What's this? A sudden special competition has appeared! To celebrate the release of the new 'Blizzard World' map in Overwatch, which features some awesome Hearthstone sections, the fantastic Snaxxramas restaurant and other homages to Blizzard games, this special competition is asking you to bring your favourite Blizzard character to Hearthstone.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card must be a minion, spell or weapon
Your card must represent or allude to a character from another Blizzard IP besides Hearthstone and World of Warcraft
For those wondering that means:
The StarCraft franchise
The Diablo franchise
Overwatch
Heroes of the Storm
The Lost Vikings
Rock 'n Roll Racing
Blackthorne
Competition Process
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 29/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 29/Jan/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 30/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 30/Jan/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 31/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!
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Well, some time ago I started creating a Diablo-based expansion, so I guess I can just take something from there. I really should get to finishing that someday.
Heroes of the Storm has Warcraft characters so it's OK if I do a Warcraft character that somehow appears in HoTS right?
(yeah, I don't know any other franchises)
You cannot do any of the characters listed as "Warcraft" in Heroes of the Storm, no.
Looking at the Hero pages for Overwatch or HotS could give you some inspiration for how to translate someone to Hearthstone, though! There's a lot of really neat character designs.
Maybe, at least if you pick something that has not appeared in Hearthstone yet... or maybe an alternative skin.
Example: In case 1, you could pick Chen, Li Li, Rehgar, Chromie, Kael'Thas, Lunara, Greymane...
In case 2, you could try something like "Mad Axe Garrosh", "Cyb-Arak", "Dreadlord Jaina", "Winter Veil Malfurion", "Dark Queen Alexstrasza"...
In case you really have to pick something not from Warcraft universe, I suggest you check Battle.net, in Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch, as you can find ability descriptions and even lore of the characters.
Nevermind, I already have Overwatch cards from Season 5 mini comp #6
Also I had this idea for Genji. I keep seeing these "I need healing" memes without knowing what they actually mean but maybe this effect can fit.
A-Mei-zing! (11/10)
I kinda like that D'Va concept, although I would suggest a 4/5 and a 1/1 on the stat distribution.
And... that's not exactly the "I need healing meme". As a pro genji player, I understand that you MUST ALWAYS HAVE 200 HEALTH AT ALL TIMES. When you have 199 hp, run over to the nearest Ana and demand heals, dodging the health packs and payload you passed whilst chasing, said Ana. Then, proceed to spam "x" while jumping around and about, dodging every bullet, friend or foe, that comes your way.
Oh, also my submission is definitely going to be a cyborg ninja dude.
Nevermind, I already have Overwatch cards from Season 5 mini comp #6
Also I had this idea for Genji. I keep seeing these "I need healing" memes without knowing what they actually mean but maybe this effect can fit.
A-Mei-zing! (11/10)
I kinda like that D'Va concept, although I would suggest a 4/5 and a 1/1 on the stat distribution.
And... that's not exactly the "I need healing meme". As a pro genji player, I understand that you MUST ALWAYS HAVE 200 HEALTH AT ALL TIMES. When you have 199 hp, run over to the nearest Ana and demand heals, dodging the health packs and payload you passed whilst chasing, said Ana. Then, proceed to spam "x" while jumping around and about, dodging every bullet, friend or foe, that comes your way.
Oh, also my submission is definitely going to be a cyborg ninja dude.
Yeah, it has to be something like this:
That being said, I like D.Va the most out of your concepts. Mei is meme, but too 'fun and interactive' for my tastes. Sombra is also sort of weird in that it doesn't do enough... I think "Battlecry: Disable your opponent's Hero Power for two turns" or "Battlecry: Your opponent can't draw cards next turn" or "Battlecry: Enemy cards cost (5) more next turn" or something like that.
So, update. I started college today, and it has long days (I left shortly after 8:00 AM and I got home at about 5:30 PM). So, I definitely will have less time to compete in these, but I'm not dropping out because I'm absolutely positive I can still do this and I'm only going there on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I'll still have plenty of time to come here (copy-paste from the big comp).
That said, I have 2 cards from the Season 5 Mini Comp. Keep in mind these were made very early June of last year, before KotFT was even announced.
During the competition, a few people said that Torbjorn was broken. Personally I still don't understand it. In fact, I don't even think it's good enough to see play.
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@PhoenixFeather: I prefer 1/4 because she's less easy to kill this way. I don't know if she's supposed to be fragile when not in her mech but Hearthstone-wise this is better.
@Viridian(Teknician?): Excellent idea! It's a counter to Razakancer Priest this way! I will even make her 3 turns!
I also had a new idea (Doomfist)
Pls tell me if flavor is off
EDIT: @Demonxz95: Did the OW comp happened when Warrior was cancer? If so, this can explain that. Nowadays though, Warrior NEEDS OP cards and yours looks fine to me. The only thing that bugs me is the repeated card. I would just make something like "Battlecry: Summon two/three 0/3 Turrets".
EDIT2: @Mvon: Your card is waaay too complicated for me.
EDIT: @Demonxz95: Did the OW comp happened when Warrior was cancer? If so, this can explain that. Nowadays though, Warrior NEEDS OP cards and yours looks fine to me. The only thing that bugs me is the repeated card. I would just make something like "Battlecry: Summon two/three 0/3 Turrets".
It happened at the start of June in 2017. At this point, Pirate Warrior and Quest Warrior were both existing decks. Obviously Pirate would never have played this, but I supposed it might've been powerful in Quest.
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@Viridian(Teknician?): Excellent idea! It's a counter to Razakancer Priest this way! I will even make her 3 turns!
I also had a new idea (Doomfist)
Pls tell me if flavor is off
Yes indeed, it's still me. I fancied a change :P
Doom Fist is a bit... underpowered? I mean, it's not underpowered in Hearthstone terms, but that legendary giant gauntlet just gets used up immediately! You should make it something ridiculous like a 2/10 weapon or something... If anything you should make a Doomfist minion with Deathrattle: Equip Doomfist's Gauntlet. We all know that the gauntlet is passed down from generation to generation.
Also, Sombra just probably cost more just for how annoying she is; 5 mana seems reasonable to me.
So, I know I submitted already but I need to figure out how I want to execute my idea:
The first one is what I uploaded first, and is less wordy than the other one. I intended it to cost (2) less every time it returns... like 6, 4, 2, 0... But I don't think the first wording works (thanks for the heads up Phoenixfeather), so I changed to the second. I actually don't know if the second version would work either. Should I just explain what I want it to do rather as a fixed interaction rather than try and write something even funkier?
@PhoenixFeather: I prefer 1/4 because she's less easy to kill this way. I don't know if she's supposed to be fragile when not in her mech but Hearthstone-wise this is better.
@Viridian(Teknician?): Excellent idea! It's a counter to Razakancer Priest this way! I will even make her 3 turns!
I also had a new idea (Doomfist)
Pls tell me if flavor is off
D.Va in Mech is 600hp, while out of mech is 150hp. That said, mech on 5 Health and D.Va on 3 or 2 would be fine.
While your Doomfist idea looks like, I think it's not its flavor. The Doomfist is suppoused to be more a hard hitter ("could level a skyscrapper" they said) than a mass puncher. I thought on something more like "for every turn you don't attack with this, gain +1 or +2 Attack until you attack", or something like that.
Moira: Referencing her in-game mechanic and playstyle in which she restore health equal to the amount damage deal.
Heroes Never Die: Referencing Mercy's Resurrect ability in a more creative way than the obvious
Genji Shimada: Referencing his Swift Strike ability that is refreshed when score a kill and his in-game weapon of the Shuriken
I'm pretty sure Heroes Never Die is a carbon copy (minus the artwork) of a previously winning card. Don't quote me on that though.
I also had a Moira idea, but I like yours a lot better (I've never actually played Overwatch before, or any other Blizzard game for the matter, so I'm just going off what I see and hear). Is the effect intended to hit itself?
Genji Shimada is a cool card. Thumbs up from me. Swift Strike however has a typo. It should say "if that kills it" (Mortal Coil, Bane of Doom).
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This should be interesting... anyway here's what I'm thinking. In Storms Abathur can create locusts as well as help other players by healing them or buffing them etc. So with that in mind I'm thinking this Legendary can create 1/1 minions as well as buff the board, doing so in the shadows.
However I'm wondering about the cost and even the health amount. I just designed it, but I just had this card come into my mind as I have been writing this (Moroes). So with that in mind I'm wonder if Abathur should be a 0/3 for 4 mana...
On a side note I hope they are selling these at Blizzard world:
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My Entry for this week's Card Design Competition - Season 8.16:
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Special Competition Theme: SNAXX OUT!
What's this? A sudden special competition has appeared! To celebrate the release of the new 'Blizzard World' map in Overwatch, which features some awesome Hearthstone sections, the fantastic Snaxxramas restaurant and other homages to Blizzard games, this special competition is asking you to bring your favourite Blizzard character to Hearthstone.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Competition Process
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 29/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 29/Jan/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 30/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 30/Jan/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 31/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!
Discussion Topic Rules
To make sure that everything runs smoothly, we need to reserve the Submission Topic for submissions only. Everything else goes here. What is everything else, you might ask?
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You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
Well, some time ago I started creating a Diablo-based expansion, so I guess I can just take something from there. I really should get to finishing that someday.
Heroes of the Storm has Warcraft characters so it's OK if I do a Warcraft character that somehow appears in HoTS right?
(yeah, I don't know any other franchises)
Custom cards :
CLASSES : Alchemist (CCC#5 | Phase V) | Chef (CCC#4)
EXPANSIONS : Year of the Scorpion (Year Comp)
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
BOOM submitted.
This should be a fun competition!
please consider voting for my custom class in the fan creations competition :]
• TRIALS IN AUCHINDOUN - A Custom Hearthstone Adventure (4th Wing!) • New and Interesting Hearthstone Mechanics (by me!) •
Maybe, at least if you pick something that has not appeared in Hearthstone yet... or maybe an alternative skin.
Example: In case 1, you could pick Chen, Li Li, Rehgar, Chromie, Kael'Thas, Lunara, Greymane...
In case 2, you could try something like "Mad Axe Garrosh", "Cyb-Arak", "Dreadlord Jaina", "Winter Veil Malfurion", "Dark Queen Alexstrasza"...
In case you really have to pick something not from Warcraft universe, I suggest you check Battle.net, in Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch, as you can find ability descriptions and even lore of the characters.
Click to see my Hearthstone projects:
Nevermind, I already have Overwatch cards from Season 5 mini comp #6
Also I had this idea for Genji. I keep seeing these "I need healing" memes without knowing what they actually mean but maybe this effect can fit.
Custom cards :
CLASSES : Alchemist (CCC#5 | Phase V) | Chef (CCC#4)
EXPANSIONS : Year of the Scorpion (Year Comp)
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
please consider voting for my custom class in the fan creations competition :]
• TRIALS IN AUCHINDOUN - A Custom Hearthstone Adventure (4th Wing!) • New and Interesting Hearthstone Mechanics (by me!) •
LOL, your Hearthstone Mei is as mean as in Overwatch (and kinda appealing too ;) )! Good job!
I was thinking on something outside Overwatch for the concept. And then I thought about this guy, What are your opinions on him?
You'll never look at people coughing the same way again.
And yes, he shuffles Infestation #1 into your deck and Infestation #2 into your opponent's deck.
Did I made it over-the-top? Should I make it certain class only? Change artwork for Infestations? Think on something else meanwhile?
Click to see my Hearthstone projects:
So, update. I started college today, and it has long days (I left shortly after 8:00 AM and I got home at about 5:30 PM). So, I definitely will have less time to compete in these, but I'm not dropping out because I'm absolutely positive I can still do this and I'm only going there on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I'll still have plenty of time to come here (copy-paste from the big comp).
That said, I have 2 cards from the Season 5 Mini Comp. Keep in mind these were made very early June of last year, before KotFT was even announced.
During the competition, a few people said that Torbjorn was broken. Personally I still don't understand it. In fact, I don't even think it's good enough to see play.
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
@PhoenixFeather: I prefer 1/4 because she's less easy to kill this way. I don't know if she's supposed to be fragile when not in her mech but Hearthstone-wise this is better.
@Viridian(Teknician?): Excellent idea! It's a counter to Razakancer Priest this way! I will even make her 3 turns!
I also had a new idea (Doomfist)
Pls tell me if flavor is off
EDIT: @Demonxz95: Did the OW comp happened when Warrior was cancer? If so, this can explain that. Nowadays though, Warrior NEEDS OP cards and yours looks fine to me. The only thing that bugs me is the repeated card. I would just make something like "Battlecry: Summon two/three 0/3 Turrets".
EDIT2: @Mvon: Your card is waaay too complicated for me.
Custom cards :
CLASSES : Alchemist (CCC#5 | Phase V) | Chef (CCC#4)
EXPANSIONS : Year of the Scorpion (Year Comp)
oops. wrong post...
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
please consider voting for my custom class in the fan creations competition :]
• TRIALS IN AUCHINDOUN - A Custom Hearthstone Adventure (4th Wing!) • New and Interesting Hearthstone Mechanics (by me!) •
Click to see my Hearthstone projects:
Click to see my Hearthstone projects:
A bunch of Overwatch card incoming:
Click here to visit my Timestream Tracking Finalist Year of the Dragon in collaboration with Demonxz95
Class Creation Finalist: The Astromancer
Best cards vote by community:
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This should be interesting... anyway here's what I'm thinking. In Storms Abathur can create locusts as well as help other players by healing them or buffing them etc. So with that in mind I'm thinking this Legendary can create 1/1 minions as well as buff the board, doing so in the shadows.
However I'm wondering about the cost and even the health amount. I just designed it, but I just had this card come into my mind as I have been writing this (Moroes). So with that in mind I'm wonder if Abathur should be a 0/3 for 4 mana...
On a side note I hope they are selling these at Blizzard world:
My Entry for this week's Card Design Competition - Season 8.16: