This week's theme comes from Sinti, whose "Treasure Hunter" was the winner of our Size Matters competition!
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card must be an "Arena Exclusive" card
Your card must be a class card (as all current exclusive cards are)
Your card cannot use the new Echo or Rush keywords, or a 'Start of Game' effect - we'd prefer for this competition to be about Arena cards, rather than who can make the most interesting card with the new mechanics
Since Arena Exclusive cards are in the arena pool only for a certain time duration, they can be a little crazier than what you're used to seeing in Arena or even Constructed, though you should adhere to some reasonable self-imposed restrictions; for example, 1-cost Pyroblast is not a way to go, thanks!
Arena Exclusive cards have no rarity or watermark, so treat them as Basic cards for Hearthcards purposes.
You can check all existing examples here (Arena Exclusive Cards - in spoilers there are more examples since audience at Blizzcon chose 1 out of 3 cards for each class)
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
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 19/03/18. 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 19/03/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 20/03/18 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 20/03/18 , Ends 21:00 UTC 21/03/18 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!
Yes, a mechanic we learned to love in the Dungeon Runs is now coming to arena! Think of the implications! Expand your deck beyond 30 cards. Your draft was bad? Not anymore! Just take what you need and run with it!
This armor can not be healed obviously on the minions. Additionally, changes to health would not affect the armor. This is primarily for stuff like Crazed Alchemist (swap health and attack). If minion has armor and no health, it does still die. The Armor indicator will appear just above the minion's health. This card is comparable to priest's Shadowform. Makes the warrior hero power not completely useless and typically a better version of Priest's lesser heal (since it can increase maximum damage taken).
Purposedly impale your minions in those mean enemies, then watch them all come back to life ! But be careful.. Otherwise you might return their minions back in the process.. Timing is the key.
if you have more than 1 copies of this card, only one card will draw (unless you are using card draw at turn 3) i.e
Mulligan: You may get a Felbat in your starting hand
Turn 1: You may get a Felbat when drawing a card
Turn 2: You may get a Felbat when drawing a card
Turn 3: You are drawing Felbat, If you use other card or hero p
Card Name
ower, and you have another Felbat in your deck, The card you draw will be Felbat.
This card ensures you have a 3-Cost drop when Turn 3 in the Arena. Which prevent losing early game tempo.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: Lord of the Arena
This week's theme comes from Sinti, whose "Treasure Hunter" was the winner of our Size Matters competition!
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
More info in a news article (Designer Insights: Upcoming Arena Changes - New Cards and Pick Rules)
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 21:00 UTC 19/03/18.
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 19/03/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 20/03/18
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 20/03/18 , Ends 21:00 UTC 21/03/18
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!
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
"That is one pissed-off penguin."
(Edited only to make image less enormous.)
"The dividing part is covered by Gorehowl."
Yes, a mechanic we learned to love in the Dungeon Runs is now coming to arena! Think of the implications! Expand your deck beyond 30 cards. Your draft was bad? Not anymore! Just take what you need and run with it!
/edit: changed rarity
This armor can not be healed obviously on the minions. Additionally, changes to health would not affect the armor. This is primarily for stuff like Crazed Alchemist (swap health and attack). If minion has armor and no health, it does still die. The Armor indicator will appear just above the minion's health. This card is comparable to priest's Shadowform. Makes the warrior hero power not completely useless and typically a better version of Priest's lesser heal (since it can increase maximum damage taken).
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Purposedly impale your minions in those mean enemies, then watch them all come back to life ! But be careful.. Otherwise you might return their minions back in the process.. Timing is the key.
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if working, this card will became
It has to be snakes.
"JOIN! OR DIE! or bring us cookies. We'd prefer that over BOTH."
Cult Master
Acolyte of Agony
Acolyte of Pain
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
This effect won't affect the minion you choose. Only the minions other than that minion with the same attack will be destroyed.
Here is my submission this week:
Flavor text: Because I am Bat, man.
if you have more than 1 copies of this card, only one card will draw (unless you are using card draw at turn 3) i.e
Mulligan: You may get a Felbat in your starting hand
Turn 1: You may get a Felbat when drawing a card
Turn 2: You may get a Felbat when drawing a card
Turn 3: You are drawing Felbat, If you use other card or hero p Card Name ower, and you have another Felbat in your deck, The card you draw will be Felbat.
This card ensures you have a 3-Cost drop when Turn 3 in the Arena. Which prevent losing early game tempo.
Please upvote my submission: Weekly Card Design Competition 6.12 - Submission Topic
My Recent Competition Design:
Warlock lover! Fan Card Designer! Low dust high win rate deck builder! Redqueen is here!
Recent Deck: R5 Budget Zoolock against priest
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Class Creation Finalist: The Astromancer
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Note: The effect is ongoing like Dragon Consort , so your next Choose One will be combined, even if it is turns later in the game.