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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The art change to Witchwood grizzly is mostly pointless. Which I'm not apposed to.
I guess they are covering their bases for when they finally make an Undead tribal tag.
jungle moonkin shall be nerfed
Waiting for a life steal giant deck now.
I like the art for Witchwood Grizzly
Seems like Kibler's Elemental Mage deck just got a lot better with the change to Mountain Giant!
Why? That would imply that there would need to be new cards which synergize with the giant tribe, thus creating a "giants" deck, and any deck which plays that many giants with some way to cheat them out earlier or gain additional value from them would simply be OP. Just look at Naga sea witch.
I would not be surprised if Mountain Giant is HOF'd next rotation.
I spent dust for my moonkin beast druid. Dust refund!!! Kappa
so whats going on with the egg tribe?
It's kind of an interesting change for Servant of Kalimos
If you're building a deck that focus on getting elementals in you hand all the time like elemental mage with spellstone, you can make use of mountain-giants. They are now great for Frost Lich Jaina
The piper being a demon might not make much of a difference I guess. Maybe for Zoo with sense demons, but who runs that right now?
I want to point out that the change to Jungle Moonkin is a nerf and that blizzard should give dust refund for that too - "for consistency’s sake".
Also: Kripp made a video on this matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shkYpZtsFLk
Blizz found my post and downvoted me ROFL
Fun fact: People can disagree with what you have to say.
I know. I know. Still, mostly blizzard employees. :P
Or... you are not as special as you think you are and blizzard doesn't give a damn about your whining. It's just us other people that don't want you here.
or ... maybe I am, who knows?
guy's asking for free dust, what kind of retard disagrees with that?
But he isn’t an elemental. He’s not made of an element. He’s powered by one, not made.
If anything he should be a mech right?
If anything, but warcraft lore (and Hearthstone) seems to make a distinction between golems (such as the arcane golem and arcane giants) which are magical constructs, and mechanical robots, which tend to be created through engineering rather than magic, even if they occasionally have a power source with magical aspects. It likely has to do with how the thing moves, as you will often see the golems move more mystically, rather than through pistons, gears and so forth - that they are animated by the magic more than powered by it.