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 It's Blizzard's take on Magic: The Gathering, drawing inspiration from World of Warcraft lore. The newest cycle of cards appears to be taking influence specifically from vanilla (or "classic" if you prefer) WoW, with the first expansion being Horde focused, the second likely Alliance themed, and the third being Alterac Valley based on this preview image:  Big Changes for this year Year of the Gryphon: The current rotation is the Year of the Gryphon. This includes the Year of the Phoenix cards (Ashes of Outland, Scholomance Academy, and Madness at the Darkmoon Faire) as well as the Year of the Gryphon sets (currently Forged in the Barrens. New sets come out about every 4 months, so the next one will probably be around July). There will now also be mini sets of cards released in between each expansion. Core Set: Blizzard continues its trend of learning what the Magic: The Gathering team learned 20 years ago. They're replacing the old Basic and Classic sets with a new Core set that will be modified every year and will be created from a mix of new and old cards. The Core set will also be free to all players, allowing everyone to have a decent base of cards to work from no matter when they start. Here's an extremely large image summarizing the changes https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/lsurm8/all_card_changes_buffsnerfs_cards_leaving_cards/ Mercenaries: Not much is known about this new game mode, so far it looks like Blizzard's take on Slay the Spire. We do know that it will have both single and multiplayer, it involves recruiting a team of mercanaries who level up, and that it involves progressing through procedurally generated encounter trees. Classic: Play the game as it was back when it was first released. Build a deck using only cards from the basic and classic sets. Has ranked and casual queues. Book of Mercenaries: Same thing as the Book of Heroes that we're currently halfway through. Play through a short single player campaign that tells you the story of one character, get a pack of cards for that character's class at the end of it. Diamond cards: A new level of aesthetics for your cards. A few cards from each set will get a special animation that you can only get from buying into the Tavern pass. Game modes Standard: Compete against other players using a deck of 30 cards from the newest core set, this year's expansions, and all of the previous calendar year's expansions. There's casual and ranked queues. The ranking system goes Bronze-Silver-Gold-Platinum-Diamond-Legend, with the first five divisions having 10 ranks each. Based on your final ranking from the previous month, you get bonus stars that make you climb the initial ladder faster. Every 5 ranks, and Legend, is a floor you can't drop below, and provides rewards at the end of the month. Wild: Same as Standard except that you can use all the cards in your collection. Battlegrounds: If standard Hearthstone is wizard poker, this mode is wizard slots. Try to create the strongest board of minions from a semi-random selection, then watch in horror as the RNG pulls out a miraculous victory for your opponent. Arena: Draft a deck of 30 cards and play to either 12 wins or, much more likely, 3 losses. Requires 150 gold to start, gain gold, dust, and packs based on how many wins you finish with. Duels: This mode is the old dungeon run adventures converted to multiplayer. Build an initial deck of 15 cards and a pick of starting hero power and treasure, then play until you hit 12 wins or 3 losses. After every game, you're offered a few cards to add to your deck, and are often also offered a treasure that is either a powerful card or a passive ability that stays in effect for the rest of the run.
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Mar 22, 2021 22:09
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So brawls will now award the previous year’s packs(Year of the Phoenix). I would’ve preferred the current expansion but I guess it’s still way better than classic packs.
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Mar 22, 2021 22:11
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RatHat posted:So brawls will now award the previous year’s packs(Year of the Phoenix). I would’ve preferred the current expansion but I guess it’s still way better than classic packs. Now that I finally have all the legendaries of the Classic Set ( Lol Millhouse ) I totally agree. Have they said if it's a rotation or something?
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Mar 22, 2021 22:23
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rip to the good cards that didn’t make it
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Mar 22, 2021 22:32
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Drowning Rabbit posted:Now that I finally have all the legendaries of the Classic Set ( Lol Millhouse ) I totally agree. Have they said if it's a rotation or something? They haven't but I assume they would switch it at the start of each year. So next year will be Year of the Gryphon packs.
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Mar 22, 2021 22:40
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Getting in on the ground floor again. Secret mage is gonna be even more fuckin nuts than it already is in Wild.
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Mar 22, 2021 22:54
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Regalingualius posted:Getting in on the ground floor again. I can only imagine what Wild players think anytime Blizzard prints off yet another Good Mage secret
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Mar 22, 2021 22:58
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looking forward to tinkering around with various aggro Warrior rush packages before giving up and defaulting back to Rogue/Paladin 
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Mar 22, 2021 22:59
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RatHat posted:So brawls will now award the previous year’s packs(Year of the Phoenix). I would’ve preferred the current expansion but I guess it’s still way better than classic packs. Yeah, this is much better than the previous system. I honestly didn't bother with brawls most of the time anymore, I already had most of the things I wanted from classic.
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Mar 22, 2021 23:12
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Is wildfire +1 hero power damage for the rest of the game? That could be realllly good.
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Mar 22, 2021 23:17
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Yeah, and it stacks, so two casts means you can ping for 3 every turn.
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Mar 22, 2021 23:22
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Regalingualius posted:Getting in on the ground floor again. I always thought Secret Mage needed some more loving water elementals i mean good forbid you ever wanted to gain board
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Mar 22, 2021 23:22
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Acerbatus posted:Is wildfire +1 hero power damage for the rest of the game? That could be realllly good. it doesn't say "this turn" so I assume so I kind of want to try an all-spell hero power mage but I don't know if it's gonna be all that good without the massive payoff card
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Mar 22, 2021 23:23
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There is a critical mass of freeze effects that make the game completely unbearable, so of course the first thing Blizzard did when freeze cards rotated out was put enough back in that they were once again riding that line.
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Mar 22, 2021 23:23
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Acerbatus posted:Is wildfire +1 hero power damage for the rest of the game? That could be realllly good. Be interesting to know if it's a persistent aura so if you swap powers it'll stick too. FLJ at 3 damage would be something
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Mar 22, 2021 23:24
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Hello is this the wizard poker therapy group?
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Mar 22, 2021 23:25
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I'm mostly looking forward to custom golems, secret Paladin, and some Shaman/Druid nature spell synergy. Also maybe a couple meme-y outpost decks.
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Mar 22, 2021 23:26
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Olpainless posted:Be interesting to know if it's a persistent aura so if you swap powers it'll stick too. FLJ at 3 damage would be something if you play FLJ and then play Wildfire I don't see why it shouldn't work
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Mar 22, 2021 23:27
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Patrick Spens posted:Yeah, and it stacks, so two casts means you can ping for 3 every turn. Since Mages have so much spell discovery you can get it even higher than 3!
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Mar 22, 2021 23:32
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I'm totally going to try and stack as many Wildfires as possible for Hero Power Mage when I've gotten over rejoicing at the resurrection of Crystal Core Quest Rogue.
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Mar 22, 2021 23:36
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Julio Cruz posted:if you play FLJ and then play Wildfire I don't see why it shouldn't work More wondering if it works like Raza, so the effect persists after the swap (also, why the hell don't they make Raza not work like that, it'd be a sensible nerf for that godforsaken deck)
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Mar 22, 2021 23:37
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Gwaint posted:I'm totally going to try and stack as many Wildfires as possible for Hero Power Mage when I've gotten over rejoicing at the resurrection of Crystal Core Quest Rogue. I'm busting out Crystal Core again day loving 1. I want to harvest some pain.
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Mar 22, 2021 23:38
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Should I open my 31 classic packs today or next week. I was saving them to get all the new cards on rotation but I guess that doesn’t matter anymore.
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Mar 22, 2021 23:39
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Meatbag Esq. posted:Should I open my 31 classic packs today or next week. I was saving them to get all the new cards on rotation but I guess that doesn’t matter anymore. Next week is technically better, you can unpack HoF'd cards then.
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Mar 22, 2021 23:42
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Olpainless posted:Be interesting to know if it's a persistent aura so if you swap powers it'll stick too. FLJ at 3 damage would be something Looking forward to the video of someone self destructing for 30 as warlock.
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Patrick Spens posted:Yeah, and it stacks, so two casts means you can ping for 3 every turn. You can also discover that spell, so technically it could ( I assume ) keep going up past a fireball for 2 mana a turn. A lot of luck with spell discovery. Duels could be very interesting as Mage.
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Mar 23, 2021 00:32
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Very excited to do some (probably bad) warlock shenanigans once this set releases. Just gonna blow my whole deck up and then try to win before I self-immolate
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Mar 23, 2021 00:52
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First page post. When does the new expansion come out
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Mar 23, 2021 01:00
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30th
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Just hit legend again today  Completely accidentally. Climbed the ladder almost entirely with eureka shaman (but I switched to secret mage for the last 3 games). Literally 100 games with this version of eureka shaman, actual 66-34 record. Super fun deck to play. I should do a writeup at some point because the deck is awesome ### Eureka Shaman # Class: Shaman # Format: Wild # Year of the Phoenix # # 2x (0) Lightning Bloom # 1x (1) Devolving Missiles # 2x (1) Lightning Bolt # 2x (2) Ancestral Spirit # 2x (2) Devolve # 2x (3) Far Sight # 2x (3) Lightning Storm # 2x (4) Ancestor's Call # 2x (4) Torrent # 2x (5) Hagatha's Scheme # 2x (5) Muckmorpher # 2x (6) Eureka! # 2x (8) Walking Fountain # 2x (9) Runaway Blackwing # 2x (10) Scrapyard Colossus # 1x (10) Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound # AAEBAaoIAqirAuDMAw6UA/kD9QSyBs4P9r0Cn/0CrZEDipQDj5QDk7kD87sD8NQDlOQDAA== # # To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone # Generated by HDT - https://hsreplay.net
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Mar 23, 2021 01:06
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I want to see someone accidentally lose the game with a wildfired life tap.
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Mar 23, 2021 01:13
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I'm actually surprised the rewards track doesn't reset earlier than release day to get people earning those early pack rewards or something like last time. E: though there's only 3 barrens packs to earn. Amoeba102 fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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I think wild Elemental Shaman will be fun. They already have a whole year of cards dedicated to it from like 2016 or whenever and now they have that hex machine to really ruin people's day.
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Mar 23, 2021 01:45
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Yay new thread. When can I unpack my new cards?
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Mar 23, 2021 02:00
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I think they'll let you open packs on the 25th, though cards won't be playable until the release.
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Normally you can’t open packs until release but this weekend they’ll probably let you make a fireside gathering and open them there. If you’re planning on getting the Tavern pass I highly recommend waiting to open packs until you claim the diamond Samuro though, otherwise you might unpack a regular/golden Samuro and “waste” a legendary. EDIT: Looking at all the cards on Hearthpwn, the ranked spells card art is great. I like the DH one especially, the perspective is from someone the DH is attacking and each rank has them get closer and angrier. RatHat fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Mar 23, 2021 02:06
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I wanted warlock un'goro quest to be good so badly, this'll do as a replacement
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Mar 23, 2021 02:28
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I haven't played since Saviors of Uldum - thinking of checking out this expansion. Is there a "hasn't played in a few years" catchup post anyone would recommend? Or some general advice? The state of the same looks so entirely different now.
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RatHat posted:If you’re planning on getting the Tavern pass I highly recommend waiting to open packs until you claim the diamond Samuro though, otherwise you might unpack a regular/golden Samuro and “waste” a legendary. Ok scratch that, you SHOULD open packs before claiming the Diamond Samuro or Mankrik because they’ll have a full dust refund for a week! https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/hearthstone/t/duplicate-legendary-issue-blademaster-samuro-mankrik/56476
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