Update 9:35 PM EST: Added update from Zeriyah on Deck Slots, Arena Card Packs, Randomness, and more.
Site Update: Animated Golden Cards
We've gotten rid of the old non-animated golden cards and replaced them with shiny new animated ones! Not only are cards now animated, but they also have text placements which are identical to the ones in-game. These cards work flawlessly with our tooltips script, so if you'd like animated golden cards for your website, check out our tooltips page for more info.
We've prepared a post below which shows off some of the golden cards. Our cards display differently depending on your browser. Chrome users get the best version of the cards because the browser has better support for the webm format, where all other browsers will display gifs. If you can see the Ragnaros below rotating, you'll see the highest quality cards.
If you'd like to see all the golden cards, you can head on over to our card listing, which we've added a "Show Golden" option to so you can take them in all at once.
Zeriyah on Deck Slots, Arena Card Packs, and Randomness
The Hearthstone team is very careful about making changes to the interface as it can have a negative effect on the new player experience. Additionally, it's been confirmed, not just hinted, that there will be a new card to deal with secrets. Below is a summary of the wall of text Zeriyah posted earlier today.
Quote from Blizzard
- One of the most difficult parts of game design is to put yourself in the shoes of someone that has never experienced your game before. As a veteran Hearthstone player, it may be hard to see from that vantage point, but it's something we always have to keep in mind.
- The UI needs to stay intuitive and easy to navigate, especially for new players. Adding too much complexity to the UI can turn new players away from the game. The collection manager can already be a daunting experience.
- The majority of Hearthstone players don't utilize all their deck slots, or even use all of their decks regularly. It's not the only reason, but it's a factor.
- Allowing choice of both card packs in arena may be a simple fix, but they need to take the long term into consideration.
- We can't expect our new players to be able to look at a pack and know all of the cards they might get out of that set, then choose that set as their reward.
- Too much of Silence can homogenize the meta. Silence shouldn't be the only answer to cards with keywords/text on them, it should be an option.
- There will be a new card to help deal with secrets in Goblins vs Gnomes.
- The TeSPA card back, is intended to be a special perk for a very important organization, and will remain exclusive to TeSPA members at this time.
- Random effects add an additional layer of the unexpected and fun to the game that makes for great experiences and epic stories. In the end, the best players will adapt and use the results of random effects to their advantage, as well as create and ideal situation in which random effects have the most favorable end result.
Great addition, thanks!
This might be a stupid question, but how do you get golden cards from the Naxx set?
You have to craft them with dust like you would craft any golden card from the expert set.
Oh. That makes sense, thanks.
craft them
Sweet golden cards+animations!
Still wish they would add more deck slots. I mean, they already do this with the basic and custom decks. One of the first things I did after getting all the basic cards was make a deck for each class and it gets really annoying to have to remake decks if I want to try something new. Although my favorite was mentioned already: pick hero portraits which lets you make several decks for each class.
The golden cards are so boss. Great job!
It would be great if Blizzard gave an 'add deck slot option'/'remove deck slot' option. This way people can customize the interface to show the number of decks they use when in play mode.
I hope your kidding. The collection manager is if my magic the gathering binder was listed in order of scaling mana, by colour with a robotic arm that when i gave voice commands flipped to a certain card. The collection manager is a good as its going to get in the terms of card collection, The developers at blizzard did an amazing job with it.
The collection manager is daunting because it's completely unintuitive and lacks proper ways to sort or search for cards. Such a poor excuse to attempt to justify not adding additional deck slots.
You can use your search bar to type in Legendary or Epic or Rare.
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-Goldmember, 2002
Excuses me Zeriyah, aren't you doing the exact thing that ruin new player's experience?
If they only grind arena they will have no way of getting full collection any years soon. Buying packs will not be the most efficient use of gold either.
Choosable reward is a LONG TERM solution when you get to more expansions. How about adding a tooltip for different packs?
Please don't ruin the game just because you guys want to keep it simple. It can backfire hard.
Yep, exactly!
It's still up to the player if he would use an RNG dependent card or not.
It is to be assumed that a player knows the pros and cons of an RNG card so there shouldn't be frustration at all...
I have to say that I agree with Blizzard on this one. I highly doubt that you use 9 different decks regularly, so much so in fact, that you need more deck slots. Now if you do somehow use 9 decks regularly you are in the VAST minority. It's very easy to recreate decks if you have to delete them. Take a screen shot to save for later. I really think more than 9 decks slots can get clunky, and I like how it is.
We shouldn't have to go through the pain of constantly screenshotting and remaking decks when they have an easy fix already. As one poster above suggested, you can make arrows on the hero portraits that let you have 2-3 decks PER hero. Many of us have all 9 with optimal decks for the daily quests, and to have a different laddering deck from quest deck, are forced to delete one. It simply isn't fair at the moment.
Yay neat. GIF on non-Chrome and WebM (html5) on Chrome.
My cellphone exploded tho... XD
Good show Hearthpwn!
Haha I've been sitting here for about 15 minutes now just scrolling through all the golden cards :)
I feel so sorry for the people who have slow internet... these golden cards will take forever to load!