The Witchwood is Hearthstone's Next Expansion
The first expansion of the Year of the Raven has been announced! Six new cards have been revealed. You can pre-order the expansion on Battle.net right here.
- The expansion releases mid-April.
- New Keyword: Echo - These cards can be cast multiple times in the same turn.
- New Keyword: Rush - These minions can attack other minions the same turn they are played. Charge but not overpowered!
- Monster Hunt - Four unique heroes in a new version of Dungeon Run.
- Pre-order - Contains 70 card packs for the price of 40. You also get a card back.
- 135 new cards - No surprises there!
- Free stuff - Logging in when the expansion arrives gives you three free card packs and a random Class Legendary card.
- A new Shaman Hero Card, "Hagatha", is seen briefly at the end of the video. Ben Brode confirmed that this is the only Hero Card in this expansion. (Source)
- Every class will be getting 2 Legendary cards this expansion. (Source)
Press and members of the community will begin revealing The Witchwood cards starting March 26 PDT!
You can find the official Hearthstone page for The Witchwood here.
New Cards
The cards are not yet in our database. We're working on getting the site ready for the new expansion.
- The Hero Power upgrade from Baku the Mooneater is the same as the one from Justicar Trueheart. (Source)
Card Backs
There are two new card backs. The first is available with the expansion pre-order and the second is a reward from Monster Hunt.
Monster Hunt
- Works like Dungeon Run in that you play a hero against bosses and build a deck as you progress.
- Does not use normal Hearthstone heroes, this has four unique characters.
Below are pictures of the Cannoneer, Houndmaster, Time Tinkerer, and Tracker heroes from Monster Hunt.
New Gameboard
As always, Hearthstone is getting a new game board with the expansion.
lMAO "did you say you have a map?!"
They actually buffed Fiery War Axe Kappa
Hype is On
Absolutely loving the new board
Please make Warrior playable again
Yeah and hopefully not cancer like pirate warrior this time....
Looks great, but two weeks for more card reveals? Ugh.
hm, 135 cards, so that way it will be quite easy to collect all cards... usually there are 240+ new cards...
Every set is normally 135 cards
you forgot that you need 2 copies of each common, rare and epic
((98/2 = 49) + (72/2 = 36) + (54/2 = 27) + 23) = 135
common: x / 98
rare: x / 72
epic: x / 54
legendary: x / 23
So control lock can now draw cards for 1 mana and not take damage ? Are you kidding me ?
EDIT: Ignore. I didn't read the condition first.
you are not the bad guys.
We are.
I really want to play Baku the Mooneater in a shaman deck.
Will Golden Azalina give you a golden copy of your opponents hand? If that's true, what a power play LOL "I have golden copies of YOUR cards now!"
I can imagine Genn Greymane to see some play in an aggro hunter to allow him constantly use his hero power and lower his opponent's life. As we already know all these cards may not seem to be good/playable at the first glimpse, though, I'd like to point out the fact that many cards will rotate soon so that a space for some of the brand new cards will be available. I can remember how the community of HS was complaining about trashy princes that actually turned out to be good and in some cases overpowered. So yeah the hype of the new expansion has already begun, I cannot look forward seeing more of interesting mechanics.
Best hunter card cost 3 (animal companion, unleash), and now 5 (spellstone) mana, although it works with rexxar and secrets it disallaws you to play the best hunter cards like To my side and crushing walls
WoW! Control warrior is back fellows :) 4 armor hp since the start of the game is VERY strong thing imo. The only thing we need is some new hard removal, as Execute will not fit this type of deck.
but we will have shield bash and the other one which destroys your armor and deals it to all enemy minions
There's a condition for it to apply, and a lot of cards are on that cost category.
Hey it’s Innistrad!
Probably equally as unbalanced and game-breaking.