Fractured in Alterac Valley: Card List, Release Date, & Expansion Details

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Fractured in Alterac Valley: Card List, Release Date, & Expansion Details

Hearthstone's 3rd expansion in the Year of the Gryphon is Fractured in Alterac Valley! The release date for the expansion was Tuesday, December 7th at 10am PST/ 1pm EST/ 19:00 CEST/ 18:00 BST!

The temperature is low, but the tensions are high on this storied battlefield, where the Horde and the Alliance fight for honor and shards of a fallen naaru. The two factions are locked in eternal battle, and have put out a call for new Heroes to help turn the tide. Take key Objectives and secure Honorable Kills to help your faction claim victory! The conflict is inevitable, and you must pick a side. So come, claim your place as a champion among those who are Fractured in Alterac Valley!

Fractured in Alterac Valley is the final expansion in the year of the Gryphon and marks the beginning of Phase 3. Players can expect several major updates and balance changes. We'll also see a Battlegrounds update, a seasonal event, and more solo player experiences.

Expansion Info --- Onyxia's Lair Miniset --- Card List --- Mercenary Heroes --- Keyword: Honorable Kill --- Objectives --- Additional Details
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Expansion Info

Mercenary Heroes - Each class will receive a Hero Card with powerful Battlecries and Hero Powers.
New Keyword: Honorable Kill - Cards featuring a bonus effect if they kill enemy minions with exact lethal damage. The effect is repeatable.
New Mechanic: Objectives - Spells with effects that last for three turns.
Fractured in Alterac Valley contains 135 new collectible cards.
Onyxia's Lair will be the expansion's mini-set. It will launch on Tuesday, February 15th. It will contain 35 brand new cards!
Login now to side with the Horde or Alliance and receive either Drek'Thar or Vanndar Stormpike for free! More details below.

Fractured in Alterac Valley Card 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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After clearing the Barrens, the Wailing Caverns, Stormwind, and the Deadmines, our mercenaries are max level and ready to lead their faction to victory!

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Keyword: Honorable Kill

Cards with the new Honorable Kill keyword have a bonus effect if they deal exact lethal damage to kill an enemy minion on your turn. The effect is repeatable.

Mechanic: Objectives

Objectives are spells with effects that last for three turns.

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Fractured in Alterac Valley: Horde or Alliance?

Fractured in Alterac Valley: Horde or Alliance? Which side will you be on? Hearthstone's newest expansion will have players pick between the iconic factions from World of Warcraft. Joining the Horde will instantly grant players Golden Drek'Thar, of the Frostwolf clan. Players who choose Alliance obtain Golden Vanndar Stormpike, leader of the Stormpike Dwarves.

From December 7th to January 11th players will be tasked with earning Honor to achieve ultimate victory for their chosen faction. Honor can be gained in Traditional, Arena, and Duels Modes. As Honor is gained, you'll progress through a Legendary Quest chain that rewards cards from the expansion (rewards to be announced at a later date).

So Horde or Alliance which is better? All players will receive the same total end rewards, including a Golden copy of the enemy's faction leader, so just pick the faction that speaks to you most or the card you like to play with most!

At the end of the event, all Honor points will be tallied and all players will receive a Diamond copy of the winning faction's leader -- to be forever enshrined in Hearthstone lore!

Honor points are earned by playing and winning during the event:

10 Honor for every game played
10 more Honor for every game won (20 total)
20 more Honor for every game won versus an opponent from the enemy faction (40 total)

Pre-Orders

Once again we have two bundles available. The standard pre-purchase is priced at $49.99, while the Mega bundle is $79.99.

Both bundles are available in the in-game shop now and will be purchasable until December 6th, 2021.

Standard Bundle - $49.99

60 Fractured in Alterac Valley card packs.
2 random Fractured in Alterac Valley Legendary cards.
Vanndar Stormpike card back.

Mega Bundle - $79.99

80 Fractured in Alterac Valley card packs.
5 Golden Fractured in Alterac Valley card packs.
2 random Fractured in Alterac Valley Golden Legendary cards.
Vanndar Stormpike portrait & card back.
Battlegrounds Perks.
5 Mercenaries packs.
1 Legendary Mercenary card.

Mini-Set Info

Lady Prestor and Kazakus have been pulling the strings from the shadows all year. But while they’ve been scheming, the mercenaries of the Horde and Alliance have grown stronger, and closer. Now these max-level heroes have formed a raiding party, and are charging headlong into Onyxia’s Lair. They’ll have to use all they learned this year to take down powerful Dragons and recover the fallen Naaru!

Onyxia's Lair will consist of 4 Legendaries, 1 Epic (x2), 14 Rares (x2), and 16 Commons (x2) -- for a total of 66 new cards.
Keywords will return from throughout the Year of the Gryphon.
The set will contain many new Dragons!
Onyxia's Lair will be released on Tuesday, February 15th.

Onyxia's Lair Card List

All 35 of the 35 cards have been revealed.

Demon Hunter - Druid - Hunter - Mage - Paladin - Priest - Rogue - Shaman - Warlock - Warrior - Neutral - Tokens
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Posted Dec 5, 2021 (Fractured in Alterac Valley)
They missed an opportunity to print a card like:

"Alterac Campfire", 1 mana 0/3. Your minions cant be frozen. Restore 2 health to friendly characters at the end of the turn.

With all the freeze effects in the new set it's (potentially) going to be pretty frustrating to have board after board of minions stuck doing nothing and a card like this would provide some tech options if it became oppresive (but probably wouldn't see much play otherwise). It would also provide some synergy with the frozen Mammoth for non-frost spell containing classes (and the shaman spell).

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Posted Dec 5, 2021 (Fractured in Alterac Valley)
Well one, there's still the mini-set. Two, we have a no freeze minion. Three, if this were to be made I would make it for adjacent minions since to get unfrozen you would need to be close to the campfire.

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Posted Dec 6, 2021 (Fractured in Alterac Valley)
I like that idea about adjacent minions - really fits the theme! As for point number 2 - do you mean Living Dragonbreath because that's not in standard anymore I don't think.

As for the mini-set - I personally don't think Blizz should use it to introduce cards deliberately designed to shift the meta; much better (imo) to include some sort of balance in the original expansion release and tweak cards which are overperforming. The mini-set should just be some new cards and the players should be the ones creating the meta.

I think thats one of the real disappointments with HS for me over the last few years. By and large the viable decks are basically designed by the HS devs by introducing obvious, powerful synergies. The quests are a prime example of this, no minion mage and corrupt were basically similar (albeit much lower power). As much as I hated Zephrys, the highlander decks really made for some creativity and variation i deck design and game play.

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Posted Dec 1, 2021 (Deadmines)
Can anyone buy it from android? When I try to login on mobile game crashed?

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Posted Nov 29, 2021 (Deadmines)
So the all powerful rogue hero is just a significantly worse version of what Vanish used to be?

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Posted Nov 25, 2021 (Deadmines)
Not a single Overload, Totem, or Murloc card for Shaman... and no Nature spells....

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Posted Nov 27, 2021 (Deadmines)
Frost frost baby~!

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Posted Nov 25, 2021 (Deadmines)
Warlock got the weakest set, but at least Shaman looks promising.

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Posted Nov 24, 2021 (Deadmines)
There're a lot of amputated synergies here but also some cool new things and the Hero cards will have some impact at least :)

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Posted Nov 24, 2021 (Deadmines)
My fast set review

https://youtu.be/A-rZMHDTQOQ

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Posted Nov 24, 2021 (Deadmines)
Deathrattle synergy for rogue yet no new Deathrattle… why? Even for neutrals there’s only like, 1 new Deathrattle minion that could maybe fit into the list and that’s popsicooler, but likely won’t make the cut anyway. Rogue’s new Deathrattle is… a maybe good Deathrattle from another class. Great.

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Posted Nov 24, 2021 (Deadmines)
I should add that if Korrak +shifty information interaction actually summons a korrak, then dr rogue has a chance, but that’s pretty much the only way

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Damn, Warlock actually for once got shit cards in expansion (except for Hero card of course)

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Feels that way for Rogue too. Good Hero card, pretty much everything else is pushing for a meme archetype. Some promising Deathrattle synergy but no good deathrattles to use it with.

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Warlock usually gets shitty sets, the good ones are actually rare exceptions. This one goes back to the roots after pretty solid United in Stormwind and Forged in the Barrens, which gave Warlock some viable and playable cards.

Now everything depends on Quest Lock, if he fails to stay relevant in the incoming meta, Warlock will be busted for couple weeks (again)...

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The powercreep of this expansion is very noticeable kinda makes me wonder why they even bothered reworking the basic set at start of the year because 90% of it probably won't see play when this expansion goes live. But ah well lot of interesting concepts to test with these new cards.

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Quote from HERBALIZ3R >>

e.g.

Whispers of the old Gods, .... no singing so much better

League of Explorers,.... just a little bit of singing

Also the other old ones, yes they had some singing but not all the way through the trailer and it didn't sound like I am about to watch Elsa skating on ice

Actually Whispers of the Old Gods has some sort of singing. Way more subtle than usual, but everything Lazul said rhymed and had a sort of metric.

Hearthstone had really few non-singing trailers, and those were some of the weakest imo: Un'Goro, Barrens, Frozen Throne (yeah, I said it, you can't just slap Arthas My Son to something and call it a day), vanilla, and we could argue about Blackrock and Naxxramas (and the first Outlands trailer).

Meanwhile we have bangers like League of Evil, Saviors of Uldum, GAdgetzan, Karazhan, Kobolds and Catacombs, Trial by Felfire, League of Explorers, Rastakhan Rumble and Descent of Dragons.

Actually the only trailer that I remember it was great and had no singing was Wizard Duels.

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Posted Nov 24, 2021 (Deadmines)
If they don't release more SI:7 cards I will be really sad... :(

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Posted Nov 24, 2021 (Deadmines)
I throw it like this: I predict that the warrior will have a new spell that doubles the armor points earned by each source. Last 3 turns.

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Just want to say thanks to whoever is adding the cards so quick on this page :) you're the bomb

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Fractured in Alterac Valley: Card List, Release Date, & Expansion Details

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Fractured in Alterac Valley Card List

Demon Hunter

Druid

Hunter

Mage

Paladin

Priest

Rogue

Shaman

Warlock

Warrior

Neutral

Tokens

Mercenary Heroes

Keyword: Honorable Kill

Mechanic: Objectives

Fractured in Alterac Valley: Horde or Alliance?

Pre-Orders

Standard Bundle - $49.99

Mega Bundle - $79.99

Onyxia's Lair Card List

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