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This Week's Finalists

Entry Restrictions:

• Select a keyword. Your card's text must include that keyword.
• However, the card itself cannot have that selected keyword, nor can it otherwise produce that selected keyword (such as by conditionally gaining it, creating things with it, or by granting it to something else).
• (Clarification: Your card may have keywords beyond the selected keyword.)

We have whittled down ~197 valid entries to just 20 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. They are listed in order of position in the final poll.

by pui980178
by Sinthuja
by Squiddylicious
by Hurien
by mtmckinley
by Vegust
by Nothingsjim
by ScubaHelm
by parakmiakos89
by nurgling13
by Jazio
by Jhamel
by sashashepto
by Mulgorer
by V4staroth
by Griffin404
by Svanir
by RandomScribbles
Arcane Missiles
by SnorlaxBR
by Enzevil
by canonblackwell (Wild Card)

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Meat Wagon 

No secret poll this time?:(

Northshire Exorcist and Distract are my favorites this week.

Whoah this is really unfair, my entry was leading page 14 for most of the time it existed but right at the end suddenly an entry from page 13 appears on page 14 and knocks mine out?

Woww, haha, this voting system really requires your entry to be the top on it's page in order to advance to the Finals. First time experiencing it being 2nd on 2nd page - oh well~

First few pages definitely requires your entry to stand-out very well. :o

Most of the cards are pretty well-done, such that I'm actually voting cards out of flavour and personal preference lol. For example, Northshire Exorcist haha. Definitely an interesting card, but I'm not really a fan of random effects, so I'm not particularly endorsing it. It is an interesting card though! xP

My pick would be for Tripwire and Arcane Guardian. I like the Charge secret, although it feels like a tech card against Aggro decks most of the times. Arcane Guardian is flavourful though. :3 Makes playing Spell Damage decks fun because of how much you can negate enemy AOE spells (not so much for Direct spells)

I didn't make it? Why? I mean, I think I had the most votes on Page 3. WHY?

Hmm it's really weird, my card on page 4 "Roar for Help!" has the most votes but the 2nd and 3rd voted cards went through but not mine. Any idea why?

Thanks for the clarification but hopefully next time the moderators can highlight the cards that are against the rules early so that we are notified and can make amendments. (I did not realise it was against the rules as this week's rules were a little hard to grasp and there was no mod notifications)

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I didn't make it? Why? I mean, I think I had the most votes on Page 3. WHY?

As nurgling said, we haven't been implementing the first-on-page guarantee this season. We were hoping not to because of the increased complexity it puts into the scoring and because, frankly, I don't think any card we ever promoted into the finals on that basis when we did have that policy ever did particularly well, so its value is questionable. That said, we understand that it still feels very bad to be first on your page and not make the finals (I've been there myself back during Season 1 before I was a mod!), mostly because without having easy access to the full competition data it's difficult to tell how you're doing other than to just compare your up-votes to the others on your page, so thinking you're doing well and then not advancing can be particularly frustrating. But at the same time, adding in the guarantee and then ending up with one of those competitions that goes over 20 pages of submissions makes us have to advance a lot of low-quality submissions and to do so at the expense of higher-quality submissions if we still want to keep the number of finalists reasonable.

i voted on:

meat wageon

shroud priestess (amazing concept)

queen of azshara

WOW !!!   I think this is the first time I wished ALL these cards were in the game.  Great work to all....However  "Bubble Hearth" is so awesome and old skool and SOOO  W.O.W.  that it has to get my top vote.

Discharge and Northshire Exorcist!