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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I believe these changes are due regarding the next update we will get in August.
I can see a new deck brewing that cheats out giants.
when will the changes go live, please?
HAHAHA!!! Made my day!
Am I the only one who cannot wait to see if the elemental mage can get a new swing? since it also actually has full hands in many matchups.
Absolutely not! I've been playing a lot of Elemental Mage the past weeks and that damn Mountain Giant on turn 3 or 4 always destroys my elemental synergy :P I can't wait for the update
Yeah I was thinking the same! Still I don't think it can disrupt the meta that much, it will have much easier gameplay in certain matchup that requires faster tempo.
Feels good putting those Witchwood Pipers for drawing those Flame Imps and Vulgar Homunculus
Why doesn't Face Collector qualify as an elemental? It would have a significant bonus with Servant of Kalimos but that might actually allow it to see play.
It could also have good synergy with Ozruk XD
Face Collector seems like a Bog Beast, and neither Fen Creeper nor Bog Creeper are Elementals.
However, Bogshaper is actually an elemental, wich means they should probably add both creepers, and possibly Face Collector to the elemental family.
For consistency's sake they now created a consistency issue no one really thought about until now xD
wat?
They should have just made Astral Tiger and Spectral Spider beasts. You still have Ghostly Charger and Arfus as beasts. Doesn't make sense for Blizz to try to be "consistent" if they are not being consistent.
press f to the person who designed the spectral witchwood grizzly
Stealth buff to elemental minion mage, they often have a full hand and the ability to discover a 3 mana 8/8 is a significant buff to servant of Kalimos
Damn son, you're right! I didn't even think of the Servant of Kalimos value that could be possible here!
and Leyline Manipulator can then reduce its cost for even more value!
Psst, that's tempo not value.
Giant copy mage in wild is happy right now