Definitely worth considering. It really depends on how long it is until the next expansion launches - we don't want to keep you all waiting too long for the next Season, after all.
I was very tempted to just post Shadow Sensei, Tortollan Primalist or Tuskarr Jouster, but I figured I'd take the time to poke fun at my incessant inability to plan ahead, to the point that the majority of my design discussions are off-the-cuff orations.
Sorry, I've been playing FFXV lately and the deluge of puns and alliteration has left me shell-shocked.
Loving seeing all your great cards - I hope you've all been enjoying the competitions as much as I've enjoyed helping make them happen!
Does that mean that discovering from a Pool limited by name (e. G. Breaths, Explorers, Librams) is fine?
No - we're looking for a specific card to be generated, with no variance in what the card can be.
In regards to cards like Imprisoned Gan'arg or Bear Trap, we're fine with fudging the name a little (maybe for aesthetic purposes) so long as it's clear enough which collectible card you're referring to. If in doubt, write the name out!
We had a bit of an issue with the Transparency Report this week. We believe it was accidentally generated early, before all the votes had been accounted for. As such, it mistakenly listed anchorm4n as this week's winner (by an amazingly small margin). In fact, this week's winner is Wailor.
This is now correctly reflected in the Transparency Report, and in the future the Transparency Report will not be available until the winner has been fully confirmed by the moderators.
Apologies for the error - we don't expect it to happen again with the new system.
As an addition, 'Stone-Throwing Devils' is from the Arabian Nights expansion, which is probably what pushes it over the edge into being racially insensitive.
Just to head off any panic - the WCDC will be continuing with our 17th competition of Season 1, it just won't go up until the Bday competition has also concluded. Didn't want to confuse anyone with that.
Hopefully you'll all like it, it's pretty xciting.
This has 31 different options. Any card with 5 options that you can choose one or more of has 31 different choices available, so yes, something based on the colours would work.
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!
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
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I'm still not completely sure what happened, but I believe that someone (or a few people) may have been voting very close to the deadline, and their votes hadn't registered properly when I went to confirm the winners initially. I don't believe this to have been an error in the system, but on me for not double checking and refreshing the page.
As you can see in the transparency report, you and Lutri were both very close this week, and prior to those last few votes you did appear as the winner briefly.
We got the mistake corrected quickly, but unfortunately the notification had already been sent out to you. Apologies for the confusion!
In the future I'll be making sure to triple check the final winner thoroughly, so that we don't have any instances of things like this happening again.
I looked over previous competitions and i was surprised by how low the scores actually are. None are over 4, most are between 2 and 3, maybe 3 and a bit. That to me seems super low, like if someone bombed them with 1 star ratings. How do you people vote on cards? What are your rating systems? Just curious cause now i feel i gave everyone way higher scores than they deserved.
For a card to get over 4 stars, it'd have to be impressively good. Remember, the only option that will push a card above a 4 is a 5 - that means that a card needs to be good enough to consistently get 4s and 5s.
40 5-stars, 40 4-stars, and 10 each of 2 and 1? Sounds like a really well-liked card, right? 3.9 stars overall.
It's not always completely intuitive, but a rating of 3+ is actually really good. Even ratings like 2.5 can mean your card was well-liked, it was just polarising.
Dear site staff, any chance that a link, showing additional tokens for my submission, Hamuul Runetotem, can be added next to my entry in the finalist phase? The card submission system didn't allow all 10 of them to be added. They are in this album: https://imgur.com/a/hufht4P which was included in the submission description, but those aren't included in the voting phase. I believe it is important to showcase them, as it helps in understanding all of the options, as well as all possible combinations having their own unique name and art for more flavour.
Short answer: No, your submission stands on its own.
Long answer: The way our current submission system works isn't very friendly to entries which include a lot of tokens. Another one of the finalists had to sneak in two tokens as one image for what is realistically quite a simple design. That finalist - and your own entry - are a bit of a grey area, since technically they're subverting the rules put in place on submissions.
These rules are there for a good reason. Realistically, your entry doesn't need all the extra tokens to be understood, and allowing all of them to be added would unnecessarily bloat the entry. Since our system is entirely automated, we would have no way (currently) of hiding those extra tokens, meaning that your entry would fill the page.
Now, a different system for submitting tokens is high on my priority list for improvements to the WCDC. Ideally I'd like them to be hidden come the initial voting and finals; probably in a spoiler which can then be revealed, to save space. That won't happen until next Season at the earliest, however.
Until that time, submissions must stand on their own. Anything in the description will not be featured in the finals. We'll be looking for feedback at the end of the Season, and a couple of things I'll be specifically asking about include the number of tokens allowed per entry, the description box featuring in the finals, and how people feel about additional materials being present in the description at all. For the rest of the Season, we would ask that people try and keep their submissions to just the single card and additional token or two.
Definitely worth considering. It really depends on how long it is until the next expansion launches - we don't want to keep you all waiting too long for the next Season, after all.
Competition Theme: Uncharrrted Waters
Pirates have taken over Battlegrounds recently, and they're looking to expand their reach further!
Xarkkal wants us to expand the reach of the Pirate minion type, so that they may plunder and loot for every class!
As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.
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I was very tempted to just post Shadow Sensei, Tortollan Primalist or Tuskarr Jouster, but I figured I'd take the time to poke fun at my incessant inability to plan ahead, to the point that the majority of my design discussions are off-the-cuff orations.
Sorry, I've been playing FFXV lately and the deluge of puns and alliteration has left me shell-shocked.
Loving seeing all your great cards - I hope you've all been enjoying the competitions as much as I've enjoyed helping make them happen!
Competition Theme: Written In The Cards
We've created a lot of cards - it's time to let the cards do the creating for once!
Congratulations to Hearthcards on their 10 million card milestone! Here's to 10 million more!
As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.
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Discussion Thread Rules
Please note: This is a special competition and not in a normal season.
No - we're looking for a specific card to be generated, with no variance in what the card can be.
In regards to cards like Imprisoned Gan'arg or Bear Trap, we're fine with fudging the name a little (maybe for aesthetic purposes) so long as it's clear enough which collectible card you're referring to. If in doubt, write the name out!
Competition Theme: Name That Card!
Collectible cards is the name of the game this week!
Wailor wants to see our collections in the competition this week!
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Hi there everyone!
We had a bit of an issue with the Transparency Report this week. We believe it was accidentally generated early, before all the votes had been accounted for. As such, it mistakenly listed anchorm4n as this week's winner (by an amazingly small margin). In fact, this week's winner is Wailor.
This is now correctly reflected in the Transparency Report, and in the future the Transparency Report will not be available until the winner has been fully confirmed by the moderators.
Apologies for the error - we don't expect it to happen again with the new system.
Competition Theme: D-A-M-A-G-E
Do we need to spell things out for you? We already did that in the competition name...
Wassculaire is looking for us to improve some spells this week - what do you mean not all spells deal damage?
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As an addition, 'Stone-Throwing Devils' is from the Arabian Nights expansion, which is probably what pushes it over the edge into being racially insensitive.
Competition Theme: I Miss My X
~I'm always gonna want you back. We're finding our X in the competition this week!
Tox is looking for some X-cellent cards from you all this week!
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Just to head off any panic - the WCDC will be continuing with our 17th competition of Season 1, it just won't go up until the Bday competition has also concluded. Didn't want to confuse anyone with that.
Hopefully you'll all like it, it's pretty xciting.
Finally! I'm free!
This has 31 different options. Any card with 5 options that you can choose one or more of has 31 different choices available, so yes, something based on the colours would work.
Personally I really like the flavour of it as a card, and it fits perfectly with the mechanics they were trying for Druid in The Witchwood.
Plus, I like to imagine it taking the place of Duskfallen Aviana, which would be nice.
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!
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.
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Discussion Thread Rules
Please note: This is a special competition and not in a normal season.
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!
Hey, did you hear? They launched a rocket into space! Let's celebrate that with some celestial cards.
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This was an error on my part.
I'm still not completely sure what happened, but I believe that someone (or a few people) may have been voting very close to the deadline, and their votes hadn't registered properly when I went to confirm the winners initially. I don't believe this to have been an error in the system, but on me for not double checking and refreshing the page.
As you can see in the transparency report, you and Lutri were both very close this week, and prior to those last few votes you did appear as the winner briefly.
We got the mistake corrected quickly, but unfortunately the notification had already been sent out to you. Apologies for the confusion!
In the future I'll be making sure to triple check the final winner thoroughly, so that we don't have any instances of things like this happening again.
Competition Theme: From Foe To Friend
We're going on an adventure to find some new friends this week!
Conduit wants us all to get along this week - even with some of our greatest foes!
As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.
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For a card to get over 4 stars, it'd have to be impressively good. Remember, the only option that will push a card above a 4 is a 5 - that means that a card needs to be good enough to consistently get 4s and 5s.
40 5-stars, 40 4-stars, and 10 each of 2 and 1? Sounds like a really well-liked card, right? 3.9 stars overall.
It's not always completely intuitive, but a rating of 3+ is actually really good. Even ratings like 2.5 can mean your card was well-liked, it was just polarising.
Short answer: No, your submission stands on its own.
Long answer: The way our current submission system works isn't very friendly to entries which include a lot of tokens. Another one of the finalists had to sneak in two tokens as one image for what is realistically quite a simple design. That finalist - and your own entry - are a bit of a grey area, since technically they're subverting the rules put in place on submissions.
These rules are there for a good reason. Realistically, your entry doesn't need all the extra tokens to be understood, and allowing all of them to be added would unnecessarily bloat the entry. Since our system is entirely automated, we would have no way (currently) of hiding those extra tokens, meaning that your entry would fill the page.
Now, a different system for submitting tokens is high on my priority list for improvements to the WCDC. Ideally I'd like them to be hidden come the initial voting and finals; probably in a spoiler which can then be revealed, to save space. That won't happen until next Season at the earliest, however.
Until that time, submissions must stand on their own. Anything in the description will not be featured in the finals. We'll be looking for feedback at the end of the Season, and a couple of things I'll be specifically asking about include the number of tokens allowed per entry, the description box featuring in the finals, and how people feel about additional materials being present in the description at all. For the rest of the Season, we would ask that people try and keep their submissions to just the single card and additional token or two.