I'm glad you asked! See, with a new Adventure announced just as we approach of the end of Season 2 of our Weekly Card Design Competitions, Fluxflashor (the glorious overlord of HearthPwn, praise be unto him) has proposed a Special Edition competition, and I just couldn't resist.
Oh! You mean a new League of Explorers themed competition? I'm in! I'm going to submit a card right away...
Not so fast! There are rules...
Competition Rules
Even if you have entered one of our competitions before, please re-read all of the rules. There are a few differences between these rules and the rules for our standard competitions, so pay close attention.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
You are allowed to submit only one entry. An entry consists of only one collectible card, plus any necessary additional material or commentary (explained below).
You are allowed to post in this Submission Topic only once, only to submit your one entry.
You may not delete any posts you make in this Submission Topic, not even accidental ones you may make over your one allowed, such as by double-posting or by accidentally posting something here that you meant for the Discussion Topic. If you do accidentally post more than once, inform any of the Fan Creation Forum moderators via PM, and we will handle it.
Speaking of the Discussion Topic, that is where any discussion of this competition should go. This thread is for submissions only. If you want to discuss your card or ask questions about the competition rules or process, you can find a link to the Discussion Topic at the top of this thread. Plenty of folks there will be happy to help you out.
Once you have submitted your one entry, you are allowed to make only minor changes to it. Minor changes are things like correcting typos or making balance changes that do not alter the spirit of your entry as determined by we the moderators. If you want to make any changes and have any doubts as to their legality, ask us first.
These are the rules about your Submission:
This competition is all about getting hyped for The League of Explorers, so your card must fit the Adventure's theme. Specifically, we're interested in the new and emphasized mechanical themes that are being brought to the table. Your card must adhere to at leastone of the following two rules:
The League of Explorers has brought us the new Discover mechanic. Your card must include the Discover keyword. (Note: Including the Discover keyword does not necessarily mean having the keyword itself. For example, Feign Death, Scarlet Purifier, Undertaker, Lil' Exorcist, and Baron Rivendare all include the Deathrattle keyword without having it themselves.)
The League of Explorers has notably expanded shuffling cards into decks. Your card must explicitly shuffle one or more cards into your and/or your opponent's deck. (For reference, the pre-LoE examples of this were Recycle, Malorne, Gang Up, Beneath the Grounds, and Iron Juggernaut.)
Your card must use the League of Explorers "Explorer's Hat" watermark.
Your card may produce no more than three (3) unique "token" cards, that is uncollectable cards or similar products that don't already exist in the game. (If your card produces a new Hero, the new Hero Portrait will not count towards your token limit, but your new Hero Power will.)
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 submit any Gold cards. (It's just a cheap attention grab tactic that makes it unnecessarily difficult to determine what class your card is for.)
Your entry must be a card of your own creation. We've been doing this for a while, so if you blatantly rip off somebody else's idea, we will know.
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.
Make sure that your card is in-theme for the League of Explorers adventure. We realize that we can't be too strict about this because it's in some ways subjective, but if something is blatantly out of place, like for example a Tyrande Windrunner card (she's just a general WoW character, what's she have to do with explorers and ancient tombs and temples specifically?), we may take action. If you're having trouble thinking of something to base your card on, consider that the wings of the Adventure are going to be based on Orsis, Uldaman, and the Hall of Explorers. These are real places in the Warcraft universe with plenty of existing creatures, characters, items, and so on that you could use as inspiration.
How do I turn my card idea into a valid entry?
There are a few websites that can help you create your own Hearthstone cards, but our favorite is Hearthcards. It's a fairly intuitive tool, but feel free to ask folks over in the Discussion Topic if you're having any trouble with it. We will accept cards created with other programs, but we will not accept entries without legitimate card images.
You MUST host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. So, if you do create your card using Hearthcards, make sure to save it and upload it toImgur, Photobucket, or some other similar site. Hearthcards is awesome, but they have a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days. We understand that there are some Hearthcards memberships that will allow you to save your card there for longer, but we don't know who has those memberships and we can't tell from the URLs.
Though not a rule exactly, we highly recommend that you insert your images using this icon on the bar above the text editor: . Just click that button and put in the URL of your image. Cards that are uploaded and attached to your post are not disallowed, but in our experience they will not do nearly as well, so this is for your own benefit more than anything.
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.
EDIT: The following requirement was added: "Your card must use the League of Explorers "Explorer's Hat" watermark."
Competition Process
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Already started! Ends 16:00 UTC 17/November/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! Note that this submission window is quite a bit longer than our normal competitions. Voting Phase (Starts 16:00 UTC 17/November/2015, Ends 16:00 UTC 18/November/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 17:00 UTC 18/November/2015, Ends 17:00 UTC 19/November/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 pull up-vote data from each submission using the formula detailed below:
(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 ~20-30 entries that receive the highest final scores that move on to the Final Phase. In addition, the top-voted card on each page of the Submission Topic is guaranteed to 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.
Competition Regulars may want to note that Wild Cards will not be used for this competition.
If you would like to take a look at how Finalist Polls are normally conducted, CLICK HERE to check out the most recently Finalist Poll for our Weekly Card Design Competition #39. As you can see, finalist cards are ordered by their score using the above formula, and token cards are placed in spoilers after the general finalist gallery.
Rewards
Bragging rights are always awesome, but to encourage your competitive spirit, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners: Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery! 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.)
Boy, that sure was a lot to take in!
That's what she sai-... I'm being informed that it is highly inappropriate for me to be making jokes at a time like this. Aaanyway, again, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to join us over in the Discussion Topic. For now, get to creating, and may the best card win!
"As part of ongoing communication with the WoW developers, it has been agreed that Hearthstone is now the official source of WoW lore. We hope you look forward to seeing Ragnaros, Lightlord in Legion!"
Ok, so here's my card. I like the idea of finding something horrible and then pawning it off to someone else. I don't know that I made each of these balanced, and people feel like I didn't then I'll probably adjust them a bit, but atm I think each one is fairly different while being powerful and fun.
EDIT* Reduced the card draw on Cursed Scroll, it was a touch too high, I wanted it to be forcibly punishing but really you don't have to choose it so making it strong but not over powered seems better.
Druid Treant Treant (Taunt) Treant (FoN) Panther Sabertooth Lion Sabertooth Panther Druid of the Flame (Attack) Druid of the Flame (Health) Druid of the Claw (Taunt) Druid of the Claw (Charge) Druid of the Fang
Hunter Snake Hound Hyena Huffer Leokk Misha
Mage Mirror Image Spellbender
Paladin Silver Hand Recruit Defender
Priest Shadow of Nothing
Rogue Defias Bandit Nerubian
Shaman Healing Totem Searing Totem Stoneclaw Totem Wrath of Air Totem Spirit Wolf
Making your way into long hidden tombs, you were bound to run into some trouble, Howard.
The Deadly Curses
You could build a deck around selecting a specific one - Deathrattles for Mummy, Wailing Soul for Pharoahs, Warrior or Enrage for Sands - or you could decide what's best in the situation. Be careful though, or the curse'll get you instead!
Log Entry 3: Submerged underwater, it's personality changes completely. Sometimes, it'll be like a Worgen, other times, it'll be like a gnomish assassin. Additional study will be conducted.
Log Entry 4: All research to be halted. Immedia-
Notes: Under Review: Discover does not work as a Deathrattle, as it may require action on your opponents turn.
He's named to go along with Gnomish Inventor. Gnomish Excavator allows you to add a minion to your hand that is appropriate for the matchup. If you are playing against an aggresive player, you can play this minion to get low-drops. If you're playing against a control player, this card will get you higher cost minion. The ability to target your own minions increases variety.
Enjoy!
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Special Edition Card Design Competition:
League of Explorers Hype!
Whoa, what's this? Asylum, you can't start a new Card Design Competition on a Sunday!
Actually, random HearthPwn member, I can do whatever I want. ^_^
But they usually start on Thursdays, and there's already a competition going on that we're only half-way through! Why are you doing this? What is this madness!?
I'm glad you asked! See, with a new Adventure announced just as we approach of the end of Season 2 of our Weekly Card Design Competitions, Fluxflashor (the glorious overlord of HearthPwn, praise be unto him) has proposed a Special Edition competition, and I just couldn't resist.
Oh! You mean a new League of Explorers themed competition? I'm in! I'm going to submit a card right away...
Not so fast! There are rules...
Competition Rules
Even if you have entered one of our competitions before, please re-read all of the rules. There are a few differences between these rules and the rules for our standard competitions, so pay close attention.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
These are the rules about your Submission:
How do I turn my card idea into a valid entry?
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.
EDIT: The following requirement was added:
"Your card must use the League of Explorers "Explorer's Hat" watermark."
Competition Process
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Already started! Ends 16:00 UTC 17/November/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! Note that this submission window is quite a bit longer than our normal competitions.
Voting Phase (Starts 16:00 UTC 17/November/2015, Ends 16:00 UTC 18/November/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 17:00 UTC 18/November/2015, Ends 17:00 UTC 19/November/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 pull up-vote data from each submission using the formula detailed below:
(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 ~20-30 entries that receive the highest final scores that move on to the Final Phase. In addition, the top-voted card on each page of the Submission Topic is guaranteed to 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.
Competition Regulars may want to note that Wild Cards will not be used for this competition.
If you would like to take a look at how Finalist Polls are normally conducted, CLICK HERE to check out the most recently Finalist Poll for our Weekly Card Design Competition #39. As you can see, finalist cards are ordered by their score using the above formula, and token cards are placed in spoilers after the general finalist gallery.
Rewards
Bragging rights are always awesome, but to encourage your competitive spirit, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners:
Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery!
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.)
Boy, that sure was a lot to take in!
That's what she sai-... I'm being informed that it is highly inappropriate for me to be making jokes at a time like this.
Aaanyway, again, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to join us over in the Discussion Topic. For now, get to creating, and may the best card win!
Good Luck!
There aren't enough (none) dragons in LOE
EDIT: Added the LoE watermark and made him a dragon tipe
EDIT 2: Unleashed the balence
Any similarity with SMAUG is mere coincidence
No dangeon can exist if there is no treasure and no dragon to guard it
He is an LoE Fel Reaver, so nothing so much special
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He records all the new discoveries that the league makes on the trip.
Check out my Custom Undead Expansion!
...Or my Custom Elemental Expansion!
This card provides a fair bit of card advantage, but it takes a long time for it to generate tempo because of the low tempo of discover minions.
This group of explorers tends to get prickly.
Give a man a Murloc, and he'll eat for a day.
Give him a Murloc Knight, and people will hate him.
Finally a great legendary for the Priest. She resolves the problem that the Priest has with 4 attack minions.
EDIT1: Changes on balance and wording.
Ok, so here's my card. I like the idea of finding something horrible and then pawning it off to someone else. I don't know that I made each of these balanced, and people feel like I didn't then I'll probably adjust them a bit, but atm I think each one is fairly different while being powerful and fun.
EDIT* Reduced the card draw on Cursed Scroll, it was a touch too high, I wanted it to be forcibly punishing but really you don't have to choose it so making it strong but not over powered seems better.
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the women.
A Druid Card my first card to post here. with his slave.
Check here for my new cards!Pokemon HS class!All the Pokemon as HS cards!
Oh baby.
Two times Card Design Competition winner, with Durotan and Snörn the Treasureater.
Finalist with Baronor Badmouth, M'uru and Void Reaver.
List of Uncollectible minions by class:
Neutral
Sapling
Spectral Spider
Violet Apprentice
Squirrel
Chicken (0-cost)
Chicken (1-cost)
Boar (Razorfen)
Murloc
Murloc Scout
Imp
Frog
Flame of Azzinoth
Whelp
Black Whelp
Damaged Golem
Mechanical Dragonling
Slime
Squire
Gnoll
Boom Bot
Boar (Polymorph)
Finkle Einhorn
Laughing Sister
Devilsaur
Emerald Drake
War Kodo
Nerubian
Baine Bloodhoof
Golden Monkey
Homing Chicken
Poultryizer
Repair Bot
Thaddius
V-07-TR-0N
Druid
Treant
Treant (Taunt)
Treant (FoN)
Panther
Sabertooth Lion
Sabertooth Panther
Druid of the Flame (Attack)
Druid of the Flame (Health)
Druid of the Claw (Taunt)
Druid of the Claw (Charge)
Druid of the Fang
Hunter
Snake
Hound
Hyena
Huffer
Leokk
Misha
Mage
Mirror Image
Spellbender
Paladin
Silver Hand Recruit
Defender
Priest
Shadow of Nothing
Rogue
Defias Bandit
Nerubian
Shaman
Healing Totem
Searing Totem
Stoneclaw Totem
Wrath of Air Totem
Spirit Wolf
Warlock
Imp
Worthless Imp
Infernal
Warrior
-none-
Expedition Scout
Making your way into long hidden tombs, you were bound to run into some trouble, Howard.
The Deadly Curses
You could build a deck around selecting a specific one - Deathrattles for Mummy, Wailing Soul for Pharoahs, Warrior or Enrage for Sands - or you could decide what's best in the situation. Be careful though, or the curse'll get you instead!
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
Log Entry 3: Submerged underwater, it's personality changes completely. Sometimes, it'll be like a Worgen, other times, it'll be like a gnomish assassin. Additional study will be conducted.
Log Entry 4: All research to be halted. Immedia-
Make the Card: The biggest thread on the site!
My mandibles which are capable of pressing down and tearing, my talons which are known to intercept and hold.
My card is a 3-mana 2/3 Gnomish Excavator.
He's named to go along with Gnomish Inventor. Gnomish Excavator allows you to add a minion to your hand that is appropriate for the matchup. If you are playing against an aggresive player, you can play this minion to get low-drops. If you're playing against a control player, this card will get you higher cost minion. The ability to target your own minions increases variety.
Enjoy!