These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
You are allowed to submit
only one entry
. An entry normally consists of only
one
collectible card, plus any necessary additional material or commentary (explained below).
You are allowed to post in this Submission Topic
only once
, only to submit your one entry.
You may not delete ANY posts you make in this Submission Topic
, not even accidental ones you may make over your one allowed, such as by double-posting or by accidentally posting something here that you meant for the Discussion Topic. If you do accidentally post more than once, inform any of the Fan Creation Forum moderators via PM, and we will handle it.
Speaking of the Discussion Topic, that is where any discussion of this competition should go. This thread is for
submissions only
. If you want to discuss your card or ask questions about the competition rules or process, you can find a link to the Discussion Topic at the top of this thread. Plenty of folks there will be happy to help you out.
Once you have submitted your one entry, you are allowed to make
only minor changes
to it. Minor changes are things like correcting typos or making balance changes that do not alter the spirit of your entry as determined by we the moderators. If you want to make any changes and have any doubts as to their legality, ask us first.
These are the rules about your Submission:
Accompanying the image of your card, you may offer some
minimal additional commentary
to explain its design, balance, and/or other qualities. Flavor text is also welcome.
You
may not
submit any Gold cards or animated cards. (It's just a cheap attention grab tactic that makes it unnecessarily difficult to determine what class your card is for.)
Your entry must be a card of
your own creation
. We've been doing this for a while, so if you blatantly rip off somebody else's idea, we will know.
Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome,
you MUST host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards.
Save it and upload it to
Imgur
,
Photobucket
, or some other similar site. HearthCards has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your card disappearing part-way through the finals. We understand that there are some HearthCards memberships that will allow you to save your card there for longer (and you should totally get one of those just for general fan creation purposes, by the way), but we don't know who has those memberships and we can't tell from the URLs.
Fun and even humorous entries are perfectly allowed, but "troll" entries will be disqualified. If you're worried that your card may be misinterpreted as a troll card, contact a moderator before you submit.
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.
TIP:
Though not a rule exactly, we
highly
recommend that you insert your images using this icon on the bar above the post text editor:
. Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. Cards that are uploaded and attached to your post are not disallowed, but in our experience they will not do nearly as well, so this is for your own benefit more than anything.
Finally, know that manipulating votes in any way is strictly forbidden. Any violators will receive an official warning, and will be banned from this and all future HearthPwn Card Design Competitions.
Competition Process
Preview Phase
(Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 5/07/18)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase
(Starts 21:00 UTC 5/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 9/07/18)
During this Phase, the Submission Topic is made available for your submissions. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
Voting Phase
(Starts 21:00 UTC 9/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 10/07/18 )
During this Phase, the Submission Topic will be locked, so no more entries may be submitted. Instead, use this time to browse the submissions and up-vote your favorites!
Final Phase
(Starts 21:00 UTC 10/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 11/07/18)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic will also be locked, and a new Poll Topic will go up. Discussion will be allowed to continue in the Poll Topic, and it will also include all the qualifying finalists and poll to decide the winner of the competition!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? First, we'll pull up-vote data from each submission using the formula detailed below:
(
ab
) / (
c
) =
x
Where,
a
= The total number of submissions on the same page as the submission.
b
= The total number of up-votes that the submission received.
c
= The total number of up-votes on the same page as the submission.
x
= The submission's final score.
The formula basically measures which cards stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality. It will be the entries that receive the highest final scores that move on to the Final Phase.
The bottom line is that, although entries on the earlier pages of the Submission Topic are much more visible and thus receive many more up-votes than entries on later pages, you don't actually have to rush to get your entry in as soon as possible because the up-votes end up being weighted by what page your entry ends up on in order to determine its final score.
But wait, there's more! During each Weekly Card Design Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderators will be given a
Wild Card
, which they can use to advance any one entry that they feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated to the Final Phase, regardless of its final score. Wild Cards are our way of spicing things up a bit, but please don't ask to be given one or be upset if you aren't given one. These are just supposed to be fun.
(Also, it should go without saying that, while we moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, we are not allowed to benefit from Wild Cards.)
Rewards
Bragging rights are always awesome, but as usual, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners:
Their card forever immortalized in our
Winners' Gallery
!
They will be allowed to select the next card design competition theme.
And a unique
Avatar Border
& "
Card Design Champion
" Title, as depicted below!
Looking for more information about the WCDC or Fan Creations in general? Why not check out this
FAQ
to see if your question is answered there? You can also PM one of us Fan Creation Mods!
Now guys... before I get reported fifteen times, please, hear me out. This card has one single super niche use.
Beneath the Grounds
for
Ambush!
and
Iron Juggernaut
for
Burrowing Mine
. It lets non-reno decks proc
Reno Jackson
for one turn. Why is this worth destroying your future for? Why would you be ridiculous enough to basically commit suicide? Control mirrors.
Let's say you're running a Control Warlock deck in wild, and have ten cards left - some of them duplicates, so the
Reno Jackson
in your hand can't trigger. Your opponent is threatening lethal. With this card, you have a way out.
One more thing. This card discourages RNG. By placing a devastatingly low possibility on "cast a random spell" cards (like with
Cataclysm
on an empty board, but possibly worse... much worse), it decreases the power level on cards like
Deck of Wonders
. How often do I actually expect this card to be run in constructed? About as often as
Dragon Soul
or
The Last Kaleidosaur
, but when it works... oh it'll feel
goooood
.
If your opponent discards a target spell with this card, is he/she who will cast it. Things that only can targed freindly minions/characters discarded from your opponent's deck will always target characters from your opponent's board. For example a
Molten Reflection
from an enemy mage will be casted on one of the minions that this mage has in that specific moment.
Play
: "
Your evil deeds are no longer tolerated!"
Attack
: "
Be purged!"
Death
:
"The dark..forces...mustn't...win.."
Flavor
T
ext: "She always ruins the magic spectacles."
Best compared to tracking. Compared to it you lose a card however you gain the information of the next cards you will draw and you can remove any which you do not want. The Order you draw the cards will also be revealed with the left most card being the first card you will draw.
An extremely powerful win condition that force the Hunter to build their deck around the card and careful balance on which minions should they put into the deck for the best outcome and how much damage should they put into the deck to finish off the opponent, not to mention extremely careful calculation so they can pop the Ice Block with the least amount of Health. The name is a pun and fusion between "Pack" and "Last Stand".
My goal when designing this hero card is to give Warrior a fresh way to play a control archetype. In terms of flavour, Kargath Bladefist summoning minions of his own Shattered Hand clan infected with the fel curse shows a different side of what Warrior can represent.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here .
Competition Theme: Burn Baby Burn
This week's theme comes from thepowrofcheese and CheeseEtc whose "Griftah" and "Skilled Grafter" were the winners of our Hoodoo Voodoo? competition!
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
General Competition Rules
These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
These are the rules about your Submission:
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.
TIP: Though not a rule exactly, we highly recommend that you insert your images using this icon on the bar above the post text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. Cards that are uploaded and attached to your post are not disallowed, but in our experience they will not do nearly as well, so this is for your own benefit more than anything.
Finally, know that manipulating votes in any way is strictly forbidden. Any violators will receive an official warning, and will be banned from this and all future HearthPwn Card Design Competitions.
Competition Process
Preview Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 5/07/18)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 5/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 9/07/18)
During this Phase, the Submission Topic is made available for your submissions. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 9/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 10/07/18 )
During this Phase, the Submission Topic will be locked, so no more entries may be submitted. Instead, use this time to browse the submissions and up-vote your favorites!
Final Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 10/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 11/07/18)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic will also be locked, and a new Poll Topic will go up. Discussion will be allowed to continue in the Poll Topic, and it will also include all the qualifying finalists and poll to decide the winner of the competition!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? First, we'll pull up-vote data from each submission using the formula detailed below:
( ab ) / ( c ) = x
Where,
a = The total number of submissions on the same page as the submission.
b = The total number of up-votes that the submission received.
c = The total number of up-votes on the same page as the submission.
x = The submission's final score.
The formula basically measures which cards stood out the most, with the necessary assumption that each page is about equal in overall submission quality. It will be the entries that receive the highest final scores that move on to the Final Phase.
The bottom line is that, although entries on the earlier pages of the Submission Topic are much more visible and thus receive many more up-votes than entries on later pages, you don't actually have to rush to get your entry in as soon as possible because the up-votes end up being weighted by what page your entry ends up on in order to determine its final score.
But wait, there's more! During each Weekly Card Design Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderators will be given a Wild Card , which they can use to advance any one entry that they feel was initially overlooked or under-appreciated to the Final Phase, regardless of its final score. Wild Cards are our way of spicing things up a bit, but please don't ask to be given one or be upset if you aren't given one. These are just supposed to be fun.
(Also, it should go without saying that, while we moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, we are not allowed to benefit from Wild Cards.)
Rewards
Bragging rights are always awesome, but as usual, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners:
Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery !
They will be allowed to select the next card design competition theme.
And a unique Avatar Border & " Card Design Champion " Title, as depicted below!
Looking for more information about the WCDC or Fan Creations in general? Why not check out this FAQ to see if your question is answered there? You can also PM one of us Fan Creation Mods!
Good Luck!
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Also known as Bustin Jeiber's best known song
Now guys... before I get reported fifteen times, please, hear me out. This card has one single super niche use. Beneath the Grounds for Ambush! and Iron Juggernaut for Burrowing Mine . It lets non-reno decks proc Reno Jackson for one turn. Why is this worth destroying your future for? Why would you be ridiculous enough to basically commit suicide? Control mirrors.
Let's say you're running a Control Warlock deck in wild, and have ten cards left - some of them duplicates, so the Reno Jackson in your hand can't trigger. Your opponent is threatening lethal. With this card, you have a way out.
One more thing. This card discourages RNG. By placing a devastatingly low possibility on "cast a random spell" cards (like with Cataclysm on an empty board, but possibly worse... much worse), it decreases the power level on cards like Deck of Wonders . How often do I actually expect this card to be run in constructed? About as often as Dragon Soul or The Last Kaleidosaur , but when it works... oh it'll feel goooood .
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
"Now where did those scrolls go?"
Big efficient heal to extend the game, at the cost of shortening the game by dramatically shrinking your deck.
"Rated the #1 fasted airline on Azeroth. Also the least safe."
If your opponent discards a target spell with this card, is he/she who will cast it. Things that only can targed freindly minions/characters discarded from your opponent's deck will always target characters from your opponent's board. For example a Molten Reflection from an enemy mage will be casted on one of the minions that this mage has in that specific moment.
Play : " Your evil deeds are no longer tolerated!"
Attack : " Be purged!"
Death : "The dark..forces...mustn't...win.."
Flavor T ext: "She always ruins the magic spectacles."
"Feratu, I am your mother."
Discarding mechanic is not rewarding overall. But with the Lybell discard mechanic won't be like before!
Edit: misspelling
Best compared to tracking. Compared to it you lose a card however you gain the information of the next cards you will draw and you can remove any which you do not want. The Order you draw the cards will also be revealed with the left most card being the first card you will draw.
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To show you the power of Flex Tape, i'll cut my deck in half! (context for the meme)
Basically you can get infinite copies of a card but it costs 3 more. It works great in hard control decks, especially in fatigue warrior.
" A drop of blood to seh da future"!
A retake on Army of the Dead.
Ice Block
An extremely powerful win condition that force the Hunter to build their deck around the card and careful balance on which minions should they put into the deck for the best outcome and how much damage should they put into the deck to finish off the opponent, not to mention extremely careful calculation so they can pop the Ice Block with the least amount of Health. The name is a pun and fusion between "Pack" and "Last Stand".
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:
How to use this in a deck
Unpopular opinion: Rogue is OP
My goal when designing this hero card is to give Warrior a fresh way to play a control archetype. In terms of flavour, Kargath Bladefist summoning minions of his own Shattered Hand clan infected with the fel curse shows a different side of what Warrior can represent.
If you thought you knew what you think I know, then you'd know I knew you knew I know.
Flavor: Perfectly Balanced, As All Things Should Be
Edit: Corrected text to state "Remove from deck" rather than "Discard" which implies a removal from the hand.
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