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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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.
This in inaccurate and misleading! A minion with both rush AND charge can attack face. Rush just enables a minion to attack other minions. The sentence "They cannot attack heroes until the turn after they enter play" should be removed from this explanation.
Houndmaster Shaw + Stonetusk Boar, as a simple example. The boar would be able to hit face. Rush is not "Charge" (minus) "can hit face", it's just "can hit minions".
I loved my evolve Shaman, regardless of how viable he was. But I'm not sad to see him go because Witchwood Shaman sounds great fun!
Patches no more has Charge btw
Thank god Purify is rotating to wild. It was such an oppressive card.
Can someone explain benefit of it :"Craft any golden Legendaries you really want. This is important due to the no duplicate legendaries rule."?
Why I have to craft a golden legendary?
That’s specifically if you want the legendary to be golden. That way if you craft it golden before you open packs, you don’t risk opening up a non golden copy of it which would have been a different legendary. Most people can ignore that ‘tip’
If u dont want golden legendary, so dont craft golden, simple.
the idea is that if you absolutely want some specific golden leg, you should craft them before opening packs. Otherwise you might open their regular version, which you supposedly don't care about, hence will probably dust, instead of an other legendary which you might keep.
This piece of advice should only apply to whales. The lot of us can't afford golden legendaries in the first place :)
I still don't really see the point of doing that. Don't you wanna save some dust having the chance to unpack the specific Golden Legendary you really want instead of crafting it? Specially if you're gonna open say 600+ packs results yield almost the same.
Thank you all for explaining this - I was attempting to extrapolate to "Craft any legendaries you really want so you have them and don't get a duplicate of it and can start getting the 'other' legendaries faster". But now I realize that this doesn't make sense - if you don't want a golden version, don't craft the legendaries you want before cracking packs because you might just get what you want and not have to use your dust.
You can thus save your dust for a few weeks later when you are net-decking the new meta decks that everyone else is playing too.
It says 1AM cst. It’s currently 7:53am cst and is not out. Does it mean 1AM tomorrow??
It will be out in 4 hours time at most. Most of the time it releases a little earlier, so be on your guard.
The "free" legendaries will never be able to be disenchanted sadly. Don't think they have been ever.