This week's theme comes from
biggerbossman
, whose "
A Quiet Night"
was the winner of our
Witchword
competition!
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
Your card must interact with a player’s empty deck or the Fatigue mechanic.
There are no existing examples. You're on your own!
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 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 05/04/18
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase
(Starts 21:00 UTC 05/04/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 09/04/18
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 09/04/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 10/04/18)
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 10/04/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 11/04/18)
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!
Memedeck-seeker. Always tries to build new decks. Hates tournements, streamers, netdecks and poor-o players. ah, but a tournement mode could be great !!!
Liberation Force is meant to fit into Tempo and Control Warrior. By spending two mana, you can guarantee that your next drawn minions have Rush and give you a nice value trade (
The Boogeymonster
anyone?). If your deck is empty, you instead shuffle two 2/2 minions into your deck then apply the buff to them, guaranteeing the effect even if you ran out of cards and allowing you to delay fatigue.
Nightmare Sorcerer
allows for some crazy late-game combos, especially in classes like Warlock. Being a Demon, it has good synergy with
Bloodreaver Gul'dan
when both of you are running low on cards. This card enables you—as any class— to balance out fatigue damage with your opponent while still using a minion that has fair stats.
A sweet control tool for Priest. Refill your deck, heal your hero, contest the board, and maybe even set up for a future
combo
. And who doesn't like ol' Herald Volazj?
Can be used to force enemy to fatigue with minor feedback which is restoring their health. Sometime you can also destroy your own deck to gain significant healing in other to tall some more turns.
Edit: I forgot to choose the class for this card. Just fixed it to be a Warlock card.
May seem weak at first but the power of being able to take away your opponents late game threats is pretty powerful. Also note the cursed blade synergy ;P. Other synergies like it may be possible as well in the future.
Having Resurrection Sickness in hand basically "locks" your deck, activating the fatigue mechanic. Then, if you feel lucky enough, you can choose to pay the 10 mana to play the card, removing it from your hand and making the deck accessable again.
Flavor: That's the problem with boy kings. Anduin will break your toys then say they belong to him.
A short lifeline when you get to the fatigue portion of the game that isn't completely useless before then. Turn those dead minions against your opponent.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: Decked Out
This week's theme comes from biggerbossman , whose " A Quiet Night" was the winner of our Witchword 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 05/04/18
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 05/04/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 09/04/18
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 09/04/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 10/04/18)
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 10/04/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 11/04/18)
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!
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
"When you've been fighting orcs and demons for as long as I have, you figure out tricks to convince yourself to get out of bed every morning."
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Just try not to burn Avatar of Aggramar with your draw and you are ok!
Edit: I wrongly attached hearthcards image to this. Changed it to imgur link now. Sorry for that.
Memedeck-seeker. Always tries to build new decks. Hates tournements, streamers, netdecks and poor-o players.
ah, but a tournement mode could be great !!!
Liberation Force is meant to fit into Tempo and Control Warrior. By spending two mana, you can guarantee that your next drawn minions have Rush and give you a nice value trade ( The Boogeymonster anyone?). If your deck is empty, you instead shuffle two 2/2 minions into your deck then apply the buff to them, guaranteeing the effect even if you ran out of cards and allowing you to delay fatigue.
Nightmare Sorcerer allows for some crazy late-game combos, especially in classes like Warlock. Being a Demon, it has good synergy with Bloodreaver Gul'dan when both of you are running low on cards. This card enables you—as any class— to balance out fatigue damage with your opponent while still using a minion that has fair stats.
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!) •
A sweet control tool for Priest. Refill your deck, heal your hero, contest the board, and maybe even set up for a future combo . And who doesn't like ol' Herald Volazj?
"Imagine working up a sweat so fierce... it came to life with a vengeance. And a foul odor."
bepisCan be used to force enemy to fatigue with minor feedback which is restoring their health. Sometime you can also destroy your own deck to gain significant healing in other to tall some more turns.
Edit: I forgot to choose the class for this card. Just fixed it to be a Warlock card.
May seem weak at first but the power of being able to take away your opponents late game threats is pretty powerful. Also note the cursed blade synergy ;P. Other synergies like it may be possible as well in the future.
Just when you thought Druid would finally start taking Fatigue ;)
Unpopular opinion: Rogue is OP
talk about fatigue warrior :P
This will just stop your regular card draw. You still draw cards trough Battlecry /Deathrattle.
Got no skill? Just click here -> Face Hunter
Having Resurrection Sickness in hand basically "locks" your deck, activating the fatigue mechanic. Then, if you feel lucky enough, you can choose to pay the 10 mana to play the card, removing it from your hand and making the deck accessable again.
"Elephants guide me." -Thrall
In the right deck, this quest lets you summon a bastion of minions like Wickerflame Burnbristle , Tirion Fordring and Bolvar, Fireblood to fend you off another turn or two.. before you die off of fatigue, that is.
Since you don't get to use the minions you summoned on the same turn, the 8 Health would give you enough leeway to try and go for a swing.
Edit: Added Commentary
Flavor: That's the problem with boy kings. Anduin will break your toys then say they belong to him.
A short lifeline when you get to the fatigue portion of the game that isn't completely useless before then. Turn those dead minions against your opponent.
Edit: Balance change