Welcome readers, to another Fan Community Spotlight. This is a different installment than usual because we're not interviewing any creators, nor are we showing off a specific series of cards relegated to a card set. Instead, this article is a recap of the first season of our Weekly Card Design Competitions (or WCDC for short).

Season 1 of our WCDCs started on OoC back in February of this year, and the first season comes to a close now. With that, I thought it'd be nice to recap what happened during that season and look at all the past winners. The 20 table slots below represent all the winners and the cards they made that ended up giving them the victory of the main 20 competitions that took place.

1.01 - How To Train Year Dragon

Shivershine

1.02 - One Man's Treasure

Demonxz95

1.03 - Do You Copy?

Shaveyou

1.04 - Pole Position

Thepowrofcheese

1.05 - Ménagerie à Trois

Hordaki

1.06 - Are You Prepared

MathU

1.07 - Demonic Obsession

Linkblade91

1.08 - The Price of Power

Shaveyou

1.09 - TAUNT, INSECT!

Devizz

1.10 - Top Secret

Linkblade91

1.11 - Archaeological Deck

DestroyerR

1.12 - Classically Trained

Linkblade91

1.13 - Two Quests Are Better Than One

Conduit

1.14 - By Your Powers Combined

Token(s)

LutriSpellcaster

1.15 - From Foe To Friend

Tox

1.16 - Spacial Awareness

Wassculaire

1.17 - I Miss My X

Wailor

1.18 - D-A-M-A-G-E

Xarkkal

1.19 - Name That Card!

LesserHealer

1.20 - Uncharrrted Waters

Token(s)

Hordaki

In addition to the 20 main comps though, we also had 2 side comps along the way. Party Planning 101 was held during the site's Birthday Bash week to celebrate the first anniversary of Out of Cards, and Written In The Cards was held to celebrate HearthCards reaching 10 million cards made.

Party Planning 101

Token(s)

KANSAS

Written In The Cards

Token(s)

Linkblade91


Highlights

Our First Winner

The very first competition surely won't be one to forget. It actually currently has the highest submission count of any competition to date, and Shivershine will forever go down in history as the winner of the first OoC WCDC, How to Train Year Dragon, with Cavern Explorer.

High Score!

MathU's winning card of Are You Prepared?, Felwing Hatchling currently has the highest score of any winning card to date with a score of 4.06. In fact, it is currently the only card submitted across every competition this season that finished with a score of 4.00 or higher.

Close Call

In By Your Powers Combined, we had the closest gap between the winning card (by LutriSpellcaster), and the runner-up (by Nirast), with a score difference of 0.012!

Linkblade's Domination

Linkblade91 is the biggest overall winner this season, with a whopping 4 victories under his belt, with 3 of them in the span of the first 12 competitions, winning in Demonic Obsession, Top Secret, Classically Trained, and Written In the Cards. Incidentally, all 4 of his winning cards happen to be Paladin cards. In addition, he also appeared in the finals in 15/22 competitions this season (68%), which is also the highest of any member.


Miscellaneous Observations & Stats

  • Hunter was the only class without any winning cards in this season. In addition, there were also no Neutral cards that won a competition either if one doesn't count Mark of Dalaran, which is a Passive treasure and not necessarily used as a card.
    • Meanwhile, Paladin is on the opposite end of the spectrum and has the most amount of winning cards out of any class, with 6.

Leaderboard

Linkblade91 - 4

Hordaki - 2

Shaveyou - 2

Conduit - 1

Demonxz95 - 1

DestroyerR - 1

Devizz - 1

KANSAS - 1

LesserHealer - 1

LutriSpellcaster - 1

MathU - 1

Shivershine - 1

Thepowrofcheese - 1

Tox - 1

Wailor - 1

Wassculaire - 1

Xarkkal - 1


While I'd say our first WCDC season went by quite swimmingly, we're all open to feedback on how make them even better. If you have a suggestion to improve the system, let us know in the comments below.