It's Christmas in February - The Gift Exchange Brawl Has Returned This Week!
Great Father is dropping crates on the battlefield! Get a gift each time you smash your opponent's crate... or your own!
Trivia
- This is the second time we've seen this brawl.
- Gift Exchange first debuted on December 14, 2015.
- There was a lot of community outrage when Blizzard didn't activate this for Holiday 2016, that's why we're getting it in February.
- This was the first brawl that rewarded a card back for it's reward and at this time, one of two.
- If you have already obtained this brawl's card back from last time, you will earn a card pack instead.
How it Works
- Build a custom deck using cards from your own collection.
- At the start of your turn, provided there is not a Winter's Veil Gift on your side of the field, Greatfather Winter will drop one off.
- Destroying a Gift will give you a Stolen Winter's Veil Gift.
- Stolen Winter's Veil Gift allows you to Discover a card from the class of the player the originating Gift minion came from.
- You are only able to receive cards which initially cost at least 5 mana.
- The cost of the card is reduced by 5 mana.
- You are unable to Discover weapons.
- If you obtain a Stolen Gift through a card like Mind Vision, it will only pull cards from the neutral set.
- You have a chance of seeing Hardpacked Snowballs in the Discover mechanic.
Cool Interactions
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- Crazed Alchemist allows you to trigger gifts on your side of the field easily.
- Doomsayer clears the board after your gift is dropped which could easily result in two Stolen Gifts if opponent passes.
- Priests could Divine Spirit + Inner Fire a gift on their side of the field for a nice present to the face - if it survives a full turn!
- Mages love Flamewaker! Plenty of fun thanks to the Stolen Gift spells.
- Warlocks could drop a Void Terror after using Power Overwhelming on a gift.
Community Voted Favourite Decks of the Past
Here are the top 5 decks which were enjoyed the last time the brawl was available. You can find decks, old and new, on our deck listing.
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Discuss this Week's Brawl
Head on over to the forums to discuss this brawl!
Reward
If you don't already have it, this week's reward is the awesome Winterveil card back! If you already have it, then you'll get a classic card pack.
Feast of Winter Veil
Can we start giving out new expansion packs, or at least allow the option of what type of pack we can win when doing the weekly brawl, please? Would be awesome!!
Same as previous year, and yet they couldn't manage to deliver it during the right season...
Are those the guys you people are counting on to fix the power creep?
Team 5... The EA inside Blizzard...
Cause you know, old players do need the pack, while new ones don't and will make a better use out of the card back.
I also heard new players who haven't reached lvl20 in a class yet are too stupid to comprehend the supremely complicated and well-thought-out mechanisms of the brawls.
Easy, My opp seems busy to collect all the present than trying to kill me. So I just burst them down.
Yeah, I did notice that. Sometimes players will pay too much attention to the crates, and they will neglect actually putting decent tempo on the board. Even with "Hardpacked Snowballs", I still killed my opponent before he was able to do anything decent with the cards he got from the crates.
You know, these alternative tavern brawl rewards are nice and all, but you know what we should have for once?!? The "better, actually rewarding, f2p system" tavern brawl rewards.
Woohoooo! Didnt Think I was goin to get this cardback since I missed It the last time. Really happy for this! On my wishlist for this years christmas Is a way to obtain the old cardbacks! Thanks Blizz!
Another pack lost.
Great !
You're no worse off than the rest of us who got the cardback back in 2015.
Should reward a complimentary Weasel Tunneler since it's the end of Winter, according to the rodent tomorrow (Groundhog Day -- Feb. 2 USA)
Im thankful that blizzard gave a pack to those who already got the cardback, props!
this is rigged i already have cardback but dont get a free pack scamazed DansGame
Don't whine because life hasn't handed you a silver platter (or in this place a free pack). It's unbecoming.
Wait... i got my winter veil card back on 2015... and i dindt get the new pack! So... what? Is this normal? Should i complain? (Sry for my english)
All I want for Christmas is less RNG.
so glad you get a pack.. when i saw this was the brawl, i got a little pissed, since i have the cardback already
This is a pretty fun brawl, loved it last time we had it. Played against a Shaman and managed to get like 5-6 The Mistcaller in a row. Plus the card back is pretty nice.
You could find them in normal packs too, a DISCOVER ME card with a rarity, then you get your choice of one of three cards at that rarity.
Then I wouldn't get so many terrible epics....
Sad to see they didn't think of new players like me who certainly would have preferred a pack too.
I'm pretty sure that the Winter's Veil Gift was the base mechanic card for The Dark Wanderer Brawl despite the different wording.
Discarded Armor,Chest of Gold!, and Weapon Rack had the same stats as Winter's Veil Gift, and they had the same effect!