dragon, similarly to how cards like Argent Horserider and Dalaran Aspirant don't count as Beasts even though they ride horses.
Explosive Shot => Meteor
Power Word: Tentacles => Spikeridged Steed
Ysera
Basically, it's not only a 1-drop Dragon, but it returning to your hand allows you to repeatedly use Dragon synergies. It basically is supposed to (almost) guarantee that you have a Dragon in your hand for effects in which you need to hold a Dragon.
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
Here it is :)
Really cool synergy with Dragons, could boost control game.
Hope u like it :)
//edit - Small edit, i changed text of hero power from "Each friendly dragon you control" to "Each Dragon you control"
Alexstrasza, Malygos, Nozdormu, and Ysera. Basically a sized up Doppelgangster that works well in Paladin, given they love hand buffs, buffs, tokens, and have the ability to make the game go long if need be. It was pointed out in my original design that of all 5 dragons, only Ysera mattered, so I changed the design to make all 5 hold some weight. Still horrible against board clears, especially if topdecked.
Combo with hero power. Watch out if your opponent has a Dragon in play too :)
"Before Draenor became Outland, a rare species of Faerie Dragons was used by the Draenei of Shattrath as mounts. They were the brood of Hallowing, who once made an ancient oath with the Dreanei. Sadly, they didn't survive the disaster wrought by Ner'zhul."
Dragon Secret Pally! And common card for easy access. :)
Flavour : "Is it still... breathing?"
For Lordaeron!
Interesting card with some decissionmaking. You can hold it for some crazy late game reduction or some early ramp.
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* Aggro deck, value deck, combo with Small-Time Recruits
* Minion of every cost can be transform, battlecry won't be activated if played after
* Sort of sacrifice concept but with very high value trading
Thought this would make an interesting card for both an inactive future value threat, or something as a Dragons "ONLY" Paladin(Slow Dragon Flood?) deck when possible. Would make it viable to perhaps win via some Taunt duplicates. Not immensely powerful, but it certainly promotes a unique deck in it self.
As always, good luck everyone!
Check out my submission for this weeks card design competition; or my other fan creations! Nullius in verba
So for example, if you only have this horrible and ugly Abomination, you change it into something more cooler:
My Entry for this week's Card Design Competition - Season 8.16:
Discounts: Emperor Thaurissan, Volcanic Drake, Dragon Consort
Mounts: Alexstrasza, Faceless Manipulator
Buffs: Grimmy Goons, Blessing of Might