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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For the same reason clockwork giant is a mech, consistency
Nerf Shudderwock an Elemental Beast to make it more powerful!
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Luke's comment made me laugh so bad
OMG Witchwood Piper is flat useless now!!!!! Gets countered SO HARD by Sacrificial Pact. What a nerf!!! I want a dust refund but I'm positive that the new meta will be healthier. HYPE
ikr? my Cubelock Piper deck is now completely ruined.
Turn 9 umbra + cube on piper gg
Why tho? DK arts are awesome and she is supposed to look badass (which she does), not like a slut.
But the Style from the Trailer was way more badass and nicer than that shit
Yeah, card art is disappointing. The art in the trailer was a lot better.
it's already the meta
as long as there will not be an elemental hate card I welcome the changes! it's quite a big buff to minion mage! it was an odd inclusion before but mountain giant now fits like a glove into elemental mage.
witchwood piper might be playable in zoo at some point thanks to this change.
In order for elementals, or any tribe in HS, to avoid the Tribe Infecting Virus of HS the tribes have to strike that balance between being good, but not being too good. As soon as you get a tribe that gets too much support and lasts for 2 or 3 metas in a row it will increase the chance of such a hate card being released.
However, I don't think we need to worry about that any time soon.
They only release counter cards to BOARD tribes, see pirates or murlocs for example. They'll never release a card against Elementals or Dragons for the same reason (Except Dragonslayerwhich wass made to be a bit underwhelming, as it has no gained stats). In conclusion, stay calm, no anti - elemental cards soon
Anyone else actually find it odd that a card's art was changed so as not to be confusing to some players? Isn't that in contradiction to what they keep saying about the art of a card being important to be easily recognizable to newer players?
Not a big deal in all honesty but weird considering what previous blue posts have told us.
Sandbinder in Handlock? And maybe even North Sea Kraken with The Curator in Astral Druid?
Card changes are nice, but all they did was color in the bear. :(
At least they stayed inside the lines.
Personally, I feel there should be more Tribes in Hearthstone. I feel that each card should have a Tribe so that at least even the least played cards have some use. And maybe even open up to more archetype to occur. As of right now, there's only Pirates, Dragons, Beast, Elemental, Totems, Demon, Mech and Murloc. Also, there hasn't been a single Totem legendary since the launch of Hearthstone.
Pls blizzard - add orcs as a tag \^o^/