Why are there no names in the poll itself? I liked that about the old poll system. Also means cards with similar / identical names are easier to distinguish.
Also I only found the thread by chance. It has to be more visible somehow.
edit: As for the finalists themselves: Incredible weak community choices. Some effects are fine, but have formatting or spelling errors, making me not wanting to vote for them, since that is just as much part of a card design.
Two joke entries in the finals also makes me sad. "The card made me LOL, it's stupid and it won't win but I liked it anyway". Thanks again community, showing me that you have no clue whatsoever. You can design funny cards that without being so obnoxiously uninspiring and make them actually balanced and fitting.
Other entries are ridiculous overpowered like the 0/20. Seriously? When cards like Defender of Argus and Sunfury Protector exists it's a ridiculous dumb concept.
The Jack Pot wild card is also stupid and I don't like the trend that "animating" a card means you have a higher chance to get picked. Personally, I would just forbid gold cards as a whole to even the entry field and not penalizing people without photoshop skills.
I actually struggle to find a card I legitimately like. Fel Bolt is somewhat cool because it reflect its properties in WoW, but it's vastly overcosted and its ignoring effect is incredibly situational. The only other cards I find interesting are Brontes and Tugweed. Tugweed's effect is cool, but 7 mana is arbitrary and over the top. I know it's due to this week's, admittedly poorly thought out, contest theme, but that alone doesn't save it, leaving Brontes as sole choice. Decent card with a cool effect that I can actually see being played.
All cards in the poll is in the order of how they are presented.
The thread is stickied, the others are locked and unstickied and the last page in the discussion topic was me saying something like check out the poll topic. How can we make things clearer? :P
Jack Pot had an interesting effect according to me and I think it was nice with the effort spent on animating it. Such things should be encouraged IMO.
Big congratz!
by _Legacy_
by Ridelith
by Firebolts
All cards in the poll is in the order of how they are presented.
The thread is stickied, the others are locked and unstickied and the last page in the discussion topic was me saying something like check out the poll topic. How can we make things clearer? :P
Jack Pot had an interesting effect according to me and I think it was nice with the effort spent on animating it. Such things should be encouraged IMO.