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 Competition Theme: Three Card Monte

This weeks theme comes from nobravery, whose "Ner'zhul" was the winner of our "Stitched" competition. 

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card must offer a chance to choose between 3 options. They can either be unique tokens (like Arch-Thief Rafaam) or selections from cards already in the game (like Curious Glimmerroot).
• For this competition, your card may only produce three (3) unique tokens. This means cards like Kazakus are not allowed.
• Note that these choices are not limited to cards! Sir Finley Mrrgglton is perfectly legal as well, as he gives three options.

 Competition Process

Discussion Topic Rules

To make sure that everything runs smoothly, we need to reserve the Submission Topic for submissions only. Everything else goes here. What is everything else, you might ask?

• Rules or Process. Do you have a question about the competition's process? Do you need clarification about one of the entry requirements? Are you not sure whether your entry adhered to the rules? Ask here!
• Feedback or Ideas. Do you have some ideas you'd like to run by others before settling on one? Do you need help balancing or wording your entry? Do you need help finding art that will fit your card? Or do you just want feedback from the community on your entry? You're in the right place! Remember, although you are allowed to make minor tweaks to your entry after you've submitted it, you're only allowed one submission per week, so make sure that you've settled on your card for sure beforehand.
• Discussion! Do you have thoughts on other people's entries? Are there directions you don't like that you're seeing too many people take? Or directions you'd like to see more people take? Would you like to help others and contribute to a greater community understanding of Hearthstone card design and balance? This is where you want to be!

All of that said, please refrain from the following:

• Posting TONS of Ideas. Discussion topics become an absolute mess if everybody is posting a dozen different ideas. Please post not more than 3 distinct ideas at a time. Any more than that and we'll have to delete your post.
• Advertising Your Entry. Please don't pop in here just to advertise your entry only to never be heard from again. This includes only asking short, generic, or insincere questions like "Thoughts?" or "Do you think this is interesting?". Yes, getting feedback on your entry is one of the purposes of this topic, but we're not just here for other people to help you. We're here for you all to help each other. 12 hours after this competition begins, there should be plenty of other posts here for you to give specific feedback or for you to comment on a trend. If you post your entry for feedback after this time and do not also offer some form of substantial commentary, critique, or praise of others' work, you may find your post deleted.
• Plagiarism. Many people post their ideas here before finalizing them in the submission topic. Directly plagiarizing those ideas to post in the submission topic yourself is absolutely not acceptable.

Looking for more information about the WCDC or Fan Creations in general? Why not check out this FAQ to see if your question is answered there?

 So, without further ado, have fun and get creating!

Quote from Shaveyou >>

Quote from Phoenixfeather >>

What specifically counts as "cost reduction"? Just tell me a yes or a no for the following cards.

Dragon Consort / Preparation

Cloaked Huntress / Wilfred Fizzlebang

Naga Sea Witch (Possible cost reductions)

Maiden of the Lake? (It's not reducing a card, but a Hero Power. Which is kind of a card...)

Seadevil Stinger or Bloodbloom (Switching mana for health)

Mana Bind

"Your card must simply reduce the cost of another card or cards permanently." 

Dragon Consort is potentially a yes, as it does give a permanent reduction to a card, but maybe wait for further clarification

Preparation, Cloaked Huntress and Naga Sea Witch don't fit due to the permanent restriction, as they don't provide permanent reductions.

Seadevil Stinger, Bloodbloom and Cho'gall don't fit due to the cost restriction, as they don't reduce the cost, only the resource paid. I may be wrong here, but I doubt it.

Maiden of the Lake doesn't fit due to card restriction, Hero Power is not a card.

Wilfred Fizzlebang should, as cards drawn using the Hero Power are permanently reduced, and it fits all three restrictions. I would interpret the restriction as it must have the capability on permanently reducing the cost, not that it must be on a battlecry.

As for Mana Bind, I'm simply not sure. There is no restriction on it being a minion, and, with the exception of secret counters, it guarantees that it will permanently reduce the cost of a card. I'd argue that it counts, but I may well be corrected. 

Other examples are Far Sight and Call Pet, which would be pass this weeks restrictions as far as I'm aware.

 

This is the Discussion Topic. The Submission Topic is here.

 Competition Theme: Slashing Prices

This weeks theme comes from pui980178 whose "Eavesdropper" was the winner of our "Triggered" competition. 

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• This week is simple: Your card must simply reduce the cost of another card or cards permanently. Emperor Thaurissan and Fire Plume Harbinger are both great examples of this.
• Cards like Sea Giant would not qualify, as it only reduces it's own cost. Same goes for Sorcerer's Apprentice, as it doesn't reduce costs permanently.

 Competition Process

Discussion Topic Rules

To make sure that everything runs smoothly, we need to reserve the Submission Topic for submissions only. Everything else goes here. What is everything else, you might ask?

• Rules or Process. Do you have a question about the competition's process? Do you need clarification about one of the entry requirements? Are you not sure whether your entry adhered to the rules? Ask here!
• Feedback or Ideas. Do you have some ideas you'd like to run by others before settling on one? Do you need help balancing or wording your entry? Do you need help finding art that will fit your card? Or do you just want feedback from the community on your entry? You're in the right place! Remember, although you are allowed to make minor tweaks to your entry after you've submitted it, you're only allowed one submission per week, so make sure that you've settled on your card for sure beforehand.
• Discussion! Do you have thoughts on other people's entries? Are there directions you don't like that you're seeing too many people take? Or directions you'd like to see more people take? Would you like to help others and contribute to a greater community understanding of Hearthstone card design and balance? This is where you want to be!

All of that said, please refrain from the following:

• Posting TONS of Ideas. Discussion topics become an absolute mess if everybody is posting a dozen different ideas. Please post not more than 3 distinct ideas at a time. Any more than that and we'll have to delete your post.
• Advertising Your Entry. Please don't pop in here just to advertise your entry only to never be heard from again. This includes only asking short, generic, or insincere questions like "Thoughts?" or "Do you think this is interesting?". Yes, getting feedback on your entry is one of the purposes of this topic, but we're not just here for other people to help you. We're here for you all to help each other. 12 hours after this competition begins, there should be plenty of other posts here for you to give specific feedback or for you to comment on a trend. If you post your entry for feedback after this time and do not also offer some form of substantial commentary, critique, or praise of others' work, you may find your post deleted.
• Plagiarism. Many people post their ideas here before finalizing them in the submission topic. Directly plagiarizing those ideas to post in the submission topic yourself is absolutely not acceptable.

 So, without further ado, have fun and get creating!

I'm calling it now, Arrow of Polymorph is going to win this week. Versatile, balanced, and most importantly, it melds mechanics unique to both classes effortlessly. Thief of Illusions and Ner'zhul are also good, and I'm sure most people will vote for them, but I personally really like the idea behind the Crystallized Treant. The idea of putting overload onto a card that gains you mana was excellent, and although I'm not sure that style of minion was the right way to execute it, it still gets my vote.

This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• This week you have to create a stitched card. Choose 2 classes and create a card that both classes can use.
• You are allowed to use class-specific keywords if one or both classes have them. For example you can create a Shaman/Rogue card and it can have both Overload and Combo.
• Your card can't be a Quest. I don't think this competition would be a lot of fun if every other card would be a dual-class Quest.
• Your card must have a "Stitched" boarder.

We have whittled down ~204 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!

by nobravery
by HenryXLII
Vitality Totem
by Livienna
by MistAssassin
by Nobroam
by Broeck1
by Soulbattle
by Xiaxiangde
by Vilegloom
by lolsen
by ThisOtherGuyTox
by nurgling13
by sashashepto
by Zukuu
by Donnerfausuts
by Lathy
by SolutionXD
by Aezuriel
Moonfire
by ihascorm
by Zence

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 The Fintastic Four

 Magic Incarnate

 Daedorn Cinder Beard

I was originally worried about Malygos abuse, but I realized that without thaurisan you could only get off 1-2 of those petals, and that requires Preparation, one of these, Malygos, and a coin for 14 damage. In general, just a solid combo card that both druid and rogue will love, as rogue has Preperation and druid has Innervate and Moonfire.

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Quote from ZardozSpeaks >>

Nice! I really liked Nurgling's Worgen class. It easily stood out from round 1 as something novel and fun.

Hey @Nurgling13, did you have any particular idea in mind for the Un'Goro "tribe" that Worgen would be associated with, that is: do they have Dinosaurs, Elementals, Plants, Tortollans or Murlocs?

 My idea was they aren't really associated with any of those. The theme is the expedition, so they're bringing their own explorer-type people into Un'goro, mostly. Maybe befriending a few natives here and there.

This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• This week, we want you to re-imagine an existing Hearthstone character. You may select a character that is already represented as either a collectible Legendary Minion, a token Legendary Minion produced by a collectible card, or a playable Hero. Note that we are excluding characters that already appear but only as entirely non-playable, such as Adventure bosses and their cards. Once you've selected your character, you can go about re-imagining them in one of two ways:
  • 1) As a collectible Legendary Minion. An example would be how Elise Starseeker was re-imagined as Elise the Trailblazer or how Medivh was re-imagined as Medivh, the Guardian.
  • 2) As a token produced by a collectible card. An example would be how Ragnaros the Firelord was re-imagined as a playable Hero by way of Majordomo Executus.

We have whittled down ~107 valid entries to just 12 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!

by Lathy
by ZardozSpeaks
by Livienna
by The_Odinson
by Toxibrah
by Spooga
by Woshiwo
Preparation
by Dxiled
by Asylum_Rhapsody
by nobravery
by SanderNightsite
by THRONEofBONE

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This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here. 

 Competition Theme: Character Development

This weeks theme comes from Asylum_Rhapsody whose "Cruel Pyromancer" was the winner of our "Elementary" competition. 

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

Journey to Un'Goro saw the return of two beloved characters, Elise Starseeker re-imagined as Elise the Trailblazer and Hemet Nesingwary re-imagined as Hemet, Jungle Hunter. They're hardly the first characters that Hearthstone has given multiple takes, and Whispers of the Old Gods alone gave us Deathwing, Dragonlord, Ragnaros, Lightlord, Hogger, Doom of Elwynn, Mukla, Tyrant of the Vale, and Nat, the Darkfisher. Indeed, Blackrock Mountain was Hearthstone's first attempt at reusing an existing Legendary character, when Majordomo Executus gave us a second way to play as Ragnaros! And, of course, Medivh, the Guardian is an alternate take on a Hero we already have.

• This week, we want you to similarly re-imagine an existing Hearthstone character. You may select a character that is already represented as either a collectible Legendary Minion, a token Legendary Minion produced by a collectible card, or a playable Hero. Note that we are excluding characters that already appear but only as entirely non-playable, such as Adventure bosses and their cards. Once you've selected your character, you can go about re-imagining them in one of two ways:
  • 1) As a collectible Legendary Minion. An example would be how Elise Starseeker was re-imagined as Elise the Trailblazer or how Medivh was re-imagined as Medivh, the Guardian.
  • 2) As a token produced by a collectible card. An example would be how Ragnaros the Firelord was re-imagined as a playable Hero by way of Majordomo Executus.
• You may not select a character that Hearthstone has already re-imagined before. Ragnaros has gotten enough attention, and there are tons of other characters out there that could use more love.
• Your card's effect must be substantially different from the card on which it is based. This is not a place for re-balancing agendas, no matter how overpowered or underpowered you think a card is.
• To be clear, this is not a parody competition. Your card should represent an existing character, not a parody of an existing character.
• This week is tough enough with the thematic restriction potentially making artwork somewhat of a challenge to procure, so there is no mechanical challenge beyond the above.

General Competition Rules

These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.

 Competition Process

 Rewards

Good Luck!

This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• The expansion hype keeps on rolling! We've now seen a lot more about the new Elemental tribe and how they're expected to function, including our very own card reveal here on Hearthpwn, Kalimos, Primal Lord. We're looking for you to add to the collection.
• Your card must either be an Elemental, produce an Elemental or interact with Elementals in some way. You have the Elemental tribe represented somewhere on your card, you're good.

We have whittled down ~140 valid entries to just 17 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.

Flame Elemental
Fireball
by Asylum_Rhapsody
by aeson88
by Toxibrah
Flame Elemental
by SanderNightsite
by nurgling13
by CheeseEtc
by AngryChicken
by cheepalm
by Schukala
by Sylicas
by Belzzzz
Fireblast
by Jhamel
by Imaah
Flame Elemental
Fire Elemental
by malthe3520
by Toble
by PupleMD
by ZamperHs (Wild Card)

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Handy way to trigger elemental synergy, also can get some very high value if played right. 

A smaller competition than we normally have, but I feel we were able to get some decent ideas. My personal favourites are Clever Girl and Manasaurus. I love the idea of playing against Clever Girl, and being terrified of some sylvanas effect, when the person only grabbed card draw. Manasarus is just very flavourful, taking the magical dinosaurs we saw in the trailer and strongly attaching it to druid.

There's always more creatures to find!

Examples of what the minion would actually look like.

This is the Submission Topic. The Discussion Topic is here. 

 Competition Theme: The Land Before Release

This weeks theme comes from AngryChicken and CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey, whose "Helpful Whelp" and "Borrowed Time" were the tied winners of our "Scales of Justice" competition. 

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• What? You didn't think we'd forget about an upcoming expansion, did you? For this week, your card art must depict a Dinosaur. "Dinosaur" scientifically refers to a specific classification of prehistoric animals (You can find more info here), but we're willing to broaden the definition to accept other classic prehistoric animals like Pterosaurs, Plesiosaurs, Dimetrodons, and even Trilobites. However, we will not allow more recent animals to qualify, like Mammoths, Sabre-Tooth Cats, or Birds, nor will we allow modern animals that have simply been around since prehistoric times, like Sharks or Dragonflies.
• Your card must also be a beast itself, interact with beasts, or produce a beast (token or card). If it produces a card that depicts a dinosaur, in accordance with the first restriction, it needn't necessarily depict one itself.
• Existing examples include King Krush, Bloodfen Raptor, and Mounted Raptor.

General Competition Rules

These are the rules that remain consistent from competition to competition.

 Competition Process

 Rewards

Good Luck!

This is the Discussion Topic. The Submission Topic is here.

 Competition Theme: The Land Before Release

This weeks theme comes from AngryChicken and CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey, whose "Helpful Whelp" and "Borrowed Time" were the tied winners of our "Scales of Justice" competition. 

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• What? You didn't think we'd forget about an upcoming expansion, did you? For this week, your card art must depict a Dinosaur. "Dinosaur" scientifically refers to a specific classification of prehistoric animals (You can find more info here), but we're willing to broaden the definition to accept other classic prehistoric animals like Pterosaurs, Plesiosaurs, Dimetrodons, and even Trilobites. However, we will not allow more recent animals to qualify, like Mammoths, Sabre-Tooth Cats, or Birds, nor will we allow modern animals that have simply been around since prehistoric times, like Sharks or Dragonflies.
• Your card must also be a beast itself, interact with beasts, or produce a beast (token or card). If it produces a card that depicts a dinosaur, in accordance with the first restriction, it needn't necessarily depict one itself.
• Existing examples include King Krush, Bloodfen Raptor, and Mounted Raptor.

 Competition Process

Discussion Topic Rules

To make sure that everything runs smoothly, we need to reserve the Submission Topic for submissions only. Everything else goes here. What is everything else, you might ask?

• Rules or Process. Do you have a question about the competition's process? Do you need clarification about one of the entry requirements? Are you not sure whether your entry adhered to the rules? Ask here!
• Feedback or Ideas. Do you have some ideas you'd like to run by others before settling on one? Do you need help balancing or wording your entry? Do you need help finding art that will fit your card? Or do you just want feedback from the community on your entry? You're in the right place! Remember, although you are allowed to make minor tweaks to your entry after you've submitted it, you're only allowed one submission per week, so make sure that you've settled on your card for sure beforehand.
• Discussion! Do you have thoughts on other people's entries? Are there directions you don't like that you're seeing too many people take? Or directions you'd like to see more people take? Would you like to help others and contribute to a greater community understanding of Hearthstone card design and balance? This is where you want to be!

All of that said, please refrain from the following:

• Posting TONS of Ideas. Discussion topics become an absolute mess if everybody is posting a dozen different ideas. Please post not more than 3 distinct ideas at a time. Any more than that and we'll have to delete your post.
• Advertising Your Entry. Please don't pop in here just to advertise your entry only to never be heard from again. This includes only asking short, generic, or insincere questions like "Thoughts?" or "Do you think this is interesting?". Yes, getting feedback on your entry is one of the purposes of this topic, but we're not just here for other people to help you. We're here for you all to help each other. 12 hours after this competition begins, there should be plenty of other posts here for you to give specific feedback or for you to comment on a trend. If you post your entry for feedback after this time and do not also offer some form of substantial commentary, critique, or praise of others' work, you may find your post deleted.
• Plagiarism. Many people post their ideas here before finalizing them in the submission topic. Directly plagiarizing those ideas to post in the submission topic yourself is absolutely not acceptable.

 So, without further ado, have fun and get creating!