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This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• You must create a card with flavor related to outer space.
• Existing examples include: Luna's Pocket Galaxy, Astromancer.

We have whittled down ~20 valid submissions to just 9 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  biggerbossman
by  Ixlid
by  Phoenixfeather

by  Thezzy
by  whatTheHeck
by  Demonxz95
by  JhamelReborn

by  CheeseEtc

Astro-Lord

"Look to the stars; they'll guide you to the right choice."

Because not everyone has fun the same way as you, and some people enjoy those types of decks.

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Quote from Demonxz95 >>

I fail to see what fish has anything to do with outer space.

 The line is a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Moments before the Earth is destroyed to make room for an interstellar highway, the planet's dolphin population thank the humans before floating up and into space.

 This is made especially funny by the fact that Dolphins are asserted to be the second-most intelligent lifeforms on Earth, above Humans in third place. They tried to warn humanity of Earth's destruction, but unfortunately their communication looked surprisingly like delightful water shows, for which they were rewarded with fish.

I'd be interested in knowing how you managed to get 5-6 minions in the Void despite conceding on turn 4? Was one of these hyperbole, or were these two separate runs?

The only method of putting a minion in the Void is Zuramat's Hero Power. Once a minion has been removed from the Void with Void Shift, it can't be resummoned by subsequent Void Shifts. It would have to be put back in the Void by the Hero Power.

It doesn't work like the resurrect mechanic. I've yet to see any instance of it not correctly summoning minions which were put there.

"Drinks are on the house!"

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I know this is basically just the Season 9 poll, but dammit, I wanted to do this my way. I will update this with the season winner and mini comps when they are all done.

Once spoilers are added to OutOfCards, I will start transferring the Winner's Galary over to there. I also noticed the old gallery appears to only be accessible by mods. Is that intentional? I will actually need to know when all of the big comps and side comps were if I'm going to post this on OutOfCards.

 Looks like the original user who posted the old Winner's Gallery was deleted in the Great Purge of EU Regulations. I've restored the original post, so you should hopefully be able to see it now.

If you can give me a list of anything you need to know that you can't find in either Gallery in a PM, I'll grab any threads/dates you're looking for. It'll be nice to have a record of as much as possible from our time here on Hearthpwn over on OOC.

While I'm here, in the interest of full disclosure, the last post I made here - February 12th - was made with the knowledge that something was going on behind-the-scenes in regards to Hearthpwn's future (though I didn't know what yet), and the idea of creating an entirely new site had already been floated around among the more senior mods. That's the main reason that no work was being done to fix the mess we'd made of the Winner's Gallery - there might not have been any point to it by the time it got done, and assigning someone to it would've been taking them away from trying to prevent more water from flooding the sinking ship, or from preparing the lifeboats (as it were, metaphors, y'know?).

I am very grateful to you for doing this work when we let it fall by the wayside. I plan to try and get the Winner's Gallery to be an actual part of the site on OOC, so that it will literally automatically update once a poll ends with the new information. We sort of had that started here, but we had to hack around Hearthpwn's weird and old code and use Flux's own external site for most of it; then it broke anyway after like four weeks.

Congratulations to our winner! The next Submission/Discussion Topics are up now.

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I don't get Rigging Tech. How is it related to stage stuff?

 A stage rigger is someone who deals with some of the behind-the-scenes aspects of staging a performance - lighting, scenery, co-ordination, all that stuff with ropes and pulleys you see backstage. It can actually be a super demanding job if you're working in the air, you need to have exceptional upper-body strength.

Final Poll, now up!

This Week's Finalists

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• You must make a card with flavor of a stage production.
• Examples include: Barnes, Pompous Thespian.

We have whittled down ~20 valid submissions to just 6 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  CheeseEtc
by  Demonxz95
by  Shatterstar1998
by  lchk

by  biggerbossman
by  thepowrofcheese

You pre-suppose that netdecking is an issue that needs to be solved by Blizzard. It isn't. Forcing people to be unable to play the cards they want to in their decks will just drive people away from the game, because why would you arbitrarily restrict people like that? It's one of the most idiotic things I've ever seen somebody suggest.

You keep reiterating your cutesy 'oh, you can't take 60% of a song and play it on the radio :)' argument, but the situations aren't comparable at all. When you netdeck, you are not claiming to have created the deck - furthermore, even if you did, by doing so you don't gain anything. It's not like you get money for creating a brand-new deck the same way getting a song played on the radio does.

Right now, I can take the best Warrior list, copy it exactly, and play it on ladder. Who created the list? Who knows, doesn't matter, thousands of people are also playing it. In tournament play, you don't see people getting disqualified because they brought the same deck as their opponent, because that would be ludicrous. Of course you just bring the best 30 cards - if they happen to be what someone else thinks is the best 30 cards, so be it.

I'm sure I'm just feeding the troll, but if I can get even one person who thinks you have some sort of a point to see how nonsensical your suggestions and arguments are, then I honestly couldn't care less. Congrats, you got me.

Congrats to our winner! The next Discussion/Submission topics are up now.

The second rarest (achievable) achievement! Congrats on being one of the few who managed it. The rarest (achievable) achievement, "That's Incredible!", required double that rating, and only 9 of the 34 users who achieved +2500 managed to push for +5000.

Two of them were Flux and I, which I can't help but feel is cheating a little bit, given that Flux literally ran the site and answered everyone's questions, and I got jokes in on new cards as we were adding them to the site =P You're always first if you're the one making the content.

I say achievable, of course, because there is an achievement which nobody has, despite, I'm sure, many people qualifying for it. The "Does Anyone Read These?" achievement, for commenting on 500 News Posts, has been broken for possibly the entire time it's existed - I've certainly been stuck on 322/500 for well over a year. A shame that nobody will ever have collected all the Golden Achievements - I'm certainly not crafting the ~38 Golden Legendaries I need for those two achievements, and not even my best meme deck managed 500,000 views.

I wonder if anyone managed it - without "Does Anyone Read These?", of course.

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Also, is the next mini comp going to start as soon as this poll ends?

 Yep, as soon as this poll ends the next Discussion/Submission go up. I really like the themes we picked, hope you all do too.