Hearthpwn

Thanks for votes and congrats on #1 and #2.
Very nice competition, seriously I think most cards are balanced and would like to see them in game.

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Props given to Chromatic Drake and Faceless Watcher, though. Making that many tokens seems exhausting.

Really? I have to say, and this is just my personal opinion, every time I see entries like those that are filled to the brim with unique tokens, I don't think "creative"; I think the opposite and it just turns me off. It's easy to look like you did a lot of work when you physically made more cards, but unfortunately the vast majority of the time I see submissions like this, it just seems they're pure quantity over quality. =/

I think to have a knee-jerk reaction either way is daft.  Seeing lots of cards and saying "Wow that's an amazing submission" or "This is bad... just overkill" rather than spending time to judge the quality of the content created isn't doing justice to the person who created the content or others participating in the competition.

Perhaps, but couldn't we say the same of every other criteria people use to judge entries?
For some folks, a cards that's unbalanced (either over-powered or under-powered) can immediately turn them off, but we could also say that focusing excessively on balance rather than judging the quality of the idea presented is unfair. For some folks, a cards that has bad art (for example because it has low quality or depicts something objectionable) can immediately turn them off, but we could also say that focusing excessively on art rather than judging the quality of the mechanics presented is unfair. For some folks, a card whose grammar or wording is inconsistent with Hearthstone's can immediately turn them off, but we could also say that pedantically focusing on trivial questions of wording rather than judging the idea behind the words is unfair.

I don't think there's anything particularly unfair about judging an entry based on its unique token count compared to any of these various other criteria people have and openly discuss. It's just another one of those areas where folks differ in what they're looking for, and my personal perspective just happens to be akin to that saying "Brevity is the soul of wit". Not that I can't get over that when appropriate, for example I loved the Ogre Pinata entry from our Ogre Smash! competition. =)

Everyone has a right to their opinion and everyone has a right to their opinion about how other people form their opinions.  If your process for judging a submission is counting up the card components and if its more than X then that submission is crap and should be disregarded then I think that is an absurd way to judge a submission. Frankly, I think it is lazy.  But you own your own opinion not me.