This week's theme comes from your lovely mod squad, who always supports you.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card must contain the Freeze Keyword in one way or another. (Yes, this includes 'Frozen'.)
Your main card must have the Freeze Keyword - tokens are allowed, but they can't be the only place it shows up.
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 forsubmissions 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.
Where possible, try to credit the artist of the art you use if it isn't from an official Blizzard source.
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
Preview Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 04/Jan/2018) During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme. Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 11/Jan/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 15/Jan/2018) 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 21:00 UTC 15/Jan/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 16/Jan/2018) 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 21:00 UTC 16/Jan/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 17/Jan/2018) 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? You can also PM one of us Fan Creation Mods!
A little extra help for
Freeze
Shaman. This one is perfect for cards with
Taunt
, big minions and, just imagine for a second,
Moorabi
. Just to clarify, you first
freeze
the minion, then copy it. Meaning, the copy you
summon
will be Frozen.
"Frost magic is cool until someone makes a pun about it"
Like
Reincarnate
, this card resummons minions, but on both you and your opponent sides. This can be a win condition for
freeze
shaman. These cards resummon minions until there are no longer be any frozen minions on the enemy's board.
A higher stated Volcanosaur with a frosty downside. Your opponent has two turns to remove it, but you can make it as hard to remove as possible, or just make it a massive
taunt
wall, or make it a 14+ damage nuke if your opponent can't remove it.
Nothing too mechanically wacky, but I'm going more for theme and realism. Plus, I always like to bring existing mechanics into classes that don't have (much) existing access to them.
This is the Submissions Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: Blue Screened
This week's theme comes from your lovely mod squad, who always supports you.
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
Preview Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 04/Jan/2018)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 11/Jan/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 15/Jan/2018)
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 21:00 UTC 15/Jan/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 16/Jan/2018)
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 21:00 UTC 16/Jan/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 17/Jan/2018)
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? You can also PM one of us Fan Creation Mods!
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
Let it go... Let it go... Can't hold back anymore...
Thanks for the help Zence.
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Having those cute little penguins stand on top of you almost makes being frozen worth it. Almost.
Thundersnow
Works well with Spellstone/Giants
In case, like me, you didn't know Thundersnow is a thing, just check Wikipedia :D. GL!
A little extra help for Freeze Shaman. This one is perfect for cards with Taunt , big minions and, just imagine for a second, Moorabi . Just to clarify, you first freeze the minion, then copy it. Meaning, the copy you summon will be Frozen.
Wizards only, fools, keep it tight.
"Frost magic is cool until someone makes a pun about it"
Like Reincarnate , this card resummons minions, but on both you and your opponent sides. This can be a win condition for freeze shaman. These cards resummon minions until there are no longer be any frozen minions on the enemy's board.
A higher stated Volcanosaur with a frosty downside. Your opponent has two turns to remove it, but you can make it as hard to remove as possible, or just make it a massive taunt wall, or make it a 14+ damage nuke if your opponent can't remove it.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
Summon : "I promise, you won't feel a thing!"
Attack: "Ugh... Warm bodies..."
Die: "My specimens!"
Nothing too mechanically wacky, but I'm going more for theme and realism. Plus, I always like to bring existing mechanics into classes that don't have (much) existing access to them.
Creating a Zombeast from frozen carcass seems like a cool concept for our Hunter Deathknight, Deathstalker Rexxar .
This is a card to help fill the void for if and when Ice Block transitions to the Hall of Fame.
The name is inspired by the World of Warcraft Frost Mage ability and the art is from the WoW TCG card .
When Prophet Velen go to the Northrend and get cold
Tales of Azeroth- 150+ card expansion!
I do cards and stuff. I'm cool, right? :3
Brrrloc and Glacial Shard are his best friends!