Chromie, we have a problem. Of course, there was always a problem. Inner Fire s 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.
A Note on Group Submissions: if you team up with other people to submit an entry, you must enclose that information in your submission and none of you may upvote that entry. That would be considered an unfair advantage and we will treat it as vote-manipulation. You are technically voting for yourself, and that is not allowed. Failing to tell us you're in a group is also against the rules, as we'll have no choice but to assume that you withheld the information to ghost-vote your group's submission.
* 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
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.
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 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!
The three expantions will be based on the Terrain World, the Hell and the Heaven. The Sphinx is, in fact, a religious monument made of stone, which directly bounds with the new Keyword: Petrify. Further more, all the first expansion will be based on rock, stone and gravel, so I think the Sphinx was the better choice, enjoy!
New Keyword
Here are some examples card:
WARRIOR WILL GAIN 3 NEW SECRETS
Yes, it's correct, Warrior will gain three new 5-mana secrets. The 2 following are just examples
VERSATILE LEGENDARIES FOR EACH CLASS
I really don't wanna push too much any archetype, so I prefer giving versatile cards to every class. Perseus is just an idea, nothing official. Instead I will probably keep Kael'Thas Sunstrider
FINALLY, THE HALL OF FAME
The following cards will be moved to Hall of Fame at the beginning of the Year of the Sphinx
1) Cold Blood : This card has been used in every Rogue decks since the Beta patch, it needs to go. Plus it's 1 mana deal 4 damage, deja vù? Power Overwhelming and Ice Lance were moved to HoF for the same reason. Swashbulgar will replace it because it's the 1 drop rogue needs and I think that Rogues should have at least one Burgle card in the Classic set.
2) Doomsayer : Yes, Doomsayer. I litterally love this card but it's an auto include in every control deck. But its replacement should fill his hole very well: Dirty Rat will be moved to Classic set. It could be useful against both aggro and combo decks if used with wisdom.
3) Mana Wyrm : Another mage card moved to HoF, this tiny dragon has been the nightmare for players for too long. It has been also the best one drop since the starting of the Year of the Mammoth (Hello Tunnel Trogg , hello Alleycat , hello N'Zoth's First Mate into Patches the Pirate on turn 1!!), so it needs to go. Arcane Artificer is actually the best replacement now that Ice Block has been moved to HoF, because Mages need control tools to deal with aggro
"The flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days..."
As the name suggests, my submission is the Year of the Sphinx.
The myth of the mysterious Sphinx and its riddles has inspired me to base my custom year around it.
The year consists of three expansions two of which follow themes of literary classics such as Around the World in 80 Days and Sherlock Holmes. Every single one of the expansions has a connection to the Sphinx, its myths and theme.
The first expansion is going to be named
"Around Planet Earth"
and it will take us to our own world and its many iconic locations, as well as explore different buildings and monuments and even add a new minion tribe.
The second expansion is going to be a murder themed one, and it will be called
"A Murder in the Faire"
. This expansion will explore a murder in the fun and beloved WoW event - The Darkmoon Faire and will add some new mechanics.
The third expansion is all about Archeology. Watch as our favorite explorers explore new locations and uncover new artifacts in the third expansion of the year -
"Artifacts of Azeroth"
.
The First Expansion - Around Planet Earth
Lore:
Have you ever made a bet so big it got you to travel to a foreign planet?
Have you ever seen marvelous buildings and monuments of a planet other than your own?
"Around Planet Earth"
follows the story of a rich noble from Stormwind known by the name of
Seaf Hiplogg
.
Seaf lived his life quietly and peacefully until he met an odd looking gnome at a bar (he didn't catch her name, but he did think he heard something like "Toki"). The gnome approached Seaf and challenged him to a wierd challenge. She would telepord him to a new planet, a planet nobody from Azeroth has ever even seen, and if he managed to explore the entire planet, he would get whatever he desires but if he fails, he would have to donate his entire fortune to the Stormwind Orphanage. Seaf, the man known for his eagerness to explore new locations and for his gambling tendencies, agreed immediately and quickly found himself beneath a giant statue of a Sphinx, in the middle of a giant desert, all he found was his loyal servant, Pas Pourt next to him with some basic supplies.
Sample cards:
Features and Themes:
This expansion will have a lot of real world locations, monuments and people. It will also introcude the Building tribe - a tribe of minions that can't attack and cannot be silenced but have strong effects..
The Second Expansion - A Murder in the Faire
Lore:
It was a normal day in the Darkmoon Faire. Business was going all well. Guests were going from one ride to another.
But it all stopped with one scream. "Dead body!". Everyone stopped.
Next to a human child was a bloody corpse of of a gnome.
Upon closer inspection, a nearby park guest recognized Silas Darkmoon, proud host and owner of the Faire.
People were screaming, confused and enraged.
Who would kill such a lovely gnome?
From within the crowd rose two humans - Mel Shorelshock and Jans Towhon.
The all-famous Detective and his assistant.
The two of them alone are the only thing capable of finding the murderer and putting him in the Stormwind Stockades.
Sample cards:
Features and Themes:
This expansion will have a lot of
secret
based decks, will introcude new secrets to more classes and will have
a lot of mystery themed cards.
The Third Expansion - Artifacts of Azeroth
Lore:
Last but not least -
Artifacts of Azeroth
.
This expansion takes us all around Azeroth to uncover new artifacts.
After their successful recovery of the Staff of Origination, the Explorers League tries to find new powerful artifacts,
as well as some valueable historical pieces.
Watch as our explorers utilize their tools with a brand new weapon keyword -
Resistant
Sample cards:
Features and Themes:
This expansion will be based around weapons, the
discover
mechanic and will bring back some old characters
we all know and love.
Hall of Fame Rotations
Of course, it can't be a new Hearthstone year without some Hall of Fame rotations.
Here are my suggestions:
This card has been a must-include in Aggro Paladin decks for a while now. It can win games all by itself and it is way undercosted.
The ability to draw 4-5 card for 3 mana is too strong for the Standard rotation and has no place in it. Just a quick comparison -
Sprint
gives a simillar benefit for 4 mana more.
This card should rotate for one main reason - it limits design space.
While this card doesn't see too much play, it can be game changing when it does.
The ability to copy a minions stats and effects should not be possible.
Between transforming into Giants that were played early in the game (mainly Mountain Giant) and carrying High-Roll based
combo
decks, this card stops Blizzard from creating new cards with unique and strong effects.
This card is kind of an obvious pick.
Charge
as a mechanic is very problematic as proven by the many nerfs to cards with
Charge
, the decks utilizing the mechanic to rule older metas (I'm looking at you Cubelock) and the introduction of Rush.
Leeroy has always been relevant and was even nerfed before.
It offers a very strong finisher to aggro decks and can even be used with cards like Shadowstep and Coldblood to become even stronger.
Deathwing has Unleashed a powerfull Curse turning everyone and everything into to dragons.
This Expansion Will Feature the Return of Tri-Class Cards and Hero Cards and lots of dragons
Not Sure that Tri-Class cards can count as wildcards so if your'e a mod PM me
Battle at the Tainted Forest
Now that Marl is dead the Gilnean people are not sure what to do with the Tainted forest so they propose a competition of who can come up with the best plan.
Each class will have a Unique plan.
Not Sure if that Explains it
Battle Pets
We are going to finish the year with a funsie expansion.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Forty-two Minutes Earlier
Chromie, we have a problem. Of course, there was always a problem. Inner Fire s 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.
A Note on Group Submissions: if you team up with other people to submit an entry, you must enclose that information in your submission and none of you may upvote that entry. That would be considered an unfair advantage and we will treat it as vote-manipulation. You are technically voting for yourself, and that is not allowed. Failing to tell us you're in a group is also against the rules, as we'll have no choice but to assume that you withheld the information to ghost-vote your group's submission.
* 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.
. 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.
* 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:
* 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!
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
Name explanation:
The three expantions will be based on the Terrain World, the Hell and the Heaven. The Sphinx is, in fact, a religious monument made of stone, which directly bounds with the new Keyword: Petrify. Further more, all the first expansion will be based on rock, stone and gravel, so I think the Sphinx was the better choice, enjoy!
New Keyword
Here are some examples card:
WARRIOR WILL GAIN 3 NEW SECRETS
Yes, it's correct, Warrior will gain three new 5-mana secrets. The 2 following are just examples
VERSATILE LEGENDARIES FOR EACH CLASS
I really don't wanna push too much any archetype, so I prefer giving versatile cards to every class. Perseus is just an idea, nothing official. Instead I will probably keep Kael'Thas Sunstrider
FINALLY, THE HALL OF FAME
The following cards will be moved to Hall of Fame at the beginning of the Year of the Sphinx
1) Cold Blood : This card has been used in every Rogue decks since the Beta patch, it needs to go. Plus it's 1 mana deal 4 damage, deja vù? Power Overwhelming and Ice Lance were moved to HoF for the same reason. Swashbulgar will replace it because it's the 1 drop rogue needs and I think that Rogues should have at least one Burgle card in the Classic set.
2) Doomsayer : Yes, Doomsayer. I litterally love this card but it's an auto include in every control deck. But its replacement should fill his hole very well: Dirty Rat will be moved to Classic set. It could be useful against both aggro and combo decks if used with wisdom.
3) Mana Wyrm : Another mage card moved to HoF, this tiny dragon has been the nightmare for players for too long. It has been also the best one drop since the starting of the Year of the Mammoth (Hello Tunnel Trogg , hello Alleycat , hello N'Zoth's First Mate into Patches the Pirate on turn 1!!), so it needs to go. Arcane Artificer is actually the best replacement now that Ice Block has been moved to HoF, because Mages need control tools to deal with aggro
"The flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days..."
Year of the Sphinx
As the name suggests, my submission is the Year of the Sphinx.
The myth of the mysterious Sphinx and its riddles has inspired me to base my custom year around it.
The year consists of three expansions two of which follow themes of literary classics such as Around the World in 80 Days and Sherlock Holmes. Every single one of the expansions has a connection to the Sphinx, its myths and theme.
The first expansion is going to be named "Around Planet Earth" and it will take us to our own world and its many iconic locations, as well as explore different buildings and monuments and even add a new minion tribe.
The second expansion is going to be a murder themed one, and it will be called "A Murder in the Faire" . This expansion will explore a murder in the fun and beloved WoW event - The Darkmoon Faire and will add some new mechanics.
The third expansion is all about Archeology. Watch as our favorite explorers explore new locations and uncover new artifacts in the third expansion of the year - "Artifacts of Azeroth" .
The First Expansion - Around Planet Earth
Lore:
Have you ever made a bet so big it got you to travel to a foreign planet?
Have you ever seen marvelous buildings and monuments of a planet other than your own?
"Around Planet Earth" follows the story of a rich noble from Stormwind known by the name of Seaf Hiplogg .
Seaf lived his life quietly and peacefully until he met an odd looking gnome at a bar (he didn't catch her name, but he did think he heard something like "Toki"). The gnome approached Seaf and challenged him to a wierd challenge. She would telepord him to a new planet, a planet nobody from Azeroth has ever even seen, and if he managed to explore the entire planet, he would get whatever he desires but if he fails, he would have to donate his entire fortune to the Stormwind Orphanage. Seaf, the man known for his eagerness to explore new locations and for his gambling tendencies, agreed immediately and quickly found himself beneath a giant statue of a Sphinx, in the middle of a giant desert, all he found was his loyal servant, Pas Pourt next to him with some basic supplies.
Sample cards:
Features and Themes:
This expansion will have a lot of real world locations, monuments and people. It will also introcude the Building tribe - a tribe of minions that can't attack and cannot be silenced but have strong effects..
The Second Expansion - A Murder in the Faire
Lore:
It was a normal day in the Darkmoon Faire. Business was going all well. Guests were going from one ride to another.
But it all stopped with one scream. "Dead body!". Everyone stopped.
Next to a human child was a bloody corpse of of a gnome.
Upon closer inspection, a nearby park guest recognized Silas Darkmoon, proud host and owner of the Faire.
People were screaming, confused and enraged.
Who would kill such a lovely gnome?
From within the crowd rose two humans - Mel Shorelshock and Jans Towhon.
The all-famous Detective and his assistant.
The two of them alone are the only thing capable of finding the murderer and putting him in the Stormwind Stockades.
Sample cards:
Features and Themes:
This expansion will have a lot of secret based decks, will introcude new secrets to more classes and will have
a lot of mystery themed cards.
The Third Expansion - Artifacts of Azeroth
Lore:
Last but not least - Artifacts of Azeroth .
This expansion takes us all around Azeroth to uncover new artifacts.
After their successful recovery of the Staff of Origination, the Explorers League tries to find new powerful artifacts,
as well as some valueable historical pieces.
Watch as our explorers utilize their tools with a brand new weapon keyword - Resistant
Sample cards:
Features and Themes:
This expansion will be based around weapons, the discover mechanic and will bring back some old characters
we all know and love.
Hall of Fame Rotations
Of course, it can't be a new Hearthstone year without some Hall of Fame rotations.
Here are my suggestions:
1. Divine Favor
This card has been a must-include in Aggro Paladin decks for a while now. It can win games all by itself and it is way undercosted.
The ability to draw 4-5 card for 3 mana is too strong for the Standard rotation and has no place in it. Just a quick comparison - Sprint gives a simillar benefit for 4 mana more.
2. Faceless Manipulator
This card should rotate for one main reason - it limits design space.
While this card doesn't see too much play, it can be game changing when it does.
The ability to copy a minions stats and effects should not be possible.
Between transforming into Giants that were played early in the game (mainly Mountain Giant) and carrying High-Roll based combo decks, this card stops Blizzard from creating new cards with unique and strong effects.
3. Leeroy Jenkins
Charge as a mechanic is very problematic as proven by the many nerfs to cards with Charge , the decks utilizing the mechanic to rule older metas (I'm looking at you Cubelock) and the introduction of Rush.
Leeroy has always been relevant and was even nerfed before.
It offers a very strong finisher to aggro decks and can even be used with cards like Shadowstep and Coldblood to become even stronger.
Hope you enjoyed and thanks for your time.
*Edit - moved the banner to the center.
Expansion Line Up:
Deathwings Curse
Deathwing has Unleashed a powerfull Curse turning everyone and everything into to dragons.
This Expansion Will Feature the Return of Tri-Class Cards and Hero Cards and lots of dragons
Not Sure that Tri-Class cards can count as wildcards so if your'e a mod PM me
Battle at the Tainted Forest
Now that Marl is dead the Gilnean people are not sure what to do with the Tainted forest so they propose a competition of who can come up with the best plan.
Each class will have a Unique plan.
Not Sure if that Explains it
Battle Pets
We are going to finish the year with a funsie expansion.
Voodoo Doll would be replaced with