The Witchwood - Hearthstone's Eighth Expansion
Hearthstone's Eighth Expansion is The Witchwood! It launched on April 12th 2018.
Expansion Information
- 135 new cards were added to the game.
- A new Shaman Hero Card, "Hagatha", is seen briefly at the end of the reveal video. Ben Brode confirmed this is the only Hero Card in the expansion. (Source)
- Every class will be getting 2 Legendary cards this expansion. (Source)
- A new mechanic called Echo is being added to the game.
- A new mechanic called Rush is being added to the game. It's like Charge but less OP.
- The pre-order comes with 70 packs instead of the usual 50. You also get a card back. You can pre-order here or in-game.
Freebies
- A card back for completing Monster Hunt.
- A legendary class card for logging in on release.
- Three card packs for logging in on release.
- Up to four card packs for completing daily quests in the lead-up to the expansion. (Source)
Monster Hunt
- Works like Dungeon Run in that you play a hero against bosses and build a deck as you progress.
- Does not use normal Hearthstone heroes, this has four unique characters.
- The final boss at the end of Monster Hunt is different for each of the four classes.
Below are pictures of the Cannoneer, Houndmaster, Time Tinkerer, and Tracker heroes from Monster Hunt.
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.
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.
Hagatha the Witch
The only new playable hero card being added to the game, Hagatha has unique emotes and a special passive Hero Power.
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- Greetings: "Welcome to my domain."
- Well Played: "Well played."
- Thanks: "Thank you."
- Wow: "By the night!"
- Oops: "Unwise."
- Threaten: "The curse take you!"
New Cards
So far, 135 cards have been revealed out of 135.
Druid
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Hunter
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Mage
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Paladin
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Priest
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Rogue
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Warlock
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Card Backs
There are two new card backs. The first is available with the expansion pre-order and the second is a reward from Monster Hunt.
New Gameboard
As always, Hearthstone is getting a new game board with the expansion.
Rogue has always gotten useful legendaries, just not every expansion and they don't fit every expansion. Edwin VanCleef is arguably the best classic set class legendary (with the only ones that come close being Archmage Antonidus and Tirion Fordring). The only rogue legendaries that have pretty much never seen play are Lilian Voss (which had a lot of experimentation), Trade Prince Gallywix (which again saw lots of experimentation) and Anub'arak (which just sucks lol). All the other ones see play in some form of rogue including the quest, weapon, and dk all being strong cards too. While sure those decks might not be the tier 1 meta decks, but that doesn't make them bad. As far as I know, there isn't another class that is able to have a viable deck using the non-minion legendaries. Back during WOTOG the rogue getting good cards meme made lots of sense, but rogue genuinely has strong cards now.
I'll be honest, I completely forgot about those two cards. While both are still really strong cards, Jaraxxus gets completely overshadowed by the Warlock DK and Tirion, while good, is rather slow and can be handled by silence easily (something that is prevalent as of now) so while both good, not the best as of right now. Edwin has basically seen play in every meta, and is in most rogue decks simply for the fact he is strong. The same cannot be said about Jaraxxus and Tirion. Granted, there are other factors that go into it, but imo Edwin is still the best classic class legendary.
isn't Edwin like 3 times more vulnerable to silence than Tirion? because if Tirion get silenced than you lose protection and a weapon, but you still have the 6/6 body which is threatening to your opponent as it is. but if edwin is say a 10/10 than they play spellbreaker than you lose 8/8 on your edwin and they can just ignor it. and tirion can be played when you are ahead of tempo to stay ahead, or for extra damage with weapon, or for protection, i am not saying edwin is bad, but i am just saying he might not be the best classic class legendary.
Yeah Edwin is more vulnerable to silence, but it also only costs 3 mana and so you are going to be doing other things during the turn with your mana. Along with that you can easily cheese games with Counterfeit Coin and Preparation and getting an early 6/6 or 8/8 Edwin before they get the chance to silence it. As Tirion costs 8 mana, chances are you are just going to hero power and play it. It also has the upside of being able to discovered as it has taunt. Honestly, I should probably change the original post to include Tirion as when I was writing that post, I completely forgot about him and he certainly is good given a deck that can run him.
Tirion is the best classic class legendary and this cannot been argued.
7 mana 6/6 taunt with divine shield which equips you 6 mana 5/3 weapon when he dies and he only costs 8? Hmnhm ok.
Thanks for just completely ignoring the reasons of why i find Edwin to be the best class legendary and of why tirion isnt as great. Sure tirion can shut down games sometimes, but Edwin does the same. The only three things that tirion has over edwin is that it can come back from N'Zoth, you can discover copies of him easily and the fact that your opponent can't ignore it. However, both cards are incredibly weak to silence and one has to he played atleast on turn 7, giving your opponent more time to draw answers or removal spells. Edwin can come down as early as turn 1 and make your opponent have to struggle to clear the board from the very beginning.
I'm not saying Tirion is bad, just that Edwin is really powerful.
But I say again I understand why you call edwin is great.
The layout above for card reveal is really sick, props to whoever did it.
Came here to say this. It's absolutely fantastic
Can someone answer me?
My question is, if you lower the mana cost of a card with echo in some way (Thaurissan for example), will all the "Echoes" also have a cost reduction?
No. It doesnt apply for it. As a prove you can try it with Unstable Evolution and it won't work
Only with something like Summoning Portal in play.
Who tf downvoted you? You are 100% right that it will be discounted thanks to Summoning Portal
The reveal said there were differences between Unstable Evolution and Echo, so maybe it does. We'll just have to find out!
no, let say you play face collector for 2 mana, the echod will be a copy of face collector, not your face collector. make sence?
They have barely touched those old Wow pics since LoE I believe, with MSG being the most uniformed new art.
They did auctally, for Lord Geoffry, and another/2 more cards I forgot which
hyped
I am so going to play control warrior with the quest, x2 stonehill, x2 phantom militia. you dont even have to keep the quest opening hand if you dont want to. Getting 3 procs off 1 card is prrrrrety gooood.