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This Week's Finalists

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Competition-Specific Restrictions :

• You must make a collectible Neutral spell.
  
• Your card does not have to be a Legendary (although that might make the most sense).

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We have whittled down ~100 valid submissions to just 13 of the community's favorites. 
Check out all the finalists below and vote in our poll (vote for as many or as few as you like) to help decide the winner and be sure to check back after the poll finishes for the announcement of the winner and the start of a new theme!
by  CheeseEtc
by  DemonicPlushie
by  binza
by  The_Edel_Bernal
by  DestroyerR
by  Wailor
by  nobravery
by  ShadowsOfSense
by  Demonxz95
by  limao
by  Heinibrother
by  Schlauchneid
by  Shrinkkk (Wild Card)

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Automatize

A Fanboy's Guide To The Galaxy

The Eternal Grind

Wow, im surprised that all those cards with Classic watermark that were using "future" keywords and mechanics or referred specifically to future cards actually didnt make it (which i think is how it should have ended up). Even tho some of them were actually pretty cool, these little things shouldnt be taken lightly! :)

Anyway, rly good finalists this time around, i like almost all of them.

Apologies for the strange left-aligning, the forums are being weird. It doesn't look like that when I edit the post, but when I save it, bam, back to left-align.

Big fan of Class Training, Get Behind Me! and of course Herbal Remedy. These kinds of cards are what I imagine when I think of Neutral spells.

Automatize this time!

Kind of glad my entry didn't make it. Voted for each entry this time. To be honest, the multi-Hero entry has some real balance issues. The Rogue Hero is by far the strongest. Turn 6 Lethal is almost a guarantee with such a card.

Class Training and A Neutral Approach are my two favorites. I love Paradox, but Class Training and A Neutral Approach are damn near perfect.

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Kind of glad my entry didn't make it. Voted for each entry this time. To be honest, the multi-Hero entry has some real balance issues. The Rogue Hero is by far the strongest. Turn 6 Lethal is almost a guarantee with such a card.

Class Training and A Neutral Approach are my two favorites. I love Paradox, but Class Training and A Neutral Approach are damn near perfect.

 I agree. Hats off the effort for making all these cards but a lot the heroes are downright busted. 

Quote from CypherBenkes >>

Kind of glad my entry didn't make it. Voted for each entry this time. To be honest, the multi-Hero entry has some real balance issues. The Rogue Hero is by far the strongest. Turn 6 Lethal is almost a guarantee with such a card.

Class Training and A Neutral Approach are my two favorites. I love Paradox, but Class Training and A Neutral Approach are damn near perfect.

 Yes, I loved those 2 as well. Exactly what would make sense if they were to introduce neutral spells!

I also threw in "Free pack" even though it might be underpowered or make more sense as a rogue card.

Damn my card 'Year of the Dragon' got a very small amount of upvotes. I definitely didn't expect it to win but I guess I made it too complicated and that's why people don't like it? Still a little disappointed but whatever.

I'm voting for A Neutral Approach, Class Training and Automatize (even though it's kind of busted with Twig but that card always limits design space for druid so who cares), I really like those cards!

That fanboy card is waaaaaay too complicated for heartstone, having a card with 100000 effects is never good. yeah it's cool, heroes are cool but.. 10 heroes in one card.. it's way too much.

Class training is a really cool card though I really liked it.. simple, fitting to the neutral aspect.

 

@cypher benks so you basically voted for nothing.

 

Some fantastic designs here - well done to everyone! I was tempted to go for Rigged Dice... until I thought about how much of a buff it could be to Tempo Mage! And I already hate that deck ;) Love the design of Innkeeper's Favourite, really think Blizzard should consider adding cards that interact with other parts of the game more - dust, gold, other cards in your collection etc. So many interesting things they could do, but not confident they ever will!

I like a lot of them but had to go with class training. A hell of a neutral quest that i wish was real.

Neutral spell balancing is very tricky. The goal is sure to extend meta versatility and give every class some viable and balanced options.
I am taking simple approach - let it be as much applicable as possible, while doing the simplest thing possible, and not to become a piece of some 'easy op combo'. Despite it sounds a bit limiting, but hey, we have two amazing ideas already - there my votes go.
"Get behind me!"
"Class training"

As to the question if 'Class training' is not a bit too easy to pull off with the obviously profitable reward, especially in a control deck. I find that maybe in Naxx-Grand tournament days that would be must have card. But now after we've got death knight heroes and some instant odd/even hero power upgrades it does not look that must have or OP, it looks fitting.

"Get Behind Me!" should be a warrior only card.

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"Get Behind Me!" should be a warrior only card.

 To be honest, it shouldnt be a card at all, feels too strong as a way to protect your board presence.

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Quote from WTBgf >>

"Get Behind Me!" should be a warrior only card.

 To be honest, it shouldnt be a card at all, feels too strong as a way to protect your board presence.

 it's as strong as Rebuke