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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 or animated 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 to Imgur, 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.

 Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 20:00 UTC 23/Oct/2017)
During this Phase, the Submission Topic is made available for your submissions. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
 Voting Phase (Starts 20:00 UTC 23/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 24/Oct/2017)
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 20:00 UTC 24/Oct/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 25/Oct/2017)
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:

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 Weekly 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.)

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!
 They will be allowed to select the next card design competition theme.
 And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!

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 or animated 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 to Imgur, 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.

 Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts Now! Ends 21:00 UTC 21/Aug/2017)
During this Phase, the Submission Topic is made available for your submissions. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
 Voting Phase (Starts 21:00 UTC 21/Aug/2017, Ends 21:00 UTC 22/Aug/2017)
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 21:00 UTC 22/Aug/2017, Ends 21:00 UTC 23/Aug/2017)
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:

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 Weekly 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.)

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!
 They will be allowed to select the next card design competition theme.
 And a unique Avatar Border & "Card Design Champion" Title, as depicted below!

Example:

So, how does this mechanic work? Well, X is replaced with something, such as "Murloc" or "Secret". Let's suppose I play a Dragon with Dragon Exhibit, if I control no other dragon, the ability will activate. Unlike Battlecry, Exhibit triggers after the minion is played, so they can affect themselves. When you are holding an Exhibit card, it will have the Yellow Glow if the Exhibit can trigger. 

Cards like Deathcaller, Spirit of Fear and Follower of Zivius will give you Void Orbs when you play them, where you will store them until you use them. Void Orbs are store beneath your Mana Crystals just Overload, and you are capped at 10 Void Orbs.

Other cards like Twilight Embracer, Dragon Knight and Zivius are what will allow you to actually use these Void Orbs to your advantage. When you play a card like this, you can choose how many Orbs you spend. A Discover-like interface will pop up giving you options of numbers up to the number of Void Orbs you have (including 0 if you don't wish to spend any). The more you spend, the larger the effect will be, but use your Void Orbs wisely because they don't regenerate after you use them. Once they're gone, you'll have to play more cards to build these back up again.

While this image isn't a perfect representation of how I planned it to work, it should at least give you a good grasp of how it works:

Mana Surges are a new mechanic introduced in this expansion, and are generated by a whole host of cards. It's a 0-Mana Spell that does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! But even then, it has a lot of uses. As a Spell and by extension a Card, it can be used to trigger on-play effects such as the Mana Wyrm and Violet Teacher. But if you want to use them as spells, that's perfectly possible as well - cards like the Nightborne Sculptor or the Naga Sorceress turn these seemingly useless cards into spells with their own effects.

Wither and Siphon are inspired by the ability of the Nightborne to absorb arcane energy and derive nourishment from it, and the fact that they begin to slowly wither away into mindless zombies the longer they are deprived from it.

Your minions are essentially 'Siphoning off' a tiny bit of your spell's powers. It's a scaling ability that is much more effective over a long game when you can cast more spells, draw more cards, and build up to larger effects. If you need to, you can also cash in earlier to get some more immediate impact. 

Wither is another keyword of this expansion. It's a versatile keyword that can be used as a debuff on enemy minions, or a downside on your own ones to allow for powerful minions that slowly get weaker as the strength drains from their bodies.

Elusive - This is simply the Faerie Dragon effect. I know Ben Brode said they don't intend to make this a keyword as it would be too confusing for new players, but hey this competition is just for fun and I want it :D

Chill -Chilled minions have a shimmering light blue mist surrounding their token. The Chill takes place at the end of each player's turn. This mechanic encourages trading; it's not often that a Chilled minion will last long enough on board to accumulate a ton of damage from the Chill effect.

Warm - Examples of this currently in the game are Nerubian Prophet and Shifter Zerus. Like these cards, your opponent will not see the trigger take place. I should note that most Warm effects encourage you to hold cards in your hand, however some are still stuck in winter, and will lose value as they Warm.

Here's how Nerubian Prophet looks with the new keyword text:

The sun icon tracks the number of turns a card has Warmed. In this example, Blossoming Nymph has been kept in hand for 3 turns and is buffed to 4 health. The icon doesn't appear on a card until the Warm count is at 1 or more.

Huge shoutout to ZardozSpeaks for helping me with this graphic!!!

It wouldn't be a proper Hallow's End without a heaping dose of terror! Fear is the set's new keyword that temporarily reduces a minion's Attack. Like Freeze, it expires at the end of the turn after which that minion could make an attack. So apply Fear to an enemy on your turn, it goes away at the end of your opponent's next turn. This effect can help slow down an aggressive opponent, or take the teeth out of a larger threat!

Traitors Secrets

The UI (user interface) when you play a card with Voodoo is like the Choose One cards UI. You pick one side and that's the effect you get. Some Voodoo add new effects and some replace the base effect (all ended in instead), you can see both examples under this lines (they're cards from Phase I). 

Remember: you can die if you don't have enough Health and you activate the Voodoo side of the card! 

• There would be a physical indication on the screen that a companion is linked to another card, so you would always have a good overview on who is with who.

• Silencing a minion would NOT unattach the companion or make it disappear.

• The master only needs to leave play - if it gets bounced for instance, the pet will disappear as well. This prevents some abuse.

• Silencing a companion WILL unattach it from the master. As most companions are smaller minions with useful effects, this will leave you with a weak body that (silenced) doesn't do much. 

 Preview Phase (Starts Now! Ends 20:00 UTC 27/July/2017)
During this Phase, the Discussion Topic is made available, previewing this week's competition theme.
 Entry and Early Voting Phase (Starts 20:00 UTC 27/July/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 31/July/2017)
During this Phase, the Submission Topic is made available for your submissions. You may also, of course, feel free to give early up-votes to any submissions that you like!
 Voting Phase (Starts 20:00 UTC 31/July/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 1/August/2017)
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 20:00 UTC 1/August/2017, Ends 20:00 UTC 2/August/2017)
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! 

The role Chair Millhouse plays in this expansion is similar to that of C'Thun in WOG. The card is given to players for free, and if you want to build a deck around it, you need several other cards that refer to Chair Millhouse by name.

Enchant: When you play a card with Enchant, it will immediately give the next minion you DRAW (not summon nor play) a little bonus! Careful though! You may not draw the Enchanted card, so build your deck wisely!

Stabilize: Since Battlecries occur WHEN minions are played (not after), Battlecries will occur even if you can't pay the Stabilize cost! Note that Elementals with Stabilize will trigger "If you played an Elemental last turn" effects EVEN if you didn't pay the Stabilize cost because you technically did play the Elemental!

Stabilize is all about playing with your mana expenditure in order to get the optimial result! Sometimes you need to force yourself to pay the Stabilize cost to get the minion's body, but sometimes you don't want to pay it in order to just get the Battlecry/Deathrattle effect for the cheapest cost in order to play other important cards as well. This can open up for a lot of skilled plays as the usual ordering of cards is largely tampered by creating the optimal result from Stabilize cards.

The Dragongrave is a communal graveyard for all dragons that are played during the match. When a dragon is destroyed in the battlefield or discarded from the hand or deck, a portal graphic opens on the battlefield and the card is sucked into it. Just like your deck, you can't look at the Dragongrave during the match, so a player must track what cards are in it. Some cards are able to destroy minions in the Dragongrave.

The Hunter, Shaman and Warlock classes all make use of the Dragongrave mechanic, drawing, activating and destroy the dragons within it.

The Dragongrave mechanic doesn't affect other similar ressurection abilities, like those of N'zoth the Corrupter or Onyx Priest. Such cards work identically to how they worked before.

Shifting is a new kind of random effect. When you're holding a Shifting card, the random result will be shown in its card text; and the result changes after you play a card. In this way, the random effect becomes partially controllable to players.
 Example: 

Token is a mechanic that already exists in game, but it is not yet widely explored. The only existing card that utilizes the mechanic is Open the Waygate. Note that this mechanic is NOT limited to cards in your hand, but also applies to minions on board, such as Imp and Treant.

In Showdown at the Battlegrounds cards will interact with Horde and Alliance faction symbols showed on the upper left corner on minion cards. These interactions can either be positive or negative depending on what faction is used. Interactions are based on rivalry between factions and teamwork within factions. Both factions have a unique mechanic:

• Alliance uses a mechanic called Sequencing. It offers an extra when a card is played as the X'th card a turn.
• Horde uses a mechanic called Ordering. It offers a extra to the next Horde minion you play.

• Study: To rebuild something, you first must understand it! The Study mechanic is introduced in this expansion as the Explorer's League and the Reliquary study the local creatures to have a better knowledge on how to understand them in order to rebuild this broken land. Study allows you more potency in your card in exchange for delay yourselves from playing them. In order for the player to keep track of the Study turn, the card will show the Study turn when you hover over it. When the X reached (0), the Study keyword will disappear and the effect will appear as normal. An example can be seen below:
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• Shaping: The creatures at the Outland along with the people who come to rebuild the place are highly unstable. All of them are capable to Shaping themselves or others into something else. Each turn the card is in your hand, their form becomes more unstable to the point of a certain time, they will transform into a different form. Similar but yet different in many ways to the Study mechanic, Shaping allows more flexibility in how to build your deck as minions with Shaping can be used both as their original form or their transformed form. The visual for this effect is similar to the Study keyword. However, because Hearthstone is at foremost designed to be simple and new players friendly, therefore any cards whose Shaping effect that named a specific card will be limited to three sources: Cards from the expansion itself, a new / established token like Ancient of Wonder or cards from the Classic and Expert set.
• It should be noted that the countdown on Study and Shaping starts the turn AFTER your mulligan.
• Another mechanic that will be introduced in this expansion is Side Quest: This mechanic is similar in many ways to the Quest: They present an objective for the players to complete. However, unlike Quests, they do NOT start in your opening hand. Most of the Side Quests are much easier to complete but their reward are also less game-winning and permanent. They cost 2 mana and can also be completed alongside your main Quest but, like Secret, you can only have 1 Side Quest with the same name at once. The good news is that they are Epic cards, which mean you can choose to include and complete two Side Quest in one game!
• New Tribes! The Plant are now officially a Tribe for this expansion. A list of Plant that already existed in Hearthstone can be seen here. They will have synergy with each other whether as they on the field, summon another Plant and even have their own tutor effect!

In this Nexus of Heroes, battles are settled between units and armies, rather than individual heroes. And in these battles, speed is king. Swift functions like First Strike in other card games like Magic: The Gathering, where, if a minion with Swift attacks or is attacked by something that has less Health than it has Attack, it can potentially come out of battle unscathed. Rush functions like the subset of Charge that Blizzard has brushed against with cards like Charged Devilsaur or the latest version of the Charge spell card. Minion based combat is where the developers have said the game is most fun, and this expansion looks to facilitate that.

Phase IV: The exact same as the last phase except with three classes that you have not done yet.

Phase V: You're remaining classes are now presented, along with the rest of your expansion in your own topic. Each round (aside from the first) requires you to make 21 cards, so this final will showcase all 84 of your creations.

First, these are the rules about Posting:

• You are allowed to submit only one entry.
• 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.
• You may not create any topics on our forum for any competition entry. All competition material and discussion is restricted to the designated competition topics. This is to prevent the board from being flooded with competition topics. Nobody wants that.

These are the rules about your Entry:

• We encourage you to create your entry material using Hearthcards.net, but please remember that, although HearthCards is awesome, you MUST host your card somewhere other than Hearthcards. Save it and upload it to Imgur, Photobucket, or some other similar site. HearthCards has a limited server space and will purge cards after a few days, and nobody wants your cards 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.
• You may not submit any Gold cards or any animated 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.

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.

In addition to truly epic bragging rights, ALL competitors that make it to the Phase V of the competition will receive a special Forum Title and Avatar Border, similar to those given to winners of our forum's Weekly Card Design Competitions, as shown below:

Furthermore, the winning contestant will have a Season 6 competition themed around their winning expansion!

Q: My submission didn't move on. Am I not allowed to participate any more for the rest of the competition?
A: Of course you are! This many cards is going to be difficult to manage, so the contestants that move on will need all of the help and input they can get to get their Adventures just right. If you get knocked out of the competition, head over to the Discussion topic and support your favorite competitor that moved on!

Q: What if I already created an expansion and it already has its own topic on this forum?
A: That's a tricky situation! But in the interest of fairness to all competitors, if you do decide to enter that into this competition, your topic will be locked. Not deleted, just locked, and it will be unlocked after the competition is over or after it gets knocked out. It would be weird of us to stop you from referencing or linking to that topic, but please don't abuse the privilege.

Unity: Really simple, like combo requires you to have a condition met before being played to get the card's full value.

Rampage: This triggers as the minion is attacking, but before damage is dealt. So the Adaptive Imp would start your turn as a 1/3, but hit as a 3/3.