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.
or you craft all cards at day 1.
wait 4 days if you're a nerd who only cares about meta decks
Pro-er tip:
Don't wait for the pros to figure which deck is the most unfair, craft cards that SPEAK to you, to your soul. To me, for example, speaks Baku the Mooneater. He's actually so loud that I can't really hear all of you meta slaves :P
I'm going to craft him day one and have a wonderful day or two. And that's the goal: having fun. So, R0d0d3ndron, by all means: craft Liam! I'm sure you two will have a lot of fun together ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Today is the lest day for random pack daily quest?
4 cards leeft for shaman to be revealed (ignoring the legendary), i hope one of them is an overload unlocker.
I hope all or at least most of them are good spells. With several new cards that generate random shaman spells, the pool of available spells really has to become better, or the whole Hagatha package will flop hard.
I always wanted 1 of this 2 effects:
need more DEMONS for Warlock!)
No need to add more demons, cubelock won't run them.
(This is a joke)
New card, Voidlord Lord. 27 Mana 9/27 Taunt, Deathrattle: Summon 3 Voidlords
This expansion has the best art so far, seriously, no matter how bad the card is or what is its rarity, the art is too epic. WW stole the achievement to Un'Goro who used to have the best art xD
The Glass Knight is pretty bad, but I suppose there's not much variety with that name. And Paragon of Light seems better suited to being legendary.
There are 2 unrevealed legendarys, and 4 unrevealed epics, all the others are common and rares. I kinda wish now that they saved more of the big guys for the final card dump,
And I wish that they had saved hagatha for the card dump, with her big aperance in the first video I was surprised that she was revealed so soon. I also wish she had more of an exciting/creative effect.
those aren't confirmed and the link was already removed.
edit: I stand corrected
Still waiting on Exorcising Crab with Battlecry:Destroy a demon, gain +1/+1.
Just play zoo with Sacrificial Pact tech card, kek
Battlecry: transform a demon into a 1/1 wisp then destroy it . gain +1/1.
So, 5 cards to support Hand Druid... seems good.
7 if you include Mountain Giant and Ultimate Infestation, since one causes your hand to flood and the other is good with large hands.
Edit: 8 actually because of Twilight Drake. Whoops.