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.
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Posted Mar 13, 2018 (Patches Nerf)Nah, the wording sets the cost of the hero power to 1 for both of them. If either said "your hero power costs 1 less" it would work.
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Posted Mar 13, 2018 (Patches Nerf)Genn specifies starting hero power, so shouldn't work after DK
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)Does Azalina South thief's battlecry work if your hand is empty? Or do you need to have the same amount of cards as your opponent?
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Posted Mar 13, 2018 (Patches Nerf)Yup, it works like Divine Favor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ-D_96U34E
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Posted Mar 13, 2018 (Patches Nerf)Basically, Azalina works as a kind of Divine Favor, but instead of drawing, you get their cards and delete your actual hand
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)Cards looks totally useless, so sad.
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Posted Mar 13, 2018 (Patches Nerf)I didnt see Start of Game text though, so may not so useless. I thought it was Battlecry...
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)Cool, I'm liking the Victorian vibe.
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)EXCELLENT new card designs! :)
Pleasantly surprised :)
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)Question. If you put Baku and Malchazaar in the same deck, and Malchazaar puts an even cost minion into your deck, will Baku's effect get to go off before that or will that cancel out Baku's effect?
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)I think both effect trigger at the same time so Baku will work. Or may be it following the alphabetical order like Call of the wild (Huffer -> Leok -> Misha) and Baku will trigger first then the Prince.
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)Those both sound reasonable so I am assuming you're right, either way I will enjoy suffering through playing that awful deck~
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)Can't wait to see the full list! (>^^)>
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)The Hero Power upgrade from Baku the Mooneater is the same as the one from Justicar Trueheart.
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)what has "witchwood" to do with warcraft? can somebody enlighten me...if its random stuff..ill quit this game
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)You’re kinda weird.
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)Well there is a place in Highmountain called Witchwood. But this looks like it has a Gilneas/Silverpine vibe to it.
HS just does it's own thing now and makes new, zany places/characters with a Warcraft vibe. That's the way things have been going for a while now. If you want a serious, mature card game go play Magic or Gwent.
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Posted Mar 12, 2018 (Patches Nerf)They can just add those new characters, elements in world of warcraft later (as NPC side quest). It has been like that for a while you know. I believe there is a place called witchwood in wow too.