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 2/Oct/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 2/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 3/Oct/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 3/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 4/Oct/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?
Accompanying Weapon, Portrait, and Naga Matron summon in Spoiler below:
"She doesn’t think that she’s better than you. Just different, in a better way."
About: Queen Azshara takes Druid’s Mana ramping archetype and flips it on its head. You’ll be playing the remainder of your game with no Mana, and any Mana that you do happen to generate, from the start of each turn, ramp cards, and Azshara’s weapon, gets converted into pressure on board and eventually value in your hand. Of course, Azshara is meant to prepare an alternative win condition in a Quest Druid deck. If you don’t draw her early, you play typical Ramp Druid. If you do draw her, you save your ramp until after you get her Hero Power, to summon Naga faster and rush through your quest.
Don’t forget the potential for Astral Communion shenanigans in Wild! Hey, if Naga Sea Witch + Giants can be a thing, so can this.
TL;DR: Make Innervate Great Again. And dance, puppet!
Voice Lines in Spoiler below:
Summon: Ahahaha. Come to serve your queen?
Alternative Summon (when the enemy hero is Malfurion): Ah… Malfurian Stormrage. I’ve no need to fight you.
Alternative Summon (when the enemy hero is Tyrande): Whisperwind, what is Elune to the great Sargeras?
When Illidan Stormrage is played by enemy: Illidan?! You are better than this!
Attack (Night Elf Form): Scared?
Attack (Naga Form): I demand perfection.
Death (Night Elf Form; Non-Silenced): Pity. Let’s put an end to this.
Death (Night Elf Form; Silenced): Such insolence!
Concede: Call it a draw, I have more worthy opponents to attend to.
Thinking [1]: Ahhhh……
Thinking [2]: Ah! Or… No.
Thinking [3]: What to do with all this Mana…… oh wait.
Thanks: Yes, thank you .
Well Played: Hmph, well played.
Greetings: Ah, welcome to my court.
Wow: Hmm, interesting.
Oops: Unfortunate.
Threaten: Dance, puppet!
Note: Her voice would sound slow and snakelike, but also seductive and biting.
"Illidan seems to keep an awful lot of destructive all powerful demonic artifacts to himself, why can he share?"
I have been tinkering with this idea for awhile but i think this is my best version of the card. I made sure to make all the artifacts nice and flavorful. Enjoy!
Well, if no one posts on p1 we'll never get thru this:
"I see mana in your future"
Play it too early and you won't be able to play the card to get the extra mana. Play it to late and you won't get the upside, it's all about finding that sweet middle.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: Crystal Ball
This weeks theme comes from LiHingKing, whose "Keeper Remulos" was the winner of our "Happily Ever After" 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 2/Oct/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 2/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 3/Oct/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 3/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 4/Oct/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!
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Accompanying Weapon, Portrait, and Naga Matron summon in Spoiler below:
"She doesn’t think that she’s better than you. Just different, in a better way."
About: Queen Azshara takes Druid’s Mana ramping archetype and flips it on its head. You’ll be playing the remainder of your game with no Mana, and any Mana that you do happen to generate, from the start of each turn, ramp cards, and Azshara’s weapon, gets converted into pressure on board and eventually value in your hand. Of course, Azshara is meant to prepare an alternative win condition in a Quest Druid deck. If you don’t draw her early, you play typical Ramp Druid. If you do draw her, you save your ramp until after you get her Hero Power, to summon Naga faster and rush through your quest.
Don’t forget the potential for Astral Communion shenanigans in Wild! Hey, if Naga Sea Witch + Giants can be a thing, so can this.
TL;DR: Make Innervate Great Again. And dance, puppet!
Voice Lines in Spoiler below:
Summon: Ahahaha. Come to serve your queen?
Alternative Summon (when the enemy hero is Malfurion): Ah… Malfurian Stormrage. I’ve no need to fight you.
Alternative Summon (when the enemy hero is Tyrande): Whisperwind, what is Elune to the great Sargeras?
When Illidan Stormrage is played by enemy: Illidan?! You are better than this!
Attack (Night Elf Form): Scared?
Attack (Naga Form): I demand perfection.
Death (Night Elf Form; Non-Silenced): Pity. Let’s put an end to this.
Death (Night Elf Form; Silenced): Such insolence!
Concede: Call it a draw, I have more worthy opponents to attend to.
Thinking [1]: Ahhhh……
Thinking [2]: Ah! Or… No.
Thinking [3]: What to do with all this Mana…… oh wait.
Thanks: Yes, thank you .
Well Played: Hmph, well played.
Greetings: Ah, welcome to my court.
Wow: Hmm, interesting.
Oops: Unfortunate.
Threaten: Dance, puppet!
Note: Her voice would sound slow and snakelike, but also seductive and biting.
Best of luck to everyone.
Come visit my Card Emporium. Strange things, you will find inside...
Come take the test, if you're daring. Feel free to show me your results in a message.
I immediately thought of Warlocks "destroy a mana crystal" mechanic. It has synergy with cards like Blastcrystal Potion, Voidcaller, Felguard and Krul the Unshackled. It is your basic turn 4 Mountain Giant but with a twist.
"Illidan seems to keep an awful lot of destructive all powerful demonic artifacts to himself, why can he share?"
I have been tinkering with this idea for awhile but i think this is my best version of the card. I made sure to make all the artifacts nice and flavorful. Enjoy!
Well, if no one posts on p1 we'll never get thru this:
"I see mana in your future"
Play it too early and you won't be able to play the card to get the extra mana. Play it to late and you won't get the upside, it's all about finding that sweet middle.
Mod Working Reaaaaally Hardly
Make the Card: The biggest thread on the site!
My mandibles which are capable of pressing down and tearing, my talons which are known to intercept and hold.
Minion support/combo for Moorabi
This card is useful if you want to cast heavy Overload spells like Lava Burst or Elemental Destruction. This eliminates the need to spend 2 mana on Lava Shock or Eternal Sentinel to unlock your Overloaded mana crystals, freeing up your next turn completely. When combined with Flamewreathed Faceless or Feral Spirit, it functions like a pre-nerf Innervate for your next turn.
"Best played with Ultimate discount"
A mana burst for Shamans. Must be used with Lava Shock or Eternal Sentinel.
About balancing: Better than Innervate and worse than Preparation.
:)
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Straight forward synergy with Warlock's Mana Crystal destruction.