Update 7:21 PM: Patch is now live! Restart your clients to grab the update if you haven't gotten it already.
Update 11:06 AM: Added note about Blackrock Mountain.
Hearthstone Patch 8036
A small patch has appeared on the Blizzard download servers which contains information about three upcoming card backs.
Blackrock Mountain - Possible New Hearthstone Adventure / Expansion
Speculation: We may be getting a Blackrock Mountain adventure / expansion. There is a string which points to a presale of it becoming available and buying it will reward you with a Molten Core card back. This may not be final, it could also be Blizzard just messing around with us. Keep that in mind!
If you are not familiar with Blackrock Mountain, it is a massive Mountain between Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge (Warcraft zones) which is home to Ragnaros, Elementals, the Dark Iron, and Nefarian. In World of Warcraft, it houses several instances and three raids, and the first Hearthstone adventure, Naxxramas, was based off a raid in World of Warcraft.
Read more about Blackrock Mountain on Wowpedia.
New Card Backs
Three new card backs have been datamined, but no images are present in the client at this time. It looks like Ragnaros will be an upcoming Seasonal card back, and the other two are related to achievements.
- Molten Core
- Reward From: License Detected
- Note: purchase brm presale
- Ragnaros
- Reward From: Ranked Season Play
- Golden Celebration
- Reward From: License Detected
- Note: golden celebration cardback
Historically speaking, Achievements / Rewards which trigger off a "license detection" are related to owning a game (Warlords of Draenor Collector's Edition) or ticket (BlizzCon) on your Battle.net account. We cannot say for certain how Molten Core or Golden Celebration will be obtained at this time, but Molten Core does currently point towards a content pre-sale.
It's probably the Ragnaros cardback. In honor of Ragnaros the Firelord, the cardback will always be exactly the wrong color. xD
Ffff-Say no more, already saving up gold!
Guys, it said that the patch is on the client, but i dont see any Patch notes, where are they?
It's an unreleased patch. They had to datamine this information. I'm not sure completely how it all works but this isn't a live patch by any means.
We totally need a mechanic where if you include Leeroy Jenkins into the deck, you can include up to 29 Rookery whelps in the deck as well.
HOLY HYPE! I am super excited to see these card backs, adventure information, AND NEFARIAN! Nefarian is one of my absolute favorite WoW Characters!
As someone who will be buying the adventure with real money already, I am happy I get a cardback for it. However, I find this is unfair for people who want to play free to play and still collect the card backs. I guess we just have to hope it looks like crap!
ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN!
*yawns*
*stretches*
*boards hype train yet again*
CHOO WOOOOOO!!! BRING IT ON BLIZZ!
I don't understand the concept of the cosmetic bonus not being available to f2pers (that don't support the game) being "unfair"
prepare your anuses a new minion faction is bound to be coming. Maybe Dwarf, Maybe Elemental, or Perhaps Dragon
I've always wanted new factions (races), especially Elementals and Dragons (and Worgens of course) since when I started playing HS, hope my wish will be fulfilled!
Elementals would be nice. Magma Rager might have AN ACTUAL use if that tribe is a thing.
Lots of new stuff coming, that's exciting!
Ragnaros cardback, I already love it!
This is certainly exciting. BRM was a little before my time in terms of WoW, but I really enjoyed the Naxx expansion so I'm sure I'll enjoy this one too.
I want ahn'qiraj adventure.
Molten Core Cardback will probably require money. Maybe even Golden Celebration seeing the "License Detected"
That's too bad :[. Oh well.
Golden celebration sounds like a birthday cardback. Blizzard does that a lot (sc2 portraits). So let's see PAX, but I believe that if we play on the 11th of March, we will get that.
Hope it is a golden version of all our cardbacks and not just a golden one :p
Nefarian next class hype! the dream
- Ragnaros card back: Season 12 April Reward
- Molten Core card back: Adventure pre sale (real money) reward
- Golden Celeberation card back: Play a year reward
Would be awesome if presale would be able for gold as well, but i doubt it. They might want to add a cosmetic incentive for purchasing it with real cash.
Makes a lot of sense. Raids/locations in WoW with multiple "wings" are ideal for Hearthstone adventures, and BRM certainly has that going for it. Wouldn't mind an "elemental" archtype either!
Is this where the final elemental lives? The Earth elemental. Would love to get that as a card.