Your card must use the art and name of a card from a CCG other than Hearthstone or WoW CCG. The card game MUST be a CCG/collectible card game (e.g. Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon TCG, Gwent, Shadowverse, etc.).
Everything else (e.g. cost, stats, card text, class, rarity) is up to you.
You must show/tell us what card you are alluding to (in a spoiler, preferably).
Check the spoiler below for some example cards provided by Cogito!
General Competition Rules
These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
You are allowed to submit only one entry. An entry normally consists of only one collectible card, plus any necessary additional material or commentary (explained below).
You are allowed to post in this Submission Topic only once, only to submit your one entry.
You may not delete ANY posts you make in this Submission Topic, not even accidental ones you may make over your one allowed, such as by double-posting or by accidentally posting something here that you meant for the Discussion Topic. If you do accidentally post more than once, inform any of the Fan Creation Forum moderators via PM, and we will handle it.
Speaking of the Discussion Topic, that is where any discussion of this competition should go. This thread is for submissions only. If you want to discuss your card or ask questions about the competition rules or process, you can find a link to the Discussion Topic at the top of this thread. Plenty of folks there will be happy to help you out.
Once you have submitted your one entry, you are allowed to make only minor changes to it. Minor changes are things like correcting typos or making balance changes that do not alter the spirit of your entry as determined by we the moderators. If you want to make any changes and have any doubts as to their legality, ask us first.
These are the rules about your Submission:
Accompanying the image of your card, you may offer some minimal additional commentary to explain its design, balance, and/or other qualities. Flavor text is also welcome.
You may not submit any Gold cards or animated cards. (It's just a cheap attention grab tactic that makes it unnecessarily difficult to determine what class your card is for.)
Your entry must be a card of your own creation. We've been doing this for a while, so if you blatantly rip off somebody else's idea, we will know.
Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you MUST host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. Save it and upload it toImgur, Photobucket, or some other similar site. HearthCards has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your card disappearing part-way through the finals. We understand that there are some HearthCards memberships that will allow you to save your card there for longer (and you should totally get one of those just for general fan creation purposes, by the way), but we don't know who has those memberships and we can't tell from the URLs.
Fun and even humorous entries are perfectly allowed, but "troll" entries will be disqualified. If you're worried that your card may be misinterpreted as a troll card, contact a moderator before you submit.
TIP: Though not a rule exactly, we highly recommend that you insert your images using this icon on the bar above the post text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. Cards that are uploaded and attached to your post are not disallowed, but in our experience they will not do nearly as well, so this is for your own benefit more than anything.
Finally, know that manipulating votes in any way is strictly forbidden. Any violators will receive an official warning, and will be banned from this and all future HearthPwn Card Design Competitions.
Competition Process
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 20:00 UTC 4/Sept/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 4/Sept/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 5/Sept/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 5/Sept/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 6/Sept/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!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? First, we'll pull up-vote data from each submission using the formula detailed below:
(ab) / (c) = x
Where, a = The total number of submissions on the same page as the submission. b = The total number of up-votes that the submission received. c = The total number of up-votes on the same page as the submission. x = The submission's final score.
The formula basically measures which cards stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality. It will be the entries that receive the highest final scores that move on to the Final Phase.
The bottom line is that, although entries on the earlier pages of the Submission Topic are much more visible and thus receive many more up-votes than entries on later pages, you don't actually have to rush to get your entry in as soon as possible because the up-votes end up being weighted by what page your entry ends up on in order to determine its final score.
But wait, there's more! During each Weekly Card Design Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderators will be given a Wild Card, which they can use to advance any one entry that they feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated to the Final Phase, regardless of its final score. Wild Cards are our way of spicing things up a bit, but please don't ask to be given one or be upset if you aren't given one. These are just supposed to be fun. (Also, it should go without saying that, while we moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, we are not allowed to benefit from Wild Cards.)
Rewards
Bragging rights are always awesome, but as usual, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners: Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery! They will be allowed to select the next card design competition theme. And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
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?
It gives you information on your next draw and allows you to make a better decisions when you need to choose between drawing and other plays, or play the transformed copy if the situation calls for it. It can only be played as a 5 mana 8/8 once you've drawn your entire deck.
"Accused of: desertion, treason and identity thievery"
Cahir; From Gwent: Deploy: (battlecry)If playing as Nilfgaard(comparable to a class), trigger your Leader's(a "Legendary" that you always start your game with) Deploy ability.
My entry is everyone's favourite palindrome. From the Pokemon TCG, it's Eevee!
Flavour Text:Eevee could even teach Galvadon a thing or two about adaptation.
Explanation: In case it is not self-explanatory, you pick from a random 3 of the possible 8. They are listed below. Each is a 1-mana spell that represents the in-game evolution method (Eevee's evolution isn't special in the TCG, but I wanted to use its whole character, not just that facet).
Evolution Methods:
Results:
NB: Most of these cards are not based primarily on their TCG equivalent, but on a blend of how the Pokemon function in the video-games, TCG and anime. I did however use the card art for each one's first appearance in the TCG, to fit with the theme and show some fun progression.
Shahrazad resetting the game means that each player basically starts over with everything reset (including the turn limit). Shahrazad will not shuffle Arabian Nights into your deck as to prevent continuous looping.
Arabian Nights is the first expansion pack of MTG ever made and did have a small theme for using your opponent's stuff, thus I thought Priest would be a good fit for this Quest.
Note that while the reward may look extremely powerful, it's only of any actual use if you're currently losing the game as obviously you wouldn't want to reset the game while you're ahead.
Shahrazad is an old card in MTG which has basically the same effect:
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
For people who have difficulty reading the text: The general idea is that the dragon counter effects from both players in exchange for stats.
Why I chose Priest, you ask? Come on. Light, Dark / Shadow and Dragon. This card practically screams and begs to be a Priest card. Not to mention the only class with enough Silence and health buff to make the debuff worthwhile. Maybe this will make Kabal Songstealer see play in Dragon Priest.
Edit: Why this card also has Taunt, you ask? Well, because in YGO you can't attack the face when your opponent has a minion / monster in their field.
Note: Since minions cannot be debuff to 0 Health, this card's effect cannot be activated if it has less than 3 Health.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: Sincerest Form of Flattery
This weeks theme comes from Cogito_Ergo_Sum, whose "Rain of Fire" was the winner of our "Easy As 3, 3, 3" competition.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
General Competition Rules
These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
These are the rules about your Submission:
TIP: Though not a rule exactly, we highly recommend that you insert your images using this icon on the bar above the post text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. Cards that are uploaded and attached to your post are not disallowed, but in our experience they will not do nearly as well, so this is for your own benefit more than anything.
Finally, know that manipulating votes in any way is strictly forbidden. Any violators will receive an official warning, and will be banned from this and all future HearthPwn Card Design Competitions.
Competition Process
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 20:00 UTC 4/Sept/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 4/Sept/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 5/Sept/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 5/Sept/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 6/Sept/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!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? First, we'll pull up-vote data from each submission using the formula detailed below:
(ab) / (c) = x
Where,
a = The total number of submissions on the same page as the submission.
b = The total number of up-votes that the submission received.
c = The total number of up-votes on the same page as the submission.
x = The submission's final score.
The formula basically measures which cards stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality. It will be the entries that receive the highest final scores that move on to the Final Phase.
The bottom line is that, although entries on the earlier pages of the Submission Topic are much more visible and thus receive many more up-votes than entries on later pages, you don't actually have to rush to get your entry in as soon as possible because the up-votes end up being weighted by what page your entry ends up on in order to determine its final score.
But wait, there's more! During each Weekly Card Design Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderators will be given a Wild Card, which they can use to advance any one entry that they feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated to the Final Phase, regardless of its final score. Wild Cards are our way of spicing things up a bit, but please don't ask to be given one or be upset if you aren't given one. These are just supposed to be fun.
(Also, it should go without saying that, while we moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, we are not allowed to benefit from Wild Cards.)
Rewards
Bragging rights are always awesome, but as usual, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners:
Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery!
They will be allowed to select the next card design competition theme.
And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
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?
Good Luck!
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
original image:
good luck, everyone!
The card I chose for this competition -- Frazzled Editor from MtG Unhinged.
Original card from MtG in Spoilers -
Check out my submission for this weeks card design competition; or my other fan creations! Nullius in verba
It gives you information on your next draw and allows you to make a better decisions when you need to choose between drawing and other plays, or play the transformed copy if the situation calls for it. It can only be played as a 5 mana 8/8 once you've drawn your entire deck.
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
The idea was that it would take it TWO turns before it got ready.
"Your reward for going 12-0 in Arena"
Original Card
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
Original from LCG game Smash Up!
Check out my entrant for the WCDC 9.12: Bilgewater Highroller
When lemonade is used to cover up the taste of something else.
From Dominion: Intrigue
Big thanks to nurgling13 for the wording help!
"Accused of: desertion, treason and identity thievery"
Cahir; From Gwent: Deploy: (battlecry) If playing as Nilfgaard (comparable to a class), trigger your Leader's (a "Legendary" that you always start your game with) Deploy ability.
Mod Working Reaaaaally Hardly
From Shadowverse :
Gives more options to Control Hunters, while also making the enemy player consider which minion should attack first against a Hunter secret.
"I should use Dimeritium for all my traps!"
Dimeritium Shackles, from Gwent
Choose a Unit and toggle its Lock. If it is Gold, Demote it first. If it is an Enemy, Damage it by 2.
Edit: Better explanation of the card.
My entry is everyone's favourite palindrome. From the Pokemon TCG, it's Eevee!
Flavour Text: Eevee could even teach Galvadon a thing or two about adaptation.
Explanation: In case it is not self-explanatory, you pick from a random 3 of the possible 8. They are listed below. Each is a 1-mana spell that represents the in-game evolution method (Eevee's evolution isn't special in the TCG, but I wanted to use its whole character, not just that facet).
Evolution Methods:
Results:
NB: Most of these cards are not based primarily on their TCG equivalent, but on a blend of how the Pokemon function in the video-games, TCG and anime. I did however use the card art for each one's first appearance in the TCG, to fit with the theme and show some fun progression.
Originals:
Orignal card:
Orignal card:
Greatness, at any cost.
Original card: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=397731
Obvious synergies with Meat Wagon, but also with Barnes, Moat Lurker, Reincarnate, Resurrect, Onyx Bishop, Corpse Raiser, Shadow Essence, Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound, Eternal Servitude, Ancestral Spirit, Alarm-o-Bot, Mindgames, Ancestor's Call and probably a ton more.
Shahrazad resetting the game means that each player basically starts over with everything reset (including the turn limit). Shahrazad will not shuffle Arabian Nights into your deck as to prevent continuous looping.
Arabian Nights is the first expansion pack of MTG ever made and did have a small theme for using your opponent's stuff, thus I thought Priest would be a good fit for this Quest.
Ways to get cards from the opponent's deck: Crystalline Oracle, Shifting Shade, Thoughtsteal, Devour Mind, Archbishop Benedictus, Drakonid Operative, Curious Glimmerroot, Mind Vision (cards from the opponent's hand also count as they did start in the deck).
Note that while the reward may look extremely powerful, it's only of any actual use if you're currently losing the game as obviously you wouldn't want to reset the game while you're ahead.
Shahrazad is an old card in MTG which has basically the same effect:
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
For people who have difficulty reading the text: The general idea is that the dragon counter effects from both players in exchange for stats.
Why I chose Priest, you ask? Come on. Light, Dark / Shadow and Dragon. This card practically screams and begs to be a Priest card. Not to mention the only class with enough Silence and health buff to make the debuff worthwhile. Maybe this will make Kabal Songstealer see play in Dragon Priest.
Edit: Why this card also has Taunt, you ask? Well, because in YGO you can't attack the face when your opponent has a minion / monster in their field.
Note: Since minions cannot be debuff to 0 Health, this card's effect cannot be activated if it has less than 3 Health.
Click here to visit my Timestream Tracking Finalist Year of the Dragon in collaboration with Demonxz95
Class Creation Finalist: The Astromancer
Best cards vote by community: