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Card Design Contest - Community Poll May/June

#1

Here it finally is. Again, sorry for the delay.

Now it is your turn to vote for the submission you like best. Please be fair and vote for the entry, not the person behind it. The poll is public!
You may not vote for yourself!

In case of a tie: The submission with more points in the jury rating wins!

The jury evaluation: http://docdro.id/oRe3ZS0

The top entries:

Soapy
1 mana
0/2 neutral battle pet
Can’t be damaged by non-battle pet minions. Whenever this minion moves, summon a 1/1 sudz on a nearby space.

Sudz
1 mana
1/1 battle pet

Librarian
Neutral Minion
2mana 0/4
Dying Wish: Draw a card.

Battlewrought Duelist
Lyonar
4 mana
0/7
After taking damage, gain Attack equal to damage taken.

Heatwave
Vetruvian Dervish
5 mana 0/2
Rush. Bond: destroy all friendly dervishes and gain their attack and health.

Windblade Companion
Lyonar Rare Minion
3 Mana / 0 Attack / 5 Health
Zeal: Has Attack equal to your General’s.

Shrine of the Martyr
Abyssian 5 Mana Structure
0/4
Deathwatch: Summon a Spirit of the Martyr on a random space nearby your General.

Spirit of the Martyr
1 mana minion
2/2
Dying WIsh: Deal 1 damage to your general.

Silithar Diviner
3 Mana
0/3
Magmar
Gains 3 attack every time a friendly egg spawns.

Starfire Obelysk
Vetruvian Structure
4 Mana 0/4
Blast, Summon Dervish
Whenever you summon a friendly Dervish, this structure gains +1 Attack.

Darkspine Mistress
Abyssian Minion
2 mana 0/3
Provoke. If this minion is on friendly Shadow Creep at the end of your turn, it gains +3 health.

Bound Exorcist
Neutral Minion
4 Mana 5/11
The enemy General may only move one space.
Opening Gambit: This minion has -5/-5.

Rumbling Coffin
Abyssian Structure
4 Mana / (0/1)
Dying Wish: Summon a 3/2 Skyra Soul on this space. Bloodbond: Summon a Rumbling Coffin on a random nearby space.

Skyra Soul / Abyssian Token Minion / 2 Mana / (3/2)

  • Soapy
  • Librarian
  • Battlewrought Duelist
  • Heatwave
  • Windblade Companion
  • Shrine of the Martyr
  • Silithar Diviner
  • Starfire Obelysk
  • Darkspine Mistress
  • Bound Exorcist
  • Rumbling Coffin

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As always feel free to discuss your choice here!

Please note that there will be no Card Design Contest in July/August since I have too much work and personal stuff in summer. We will be back in September!

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#2

Some awesome mechanics here, but I dunno about the balance of some of them…

#3

Can jurors vote? Good either way, but just figured to ask.

(Removed poll, thanks @oranos :slight_smile:)

#4

Sad to see mine didn’t get any consideration. Better luck next time, I suppose.

My vote goes to Heatwave! I like cards that have synergies, and this one also puts some weight of decision making on the user. Do I still attack with the dervishes I have? Can I find weak targets to kill before sacrificing them? If I’m playing Zirix, do I BBS before or after I play Heatwave (both have positives and negatives)? I really like this design, @degenerator!

Good luck, with your entries folks!

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#5

When i was on the jury, we werent allowed to vote

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#6
i have opinions and you will read them

Soapy and sudz are cute, but lose points for breaking with tradition and having more than 3 letters in their names

Librarian just feels lackluster compared to the other entries. And Dying wish on a 0/4 minion?

Battlewrought duelist (should be spelled duelyst) is a nice value over time minion that is a clear choice for zirans healing power. (And lets be honest, she needs the love)

Heatwave balances that fine line between finisher and nerf thread waiting to happen. Its the obliterate, the revenant, the spiral technique, but for vet. Except with the potential for over 10 damage with only a few turns set up and a target for astral/third wish shenanigans

Windblade companion is worse than silverguard 80% of the time. Would have made more sense in magmar.

Shrine is interesting, but essentially a weaker bloodmoon that spawns stronger wraithlings with an extra strong incentive to have shadowdancer or kelaino on board at all times.

Silithar diviner feels weird. Its like young silithar + rancour. Might make eggmar viable though (young silithar + cascading rebirth for 6 damage!)

starfire obelysk would be the only reason to actually play stones to spears.

Darkspine mistress seemed odd at first, but then i saw the provoke. Its stats that refuse to go away that comboes perfectly with darkspine elemental, but is somewhat harmless otherwise. This could bring back shadow nova lethals (though with A LOT of set up)

Bound exorcist is nice no matter how its played. Hobbling and Trapping your enemy before dispelling your own guys for extra beefiness sounds like a Good time

Rumbling coffin is rather similar to cards ive submitted in the past cough creep vine cough and my cold abyssian heart loves swarms with dying wish. Not to mention the theme of opening a coffin to find a mummy spirit is great. It loses points for using bloodbond instead of the actual keyword blood surge though.

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#7

@isgopet (and anyone else) - you can’t vote for your own. :slight_smile:

#8

Any news on poll deadlines?

#9

Whoops.

#10

I like the battlewrought duelist the most, the design is actually quite simple however it creates an interesting minion which would be fun to play with or against. The only real downside is that the card cant start generating attack on its own, but rather needs to be attacked or buffed beforehand. This downside actually creates scenarios in which opponent compleatly ignores Duelist and hopes it won’t get buffed. I really hope devs get inspired by this design, one way or the other.

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#11

You should vote for my idea guys! (Battlewrought Duelist)

Why?

Because apparently it’s so broken, it caused an entire forum thread to be shut down. If that’s not meta levels of power, I don’t know what is.

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#12

But…part of the grading criteria is balance…

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#13

Well if you had added the requisite “y” in duelist we would have

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#14

@oranos gets it ^

Kudos on the design anyway! Argeon makes the drawback kind of moot but it’s still original and strong.

#15

Rawr has more than 3 letters and is a battle pet. Just saying.

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#16

Behold the mighty Rawr!

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#17

With this fact I assume Soapy is even bigger than Rawr.

Simply bigger than 4-letter pet.

#18

What about SOP and BUB or SO-P lol

#19

So-p. I like that one the best.

#20

SLP would be better. Slip on it and you’ll have a chance to receive eternal sleep.