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Hello, folks, and welcome to the Finalist Poll Topic for the third and final Mini-Competition of our Season 2 Finale! Unlike our usual week-long competitions, we thought it would be fun for our Season Finale to put on a few mini-competitions, which have themes much narrower than usual and which have a much shorter submission window (only 24 hours!).

Theme Restrictions:

• Your card must be a Legendary Minion, and it must represent, depict, and be named for the Warcraft character Aegwynn.

We have whittled down ~100 valid entries to just 15 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!

As the theme this time was rather restrictive on the name of the card, the final poll only features the names of the users who submitted the cards, to avoid a big wall of "Aegwynn", which may have been a tad confusing!

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. They are listed in order of position in the final poll.

by nurgling13
by Shadicar
by Asylum_Rhapsody
Sheep
Boar
by AngryChicken
by Petlas
Unstable Portal
Arcane Intellect
by FirebugRM
by Yuvalito
Arcane Missiles
by vragal
by 91Luna
by alky13
by pomonkeypo
by Telefonkabel
by Hojobert
Unstable Portal
by Kalatas
by kasper376

Apprentice Aegwynn (nurgling13)

Aegwynn (Shadicar)

Aegwynn (Petlas)

Aegwynn (91Luna)

Aegwynn (alky13)

Aegwynn (Telefonkabel)

Magna Aegwynn (kasper376)

Bah, all these cards are just derivatives of each other, they're even using the same artwork and name. 0/10 to everyone.

Quote from TheWamts >>

Bah, all these cards are just derivatives of each other, they're even using the same artwork and name. 0/10 to everyone.

I voted for Vragel and Hojobert, they seem really well designed. They're also the only two that seem like viable HS cards to me that still do something interesting. A lot of the others either feel super broken or super Unstable E-Sportal dependent.

I'd again note, for what it's worth, it's my opinion that having the restrictions be so restrictive as to a particular character in lore and have to be a legendary minion representation of her feels particularly contrary to a series about creativity.

Just wondering, when does the new season start? 

This was a fun experiment. I didn't expect there to be so many different ways to implement the same character within the limited design options of Hearthstone (compared to MtG with over 50 keywords and a lot more complex card types and interactions).

Quote from LucasPassado >>

Shadicar: Your card is great man, I voted for it and I think it would be nice in mage decks but it's very broken the way it's now, every turn you gain a new spell and this only costs 0, so you can easily combo with other cards 

Usually I'm fairly against any card with more than a couple tokens, but nurgling's Aegwynn is just so in concert with her lore that I had to vote for it. Well done sir.

Quote from Eloc86 >>

That Aegwynn card is just so good! Expecially the one that isn't a Warrior card! 10/10

Hojobert is the most interesting one IMNSHO.

Quote from Hackergrad >>

Hojobert is the most interesting one IMNSHO.

Quote from mk572 >>

Quote from Hackergrad >>

Hojobert is the most interesting one IMNSHO.

It's interesting but not very practical. It suffers from the same issue as the Joust mechanic, Far Sight and Call Pet - You can't build a competitive deck that is high-mana cost cards only. Imagine you're trying this in, say, Rogue: If she pulls a Sprint, you get a Boulderfist Ogre and an amazing 2 mana draw 4 cards. If she pulls a Prep, you get a near-useless 2 mana reduce the cost of a spell by 3 and a dead Aegwynn. There is some potential but as of now the card is just too unreliable for any real deck.

You could maybe fix that by making her work like Tracking: "Look at the top three cards of your deck. Draw one and swap its mana cost with Aegwynn's health. Discard the others."

I have no idea how the current version is leading the polls, it's a crap card that wouldn't work even in decks full of expensive cards like CW.