Party Planning 101 - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread

Competition Theme: Party Planning 101

Surprise! You didn't think we'd forgotten about Out of Cards' birthday, did you? Every birthday needs a party, but we're running low on ideas - help us decide how to celebrate!

• You must create a card which is themed around celebration!
  • Think fireworks, cake, decorations, things like that. Fireworks Tech, Priest of the Feast and Weaponized Piñata are some good examples.

This competition features prizes!

All finalists will receive 15 days of Out of Cards Premium; the winner will receive 30 days of Out of Cards Premium, plus 15 Hearthstone Packs from an expansion of their choice!

In order to receive your packs should you win, you must be able to accept a gift via Battle.net. All prizes will be distributed within a week of the end of the competition.

As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Jun 1 19:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Jun 6 19:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jun 6 19:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Jun 7 18:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jun 7 19:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Jun 8 19:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

Please note: This is a special competition and not in a normal season.

OH NOW, THIS I'M FEELING MOTIVATED FOR!

Generally simple cards I throughout of given the theme

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Hey, another competition! This theme should be interesting. I made two cards, what do you think?

I saw the art for Trick Gift over a month ago and thought it was funny. Until this day I have never found a place to use it.

Changed Reno based on the feedback reminding me that they didn't exist at the time.

Not very good feedback:

Unexpected guest on your party... Diablo himself!! (Yes, he wants to remain incognito).

4 mana 6/6 ... but your opponent will receive as a gift not one, but TWO Hellfires - enough to banish him. But it will cost your opponent something to send the guest away - yes, yes, his life!

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Edit: Updated texts based on suggestions (I'm not a native english speaker)

I didn't expect this! I'll give some feedback this afternoon, both to this comp and the regular one.

This is... a strange one, to be sure! I'm kinda lost, but I'll see what works!

Maybe I'm pandering to the masses a little with this one...

What do you all think? Here's some feedback as well...

Menacing Bagel

linkblade91

KANSAS

Alfi

anchorm4n

Wailor

Now that is a welcome surprise, here's my ideias, feedback coming soon.

Edit: Uploaded the wrong image for Wine and Cork Shot, fixed.

It seems Trick Gift was more popular, but everyone agreed that it could use some work. I reworked the card a little to be less wordy and more straight forward.

Feedback:

About your cards, I like Explosive Pinata. It makes for some interesting deck-building, and is also pretty powerful with the right synergies.

Thank you KANSAS and Demonxz95 for the feedback; I'll hold on a while longer and see if any more comments come through before I make changes.

Here's some more feedback for those that have posted since...

MrRhapsody

KANSAS

Demonxz95

Lots of cools cards for that one, no better incentive for creativity than prizes, heh? Anyway, here's my feedback

Feedback:

@MenacingBagel

@linkblade91

@KANSAS

@Alfi

@anchorm4n

@Dermostatic

@MrRhapsody

@Demonxz95

Double design competition this week! Oh man!

All of your cards are party-themed which is great. Wine & Cork shot is functional for priest, although I don't quite get the flavour. 

 

The "Cork Shot" is the deal 2 damage part, like when you open a bottle of wine or champagne with too much force and the cork randomly hits someone  in the face. The "Wine Shot" is the part where you drink the wine and laughs at the one who got "Cork Shoted".

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The "Cork Shot" is the deal 2 damage part, like when you open a bottle of wine or champagne with too much force and the cork randomly hits someone  in the face. The "Wine Shot" is the part where you drink the wine and laughs at the one who got "Cork Shoted".

That makes perfect sense, thanks for clarifying! I hope I am never on the receiving end of a cork shot, that's for sure.

The idea behind this would be to support a Menagerie deck. It is balanced by the fact that you need to have a lot of Beasts, Dragons, and Murlocs for Party Time! to be better than your normal Hero Power, so a deck running just dragons or just beasts would not run Reno the Partier. You also have to spend Mana on the first few turns buffing your minions, which makes this strategy slower than a normal zoo deck. I made Party Time! also buff a random Beast, Dragon, and Murloc in your deck because I felt it was a little too weak if it just handbuffed. 

Happy birthday, Out of Cards! Here is my first attempt at an entry. I have no idea if this is balanced... I really wanted to make use of E.T.C.'s super weird Horde Warrior mechanic, but unfortunately it is inherently super swingy. Might get Frostwolf Grunt, might get Cairne Bloodhoof. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll add some feedback shortly :)

EDIT: Feedback! (Also, I realised Rush wasn't introduced when Karazhan was released, so I guess I'll change the watermark in the final)

Flavor text: "How greedy are you, my friend? Let's have a legendary party!"



If the picture does not show: Legendary neutral minion, 4 mana cost, 3/4 stats, "Battlecry: Discover a Legendary card from your opponent's deck. If your deck has no Legendary cards, keep all 3."

Symbol: Custom "Gift" symbol taken from Hearthcards Card Generator, don't know if there are special rules about the set symbol during card creation competitions. If so, please let me know.

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Based on suggestions, I changed my card a little:

I made Reno no longer a Dragon because it didn't make sense given the artwork and lore of ONiK. I also changed 'Party Time!' to specify the lowest cost minions to make it more random, and I removed the additional buff to minions in your deck because it apparently confused people about the functionality of it. Is this version better? I also thought of making 'Party Time!' say "Give the lowest Cost minion of each tribe in your hand +1/+1", but I thought it might be too good, and wouldn't fit the theme of the menagerie as well. 

My idea was basically just from the art where he’s in a hot tub with a Murloc, a Cow, and the Curator.

@Inconspicuosaurus

If you want to make him less random, you could make him add all 6 of the Horde Warriors to your hand. Make him something like an 8 Mana 5/5 “Battlecry: Add all 6 Horde Warriors to your hand”. Alternatively, you could make him a 9 Mana 5/5 “Battlecry: Discover a Horde Warrior. Summon it and set its stats to 5”

You could even do something crazy like make him a 9 Mana 5/5 with “Battlecry: Summon all 6 Horde Warriors for both players” 

Here's a goofy one I put together today. Used the Winter Veil expansion icon, since a present seemed like the right choice.

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Flavor text: "How greedy are you, my friend?"



If the picture does not show: Legendary neutral minion (Dragon), 4 mana cost, 3/4 stats, "Battlecry: Each player draws all Legendary cards from his deck."

The Black Prince is also known as Wrathion and is a major character in the World of Warcraft lore. 

Short version: He grants legendary items which can be upgraded per WoW expansion. 
Long version: You can find more informations about him here

Welcome aboard.

A few things I'd like to mention is that Golden cards are not allowed during competitions. It can be used as an unfair, unnecessary grab for views, and it also sometimes makes it hard to tell what card a class is from. I thought it was a Priest card until I read that it's Neutral.

In addition to that, the effect should specify "their" deck and not "his" deck as you can play as female heroes (and being Neutral, you don't even have to use a workaround to do this), or in various modes like Tavern Brawl or sometimes PvE, something with no discernible gender. The card also shouldn't be tagged as a Dragon, as dragons in their human forms, i.e (ironically) Wrathion are not tagged as Dragons in the game.

As for the effect, it seems too powerful to tutor all your Legendaries instantly (which in and of itself, is disadvantageous to F2P or low budget players), and the text is in really weird spots. There shouldn't be a line break after Battlecry. The name also does not suggest it to be a minion. It sounds more like a spell, yet it appears to have been made as a minion in mind. The card also has no watermark either.

 

Hey there, thanks for this feedback!

I fixed all the issues you mentioned and created a new card in my post. Inspired by the F2P aspect I also removed the powerful tutor effect (although I love tutor cards) and replaced it with the discover keyword with the additiol condition we learned from the latest expansion (keeping all 3).

Thanks for the feedback guys. I have a new iteration of my card, which I think is much more fair. Still very RNG-heavy, but you can manipulate it by playing it when you are behind on board. 

"Band for hire. Genre: Loud. Alignment: Horde. Free mosh pit provided with every booking."

Two ideas this week:

"Nothing more punk rock then a little bit of blood."

A vanilla minion on curve but can be a board flip if you are barely hanging on. A very specific condition that can be met but a powerful one.

He's a great host. An out-going socialite that makes a wicked martini.

A pre-cursor to Project cards that would be later seen in Boomsday Project. Didn't know if the health gain was too much but figured it was playing off the idea of a drink helping raise one's spirit to party. Could drop it if I must.

Thoughts?

Another Harth themed card! Gimme your thoughts on it.

This card would probably be given to players on their Birthdays. You can at max earn 100 gold from this card like with your daily winnings maxing out at 150 and would show if you and your opponent are good sports. It'd be nice to show that HS isn't as toxic as many ppl think. This is a meme card, but I think it'd be a fun meme card that players could do and something streamers could do to play with fans and celebrate the day. Thoughts?

Going to change it to (Once per opponent), so certain things like Cho can't manipulate it to gain endless amounts of gold.

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This card is absurdly good just because each of the Golden Pouches burn a draw. It is essentially a Bad Luck Albatross on steroids that provide your opponent with even an even worse card to play. I'd make each of the gold pouches draw a card so at least the opponent can still get their normal draw. I like the idea though and the flavor fits well, its only a minor oversight that makes it unfair to play against.

In addition to this very good point, I think the minion's text should read, "Start of Game: If it's your birthday, shuffle a Golden Pouch into your opponent's deck."

When I first read it I was very confused as to what was actually going on. The way it is currently written is just untrue, as you are not literally shuffling gold into your opponent's deck, plus I suspect many players/contest voters would assume it meant 10 The Coins, as I did.

I'm going to put my card here and ask for a bit more feedback before submitting it.

FEEDBACK:

Decided to fix the card I originally made and decided to make it more intractable and fun for your opponent in this version. It also doesn't give them the dead draw people were worried about in the original version.

I learned something funny thanks to Shifting Scroll in Mage and translates to other spells they have no Mana designation. The card remains uncastable and blocks you from casting it to manipulate spell potential with things like Lorewalker Cho. It's also Casts When Drawn so the only time of ever getting this card in hand would be due to things like Deck discoveries or in very few and unlucky cases, situations in Priest with Thoughtsteal. Overall, I do think this is a much better idea, but I'll let you guys judge that.

[Edit: I came up with some "Happy Birthday!" emotes for some hero cards if the the emote would land on them or would follow through if you transformed.

Hagatha the Witch would be "A happy day that you may!" reinforcing her rhyming chants.
Dr. Boom, Mad Genius would say "Blow out your candles! Y'know, before they blow up..." to add to his explosive and fun nature.
Zul'jin would say ""Halazzi wishes you a good hunt today!" showing his and his Loa's happiness for playing on your Birthday.
And The Amazing Reno's would be an immature celebration emote like "Let's make some SUPER SPECIAL PARTY MAGIC!"

Haven't got any ideas on the Death Knights yet, but if you guys wanted to suggest something for them by all means, leave a comment.]

@anchorm4n, Thank you for reminding me to make a token! Also, I think you are right that 4 might be a bit of a stretch on turns 2-3 so I reduced the Present to a 0/3. I kept the Windup Beast at 4/4 because I think a 2 mana 3/3 that requires you to waste 3 damage and possibly wait a turn or two wasn't worth it.

I changed the art on the card and made tokens, 

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But since you can only submit a single token, I thought this design might be better, 

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Last Update for submitting the cards tomorrow. Added the restrictions to the card to make sure people know the maxmimu effort you should put in.
I also changed it to a Battlecry so even if you played it, you're not confirmed to get the 10 Gold plus you can use him up to 10 time to get the maximum gold value.

The use will not activte until you play Harth, so even if you draw him, as long as you don't play it and finidh the game, it won't use up the 10 games left minimum. This 'games left' counter will reset at the end of the day, or you could even make it annually renewed.

YO DAWG, I heard you like rng, so we put a based rng card in order to generate much more rng cards. Let's the rng party begins!!

List of portal cards that can be generated by karazhan turntables:

Disclaimer: Not sure if quite enough clear. The main idea here is counting everytime a rng effect is triggered (evolving, +x/+x any other minion, summon a minion, add a lackey... you know them for sure) .

The criteria for completing the quest could seem pretty low but we should be honest that besides portals are cool cards they're not too much consistent nor meta defining. You can't make a consistent deck with it. Take in account that most of Portals doesn't have a related "draw another card".

I also consider that 3 cost portals seems a little bit punish having most of the portals 2 mana cost but creating a Firelands portal that can go directly on face just for 2 mana seems not very funny for your opponent.

I decided to go with Firework Fanatic since better flavor imo, simpler effect, and probably half the submissions are going to use reno in a hot tub. But I'm not sure about the watermark, also seemingly you cant make the token have a watermark unless you give it a rarity. 

You guys like my idea? got a little late on the party : )

It's a "Flavor" card. So I used italic for the meal. Just details :)

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This card would probably be given to players on their Birthdays. You can at max earn 100 gold from this card like with your daily winnings maxing out at 150 and would show if you and your opponent are good sports. It'd be nice to show that HS isn't as toxic as many ppl think. This is a meme card, but I think it'd be a fun meme card that players could do and something streamers could do to play with fans and celebrateThis card is absurdly good just because each of the Golden Pouches burn a draw. It is essentially a Bad Luck Albatross on steroids that provide your opponent with even an even worse card to play. I'd make each of the gold pouches draw a card so at least the opponent can still get their normal draw. I like the idea though and the flavor fits well, its only a minor oversight that makes it unfair to play against.

That was my first though but the pouch can be a good fuel for cards like Gadgetzan Auctioneer, Mana Cyclone or Edwin VanCleef.

But, yes, usually that card will be a dead draw.

This is pity. I believe I made a fun card, but unfortunately I had no idea (and there is not even a single mention) where or how should I enter my card. I posted the pic (on first page) but it is most likely not enough. 
Rules shoeld be clarified to participate for new visitors

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This is pity. I believe I made a fun card, but unfortunately I had no idea (and there is not even a single mention) where or how should I enter my card. I posted the pic (on first page) but it is most likely not enough. 
Rules shoeld be clarified to participate for new visitors

Sorry to hear that, but on the "Submit your card page" it does say that you need to make the card with Hearthcards and then upload it from your computer. We do not have a dedicated system where you can create it on the site as of right now. We could potentially try and make that part more visible, since there is at least one person each week who just uploads a picture and thinks that the submission form is actually a card creator, which is not. We'll see what we can come up with.

The problem is, that the main page did not mention any secret page where the cards should be submitted. I have  first (and most likely last) try on card creation and just see my steps:

- I opened this discussion point, where you present the theme, rules (only rule is that this is not a regular competition) and dates. 

- Players are posting card images in discussion

- So I posted my submission entry in discussion

How can someone know, that these submissions are not valid and the only way to enter is to find a secret page where the cards should be submitted? 

At least you should mention that there is somewhere on a page hidden a link to submission page? I believe, that when you click on the image with the competition name (which I did not know is a clickable object and not just an image) will lead to the secret page. But this is only my guess, as now I found out to my big surprise, it leads to voting page. 

I was so sure I'd make it in both comps and I didn't in neither of them 🤡

I guess I should put less expectations in these things lol

Gratz to the finalists, may the best card win!

Better to be No.2 than No.1, that's my motto!

HEY! I WON!

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HEY! I WON!

Congrats, mate! Care for a pretzel they're extra salty? like me

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HEY! I WON!

Congratulations!