The Positional Awareness of Minions Card Design Competition

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The Positional Awareness of Minions Card Design Competition

Season 5 of our Card Design Competitions continues! This week, we're designing cards which interact with the position of minions on the battlefield.

Places EveryTwo - Season 5 Competition #10

This weeks theme comes from Mewdrops, whose "Reload" was the winner of our "Elves vs Dwarves" competition.

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

Your card must in some way interact with the position of minions on the battlefield. This can be through the use of the adjacency mechanic, or the 'opposite' mechanic, or even specifying positions like 'the rightmost' or 'the middle'.
Existing examples include Dire Wolf Alpha, Defender of Argus, and the Karazhan chess pieces (White Queen, White Rook etc.).

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Head on over to the submission thread to read the rules and submit your entry. Also be sure to check out this week's discussion thread.

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Posted Mar 14, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
What if they made a whole expansion about being adjacent or opposite other minions. It would be a really cool concept and would drastically increase the skill the skill of the game in that expansion

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Posted Mar 14, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
This hopefully links correctly

[img]http://www.hearthcards.net/cards/51043285.png[/img]

Pretty straight forward.

Here's another one. Its winmore but w/e could be good.

[img]http://www.hearthcards.net/cards/e0244d1a.png[/img]

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Posted Mar 14, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
Card Name

The button that brings this up is in the editor, 2nd from the right side, looks like a HS card

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Posted Mar 13, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
I just recently posted this in the discussion, but my Jandice Barov card; you can't see it because it was removed for the accusation that I plagiarized it. It was my idea first, but since Fullas published the card on YouTube before I submitted mine in the submission topic, people think it is his card and I copied it.

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Posted Mar 13, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
It's true, MasterOfTheDruid. Murozond has notebooks of his card ideas from 2015, and his Jandice Barov was one of them.

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Posted Mar 12, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
Here's mine; a physically weak broken shaman buffing his team from the back lines. Could be super strong synergy with a 4 mana 7/7, or you could lose the game if you never roll a taunt totem. Lead to interesting decisions like "do I cast wolves before or after I play him?"

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Posted Mar 12, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
This is such a bad card, bad win more card. In average scenario, it will never survive the turn to trigger the effect and paying 5mana for this is too much, could be 3 mana probably, then it would at least be ok stats for "nothing".

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Posted Mar 12, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
Quote from SunbleachedAngel >>

I think it should also have "can't atack"

The wording difference between this and chess pieces was intentional, it should be able to attack, hence why it starts at 2 attack only.

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well it is a formation of rock and lava, a pile of rocks can be an elemental, why not this?

Well, no, a pile of rocks is not an elemental. they're elementals if they're like.. alive... There's a reason you don't see people calling volcanoes and geysers elementals in real life. And that's largely because Elementals are mythical creatures, once again, not land formations.

A pile of rocks IS a form of an elemental in world of warcraft, killed rock elementals turn into just that, there were/are also rock elementals starting out in "rubble" state and reforming when you got close. Ergo that pile of rocks is an elemental. People do not call anything an elemental in real life because, like you said yourself, they are mythical creatures= non existent. In wow and thus in hs, any animated matter that isn't normally alive can become an elemental, they had Ale-elementals in MOP for example.
So what stops this volcanic geyser (which is an elemental force to begin with) from being classified as an elemental now it is a creature= meeting the criteria above?

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Posted Mar 12, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
Quote from Sengiratolom >>

Quote from SunbleachedAngel >>

I think it should also have "can't atack"

The wording difference between this and chess pieces was intentional, it should be able to attack, hence why it starts at 2 attack only.

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Quote from Sengiratolom >>

well it is a formation of rock and lava, a pile of rocks can be an elemental, why not this?

Well, no, a pile of rocks is not an elemental. they're elementals if they're like.. alive... There's a reason you don't see people calling volcanoes and geysers elementals in real life. And that's largely because Elementals are mythical creatures, once again, not land formations.

killed rock elementals turn into just that, there were/are also rock elementals starting out in "rubble" state and reforming when you got close. Ergo that pile of rocks is an elemental. People do not call anything an elemental in real life because, like you said yourself, they are mythical creatures= non existent. In wow and thus in hs, any animated matter that isn't normally alive can become an elemental, they had Ale-elementals in MOP for example.
So what stops this volcanic geyser (which is an elemental force to begin with) from being classified as an elemental now it is a creature= meeting the criteria above?

Well, if I kill a human it will eventually decompose into a pile of ashes, but I'm not going to call that pile of ashes a human, nor vice versa. And if it was a pile of ashes beforehand and turned into a human when approached, then it was clearly alive to begin with in that state, just waiting and dormant.

What mainly stops it for me is that a geyser isn't a living creature. Nor is there any implication that your card is alive and "infused" with an elemental spirit (bad adjective to use but you get the point). Elementals are spirits and for all practical purposes of the word, are alive. Yes, it makes use of an element-based force, but that does not inherently make it an elemental.

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Posted Mar 12, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
2 mana continuous hard removal. Please no.

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Posted Mar 13, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
Uh, Priest is still looking for a good synergistic 2-drop (sorry Mana Geode, most of the time you were just a River Crocolisk). That said, this is way too powerful an end-of-turn effect. The card might be decent if the effect occurred at the start of your turn. Although now that I think about it, if this were played on an empty board it could dominate the game. Hmmm....

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Posted Mar 11, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
INteretsting card, But I don't think a geyser is really an elemental. More of a... you know... land formation...

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well it is a formation of rock and lava, a pile of rocks can be an elemental, why not this?

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Posted Mar 12, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
I think it should also have "can't atack"

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Quote from Sengiratolom >>

well it is a formation of rock and lava, a pile of rocks can be an elemental, why not this?

Well, no, a pile of rocks is not an elemental. they're elementals if they're like.. alive... There's a reason you don't see people calling volcanoes and geysers elementals in real life. And that's largely because Elementals are mythical creatures, once again, not land formations.

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Posted Mar 12, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
That wasn't intentional, sorry for the coincidence, had the card name and function in mind and looked up images for it on google.

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Posted Mar 12, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
Quote from BorkBot >>

Not sure if it's intentional, but this card looks really similar to one of my cards in the discussion topic:

http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/fan-creations/187598-weekly-card-design-competition-5-10-discussion?page=14#c269

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