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.
When you post your Imgur link,
make sure it's the actual image and not the hosting page!
You need to right-click and open the image in a new window/tab first; the link should have an "i" in front of it, "i.imgur.XXXX". HearthPwn won't be able to direct-post your card, otherwise.
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. Emote-related cards will be considered a troll entry.
We reserve the right to classify cards as "troll" entries as we deem necessary, even if the reasoning is
not
explicitly stated in the rules.
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 11/10/2018)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase
(Starts 21:00 UTC 11/10/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 15/10/2018)
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 15/10/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 16/10/2018)
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 16/10/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 17/10/2018)
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!
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
Comfortable way to roll into T4
Nourish
without completely giving up the board which has been an issue with ramp imo, or delay the mana gain for more board presence. I like
Wild Growth
over "gain an empty mana crystal" because of the card draw after having full mana.
It should proc even if you have a full tray, as well as once per crystal (two Treants on
Nourish
ramp, fill your board when breaking a
Twig of the World Tree
, etc).
I know it's potentially a 2-card 21-dmg combo with
Living Mana
, but it requires the battlefield to be completely empty, both on your and your opponent's side. The fact that the effect is random is making it much less reliable, and that's why I think it's fair.
A new version of C'thun and a new win condition for treant decks. Since Root'hun is always the last card in your deck, you have to draw until fatigue, and until then, you have to survive + you have to use almost every single treant synergy. Witchwood Apple, Dendrologist, Landscaping, Force of Nature...all of these cards are playable with this card. But use them wisely - you have to summon at least 30 treants, which is by the way not impossible :)
I don't know if the quest condition is too easy to achieve, but it's kind of hard finding a good number because on one hand, the quest shouldn't be to easy to complete, but on the other, there should be enough treants left that you have a reason to actually complete the quest.
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here .
Competition Theme: Tree Huggers
This week's theme comes from CheeseEtc , whose "Shredder Pilot" was the winner of our Metal Masters 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 11/10/2018)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 11/10/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 15/10/2018)
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 15/10/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 16/10/2018)
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 16/10/2018, Ends 21:00 UTC 17/10/2018)
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!
Behold, foolish interlopers! I am commanding this mortal to spread the will of the Scourge throughout the interwebs, encouraging you to seek out me, Archlich Kel'Thuzad! Now coming to you as the tenth class of Hearthstone!
I am a finalist in this Class Creation Competition, so if you could give it a look I would be greatly appreciative <3
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Same one generated by Living Mana .
Comfortable way to roll into T4 Nourish without completely giving up the board which has been an issue with ramp imo, or delay the mana gain for more board presence. I like Wild Growth over "gain an empty mana crystal" because of the card draw after having full mana.
(Edit: fixed card watermark)
based on the great moth line of cards from yugioh.
after 2 turns
after 4 turns
after 6 or more turns
It should proc even if you have a full tray, as well as once per crystal (two Treants on Nourish ramp, fill your board when breaking a Twig of the World Tree , etc).
I know it's potentially a 2-card 21-dmg combo with Living Mana , but it requires the battlefield to be completely empty, both on your and your opponent's side. The fact that the effect is random is making it much less reliable, and that's why I think it's fair.
"This cute little guy is dreaming about becoming the next World Tree....awwww....."
When a Swipe just isn't cutting it.
Weekly Card Design Competition 10.15
The trees say you need a beating, Once-ler!
♔
A new version of C'thun and a new win condition for treant decks. Since Root'hun is always the last card in your deck, you have to draw until fatigue, and until then, you have to survive + you have to use almost every single treant synergy. Witchwood Apple, Dendrologist, Landscaping, Force of Nature...all of these cards are playable with this card. But use them wisely - you have to summon at least 30 treants, which is by the way not impossible :)
It is said that he only speaks up for certain environmental problems. But that's not true. He also does for overcooked pizza.
[img] i.imgur.com/FMfGGf5.png [/img]
He might seem overpowered, but it's actually a quest card.
Quest Name- Forests of Azeroth
Quest- Summon 8 Treants.
Reward- Oldbark.
I don't know if the quest condition is too easy to achieve, but it's kind of hard finding a good number because on one hand, the quest shouldn't be to easy to complete, but on the other, there should be enough treants left that you have a reason to actually complete the quest.
Oldbark has a bad case of claustrophobia.
Entrance: “There is no peace.”
Attacking: “There is only servitude.”
Death (with another Treant on board)/transformation: “The curse cannot be outlasted.”
Death (for real): “Could it be?...”
Treant → Rotten Applebaum
The name is supposed to be a reference to Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life. Only, it's the opposite. It makes trees go bad.
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.