Molten Giant & Mountain Giant to Become Elemental + More Minion Changes
Five minions of Hearthstone are receiving type changes and one art change!
- Molten Giant becomes an Elemental.
- Mountain Giant becomes an Elemental.
- Witchwood Piper becomes a Demon.
- North Sea Kraken becomes a Beast.
- Jungle Moonkin is losing Beast.
- Witchwood Grizzly is receiving new art.
Quote from BlizzardIn our ongoing quest to make Hearthstone more consistent and intuitive, we always pay close attention to what our players are saying about the game. In an upcoming update, we’re taking some steps toward improving consistency by making some small tweaks to certain minion types, based on your feedback.
Some minions in Hearthstone are categorized into Types, like Demons, Beasts, or Elementals. We’re going to be making changes to a few cards to make their Type match what you’d expect based on their art, fantasy, and where they fit in with Warcraft lore.
The following changes will be included in the next major Hearthstone update:
Molten Giant & Mountain Giant
Both Molten Giant and Mountain Giant will be reclassified as Elementals. This adds some additional options in Elemental-type decks, but also makes more sense from a visual standpoint—these lumbering towers of magma and stone are the epitome of Elementals.
Witchwood Piper
Witchwood Piper will be considered a Demon. This satyr minion is rather demonic in nature, which is in keeping with Warcraft canon, and so it makes sense to acknowledge that in Hearthstone. This is the first* time we have introduced a satyr to Hearthstone, so we want to associate them with their proper minion classification.
North Sea Kraken
In line with the fantasy of a giant, boat-smashing terror of the deep, North Sea Kraken will become a Beast. Just don’t call it calamari.
Jungle Moonkin
While visually very Beast-like, Moonkin are in fact intelligent humanoids. We currently have two collectible Moonkin in Hearthstone—Darkmire Moonkin and Jungle Moonkin—and one was a Beast and the other wasn’t. We agree with the overall community feedback that Moonkin should not be Beasts, so, for consistency’s sake, Moonkin will no longer be classified as Beasts.
We also discussed how to address spectral beast cards like Witchwood Grizzly and Arfus. Are they Beasts or not? For Witchwood Grizzly, we liked the gameplay interactions that it had with Witching Hour and Kathrena Winterwisp. We decided to update its art to make it look like a beast instead of a ghost. Arfus meanwhile, is seeing a lot of play because he is being Discovered by Deathstalker Rexxar, which is really fun, so we're leaving him as is for now.
As a follow up to our recent explanations regarding our refund policy, we would also like to clarify that minor consistency changes—such as name changes, templating updates, art updates, or Type changes that do not significantly affect the power level of a card—will not offer a full Arcane Dust refund.
In this case, since power levels remain essentially unchanged, we will not offer a full Arcane Dust refund.
If you’ve noticed any other minions that seem like they should be a different Type, let us know in the comments, or on Facebook and Twitter.
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It could be an interesting addition to Recruit Hunter, if you pull it, cool, you got a big body "for free". If you draw it early, you have a useful battlecry :)
That new art is pretty cool
How about removing demon tag from Void Lord too? To keep it canon with recent warcraft lore?
Wait...he's a drake...so you are saying he's a duck as well as a dragon? I see what you did there! 😜
Servant of Kalimos OP.
North Sea Kraken will destroy the wild meta!
Shadow word: pain it like before.
The thing is Bone Drake was a Dragon in life, he is still a Dragon now, he LOOKS like one. If it walks and talks like a duck, then guess what? It's a duck. There is not enough going against Bone Drake to make it lose it's Dragon archetype. You'd have to make the same argument for Sindragosa, since she is also a Dragon. Note how similar the art to both cards are. But since they have Dragon bodies, and sound like Dragons, then guess what? They're Dragons
But it's not an Elemental: it's a Latnemele :P
So the Giants get to be elementals while amgam rager continues to be the only non elemental rager
Giants meta is coming home.
GG Blizz
Elemental Mage/Shaman approve the change
Random comment about dust refund/ Ben Brode /broken balance/ new expansion, ignoring truths and previous statements, and using my feelings as a fact
But that's his point? It's an inconsistency: Bone Drake and Bonemare are both skeletal beings, and yet Bone Drake has a tribal tag while Bonemare does not. If you want to argue semantics, "mare" is right in the title: mares are horses, aka Beasts.
I'm glad they are adding these tags to cards, as some of these cards should've had them in the first place. However I'm going to focus on the negative side because at least these changes may help players create/change a few deck types in the game, which is a huge plus in my opinion.
WOTLK was revealed July 6. I would bet we see the new expansion within the next two weeks.
And yet if they did it all at once, everone would howl about how they didn't do enough testing. Blizzard can't win with changes these days.
So does this mean that Undead will become a tribe by the next expansion? I think that is the only minion type that hasn't been added yet.