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Welcome to the Standard Forums!

Welcome everyone to the Standard Discussion Forum. This forum was created to facilitate discussion of the Standard format, the format that Blizzard has decided will be used for Hearthstone Championship events going forward.

Please use this forum to discuss anything and everything with the Standard format. We ask that all threads in this forum are kept constructive in nature. Non-constructive threads will be deleted upon notice and the poster will be given a formal warning.

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If you wish to discuss the Wild format, please do so in the wild forum.

Current Set Rotation

In standard, only the newest cards are in play! Each standard year consists of up to 6 card sets; the latest releases, as well as the basic and classic card pools.

Additionally, a new pool was created as of the Year of the Mammoth known as the Hall of Fame. This set is restricted to Wild format as well. Cards currently in this set are the following:

Sylvanas Windrunner
Ragnaros the Firelord
Azure Drake
Ice Lance
Power Overwhelming
Conceal
Molten Giant
Ice Block
Coldlight Oracle

You can easily identify decks for the current standard year by looking for this icon: 

List of Standard Rotations

• *PREVIOUS* Year of the Kraken: April 26th 2016 - April 6th 2017
  
  • Blackrock Mountain - Rotated out.
  • The Grand Tournament - Rotated out.
  • The League of Explorers - Rotated out.
  • Whispers of the Old Gods
  • One Night in Karazhan
  • Mean Streets of Gadgetzan
• *PREVIOUS* Year of the Mammoth: April 6th 2017 - April 2018
  • Whispers of the Old Gods - Rotates next year.
  • One Night in Karazhan - Rotates next year.
  • Mean Streets of Gadgetzan - Rotates next year.
  • Journey to Un'Goro
  • Knights of the Frozen Throne
  • Kobolds & Catacombs
• *CURRENT* Year of the Raven : April 12th 2018 - April 2019
  • Journey to Un'Goro - Rotates the next year.
  • Knights of the Frozen Throne - Rotates the next year.
  • Kobolds & Catacombs - Rotates the next year.
  • The Witchwood
  • The Boomsday Project
  • TBD Expansion #6
• *FUTURE* Year of the ?????? : April 2019 - April 2020
  • The Witchwood - Rotates the next year.
  • The Boomsday Project - Rotates the next year.
  • TBD Expansion #3  - Rotates the next year.
  • TBD Expansion #4
  • TBD Expansion #5
  • TBD Expansion #6

Helpful Site Links

• Deck Search Page - Show Standard Only

Standard Format FAQ

How often will Standard format change?
Standard format will be updated with the first new Expansion released each year. When that happens Standard format will be updated to include card sets from the current and previous calendar year.  The Basic and Classic card sets are always part of the Standard format.

Why are Basic and Classic always part of Standard?
These cards serve as a foundation for Hearthstone. They help give Hearthstone its flavor, they have mechanics that are great for introducing new players to the game, and players who have taken a break can return to Hearthstone confident that they’ll be familiar with these cards.

What is the Year of the Raven?
The Year of the Raven is a thematic way to refer to the first year of Standard format play. Next year, when the first new Expansion of the year is released, a new Hearthstone year will begin, Standard format will be updated, and a different mythical beast will symbolize the year!

How will random effects work in Standard?
Random effects (including summoning random minions or cards, the Discover mechanic, transformations, or any other similar effects) will only summon cards that are eligible for the format you are playing. Thus, random effects in Standard will summon only cards that would be usable in the Standard format. All cards are legal in Wild format, so such effects will function as they always have.

Will Arenas use Standard format?
Arena has recently been modified to utilize the same Standard format as constructed! No wild cards here.

Will Tavern Brawls use formats?
Tavern Brawls have different rules each week, so some Brawls will be in Wild format, while others could be in Standard format, but they’ll all be crazy fun!

Will my Adventure decks be affected by the new formats?
Adventures will be in Wild format, thus allowing you to use your entire collection to build Adventure decks.

Can I play a Standard deck in Wild?
Yes! The Wild format includes your entire collection regardless of release date, including all of your cards that are usable in Standard format, so you can queue up for Wild using a Standard format deck directly.

Can I play Friendly Challenges in Standard format?
Yes! You will have the option to issue a Friendly Challenge using Standard or Wild format, and your opponent will only have the option to use decks of the appropriate format.

Are Standard cards labeled in the Collection Manager?
Individual cards are not labeled by format, though there will be visual cues in the Collection Manager to let you know whether you are building a Standard or Wild deck. There will also be a filter in the Collection Manager to display only Standard format cards.

Are the new deck slots only available for use with Standard decks?
You can use the new deck slots for either Standard or Wild decks. These extra deck slots become available after unlocking all nine Hearthstone heroes.

How will collecting cards work?
Adventures and Expansions that are part of Standard format will be available for purchase with gold or real money. Card sets that aren’t part of Standard format won’t be available for purchase from the in-game Shop, but you will be able to purchase them on battle.net website with real money or craft any of those cards using Arcane Dust, including cards from Adventures that previously could not be disenchanted or crafted.

How will purchasing Adventures work?
You will be able to purchase Adventures that are part of the current Standard format normally. Adventures that are not part of Standard can only be purchased with real money on battle.net website. If you already own at least one wing of such an Adventure, you’ll have the option to unlock the remaining wings using in-game gold.

Can I still craft or disenchant cards that aren’t part of Standard format?
Yes, you can craft or disenchant all of these cards—including cards from Adventures which previously could not be disenchanted or crafted—for their normal Arcane Dust value. This excludes Basic cards, which can never be crafted or disenchanted.

Note that you can also craft and disenchant cards from Standard format Adventures, as long as you’ve already earned them by completing the necessary challenges.

Will Reward set cards such as Gelbin Mekkatorque and Old Murk-Eye be part of Wild or Standard format?
All current Reward set cards, including Promo cards, will be restricted to Wild format.

When Standard format arrives, the Captain’s Parrot and Old Murk-Eye cards won’t be given for collecting their associated classic cards, but can instead be crafted (and disenchanted).

Acquiring the Promo cards Gelbin Mekkatorque and Elite Tauren Chieftain remains unchanged: the normal versions of these cards can still be crafted or disenchanted, while the golden versions were acquired via special events and cannot be disenchanted or crafted.

Which of my Ranks will be shown to my Battle.net friends?
Your current best Rank, whether Standard or Wild, will be automatically displayed to Battle.net friends.

Will Blizzard feature the top 100 Ranked players for both the Standard and Wild formats?
Currently, they feature the top 200 players for both formats.

Can I earn Hearthstone Championship Tour points by competing in Ranked in both formats?
No. Standard will be the only format that offers Hearthstone Championship Tour points for 2017.

Will all official Blizzard esports events be played in Standard format?
Yes. Standard is the official format of the Hearthstone Championship Tour and the Hearthstone World Championship in 2017.

Will any sets that leave Standard format become part of Standard again in the future?
There are currently no plans to add Wild format only sets back into the Standard format.

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Quote from manuac04 >>

Does someone know if the next hearthstone content will be an adventure or an expansion? 

Oh that means, well get 2 Exp. and 1 adventure every year? That means the card pool at the end of the next standart year will be larger than this one

Quote from tfink03 >>

Oh that means, well get 2 Exp. and 1 adventure every year? That means the card pool at the end of the next standart year will be larger than this one

sup evereone,with what deck is better 2 get legend?

Quote from Agithore >>

Quote from manuac04 >>

Does someone know if the next hearthstone content will be an adventure or an expansion? 

 It will be an expansion. This will the first time Hearthstone will have 2 expansions consecutive to each other.

Quote from bigtxbug >>

Quote from Agithore >>

Quote from manuac04 >>

Does someone know if the next hearthstone content will be an adventure or an expansion? 

 It will be an expansion. This will the first time Hearthstone will have 2 expansions consecutive to each other.

 What, what, what's that you say? Double-expansion power?!?!? I thought it was an expansion. This is great news! So the cycle will be Expansion-Adventure-Expansion annually, or is this a one-time deal (back to Ex-Ad-Ex year 1, Ad-Ex-Ad year 2, repeat)

I've updated the OP with what the second Standard rotation is going to look like as a source of clarity for those who would like a point of reference and for future times.

looks like next year will be called Year of the Mammoth...

there will also be some changed introduced. see:
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/20475356

what is interesting is this bit:

..To help meet our goals, certain cards from the Classic set will become exclusive to the Wild format. These cards will be added to the new Hall of Fame set, which will also include cards that are currently in the Reward set....

...We wanted to allow players to disenchant Classic cards that are being added to the Hall of Fame set for full dust refunds, but then felt that incentivizing players to dust their cool Wild cards was counter to our goal of making Wild awesome.

So instead, we're just going to give you the dust, and you can keep the cards!

Up to the maximum number of cards you could put in a deck, we will give you the full dust value of any cards you have that are being added to the Hall of Fame set. (Yes, that means if you have at least one Golden Ragnaros, you'll get 3200 dust!) The dust will be automatically awarded upon log-in once the Year of the Mammoth begins.

so... does that mean if we can craft those cards that will be relegated to WILD (even though are are CLASSIC sets), it's basically free cards?

so, if i don't have Ragnaros and craft one now, i will get back my cost at the start of the new year and still get to keep my Ragnaros? cool... :)

Quote from tfink03 >>

Oh that means, well get 2 Exp. and 1 adventure every year? That means the card pool at the end of the next standart year will be larger than this one

This thread has been updated with current information. Questions about the standard rotation will be re-directed to this thread :)

Isn't Arena running Standard now too?

Certainly, i missed that bit. Fixed!

It does say "*FUTURE* Year of the ?????? : TBD - TBD" directly above it, shouldn't be difficult to understand. Perhaps "the following year" could be clearer though, so i will edit that quickly :)

Fluxflashor , Wotg,  Khara and MSG already rotated out...., i think you should edit those,..pretty please?.

Need update