Legendary!

That’s right, we’ve reached 300 Weekly Design Competitions! These are truly one of my favorite parts about this community, and I’m glad that every week there’s new faces, old faces, and cool custom cards. To many more Weekly Design Competitions!

We have something a little special planned this week, but we’ll get to that in a bit. First: in case some people missed the results of last week's competition, here they are:

• 1st place: /u/quacak with Spirit Guide for Beast Shaman!
• 2nd place: /u/henlo510 with Ancestral Branch for Deathrattle Shaman
• Secondary award: /u/King_Kuba with Tekton the Sheep for Sheep Mage!? Definitely a deserving winner for the "Most Likely To Be a Tier 5 Meme Deck" award!

Congrats to the winners and thank you to all participants! And as a reminder, please use "Generate permanent link" if you host your cards on Hearthcards! This will be extra important this week.

Weekly Competition

For this week’s competition, we’re asking you to take the role of a film director, ready to write and cast the Hearthstone-esque movie of your dreams (through custom cards, of course). But since none of you are famous film directors (at least I don’t think), we’re asking you to cooperate and put together 3-card stories to tell some sort of story. Here’s the details:

• You may post one card as a top-level comment, and it should somehow inspire or start a story. Consider minions with personality like “Spurious Adventurer” or “Miserable Murloc” or spells that entice adventure like “Call to Adventure” or “Dark Loomings”.
• Each top-level comment is allowed a maximum of 2 replies, which should be a card that continues the story. You are not permitted to reply to your own top-level comment.
• Each reply comment is also allowed a maximum of 2 replies, which should be a card that ends the story. You are permitted to finish a story that you started. So, each top-level comment can result in a total of four 3-card stories (1 comment -> 2 replies -> 2 replies for each reply).
• We are not placing hard restrictions on the total number of 2nd and 3rd cards that one contestant can make in total, but be respectful of your fellow filmmakers and don’t block off too many entries.
• We’ll be doubling the time of the submissions period of this competition, so you have until next Saturday to get your replies in (we’ll do a week for voting after then).
• Each card may have a maximum of ONE simple token (no hard and fast rule for this, but something with only a few words of text would count as simple).

As a mod team, we put together a quick example 3-card story to give you a feel of what you can create.

Awards

What’s a film festival without awards? For each 3-card story, we consider the director to be the person who posted the original card, and collaborators to be anyone else involved in the storyline. Once the week-long submission period is up, we’ll vote for each 3-card stories in the same way as we do voting every week, but with more awards this time!

Best Overall

• Director: Reddit Platinum and a special /r/CustomHearthstone flair with custom text
• Collaborator: Reddit Platinum and a special /r/CustomHearthstone flair

Most Touching (awarded to the 3-card story with the most heart & soul)

• Director: Reddit Platinum and a special /r/CustomHearthstone flair
• Collaborator: Reddit Platinum

Best Comedy (awarded to the 3-card story with the most comical plot)

• Director: Reddit Platinum and a special /r/CustomHearthstone flair
• Collaborator: Reddit Platinum

How do I participate?

You can submit your card as a comment to this post below. The card must be in image form, following the rules and theme of the contest. Please do not submit an imgur album with your cards. If you are submit multiple images, please direct link both images. If you use Hearthcards, you MUST click “Generate Permanent Link” and copy that link.

Rules:

• This submissions post will be open for submissions as soon as the post is up.
• Submissions will close and the voting post will be open around noon EST next Saturday.
• All submissions must be posted in an image format, if possible in a direct image format. If you are using Hearthcards, please generate a permanent link.
• You may not submit cards that you have posted to this subreddit from over a week ago.
• Entries must be of reasonable length and not abuse formatting to get attention (for example, do not put a background image to your card)

Any further questions about the theme or the weekly design competition though can be directed to us via modmail.