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This Week's Finalists

Entry Restrictions:
 Your card must "give" your opponent one or more minions. These minions may be summoned, put into your opponent's hand or deck, or be transferred from your control to theirs.
Your card cannot interact in any way with minions that already belong to your opponent, including minions in their hand or deck or minions of theirs that died previously. Though not an exhaustive list, this would include dealing damage to them, destroying them, transforming them, silencing them, taking control of them, summoning them from or returning them to your opponent's hand or deck, or even giving them buffs.

We have whittled down ~180 valid entries to just 22 of the community's favorites.
Check out all the finalists below and vote in our poll (vote for as many or as few as you like) to help decide the winner and be sure to check back after the poll finishes for the announcement of the winner and the start of a new theme!

NOTE: Cards with a black border have additional material, like explanations or unique tokens,
located in a spoiler at the bottom of the finalist gallery.

Ironfur Grizzly
by Widzei
by HearthPwnd
by shlazar
by Petlas
Shieldbearer
by Zukuu
Coldlight Oracle
by YoThats
by Belzzzz
by Protar
Bolf Ramshield
by zartgruen
Shieldbearer
by Zadikiel
Silver Hand Recruit
by Thelesis
by 91Luna
Frog
by LXthunder
Wrathguard
by hauauftastatur
by Thorwaller
Whelp
by Doomedspeed
by Hoax91
by alky13
Knife Juggler
by Melmoth_The_Wanderer
by Ashero86
The Coin
by Teologic (Wild Card)
Secretkeeper
by binza (Wild Card)

Note: Usually this section is ordered identically to the order of the finalist cards. However, since we have so many tokens then week, I've decided to order them alphabetically by card name to make things a little easier to find.
(By card name, I mean the card name of the originating card, not the card name of the token.)

Aysa Cloudsinger

Circus Director

Dovekeeper

Dr. Bloom

Gothik the Harvester

Night Shift

Silithid Borer

Slavehandler

Tiny Lord of Evil

Wanted Outlaw

Just one less vote made me not entering the final :(

I would have made it to the finals if it hadn't been for pesky little Dr. Bloom.

           Here's my review of the finalists.

1. Bear Hunting Bow- By itself a balanced card, but face hunter has very efficient ways to deal with it's drawback, leading to this being a fairly consistent 12 damage to face, which I can't honestly say I'm too thrilled with. If face hunter is ever completely phased out I'd be happy with this card's inclusion, but until then it's just too much direct damage potential in a class that already has plenty. Okay by itself, broken in current Hunter.
              
   Dr. Bloom- might see play in slower control decks that want the healing. But against the matchups where the healing is consistently useful turn 6/7/8 are usually spent on preventing damage and this doesn't do that so I'm not sure about it's usefulness compared to other cards in the mana slot. If this had taunt it'd be pretty good, right now it's okay.
            
2. Mad Worgen- Either play it with combo or never play it at all. I feel like I'd be hard pressed to seriously consider this card in a rogue deck, it's simply too potentially bad without comboing it out, and my combo activators are already stretched thin in most cases. Maybe playable?
                
3. Wanted Outlaw- This card is plain and simple broken. If the Bounty Hunter only cost 1 mana it might be okay, as it is it's a 2 mana 3/4 with pretty much no drawback because the card you give your opponent is absolute garbage. Broken.
              
4. Ceasefire- Decent against some aggro decks, helps enable the taunt warrior deck that is currently non-existant. Against zoo-lock this could bring you a lot of pain as they have a higher chance of being able to use the minions you give them than you do. Solid card.
              
5. Crabbyfin- Good in mill, possibly good in a pure murloc deck, but probably not. It's design is obviously geared toward mill and it fits really well into that archetype. Nice job.
              
6. Nightshift- has some merit by being a 1 mana rogue card and therefore a potential combo piece, but otherwise you give you and your opponent 3 minions and they get to use theirs first so you lose out by using this card. The potential combos with other pirate cards, the most stand out being Ship's Cannon, push this into viability. Solid card.
              
7. Silithid Borer- A really interesting card for fatigue decks, potentially wins you the game or screws you kinda hard. Really interesting and fits in several decks that are on the edge of viable. Might be a bit too powerful, but would need extensive playtesting to really say. Nice Job.
              
8. Lebron- Basically a 6 mana 6/3 because the charge only come into play if you attack something with it, and then it dies and you've used a 6 mana fireball. Underwhelming.
              
9. Fel Orc Raider- Basically a 4/2 for 2. I guess you could use it to trade inefficiently for an enemy taunt. I'd say it's undercosted because of it's stats but 2 health dies to almost everything so I don't really see it being a problem. Really the only situation where this card is even kinda good is against dragon priest where it trades 1 for 1 with Wyrmrest Agent. Underwhelming.
              
10. Wanted Fugitive- I can't think of any reason why I would play this over almost any other 3 drop, I'm trying but I can't. Underwhelming.
               
11. Aysa Cloudsinger- Really interesting card with a lot of potential. Giving Aysa taunt is a really powerful play that can win you the game by itself if the opponent can't answer. Especially powerful against aggressive opponents. It is potentially too powerful in fact, but tough to say without playtesting. Nice job.
               
12. Teraptor Hatchling- In the same boat as Fel Orc Raider and Lebron in that the charge effect is essentially meaningless. However this card is redeemed by having on curve stats and being a beast, making it the best beast in it's mana slot so that counts for something at least. Solid Card.
               
13. Demon Huntress- any class that could heal the huntress, or have a consistent and efficient way to deal with the wrath guard on turn three would give this card a try at least. Solid card.
               
14. Circus Director- A simple, balanced card with a neat little flavor. Solid card.
               
15. Twilight Corrupter- basically a 1 mana 2/2. Slightly overpowered.
               
16. Gothik the Harvester- Really cool card that would fit really well as both a finisher and general disruption in token or board flood decks. It's really hard to judge this card's power without playtesting but I think it would be balanced enough. Nice job.
               
17. Dovekeeper- could easily be a 4/5 and still be balanced. It feels too slow but has some potential. Solid card.
               
18. Apple- I cannot think of any possible reason that I would give my opponent what is arguably the best 2 drop in the game so that I can have a recurring 0/1 on my field. Interesting but severely underwhelming.
               
19. Tiny Lord of Evil- the "Demons have +1 attack" effect seems out of place. The other effect is really powerful, basically denying your opponent 2 draws, and might warrant the card being reduced to a 2/2. Probably overpowered as is, but a really interesting card with a good amount of potential.
               
20. Slavehandler- Having the coin as rogue is really good, and a 6/4 for 5 after trading is decent. It also doesn't have much in the way of competition from the rogue 5 slot. Solid card.
               
21. A Game of Secrets- Draw three random cards and summon a soft counter to all the cards you drew for you opponent. Potentially insane value and since Secret Keeper isn't exactly impossible to deal with this might even be potentially too good, but without playtesting it's impossible to say. Solid and interesting card.

and holy god that ended up a giant wall of text. Should I just put reviews like this in a pastebin if I decide to do anymore? It would save a lot of space.