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This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card must simply have the word 'swap' in its card text.
• Examples include: Kooky Chemist, Alarm-o-Bot, Darkspeaker and Madam Goya

We have whittled down ~140 valid entries to just 13 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 Livesage
by kalkans1
by LittleOgreHearthstone
by Doomedspeed
by Xiaxiangde
by NOVEX0R
by Enselt
by Cogito_Ergo_Sum
by Toble
by Otovent
by Woshiwo
by Hieii
by Shatterstar1998 (Wild Card)

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Currsed Deal

Eya the Drifter

Ohhh, goddamn. First time in finals, wohoo!

Boy...

I must've been like number 13. Considering Unstable Illusion has 2.4 times the average on his page, compared to my 2.3918.

;-;

Quote from Shatterstar1998 >>

Ling-Geist and Sen'jin Tamer really should have been DQ since they are useless gameplay-wise. And woo-hoo. Wild Card slot!

Quote from Demonxz95 >>

I'd also like to ask what the purpose of Lord Walden is? Isn't swapping a minion's Attack and Health 5 times fundamentally the same as swapping it once?

I have to admit I'm pretty salty on missing the cut by 1 vote and only because I was on the same page as Sen'jin Tamer, which is a ridiculous card, if not for the dumb mechanic, then for the fact that there is no "concede button."  If someone plays this card, then the other person has to go into the game menu to the end their turn every turn, which is really more of an annoyance than anything.   

Quote from NOVEX0R >>

Quote from linkblade91 >>

Quote from Shatterstar1998 >>

Ling-Geist and Sen'jin Tamer really should have been DQ since they are useless gameplay-wise. And woo-hoo. Wild Card slot!

 Seriously :/

Congrats on the Wild Card spot, though. I'll make it up there eventually...hopefully...maybe...

 Yeah, this and the Ling-Geist...

And I'm sure you will linkblade :)

Quote from Demonxz95 >>

I personally also agree that Sen'jin Tamer should've been disqualified, or at the very least not made it to the finals. How it even got 1 vote is kinda beyond me. I can see MANY people accidentally conceding the game with this thing on board. In addition to that, I don't know if it's actually functional since the button is disabled during your opponent's turn, meaning you wouldn't be able to concede during your opponent's turn. Also, what would happen if you brought up the concede menu during your opponent's turn? Would the End Turn option simply not be there? Then there's what happens when it's affected by Time Warp. How would this work?

I'd also like to ask what the purpose of Lord Walden is? Isn't swapping a minion's Attack and Health 5 times fundamentally the same as swapping it once?

Quote from linkblade91 >>

Quote from Shatterstar1998 >>

Ling-Geist and Sen'jin Tamer really should have been DQ since they are useless gameplay-wise. And woo-hoo. Wild Card slot!

 Seriously :/ Especially Sen'jin Tamer; that should not be up there.

Congrats on the Wild Card spot, though. I'll make it up there eventually...hopefully...maybe...

Quote from Demonxz95 >>

I'd also like to ask what the purpose of Lord Walden is? Isn't swapping a minion's Attack and Health 5 times fundamentally the same as swapping it once

Quote from Shatterstar1998 >>

Ling-Geist and Sen'jin Tamer really should have been DQ since they are useless gameplay-wise. And woo-hoo. Wild Card slot!

Quote from CheeseEtc >>

Ok I really hate this "edits are not displayed" bug...

Well, this week turned out very differently than i was expectin actually, the theme looked rly interesting and simple, but simple it was not in the end.

Here we go then:

• Sacrificial Lamb (2/5): The effect is most likely way too strong, guess card like this could push midrange/control hunter, but i still feel like it provides way too much value for the cost.
• Cursed Deal (0/5): For 3 uses of your hero power, u get a spell, that heals u for 30-ish hp and gets your opponent to (mby) single digit, seems fair.
• Eya the Drifter (3/5): This has been done several times before, guess ppl still like the effect and the balance of the card is fair for what it does. Not very exciting for me tho.
• Ling-Geist (1/5): Joke entry #1, cute, but thats about it.
• Forge Rager (3/5): Interesting approach to the mechanic, tho it should have probably be warrior or paladin class card, not neutral.
• Molten Elemental (3/5): I like the idea of it, but not the execution. After some discussion, it would seem it wouldnt (shouldnt) provide the extra value i thought it would, so that makes the card better.
  If it didnt have taunt, then it would be fine, but as it is now, it provides craaaaazy value. It is at least a 12 HP taunt with 6 attack on the first go, even if u kill it in one swing, it will still swap stats before it dies and will be 0/6 ... or will it? How would this actually work if u overkilled it? -3 hp becomes 0 Attack?:P Not sure if it would work within current games mechanics as intended.
• Sen'Jin Tamer (1/5): Joke entry #2, a pretty funny one, but thats about it.
• Fragile Dummy (4/5): Better than Molten Elemental, similar, but not the same. Could still provide a bit too much value when buffed, but at least it doesnt suffer from the potential switcheroo issue and added value when "killed".
• Protect the Pack (4/5): I am actually very torn about this card, dont know if its too weak, too good or just right. The downside to this card is obviously the randomness, but u can negate that with deckbuilding and actually turn it into an advantage. Not sure.
• Repurpose Weapon (4/5): Yeah, i expected something like this to pop up, it is a good mechanic that i can totally see being added one day, tho i imagined it more as a warrior card, but that doesnt rly matter, rogue is fine too. Cute combo with Envenom Weapon ... im just little sad about the art, its rly not good.
• Lord Walden (3/5): I like the concept, i think its funny and cool, tho it feels like the effect (even tho it is heavily reliant on other cards) should cost more than just one stat short of a vanilla 3-drop. Also it might be kinda broken in shaman, like u can go 1-drop, Flametongue Totem then this and BAM.
• Unstable Illusion (3/5): I wanted to say how good this card is until i saw taunt ... I think it might have been fine(-ish) without it, tho any T2(coin)/T3 scenario as a 6/4 or 4/6 would be quite insane, even more so with the taunt.
• Arcane Dance (3/5): This feels a little too strong, since u actually get the "discounted" spell right away, i made something kinda similar myself, but i balanced it (or justified it), by not guaranteeing the draw. With this u actually can make a minion heavy aggro/tempo deck and forge it to give u like 0-5 cost Pyroblast rather consistently. 2x Arcane Dance, 1x Pyroblast + 1x Frostbolt for example. But who knows if such a deck would actually work or if the cheap pyro would actually be broken given the rest of the deck.

Anyway, GL to all of u and CG to making the finals! :)

Not happy with senjin

i understand joke cards are fun and have made it to and won these competitions before, but there's just so much with this card that wouldn't work, no real thought was put into it. I'll be just as upset if it wins as everyone was when "Pepe" won the beast druid competition 

I'm voting for sacrificial lamb(flavor overload!)

forge rager (it's a rager that might actually be good!)

and arcane dance (I just like this. It's neat.)