Blizzard just announced a completely new mode with rotating seasons and special rules called Twist! Let's take a closer look at what it's going to be.
Battle-Ready Decks
Apparently there will be Battle-Ready decks for the new Twist mode that you'll be able to purchase either with real money or with your Gold if you want to quickly get a decent deck to play the mode if you don't have most of the cards.
You'll also be able to buy full-golden versions of these Battle-Ready decks. Source
Card Changes in Twist
Only one version of cards in Standard/Wild/Twist. So if nerfs were reverted when they entered Wild, those versions will be in Twist.
— Matt London (@themattlondon) June 20, 2023
Quote from BlizzardStarting in Patch 26.6, coming later this month, Hearthstone will be replacing the Classic Mode with a new Mode called Twist!
Classic Hearthstone, With a Twist
Twist is a Hearthstone ladder Mode with regularly rotating seasons, each with a twist on the rules! Twist formats can include curated card pools and special rulesets. These formats are sure to bring back some of your favorites, but in a new setting with a new meta to crack!
We already have some fun and nostalgic Twist formats planned for the rest of the year, but we also want to hear from you about Twist formats you’d like to see, or if you end up loving one so much you want to see us bring it back. Twist formats are planned to change regularly, but not necessarily with every season. Twist also might be deactivated from time to time we prepare for the next upcoming season. You can find Twist in the Hearthstone menu, where Classic used to be, and you always check the current Twist season’s rules and eligible card pools from the deck selection screen.
Twist Timing
With Patch 26.6, Twist will be launching in its Beta. You’ll start your Twist climb from the beginning, at Bronze 10, and that first season will be a short season, lasting until July 1. You’ll also be able to earn ranked rewards from the Twist ladder, like Standard or Wild. June’s ranked rewards will be based on your highest ladder rank across Standard, Wild, Classic, or Twist. Once the Twist Beta kicks off, the official Leaderboards will switch from Classic to Twist.
The Twist Beta is planned for June and July. After the Beta, Twist will be temporarily deactivated for a short time while we prepare for the official Twist launch, coming soon!
Beta Format: New Age
Due to the short June season, there will be one format for both the June and July Beta seasons of Twist. That format is called “New Age,” a new evergreen format that includes the Core Set, plus all sets from Ashes of Outland forward. That means, during this Beta period, it will consist of:
- Core
- Ashes of Outland
- Scholomance Academy
- Madness at the Darkmoon Faire
- Forged in the Barrens
- United in Stormwind
- Fractured in Alterac Valley
- Voyage to the Sunken City
- Murder at Castle Nathria
- March of the Lich King
- Path of Arthas
- Festival of Legends
As new sets are added to the game, they will be added to the New Age pool, which might be brought back from time to time. For these Beta seasons, there will also be a special rules variant to the New Age format: no neutrals allowed. That will let you re-experience the New Age, but through new eyes! When we bring New Age back in the future, it might come back with the same rules variant, a different one, or no rules variant at all.
Twist Preview Event with Twitch Drops!
Join your favorite content creators on June 22 and June 23 for a special preview of the Twist Beta! Competitors from around the world will be playing on a private version of the upcoming Twist ladder to test out some decks and see how far they can climb.
NA, LATAM, and EMEA participants will be playing throughout June 22, at various times from 9:00 a.m. PST – 9:00 p.m. PST. APAC players will be playing June 23, from 2:00 a.m. PST – 8:00 a.m. PST. Participating players will be streaming from their own channels, so make sure you follow your favorites to see when they go live!
NA Group
- Kibler
- Regis
- Alliestrasza
- TrumpSC
- Ike
- Zeddy
- WowHobbs
- GetMeowth
- MarkMckz
- Roffle
- Rarran
- Dreads
- Luna
- NoHandsGamer
- Redbeard
- Corbett
EMEA Group
- Danehearth
- Bunnyhoppor
- Feelink
- Solary
- Meati
- Hibadino
- Feno
- BabyBear
- Jambre
- Josemi
- Fishou
- DroodThund3r
- TheoHS
- TheHousewife
- EnDjinn
- Zetalot
- OldGuardian
- Berono91
- MrYagut
- Thanh
- Pocket_Train
LATAM Group
- Nayara Sylvestre
- KingVenom
- CerealForMe
- Digohs_
- Casanova
- Tesdey
- Rane
- rami94hs
- iCheky
- Zéltica (TCK)
- Jason Gamer HS
- AnotherAudio
- ZoomHS
- RusinhoHs
- Swagnaros_HS
APAC Group
- DawN
- DDaHyoNi
- Flurry
- Ghost
- Jinbae
- Kimukihun
- Kranich
- RenieHouR
- RoofTopCAT
- Ryvius
- Sooni
- Surrender
- Younjoy
- Zochi
- Jucon
- HearthFun
Category-wide Twitch drops will be enabled for this event! From June 22, 9:00 a.m. (PST) to June 23, 9:00 a.m. (PST), you can earn up to nine free packs for watching Hearthstone!
- Watch for one hour to earn 1 Ashes of Outland pack, 1 Scholomance Academy pack, and 1 Darkmoon Faire pack.
- Watch for another hour to earn 1 Forged in the Barrens pack, 1 United in Stormwind pack, and 1 Fractured in Alterac Valley pack.
- Watch for a third hour to earn 1 Voyage to the Sunken City pack, 1 Murder at Castle Nathria pack, and 1 March of the Lich King pack.
Each of the pack groups corresponds to one of the last few Years of Hearthstone, so you’ll be able to use the cards you open when you jump into Twist’s Beta and try out the New Age format! We hope to see you there.
Make sure you link your Twitch and Battle.net accounts so that your viewing time counts towards drops.
Looks fun
first time that i am excited for a hearthstone update in a while!!
About the Beta season though. No Neutrals. I hope there's not a class that gets a benefit from not using Neutrals, and has a bunch of cards to boost such an archetype, right in the time frame of this Twist season, cause that would be kind of broken, I suspect...
Ughh that reminds me, Librams were in this time period.
While I definitely agree, won’t it be nice to never hear “Hey Loser” when playing a libram pally?
Hearthstone has gotten significantly cheaper with duplicate protection and the rewards track. You can easily get every common and rare card for free just playing a few games. Do you really want to keep playing with 9 year old cards?
So, they are killing off the only mode where you could play without buying too many cards. As expected.
Wild should still attract players who are into using their current collection with addition of new expansion cards every 3 months. The power level might just keep rising with powercreep, the issue that they cant control if they want to sell new expansions. Players will play Wild if they are not into the mode that keeps twisting seasons and rotational card sets like Twist, and rather play/face predictable broken decks like Secret Mage, Big Priest, Weapon Rogue, etc.
You mean the game mode that sees so little play that a single Standard deck has more plays than the entire mode?
They could do some REALLY funky stuff with these new rule sets. I love the idea.