As an extra stipulation, we ask that you do not use the new Magnetic keyword when designing your cards, or the new Project or Omega theming. We will very likely be giving these their own week in the future, and we don't want to flood submissions with these mechanics. We understand that they're new and exciting, but we'd prefer to let each week's theme shine on its own, without it just being 'another Boomsday winner' every week until the expansion releases.
General Competition Rules
These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
You are allowed to submit only one entry . An entry normally consists of only one collectible card, plus any necessary additional material or commentary (explained below).
You are allowed to post in this Submission Topic only once , only to submit your one entry.
You may not delete ANY posts you make in this Submission Topic , not even accidental ones you may make over your one allowed, such as by double-posting or by accidentally posting something here that you meant for the Discussion Topic. If you do accidentally post more than once, inform any of the Fan Creation Forum moderators via PM, and we will handle it.
Speaking of the Discussion Topic, that is where any discussion of this competition should go. This thread is for submissions only . If you want to discuss your card or ask questions about the competition rules or process, you can find a link to the Discussion Topic at the top of this thread. Plenty of folks there will be happy to help you out.
Once you have submitted your one entry, you are allowed to make only minor changes to it. Minor changes are things like correcting typos or making balance changes that do not alter the spirit of your entry as determined by we the moderators. If you want to make any changes and have any doubts as to their legality, ask us first.
These are the rules about your Submission:
Accompanying the image of your card, you may offer some minimal additional commentary to explain its design, balance, and/or other qualities. Flavor text is also welcome.
You may not submit any Gold cards or animated cards. (It's just a cheap attention grab tactic that makes it unnecessarily difficult to determine what class your card is for.)
Your entry must be a card of your own creation . We've been doing this for a while, so if you blatantly rip off somebody else's idea, we will know.
Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you MUST host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. Save it and upload it to Imgur , Photobucket , or some other similar site. HearthCards has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your card disappearing part-way through the finals. We understand that there are some HearthCards memberships that will allow you to save your card there for longer (and you should totally get one of those just for general fan creation purposes, by the way), but we don't know who has those memberships and we can't tell from the URLs.
Fun and even humorous entries are perfectly allowed, but "troll" entries will be disqualified. If you're worried that your card may be misinterpreted as a troll card, contact a moderator before you submit.
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 12/07/18) During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme. Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 12/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 16/07/18) 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 16/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 17/07/18 ) 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 17/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 18/07/18) 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!
For those moments when you just feel so arrogant you want to show your opponent how they lose beforehand. Extra points if you top deck the card you needed.
This card works like cards that buff minions in your deck, but, dealing damage to a minion. Your Opponent will draw an already damaged card, that will die instantly if he play it, (in case the minion had 5 or less hp), or just entry to the board damaged.
Grek is an effective way to reload your hand in the mid to late game, at the cost of showing your opponent every card in your hand and giving them time to react. The reveal would probably be added to the play stack so that when you hover over Grek in the stack, you'd see an arrow point to every card in the hand of the player who played him.
Public Mod Note(ShadowsOfSense): Under Review: This logic for 'reveal' is... shaky. I wouldn't accept a card with 'if you played an Elemental last turn' because it 'reveals' you're playing an Elemental deck, and this is similar.
Public Mod Note
(ShadowsOfSense):
Under Review: This logic for 'reveal' is... shaky. I wouldn't accept a card with 'if you played an Elemental last turn' because it 'reveals' you're playing an Elemental deck, and this is similar.
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*this signature and the above post is in Nerglish, because this site believes in equality between Murlocs and human players we have placed an automatic translator on this post*
A Rogue legendary spell, when it's in your deck at the start of the game, it gets consumed and your hero disguises herself as a random hero (Uther, Morgl, Tyrande, even Mecha-Jaraxxus), even Innkeeper announces you using your fake identity. You have another hero's portrait, emotions, etc. Your hero power appears as a fake one for your opponent, but you see your real hero power (daggers). You reveal your true identity after you play any Rogue card or use your hero power.
The main goal for this card is to confuse your opponent during mulligan and maybe early game. Can also be used for memes obviously. And it thins your deck btw!
Why does she have so many blades? To cut spell costs of course!
The potential of this card is to use it in some sort of combo or OTK using the cost reduction given. The reason it's 8 mana is to restrict things like turn 7 Ultimate Infestation, this way u need to draw this before U.I. then draw the U.I. making it unlikely to even play your 7 mana U.I. on turn 9.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: Seeing is Believing
This week's theme comes from ffinderous whose "Parroting" was the winner of our Spelling Three competition!
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
As an extra stipulation, we ask that you do not use the new Magnetic keyword when designing your cards, or the new Project or Omega theming. We will very likely be giving these their own week in the future, and we don't want to flood submissions with these mechanics. We understand that they're new and exciting, but we'd prefer to let each week's theme shine on its own, without it just being 'another Boomsday winner' every week until the expansion releases.
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 12/07/18)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 12/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 16/07/18)
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 16/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 17/07/18 )
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 17/07/18, Ends 21:00 UTC 18/07/18)
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!
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
For those moments when you just feel so arrogant you want to show your opponent how they lose beforehand. Extra points if you top deck the card you needed.
At worst, some info on your opponent's deck. At best, value for days.
Entrance: "You would make a fine addition to the Bonefleet."
"He's a great people person, except for his relentless stare of the abyss."
If you thought you knew what you think I know, then you'd know I knew you knew I know.
Their ghastly call brings witches, worgens, and wasps. No one likes wasps.
Play: YOU ARE NOT GONNA SCAPE!
Attack: NO ONE CAN RUN!
Death: I'll...GONNA TAKE YOU DOWN! "arrow to the minion revealed"
Flavor Text: "Hmm, let's see, he has a Gromash in his....oww Sh..."
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This card works like cards that buff minions in your deck, but, dealing damage to a minion. Your Opponent will draw an already damaged card, that will die instantly if he play it, (in case the minion had 5 or less hp), or just entry to the board damaged.
Maybe she isn't that good at pizza delivering
It has to be snakes.
Grek is an effective way to reload your hand in the mid to late game, at the cost of showing your opponent every card in your hand and giving them time to react. The reveal would probably be added to the play stack so that when you hover over Grek in the stack, you'd see an arrow point to every card in the hand of the player who played him.
Element-ary spell:
"Mindreading is standard preparation for Mind Visioning you know."
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I wanted a picture of a Gnome Girl Scout, to give the sense of being always ready and the buddy system.
You said no Omega, no Projects, no Magnetic.
So here is something for tribal decks, a Murloc that makes every minion you have all the tribes!!
Murloc, Mech, Dragon, all tribes in one.
Allowing various archetypes
Dragon Mage
Mix tribal Mage
Magnetic Mage (It's not a Magnetic card, but just like Nightmare Almagam this just happens to synergize with magnetic)
"But it doesn't reveal anything"
It reveals the fact you are playing tribal, and any anti tribal cards (Crabs, dragon slayer, etc) can be reserved for your bigger minions
*this signature and the above post is in Nerglish, because this site believes in equality between Murlocs and human players we have placed an automatic translator on this post*
Tech against slower control decks or other warlocks.
I think I might have hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
A Rogue legendary spell, when it's in your deck at the start of the game, it gets consumed and your hero disguises herself as a random hero (Uther, Morgl, Tyrande, even Mecha-Jaraxxus), even Innkeeper announces you using your fake identity. You have another hero's portrait, emotions, etc. Your hero power appears as a fake one for your opponent, but you see your real hero power (daggers). You reveal your true identity after you play any Rogue card or use your hero power.
The main goal for this card is to confuse your opponent during mulligan and maybe early game. Can also be used for memes obviously. And it thins your deck btw!
Why does she have so many blades? To cut spell costs of course!
The potential of this card is to use it in some sort of combo or OTK using the cost reduction given. The reason it's 8 mana is to restrict things like turn 7 Ultimate Infestation, this way u need to draw this before U.I. then draw the U.I. making it unlikely to even play your 7 mana U.I. on turn 9.