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This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• For this week, your card must include a zero (0) somewhere within its effects.
• This can either be it's cost, its attack, or in its card text, as long as a zero appears mechanically somewhere on the card.
• Alternatively, the card could simply produce a card that costs zero (0).
• A card that simply has a zero in it's name or in the tribal tag does not qualify.
• Existing examples include: Millhouse Manastorm, Mana Bind, Preparation, Doomsayer, and Trade Prince Gallywix.

We have whittled down ~120 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!

by LarryMoments
by TheRealMalfurion
by Vilegloom
by kegstandgoldmedal
by Sinti
by The_Edel_Bernal
by nobravery
by arpitduelist
by TheProgenitor
by Broeck1
by Lathy
by draquaza1470

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Vicious Demoncaller

Manafly Nest

I missed a final?! 

My familys honor is ruined ! 

Yay! Glad to make it! 

All cards look pretty cool. Void blast's my favourite out of the bunch, followed by Coward Warturtle (Warturtle- heh) and Tenacious Heal.

Good luck everyone!

Nice! :)

• Coward Warturtle (4/5): Pretty good card, balance seems good, art is good. Solid priest 2-drop that we dont have many of. I would probably prefer, if it didnt have the beast tag (would have to be a different character ofc), but other than that, pretty good.
• Vicious Democaller (3/5): Since i absolutely HATE discard WL archetype and dont like blizz is pushing it more and more this card isnt for me. But the balance seems fair, it would definitely be a good addition to such deck. Although the later u draw it, the worse it gets id say.
• Tar Hatchling (5/5): Oh well ... a bit cheap design, but the execution is rly good. Awesome cute art and it definitely feels like this should be a druid card.
• Back-Alley Bandit (4/5): I said it in the discussion topic, this is probably the only card that i liked this week, that was designed to give rogue 0 cost spells to start the combos. There were plenty of others and most of them were downright broken or not executed very well, im glad this one made it.
• Mana Hungry Elemental (100/5): What is this? WOW! That is the best card iv ever seen! HOLY CRAP! Some kind of genius must have made it! lololo everyone vote for it right now!!! :D thx to all who helped me balance this crazy shit <3
• Void Blast (3/5): Pretty well executed card, riding on the shadow priest hype train, probably gonna ride it to victory :( Im slightly worried about its power tho, with Malygos its 8 dmg for 0 cost, with Prophet Velen 6 dmg for 0 cost and then there is Shadow Visions. Its a pretty complicated combo, so i suppose that balances it out, but still :P
• Phoenix Guardian (4/5): Even tho i rly dont like these kind of deathrattles "when this has 0 health do something", it still feels like a well balanced card.
• Tenacious Heal (3/5): Its a cool idea, but would u even bother playin this? I mean u combo it once with Lyra the Sunshard (chances r shes dead next turn) to heal a minion and u get it back to do it again. Dunno, im not feeling it. /edit: oh forgot the Auchenai combo, guess that would make it versatile enough to deserve a card slot.
• Toxic Storm (4/5): I like the flavor a lot and i suppose its balanced, tho not super reliable.
• Stray Shot (5/5): Oh man i loved this card when i first saw it. Cool!
• Cowardly Knight (3/5): I dont get the wow reference, if i did, i would probably like it more :p I still have very mixed feelings about this, i liked it before and i still do, but i cant decide if its too weak or good enough :p
• Manafly Nest (2/5): Im not rly sure where this card should fit. Token druid? Jade druid? I mean it could mby fit into both ... or none. im not feeling it.

Finally coming back around these parts after a long hiatus, looking forward to the next competition!

Voted for: Cowardly Warturtle, Tenacious Heal, Back-Alley Bandit.

Tar Hatchling would have got my vote if the other Tar creatures didn't already exist, because it's good design, but just scaling down an existing Blizzard design feels cheap for this competition.

Quote from Teknician >>

Auchenai works on Tree of Life, Reno Jackson, and Ancestral Healing, so no, this would be a damaging effect. 

Quote from Teknician >>

Auchenai works on Tree of Life, Reno Jackson, and Ancestral Healing, so no, this would be a damaging effect. 

Quote from ThisOtherGuyTox >>

I missed a final?! 

My familys honor is ruined ! 

"Coward Warturtle" by LarryMoments: 6.5/10, A very strong 2 drop for Priest.  Trade>heal>trade>Loop would destroy Aggro deck. However, I remember I have seen this kind of design previously(on another website).

"Vicious Demoncaller" by The RealMalfurion: 9/10, A nice and balanced card for my favorite class warlock, it protects your hands and make discard mechanism work again. Also, It would not only be used in discard warlock, it works with zoo (with Crystalweaver). Even it might make Sacrificial Pact usable. The only things that I doubt that is It would be much stronger if the Imp is 0/1/1.

"Tar Hatchling" by Vilegloom: 6.5/10, a Enchanted Raven that is an elemental and taunt in your opponent turn. Cute and nice picture. Balanced but boring.

"Back-Alley Bandit" by kegstandgoldmedal: 6.5/10, Battlecry: adding a Coin or Backstab into your hand next turn.

"Mana Hungry Elemental" by Sinti : 3/10, Imbalance, RNG

"Void Blast" by The_Edel_Bernal: 3/10, Even if you are shadow priest, it would not be used. First, you already "used" the shadow vision in finding a Shadowform, and Shadowform already provides you a damage skill.The priest lack of card draw(from his own deck). Those shadow words are much more useful to against minions. Velen OTK priest already has mind blast, and it contaminates the pool of priest spell in Lyra.   

"Phoenix Guardian" by nobravery: 6.5/10 Too strong in against aggro token deck, but the concept is nice.

"Tenacious Heal" by arpitduelist: 1/10. Extremely imbalanced, 1 cost fully restore, and who would heal the 0 cost minions? It just looks like the ability design for matching the topic only. Updated, I misunderstood this card.

"Toxic Storm" by TheProgenitor. 3/10 Imbalanced, you only need to summon a spell damage totem and having board clean. A 4+2 cost Twisting Nether is cheating. Also, I hate too much AOE in Shaman, it is broken already. 

"Stray Shot" by Broeck1. :  7/10, Nice idea and good designed, 4 mana is considerable in Hunter deck. It make the position of minion be a problem like Meteor.

"Cowardly Knight" by Lathy : 8/10. Creative and balanced design, a 1 drop taunt with possible infinite value to against aggro deck. This card could block the pirate and token deck.  

"Manafly Nest" by draquaza1470: 3/10 Overpower, reduce the cost of spells in druid is horrible, Jade idol, wild growth etc. Moreover, the deathrattle could summon 3 1/1 minion are also strong.

So I voted for "Cowardly Knight", "Stray Shot" and "Vicious Demoncaller" good job!

Wow! I made it to the finals for the first time!

I think people are not getting the synergies with my card - Tenacious Heal. So here it is:

It obviously has synergy with Radiant Elemental and other cost reduction effects. It's decent on it's own even if you are not getting it back to your hand. For those saying it's underpowered, compare it to Ancestral Healing and Priest has access to Auchenai Soulpriest and Embrace the Shadow. So, my card can be used to remove minions cheaply and that matters a lot because, Priest has a hard time dealing with 4 attack minions and this is not a dead draw if you aren't drawing your Auchenai because this card can be used in many other ways.

For those saying it should have an option for healing hero as well, then Priest would be Tier S because then you would be able to kill your opponent with Auchenai. If I made it target only friendly characters then it would be a lot better Reno effect and also it would lose its versatality.

Quote from Sinti >>

• Tenacious Heal (3/5): Its a cool idea, but would u even bother playin this? I mean u combo it once with Lyra the Sunshard (chances r shes dead next turn) to heal a minion and u get it back to do it again. Dunno, im not feeling it. Should have probably option to heal the hero as well. /edit: oh forgot the Auchenai combo, guess that would make it versatile enough to deserve a card slot.

Quote from Redqueen >>

"Tenacious Heal" by arpitduelist: 1/10. Extremely imbalanced, 1 cost fully restore, and who would heal the 0 cost minions? It just looks like the ability design for matching the topic only.