Last week, Blizzard gave us codes to give away 5x 50 Card Pack bundles for Saviors of Uldum. We decided to make things fun we'd ask everyone what their favourite card from the set was.
Now, all the cards had not been revealed yet, so those that entered early may have had their opinions change.
Giveaway Winners and Their Favourite Cards
These are the cards all our winners picked along with what they had to say about it.
Quote From Franklintheturtle I'm going to pick Siamat because, just like in WoW…he'll probably piss me off.
Quote From OmarComing BEEEES!!! always makes me laugh just thinking about it, and I think that's what I could use in Hearthstone - more laughter!
Quote From SirSmorcalot Diseased Vulture Straddles the line between busted and simply powerful quite nicely. On 6 mana it becomes an azure drake on steroids, and could potentially give neglected cards like spirit bomb a chance to shine. I haven't played much warlock recently, and this will give me a nice reason to revisit the class.
Quote From ArcticFox Plague of Murlocs - I love how this card both synergizes with other shaman cards and completely hurts resurrect priest and lopsided decks that I feel are not fun. Murloc decks are fun. This card pushes toward a more fun meta.
Quote From Korialstrasz So far I'm mostly interested in seeing Scarlet Webweaver played as janky combos in Hunter are always fun. Though i'm still excited to see what the Hunter Quest will end up being, hope it's not another meme like The Marsh Queen, which I love playing, but it's nothing serious of a deck.
Most Popular Responses
Now we can't just leave it at that, we also want to know what cards were mentioned the most.
Note that some people mentioned multiple cards in their posts, we didn't discriminate against that. Also, the data below includes people that commented after the giveaway deadline to make things more interesting.
The Top Three
Most Popular by Class
Would You Change Your Mind?
After seeing all the cards revealed, would you have picked a different card as your favourite? Tell us in the comments below, but just for fun this time, nothing to win =)
Card Mentions Data
The data for the above card mentions can be found on Github's Gist.
Comments
Congratulations to winners! Dammit, now I have to preorder:) Anyway, I am happy that the codes went mostly to people with multiple posts on this site, and not just to people who registered just because of the giveaway.
Now that I've seen him up close, that Amet is one sexy beast.
Reposting my comment on the giveaway post here so it gets viewed.
It is my understanding some people are giving me a hard time about the giveaway, some claiming its just rigged and staff are going to win it. I'm disappointed that people feel that way and think so little of me.
There is zero incentive to rig giveaways. There is never anything to gain when you are ultimately risking your reputation and potentially putting yourself in legal hell by doing so. Imagine caring so little about your community you'd give it all up for a couple of hundred dollars; I cannot stand people who don't follow through with giveaways or "give them" to friend. Social media has been such a plague for that stuff, it is worse than the "Free iPods" of the mid 00's. I don't care who wins, as long as you follow the rules, you can win. Yes, there have been staff members who have won giveaways in the past, I don't forbid any of them from entering as they are not paid employees or contractors of the site.
Anyway, I do apologize it took a bit too long to announce winners for this giveaway. The winners should have been drawn the morning after the giveaway ended, plain and simple. There was a miscommunication though, which is also my fault so don't shoot Frosty, he had stated I hadn't drawn the winners yet yesterday though they did end up getting drawn last night. I just went to take a nap (card reveals recovery is so fun) afterwards so I could then work on our announcement post with a clean slate and unfortunately slept for just over 12 hours.
You can see the winners and their responses highlighted here
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/255-our-favourite-saviors-of-uldum-cards-as-spoken-by-the-community
We're not going to be doing a community compendium for the expansion based on voting data on cards. We don't have enough vote data to make it interesting enough. This will be fixed going forward by making the voting available in other areas of the site to help encourage everyone to click those stars!
Hi, Flux. You seem to be a person who works really hard for this community without asking for a lot in return. I apologize for the things I said as I was ignorant about this.
I don't forbid any of them from entering as they are not paid employees or contractors of the site. (I apologize to Sinti as well)
As Hoodini suggested, it will be appreciated if you stated the rules on how you pick the winner(we weren't sure if it was random or if you were going to chose the best).
Yeah, it would have been helpful to actually indicate it was a random drawing. My assumption was that of everyone assuming it was random unless otherwise noted was a bad one to make. Going forward, I'll make sure all giveaways state the way the draw will occur. If that doesn't happen, hold me accountable!
Appreciate the response, jagu!
I would've swapped to Zephrys all day long. He was a victim of a late reveal date.
And also congrats to the winners!
I'm sure others would have pick it also !! ;-)
and congrats to winners !!
Congrats to all winners.
daymn. :/
congratz to the winners!
Magma Rager awards?
If you check out the data, there are too many cards at 0 or 1 votes to truly do a "Magma Rager Award".
Top header polls on the discuss a card pages would make it this much easier to engage our voters. :)