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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Shaman
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Warlock
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Warrior
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Neutral
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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.
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best comment ever +1
there is alot of beast in this expansion ,even priest and mage an warlock have lots of them .
That Dire Frenzy synergy tho :P
At this moment rogue has 1 unrevealed legendary and 4 unrevealed other cards. I hope at least 2 of them are secrets .....
None of them will be. The devs said that during or shortly after the K&C reveal season (this set was pretty much finished by then and I doubt they wanted to throw more secrets at the class before anyone had even played with those from K&C). They didn't rule out rogue secrets in future expansions though.
Ok thanks for clearing that up. I just think it is not too hard to figure out wich secret your opponent (as a rogue) has played. I was hoping for a bit more secrets to make the secrets harder to figure out.
Please don't tell me blizzard did not design a replacement for Eater of Secrets/Kezan Mystic.
There have been barely any neutral cards revealed so far. Have patience.
I have my patience. Just wrote my hope.
3 mana spell - "Gain control of a random enemy Secret. Echo." would be great *-* Or maybe pin it to small body to be a neutral minion.
spells don't fit a tech card for a secret counter and We have seen already a steal secret mechanic on GvG (Kezan Mystic), What you design is much more powerful than kezan and I want to see some different mechanics for countering secrets.
Maybe a battlecry like "Battlecry: destroy an enemy secret in play and gain armor for its cost" or "Battlecry: enemy secrets cost 3 more" or ongoing effects like "After your opponent plays a secret gain x armor" or "All secrets costs 2 more" or sth like that.
I want a secret tech but different than what we got before.
They might not see the need for it with Ice Block rotating.
curious how this would be been worked against a mage who has 2 or more secrets: one of the secrets is counterspell and other secrets are randoms. If the card you would be thinking would not hit the counterspell but rather to other secrets. Would the counterspell activate?
Very cool that classes are getting two legendaries in this expansion. :D
Haven't they been doing that every expansion since Un'Goro though?
he meant 2 legendary minions i guess or I am an autistic and got it wrong.
He wrote it in the wrong way, but you got it right :-)