Chromie, we have a problem. Of course, there was always a problem. Inner Fires being played before Divine Spirit and Shudderwock misfires were common in the Hearthstone world. But, Linkblade91 realized that this might be a tad bit more than the average trifle, as he stared in confusion at the figure who identified himself as Linkblade92.
Chromie, temporal investigator, ambassador of the bronze dragonflight, and temporarily a little charismatic gnome who was snoozing nearby, looked at the two Linkblades…
“Ack! Those annoying Infinites… I can’t even enjoy a summer vacation.”
Hi there! This is Chromie speaking! We seem to have a bit of a problem. It turns out that the Infinite Dragonflight decided to create a temporal loop to shred a part of the future. In fact, an entire year of it. The future has been mangled and we'll need some help recreating it. So, I’d like you to help me out by creating a new Hearthstone year to replace the missing one!
GENERAL RULES
Even if you're already a veteran of our competitions here on the Fan Creation Forum, you should read the general rules before you get started. This competition does introduce new rules, like image limitations and formatting requirements.
* The Submission Topic is for submissions only. If you want to discuss your entry, another entry, ask questions about the competition rules or process, or anything else, 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. * You are allowed only one submission, consisting of the materials specified by each competition phase. These materials must, of course, be of your own creation. If you'd like, you may collaborate with another user on a single submission, but this must be specified during Phase I. * You may make only minor edits to your entry once you have submitted 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. * You may not delete any posts you make in this topic. No, not even if you post here by mistake or accidentally double-post or something. Deleted posts screw with the system we use to help us calculate up-vote scores, so don't do that. If you to post here by mistake or accidentally double-post or something, simply edit your post to just say "REMOVED" and leave it at that. * You may not create your own topics on this forum for competition-related material. If everybody goes off and creates their own topics for specific discussion of their entries, this board will be flooded with nothing but, and so competition material must remain restricted to official competition topics. If you want to enter the competition with an expansion that you already have a topic about on this forum, then your topic will be locked in the interest of fairness to the other competitors. Not deleted, just locked, and it can be unlocked after your entry gets knocked out of the competition. Also, we realize that most people don't read these rules. So, if you've actually read these, feel good about yourself. You also may not reference or link to your topic in official competition topics.
* You must host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. We encourage you to create your entry material using Hearthcards.net, but please remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, it has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your cards disappearing part-way through the competition. After you create it, save and upload it to Imgur, Photobucket, or some other similar site. 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. * You may not submit any Gold cards or animated cards, nor may you include any images in your post other than the requested submission materials, like banners or borders. We get it, everybody wants their entry to stand out, but our pages are going to be heavy enough as it is without everybody heading their submissions with animated banners. * You must insert your images into your post using this icon on the bar above the post text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. We realize that it's also possible to upload and attach images to your post. Don't do that, though. We know from experience that, because those images are much smaller and require more work to view, entries that enter their images that way just don't do as well, so this is for your own good. * Format your entry concisely by sizing your cards appropriately and placing them beside one another rather than in a column or completely separate. The first example below is acceptable while the second is not. Entries that unnecessarily inflate the size of the submission topic and make it more difficult to get through will be disqualified. How should you size your cards? Well...
Adjust cards to a width of 250, and you should be able to get three in a row!
Adjust cards to a width of 180, and you should be able to get four in a row! (wow!)
Adjust cards to a width of 150, and you should be able to get five in a row! (no way!)
Wow! What a bunch of interesting stuff that will be in the next expansion!
Good thing I left some of it in a cool spoiler so it doesn't clutter the page!
Wait, what are you doing?
Seriously, please don't.
This is painful. Why are you doing this?
You are a monster.
* "Troll" entries will be disqualified. Fun and even humorous entries are perfectly allowed (this is Hearthstone after all), but if you're worried that your entry may be misinterpreted as a troll entry, contact a moderator before you submit.
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.
PHASE I: The Concept SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Before you get to creating dozens of cards for your year, we want to hear your proposals. Here are the requirements for your Phase I Entry:
Year Name Obviously, you have to tell everybody the name of your new Year.
You may not submit a Kraken, Mammoth, or Raven as your "Year of the (X)". This should seem pretty self explanatory. Please don't use a year that currently exists. This is a "Hearthstonian" version of the Chinese Zodiac. As far as we can tell, the expansions all seem to be a sort of animal, fictional or real. Can't think of anything? I've included a short list of possibilities below.
Alicorn
Amalgam
Anubisath
Banshee
Basilisk
Bear
Boogeyman
Bogle
Centaur
Cerberus
Changling
Chimera
Cockatrice
Cyclops
Demon
Dinosaur
Djinn
Draenai
Dragon/Drake
Drogbar
Dryad
Dwarf
Elemental
Elf
Egg
Etherial
Faerie/ Fairy
Firebird
Frog
Geist
Ghost
Gnome
Giant
Goblin
Golem
Gorgon
Gorilla
Griffin
Harpy
Hellhound
Hydra
Imp
Jackalope
Jaguar
Kelpie
Kobold
Leprechaun
Manticore
Mantid
Mare
Mech
Mermaid
Minotaur
Muse
Naga
Nerubian
N'raqi
Nymph
Ogre
Ooze
Orc
Peacock
Pegasis
Penguin
Phoenix
Pirate
Pixie
Qiraji
:)
Salamander
Satyr
Selkie
Serpent
Shade
Silithid
Siren
Sphinx
Sprite
Succubi
Sylph
Thunderbird
Titan
Tol'vir
Tortoise
Totem
Trent
Troll
Turtle
Undead
Unicorn
Val'kyr/ Valkyrie
Vampire
Wendigo
Werewolf
Wisp
Wolf
Wraith
Xiao
Yeti
Zombie
HALL OF FAME The start of a Hearthstone Year is when existing cards are rotated out to the Hall of Fame, and your year should be no different.
You should come up with exactly three (3) cards from the Basic or Classic set which will be moved to the Hall of Fame when your Year begins.
You should give a short reasoning as to why you chose each card.
EXAMPLE CARDS We do not want to see your entire Year, just enough for us to get a good idea of its concept.
You are allowed up to six (6) example cards. What kinds of cards? That's entirely up to you and what you believe would best showcase what makes your Year unique. You might decide to show off a cool classic card that would be a staple to one of your expansions, or you might decide to showcase a card that plays a major role in a deck archetype's win conditions, or you might decide to show us an example of a card that uses a new Expansion-exclusive keyword. Tell us a little something about these cards and how they fit into the grand scheme of things.
Your example cards may not produce any unique token elements. (A unique token has effects that are not explicitly stated in the original card text. The only exception to this would be if the only unique token cards they produce are one that are already produced by a Set-Exclusive Keyword
Your example cards are not required to show up in any future Phases as part of your final product. They are just examples and may be modified or even abandoned entirely as the competition progresses.
KEYWORDS Your year is not required to have any unique keywords, but if it does, then you could tell us about it.
You can generate a keyword tooltip definition image here on Hearthcards. Just remember to host the image elsewhere, like any other.
Note that you will only be making Mini-Expansions. The usage of Keywords isn't as necessary as if you were to make a complete expansion.
ANYTHING ELSE?
Despite being really awesome 97.86% of the time, we can't think of everything someone might want to add to introduce their fancy new Hearthstone Year. Feel free to add some cool banners or art, so long as they don't take up too much space. Not sure if it's okay? Gently poke (through a private message) a friendly neighborhood Fan Creations mod with your questions!
EXPLANATION Tell us a little bit about all of the above. Remember, the point of having different expansions in Hearthstone is that each brings a little new to the table, so consider telling us how your Keywords/Mechanics and Example cards lend to or exemplify your expansions unique features. You can tell us all about what the focus for each class is, and whether you went with a more traditional route, or tried to create a new and exciting theme.
NO SINGLE-PLAYER CONTENT
Chromie managed to salvage the Single Player Content from each expansion, so you don't have to! So don't go out of your way to make any sort, as it is simply not allowed.
NO REUSING SUBMISSIONS FROM PRIOR COMPETITIONS
With the time distortions messing everything up, Chromie has misplaced the expansions you created in the past! ...or was it the future? Either-way, attempting to force them back into the timeline could cause major damage, so it's better that we come at this job with a fresh mindset.
COMPETITION SCHEDULE AND PROCESS
How long do you have to work on your submission? How will advancement to Phase II of the competition be determined? The answers to these questions and more can be found below...
PHASE IV: Third Expansion Submission: TBD Finale: TBD
NOTE: All stages of the competition begin and end at 21:00 UTC. ALSO NOTE: This timetable is subject to change at any time, even after the competition begins, if it seems like too many folks are struggling.
* During Submission stages, Submission Topics will be unlocked and (remaining) participants may submit their entries. During Phases I-II, you may also use this time to go ahead and up-vote submissions that you like. * During Up-Voting stages for Phases I-II, Submission Topics will be locked. Use this time to up-vote submissions that you like. Note that advancement during these Phases depends entirely on up-votes. * During Polling stages for Phases III-IV, Submission Topics will be locked, and all eligible remaining participants will have their submission material included in a separate Poll Topic to determine advancement. Phases III-IV include two Poll Topics because I anticipate we will have enough participants remaining that we will not be able to fit everybody in one Poll Topic. Note that up-votes in the Submission Topics are irrelevant to advancement during these Phases.
How will eliminations be done, and how many competitors will advance from each phase to the next?
I'm glad you asked! We will be taking a equal proportion of competitors from each Phase of the competition to the next, and we will be ending with exactly four finalists. That being the case and their being five total eliminations before the final round, that proportion can be found by solving for x: [# of valid Phase I entries] * x^3 = 4 The higher the number of valid Phase I entries, the lower that proportion becomes. Just so you have an idea, the proportion hits 50% when we hit 128 entries, which is likely, but it only hits 33.3% when we hit 972 entries, which is less likely.
As mentioned above, advancement to Phases II and III will be determined by up-votes only. However, these up-votes are weighted using a formula identical to the process used by our Weekly Card Design Competitions: (ab) / (c) = x (Where a is the total number of up-votes that your submission received, b is the total number of valid submissions on the same page as your submission, c is the total number of up-votes on valid submissions on the same page as your submission, and x is your submission's final weighted up-vote score.) Why bother with this formula rather than just taking each submissions up-votes directly? Because earlier pages simply get a lot more views that later pages do, and we do not want rushed, early submissions to have an advantage over later submissions that took more time to get their entries just right. The formula basically measures which submissions stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality. 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.
As mentioned above, advancement to Phases IV, V, and VI will be determined by polls. These polls will be multi-choice, meaning that voters can vote for every entry that they like. Whenever we have to split a Phase's poll into two to make it more manageable for voters, advancement will be determined by looking at each years final percentage scores, not by looking at the direct number of votes they received, since we can't guarantee that the same number of voters will vote each day. Poll results will always be hidden until the poll has concluded, and for polls split in two, this does also mean that the results of the first poll will not be revealed until the second poll has concluded as well.
The winner of Phase IV, and thus the entire competition, will be determined by a poll much like the ones before, except that it will be single-choice, requiring voters to pick their single year, and will have a much longer polling phase than usual to give us plenty of opportunity for promotion and such.
In the event of a tie during Phases I-IV for the last possible advancing position, all entries involved in the tie will be allowed to advance; the more the merrier, I say. We will absolutely not have more than four finalists, however, and so in the event of a tie during Phase V, the three Fan Creation Forum moderators (that is, Cogito_Ergo_Sum, ShadowsOfSense, and PupleMD) will vote to break the tie. In the event of a tie during Phase VI to determine the competition's winner, the title will simply be shared unless both finalists request and agree to a tie-breaking round.
But wait, there's more! During Phases I-IV of the Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderator (ShadowsOfSense, PupleMD, Phoenixfeather, ThisOtherGuyTox, Otovent, linkblade91) will have a Wild Card, which we may (though are not required to) use to advance to the next Phase any one entry that we feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated, regardless of its performance with voters. No entry may be awarded a Wild Card more than once, and it should also go without saying that, while some moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, they are never allowed to benefit from Wild Cards. 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.
Are you curious what will be required for future phases of the competition? The challenges will remain a secret, but I'm happy to tell you the general submission requirements.
Just kidding. There are no challenges this time around :D
PHASE II: Mini-Expansion 1
In this Phase, you will each construct your year's First Expansion. Here are the requirements for your Year Creation Competition Phase II Entry.
THE FIRST EXPANSION You must have the following.
1 Common card, 1 Rare card, 1 Epic card, and 1 Legendary card from each class with your set's watermark.
6 cards that are Neutral with your set's watermark. (We suggest having at least one of each rarity)
3 Wildcards. This can be from a collectable card of any rarity or class!
EXPLANATIONS Tell us a little bit about what's going on in this expansion. Are you telling the tale of glorious adventurers in a mysterious temple? or the clash between rulers in an forgotten world? or even just a little murloc happily sitting in a pond? We don't know until you tell us! Feel free to add some interesting story behind the cards you make!
PHASE III: Mini-Expansion 2
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In this Phase, you will each construct your year's Second Expansion. Here are the requirements for your Year Creation Competition Phase II Entry.
THE SECOND EXPANSION You must have the following.
1 Common card, 1 Rare card, 1 Epic card, and 1 Legendary card from each class with your set's watermark.
6 cards that are Neutral with your set's watermark. (We suggest having at least one of each rarity)
3 Wildcards. This can be from a collectable card of any rarity or class!
EXPLANATIONS Tell us a little bit about what's going on in this expansion. Are you telling the tale of glorious adventurers in a mysterious temple? or the clash between rulers in an forgotten world? or even just a little murloc happily sitting in a pond? We don't know until you tell us! Feel free to add some interesting story behind the cards you make!
PHASE IV: Mini-Expansion 3
In this Phase, you will each construct your year's Third Expansion. Here are the requirements for your Year Creation Competition Phase II Entry.
FINALE TOPIC There will be no Submission Topic for the competition Finale. Instead, you will create your own Finalist Topics. All that you have to do is create a normal topic here on the Fan Creation Forum and title it as such: [Class Competition Finalist] Year of the APPLESAUCE (Replace APPLESAUCE with your own year's name, of course.) Then, bring it to our attention, and we'll link to it from this topic. That's it. How you format and present your final product is entirely up to you. You've put in a lot of work to come this far, so you've earned the right to show us your completed original expansions however you think is best.
THE THIRD EXPANSION You must have the following.
1 Common card, 1 Rare card, 1 Epic card, and 1 Legendary card from each class with your set's watermark.
6 cards that are Neutral with your set's watermark. (We suggest having at least one of each rarity)
3 Wildcards. This can be from a collectable card of any rarity or class!
EXPLANATIONS Tell us a little bit about what's going on in this expansion. Are you telling the tale of glorious adventurers in a mysterious temple? or the clash between rulers in an forgotten world? or even just a little murloc happily sitting in a pond? We don't know until you tell us! Feel free to add some interesting story behind the cards you make!
EXAMPLE CARDS These don't need to be part of your Finale Topic, but by the end of the Submission Phase, you should send ShadowsOfSense9 example cards (Three from each expansion preferably), preferably via PM, to be included in the Final Poll Topic. The Final Poll topic will look very similar to this one from our first CCC, except that no token cards will be included.
REWARDS
In addition to truly epic bragging rights, ALL finalists will receive a special Forum Title and Avatar Border, similar to those given to winners of our forum's Weekly Card Design Competitions, as shown below:
Furthermore, the winning contestant will have a Season 8 competition themed around their winning year! (Probably... We're not entirely sure how to format that...)
ARCHIVES
Want to see how things went during our Expansion Competition to get a glimmer of what could happend? Want to see what the different Winners and Submitters from each phase came up with? Then check out the links below!
Just to make sure everyone registers it, you are not to create Single Player content (similar to Dungeon Runs, Monster Hunts or traditional Adventures) in any capacity for this competition, so don't worry about an extreme workload in that regard.
Since it has been asked about in previous competitions, this note is to let you know that yes, teaming up with another person is absolutely allowed, just make sure the same person is posting your submission for each phase.
Teams should ideally consist of no more than 2 or 3 people - after all, the more separate entries the more creativity there is!
You may replace cards you Hall of Fame with other existing Hearthstone cards - this is not a requirement, however.
Your replacement cards should be of the same rarity and class as the cards they replace. Basic cards can be assumed to be Common for this purpose.
If you do so, include the card you are replacing as part of your explanation of the Hall of Famed card, not as a separate image.
Eg: "I'm replacing Ice Lance because I want Freeze Mage to die already. I'm replacing it with Shatter because they're both Freeze-related cards, but this one is much worse."
You can re-use the flavour of previous expansions you've created, just not large amounts of cards. Mechanics such as keywords can also be re-used if you feel the need, but you should be careful when doing so.
If anyone asks for a clarification, we'll update this post with the answer as well!
Woo I called it. Kind of. Looking forward to this. The key is going to be coming up with 3 distinct themes that come together in a coherent year. No easy task.
Wow, this is a huge contest. Even with mini-expansions, we'll want some big expansion themes plus an animal that sorta ties them together (How does Mammoth fit Kobolds and Catacombs anyway...) with lots of stand-out cards.
Question - the rules appear contradictory on banners. Are they allowed?
Edit - Anothet question! What are your rules about expansions and classes we've previously submitted? How much of those can we reuse?
Probably won't actually compete in this, but I'll be sure to see how things turn out and I'll bully some of my buddies into joining most likely. Sounds exciting!
So, questions: Do we allow to create our Hall Of Fame selection and/or adding cards to the Standard set for this competition?
On a side note, I feel like the pressure to keep all 3 sets coherent seems rather difficult given that the developers themselves didn't even bother to. Look at Year of the Kraken and Year of the Mammoth.
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Click here to visit my Timestream Tracking Finalist Year of the Dragon in collaboration with Demonxz95
So, questions: Do we allow to create our Hall Of Fame selection and/or adding cards to the Standard set for this competition?
On a side note, I feel like the pressure to keep all 3 sets coherent seems rather difficult given that the developers themselves didn't even bother to. Look at Year of the Kraken and Year of the Mammoth.
Wow, we talked so much about this behind the scenes and then completely forgot to mention it in the final post, that's so typical.
Part of your submission for Phase I is to include exactly three (3) cards which will be moving to the Hall of Fame. You should also include reasoning for your choices. I'll update the main post with this, can't believe we forgot.
A question, as said above, we can cooperate with another person. However, how much is the limit? Or there is no limit?
Also, we must make 7 cards per expansion or 10 cards per expansion? It's kinda confusing.
There's not really a set limit, but I'd probably say teams of 2 or 3 at most. You also only get credit as a member of the team if you've been there since Phase I - no getting knocked out and then joining up with somebody else.
And good question about the number of cards. You'll be creating 45 cards per expansion: 1 common, 1 rare, 1 epic and 1 legendary for each class (36 cards total) 6 neutrals (of any rarity) 3 'Wildcards', which are allowed to be anything - 3 more neutrals, 3 more Warrior cards, 1 Rogue card and 2 Mage cards, whatever
This was what we came up with as a bare minimum for you to be able to represent the overall themes of an expansion and at least one theme per class. For example, to show off the new Hand Druid from The Witchwood, I could choose Ferocious Howl, Bewitched Guardian, Wispering Woods and Splintergraft. That also leaves me some flexibility - I could represent the main theme with just three cards, and perhaps show some minor Beast Druid support with Witching Hour instead, or minor Big Druid support with Duskfallen Aviana.
Edit - Anothet question! What are your rules about expansions and classes we've previously submitted? How much of those can we reuse?
For this competition, we're going to say NO, you may not reuse a previously-submitted expansion. That way, everyone comes into this Big Comp on the same footing, and we don't have to worry about previous winners/finalists having a leg up on other people.
I'll edit that in up top, as well.
Edit: Besides, wouldn't it be more fun to come up with entirely new stuff to show off? :)
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
Summoning Portal: Summoning Portal limits the design of copy or cost reducing cards, especially with Glinda Crowskin still beign in standard, it makes a lot of trouble wether to make another card that reduces costs or copies cards for further enchancement, even though it's too slow, it still limits the design of making diverse effects for minions.
Holy Wrath: Simple awnser, with Molten Giant now in the Hall of Fame, it's pal is at most being usefull at dealing 12 damage to face, which is big enough, even though the draw is random, it still locks away from making high-cost cards or even shuffling cards inside your deck. It can't be changed without changing it's entire effect, so that's why its moving to Hall of Fame.
For now, this is what I have for now, it may be changed later, since I don't have a clear idea of what I'm going to aim to.
For now, I don't have an specific theme, or at least general idea, but I've an idea of the cards I want to move to the hall of fame:
(snip)
For now, this is what I have for now, it may be changed later, since I don't have a clear idea of what I'm going to aim to.
You might want to change the color or font on your image: it's hard to read the "Wendigo" part, in particular.
As for the subject of Hall of Fame-ing cards: when people pick certain cards to rotate out of Standard, something they should think long and hard about is the Why. Don't just remove a card for the sake of it; be sure to act on your decision. If you progress further into the competition, you should demonstrate why the rotation was needed: are you replacing it with something more "balanced"? Does it directly conflict with a new card you're creating? Is there a particular combo you're worried about? There honestly needs to be more to it than just "argh, I hate Leeroy Jenkins! Fuck you you're gone! >:(" I mean sure, it's your prerogative to act on your opinion, but doing so without greater reasoning or long-term planning will hurt your submission.
I'm not soloing you out in particular, Larry; just using your post as a springboard. You have good reasoning as-to why Summoning Portal and/or Holy Wrath should be removed, and I hope you act on it accordingly.
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
Woo! Alright, making an entire HS year! It's gonna be quite challenging to think of 3 distinct mechanically and flavourfully interesting expansions, but I'm sure people will come through and it'll be quite fun doing so. Let's get started with my list of expansion ideas:
Welp, good luck! I know this is pretty long, but the entire competition should happen over the course of about 2-3 months. There's a lot of time!
Also, you don't have to have any correlation between the three sets. They don't even have to have anything to do with the name of your year, although there are still a few small similarities between the year's animal and the sets.
Year of the Kraken
Eldrazi Old Gods have 10+ tentacles, just like a kraken.
Both Kara and Krakens are purple
MSG has pirates. Pirates fight krakens (now I'm just reaching for it)
Year of the Mammoth
Un'Goro features mammoths as an inhabitant.
KFT introduces a frozen wasteland. A perfect environment for an aspiring mammoth.
KnC is just there...
Of course, there are a whole ton of ravens in a desolate creepy woodland of witchwood.
Obviously, I'm doing year of the Phoenix...
Set 1: Something to do with a lot of death and corruption, doom and gloom.
Set 2: Going back in time to resurrect old powers to fight said doom and gloom.
Set 3: Good guys win. Now what?
The idea follows the life cycle of a phoenix. They're razed, rezzed, then go back to flappy flappy-ing.
Are we allowed to add cards to the Classic set to replace the ones rotated out? Some classes have lost more cards than others (like Mage, for example), and seeing as we're forced to rotate three cards, I think having this option could be interesting.
Also I'd like to point out that rotating cards from the Basic set seems like a bad idea, which would make the new/F2P player experience worse, kinda like how they overnerfed the Warrior set.
Also I'd like to point out that rotating cards from the Basic set seems like a bad idea, which would make the new/F2P player experience worse
This... exactly this. Rotating Basic cards = no.
Not only does is give a disadvantage to new players, but to the class overall as a whole because Basic is supposed to be the very backbone of the class. Classic has a little bit more leeway room because it has more cards overall and it's not quite as integral for a class as the Basic set, although it is still of importance.
I would also recommend not rotating any Mage cards out unless perhaps you plan on rotating other Mage cards from Wild into Standard, because Mage is already at a disadvantage purely by numbers compared to other classes to begin with.
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When you say "the future has been mangled", do you mean the year AFTER the Year of the Raven or the Year of the Raven itself?
Since it's barely just begun, I thought the challenge would be to do away with Witchwood and reset 2018 instead of creating a follow-up year without knowing what's to come over the course of this year. I might have misinterpreted that, though.
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This is the Discussion Topic. The Submission Topic is here.
Forty-two Minutes Earlier
Chromie, we have a problem. Of course, there was always a problem. Inner Fires being played before Divine Spirit and Shudderwock misfires were common in the Hearthstone world. But, Linkblade91 realized that this might be a tad bit more than the average trifle, as he stared in confusion at the figure who identified himself as Linkblade92.
Chromie, temporal investigator, ambassador of the bronze dragonflight, and temporarily a little charismatic gnome who was snoozing nearby, looked at the two Linkblades…
“Ack! Those annoying Infinites… I can’t even enjoy a summer vacation.”
Hi there! This is Chromie speaking! We seem to have a bit of a problem. It turns out that the Infinite Dragonflight decided to create a temporal loop to shred a part of the future. In fact, an entire year of it. The future has been mangled and we'll need some help recreating it. So, I’d like you to help me out by creating a new Hearthstone year to replace the missing one!
GENERAL RULES
Even if you're already a veteran of our competitions here on the Fan Creation Forum, you should read the general rules before you get started. This competition does introduce new rules, like image limitations and formatting requirements.
* The Submission Topic is for submissions only. If you want to discuss your entry, another entry, ask questions about the competition rules or process, or anything else, 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.
* You are allowed only one submission, consisting of the materials specified by each competition phase. These materials must, of course, be of your own creation. If you'd like, you may collaborate with another user on a single submission, but this must be specified during Phase I.
* You may make only minor edits to your entry once you have submitted 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.
* You may not delete any posts you make in this topic. No, not even if you post here by mistake or accidentally double-post or something. Deleted posts screw with the system we use to help us calculate up-vote scores, so don't do that. If you to post here by mistake or accidentally double-post or something, simply edit your post to just say "REMOVED" and leave it at that.
* You may not create your own topics on this forum for competition-related material. If everybody goes off and creates their own topics for specific discussion of their entries, this board will be flooded with nothing but, and so competition material must remain restricted to official competition topics. If you want to enter the competition with an expansion that you already have a topic about on this forum, then your topic will be locked in the interest of fairness to the other competitors. Not deleted, just locked, and it can be unlocked after your entry gets knocked out of the competition. Also, we realize that most people don't read these rules. So, if you've actually read these, feel good about yourself. You also may not reference or link to your topic in official competition topics.
* You must host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. We encourage you to create your entry material using Hearthcards.net, but please remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, it has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your cards disappearing part-way through the competition. After you create it, save and upload it to Imgur, Photobucket, or some other similar site. 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.
* You may not submit any Gold cards or animated cards, nor may you include any images in your post other than the requested submission materials, like banners or borders. We get it, everybody wants their entry to stand out, but our pages are going to be heavy enough as it is without everybody heading their submissions with animated banners.
* You must insert your images into your post using this icon on the bar above the post text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. We realize that it's also possible to upload and attach images to your post. Don't do that, though. We know from experience that, because those images are much smaller and require more work to view, entries that enter their images that way just don't do as well, so this is for your own good.
* Format your entry concisely by sizing your cards appropriately and placing them beside one another rather than in a column or completely separate. The first example below is acceptable while the second is not. Entries that unnecessarily inflate the size of the submission topic and make it more difficult to get through will be disqualified. How should you size your cards? Well...
Hey, look! It's the Year of the Applesauce!
Open the Waygate: Look at how nice this is.
Frost Lich Jaina: All neat, organized, and concise.
Aluneth: What a great post.
Wow! What a bunch of interesting stuff that will be in the next expansion!
Good thing I left some of it in a cool spoiler so it doesn't clutter the page!
Wait, what are you doing?
Seriously, please don't.
This is painful. Why are you doing this?
You are a monster.
* "Troll" entries will be disqualified. Fun and even humorous entries are perfectly allowed (this is Hearthstone after all), but if you're worried that your entry may be misinterpreted as a troll entry, contact a moderator before you submit.
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.
PHASE I: The Concept
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Before you get to creating dozens of cards for your year, we want to hear your proposals. Here are the requirements for your Phase I Entry:
Obviously, you have to tell everybody the name of your new Year.
The start of a Hearthstone Year is when existing cards are rotated out to the Hall of Fame, and your year should be no different.
We do not want to see your entire Year, just enough for us to get a good idea of its concept.
Your year is not required to have any unique keywords, but if it does, then you could tell us about it.
Tell us a little bit about all of the above. Remember, the point of having different expansions in Hearthstone is that each brings a little new to the table, so consider telling us how your Keywords/Mechanics and Example cards lend to or exemplify your expansions unique features. You can tell us all about what the focus for each class is, and whether you went with a more traditional route, or tried to create a new and exciting theme.
COMPETITION SCHEDULE AND PROCESS
How long do you have to work on your submission? How will advancement to Phase II of the competition be determined? The answers to these questions and more can be found below...
PHASE I: Year Introduction
Submission: 28/June - 10/July
Up-Voting: 10/July - 11/July
PHASE II: First Expansion
Submission: 11/July - 31/July
Up-Voting: 31/July - 1/August
PHASE III: Second Expansion
Submission: TBD
Poll #1: TBD
Poll #2: TBD
PHASE IV: Third Expansion
Submission: TBD
Finale: TBD
NOTE: All stages of the competition begin and end at 21:00 UTC.
ALSO NOTE: This timetable is subject to change at any time, even after the competition begins, if it seems like too many folks are struggling.
* During Submission stages, Submission Topics will be unlocked and (remaining) participants may submit their entries. During Phases I-II, you may also use this time to go ahead and up-vote submissions that you like.
* During Up-Voting stages for Phases I-II, Submission Topics will be locked. Use this time to up-vote submissions that you like. Note that advancement during these Phases depends entirely on up-votes.
* During Polling stages for Phases III-IV, Submission Topics will be locked, and all eligible remaining participants will have their submission material included in a separate Poll Topic to determine advancement. Phases III-IV include two Poll Topics because I anticipate we will have enough participants remaining that we will not be able to fit everybody in one Poll Topic. Note that up-votes in the Submission Topics are irrelevant to advancement during these Phases.
How will eliminations be done, and how many competitors will advance from each phase to the next?
I'm glad you asked! We will be taking a equal proportion of competitors from each Phase of the competition to the next, and we will be ending with exactly four finalists. That being the case and their being five total eliminations before the final round, that proportion can be found by solving for x:
[# of valid Phase I entries] * x^3 = 4
The higher the number of valid Phase I entries, the lower that proportion becomes. Just so you have an idea, the proportion hits 50% when we hit 128 entries, which is likely, but it only hits 33.3% when we hit 972 entries, which is less likely.
As mentioned above, advancement to Phases II and III will be determined by up-votes only. However, these up-votes are weighted using a formula identical to the process used by our Weekly Card Design Competitions:
(ab) / (c) = x
(Where a is the total number of up-votes that your submission received, b is the total number of valid submissions on the same page as your submission, c is the total number of up-votes on valid submissions on the same page as your submission, and x is your submission's final weighted up-vote score.)
Why bother with this formula rather than just taking each submissions up-votes directly? Because earlier pages simply get a lot more views that later pages do, and we do not want rushed, early submissions to have an advantage over later submissions that took more time to get their entries just right. The formula basically measures which submissions stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality.
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.
As mentioned above, advancement to Phases IV, V, and VI will be determined by polls. These polls will be multi-choice, meaning that voters can vote for every entry that they like. Whenever we have to split a Phase's poll into two to make it more manageable for voters, advancement will be determined by looking at each years final percentage scores, not by looking at the direct number of votes they received, since we can't guarantee that the same number of voters will vote each day. Poll results will always be hidden until the poll has concluded, and for polls split in two, this does also mean that the results of the first poll will not be revealed until the second poll has concluded as well.
The winner of Phase IV, and thus the entire competition, will be determined by a poll much like the ones before, except that it will be single-choice, requiring voters to pick their single year, and will have a much longer polling phase than usual to give us plenty of opportunity for promotion and such.
In the event of a tie during Phases I-IV for the last possible advancing position, all entries involved in the tie will be allowed to advance; the more the merrier, I say. We will absolutely not have more than four finalists, however, and so in the event of a tie during Phase V, the three Fan Creation Forum moderators (that is, Cogito_Ergo_Sum, ShadowsOfSense, and PupleMD) will vote to break the tie. In the event of a tie during Phase VI to determine the competition's winner, the title will simply be shared unless both finalists request and agree to a tie-breaking round.
But wait, there's more! During Phases I-IV of the Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderator (ShadowsOfSense, PupleMD, Phoenixfeather, ThisOtherGuyTox, Otovent, linkblade91) will have a Wild Card, which we may (though are not required to) use to advance to the next Phase any one entry that we feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated, regardless of its performance with voters. No entry may be awarded a Wild Card more than once, and it should also go without saying that, while some moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, they are never allowed to benefit from Wild Cards. 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.
Are you curious what will be required for future phases of the competition? The challenges will remain a secret, but I'm happy to tell you the general submission requirements.
Just kidding. There are no challenges this time around :D
PHASE II: Mini-Expansion 1
In this Phase, you will each construct your year's First Expansion. Here are the requirements for your Year Creation Competition Phase II Entry.
You must have the following.
Tell us a little bit about what's going on in this expansion. Are you telling the tale of glorious adventurers in a mysterious temple? or the clash between rulers in an forgotten world? or even just a little murloc happily sitting in a pond? We don't know until you tell us! Feel free to add some interesting story behind the cards you make!
PHASE III: Mini-Expansion 2
I
In this Phase, you will each construct your year's Second Expansion. Here are the requirements for your Year Creation Competition Phase II Entry.
You must have the following.
Tell us a little bit about what's going on in this expansion. Are you telling the tale of glorious adventurers in a mysterious temple? or the clash between rulers in an forgotten world? or even just a little murloc happily sitting in a pond? We don't know until you tell us! Feel free to add some interesting story behind the cards you make!
PHASE IV: Mini-Expansion 3
In this Phase, you will each construct your year's Third Expansion. Here are the requirements for your Year Creation Competition Phase II Entry.
There will be no Submission Topic for the competition Finale. Instead, you will create your own Finalist Topics. All that you have to do is create a normal topic here on the Fan Creation Forum and title it as such:
[Class Competition Finalist] Year of the APPLESAUCE
(Replace APPLESAUCE with your own year's name, of course.)
Then, bring it to our attention, and we'll link to it from this topic. That's it. How you format and present your final product is entirely up to you. You've put in a lot of work to come this far, so you've earned the right to show us your completed original expansions however you think is best.
You must have the following.
Tell us a little bit about what's going on in this expansion. Are you telling the tale of glorious adventurers in a mysterious temple? or the clash between rulers in an forgotten world? or even just a little murloc happily sitting in a pond? We don't know until you tell us! Feel free to add some interesting story behind the cards you make!
These don't need to be part of your Finale Topic, but by the end of the Submission Phase, you should send ShadowsOfSense 9 example cards (Three from each expansion preferably), preferably via PM, to be included in the Final Poll Topic. The Final Poll topic will look very similar to this one from our first CCC, except that no token cards will be included.
REWARDS
In addition to truly epic bragging rights, ALL finalists will receive a special Forum Title and Avatar Border, similar to those given to winners of our forum's Weekly Card Design Competitions, as shown below:
Furthermore, the winning contestant will have a Season 8 competition themed around their winning year! (Probably... We're not entirely sure how to format that...)
ARCHIVES
Want to see how things went during our Expansion Competition to get a glimmer of what could happend? Want to see what the different Winners and Submitters from each phase came up with? Then check out the links below!
Phase I
Submission Topic
Phase II
Submission Topic
Phase III
Submission Topic
Poll 1
Poll 2
Phase IV
Submission Topic
Poll
Phase V
Finale Poll
Good Luck and Watch Out for Paradoxes!
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Clarifications
If anyone asks for a clarification, we'll update this post with the answer as well!
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
Oh boy, this is going to take a while.
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
GL to everyone, looking forward to some cool ideas! :)
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Woo I called it. Kind of. Looking forward to this. The key is going to be coming up with 3 distinct themes that come together in a coherent year. No easy task.
Wow, this is a huge contest. Even with mini-expansions, we'll want some big expansion themes plus an animal that sorta ties them together (How does Mammoth fit Kobolds and Catacombs anyway...) with lots of stand-out cards.
Question - the rules appear contradictory on banners. Are they allowed?
Edit - Anothet question! What are your rules about expansions and classes we've previously submitted? How much of those can we reuse?
Currently working on the Tinker! K&C and WW / JUG and KotFT / Classic / Basic / Introduction
My Previous Classes: Apothecary (unfinished) / Chronomancer / Death Knight (old)
My Previous Expansions: Hallow's End
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Banners are perfectly legal, and you make them however you feel like.
What we want to avoid is big flashy things, that takes up space on the pages, and doesn't really have anything to do with card design.
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
Probably won't actually compete in this, but I'll be sure to see how things turn out and I'll bully some of my buddies into joining most likely. Sounds exciting!
So, questions: Do we allow to create our Hall Of Fame selection and/or adding cards to the Standard set for this competition?
On a side note, I feel like the pressure to keep all 3 sets coherent seems rather difficult given that the developers themselves didn't even bother to. Look at Year of the Kraken and Year of the Mammoth.
Click here to visit my Timestream Tracking Finalist Year of the Dragon in collaboration with Demonxz95
Class Creation Finalist: The Astromancer
Best cards vote by community:
It's gonna be a ton of work, but I will participate for sure :D
A question, as said above, we can cooperate with another person. However, how much is the limit? Or there is no limit?
Also, we must make 7 cards per expansion or 10 cards per expansion? It's kinda confusing.
The joke is you.
Wow, we talked so much about this behind the scenes and then completely forgot to mention it in the final post, that's so typical.
Part of your submission for Phase I is to include exactly three (3) cards which will be moving to the Hall of Fame. You should also include reasoning for your choices. I'll update the main post with this, can't believe we forgot.
There's not really a set limit, but I'd probably say teams of 2 or 3 at most. You also only get credit as a member of the team if you've been there since Phase I - no getting knocked out and then joining up with somebody else.
And good question about the number of cards. You'll be creating 45 cards per expansion:
1 common, 1 rare, 1 epic and 1 legendary for each class (36 cards total)
6 neutrals (of any rarity)
3 'Wildcards', which are allowed to be anything - 3 more neutrals, 3 more Warrior cards, 1 Rogue card and 2 Mage cards, whatever
This was what we came up with as a bare minimum for you to be able to represent the overall themes of an expansion and at least one theme per class. For example, to show off the new Hand Druid from The Witchwood, I could choose Ferocious Howl, Bewitched Guardian, Wispering Woods and Splintergraft. That also leaves me some flexibility - I could represent the main theme with just three cards, and perhaps show some minor Beast Druid support with Witching Hour instead, or minor Big Druid support with Duskfallen Aviana.
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
For this competition, we're going to say NO, you may not reuse a previously-submitted expansion. That way, everyone comes into this Big Comp on the same footing, and we don't have to worry about previous winners/finalists having a leg up on other people.
I'll edit that in up top, as well.
Edit: Besides, wouldn't it be more fun to come up with entirely new stuff to show off? :)
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
Hey, I dare someone to make a "Year of the :)" submissionJokes aside, I've been planning with the little time I have now the year I'm gonna do, which is the Year of the Wendigo.
Not sure if this looks good, I don't have photoshop and I always did this on PowerPoint DXFor now, I don't have an specific theme, or at least general idea, but I've an idea of the cards I want to move to the hall of fame:
For now, this is what I have for now, it may be changed later, since I don't have a clear idea of what I'm going to aim to.
The joke is you.
You might want to change the color or font on your image: it's hard to read the "Wendigo" part, in particular.
As for the subject of Hall of Fame-ing cards: when people pick certain cards to rotate out of Standard, something they should think long and hard about is the Why. Don't just remove a card for the sake of it; be sure to act on your decision. If you progress further into the competition, you should demonstrate why the rotation was needed: are you replacing it with something more "balanced"? Does it directly conflict with a new card you're creating? Is there a particular combo you're worried about? There honestly needs to be more to it than just "argh, I hate Leeroy Jenkins! Fuck you you're gone! >:(" I mean sure, it's your prerogative to act on your opinion, but doing so without greater reasoning or long-term planning will hurt your submission.
I'm not soloing you out in particular, Larry; just using your post as a springboard. You have good reasoning as-to why Summoning Portal and/or Holy Wrath should be removed, and I hope you act on it accordingly.
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
Woo! Alright, making an entire HS year! It's gonna be quite challenging to think of 3 distinct mechanically and flavourfully interesting expansions, but I'm sure people will come through and it'll be quite fun doing so. Let's get started with my list of expansion ideas:
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Shoot.
Welp, good luck! I know this is pretty long, but the entire competition should happen over the course of about 2-3 months. There's a lot of time!
Also, you don't have to have any correlation between the three sets. They don't even have to have anything to do with the name of your year, although there are still a few small similarities between the year's animal and the sets.
Year of the Kraken
EldraziOld Gods have 10+ tentacles, just like a kraken.Year of the Mammoth
Of course, there are a whole ton of ravens in a desolate creepy woodland of witchwood.
Obviously, I'm doing year of the Phoenix...
The idea follows the life cycle of a phoenix. They're razed, rezzed, then go back to flappy flappy-ing.
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Are we allowed to add cards to the Classic set to replace the ones rotated out? Some classes have lost more cards than others (like Mage, for example), and seeing as we're forced to rotate three cards, I think having this option could be interesting.
Also I'd like to point out that rotating cards from the Basic set seems like a bad idea, which would make the new/F2P player experience worse, kinda like how they overnerfed the Warrior set.
This... exactly this. Rotating Basic cards = no.
Not only does is give a disadvantage to new players, but to the class overall as a whole because Basic is supposed to be the very backbone of the class. Classic has a little bit more leeway room because it has more cards overall and it's not quite as integral for a class as the Basic set, although it is still of importance.
I would also recommend not rotating any Mage cards out unless perhaps you plan on rotating other Mage cards from Wild into Standard, because Mage is already at a disadvantage purely by numbers compared to other classes to begin with.
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
When you say "the future has been mangled", do you mean the year AFTER the Year of the Raven or the Year of the Raven itself?
Since it's barely just begun, I thought the challenge would be to do away with Witchwood and reset 2018 instead of creating a follow-up year without knowing what's to come over the course of this year. I might have misinterpreted that, though.