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anchorm4n

Harbinger of Winter
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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Thank you so much! I'll wear that avatar border with pride :)

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Yeah, finalist in such a strong field :) good luck everybody!

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    There's a typo in the name of one of them ("Scourage Vanguard"). I'd guess someone went to the lengths of creating a second account to correct this. Probably means DQ for both. Honestly, I wouldn't mind a ban from future competitions either, since participating (maybe even voting) with multiple accounts comes as close to cheating as you can get with this. We'll see what the referees say.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Yeah, KANSAS, thepowrofcheese and Nirast you've all designed great cards! 4 or 5 stars candidates all of them! 

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    @linkblade: I'm sorry to hear that and I wouldn't have chosen words so harsh if I had known the reasons for your silence. I wish you all the best. I'll send a virtual hug if you are okay with that. Thank you very much for your feedback (I did actually change the card a little by tuning it down to 1/1/2 because most people told me it was too strong).

    @Ardin: if it was my card, I would manually set new paragraphs to solve the issue. Probably like this: "Battlecry: Add a / random Beast Companion / to your hand." Typing this, I realize that maybe it should say "Beast Companion card"... that would also eliminate the orphan without altering the font size.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks for the feedback! Before I add my two cents to the new cards, I'd like to get something off my chest: I'm disappointed. Imho, we've made huge progress when it comes to giving feedback after that shoutout last season. But. The biggest part of the people I consider the pros in custom card design have been following a certain pattern since last season: they post within the first few hours of the competetion, give feedback among themselves and whoever happens to be awake (here goes the European whining again) AND have a great idea AND the time to post it and then they disappear. It's people like Linkblade and Demon that clearly have the most experience in this and honestly I'm disappointed you don't dish it out more often. It would be very much appreciated.

     

    More Feedback:

    Ardin:

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    A really nice card, I like it! I would go with the 1 mana 2/1 version though. You can play the companion on turn 2 only with the coin and the aggressive stat line just suits hunter better. Also the name seems a bit awkward, but I can't come up with a better suggestion right now. Last but not least, you should edit the text to avoid the orphan in the last line.

    Nirast:

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    Cool card, nothing to criticize here.

    MenacingBagel:

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    I like your idea, but you should fine tune the text. Maybe make it two sentences, and to switch the order of the effects would be more intuitive imho. I also want to add that this is one of the cards that doesn't really need to be a Scholomance card. If you change the name, this you could easily be Boomsday.

    GoliathTheDwarf:

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    Nice card!

    BloodMefist:

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    Very smooth change to the effect. The second art is better but looks a bit mage-y in my eyes. Maybe you have still another piece in store?

    thepowrofcheese:

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    I like the effect, but the card might be a bit OP. Even at 1/1 it would still be playable. I'm also not very happy with the art. It doesn't look particulary shaman and there are other people who have also used it (not your fault, but maybe safe yourself some stars if you find something else).

    MrRhapsody:

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    Interesting idea. No idea how to make this better.

    Elfensilver:

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    Interesting idea. No idea how to make this better.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    There are also those who actually want to play the game and those who rope you for the first 5 turns watching netflix or doing whatever because they are pampered kids with the attention span of a goldfish.

    Sorry, I'll take my sorry self to the salt thread.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Great idea, KANSAS! I would like to add a point for the discussion thread: If you are one of those super cool people who give feedback to their fellow card designers, you should read the thread backwards. Sometimes people change their cards or drop one of their ideas completely. You can also build on feedback others already gave if you do it that way.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    New season, woohoo!

    Here's my first idea:

    What do you think?

    Feedback:

    Hordaki

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    Super cool card, great synergies with the current decks. I think you could buff the stats a little.

    frosthearth

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    I like the flavor very much, make sure to add the description to your entry. The one thing that might cost you a star from me is the background of the art.

    Cg8889

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    Sorry, I'm not convinced. The art and the name would be better fitting for a spell. I also think the wording should be "… from your deck." I'm not sure about this, though.

    grumpymonk

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    Cool idea, but the effect might be too strong on a 1 drop. Maybe you could give it another effect, like a permanent attack buff by 1?

    R

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    Pretty much what the others said already. This should be a warlock card, but then it might be too close to Twisted Knowledge. You probably should would rework this.

    linkblade91

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    I like the flavor, but as the others already pointed out, it's really weird to generate a card from a wild set. I don't think this should be a thing.

    KANSAS

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    Great flavor, that's a 5 star card in my books!

    BloodMefist

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    I don't like the art very much, it feels too dark for Hearthstone. The effect is certainly interesting and fits Priest's identity. Nice idea!

    Demonxz95

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    Nice card, very flavorful. The one thing I don't like about it is that you would never ever play it on turn 1. It's a combo only card that probably wouldn't see play until turn 3 with Wrath.

    Edit: Conduit

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    Interesting idea to put Beasts in Demon Hunter. It doesn't support existing archetypes very much as far as I know and sadly the art has no background. All in all it's an okay-ish card in my books.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Good night everybody, looks like we're back to last season's schedule. I'll catch up with you tomorrow. Please try not to have the same ideas I had in the meantime! 

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    With season 2 of the weekly card design competitions right around the corner, I'm bound to search the hell out of the card database again. Comparing costs, stats, effects and so on often requires to use several filters. I really appreciate all the work you've put in there, cleaning up the menu and staying up to date with all the weird new stuff (new class, dual class cards, new keywords, ...). 

    One thing I've been missing on several occasions is a button that deletes all applied filters. It's an easy workaround to reload the collectible cards page from the menu, but such a button would be a nice quality of life feature neverthless. It could also be applied to other sites that use filters, like Decks.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Just came back to whine about it being Monday for almost 12 hours already here. I've prepared three cards, hopefully one of them will fit the competition theme.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    So glad to hear this! I've started missing those.

    Most important of all, I hope you are well Shadows and everything worked out your way or will do so soon.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    I'm fine with R posting the next riddle, I don't mind waiting till tomorrow. The riddle and the guess about Sergeant Sally shouldn't count since DestroyerR's round had not been officially finished then.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago
    Quote From R

    Who is she? Where did she come from?
    Why is she wearing this uniform?
    How does she even catch gangsters?
    I don't need sleep. I need answers.

    Patience mate! You have to wait until DestroyerR has confirmed or denied that your guess is correct before posting a new riddle.

    (Also: depending of the perspective, this should be Sergeant Sally or Mayor Noggenfogger?)

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    That's the main reason why I asked to be able to choose a portal permanently here. The current work around would be to choose the HS portal before clicking "Recent Threads". Browsing the Forum, use the "go back" function of your browser, don't click the OOC banner at the top.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    That's a real cool feature, thanks a lot! Also for letting us know your thought process. The customer service on this page is insane. As a certified quality manager, that warms my heart.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Great work, thanks for your dedication! I'll use the opportunity to request a quality of life feature. I really like the concept of the portals. Would it be possible to expand this feature to the point where users could permanently choose one of them in account management? 

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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    Warning in advance that I got back from my night shift and have to sleep. I’ll try to check the guesses as soon as I wake up thoug

    R posted a riddle, DestroyerR solved it.
    Then it was DestroyerR's turn to post a riddle, but R jumped in and posted a new one after less than a day.
    You solved it and posted a new one.

    Since DestroyerR declared to be okay with that this time, we can proceed with your riddle.

    I'll stick with my reasoning for the time being... So Dragons that affect both players in a positive way and are not Neutral or Priest cards... maybe Nozari? (Though "not for your scrutiny" might also hint at Stealth... hm.)

    Good night! :-)

     

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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    I thought it was concluded that it was my W. All good if not.

    Nope not Chamelios 

    That's right, but the riddle you solved was posted by R when it was DestroyerR's turn to post one.

    BTT: "Equal opportunity" makes me think the card has an effect that both players benefit from. "Reptilian" could be a hint at Dragons. Is it Temporus?