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. An entry normally consists of only
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Speaking of the Discussion Topic, that is where any discussion of this competition should go. This thread is for
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. 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.
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Accompanying the image of your card, you may offer some
minimal additional commentary
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You
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. We've been doing this for a while, so if you blatantly rip off somebody else's idea, we will know.
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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:
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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 17.05.2018)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase
(Starts 21:00 UTC 17.05.2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 21.05.2018)
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 21.05.2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 22.05.2018)
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 22.05.2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 23.05.2018)
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!
Yeah, it’s a rare with a lot of words. Since the effect is still pretty much straight-forward and the wordiness comes from technical stuff, I think its OK, but maybe summoning a 4/4 with rush and
taunt
would be better.
Although its not the same, and that's my second point- if there is no enemy minion, the
summon
doesn’t happen.
The flavor is- the troll shoots an arrow, and the raptor chases after it, and it protects his tamer as well
Masta' Trappa' Musa sparkles orange to signal his upgrade bonus. Hunter Secrets in your hand also sparkle orange; mousing over them highlights the words/stats (between asterisks) affected by his bonus.
Once an upgraded
Secret
is played, it won’t lose its bonus when Musa dies or leaves the battlefield.
Click the Spoiler below to preview every upgraded
Secret
.
'If you have...' refers to having the card in your hand or deck. Death Knight refers to that class's respective Death Knight card (ex. Warlock -> Bloodreaver Gul'dan).
Flavor: "Go on, be negative. You'll be just his type."
What other Loa to represent warlock's theme of sacrifice and self-damage for power that the Blood God?
The one "free" spell per turn stops you from conpleting Rin's ritual with Violet Ilusionist. The 3 or less cost requirement is to prevent weird combos with cheap spells like Power Overwhelming or Treachery. As a clarification, it functions just like Bloodbloom and Cho'Gall, so the spellstone is not upgraded by playing spells.
I don't know anything about trolls...
Freeze
Shaman on the other hand, I know a tad or two. Basically, whenever you
freeze
a friendly minion, you cast
Cryostasis
on it. I guess
Voodoo Hexxer
+
Cryostasis
is now OP... Ah well. :/
I really like the Start of Game mechanic and wanted to expand on it. I feel like Ja'zu can fit in many types of Shaman decks from Elementals to control.
So you drop Hakkar and you can start cycling through your deck quickly. Effectively, you hit your hero power, draw a card, the inspire triggers and a card is discarded, which will then refresh your hero power. So, it is possible to discard the card you just drew. Obvious discard synergy. I also worded the card in such a way so that it's not possible to go infinite (Or at least, no easy way to go infinite).
Unlike
Raza the Chained
, the hero power discount is not a
battlecry
so the effect is not permanent. If Hakkar is killed, your hero power goes back to 2 mana and will no longer refresh. He also costs 5 mana, so he can be used alongside
Baku the Mooneater
for extra synergy.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here .
Competition Theme: Hoodoo Voodoo?
This week's theme comes from YoThats , whose Xal'atath was the winner of our Life and Death competition.
This is also the last competition of this season of Hearthpwn WCDC's.
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 17.05.2018)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 17.05.2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 21.05.2018)
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 21.05.2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 22.05.2018)
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 22.05.2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 23.05.2018)
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!
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A few things to clarify:
Yeah, it’s a rare with a lot of words. Since the effect is still pretty much straight-forward and the wordiness comes from technical stuff, I think its OK, but maybe summoning a 4/4 with rush and taunt would be better.
Although its not the same, and that's my second point- if there is no enemy minion, the summon doesn’t happen.
The flavor is- the troll shoots an arrow, and the raptor chases after it, and it protects his tamer as well
Masta' Trappa' Musa sparkles orange to signal his upgrade bonus. Hunter Secrets in your hand also sparkle orange; mousing over them highlights the words/stats (between asterisks) affected by his bonus.
Once an upgraded Secret is played, it won’t lose its bonus when Musa dies or leaves the battlefield.
Click the Spoiler below to preview every upgraded Secret .
"Haha, mon! Let me take a bit more o' that."
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'If you have...' refers to having the card in your hand or deck. Death Knight refers to that class's respective Death Knight card (ex. Warlock -> Bloodreaver Gul'dan).
Flavor: "Go on, be negative. You'll be just his type."
What other Loa to represent warlock's theme of sacrifice and self-damage for power that the Blood God?
The one "free" spell per turn stops you from conpleting Rin's ritual with Violet Ilusionist. The 3 or less cost requirement is to prevent weird combos with cheap spells like Power Overwhelming or Treachery. As a clarification, it functions just like Bloodbloom and Cho'Gall, so the spellstone is not upgraded by playing spells.
A - Mei - Zing!
I don't know anything about trolls... Freeze Shaman on the other hand, I know a tad or two. Basically, whenever you freeze a friendly minion, you cast Cryostasis on it. I guess Voodoo Hexxer + Cryostasis is now OP... Ah well. :/
Edit: Grammar Fixed :/
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Many Overload (2) cards make it decent 3 mana 4/4 drop. And up to free of course.
" No strangers in my village! "
TAZ'DINGO!
I see disasta' in your future.
bepisI really like the Start of Game mechanic and wanted to expand on it. I feel like Ja'zu can fit in many types of Shaman decks from Elementals to control.
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Flavor Text: You will become my snake's snack!
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
Design Post: Redqueen Cards design every day
So for example this could discover a Hellfire from Warlock, Frost Nova from Mage and a Divine Hymn from Priest.
Here's my submission for this challenge!
So you drop Hakkar and you can start cycling through your deck quickly. Effectively, you hit your hero power, draw a card, the inspire triggers and a card is discarded, which will then refresh your hero power. So, it is possible to discard the card you just drew. Obvious discard synergy. I also worded the card in such a way so that it's not possible to go infinite (Or at least, no easy way to go infinite).
Unlike Raza the Chained , the hero power discount is not a battlecry so the effect is not permanent. If Hakkar is killed, your hero power goes back to 2 mana and will no longer refresh. He also costs 5 mana, so he can be used alongside Baku the Mooneater for extra synergy.
I hope you all like him! Enjoy!
Token:
Check out my Mech Undatakah Pally deck: http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1261460-undatakah-mech-pally
REMOVED
Da Spirits just don't wanna let him die.
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,