Madness at the Darkmoon Faire: Card List, Release Date, & Expansion Details

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Madness at the Darkmoon Faire: Card List, Release Date, & Expansion Details

Hearthstone's 3rd expansion in the Year of the Phoenix is Madness at the Darkmoon Faire! The expansion launched on November 17th, 2020.

Come one, come all --- to the Darkmoon Faire, Azeroth’s one and only traveling carnival! Bear witness to supernatural wonders, spectacular performances, and exotic beasts! Sample a dazzling array of sweet and savory treats from around the world, discover rare treasures at our enchanting night market, or perhaps have your fortune read under the watchful orange eye of Darkmoon’s iconic midway gate!

Ignore the ugly rumors you may hear about friendly and exuberant faire-folk! Many guests, overcome with excitement and joy, may report seeing strange or unusual things. Pay them no heed! Ignore the whispers! Come for the wholesome fun and stay. . . forever.

Madness at the Darkmoon Faire marks the beginning of Phase Three for the Year of the Phoenix. Players can expect several major updates and balances changes. In addition we'll see new Battlegrounds cards and heroes, a Seasonal event, updates for Hearthstone's newest game mode: Duels, a mini-set of 35 cards, and another new game mode!

Expansion Info --- Darkmoon Races Mini-Set --- Card List --- The Old Gods --- Artifacts --- Corrupt --- Additional Details
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Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Release Date

Madness at the Darkmoon Faire released on Tuesday, November 17th , at 10am PT/ 1pm ET/ 19:00 CEST/ 18:00 BST!

Expansion Info

The Old Gods - Each Old God is meant to inspire it's own deck archetype. Their powerful Battlecries capable of turning the tide of the match!
Old God Artifacts - Four ancient spells with zany effects. Each based on the original design of an Old God.
New Keyword: Corrupt - Cards upgrade to a more powerful version if you play a higher costed card while they're in your hand.
The expansion will contain 135 new cards!
Mini Card Set - A 35 card mini set will be released prior to the next expansion. Darkmoon Races releases on Thursday, January 21st!

All players receive Silas Darkmoon -- a Neutral Legendary minion available 10/22/20.
PvE content for the Madness of the Darkmoon Faire expansion will be a continuation of the Book of Heroes story line.

Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Cards List

135 of the 135 cards have been revealed.

Demon Hunter - Druid - Hunter - Mage - Paladin - Priest - Rogue - Shaman - Warlock - Warrior - Neutral - Tokens
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Pre-Orders

Once again we have two bundles available. The standard pre-purchase is priced at $39.99, while the Mega bundle is $79.99.

Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Bundle - $39.99

45 Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Packs
Early Access: Duels
Random Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Legendary card
N'Zoth card back

Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Mega-Bundle - $79.99

80 Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Packs
5 Golden Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Packs
Early Access: Duels
Random Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Golden Legendary card
N'Zoth Warlock hero
N'Zoth card back
Battlegrounds Perks

Mini-Set Info

Darkmoon Races will consist of 4 Legendaries, 1 Epic (x2), 14 Rares (x2), and 16 Commons (x2) -- for a total of 66 new cards.
Legendary Racers - 3 Legendary cards that hearken back to a Year of the Phoenix Expansion.
Returning Mechanics - Card mechanics from throughout the year will return. Expect to see Corruption, Dormant, Spellburst, and Dual-Class cards.
Darkmoon Races will be released on Thursday, January 21st.
Cards can be obtained from Madness at the Darkmoon Faire card packs. The entire set is also available for purchase for $14.99 or 2000 in-game gold until May 10th, 2021.

Darkmoon Races Card List

All the cards from the mini-set were revealed in the hours following the initial announcement.

Demon Hunter - Druid - Hunter - Mage - Paladin - Priest - Rogue - Shaman - Warlock - Warrior - Neutral
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
Okay they only got the American time zones right. Classic Americans.

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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
Are Blizzard late or is the release time on this page wrong?

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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
Why Faterican always have expansions earlier.

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Posted Nov 16, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
Not enough anti aggro. And with the amount of secret support it's weird that they didn't print new anti secret card.

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Posted Nov 15, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
Well DH is gonna be a pain in the ass. Warlock is gonna be my go to class this expansion I guess.
Seeing alot of combo potential in the class with Deck of Chaos
Also hunter seems to have some combo potential with Trampling Rhino.

probably just have to sit out the few first weeks so the meta settles to see if its gonna be aggro or more control favoured.
I think I already know the answer there though *Cries*.

Bound to be fun on the dark moon faire with the new old god cards as wel!

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Posted Nov 13, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
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I like this set. Really! But Demon Hunter already has waaaaaay too much draw and damage, why give him a full set of that again? Secret mage is already dangerous in wild, now it might join team broken with token Druid (tempo tempo tempo)

I think this would be an amazing expansion had DH just fucked off or at least not have 10x more draw and damage than every other class. You literally need a deck of just heal and taunt to survive it. His only weakness is no hard removal. But who needs that if you can just go face?

Blade Dance acts as hard removal just fine if you ask me. They can easily get 10 attack which removes most threats that any opponent can muster in an average DH game.

Also, Wild is MEANT to be broken/OP/hard. Bad analogy incoming but..

Standard = Girls
Wild = Girls Gone Wild

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Posted Nov 13, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
Well I don't mind having a 82% winrate, it just feels a bit demotivating creativity wise :)

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Posted Nov 13, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
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I like this set. Really! But Demon Hunter already has waaaaaay too much draw and damage, why give him a full set of that again? Secret mage is already dangerous in wild, now it might join team broken with token Druid (tempo tempo tempo)

I think this would be an amazing expansion had DH just fucked off or at least not have 10x more draw and damage than every other class. You literally need a deck of just heal and taunt to survive it. His only weakness is no hard removal. But who needs that if you can just go face?

Blade Dance acts as hard removal just fine if you ask me. They can easily get 10 attack which removes most threats that any opponent can muster in an average DH game.

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Posted Nov 13, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
Dealing a lot of damage is not the same as playing polymorph/Flick etc. But efficient, true! So if we count Blade dance as hard removal as well... I guess it's just buffs that he doesn't have (sigh). And if you easily get 10 attack with other cards, in order to use a fourth card for removal, maybe you just had a tiny bit too much draw, given that your main attribute is playing aggressive minions and going face? :)

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Posted Nov 12, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
I know it's sad and I loved him too. It might be hard to think that he's not among us anymore but remember that Thrall was an old orc who could barely stand up during the last year. Sure! He had his good days. Remember when he broke standard completely with that undead dragon deck? Man was he scary that (one) day. But all good things must come to an end. We can't just force Blizzard to nerf us to pieces whenever it suits us. The body gets worn and used with time and we must meet our maker.

Ashes to outland dust to dust

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I like this set. Really! But Demon Hunter already has waaaaaay too much draw and damage, why give him a full set of that again? Secret mage is already dangerous in wild, now it might join team broken with token Druid (tempo tempo tempo)

I think this would be an amazing expansion had DH just fucked off or at least not have 10x more draw and damage than every other class. You literally need a deck of just heal and taunt to survive it. His only weakness is no hard removal. But who needs that if you can just go face?

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Posted Nov 12, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
why cant we buy/open packs?!!

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Posted Nov 12, 2020 (Scholomance Academy)
SHould be renamed to Madness at the DemonHunter Faire

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Posted Nov 12, 2020 (Scholomance Academy)
I know that it would not belong on a page about Madness at the Darkmoon Faire. However, I believe that the last Old God Artifact, representing Yogg-Saron, isn't Oh My Yogg! but the Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron and they just had no incentive to print another card like it.

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Posted Nov 11, 2020 (Scholomance Academy)
Would be a lot easier to see it that way if real money wasn't involved in this game.

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Posted Nov 13, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
Interesting you should mention chess and that its a skilled game. Sure there is no RNG but just because RNG exist in HS does not mean HS is devoid of skill, cause if that was the case anyone could gain rank 1 right? Or at least if it was RNG that decided who won whoever hit the top-lists would fluctuate way more.

This is not the case and theres a very good reason for that.

Coming back to chess:

To an amateur it may seem that chess is a game with near endless potential moves, and when you learn that to become a high level chess player you need to eventually learn all the moves and chain moves; that if I move piece A to spot B I also need to be aware of the chain-reaction of that move.

That stuff can be quite intimidating, and if you are an amateur you could even attribute those moves to luck or like you said RNG. "Hah Bob.. you were lucky to see that my king was compromised and get CM on me) Well.. you only need a modicum of knowledge of chess to understand that it leaves nothing up to chance.

So AI and algorithms aside. Although it may seem that every move is random and chain-reaction is out of your hands. Its like with chess, that when you realize the potential moves (or draws) and developments are finite. That you can start to map how many potential developments there are, and to plan the ideal move to set up a win.

Im not a good hearthstone player, but I would imagine if you asked a pro, they would agree to my assesment.

That aside I agree with you that having a more casual attitude may very likely make the experience more enjoyable. Afterall we play the game (hopefully) first and foremost to have fun. Whatever else comes is just a bonus.

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Posted Nov 11, 2020 (Scholomance Academy)
Most of warrior's cards are boring as usual except Minefield, that looks fun.

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Posted Nov 15, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
It's Dyn-o-matic's effect but with no 3/4 body, where would you put this on your deck?

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Posted Nov 11, 2020 (Scholomance Academy)
Honestly this is the most disappointing set imo. The corrupt mechanic is not very appealing, there isn't anything new to explore and already existing decks that were popular in the meta got buffed. Odd Paladin and Secret Mage made out like a bandit (as if they already needed more) and DH is now more disgusting with Il'gynoth and for the 3rd expansion in a row Shaman gets nothing exciting or better cards. Honestly the only thing I look forward to is playing with new Yogg and that's it.

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Posted Nov 10, 2020 (Scholomance Academy)
R.I.P. SHAMAN AGAIN?

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