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This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card must in some way interact with the position of minions on the battlefield. This can be through the use of the adjacency mechanic, or the 'opposite' mechanic, or even specifying positions like 'the rightmost' or 'the middle'.
• Existing examples include Dire Wolf Alpha, Defender of Argus, and the Karazhan chess pieces (White Queen, White Rook etc.).

We have whittled down ~170 valid entries to just 17 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 kasper376
by LaserMegalodon3000
by SWGolgoth
by MyChalee
by Muoteck
by Alex117
by Livienna
by CheeseEatingEtc
Betrayal
by Frox6
by Justice171
by Toble
by Magnum990
by Giz4Gamer
by ShadowsOfSense
by AUzg
by Woshiwo
by aeson88 (Wild Card)

Evolving Rager

Fenris Wolfbrother

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Oh wow thanks so much for picking Big Little Tough Guy for the wild card :D 

Thats awesome!

Quote from spear_hunter >>

First, congratulations to all finalists! Second, Silverclaw is a token from Giz4Gamer's Fenris Wolfbrother, shown below.

It summons Silverclaw to his left and Snowhide to his right

Sure thing!

Aside from Magic Curtain, which is obviously my favorite, here are my top 3 and bottom 3.  I’m voting for everything in the top 3.  (Glad to see so many from page 2 make it, although I really would have preferred to see Edwyn in here too)

LIKES

Ancient Pillar: Bolf for minions.  Seems like it would have lots of fun interplay with buff cards and heals.  Great cards inspire deck ideas and I could see priest desks built around this card, just endless buffing the health of the pillar to keep adjacent minions safe.  I always prefer to vote for a card that inspires new archetypes, as opposed to cards that just support the existing cookie cutter decks.

Big Little Tough Guy:  I’m a sucker for a card with good flavor that also manages to be balanced.  I like the idea of this little runt that just hides behind his larger buddies.  Played on turn 2, he most likely won’t be able to use his effect.  Played later in the game, he’s a tempo loss but punishes your opponent for letting you build a board.  Good design, good story, good finalist. 

Drunken Patrons:  This card made me laugh so it gets a vote.  I’m not sure what deck I would ever use this in but it is certainly creative

DISLIKES

Fenris Wolfbrother:  I was surprised to see the sudden voting surge for this card.  According to the author’s post in the submission thread, the two wolves drop on either side of Fenris, meaning Fenris is a 3/3 when played and each wolf is a 2/2.  So to recap, there are 7/7 total stats spread across three minions and two of the minions have valuable beast tags and the minions buff the entire board.  And all of this costs only 5 mana?  This is one of the most brokenly OP cards I have seen make the finals in a while.

Kylanda:  I actually really like the concept of the card but it also seems OP to me.  It just doesn’t seem that hard for a shaman to have two totems on the board by turn 4 and the last thing agro shaman needs now is a turn 4 5/6 with taunt and no drawbacks.  I would have much preferred if the effect was not a battlecry, meaning the buff went away if either totem was killed.

Avalanche:  This is a cool concept for a card and I really liked it when it was called Killing Spree and won in week thirteen of season 4.  This version does one more damage, costs two more mana, and potentially recycles the card but it’s still a little too similar to the prior winner for my tastes.

Honorable Mention:  I have no clue who came up with the Jandice Barov card first or whether its submission in this contest was plagiarism.  Regardless, whoever had the idea first should be commended.  That was a very cool card concept.

I really like a lot of the cards this week... I think it's testament to the creativity brought on by mechanical prompts such as this that there were this many different interpretations of such a seemingly simple prompt. Kudos to the prompt-maker, and especially to all the finalists!

Quote from Toble >>

DISLIKES

Fenris Wolfbrother:  I was surprised to see the sudden voting surge for this card.  According to the author’s post in the submission thread, the two wolves drop on either side of Fenris, meaning Fenris is a 3/3 when played and each wolf is a 2/2.  So to recap, there are 7/7 total stats spread across three minions and two of the minions have valuable beast tags and the minions buff the entire board.  And all of this costs only 5 mana?  This is one of the most brokenly OP cards I have seen make the finals in a while.

Quote from Toxibrah >>

Aww man. Number 20, not bad for a first try, but still slightly disapointing. Guess i may make it next time. Congratz to Aeson88, Toble and Livienna for making it to the finals, guess i will root for you guys instead :)

My personal favorites:

Ancient Pillar: An excellent effect on a flavorful card. It would really help classes to play big minions in a somewhat safer way.

Anarchy: A card that would certainly lead to a lot of fun moments and Trolden/Rage Orc clips! Also board clear for Rogues? Yes please!

Multiplython: A nice effect with a good flavor that fits Hunter very well. I'm not sure about the "at the end of the turn" part though. Did I miss something? Would this card allow some broken OTK if the tokens were summoned immediately?

Big Little Tough Guy: An excellent card for "swarm" decks that tries to win by taking control of the board. It could have been a fully neutral card rather than a Grimy Goon one imo but it would nonetheless greatly help Paladin and Hunter, and they really need some help right now.

Starlight Totem cuz it's mine, so of course it's good.

Honorable mentions:

Timid Jungle Cub: With this kind of art it could just have been another cute but broken card. However the card itself is also solid. However it's probably OP (I'd rather have made it a 1/2).

Sundering: The flavor is awesome and the concept is excellent, but I think that at 3 mana the card is broken, even with the overload, even with the two-sided effect.

Magic Curtain: A nice concept, but too easy to play around I'm afraid.

Fork: The concept is nice but the card is too vague. What does the effect do exactly? Does it move a minion left? You can't target twice so I suppose it is the case.

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Avalanche seems familiar *cough*

Oh right! It's been so long since I last saw a Hunter on ladder that I completely forgot about Tundra Rhino hahaha