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.
"starting hero power"
Baku + Lich Jaina stucks?
No. Until Jaina is played, it will be Fireblast, rank 2 (2 dmg), when you play Jaina, it will be her hero power (1 dmg)
In one post you've managed to show that you're lacking not only basic logic reasoning skills, but also simple text comprehension. And your math teacher would be ashamed.
Long story short - 0 is even, niether of the legendaries would activate, as their simply-written text obviously shows.
I don't even think there are enough 0-cost cards to fill your entire deck with.
I could see a really fun tavern brawl with these guys and shifting scrolls. Something like that shadow reflection brawl.
That new gameboard is GORGEOUS!
WOW! :)
sooooo I can smell the return of Control Warrior, sweeeet
Honestly I will be bummed out if the set about werewolves and monster hunting isn't the one that brings Hunter back to glory.
[Genn Greymane]: "@#$% you Raza because of you, i can't reduce it to 0."
Just tell me :l if u change into DK... is it still 1 or 2?
I'm kinda hyped! Preorder value is sweet, carbacks look great, new board is just amazing. And I really liked the promo, even though it was cheesy af xD
New keywords look promising and I dig those neutral legendaries, as all of them seem interesting.
0 is even......
zero is an even number... not just in HS, but in Maths too :P
zero is not a number, it means nothing
Wow 70 packs for the price of 50! Thanks, Valve! Kappa
There will be 2 Legendaries per class.
Yes, you will actually get 70 packs (50 + 20 bonus) for pre-purchasing The Witchwood!
No old cards will be receiving the Rush keyword (Charged Devilsaur/Charge).
0 is considered an even card and can be used with Genn Greymane.
Baku the Mooneater interacts with the starting hero power only.
Baku the Mooneater‘s upgraded hero powers are the same as Justicar Trueheart‘s versions.
Deathstalker Rexxar will be updated with the expansion release!
Unstable Evolution will not receive the Echo keyword.
Also, Hagatha will be the only hero card in the set. Source- Ben Brode
Maybe it is for the better that only shaman gets Werewolf hero card since we saw what death knights could do.
That means Devilsaur will nerfed in a way?
No, I believe they stated that they won't be changing him to rush.
Can machine gun priest return in the wild?
Genn + Maiden of the lake then you get 0 cost hero power.