Welcome to our fourth Season Finale Mini-Competition! These Mini-Competition serve three purposes. First, they provide us with some fun stuff to do during the Finale's week-long Championship Poll. Second, they're a way for us to reward competitions winners who've won multiple competitions, since we can only give them an avatar border once. And Finally, they provide us unique opportunities to have competitions for design concepts that would normally be too narrow for full week-long competitions.
Your card must refer to or produce a specific Basic class card. Examples include Archmage Antonidas and Rhonin.
Clarification from Asylum: It's dubious what "rarity" tokens count as, so collectible cards only please!
As always, you may not delete any posts you make in this Submission Topic. Message one of the Fan Creation moderators if you've posted here in error or otherwise would like your post removed.
Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you must host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards, such asImgur or Photobucket.
General Competition Rules
These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
You are allowed to submit only one entry. An entry normally 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:
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.
Remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you MUST host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. Save it and upload it toImgur, Photobucket, or some other similar site. HearthCards has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your card disappearing part-way through the finals. We understand that there are some HearthCards memberships that will allow you to save your card there for longer (and you should totally get one of those just for general fan creation purposes, by the way), but we don't know who has those memberships and we can't tell from the URLs.
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.
TIP: Though not a rule exactly, we highly recommend that you insert your images using this icon on the bar above the post 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.
Competition Process
NOTE: Mini-Competitions have very different time-tables than our normal competitions, so please pay attention so that you're not caught off-guard!
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts Now! Ends 20:00 UTC Wednesday, 7/Dec/2016) 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 is only 24 hours! Voting Phase (Starts 20:00 UTC Wednesday, 7/Dec/2016, 00:00 UTC Thursday, 8/Dec/2016) 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! Note that this is only 4 hours! Final Phase (Starts 00:00 UTC Thursday, 8/Dec/2016, 20:00 UTC Thursday, 8/Dec/2016) 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 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 entries that receive the highest final scores that 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.
But wait, there's more! During each Card Design Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderators 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. (Also, it should go without saying that, while we moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, we are not allowed to benefit from Wild Cards.)
Rewards
Note that Mini-Competition winners, unfortunately, do not get to select any future competition theme.
Bragging rights are always awesome, but as usual, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners: Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery! And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
Balanced at the general idea that you need minions alive to get value out of him and at a decent clip so that you can recover from hard aggro or slow down massive minions.
Flavour Text: "-You gotta do what? -I gotta give it! -Sure about that! -I gotta revive! -You gotta do what!? -I gotta recieve! -But most important?- I GOTTA FREEZE IN!!"
Chilltail Guide is a pretty much a late game drop, that gives by itself some board control with his effect, but can really relly in a spell deck, but as that doesn´t exists, as the amount of speels of control it gives, it could be pretty effective in a inclusion in a Totem Deck with Wicked Witchdoctor, but the control against big minions that give its inmense, but as with the new cheap spells, you gotta make a lot of combos with those spells! Or just throw control against a lot of big minions, you can throw a lot of spells with this creature in board, but Spell Damage is what this guy should shine in!!
This card is to add some fun in Evolve Shaman deck.
Every time a minion is Evolved, Devolved or transformed into a Frog, a Sheep or a Boar, you will get a Frost Shock. In addition, some druid minions transform into Beast will trigger the effect as well.
The power of Choose One cards lies in their versatility. Druidic Pact is useful because, similar to Power of the Wild, it's variably useful depending on your board state, but it's also uniquely useful among Choose One effects in that because its second effect technically requires you to spend more mana to fully benefit, it's also adaptive to both the earlier and later game.
Decided to go with a really weird design, but it does provide an interesting use for Polymorph. Options include a turn 4 7/7 but with Spell Damage instead of Overload ... or playing Babbling Book on turn 10, then playing Queen Azshara + Polymorph (on the book), and dealing 5 damage to face with the Frostbolt you got from the Babbling Book (and 9/10 stats on board).
This card benefits if your hero is at low or high health. Obviously, it's not as powerful as Molten Giant high health, but hey. Who doesn't want a massive attackless body that can be "Inner Fire"d up? Just as long as Molting Molten Giant doesn't become silenced...
Step One to Hatching a Molten Giant: Learn Tongue Twisters
Public Mod Note
(Asylum_Rhapsody):
Molten Giant is not a Basic card.
Hi! Have you voted in the final poll for Mini-Competition #3 yet? You should click here to do so!
This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here.
Back to Basics
Welcome to our fourth Season Finale Mini-Competition! These Mini-Competition serve three purposes. First, they provide us with some fun stuff to do during the Finale's week-long Championship Poll. Second, they're a way for us to reward competitions winners who've won multiple competitions, since we can only give them an avatar border once. And Finally, they provide us unique opportunities to have competitions for design concepts that would normally be too narrow for full week-long competitions.
Our second mini-competition theme comes from TheBeaverKing, whose Lotus Scryer added to his past win with Earthquake.
Competition-Specific Restrictions:
General Competition Rules
These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.
First, these are the rules about Posting:
These are the rules about your Submission:
TIP: Though not a rule exactly, we highly recommend that you insert your images using this icon on the bar above the post 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.
Competition Process
NOTE: Mini-Competitions have very different time-tables than our normal competitions,
so please pay attention so that you're not caught off-guard!
Entry Phase and Early Voting (Starts Now! Ends 20:00 UTC Wednesday, 7/Dec/2016)
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 is only 24 hours!
Voting Phase (Starts 20:00 UTC Wednesday, 7/Dec/2016, 00:00 UTC Thursday, 8/Dec/2016)
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! Note that this is only 4 hours!
Final Phase (Starts 00:00 UTC Thursday, 8/Dec/2016, 20:00 UTC Thursday, 8/Dec/2016)
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 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 entries that receive the highest final scores that 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.
But wait, there's more! During each Card Design Competition, each Fan Creation Forum moderators 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.
(Also, it should go without saying that, while we moderators are allowed to participate in the competitions, we are not allowed to benefit from Wild Cards.)
Rewards
Note that Mini-Competition winners, unfortunately, do not get to select any future competition theme.
Bragging rights are always awesome, but as usual, we do offer a couple of HearthPwn site rewards to competition winners:
Their card forever immortalized in our Winners' Gallery!
And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!
Good Luck!
REMOVED
"Elephants guide me." -Thrall
A powerful control shaman card that can protect you and let minions that you play later protect you as well.
Water Elemental
Balanced at the general idea that you need minions alive to get value out of him and at a decent clip so that you can recover from hard aggro or slow down massive minions.
Flavour Text: "-You gotta do what? -I gotta give it! -Sure about that! -I gotta revive! -You gotta do what!? -I gotta recieve! -But most important?- I GOTTA FREEZE IN!!"
Chilltail Guide is a pretty much a late game drop, that gives by itself some board control with his effect, but can really relly in a spell deck, but as that doesn´t exists, as the amount of speels of control it gives, it could be pretty effective in a inclusion in a Totem Deck with Wicked Witchdoctor, but the control against big minions that give its inmense, but as with the new cheap spells, you gotta make a lot of combos with those spells! Or just throw control against a lot of big minions, you can throw a lot of spells with this creature in board, but Spell Damage is what this guy should shine in!!
Card Generated: Frost Shock
The joke is you.
Nothing fancy, but on the plus side no chance of getting a Cursed Blade.
My Entry for this week's Card Design Competition - Season 8.16:
This card is to add some fun in Evolve Shaman deck.
Every time a minion is Evolved, Devolved or transformed into a Frog, a Sheep or a Boar, you will get a Frost Shock. In addition, some druid minions transform into Beast will trigger the effect as well.
Naturally, Beasts + more Beasts = Baby Beasts.
Timber Wolf, Webspinner, Young Dragonhawk.
Why Rogue is my favourite class:
My submission for this week's card design competition.
Don't think there was anything against faction card?Anyway, thought this one was funney. You never know what you'll get from a back-alley vendor.
"You look at it, you buy it!"
As always, good luck everyone.
Check out my submission for this weeks card design competition; or my other fan creations! Nullius in verba
Sinister Strike
List of 0 mana spells: Counterfeit Coin Backstab Shadowstep Preparation
List of 0 mana spells with Preparation : Fan of Knives Shadow Strike Burgle Headcrack Beneath the Grounds
Everyone needs a friend. So he's gonna give you one, right there, in your happy little hand.
Ironbark Protector
The power of Choose One cards lies in their versatility. Druidic Pact is useful because, similar to Power of the Wild, it's variably useful depending on your board state, but it's also uniquely useful among Choose One effects in that because its second effect technically requires you to spend more mana to fully benefit, it's also adaptive to both the earlier and later game.
REMOVED
Decided to go with a really weird design, but it does provide an interesting use for Polymorph. Options include a turn 4 7/7 but with Spell Damage instead of Overload ... or playing Babbling Book on turn 10, then playing Queen Azshara + Polymorph (on the book), and dealing 5 damage to face with the Frostbolt you got from the Babbling Book (and 9/10 stats on board).
Molten Giant
This card benefits if your hero is at low or high health. Obviously, it's not as powerful as Molten Giant high health, but hey. Who doesn't want a massive attackless body that can be "Inner Fire"d up? Just as long as Molting Molten Giant doesn't become silenced...
Step One to Hatching a Molten Giant: Learn Tongue Twisters
Wished to be pink.
Then did.
Then fired myself.
Then did again.
Starving Buzzard (5 mana 3/2)
Something I made 1 year ago. Some of you might have seen it before.
THERE IS NO GAME.
Proud owner of Yung Swaggin'hawk