The Great Dark Beyond Launch Day - Everything You Need To Know!

Hearthstone's newest expansion The Great Dark Beyond launches today, November 5th. We brought all the information and useful links together in this news post for you.

  • The Great Dark Beyond expansion should go live today at 10am PT/ 1pm ET/ 19:00 CET/ 18:00 GMT.
  • Yet another 145 new cards have been added to the game.
  • Another 38 cards for all classes combined will follow in a Mini-Set midway through the expansion. There's not been any official details revealed yet!
  • You can view all the new cards in our The Great Dark Beyond Card List.
  • PvE content for the The Great Dark Beyond expansion has not been announced (yet).

Included for free in the Expansion

New Mechanics

  • New Keyword: Starship - Fly around The Great Dark Beyond in a shiny new Starship! Throughout The Great Dark Beyond, you’ll find Starship Piece minions. When they die, their stats and effects get added to your in-progress Starship construction. When you’re ready, press the button and Launch your Starship directly onto the board for 5 Mana. You can stack as many pieces as you want before you launch—the sky’s the limit!
  • New Mechanic: Starship Building. Cards that have an effect when you are building a Starship.
  • New Race: Draenei.
  • Returning Keyword: Spellburst! A one time only effect when casting a spell. With a Spellburst minion or weapon in play, casting a spell will activate the Spellburst effect.
Soulbound Spire is a Death Knight Rare Minion for 3 Mana with 2 Attack, 2 Health and has text - Deathrattle: Summon a minion with Cost equal to this minion's Attack (up to 10). Starship Piece
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The Gravitational Displacer is a Rogue Legendary Minion for 5 Mana with 4 Attack, 3 Health and has text - Starship Piece When this is launched, summon a copy of the Starship.
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Exarch Othaar is a Druid Legendary Draenei Minion for 4 Mana with 3 Attack, 3 Health and has text - Battlecry: If you're building a Starship, get 3 different Arcane spells and reduce their Costs by (2).
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Warp Drive is a Demon Hunter Rare Fel Spell for 3 Mana and has text - Draw 2 cards. If you're building a Starship, they cost (2) less.
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Ingenious Artificer is a Mage Rare Draenei Minion for 5 Mana with 4 Attack, 6 Health and has text - Battlecry: The next Draenei you play refreshes Mana Crystals equal to its Attack.
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Expedition Sergeant is a Warrior Rare Draenei Minion for 3 Mana with 3 Attack, 4 Health and has text - Battlecry: The next Draenei you play immediately attacks a random enemy.
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Parallax Cannon is a Hunter Epic Arcane Weapon for 3 Mana with 2 Attack, 3 Durability and has text - Has +2 Attack if you've Discovered this turn. Spellburst: Your hero is Immune this turn.
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Overzealous Healer is a Priest Rare Draenei Minion for 1 Mana with 3 Attack, 3 Health and has text - Deathrattle: Restore 6 Health to the enemy hero. Spellburst: Silence this minion.
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Other Mechanics

Some mechanics that were seen in previous card sets were brought back on new cards, as well as some truly new mechanics were added:

  • Death Knights get one of the Orbital cards which have an extra effect when you play adjacent cards.
  • Crewmates are Demon Hunter minions with bonus effect keywords, and when you play one, the adjacent crewmates also get played.
  • There's more Choose One cards for Druid.
  • Hunters get a package of cards around the Discover mechanic.
  • Elemental package returns for Mage, but now with a Fire spell twist.
  • Paladins see the return of Librams!
  • Priest get a unique effect that forces creativity with damage and healing to get to a specific life total across both heroes.
  • The Combo keyword is back in a Rogue package.
  • Shaman get an Asteroid damage package that holds a middle ground between Incendius and Mage's Lightshow cards.
  • A Demon package is not new for Warlock, but this package revolves around the Demons not starting in your deck.
  • Warrior gets a significant Draenei package with synergies between the various minions.
  • You can view all the new cards in our The Great Dark Beyond Cards List.
Orbital Moon is a Death Knight Common Spell for 1 Mana and has text - Give a minion Taunt and Lifesteal. If you played an adjacent card this turn, also give it Reborn.
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Emergency Meeting is a Demon Hunter Epic Spell for 2 Mana and has text - Get two 4/4 Crewmates. Put a random Demon that costs (3) or less between them.
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Uluu, the Everdrifter is a Druid Legendary Beast Minion for 5 Mana with 6 Attack, 5 Health and has text - Each turn this is in your hand, gain two random Choose One choices. Choose One - ; or .
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Rangari Scout is a Hunter Common Draenei Minion for 1 Mana with 1 Attack, 2 Health and has text - After you Discover a card, get a copy of it.
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Blazing Accretion is a Mage Rare Elemental Minion for 3 Mana with 3 Attack, 1 Health and has text - Battlecry: Destroy the top 3 cards of your deck. Any Fire spells or Elementals are drawn instead.
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Interstellar Researcher is a Paladin Common Draenei Minion for 2 Mana with 2 Attack, 2 Health and has text - Battlecry and Spellburst: Draw a Libram.
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Mystified To'cha is a Priest Epic Minion for 4 Mana with 4 Attack, 2 Health and has text - Battlecry: If the combined Health of both heroes is exactly 42, set your hero's Health to 42.
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Spacerock Collector is a Rogue Common Draenei Minion for 1 Mana with 2 Attack, 1 Health and has text - Battlecry: Your next Combo card costs (1) less.
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Bolide Behemoth is a Shaman Epic Elemental Minion for 4 Mana with 3 Attack, 6 Health and has text - Battlecry: Your Asteroids deal 1 more damage this game. Spellburst: Shuffle 3 of them into your deck.
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Foreboding Flame is a Warlock Common Elemental Minion for 2 Mana with 2 Attack, 3 Health and has text - Battlecry: Demons that didn't start in your deck cost (1) less this game.
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Stalwart Avenger is a Warrior Epic Draenei Minion for 4 Mana with 7 Attack, 2 Health and has text - Immune while attacking. At the end of EACH turn, swap this minion's Attack and Health.
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For tokens, related cards, generation pool, cosmetics & more, please click on the card image to open a pop-up, inside this pop-up you can mouse over any thumbnail cards on the right side (on mobile at the bottom) to display them.
On mobile, you need to click on the related card image in order to display them.

 

Pack Opening Tip

With how many different packs there are these days, it can get a little confusing in what order you should open your packs. Fortunately Blizzard Dev Celestalon made a tweet with just the info you need.

Quote from Blizzard

  • Always open Catch-Up Packs first, since their card count is based on collection size.
  • If you want the most total cards (fewest duplicates), open Expansion Packs, then Class Packs, then Standard Packs.
  • If you want more latest-expansion cards, at the cost of more duplicates overall, open Standard Packs, then Class Packs, then Expansion Packs.

Arena Changes

The Arena changes actually went live with the Patch this time and this meant the new cards of The Great Dark Beyond have largely been playable for a couple of days already in that game mode.

Quote from Blizzard

On October 29, with Patch 31.0, all ongoing Arena runs will end and a new Arena season will begin. With this season, we return to single-class Arena. The eligible sets that will make up this Arena card pool are:

  • Caverns of Time
  • Festival of Legends
  • The Great Dark Beyond
  • Showdown in the Badlands
  • Scholomance Academy
  • Perils in Paradise

Theorycrafted Decks

We created a special Decks post yesterday, with a lot of new archetypes and a lot of new deck ideas. You can find the links to that Decks post below.

Alternatively, create your own deck with the Deckbuilder, add a good guide on how to pilot the deck and help create the post-launch meta!

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That should get you started! Thanks for being with us throughout this exciting The Great Dark Beyond reveal period. Shoutout to everyone who helped in one way or another during this time, the other moderators and staff and the devs and all the users who gave us useful suggestions and feedback, and to everyone who enjoyed and supported our coverage. You rock!

If you are looking for some company while opening packs or playing, come chat with us on our Discord.

The Great Dark Beyond Card List & Expansion Guide

Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated Card List.

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