Compete for new expansion cards! 6 wins for max prizes. 3 losses and you're out.
This Brawl allows you to build a Deck out of cards of the Core set, the last 2 expansions and the upcoming The Great Dark Beyond expansion.
The gimmick is that you get 1 free entry for this Brawl but that further entries cost either Gold, Tavern Tickets, or Runes, and have a prize structure similar to, but more forgiving, than Heroic Tavern Brawl. The other gimmick is that you can play with cards from the soon-to-be-released expansion!
Quote from BlizzardOpen Your Packs Early and Join the Pre-Release Tavern Brawl!
The Great Dark Beyond Pre-Release Tavern Brawl begins tomorrow with Patch 31.0 and runs until expansion launch on November 5. Crack open your The Great Dark Beyond packs early, build a deck, and compete in a mini-competition to earn more The Great Dark Beyond prizes!
Everyone will get one free entry into the Pre-Release Tavern Brawl. After that, entry will cost 2 Tavern Tickets, 300 Gold, or 400 Runestones per run. For each run, you'll lock in a deck and play until you get either 6 wins or 3 losses. Decks can be built with cards from Core Set, Whizbang's Workshop, Perils in Paradise, and The Great Dark Beyond. Prize payouts will be based on how well you do on your run, as follows:
You can learn more about the Pre-Release Tavern Brawl in our dedicated Developer Insights blog.
History
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Rewards
Click or hover over the chest to see the rewards!
5 bot matches out of 6 lmao...
Went 6-1 with control Lynessa paladin. Easy aggro decks to farm
Legitimately one of the worst experiences I've had since coming back to the game. I dropped off around Titans and came back with Paradise, and this brawl just feels so poorly planned. Perhaps a better idea would have been to let pre-order packs be opened, and then had a brawl where people could test the new cards in pre-built decks and earn a GDB pack for each win with a different class. Lots of replay value, builds hype, rewards people for playing the game. In a perfect world, I suppose.
Nice shot for ppl that wanted to buy card packs by gold or craft cards just to play the tavern brawl. Even worse so many cards are banned, so just go in, make 0-3 with core set cards and F-yourself :I
Yeah my experience with the free run did not entice me to do further runs. I'd seen quite enough at that point. I'll spend my gold on actual packs.
3 games vs 3 aggro decks with zero new cards in them, 3 losses. Nice expansion so far.
It has nothing to do with the expansion; it’s about the Tavern Brawl. Some people play it to try the new deck archetypes from the expansion, while others use it to "farm" packs. I think the decks in the Brawl should be forced to include a minimum number of new cards. The problem is that some people would complain(like they always do), saying, "Blizzard is greedy; they want us to buy the preorder bundle."
I didn’t buy the preorder bundle, but I believe the main goal of the Brawl was for people to try the new decks, not to "farm" packs or gold like in Arena or the Heroic Brawliseum.
The weird thing is that the Brawl has bad value if everyone is tryharding. But it has good value if you’re tryharding with old decks and your opponent is playing a new, non-optimized deck archetype because you get easy wins. It’s like the devs want people to play (almost) the same old strong decks to make the new decks look bad, which defeats the purpose of the Brawl.
3 games all vs. Warrior same old druid tourist bs..
It's more than just that, the first entry is free. I'd bet a vast majority of players did not buy any preorder, so what are they gonna do with their free run? Throw in an aggro deck with whatever they've got to get as far as possible. I'll admit I'm going to do the same thing because what else can I do? I'm not buying the preorder just for one brawl. It makes perfect sense why they'd do that and I'm not sure how blizzard didn't see this coming.
Well, I played the maximum 8 games possible in one run (5-3) and i faced a grand total of 0 decks running new cards - 9 if you include myself. I feel like blizzard won't do this one again next expansion without some changes...
What if they made the Brawl like a casual arena, where nobody earns packs or additional rewards? People would play it purely for the fun of trying new deck archetypes. Playing the same strong, old decks would be pointless without extra rewards.
Maybe a few people would still play the old decks, but their numbers would likely be very low.
You made a good point, but to be honest, I’ve seen streamers on Twitch who bought the preorder bundles yet still play the same old decks with zero new cards. I even saw a streamer facing someone with the new Ragnaros skin, using that mech warrior deck with no new cards. Don’t try to convince me that someone would buy the Ragnaros skin but skip the expansion bundle—lol.
Shouldn't the first entry be free? It's asking me to spend 2 tickets right away.
Yep, but when you click on it, it says the first time it is free.
On mobile, patch isn’t live yet I guess. I had Haunted Carousel Brawl. Got a quick win and a Standard Pack. Cant wait for the actual event.
I did the same thing. Im not at my home computer to play yet, so I loaded it up on my phone. As soon as I saw that I went to get the free pack. I feel like thats something that most people are going to miss out on. Once the update goes live on mobile, I assume that this brawl will just go away.
Seems kind of odd. I would think the brawl would just be unavailable.. or still running last weeks brawl until the patch goes live.
Oh well... free pack for me.
Well its a good way for me to spend my accumulated Arena tickets I guess
you will earn better in arena
Can't earn anything unless I actually play and I am not really into Arena mood, hence why I have Arena Tickets I haven't spent
I´m playing very less Arena cause of the less time I have. But I guess I will save my tickets as they once announced that they will do some changes to Arena. If this changes will force me to play more, I will be glad haven´t spent my tickets on a brawl like this.
May it´s like with Brawlisium before Miniset. But with tickets instead of gold...