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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).
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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.
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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.
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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 22/2/18) During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme. Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 22/2/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 26/2/18) 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 26/2/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 27/2/18) 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 27/2/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 28/2/18) 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!
Can be used to get a big tempo turn early or keep it for a later
combo
turn, at the expense of giving your opponent mana leverage in return. It can also be used to give your opponent a full hand, to make him mill his next card or in combination with Coldlight Oracle.
Flavor text: He keeps surviving all the things that are happening in Azeroth. He is pretty good Illusionist afterall.)
This card might be the one that can finally allow to exist a Dragon Mage decks. The
Battlecry
is good on its own.( It allows to trigger cards like Netherspite Historian or Blackwing Corruptor). Stats are the same as Drakonid Operative has. It should not be owerpowered while you can have only 1 copy of it in the deck but it would be strong thats for sure.
Flavor:
No magic will hold him! Gul'dan had better check himself.
What? No mana cost?
Since its like
Shifting Scroll
, its unplayable directly. Instead, this card summons itself once the condition is met.
This means your best plan of action is to trade or play an AoE. Opponents also should be wary, as
clearing out your minions on their turn can also cause this card to be summoned!
This gives Warlock an unique tool to try to keep up a bit of pressure on the board in Zoo decks, rather than having to run big spells to use cards like
Arcane Tyrant
.
I would love to see this kind of mechanic in the game. For clarification, a burned card is one that you draw when your hand is full and it is "burned". This would include your opponent's burned cards. This would work well in a mill Druid deck that we've seen before and I would love to see come back.
"And finally, the terror has been vanquished! But, wait, is that ale on your cloak? Crap, its everywhere. I think Alextrasza got hit in the eye. How is this even possible? Wait Deathwing, what are you doing? Please Don't! I didnt even know dragons could get drunk."
it’s an elemental made of ale that gets everyone SUPER DRUNK after it dies. I associated warrior with alchohol the most.
A simple yet interesting minion that could be used in a
deathrattle
oriented Warlock deck or to punish an opponent using too many
deathrattle
synergies.
Her name is Celestine and she wants you to compliment her eye of the storm.
Hurricane Elemental is intended as a bit of Druid AoE first and foremost, being very comparable to
Corrupted Seer
. The card draw aspect is supposed to be reminiscent of hurricanes drawing objects into themselves. The symmetrical nature of both effects also mirrors the nature of hurricanes.
Here goes for my submission, It's got a few tokens, but it's worth a look:
The spell(s) you give your opponent effectively only cost 1 mana after you factor in the Coins they get.
This card aims to demonstrate getting surrounded by Pirates in a Hearthstone flavor, all while adding a solid mid game to aggressive Warlock decks outside of
Doomguard
.
This card is obviously for Aluneth Mage. If you equip Aluneth, you will automatically get to play this card. Drawing him isn't the greatest, but his benefits from equipping Aluneth (even if you draw him early, he goes back into the deck, so you can equip a new weapon). Additionally, this card helps prevent you from over fatiguing with Aluneth as that is a common issue with the weapon. On a side note: this card could technically see some play in a fatigue type of mage. If it runs Medivh, his battle to equip a weapon will also
summon
this pirate. Finally, it will be useful to prevent you from continuously fatiguing in the long game. You can play this minion and if you are nearly out of cards, killing it will help prevent that fatigue damage.
I decided not to go with my original design of Captain Grayson just because he would of been to powerful in Frost Lich Jaina decks and still pretty good card in any spell mage.
Edit: Sorry about the black background. I got some advice not to use photobucket and I had to use my personal image I saved of the card (which has the black background).
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: Tribe and Tested
This week's theme comes from RazorOfArtorias , whose "Midas, the Gold-Cursed" was the winner of our Rare Remarks 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
Preview Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 22/2/18)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 22/2/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 26/2/18)
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 26/2/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 27/2/18)
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 27/2/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 28/2/18)
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!
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Can be used to get a big tempo turn early or keep it for a later combo turn, at the expense of giving your opponent mana leverage in return. It can also be used to give your opponent a full hand, to make him mill his next card or in combination with Coldlight Oracle.
Flavor text: He keeps surviving all the things that are happening in Azeroth. He is pretty good Illusionist afterall.)
This card might be the one that can finally allow to exist a Dragon Mage decks. The Battlecry is good on its own.( It allows to trigger cards like Netherspite Historian or Blackwing Corruptor). Stats are the same as Drakonid Operative has. It should not be owerpowered while you can have only 1 copy of it in the deck but it would be strong thats for sure.
Moving into https://outof.cards/members/firepaladinhs/decks
Flavor: No magic will hold him! Gul'dan had better check himself.
What? No mana cost?
Since its like Shifting Scroll , its unplayable directly. Instead, this card summons itself once the condition is met.
This means your best plan of action is to trade or play an AoE. Opponents also should be wary, as clearing out your minions on their turn can also cause this card to be summoned!
This gives Warlock an unique tool to try to keep up a bit of pressure on the board in Zoo decks, rather than having to run big spells to use cards like Arcane Tyrant .
I would love to see this kind of mechanic in the game. For clarification, a burned card is one that you draw when your hand is full and it is "burned". This would include your opponent's burned cards. This would work well in a mill Druid deck that we've seen before and I would love to see come back.
"And finally, the terror has been vanquished! But, wait, is that ale on your cloak? Crap, its everywhere. I think Alextrasza got hit in the eye. How is this even possible? Wait Deathwing, what are you doing? Please Don't! I didnt even know dragons could get drunk."
it’s an elemental made of ale that gets everyone SUPER DRUNK after it dies. I associated warrior with alchohol the most.
A simple yet interesting minion that could be used in a deathrattle oriented Warlock deck or to punish an opponent using too many deathrattle synergies.
Lets make aggro/shadowform priest a thing! Maybe even a pirate priest?!?
A simple card that gets 'upgraded' when you have a shadowform in play, similar to the manner that shadowform interacts with itself.
Flavor text: "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an holy dove!"
Her name is Celestine and she wants you to compliment her eye of the storm.
Hurricane Elemental is intended as a bit of Druid AoE first and foremost, being very comparable to Corrupted Seer . The card draw aspect is supposed to be reminiscent of hurricanes drawing objects into themselves. The symmetrical nature of both effects also mirrors the nature of hurricanes.
Thx Likafoss for your feedback and Entro9 for the wording.
My Entry for this week's Card Design Competition - Season 8.16:
Flavour text : His favorite card is Twig of the world tree
"Rider Tip #1: Don't EVER fall off your panther."
Here goes for my submission, It's got a few tokens, but it's worth a look:
The spell(s) you give your opponent effectively only cost 1 mana after you factor in the Coins they get.
This card aims to demonstrate getting surrounded by Pirates in a Hearthstone flavor, all while adding a solid mid game to aggressive Warlock decks outside of Doomguard .
This space is intentionally blank.
'He's really a chip off the old... him.'
Weekly Card Design Competition 10.15
This card is obviously for Aluneth Mage. If you equip Aluneth, you will automatically get to play this card. Drawing him isn't the greatest, but his benefits from equipping Aluneth (even if you draw him early, he goes back into the deck, so you can equip a new weapon). Additionally, this card helps prevent you from over fatiguing with Aluneth as that is a common issue with the weapon. On a side note: this card could technically see some play in a fatigue type of mage. If it runs Medivh, his battle to equip a weapon will also summon this pirate. Finally, it will be useful to prevent you from continuously fatiguing in the long game. You can play this minion and if you are nearly out of cards, killing it will help prevent that fatigue damage.
I decided not to go with my original design of Captain Grayson just because he would of been to powerful in Frost Lich Jaina decks and still pretty good card in any spell mage.
Edit: Sorry about the black background. I got some advice not to use photobucket and I had to use my personal image I saved of the card (which has the black background).
Check out crazy OTK Decks and Hearthstone Myths at my channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHappy115
Made a murloc mage card that actually helps tempo mage a little if they run murlocs.
Synergy with Mana Wyrm and Flamewaker, as well as mage quest.
Flavor text: He spends his days in the tar pits, constructing new friends out of his old ones.