Two Expansions and One Adventure Per Year
Polygon recapped their trip to Blizzard a few months ago to discuss the Standard format alongside other community members. We've recapped the important parts below!
Quote from Blizzard
- No longer will set releases alternate between adventure and expansion.
- We will see two expansions per year (start and end) and one adventure (middle). At least for now.
- Ancient of Lore and Keeper of the Grove "maybe those aren't the right choices" - Mike Donais
- Leper Gnome and Knife Juggler are two neutral minions being looked at.
- The move to Standard may be a bit early, but they don't want to get to the point where it feels impossible to catch up.
- Wild was originally going to be known as Legacy but Brian Kibler urged them to make it more Warcrafty.
- Adventures could potentially come back out of "the vault" much like Disney's movies do. (Idea is not mature)
If only expansion size was smaller...
If they were any smaller, they'd be irrelevant. Heartstone expansions are absolutely TINY by CCG standards. The only reason they SEEM to big is because the boosters are so small and there are so few commons relative to the other rarities, so you have to buy so many boosters to get a complete collection (and even then you basically HAVE to craft most of what you really want).
Kibler designs for HS ??????
Great to hear my favourite card, ancient of lore, will go untouched :)
50% fewer Adventures? Why??!?!?!?!? Adventures are the best part of the game!
Lets nerf Leper Gnome . Make it 1/2 . Keepo
Leave Leper Gnome alone!
Well played Brian Kibler, Standard already sounded Magic-ky to me.
Glad they didn't call it Legacy, Standard already seemed a little too much like Magic.
Hearthstone The Gathering.
I think the choice to use the term Wild was a mistake. Wild implies less serious or less sincere. Legacy doesn't make sense either because it implies "has been" or "old" when if fact it'll contain all cards including new cards. I think Elite, Mythic or Epic mode would have more interesting terms.
If they had called "Wild" something like "Elite" or "Mythic" or "Epic" they would have been on the spot to make it live up to it's name.
But now they can just leave any crazy broken OP crap in "Wild" and say "Oh well, we called it Wild cause it's supposed to be anything goes".
But I think the "Wild" fits perfectly! Because in this mode many "wild" combos or cards synergy are possible, that makes players "wild happines" or "wild angry" )
If you want accuracy, why not a simple "unrestricted"? Or perhaps "unlimited"?
It's so naive of you to think that the name of the format implies how it will be treated by Blizzard...
If they want to make it easier for us to keep our collection up to date, they could start with no longer releasing absolute garbage tier cards in every expansion. You only need 30 good cards to make a good deck, but it just sucks so much that you also have to spend so much gold / money on completely useless cards to get to the good ones...
I've taken a look at the TgT expansion, and of the about 130 cards there are like 50 I have ever seen in ranked play (and I've counted really generous, i'd say there are like 30 to 40 'good' cards in there). Especially the epics and legendarys are rarely seen, id say about 80% of them are just plain bad or occasional gimmicky cards...
50/130 (that's 40% of the set dude) firstly that's already a COMPLETE overexcagguration of the good cards in the set, I'd reckon the playable cards amount is closer to 10-15-20
Secondly isn't it only logical that some cards just become bad automatically because better cards exist? Some cards are obviously worse but for cards to be very powerful some need to be very weak. If you study this subject you might realize that's how it has to be.
Oh, and, the deck size is 30, why in the world would we ever need/want more than 50 viable good cards, because if we get 50+ close-to-equal powerlevel that are good enough to be played, it would completely cycle out previously released cards
What, a e you mad bro?? I'm recking everybody at rank 10 legend with my Anub'arak-Poisoned Blade-Ice Rager deck.