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I don't have much of an opinion of "Celestial Crafter" - seems fine. Regarding "Starace, Solar Entity," I have two comments:

• I immediately thought it should be pronounced Starace, so if you intend an "iss" type ending, I'd rename it to "Stariss." While there are some words that pronounce "ace" as "iss" (e.g. solace), the fact that "race" sounds like "ace" is unavoidable here.
• It seems complicated in a way that would make it too hard to fit into a deck. Presumably the intention is that Starace is a way to consistently activate "played elemental last turn" effects, but +3 spell damage isn't worth 3 mana on its own (and if you bounce him, that's what you're getting - just +3 spell damage, no body), and he's a very expensive way to keep your elementals online (3 mana plus a spell just to have him available next time you need to play an elemental). I would think a better effect might be "After you cast a spell, add a 1/1 Star Elemental to your hand" or something to that effect - still gives you plenty of elemental activators, but they're just token units.

These are my first ideas for now. Love black holes so i made 2 cards about them.

• Gravity well is an elegant removal spell that is best compared to Deadly Shot. The random element is instead replaced by a unique condition that can be manipulated by both players to some extent. Thematically, the more weight something has, the stronger the gravity force will pull it down.
• Feed the Void is a more simple removal, everyone knows you can't come back from a black hole so no deathrattles, and priest has the whole void stuff going on.
• Finally, Comet comes repeats itself. My attempt at mimicking real comets that come back every few years or so.

It's 1 AM for me so i will give feedback when i wake up ^^;

Here is what I cam up with. I am not too sure about it, I am usually not comfortable making unique tokens. If I need to I can make something else.

I will get some feedback out later when more people have posted.

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Oooooo! This is an exciting theme. I'm way too spaced obsessed, so this will be fun!

I also love outer space, which is why I suggested the theme :D (LutriSpellcaster did not get back to us, so this week was kind of up-for-grabs) SpaceX just finished their historic launch, docking with the International Space Station: the first time in nearly a decade that the US took its own astronauts up into space. Might have been huge news in an alternate universe...

Oooooo! This is an exciting theme. I'm way too spaced obsessed, so this will be fun! 

First off, I want to apologize to everyone for me being pretty AFK from the competitions for the past 2 weeks. It's been a strange time in my life, and I needed to spend a little less time on these to focus on some other things. I should be able to get more feedback out to people this week.

Here's my first idea to get things going, balancing definitely needs some looking at. I'm sure I'll have more as my love for space and hearthstone combine themselves in my head!

Feedback:

I don't mean to sound mean, really I am just curious. What about Tox's card was appealing to people?

If you are playing a board-based aggro token deck, you won't have too many cards in hand by turn 7 so you probably won't summon more than a single treant in most cases. And even if you do summon 5 treants, that is only slightly better than [Hearthstone Card (forest's aid) Not Found] only without twinspell. If you care more about the hand synergy then there are certainly better cards out there. And you will also probably burn a card the turn after you play this.

No offense to Tox, but all in all the card just looks too slow for 7 mana. 

First off, I would like to say that Sejuani might be good and I see where you are coming from, but Freljord first and Demacia last? I wouldn't say that Freljord is the worst class as of now, that one's arguable (it could be Noxus because it lacks diversity but even then Burn is still good, just not as prominent). I can say that most other regions are in a good position right now and Freljord does have some great tools such as Fury of the North and Elixir of Iron, etc but it's almost certain that Demacia is still such a powerhouse with or without the nerfs. Vanguard Bannerman and Cithria the Bold are definitely still really good.

If I were to say which region would be first, it'd be a fierce competition between Bilgewater and PnZ. Both classes are versatile enough and they have tons of great tools such as Make it Rain and Mystic Shot and Plunder is a pretty annoying mechanic to fight against. HeimerBADCARDNAME and Vi seems to be running the meta right now, I see them more often than I see Bannerman and Kinkou Elusives right now.

So to conclude, Freljord definitely not first but I don't think it's the worst. Demacia definitely not a meme, still good just not as prevalent. PnZ and Bilgewater are everywhere. Shadow Isles is a bit conditional because it has great Control tools. Noxus is still Noxus, much burn such wow. Ionia is Ionia, still annoying as ever. So far a decent patch.

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-There is at least one post containing 5 or more cards on each page;
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-About 50% of all users do not provide any feedback

Interesting data. I have thoughts of my own, but these are the two I want to focus on.

I wish more people would give feedback, of course; we all do. It can take a lot of time, but it's a nice gesture and makes people more likely to provide you feedback in reciprocation (theoretically, anyway).

I personally would like it people didn't mass-post a large amount of ideas. It makes it harder to provide meaningful feedback, and in some ways the scattershot approach takes options away from other people (especially if they're trying to use characters that haven't been "claimed" already). I don't post more than three ideas at a time, only creating/posting more if the "first wave" doesn't land well. Posts with 5 or more is a bit excessive, I would say.

Congrats to the team!

I don't know if these are "space-y" enough, but they're what I have currently. If the flavor isn't there, I'll come up with something else:

• Meteor Fall drops an Infernal from the sky; it's from my custom expansion. Better to use when you're losing the board.
• The Vindicaar is the spaceship used by the Army of the Light. They united with the people of Azeroth to travel to the planet Argus, taking the fight to the Burning Legion on their home turf.
  • The 8-mana version is kind of like The Boomship but for a Big Paladin deck: it lacks immediate board-interactivity with the Rush, so I figure it could be slightly cheaper (or the same cost, maybe; this is just a first draft).
  • The 10-mana version is a win condition for Control Paladin, stalling the game out until enough friendlies have fallen in battle. You're encouraged to use cards like Shu'ma and Onyxia to mass-generate victims forces.

Before I get to work on my submission for this week, here are some things I want to share.

I went through last weeks discussion thread and gathered some data.
Below you'll see: Total number (posted within 1st 24 hours in %);
(I excluded posts containing neither cards nor feedback. Therefore page 5 isn't considered at all.)

-Posts containing cards: 45(71%);
-Cards posted: 105(74%);
-Posts containing feedback: 23(65%);
-Feedback posted: 270(73%);
-Average number of cards per card post: 2,3;
-Average number of cards adressed per feedback post: 11,7;

-More than 70% of all content is posted within the 1st 24 hours;
-There is at least one post containing 5 or more cards on each page;
-About 83% of all feedback is provided by 8 users;
-About 50% of all users do not provide any feedback;
-There is an extreme case of someone posting 5 times, including 11 different cards of their own, but not a single line of feedback;

Make of the data what you will...my thoughts are in the spoiler:

Edit: Grammar, Typos, etc...

Congratulations to Tox!

Competition Theme: Spacial Awareness

I've come to make an announcement - we're celebrating the moon, the stars and all other things space this week!

• You must create a card which is themed around outer space
  • That's it, that's the whole prompt! Some examples include Astral Communion, Luna's Pocket Galaxy and Harbinger Celestia

Hey, did you hear? They launched a rocket into space! Let's celebrate that with some celestial cards.

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 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Jun 6 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jun 6 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Jun 7 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jun 7 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Jun 8 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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When the new ranking system came to be, I was awarded the 6 stars bonus due to my rank. I played through that month and the bonus disappeared when I reached gold 5. I finished that month on that floor (gold 7 or 8) and for this past month again I got 6 stars bonus. Now here I thought that these bonuses were tied to the max floor you reached, so I made an effort and made it to platinum 9 this past season, but today I got again 6 bonus stars. What is the formula for these bonus stars?

My thoughts:

• Should be either random or bottom-of-deck
• Should increase cost from 2 mana to 3
• Should do the OP's suggestion of showing "created by Pilfered Goods" when played
• If all the aforementioned: I think Vincent's suggestion of also telegraphing what was stolen when its stolen is overkill

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And to further add to my previous post, I'm kind of embarrassed that I forgot to mention Targus' reports from this very website. Every week they get you a good summary of all of hsreplay's data. Even if you don't have hsreplay premium the article provides you with a lot of insight in good builds and what decks are proving to be the strongest at the higher levels.

Don't worry, I'm not missing any of Targus' reports ;)

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And to further add to my previous post, I'm kind of embarrassed that I forgot to mention Targus' reports from this very website. Every week they get you a good summary of all of hsreplay's data. Even if you don't have hsreplay premium the article provides you with a lot of insight in good builds and what decks are proving to be the strongest at the higher levels.

Are those still happening? I've found them a really useful distillation of the hsreplay data, but noticed they've kinda tailed off over the last few weeks. 

Hope he posts them again soon.

Every tier 1 list got nerfed so Sej is good is the sentiment now.

This is why every streamer is running her.

Like the demacia player is running elites at top ranks, this is how hard the nerfs hit them.

So frej is good, Dem is a meme 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD42z6QDnzw

Congrats, guys, you are doing a great job here.