Rise of Shadows - Eight Revealed Cards, Expansion Information
Blizzard has officially revealed the newest expansion to join the game in Year of the Dragon - Rise of Shadows! Here is everything we know so far.
- Releases on April 9, 2019. (Pre-release is April 5)
- New Mechanic: Twinspell - Casting this adds another copy of the card (without Twinspell) to your hand.
- Lackeys - Special token minions which are generated through other cards. They are 1/1 minions with "devious" battlecries
- Schemes - Cards which grow in power as they sit in your hand each turn.
- We will see some old mechanics return!
- League of Evil - Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warrior, and Warlock
- Dalaran Defenders - Mage, Druid, Hunter, Paladin
New Cards
Eight new cards have been revealed.
League of Evil
This is for Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, and Warrior classes. Each class is represented by one of the bad guys!
- Priest - Madame Lazul (The Fortune Teller)
- Rogue - Togwaggle
- Shaman - Hagatha
- Warlock - Rafaam
- Warrior - Dr. Boom
Reveal Video
Pre-Order
There are two bundles available for pre-orders. The Mega Bundle contains a Priest Hero!
Rise of Shadows Bundle
- Costs $49.99
- 50 Rise of Shadows card packs
- The Jewel of Lazul card back
- A random Legendary from Rise of Shadows
Rise of Shadows Mega Bundle
- Costs $79.99
- 80 Rise of Shadows card packs
- The Jewel of Lazul card back
- A random Legendary from Rise of Shadows
- Madame Lazul, Priest Hero (available now!)
First Week Bundle
During the first week of the expansion, a special 9 pack bundle will be available for $10. It will also include an Arena Ticket.
Card Review
KiwiiNbacon has reviewed the new cards.
Hahahhaha, I'm finally free, free from this horrid game and all these defenders still play a shell of a game produced by Activision/Blizzard. No longer shelling out mounds of money to this unfair randomised drop 5 cards per pack.
Not sure why you're here if you're not interested in playing the game anymore, but since you are I'll ask you a question. Did you find a similar game to replace it with that you don't need to throw mountains of money at? I've been enjoying Slay the Spire a lot, but I miss making carefully crafted constructed decks.
Bye, Felicia!
But they already announced a new hero skin.
maybe they mean. No new "free" hero skin.
Seems interesting so far
They've already shown an old mechanic, "forbidden"
Hugely disappointed with warlock and rogue cards so far yet priest still reign unnerfed, zero aggro cards revealed, fake adventure into another card pack expansion, reading comments like "take my money already" and such, guess people never learn..........If something like, one expansion dont get preordered at all, ever happen, we would have balanced game cause t5 would actually put some work into the game......... feelsbadman
Excuse me, sir. You're unimpressed with the Golden Monkey minus the hoops? On a really good body with Taunt? The hell does it take to impress you?
All of the broken cards are being rotated out, it's only an issue if you play wild.
Yes i am indeed, as playing wild mainly i like to play a few of standard games sometimes , where i get matched up vs hunter / priest garbageass noskill deck where you literally play topdecks, and its disgusting. Really hoped that they will finally balance game but thats not the case. And whats awesome about warlocks legendary , you cant build your deck around one rng card that does nothing when played. What a fucked up community hs became, when objective comments are getting downvoted while some random bot one are pushed as "good" and "correct".
You're not offering up a constructive solution to your complaint. Also you're just rambling and passing blame because you're losing. I played wild all last month and I don't find any decks in particular to be that bad to play against (besides mill). You can play decks that beat priest, cards like polymorph and hex shut rez down. Hunter has no decks in the top tier in wild, so I assume you're talking about midrange, which also gets shutdown by control decks. There are counters to every deck in the current wild meta. It sounds like you're just refusing to adapt to the meta.
Also your point about warlock. That is the most represented class in the top tier of wild, so you're saying you want them to have more powerful cards? If you want balance, then every now and again they'll need a card to two that brings them down. Rafaam is a meme card, hearthstone has had them since the beginning. Don't play that card if you don't like it, there are still plenty of other cards you can play.
Not talking about wild but standard , ive been playing wild since it got divided from standard and i dont find any deck hard to play against (in wild since i need to point out to people like you), dont want to quote myself but im gald you missed my whole point....
You haven’t made a point you’re just complaining that ____ deck needs to need to be nerfed because you can’t be bothered to plan your turns and play around cards. You can’t build a deck with the six cards you’ve seen from the new set so I shouldnt play the game?
You said you mostly play wild. When someone pointed out that the degenerate stuff is rotating then you made that your point because you play in wild. My point is that the decks you’re meantioning have counters. The meta is the most diverse and balanced it’s been in a long time. Stagnant, yes. But still diverse. It just sounds like you don’t know how to play around these decks. Losing sucks. But I’ll take the state of the meta now compared to the beginning of Frozen Throne.
I think they meant more like the 10 win hero's like Lunara and Maiev, when they stated that.
For the 1000th time: no new hero SKIN. Is it so difficult for people to read the whole sentence and not just some words?
No free skin
Yeah, but OP was talking about playable heroes
You said no new hero skin. There is a new hero skin. It's just not free.