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This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.

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Competition Theme: Power To The People

This weeks theme comes from Zanywoop, whose "Diamondroot" was the winner of our "Crystal Ball" competition. 

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card must be a Common minion
• Your card must cost (7) mana or more
• Your card can't have more than three lines of card text
• Existing examples: Bonemare, North Sea Kraken, Obsidian Destroyer.

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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 to Imgur, 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.

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 Competition Process

 Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 20:00 UTC 16/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 9/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 17/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 10/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 18/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:

Spoiler (click to show)

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.)

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 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!

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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?

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Good Luck!

 @Mods

Also if you want to just copy paste everything in Shadows. Then i made the post for the submissions thingy.

 They might as well make you a mod at this point.

 See see? I told you you are premium material for a mod, and now others agree too!

VOTETOXFORMOD 2017!

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This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.

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Competition Theme: Power To The People

This weeks theme comes from Zanywoop, whose "Diamondroot" was the winner of our "Crystal Ball" competition. 

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card must be a Common minion
• Your card must cost (7) mana or more
• Your card can't have more than three lines of card text
• Existing examples: Bonemare, North Sea Kraken, Obsidian Destroyer.

---

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 to Imgur, 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 16/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 9/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 17/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 10/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 18/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:

Spoiler (click to show)

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!

 @Mods

Also if you want to just copy paste everything in Shadows. Then i made the post for the submissions thingy.

 They might as well make you a mod at this point.

 See see? I told you you are premium material for a mod, and now others agree too!

VOTETOXFORMOD 2017!

 Lol, It's twice as likely for me to be owner of Blizzard than Tox being mod.

Because zero times two is still zero. 

 I wouldn't say that.

You might end up as the owner of Blizzard :P

Edit: But in all seriousness. If it was mostly about putting these topics up, then i'd be more than happy to help the mods out.

Taking all feedback into consideration, this feels close to submission-ready. Rolling all the spell damage into the enrage clears up any confusion, and also makes it feel undeniably Common. Seems like a card Timmy would like, too.

Any thoughts on balance? And, if I may be so bold, the likelihood you'd give an upvote?

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Another attempt

Doomknight i think it will be an appropriate name

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Another attempt

Doomknight i think it will be an appropriate name

It feels weird for a Common card to specifically summon (or even mention) an Epic card. C'Thun exists, yes, but EVERYONE gets him when they open their first WotOG pack.

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Any ideas on how I can balance it?

 It is insanely good; even with the Overload and lack of Charge, it's arguably much better than Al'Akir the Windlord. Windfury + an innately high Attack is destined for trouble, and ultimately this is a lot going on for a Common (considering that Al'akir is a Legend).

It's not a fun thing to say, but you might need to make heavy cuts or start over fresh. Also, try to save your card to Imgur and then use the Insert tool up top (looks like a picture); it'll be much more appealing. 100% honesty: almost no one will bother to open up an attached image.

 Oh, thanks. Well I was kinda expecting to fail on my first card...... and my first forum post.

 Welcome to the forums? I'm sorry your first reply ever wasn't too great >_>

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So while we wait for the submission thread, I'm trying to make some quotes and flavor text for my card. I need some ideas.

I was thinking of making some references to Little Witch Academia.

I broke the fourth wall.

Also about that T9 Priest. Assassinate, Shadow Word: Death, Big Game Hunter, Siphon Soul, 600 Taunt and Poisonous minions.... T8? Well there's Confuse effects... and Poisonous, among other removal that's so abundant in the game... assuming it even GETS to T9. (Looks at Quest Rogue)