The Witchwood Launches Today! Hearthstone Expansion Survival Guide
Hearthstone's newest expansion launches today (Thursday) and we've got everything you need to know in one easy to find place.
WITCHWOOD IS NOW LIVE!
- 135 cards have been added to the game.
- Free: 3 Witchwood packs for logging in!
- Free: 1 random Witchwood legendary for logging in!
- Free: The Druid Hero Lunara is yours if you win 10 games in Standard.
- Monster Hunt will be available in two weeks, the exact date is not known.
Launch Day Goals
- Login to get your free packs and random Legendary.
- Craft any golden Legendaries you really want. This is important due to the no duplicate legendaries rule.
- Open up your packs! You get a guaranteed Legendary within your first 10 packs.
- Share your awesome decks with everyone on HearthPwn via or Deckbuilder. Don't forget to write a guide!
New Keyword: Rush
Minions with the Rush keyword can attack other minions immediately after they hit the board, either by being played or summoned. They cannot attack heroes until the turn after they enter play, however.
Here are some example cards with Rush. Want to see more? Check out Rush cards in our database.
New Keyword: Echo
Echo cards can be played multiple times on the turn you play them. Each time, it’ll add a ghostly copy of the card back to your hand that disappears at the end of your turn.
Here are some example cards with Echo. Want to see more? Check out Echo cards in our database.
Wild Set Rotations - Year of the Raven
Say goodbye to some of your favourite cards of the past! The following Hearthstone sets are now WILD ONLY.
- Whispers of the Old Gods
- One Night in Karazhan
- Mean Streets of Gadgetzan
This is the only set rotation which is happening this year, the next rotation of sets will happen in April 2019 when that expansion launches. Here are some key cards we're losing with this rotation so get in games with them while you still can in Standard!
Share Your Own New Decks
Have you created a deck using cards from the new expansion that you're finding success with? Head on over to our deckbuilder and share it with us! Click the banner below to go to the deckbuilder. Don't forget to write a short description to let people know how it works!
Share Your Pack Openings
We'd love to see what you crack open whether that is out of those pre-order packs or from all that gold you've been saving up for months. Check out our two dedicated threads for sharing your openings, one that is for opening videos and the other for screenshots.
Learn More About The Witchwood
Looking to learn more about Hearthstone's eighth expansion? Visit our expansion guide for The Witchwood!
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You could use Acolyte of pain
This deck gonna nedd a few tweaks as Squidface and Naga also rotates out.
Acolyte of pain,fan of knives,shiv, thalnos it's not easy to replace coldlight but this line of cards are decent picks
Well, it used to be a mill deck, now it will be something slightly different. You could use Witchwood Piper to get a guaranteed Cavern Shinyfinder.
yeah i noticed also the 2 of the main sword buffers of mine were rotated out too. luckily i got the Toki, Time-Tinker for free legendary from just logging in after the expansion came and from frozen throne i got the mage hero card from the prologue of frozen throne adventure.
Rip kingsbane. You were my fun deck now the toki is my new best friend.
Drakonid Operative and dragonfire potion should definitely be on the rotation list
Kazakus and Reno should stay in evergreen if they want highlander decks to stay relevant in this game...
... except they don't want it to stay relevant (in standard). Dragons can go hang out in wild for a bit, and give some other deck archetypes a chance to shine. That's the whole purpose of rotation.
Strangely, Dragon Priest and any kind of dragon deck was considered "dead" after the rotation of 2017, and Netherspite Historian, Drakonid Operative and Book Wyrm were not considered strong enough to hold on to it. However, some people kept using it, and once Duskbreaker came in, Dragon Priest was really strong again.
Now we are left with Dusk, and that might be good enough to run some Dragons in your deck, or not. But I think there is a good chance we'll see more dragon-oriented Priest cards in the future, and when we do, the deck might have a serious comeback. We also have Dragon Soul, which is hard to utilize but it might be possible with enough support. And maybe, we get a card like "If you control a dragon, do X" one day, to give it extra synergy. And perhaps, that will be a neutral card so Dragoncaller Alanna also becomes more interesting.
That is the cool thing with Standard: Cool but Irrelevant cards can quickly become very powerful if they get some support. In Wild, it's much harder for any card to have an impact, but in Standard, you can never really call a card "bad" (except for the obvious ones) until the day they rotate out.
First mandatory craft: golden Dorian for maximum golden value!!
I really can't wait any more!!
"Hell, it's about time."
can't wait! don't know why China have to wait another 8 hours…… the expansion starts at 13-6am why can't we have a midnight launch. A bit dissatisfied
I guess China would melt their server capacities
I guess because Blizzard does not run the game in China but a different company does, not to mention that they need to censore some cards (liek if they show skulls or stuff, it is the same in other CCGs like Shadowverse)
China is managed separately for a lot of games. There's s lot of people in China
Goodbye Purify
We thoroughly laughed at thee.
I don't get it.
Why do you want to craft golden legendary? what's the real gain?
I *think* it's because it guarantees you don't then pull the regular one.
If you have your heart set on a golden version of a specific card but wait before crafting it, then open an ordinary one, you'll have the choice between giving up on the golden version, wasting a lot of dust, or having both versions when you can obviously only put one in a deck.
Can't see the point myself - the only must-have in gold I've ever wanted was Murloc Tinyfin, otherwise it doesn't bother me - but if you're really into having a golden deck then it makes sense I guess.
Well, i am not that rich ahah
Thank you for answers.
Remember you will get dust for Hall of Fame cards - up to 8000 if you have all golden copies