Card Design Competition Mid-Season Event: The MERCHANT enters the Grand Tournament!
Hello, Fan Creation Forum! We're going to take a little break from our normal Weekly Card Design Competition to celebrate a few things. The first is that we're half-way through our second competition season, and we're still going strong with ever more brilliant and innovative submissions every week! The second is the spectacular success of our first ever Class Creation Competition, where we somehow ended up with a tie that left us with two Class Creation Champions! And the third is that TGT is finally out and so now we can stop with the TGT-hype competition themes... After this last one!
This week is going to be run a little differently than usual. You may have noticed that we have two submission topics up right now, yes? Well, that's because this week we have two different competitions, one to honor each of our Class Creation Champions. You may enter both competitions, and we will crown one winner from each, so you have double the work this week and double the chances of becoming a Card Design Champion! This topic will be for carminacore's Merchant class, so if you're going to participate, I highly recommend checking out the Merchant class's card set by clicking on the Hero Portrait for Jeeve Stobes below:
Entry Restrictions: Your card must be a Merchant class card. To see the existing Merchant class cards, click on the Hero Portrait for Jeeve Stobes above. Your card must use the Merchant class's card border. In Hearthcards.net, you can find this by clicking "Custom Classes" (directly to the right of "2. Choose a Class") and selecting "Pirate Hero by Mokthol" near the middle. Your card must be a Grand Tournament card. In Hearthcards.net, you can mark your card with the Grand Tournament emblem watermark by looking to the right of the "Card Text" section and clicking on "Swirl, Vanilla Set" to bring up a drop-down menu where you can then click on "Tourney, Inspire, Joust".
As a reminder, here are what some Merchant class cards look like. Again, though, if you're going to enter the competition, please click on the above hero portrait for Jeeve Stobes to be linked to the full collection.
Competition Rules
We, the Fan Creation Forum Moderators, may edit and/or disqualify your entry if you neglect the competition's rules, so please read carefully. These measures are designed to ensure everyone has a fair and enjoyable experience during the contests!
You are allowed to submit one (1) entry per submission topic. Your entry must be a card of your own creation. You may add minimal comments to explain your card's design, balance, and/or qualities. You may not significantly alter your card once it has been submitted. (Although minor tweaks, such as to adjust balance or correct spelling errors, are acceptable.) You may not delete your submission post. Manipulating votes in any way is strictly forbidden. Any violators will receive a warning and a possible ban / disqualification from future contests. Any discussion of entries, ideas, and so on should take place in this week's designated Discussion Topic. This is the Submission Topic, and it is for submission posts and up-voting only. Recent New Rule - So called "troll entries" can be submitted but will not be able to advance to the final. Fun entries are OK, but outright, unbalanced parodies are not. If you're unsure, check with a moderator before submitting. Recent New Rule -You MUST upload your submission to a site that stores images, for example Imgur.com, Photobucket.com etc. This is for your own good as Hearthcards only keeps your image for a limited time and sometimes has problems resulting in lost images.
Competition Process
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts 20:00 UTC 3/September/2015, Ends 18:00 UTC 8/September/2015) It is during this Phase that you may submit entries to the Submission Topic. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
Voting Phase (Starts 18:00 UTC 8/September/2015, Ends 18:00 UTC 9/September/2015) 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 19:00 UTC 9/September/2015, Ends 19:00 UTC 10/September/2015) 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 a 24-hour poll to decide the winner of the competition!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? First, we'll take the highest-voted entry on each page of the submission topic. Then, we'll fill in the rest using the formula detailed here...
(abc) / (de) = x
Where, a = The total number of up-votes in the entire topic. b = The total number of submissions on the same page as the submission. c = The total number of up-votes that the submission received. d = The total number of pages that the entire topic spanned. e = The total number of up-votes on the same page as the submission. x = The submission's final score.
It might seem a bit complex and convoluted, but 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. It will be the ~15-25 entries that receive the highest final scores (depending on the popularity of this week's competition) that move on to the Final Phase. The spreadsheet showing the final scores of every submission will be released after each competition.
But wait, there's more! Each Fan Creation Forum moderators (plus carminacore, creator of the Merchant class!) 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.
Rewards
To encourage your competitive spirit, we do of course offer a few rewards to competition winners: Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery! The card may also be featured as part of the official Merchant topic. A unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
(Note: As this week's competition is not part of the normal competition cycle, winners will not have the ability to help us choose any future competition themes, as would normally be the case for a standard Weekly Card Design Competition.)
I know plagiarisms are not allowed, but here I post: Plagiarism!!!
Just kidding, it is called Plagiarism, but it's mine, check it in the discussion page. Plagiarism is a very old technic in bussiness, so why not apply it to Hearthstone?
What?! Of course these are the original Warglaives of Azzinoth! What did you think?
As TGT tries to push control decks to be viable, I thought it would be nice to have a healing class card here as well.
This card is good against aggro decks, if you're saving up coins for late game. It gives an instant heal on turn 6 and a 5-health body that needs to be dealt with or you would just gain even more health.
He charges a rather high price for his services, but if he wins his joust he may simply forget about it in his excitement!
Fits the Grand Tournament theme in two ways: it uses the joust mechanic, and its a 2 mana minion, which all classes except for Paladin got in Grand Tournament, and fits the Merchant theme with the Salary.
The merchant class seems like a perfect candidate for some inspire shenanigans—so here's the Rabble-Rouser, who stirs up trouble for your opponent by making his minions demand better pay!
This is the MERCHANT Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
(The TWILIGHT'S HAMMER Submission Topic is here.)
Card Design Competition Mid-Season Event:
The MERCHANT enters the Grand Tournament!
Hello, Fan Creation Forum! We're going to take a little break from our normal Weekly Card Design Competition to celebrate a few things. The first is that we're half-way through our second competition season, and we're still going strong with ever more brilliant and innovative submissions every week! The second is the spectacular success of our first ever Class Creation Competition, where we somehow ended up with a tie that left us with two Class Creation Champions! And the third is that TGT is finally out and so now we can stop with the TGT-hype competition themes... After this last one!
This week is going to be run a little differently than usual. You may have noticed that we have two submission topics up right now, yes? Well, that's because this week we have two different competitions, one to honor each of our Class Creation Champions. You may enter both competitions, and we will crown one winner from each, so you have double the work this week and double the chances of becoming a Card Design Champion! This topic will be for carminacore's Merchant class, so if you're going to participate, I highly recommend checking out the Merchant class's card set by clicking on the Hero Portrait for Jeeve Stobes below:
Entry Restrictions:
Your card must be a Merchant class card. To see the existing Merchant class cards, click on the Hero Portrait for Jeeve Stobes above.
Your card must use the Merchant class's card border. In Hearthcards.net, you can find this by clicking "Custom Classes" (directly to the right of "2. Choose a Class") and selecting "Pirate Hero by Mokthol" near the middle.
Your card must be a Grand Tournament card. In Hearthcards.net, you can mark your card with the Grand Tournament emblem watermark by looking to the right of the "Card Text" section and clicking on "Swirl, Vanilla Set" to bring up a drop-down menu where you can then click on "Tourney, Inspire, Joust".
As a reminder, here are what some Merchant class cards look like. Again, though, if you're going to enter the competition, please click on the above hero portrait for Jeeve Stobes to be linked to the full collection.
Competition Rules
We, the Fan Creation Forum Moderators, may edit and/or disqualify your entry if you neglect the competition's rules, so please read carefully. These measures are designed to ensure everyone has a fair and enjoyable experience during the contests!
You are allowed to submit one (1) entry per submission topic.
Your entry must be a card of your own creation.
You may add minimal comments to explain your card's design, balance, and/or qualities.
You may not significantly alter your card once it has been submitted. (Although minor tweaks, such as to adjust balance or correct spelling errors, are acceptable.)
You may not delete your submission post.
Manipulating votes in any way is strictly forbidden. Any violators will receive a warning and a possible ban / disqualification from future contests.
Any discussion of entries, ideas, and so on should take place in this week's designated Discussion Topic. This is the Submission Topic, and it is for submission posts and up-voting only.
Recent New Rule - So called "troll entries" can be submitted but will not be able to advance to the final. Fun entries are OK, but outright, unbalanced parodies are not. If you're unsure, check with a moderator before submitting.
Recent New Rule -You MUST upload your submission to a site that stores images, for example Imgur.com, Photobucket.com etc. This is for your own good as Hearthcards only keeps your image for a limited time and sometimes has problems resulting in lost images.
Competition Process
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts 20:00 UTC 3/September/2015, Ends 18:00 UTC 8/September/2015)
It is during this Phase that you may submit entries to the Submission Topic. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
Voting Phase (Starts 18:00 UTC 8/September/2015, Ends 18:00 UTC 9/September/2015)
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 19:00 UTC 9/September/2015, Ends 19:00 UTC 10/September/2015)
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 a 24-hour poll to decide the winner of the competition!
How do we determine the qualifying finalists? First, we'll take the highest-voted entry on each page of the submission topic. Then, we'll fill in the rest using the formula detailed here...
(abc) / (de) = x
Where,
a = The total number of up-votes in the entire topic.
b = The total number of submissions on the same page as the submission.
c = The total number of up-votes that the submission received.
d = The total number of pages that the entire topic spanned.
e = The total number of up-votes on the same page as the submission.
x = The submission's final score.
It might seem a bit complex and convoluted, but 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. It will be the ~15-25 entries that receive the highest final scores (depending on the popularity of this week's competition) that move on to the Final Phase. The spreadsheet showing the final scores of every submission will be released after each competition.
But wait, there's more! Each Fan Creation Forum moderators (plus carminacore, creator of the Merchant class!) 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.
Rewards
To encourage your competitive spirit, we do of course offer a few rewards to competition winners:
Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery! The card may also be featured as part of the official Merchant topic.
A unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
(Note: As this week's competition is not part of the normal competition cycle, winners will not have the ability to help us choose any future competition themes, as would normally be the case for a standard Weekly Card Design Competition.)
Good Luck!
Seems ok. Hope you like it guys ;)
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My entry this week. Hope you all like it, give it a vote!
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MERCHANT'S SATCHEL
I got the idea from Flame Lance. After watching the collection figured it can use a simple boost.
Flavor Text: "Don't make me choose between money and other stuff!"
'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact'
Sherlock Holmes
Picked the goofiest dragon guarding treasure I could find to suit the small body.
Very solid stats for a 3 drop and has the upside of saving you from mills once you get your coin-engine working.
Two times Card Design Competition winner, with Durotan and Snörn the Treasureater.
Finalist with Baronor Badmouth, M'uru and Void Reaver.
If you pay a fee, he'll handle yours for 'free'.
please consider voting for my custom class in the fan creations competition :]
• TRIALS IN AUCHINDOUN - A Custom Hearthstone Adventure (4th Wing!) • New and Interesting Hearthstone Mechanics (by me!) •
I hope you enjoy my sub :D
TAX COLLECTOR
I Shouldn't have invested with that top hat guy. Now I don't have money OR friends.
Give a man a Murloc, and he'll eat for a day.
Give him a Murloc Knight, and people will hate him.
I know plagiarisms are not allowed, but here I post: Plagiarism!!!
Just kidding, it is called Plagiarism, but it's mine, check it in the discussion page. Plagiarism is a very old technic in bussiness, so why not apply it to Hearthstone?
What?! Of course these are the original Warglaives of Azzinoth! What did you think?
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As TGT tries to push control decks to be viable, I thought it would be nice to have a healing class card here as well.
This card is good against aggro decks, if you're saving up coins for late game. It gives an instant heal on turn 6 and a 5-health body that needs to be dealt with or you would just gain even more health.
Edit: Oops, now use TGT emblem watermark.
My entry for this week in the Merchant Portion:
He charges a rather high price for his services, but if he wins his joust he may simply forget about it in his excitement!
Fits the Grand Tournament theme in two ways: it uses the joust mechanic, and its a 2 mana minion, which all classes except for Paladin got in Grand Tournament, and fits the Merchant theme with the Salary.
Here's my dedication to your brilliant work.
Use this for a single turn sustain on a massive board of nasty workers. Or cheat yourself some future ramp and dispose of those good-for-nothings.
"And no health insurance either, huh?"
The merchant class seems like a perfect candidate for some inspire shenanigans—so here's the Rabble-Rouser, who stirs up trouble for your opponent by making his minions demand better pay!
The Coin
Hearthpwn Community's Balancing of Cards.
As Jeeves Stobes is kind of a parodic hero, i wanted to create a card with the same mindset. Here an Eye Patch mini that has an extremelly high cost!
It is inspired from Astral Communion, as i thought jeeves need one, with all those salaries to pay.
For those unaware, Punter is slang for someone who will make bets or gamble on a whim.
Flavor Text: "Hobbies: Gambling, Betting, and kicking around miniature tournaments."