All The Witchwood Expansion and Card Clarifications You May Have Missed
Yesterday was a busy and exciting day, so much so that our friendly neighbourhood Blizzard cast were out and about talking about the new expansion. Here's everything you may have missed that you absolutely need to know.
If you want to see the announcement, check out this post. We've also got our Witchwood guide up and if you want to see yesterday's patch, we've got a post on that too.
Important Details
- The expansion releases mid-April.
- The pre-order comes with 70 packs instead of the usual 50. You can pre-order here or in-game.
- Shaman is the only class getting a new playable hero card.
- Each class once again will be seeing two Legendary cards. (Source)
- There will be a stream to kickoff the card reveal season. (Source)
Baku, Genn, and Zero
- 0 is an even number. That's how it will work with Genn Greymane and Baku the Mooneater.
- Baku the Mooneater only upgrades basic Hero Powers - the exact same powers Justicar Trueheart does. (Source 1 | Source 2)
- New filters are going to be added that filter your collection to odd or even cost cards when you add Baku or Genn to a deck. (Source)
- Baku will still trigger if Prince Malchezaar adds even cost cards to your deck. (Source)
- Shifting Scroll counts as a 0-cost card. (Source)
Monster Hunt / PvE
- Dungeon Run will still be available for play. (Source)
- The four new heroes in the Monster Hunt mode have unique hero powers and even some special cards. (Source)
- They're not sure on what the plan is for Dungeon Run after Kobolds rotates out of Standard. (Source)
Game Mechanics
- Cards with the same effect as Echo which are already in the game will not be updated with the new keyword. (Source)
- Deathstalker Rexxar will be updated to work with both Kobolds and Witchwood Beasts when the set launches. (Source)
- If a Rush minion is played onto the board through a summon effect, the mechanic still works the same. (Source)
Why Greymane and Baku?
Quote from Mike DonaisThe two seem a bit like the opposites in terms of design. What made you pair the Worgen king with a "made up" lore monster? Is there any neat little lore about Baku that you guys came up with, which is why he seems to be paired with Genn?
Hagatha, the witch of the Witchwood awakened the trees and beasts of the woods making them stronger and angrier. Baku the Mooneater is the great worm that is basically her General.
Unrelated to WoW, Baku can also be found in Earth mythology too sometimes called Bakunawa.
Where is Witchwood?
Quote from Mike DonaisBefore Hagatha the Witch moved in it was called Blackwald and it is the forest outside Gilneas.
Correct - these woods are actually named "The Blackwald", but since Hagatha took up residence and twisted the woods around Gilneas, the Gilneans have started referring to it as "The Witchwood". It has become very dangerous.... (Source)
Will Each Class Get a New Hero?
Quote from Mike DonaisJust Shaman. Hagatha is the most impotant character in the set from a story standpoint. She brought The Witchwood to life and made it all dark and spooky. We wanted to signify that by making her a hero card.
Quests
Quote from Mike DonaisHow do quests work with the only even cost dude? Do you get the effect because the quest is guaranteed in your starting hand prior the check proir and you dont get it?
Quests are odd cost. You need all 30 even cost cards to run a Genn Greymane deck.
this is par for the course, Y'Sharj didn't get updated to read recruit
May I ask when the "Cycled Set Dust Calculator" utility will be update for the next month rotation?
While I get the sentiment, I actually like that they want to trickle out new hero cards over time and not necessarily make hero cards a major part of each expansion.
With one this set, I expect they'll do two or three next set, then one or two the set after that. At some point there will be a class that has three while some other classes have only one or two. They probably won't "check them off," but instead make them fun/flavorful. They might have another set where Heroes play a big part, but even then I doubt we'd see more than four or five in a single set.
The guy with the beard is really sexy
Same
i want to see warsong commander buff like this your rush minions can attack enemy hero :')
It is true that 0 is not positive or negative but it is definitely even, it fits every definition of even number (it is multiple of 2 because 2*0=0)
Here have some mathematicians display it in detail:
https://youtu.be/8t1TC-5OLdM
Next, we'll need some meteorologists to tell us how water is wet.
The problem with mathematicians is that they get so bored of their basic rules that I guarantee some would actually argue that 0 is neither odd nor even because it is only meant to be a store of value. I've seen them argue that the infinite sum from 1 to infinity is equal to 1/12.
those things have applications in physics, if you think they do that because they are bored you are completely wrong, your computator use algoritms from some numbers that are not real numbers, please dont say things you don't know, it is true that 0 may be odd if you chage the ring where you are working, but generally we speak in the integers ring so in general 0 is even, maths are very beautiful, if the sum from 1 to infinty is -1/12 it is because you are using the peadic numbers field instead of the integers ring, that formula have some uses in quantic physic and is frequently required.
what about quest rogue and echo's?