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 23/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 23/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 24/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 24/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 25/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?
Prince Tenris Mirkblood was the first of the darkfallen to be fought in World of Warcraft. He was introduced during the prologe to the WoTLK expansion, and dropped a super irrelevant bat pet.
Get some early-game board presence or transform a difficult minion into something less difficult. Not particularly good card for either use but at least has two uses.
There aren't currently any cards in the game that transform a minion into multiple minions but it's nothing special; it works similarly to other transform effects, the only difference is that after the transform there will be three minions (which are Wisps in my card) insteas of one (assuming there is enough space).
i made it a 1 cost because it would be so much better in the top deck phase which hunters tend to enter a lot of times u can summon it, trade it and summon king krush, also it synergies with N'Zoth! i mean we never got a Deathrattle minion that also has Charge!
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: A Preference For A Reference
This weeks theme comes from Toble, whose "Selective Harvest" was the winner of our "Déjà Vu" 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 23/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 23/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 24/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 24/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 25/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!
Prinception
Prince Tenris Mirkblood was the first of the darkfallen to be fought in World of Warcraft. He was introduced during the prologe to the WoTLK expansion, and dropped a super irrelevant bat pet.
Prince Keleseth Prince Taldaram and Prince Valanar
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
Get some early-game board presence or transform a difficult minion into something less difficult. Not particularly good card for either use but at least has two uses.
There aren't currently any cards in the game that transform a minion into multiple minions but it's nothing special; it works similarly to other transform effects, the only difference is that after the transform there will be three minions (which are Wisps in my card) insteas of one (assuming there is enough space).
EDIT: Uploaded the card to Imgur.
EDIT2: Made some clarifications
https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-discussion/240800-hearthstone-board-improvement-idea#c6
Love the tribes.
Dedicated to you, bud ; )
Mechs are kinda forgotten in standard.
You too can roleplay as Deathwing and leverage her existence for your own ends.
Nicknamed by the other elementals as the reverse Pyros.
Igneous Elemental, Flame Elemental
@Shadows/ PurpleMD (I'm actually not sure which of you helped me)
THANK YOU SO SO SO SO SO MUCH. We both know the sins I have committed, and I thank you for forgiving them.
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Flavour Text: No he isn't a bad mech, he smiles all the time! You just can't see it.
"Remember that coin I gave you?...I want it back."
As it happens, I had one all ready to go for this prompt, it's from the Ulduar set I'm working on.
The anti-synergy with Backstab is intentional for balance and flavor reasons
If you like the card, consider clickin that frikin like button my dudes.
:)
bepisi made it a 1 cost because it would be so much better in the top deck phase which hunters tend to enter a lot of times u can summon it, trade it and summon king krush, also it synergies with N'Zoth! i mean we never got a Deathrattle minion that also has Charge!
The old fashioned way of summoning Doomguard, tonight, someone dies!
Now control Warlock can get Doomguard without worrying about discarding important cards.
Lotus Illusionist