BlizzCon 2015 Hearthstone Recap
What a crazy weekend! We've got all of our coverage recapped below for those of you who didn't get a chance to read through all of it.
Remember, Hearthstone's third adventure, The League of Explorers, launches this week! Oh, and for those interested, a couple of new site achievements have been added - good luck!
A very special thanks to all of the helpers who helped make this weekend's coverage possible in one way or another. In randomized order: Xskarma, Pandalicious, ShadowsOfSense, Asuryan, kronyk, afding, HermiesL, jmxd, Khennen, Thesolis, Neonangel, Snow_King, Angzt, LunacyHS, Noxious, Hazem, Tehstool, Adurin, PupleMD, Ephyra, TheSithCode, Kurze, Thormor, and BDSorcerer.
Build Your Own League of Explorers Decks
Want to build and share your own League of Explorers decks? The entire set of cards from the upcoming adventure are available over in our deckbuilder, so go get theorycrafting!
The League of Explorers: New Cards!
We've got all 45 of the new cards revealed at BlizzCon available in our card database. Our secrets page and secrets calculator have also been updated with the newly revealed cards, ahead of release.
The League of Explorers
A new adventure was announced at BlizzCon! The League of Explorers launches this Thursday - November 12th!
- Costs $19.99 USD for all four wings. Wings can still be purchased for 700 gold each.
- The adventure contains 45 new cards. Each class is getting 3 cards.
- There is no pre-order available this time around.
- One wing will release each week, with a week long break in the middle due to American Thanksgiving. (Week of November 26th)
- We currently have the names of 10 bosses.
- We know the hero power and rewards from 9 bosses, including class challenges. (Learn More)
- The fourth and final wing, Hall of Explorers, is being kept a mystery.
- Murloc Tinyfin is adorable.
Tavern Brawls Panel
Day 2 of BlizzCon was home to a panel dedicated to Tavern Brawls and an open Q&A at the end.
- Tavern Brawls are meant to fill the void between large content releases.
- They've learned that decks which only contain minions aren't very fun.
- The most popular brawl to date was Randomonium (Week 18)
- Pick Your Class style Tavern Brawls where your deck is assigned to you based on that class pick are among the most popular.
- The Ragnaros vs Nefarian brawl returns this week. Nefarian will start with one less mana crystal.
Developer Interview with Yong Woo
We got a chance to sit down with Hearthstone's Senior Producer, Yong Woo. We've got the main points from it below, but go check out the full interview.
- We will get more deck slots. They're still working out all the details.
- Yong feels it would be wrong for us to be charged for more deck slots.
- More hero portraits will be added to the game. They're figuring out the best way to move forward.
- They will continue to add more quests to the game.
- They aren't ignoring requests for a tournament system, rather, they're trying to conceptualize what that would be for Hearthstone.
- More Co-Op Tavern Brawls in the future.
New Card Backs
Three new card backs were revealed at BlizzCon!
Overwatch Origins Edition 
LOE Heroic Completion 
Nov. Ranked Reward
Hearthstone World Championships Deck Lists
Looking for deck lists from the BlizzCon tournament this weekend? You can find all the deck lists below. We're still trying to complete some of the partial deck lists, they will be updated whenever possible.
Zoro
Hotform
Pinpingho
Kno
DieMeng
Ostkaka
Kranich
More from Blizzard at BlizzCon
We've got more coverage of the other announcements from BlizzCon. Check them out below!
World of Warcraft
- Opening Ceremony
- Legion World and Content Overview
- Legion Cinematics Panel
- Warcraft Movie Recap
- Legion Armor Sets, Transmog System, Community Amphitheater Discussion
- Legion: Game Systems
- WoW Q&A Panel
- Behind Blizzard's In-Game Cinematics
- Engineering Community Amphitheater Discussion
- Legion Class and Systems Amphitheater Discussion
Overwatch
- Three New Heroes, New Map, Game Pricing Info
- What's New in Overwatch
- The World of Overwatch - Lore Panel
- Streamer New Gameplay Livestream
Heroes of the Storm
- Battlegrounds Panel
- State of the Game Panel
- Day 1 and Deep Dive Panel
- Skills and Talents for New Heroes - Greymane, Lunara, and Cho'Gall
Diablo III
The BlizzCon Wiki
Looking for more? Head on over to the BlizzCon Wiki over on Gamepedia!
Darning of Socks Voting & Submission Phase
We're approaching the end of Season 2 of our Weekly Card Design Competition, and this week's competition theme is all about filling in Hearthstone's gaps. Every class is missing a spell at this mana cost or a minion at that mana cost, and your task this week is to create a card that patches up one of those holes in a class's repetoir.
So what are you waiting for? Head over to this week's Submission Topic for further details and to enter you submission.
A Special Exploratory Card Design Competition
W-w-wait, what's this? ANOTHER Card Design Competition? That's right, HearthPwn members. We over at the Fan Creation Forum just couldn't resist the League of Explorers hype, and we've added a Special Edition Card Design Competition specifically to explore all of the new possibilities that it inspires. LoE and behold...
BlizzCon Grab-Bag Giveaway!
Didn't go to BlizzCon? No problem! We're giving out some fabulous mystery bags to 5 lucky winners in our BlizzCon Grab-Bag Giveaway, each containing hundreds of dollars of cool Blizzard merchandise, including convention-exclusive items!
Head over to our BlizzCon wiki and click on the BlizzCon Grab Bag Giveaway banner to enter.
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Posted Nov 22, 2015 (Explorers)overwatch card back looks smooth
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Posted Nov 13, 2015 (Explorers)The Heroic card back is AMAZING.
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Posted Nov 12, 2015 (Explorers)I really enjoyed the Ragnaros vs Nefarian brawl! New cards, new hero power, really good synergies for both heros, it was really good to play with something entirely new!
And those hero power are really interesting... well especially Nefarian's that allows him to draw a spell that will costs 0. It's really random but can lead to really interesting plays and require flexibility!
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Posted Nov 10, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)Having the deck lists available is so nice! Thanks a ton for that!
As someone who's pretty busy I'm curious; what matches from the championship are most worth watching?
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Posted Nov 10, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)D'awwwwww. That it is :3
Err...Sith hate adorable things!
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Posted Nov 9, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)Entered first design competition. Woot.
Also loving these new cards:
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Posted Nov 9, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)I need to collect way more Gold :(
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Posted Nov 9, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)No golden cards preview this time? Guess i'll have to wait for someone with a lot of dust.
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Posted Nov 9, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)No pre-order card back! Hallelujah! Now I can actually buy with gold instead of blowing more money on this game.
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Posted Nov 9, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)I think it is ridiculous that Blizzard doesn't publish the decklists themselves IMMEDIATELY after the tournament... in every f.. Pro Tour Wizards of the Coast does the same for magic and it is the main reason why people come to their coverage page (and see the commercials there), so Blizzard is not only acting stupid towards its community but also to their very own bank account ... and don't tell me, but the players maybe don't want to, they will sell their mothers to participate in a 250 k tournament and can very easily be forced to publish their lists!!!
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Posted Nov 9, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)Excellent recap for a busy weekend!
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Posted Nov 9, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)I like the three new Card Backs. Need it!
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Posted Nov 9, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)Can't wait to see the impact on the meta
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Posted Nov 9, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)cant wait tot try out the new deck that are going to be made
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Posted Nov 8, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)Meh the Nef vs Rag Brawl again..
Wanna try out that Blackheart Brawl!
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Posted Nov 8, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)Any free wing like Naxx?-
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Posted Nov 8, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)There's only one thing we're waiting for: For Blizzard to release the patch with the LoE data so that we can see those beautiful golden cards and well written flavor texts.
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Posted Nov 8, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)Quick question about LoE: If I craft golden Elise Starseeker, then can I get deck filled with golden legendaries? Or are only the tokens golden but not the legendaries itself?
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Posted Nov 9, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)I think yes.
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Posted Nov 8, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)Thanksgiving is in November 26, not October 26