The Witchwood Launches Today! Hearthstone Expansion Survival Guide
Hearthstone's newest expansion launches today (Thursday) and we've got everything you need to know in one easy to find place.
WITCHWOOD IS NOW LIVE!
- 135 cards have been added to the game.
- Free: 3 Witchwood packs for logging in!
- Free: 1 random Witchwood legendary for logging in!
- Free: The Druid Hero Lunara is yours if you win 10 games in Standard.
- Monster Hunt will be available in two weeks, the exact date is not known.
Launch Day Goals
- Login to get your free packs and random Legendary.
- Craft any golden Legendaries you really want. This is important due to the no duplicate legendaries rule.
- Open up your packs! You get a guaranteed Legendary within your first 10 packs.
- Share your awesome decks with everyone on HearthPwn via or Deckbuilder. Don't forget to write a guide!
New Keyword: Rush
Minions with the Rush keyword can attack other minions immediately after they hit the board, either by being played or summoned. They cannot attack heroes until the turn after they enter play, however.
Here are some example cards with Rush. Want to see more? Check out Rush cards in our database.
New Keyword: Echo
Echo cards can be played multiple times on the turn you play them. Each time, it’ll add a ghostly copy of the card back to your hand that disappears at the end of your turn.
Here are some example cards with Echo. Want to see more? Check out Echo cards in our database.
Wild Set Rotations - Year of the Raven
Say goodbye to some of your favourite cards of the past! The following Hearthstone sets are now WILD ONLY.
- Whispers of the Old Gods
- One Night in Karazhan
- Mean Streets of Gadgetzan
This is the only set rotation which is happening this year, the next rotation of sets will happen in April 2019 when that expansion launches. Here are some key cards we're losing with this rotation so get in games with them while you still can in Standard!
Share Your Own New Decks
Have you created a deck using cards from the new expansion that you're finding success with? Head on over to our deckbuilder and share it with us! Click the banner below to go to the deckbuilder. Don't forget to write a short description to let people know how it works!
Share Your Pack Openings
We'd love to see what you crack open whether that is out of those pre-order packs or from all that gold you've been saving up for months. Check out our two dedicated threads for sharing your openings, one that is for opening videos and the other for screenshots.
Learn More About The Witchwood
Looking to learn more about Hearthstone's eighth expansion? Visit our expansion guide for The Witchwood!
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I must be living in a cave - I had no idea monster hunt was delayed two weeks!
no one did til today, they basically last second knee jerked told us its being delayed cause "QQ too many people on the servers"
I wish the new Dungeon run would be availble right after Witchwood launch..
Time's up. Let's do this.
Wait... Monster Hunt delayed? What?
Dangit...
They probably want all the people playing with the new cards upfront, and have something exciting later on to invigorate players.
Incorrect: non-China regions.
Correct: non-Chinese regions.
This new "launch is simultaneous in non-China regions" is gonna shit all over the servers and noone's gonna be able to play. They should have stayed with 'murica stress testing it for the rest of us..
It was exactly like this last expansion and it worked exemplary on the European servers.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/hearthstone/topic/20759488307
i don't think so. Also at 5am, everybody is asleep, at 7pm everybody is ready to shrek the servers.
I will miss Dirty Rat and the usual:
"I aint talking" followed by "Warriors of the frozen wastes rise!" And..."Thank You!"
They should have moved it into the classic set as a replacement to molten giant imo, don't like classic set just gradually getting smaller as it is and he is the only battlecry tech going
I used to have an Arcane Giant in my secret mage deck, happened a few times when a bad start turned out to be great thanks to our loveable Dirty Rat lol
Dirty Rat is one of the few cards I will genuinely miss. The Rat always felt like a strong but risky tech choice to specific decks without being too good on its own, and one of the very few ways to interact with combo decks and battlecries.
Except maybe for that short time when people were playing Brann+Rat+MCT. There, it was kind of annoying. ^^
When they rotate classic cards to HoF they should introduce new classic cards to replace them, or take quality cards from sets that are rotating out for inclusion... Even though I don't own the card I'm really sad to see we are losing the only tech to battlecry, which is Dirty Rat... We are moving into a world of battlecry importance and have no viable tech... Real shame
I think, Nerub'ar Weblord would be a better choice for Classic, since it is a very simple, easy to understand tech card without much potential to be problematic; something Team 5 really cares about for the Classic set.
But I agree, that cards should get replaced. I wonder how much of the set will still be around in a few years.
Why no voting this expansion? :(
I like that you have these guides, but I have to point out that there is one really bad advice listed:
This is bad advice. If I really want 5 legends A,B,C,D,E and craft them, it costs me 8000 dust. Then I open say 80 packs, get 4 more and the free one I got for logging in. So 5 random ones V,W,X,Y,Z
If instead I open those 80 packs first, I might get X,Y,B,Z,E. Now with 8000 dust i can craft A,C,D and 2 random ones (V, W) *OR* I craft A,C,D and 2 cards I like next best after ABCDE, like F & G => same dust, but I got F & G instead of random V & W.
Or I simply spend only 4800 dust and have 2 random legendaries less (that I do not care about too much as they are not in my top 5).
EDIT: Thanks for the replies, now I realize that there I read over one very important little word... :D That way the advice is pretty good, of course!
The advice is good, because it`s specified to GOLDEN legendaries
The advice is to craft GOLDEN legendaries. Craft the legendaries that you want in golden first, so that you don't open the non-golden version in packs, thus wasting a legendary roll.