This weeks theme comes from nobravery,whose "Ner'zhul" was the winner of our "Stitched" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card must offer a chance to choose between 3 options. They can either be unique tokens (like Arch-Thief Rafaam) or selections from cards already in the game (like Curious Glimmerroot).
For this competition, your card may only produce three (3) unique tokens. This means cards like Kazakus are not allowed.
Note that these choices are not limited to cards! Sir Finley Mrrgglton is perfectly legal as well, as he gives three options.
Competition Process
Preview Phase (Starts Now! Ends 20:00 UTC 4/May/2017) During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme. Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 20:00 UTC 4/May/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 8/May/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 20:00 UTC 8/May/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 9/May/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 9/May/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 10/May/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!
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This is intriguing. Curious Glimmerroot is one of my favorite Un'Goro cards, and that Door-to-Door Priest from last week would be as well. There's the obvious choice of Discover, but there are also plenty of more interesting things that can be done with that mechanic, like Free From Amber.
Your card must offer a chance to choose between 3 options. They can either be unique tokens (like Arch-Thief Rafaam) or selections from cards already in the game (like Curious Glimmerroot).
For this competition, only your card may only produce three (3) unique tokens. This means cards like Kazakus are not allowed.
Rafaam actually produces 4 different tokens. 3 spells and also Mummy Zombie
Rafaam actually produces 4 different tokens. 3 spells and also Mummy Zombie
But the Zombies are produced by one of the Tokens - not by Rafaam himself D:
Anyways - this is really interesting! I agree with Asylum, amazing cards like Curious Glimmerroot show how many unique and creative effects can be produced with this.
hmmmm. Maybe I'll do a remake of my Elven Companion.... xD
Discover is allowed, yes, and cards with Adapt also qualify immediately. Your Discover effect doesn't need to Discover three new unique cards, the token rule is just to stop Kazakus clones, or cards that try and do something for every class or something like that.
hmmmm. Maybe I'll do a remake of my Elven Companion.... xD
Discover is allowed, yes, and cards with Adapt also qualify immediately. Your Discover effect doesn't need to Discover three new unique cards, the token rule is just to stop Kazakus clones, or cards that try and do something for every class or something like that.
okay, sounds good. And obviously something like Kalimos, Primal Lord doesn't work, cuz it has 4 choices ;)
this will certainly be an interesting week!!! I'm hoping we don't have a complete overload of legendaries.
Can you elaborate on "chance"? I assume that's to cover cards like Tracking, that in some situations can only offer two options or less, but a theorical clone of Tracking that had you look at four cards would also technically offer a chance to choose between three.
"Chance" is intended to mean that under most normal play, your card should offer a choice between 3 options, akin to Discover or Adapt. As you said, there are fringe cases where these sorts of cards will only offer less choices, but these are outwith normal play.
Cards which offer a choice between more than 3 options - say, the Trueheart version of Shaman Hero Power - would not generally qualify.
Eh... not a fan. While you can't determine your opponent's class when you make the deck, when you cast the spell you've got a very high probability of getting the card you want. My math might be off, but with 4 legendaries available to each class at the moment, you've got a 91% chance of getting any particular class legendary. At that rate, what's the point of a discover mechanic? In a situation like the Gadgetzan meta, when the only classes played with regularity were Mage, Warlock, Warrior, Shaman, this card becomes very consistent. Should Miracle Rogues really have consistent access to Archmage Antonidas?
Edit: consider how you'd make this card outside of the competition. A random class legendary makes more sense than discovering one.
This is my very first idea. It's a bit boring, and a bit on the strong side I do realize but I wanted to get the idea out. I will be thinking of more to come.
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The problem I see with this card is that there will probably be some choices that you'd never or always pick. For example, against Mage, you'd probably pick Archmage Antonidas (maybe Rhonin if you're unlucky enough to not get him) every single time. Against Priest, you'd probably always pick either Prophet Velen or Lyra the Sunshard for Miracle purposes. Then there are other ones like Wilfred Fizzlebang or any of the Kabal Legendaries (Solia, Raza, Krul and Kazakus) that are completely useless (if you aren't playing Highlander that is) that are completely useless in Rogue and serve no purpose other than to just dilute your choices with sub-par beat-sticks that don't do anything.
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This is the Discussion Topic. The Submission Topic is here.
Competition Theme: Three Card Monte
This weeks theme comes from nobravery, whose "Ner'zhul" was the winner of our "Stitched" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Competition Process
Preview Phase (Starts Now! Ends 20:00 UTC 4/May/2017)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 20:00 UTC 4/May/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 8/May/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 20:00 UTC 8/May/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 9/May/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 9/May/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 10/May/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!
Discussion Topic Rules
To make sure that everything runs smoothly, we need to reserve the Submission Topic for submissions only. Everything else goes here. What is everything else, you might ask?
All of that said, please refrain from the following:
Looking for more information about the WCDC or Fan Creations in general? Why not check out this FAQ to see if your question is answered there?
So, without further ado, have fun and get creating!
This is intriguing. Curious Glimmerroot is one of my favorite Un'Goro cards, and that Door-to-Door Priest from last week would be as well. There's the obvious choice of Discover, but there are also plenty of more interesting things that can be done with that mechanic, like Free From Amber.
Rafaam actually produces 4 different tokens. 3 spells and also Mummy Zombie
Discover... y/n?
hmmmm. Maybe I'll do a remake of my Elven Companion.... xD
"The Slayer" custom class
"The Great Thaw" expansion competition finalist
My immediate thought...
SoonTM
Omg the Final Poll for this is gonna be a mess of spoilers isn't it D:
Oh hey, anything with Adapt obviously works too, doesn't it?
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
"The Slayer" custom class
"The Great Thaw" expansion competition finalist
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
I considered making it from your opponents hand, since it might interact weirdly with duplicates.
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
Currently working on the Tinker! K&C and WW / JUG and KotFT / Classic / Basic / Introduction
My Previous Classes: Apothecary (unfinished) / Chronomancer / Death Knight (old)
My Previous Expansions: Hallow's End
What I am thinking:
8-10 mana spell
1) Replace your hero with Jaraxxus (15 health)
2) Replace your hero with Ragnaros (8 health)
3) Replace your hero with a yet to be defined new hero.
Some questions:
1) Is this allowed, as the new heroes will also spawn tokens
2) Any hints as for a new hero? King Varian Wrynn? I am not home in lore
This is my very first idea. It's a bit boring, and a bit on the strong side I do realize but I wanted to get the idea out. I will be thinking of more to come.
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
Don't mind the art or name. This card should probably be a Legendary. Any good?
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
So this is the first thing that came to my head
Since Kazakus isn't allowed, would Volcanosaur be allowed? It has three choices, but more than once...
Explosive Shot => Meteor
Power Word: Tentacles => Spikeridged Steed