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
Preview Phase
(Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 01/Feb/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 01/Feb/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 05/Feb/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 05/Feb/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 06/Feb/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 06/Feb/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 7/Feb/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!
How do Stories work? Well when a action happens, a card appears on screen that could be in the following Spoiler, they will pop up on the screen like actions, but every story starts with Once upon a Time.
"The Grim Reaper won't let people trap him under their beds anymore"
The
Battlecry
s that deal damage do restore health to your hero because of the
lifesteal
effect, but you can't control where the
Battle
cry
effects will target though.
Summon
:
Humanity is in peril.
Attack:
Inhuman beast!
Flavor text:
Lord Garithos is the kind of grumpy old man who screams "Get of my lawn!" to any non-human he sees.
Explanation:
Garithos (from the Wacraft III: Frozen Throne expansion) in his racist ways is not a fan of non-humans. Though due to the lack of classic race tribes in Hearthstone, I had to work around that. Because of that he only keeps his
Taunt
/will to protect others if either 1) you control no other minions 2) you control a single minion, or 3) if you control 2 or more minions and they all have the same card name. If you control multiple different minions, Garithos loses
Taunt
.
One of the things I always want in Hearthstone is more counterplay options. Too often it just feels like two people playing solitaire and seeing who wins first. This card gives you lots of options to handle different situations, including a board full of Voidlords.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here
Competition Theme: Third Time's the Charm
This week's theme comes from CheeseEtc , whose "Helm of Domination" was the winner of our " Token of Appreciation " competition!
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Here's the full list of valid Keywords:
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 01/Feb/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 01/Feb/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 05/Feb/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 05/Feb/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 06/Feb/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 06/Feb/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 7/Feb/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!
Good Luck!
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
How do Stories work? Well when a action happens, a card appears on screen that could be in the following Spoiler, they will pop up on the screen like actions, but every story starts with Once upon a Time.
Weekly Card Design Competition 10.15
"The golem was quite mad he couldn't get Charge , even as Patches the Pirate silently wept in a corner"
It will not choose an ability it already has, so it can't waste a turn.
Let the Gibbering Commence!
Remember when Quest Hunter was even remotely good? Me neither. Hopefully, this would change that :P
Unpopular opinion: Rogue is OP
Make Inspire great agai... I mean... Make Inspire great!
Click to see my Hearthstone projects:
"Long ago, the four keywords lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire keyword attacked."
Edit: Fine Tox... I've made a minor change.
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
No more discarding Gul'dan!
"The Grim Reaper won't let people trap him under their beds anymore"
The Battlecry s that deal damage do restore health to your hero because of the lifesteal effect, but you can't control where the Battle cry effects will target though.
Hero alway get harm first, than Inspire by someone and get victory
so please kill it without a lot of nonsense
PS. Mage heropower can`t trigger it because when you inspire it,it actually not Enrage .
full heal by priest heropower don`t trigger too.
(inspire triggers after hero power's effect)
Summon : Humanity is in peril.
Attack: Inhuman beast!
Flavor text: Lord Garithos is the kind of grumpy old man who screams "Get of my lawn!" to any non-human he sees.
Explanation: Garithos (from the Wacraft III: Frozen Throne expansion) in his racist ways is not a fan of non-humans. Though due to the lack of classic race tribes in Hearthstone, I had to work around that. Because of that he only keeps his Taunt /will to protect others if either 1) you control no other minions 2) you control a single minion, or 3) if you control 2 or more minions and they all have the same card name. If you control multiple different minions, Garithos loses Taunt .
Summon : "Into battle! pzzzt!"
Death : "Pzzt pzt (buzzing sound). Damn bot!"
Attack : "Pzztt"
Attack : "Die now"
Death : "Mission Failed"
A card mainly used for N'Zoth, the Corruptor , recruit and resurrecting shenanigans.
A bit broken, but fun :D
Your opponent will loose his last card drawn. Gain Charge if it's a Deathrattle minion.
One of the things I always want in Hearthstone is more counterplay options. Too often it just feels like two people playing solitaire and seeing who wins first. This card gives you lots of options to handle different situations, including a board full of Voidlords.
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