GosuGamers presents: The 2015 Card Design contest

Cool stuff inbound, fellow Hearthstone fans! Starting this month, GosuGamers is giving you the opportunity to be creative and compete for awesome Hearthstone prizes. What we want from you? Easy: Design a Hearthstone card.
 

Introduction

The "GosuGamers card design contest" will run every month, from February to December, and will be open and free for everyone who wants to take part in it. The rules are simple: design a Hearthstone card and send it to us. If we like it, we'll put it for commuity voting and the three winners will go home with prizes.

In addition to that, every month will feature a different theme which contestants must follow when they design and submit their creations. To give a "wilder" start to the competition, the February episode will have an open theme, meaning you can do anything - minions, secrets, spells, Mage weapons... We have just three restrictions:

1) Don't do new classes or hero powers. 
2) Don't invent new keywords. If you want to create a new mechanic, word it out.
3) While we enjoy seeing strong cards, don't invent the 0 mana cards that win the game when played. Those will not get many votes from the crew! Try to find a good balance between what you think is a balanced, playable card with a cool concept. 

Here's a breakdown of how each month of card design will go:
 

• First day: New theme is announced and submission inboxes open
• 1st-15th: Submissions inbound! Send us your stuff so we can judge it.
• 16-19th: GosuCrew reveals their top 20 cards. These go up for community voting.
• 19-28th: Community voting!
• Final day: Winners are announced. They can now brag to their friends how amazing they are and throw a Hearthstone pillow in their face.

For the February contest:

1) Use a HS card generator - preferably HearthCards.net or Achievementgen.com - to make your card.

• The official Battle.net website for World of WarCraft has plenty of artworks from the TCG, in case you're struggling to find a cool image for your card
   

2) Send your card designs to radoslav [at] gosugamers [dot] net before February 16th

• Subject must be Card Design Contest Submission
• Cards must be sent as attachments!
• Name of the attachment must be in the format of Card-Name-Here_YourName. Example: Undertaker-Sucks_RadoslavKolev
• Only one card can be submitted per person, each month. In addition, emails with more than one submission will be discarded.

• We also ask you to use your real name for the attachment file, to prevent multiple submissions by the same person.

3) Follow us on Twitter. It's not obligatory but we'll appreciate it and we'll use our social media exposure to maybe bargain for huge boxes of Oreo. 

Follow @GosuGamersHS

4) The GosuCrew will vote independantly for their favorite designs. The best 20 will be put up for community vote on February 19th.

5) February 28th: The top three winners will be determined by community vote and will earn the following prizes:

• 1st place: Hearthstone throw pillow
• 2nd place: Hearthstone swirl mug
• 3rd place: Hearthstone light-up keychain
   

Yeah, agreed! It's all super cool. 
 

Cards are not all you'll be making. That's right!

We love seeing new card designs, honestly. We believe there's an endless pool of creativity in the Hearthstone community and we're sure we'll see great and inspiring materials. Ben Brode and Co. should be watching you!

But we also love cool card backs. Every couple of months, the "Card Design Contest" will take a different route and will call for the best artists among you to design unqiue card backs. Some of these contests will also be themed, just to up the challenge. 
 

From the crew: Our designs for February

The start of each Card Design episode will also feature cards from your fellow GosuCrew. You'll be able to vote for these designs as well, with the purpose of creating a possible unrest within the crew after the winner gets c?cky and starts rubbing it in until he's ultimately shunned from the site forever...

If you appreciate this, follow the crew who made it possible.

Click on an image to enlarge.
 

Note: Shipping of the rewards will be done by GosuGamers, though winners themselves are responsible for any additional custom taxes that might be needed.