This week, make a card from any class (or the Archeologist class) that features the keyword: Decay. Decay is the class keyword of Archaeologist, representing the antiquity of their antiques. (Don't judge the diction, this is a direct quotation from Pirc himself). Decay reads as follow:
Note: Decay does not stack.
Some examples are shown below:
You can choose the Archeologist class by selecting more classes on Hearthcards.net and selecting the "Pirate Hero" icon:
This competition is a way of dipping your toes into the world of custom class creation! Have a look around and see some of the hard work and careful thought that goes into creating an entire custom class! If you want to join our discussion on how we'll handle our next Big Comp, send us your thoughts here!
General Competition Rules
These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
Posting Rules
You are allowed to submit only one entry.
After your submit, you may only make minor edits to your submissions (spelling, grammar, etc.). Please PM a fan creations moderator if you have questions regarding an edit you are not sure about.
You may not delete ANY posts you make in this Submission Topic, not even accidental ones. Please PM a fan creations moderator if you make a mistake in your submission.
This thread is for submissions only. Any discussion of the competition must take place in the discussion topic.
These are the rules about your Submission:
Your card cannot be Golden, have a hearthcards.net generated backdrop, or any major photo editing done to it.
You are allowed to post in this Submission Topic only once, only to submit your one entry.
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 plagiarize. An immediate qualification is the punishment for this offense.
You must host your card on a image hosting website. postimage.org is highly recommended. imgur.com currently has issues on this site and images hosted there do not show up.
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.
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.
Posting Tutorial
This is a posting tutorial for the website imgur.com. If you use another website, the process will be similar.
It is recommended you use hearthcards.net to create your cards. Save the generated card to your device.
Upload the image to imgur.com. You do not need an account.
After your image is uploaded, many links will be generated. Find the "Direct link". It will have a .jpg or .png at the end of the link. Copy the link.
On your hearthpwn post, find the "Insert/edit image" button:
Paste the direct link. This is recommended but not mandatory: You may choose to make the image smaller by changing the image dimensions.
Competition Process
Below is a list of all the deadlines for this contest:
Preview Phase (Nov. 19, 2019 [10:00 PM CST] - Nov 20, 2019 [10:00 PM CST]) The Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme. Entry and Early Voting Phase (Nov. 20, 2019 [10:00 PM CST] - Nov. 24, 2019 [10:00 PM CST]) During this Phase, the Submission Topic will be unlocked. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like! Voting Phase (Nov. 24, 2019 [10:00 PM CST] - Nov. 25, 2019 [10:00 PM CST]) 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 (Nov. 25, 2019 [10:00 PM CST] - Nov 26, 2019 [10:00 PM CST]) During this Phase, the Discussion Topic will also be locked, and a Finalists Thread will go up. Discussion will be allowed to continue in the Finalists Thread, and it will also include all the qualifying finalists and a poll to decide the winner of the competition!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? We use the following formula:
( 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!
Summoning a random Epic minion is generally a lot worse than summoning a Legendary: there are more "lowrolls" that you might get stuck with, whereas Legendary minions are pretty consistently powerful. In order to compensate for that, the mana cost is lower, and you also get a guaranteed Epic after the first decay triggers.
An updated version of my decaying statue from the discussion topic. After some feedback i decided to change up some stuff. If you're curious what the old one was i have it in the spoiler below
Archeology weapon from World of Warcraft with strong ties to Hakkar. Can sit on it to shuffle 3 Corrupted Bloods (albeit for 8 mana) or you can start swinging with it to clear and still get at least 1 or 2 off.
"This cursed blade foretells the coming of the end! And all for 8 mana!'
An overstat minion that allow you to keep her healthy by casting spell in exchange for the Decay downside. The keyword is used to signify the Nightborne magical addiction.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Click here to visit my Timestream Tracking Finalist Year of the Dragon in collaboration with Demonxz95
This is the Submission Topic. Be sure to upvote what you like here!
The Discussion Topic is here.
Competition Theme: I Like Big Comps and I Cannot Lie
General Competition Rules
These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
Posting Rules
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.
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.
Posting Tutorial
This is a posting tutorial for the website imgur.com. If you use another website, the process will be similar.
Competition Process
Below is a list of all the deadlines for this contest:
Preview Phase (Nov. 19, 2019 [10:00 PM CST] - Nov 20, 2019 [10:00 PM CST])
The Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
Entry and Early Voting Phase (Nov. 20, 2019 [10:00 PM CST] - Nov. 24, 2019 [10:00 PM CST])
During this Phase, the Submission Topic will be unlocked. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
Voting Phase (Nov. 24, 2019 [10:00 PM CST] - Nov. 25, 2019 [10:00 PM CST])
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 (Nov. 25, 2019 [10:00 PM CST] - Nov 26, 2019 [10:00 PM CST])
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic will also be locked, and a Finalists Thread will go up. Discussion will be allowed to continue in the Finalists Thread, and it will also include all the qualifying finalists and a poll to decide the winner of the competition!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? We use the following formula:
( 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!
Summoning a random Epic minion is generally a lot worse than summoning a Legendary: there are more "lowrolls" that you might get stuck with, whereas Legendary minions are pretty consistently powerful. In order to compensate for that, the mana cost is lower, and you also get a guaranteed Epic after the first decay triggers.
I manage the Epic Tier List and Crafting Guide. Come check it out!
Here are my predictions in The Exhaustive Ashes of Outlands Card Preview.
An updated version of my decaying statue from the discussion topic. After some feedback i decided to change up some stuff. If you're curious what the old one was i have it in the spoiler below
Burning out at the work didn't help him getting noticed.
idk seems legit, but couldn't find a way to properly tell "when another minion activates his decay" or something.
this card is just pack filler, every expansion needs bad cards! but hey, at least its a dragon
"..or at least... it was..."
YOU belong in a museum.
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I can make it in time! I'm sure of it!
Flavor: "He didn't plague his enemies only, but everyone. Get it? EVERYONE! Even himself..."
A neutral minion with Poisonous AND Decay.
Description: "Always hiding behind Bob's tavern, selling artifacts to STRANGERS."
When played: "Got some rare things on sale, stranger!"
When Attack: "A wise choice, mate!"
When Dies: "Not enough cash, stranger! ugh!"
Rate my Death Knight Concept Class (be nice in the feedbacks... hehe).
Simple combo activator.
Archeology weapon from World of Warcraft with strong ties to Hakkar. Can sit on it to shuffle 3 Corrupted Bloods (albeit for 8 mana) or you can start swinging with it to clear and still get at least 1 or 2 off.
"This cursed blade foretells the coming of the end! And all for 8 mana!'
Weekly Card Design Competition 10.15
An overstat minion that allow you to keep her healthy by casting spell in exchange for the Decay downside. The keyword is used to signify the Nightborne magical addiction.
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:
Reliably take power from weakened minions but juggle its low durability.