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This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• What? You didn't think we'd forget about an upcoming expansion, did you? For this week, your card art must depict a Dinosaur. "Dinosaur" scientifically refers to a specific classification of prehistoric animals (You can find more info here), but we're willing to broaden the definition to accept other classic prehistoric animals like Pterosaurs, Plesiosaurs, Dimetrodons, and even Trilobites. However, we will not allow more recent animals to qualify, like Mammoths, Sabre-Tooth Cats, or Birds, nor will we allow modern animals that have simply been around since prehistoric times, like Sharks or Dragonflies.
• Your card must also be a beast itself, interact with beasts, or produce a beast (token or card). If it produces a card that depicts a dinosaur, in accordance with the first restriction, it needn't necessarily depict one itself.

We have whittled down ~110 valid entries to just 12 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 nobravery
by Livienna
by Toxibrah
by SvagoCorp
by Lathy
by PupleMD
by Prawnnoodles
by MrUncreative
by The_Edel_Bernal
by thepowrofcheese
by CheeseEtc
by Co_Ga

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Alyssa, Beast Chronicler

Oh boy. Third times a charm, eh?

Thanks to everyone who voted for me, its a honor to be here ;)

Goodluck to everyone, and may the best card win :)

Voted for Darwin. Nothing else so far. Might well add Terrorsaur or Alyssa or a couple others.

Very much agreeing with Nurgling about the thematic appropriateness of some cards. If they feel like they could be in any of the other expansions I'm probably not going to vote for them because it sort of, goes against the point of the original topic. There's lots of great designs knocking about just none that fit properly. 

@nurgling13

Argh...

Do you know how much time was put into trying to balance this?!?!

Jokes aside, it was a hard card to balance. It started out as a 5 mana 3/2 EPIC, which was very nicely pointed out to be broken as hell. ( Thanks to @Maxlot @Aeson88 and @Livenna for kindly pointing it out) and was nerfed a few times until it reached this.

The problem with the card ( In my eyes) is that it has two REALLY strong adaptations. 4/5 meh ones, and 3/4 ones that is on par with justicar. The really strong ones being the Poisonous one, and the Deathrattle.

But yeah, it might be slightly over the top still.

I'm not going to go hard on the thematic hits this week because personally I felt that this weeks theme was really restricting, and it led to a bunch of redundant cards. I feel like weekly comps need more space to breathe rather than shoving everyone through a sorter so their left with 2 ideas in the end, so to speak.

With that my favorites this week are Oncurvasaur, because it is a creative way to emphasize its effect (I mean we have cards like Doppelgangster for crying out loud it doesn't need to be a straight minion out of Un'Goro...), and it is really creative.

Clever Girl although kinda weird is pointing directly at Jurassic World without blatantly saying it. And I like the effect, so it gets my vote

Darwinsaur JUST made my vote, and its only because it will only be playable with handbuffs, which is ridiculous, but at the same time makes me realize that summoning better-than-just-1/1's in a Goons deck may actually help it. I know this wasn't intended but that's how i'll interpret it.

On-Call Mount also just squeaked by, because a 5/5 for 5 is pretty meh, and seeing as you don't discover a lot in a game, all its really doing is messing up your discover cards. I give it credit though because it won't forever show up there but it really feel like half the time it would only be a hassle to play.

The rest in my opinion were either badly balanced or not interesting enough. 

I must have just barely missed the cut :(

A smaller competition than we normally have, but I feel we were able to get some decent ideas. My personal favourites are Clever Girl and Manasaurus. I love the idea of playing against Clever Girl, and being terrified of some sylvanas effect, when the person only grabbed card draw. Manasarus is just very flavourful, taking the magical dinosaurs we saw in the trailer and strongly attaching it to druid.

Wow - i really feel honored to find my entry here among the finalists, although it feels kinda cheap given the circumstances. Plus it was also one of those cards which don't necessarily qualify as 'Un'goro-specific' cards.

I agree that some potential in 'exploring' Un'goro designwise was possibly wasted this week (myself included), but also, with restrictions as loose as this time, i don't think you can really hold that against people. After all, if you are given too much freedom with your designs, it can end up being more of a hindrance than some nice and tight specifications. Also it seemed to me like simply smacking 'Adapt' onto a card would qualify as 'authentic Un'goro' for some people (that's just my perception though) - and i don't really think that does it.

That being said i really like how Toxibrah and Puple handled the new mechanic with Darwinsaur and Alyssa. :)

Cheers guys and good luck for the finals. :)

I'm skeptical of the balance of Terrorsaur, but its a pretty awesome card regardless.

On-Call Mount is just excellent though. Uses some of the discover theme of Un'goro, and involves riding a dinosaur.

Quote from nurgling13 >>

Yeah, I really wanted to see people use the new keyword in clever ways, like Toxicbrah and Puple did. I was disappointed that so few people did. I mean, why would you pass up the opportunity to use something new?