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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Basically, Mountain Giant change could be classified as first-time-ever notable buff to a hearthstone card. That's interesting.
Kibler and his elemental mage are happy at least.
#JUNGLEMOONKINLIVESMATTER
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lol
Without the beast tag, the Moonkin thing is now literally useless. All the cool ideas I had for him that I was definitely going to implement someday are now ruined.
Woe is me.
So... do I get any dust back?
No because nobody plays that card. Yourself included.
I don't know how to make it any more clear that it was a joke without having to state so.
Small changes, but I'm interested in seeing how the community will work these changes into their decks.
There once was giant Mage which was a decent deck. Required Ice Block, but maybe in wild it will spawn a new ele/giant deck.
its funny how they mention their dust refund policy knowing a few people will try to pull some crap from their asses for some dust
Excuse You! Shadow Eager isn't an Elemental either!
Rin & LG as demons?
rin isn't a demon she is a human who warship demons
Human? She is a gnome!
Personally, Witchwood Grizzly was my favorite card art in the game. Really sad they had to completely replace it.
I'm Calling it now Elemental Even Warlock!
Why would arcane giant be a mech. It’s a golem created by magic there is nothing mechanical about him. By this logic the collector would have to be and he is a golem as well. Personally I think you are trying to force some of these a little too hard with little thought into the rules that govern tribes. The witchwood grizzly debate was solely caused by the astral tiger. The whole bonedrake argument I understand and fully support. Core hounds however have skin unlike the giants or elementals with a more dragon like scales to it.
There are so many art changes that need to happen, I'm surprised that they just picked one.
Can't imagine what this changes. Neither see play in Mage or Shaman, the only two classes to really utilize Elemental synergy.
W/ ya ONA. However, in past metas, using elementals as secondary in a Mage deck could use the new bigger elementals to possibly make better decks. Peace.