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I think this theme turned out pretty well! My votes went to...

Over-Lodestone: I mostly love for being cleverly themed, but that its design is both believable and elegantly simple are also major points in its favor.

Fel Flame: This card has so much potential for Ozruk synergy, general discard synergy, and even just as a card that can be played on a flexible curve, like a bigger Forbidden Ritual. Probably my favorite finalist.

Elemental Trap: I like this one, but I'm actually of two minds because, although I know it was submitted before the Hunter quest was revealed, now I'm worried that it would be too good just with that Quest in mind. It's probably not fair to judge it like that though? Either way, I still like it enough to vote for it.

Cruel Pyromancer: This one is mine. ^_^

EDIT: I decided one more.

Lump of Coal: This one is mostly just very well-themed. I actually think it's a bit on the overpowered side, which is why I wasn't going to vote for it at first, but that's easy enough to fix by just lowering the Attack bonus to +1 or maybe +2.

My favorites:

Tidal Elemental: Because it's mine. Allows you to have a more resilient Mana Tide Totem or Wrath of Air Totem, yada, yada.

Over-lodestone: Great pun. Great effect. The only bad thing is that it would contribute to the cancerization of ladder.

Elemental Trap: A simple card with a useful effect that fits Hunter. Not much more to say!

Honorable Mentions:

Hydromorph: I appreciate the fact that it's a versatile card that can be used both as a removal or as a token generator. It's a great card. The reason why it's only honorable is the fact that transforming a minion into 3 others isn't really a thing. How would it work? The only way it would is if only one minion is transformed and the rest is summoned.

Maelstrom Katalyst: An original, interesting and potentially useful effect... but the art sucks.

Eel-ementalist: This would be great if the card text was so bad. First, there's a blank line at the bottom. Second, the Eels are added to the end, not drawn.

Primordial Echo: Simple, clean but broken effect. At first I read it like "Add a 1-Cost 1/2 copy of the last Elemental Played to your hand" and frankly if it was this it would have been awesone, but as it is it's broken. Ragnaros the Firelord pls. Yeah I know wild is full of OP cards but there are limits.

Pepe tier:

Elemental, Dr Watson: Puns are great when the card they're on is great too but this card is underpowered af. Unconditional discover spells cost (1) mana and this has a condition. This made it to the finals only because of the reference, which sucks.

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My favorites:

Tidal Elemental: Because it's mine. Allows you to have a more resilient [car]Mana Tide Totem[/card] or Wrath of Air Totem, yada, yada.

Over-lodestone: Great pun. Great effect. The only bad thing is that it would contribute to the cancerization of ladder.

Elemental Trap: A simple card with a useful effect that fits Hunter. Not much more to say!

Honorable Mentions:

Hydromorph: I appreciate the fact that it's a versatile card that can be used both as a removal or as a token generator. It's a great card. The reason why it's only honorable is the fact that transforming a minion into 3 others isn't really a thing. How would it work? The only way it would is if only one minion is transformed and the rest is summoned.

Maelstrom Katalyst: An original, interesting and potentially useful effect... nut the art sucks.

Eel-ementalist: This would be great if the card text was so bad. First, there's a blank line at the bottom. Second, the Eels are added to the end, not drawn.

Primordial Echo: Simple, clean but broken effect. At first I read it like "Add a 1-Cost 1/2 copy of the last Elemental Played to your hand" and frankly if it was this it would have been awesone, but as it is it's broken. Ragnaros, the Firelord pls. Yeah I know wild is full of OP cards but there are limits.

Pepe tier:

Elemental, Dr Watson: Puns are great when the card they're on is great too but this card is underpowered af. Unconditional discover spells cost (1) mana and this has a condition. This made it to the finals only because of the reference, which sucks.

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Maelstrom Katalyst: An original, interesting and potentially useful effect... nut the art sucks.

 So you won't vote for my card because the art sucks?

Wow. That depresses me. :(

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Maelstrom Katalyst: An original, interesting and potentially useful effect... nut the art sucks.

 So you won't vote for my card because the art sucks?

Wow. That depresses me. :(

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My favorites:

Tidal Elemental: Because it's mine. Allows you to have a more resilient [car]Mana Tide Totem[/card] or Wrath of Air Totem, yada, yada.

Over-lodestone: Great pun. Great effect. The only bad thing is that it would contribute to the cancerization of ladder.

Elemental Trap: A simple card with a useful effect that fits Hunter. Not much more to say!

Honorable Mentions:

Hydromorph: I appreciate the fact that it's a versatile card that can be used both as a removal or as a token generator. It's a great card. The reason why it's only honorable is the fact that transforming a minion into 3 others isn't really a thing. How would it work? The only way it would is if only one minion is transformed and the rest is summoned.

Maelstrom Katalyst: An original, interesting and potentially useful effect... nut the art sucks.

Eel-ementalist: This would be great if the card text was so bad. First, there's a blank line at the bottom. Second, the Eels are added to the end, not drawn.

Primordial Echo: Simple, clean but broken effect. At first I read it like "Add a 1-Cost 1/2 copy of the last Elemental Played to your hand" and frankly if it was this it would have been awesone, but as it is it's broken. Ragnaros, the Firelord pls. Yeah I know wild is full of OP cards but there are limits.

Pepe tier:

Elemental, Dr Watson: Puns are great when the card they're on is great too but this card is underpowered af. Unconditional discover spells cost (1) mana and this has a condition. This made it to the finals only because of the reference, which sucks.

I think you're kinda nitpicking on Hydromorph. There's no precedent for a minion turning into three minions, but it is clear what this card does from the description. Also, transforming instead of summoning could be an important distinction, because transforming won't trigger 'on summon' effects. Blizzard may come up with a new word for this effect, like how they used 'merge' for Blood of The Ancient One, but most people would have understood that concept with transform instead of merge.

Great entries this week, must say. My favourites are Over-Lodestone, Burning Trickster and Hydromorph. I usually vote for a max of three, but I think there are lot of good entries, so I think I might have to throw in a few extras this time.

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Lump of Coal: This one is mostly just very well-themed. I actually think it's a bit on the overpowered side, which is why I wasn't going to vote for it at first, but that's easy enough to fix by just lowering the Attack bonus to +1 or maybe +2.

 I could understand +2, but +1? Is it possible you're assuming that you can stack the attack buff with multiple Fireblasts?

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Lump of Coal: This one is mostly just very well-themed. I actually think it's a bit on the overpowered side, which is why I wasn't going to vote for it at first, but that's easy enough to fix by just lowering the Attack bonus to +1 or maybe +2.

 I could understand +2, but +1? Is it possible you're assuming that you can stack the attack buff with multiple Fireblasts?

Yes, but that's only a minor part of it. Mostly I'm comparing to Kor'kron Elite. Right now, your card pays the same price (4 mana and one card) for an Elemental with 1 more attack. Bringing it down to +2 would make its stats identical, but it'd still certainly be better because its play is much more flexible; when you don't need immediate damage, you can just pay half the mana cost for a reasonable Elemental you can easily buff later. It'd be one thing if the Warrior card were bad, but it's not, and yours is better. You could get away with +2 because of the game's general power creep and if you want to say requiring the expenditure of the Hero Power counts as a considerable cost, but I think it'd be fine at +1.

Find none of them interesting. Probably not the fault of us, but that the Elemental tribe and its synergies introduced by Blizzard is itself a boring mechanic.