Winter Veil is Coming! New Card Back, Bundle Deal, Free Packs Through Quest
Winter Veil has hit the asian Hearthstone servers and will soon be out in Europe and the Americas. We heard about the holiday again in the Rastakhan's Rumble patch notes.
- Winter Veil Returns on December 18.
- There is a new card back that will be rewarded via a suspected tavern brawl.
- A new quest gives you 4 Boomsday packs for simply playing 100 cards in play mode.
- A bundle is available that gives you 30 packs for 20 bucks.
- You should be able to wish other heroes a Happy Feast of Winter Veil with an emote.
- Orgrimmar and Stormwind game boards will become snowy.
We'll let you know if anything fun pops up that we don't yet know about.
Winter Veil Wonder Bundle
Blizzard has introduced a bundle into the store as well that will cost $20 USD or 20 EUR. In contained 30 card packs, six each of the 5 expansions prior to Rastakhan's Rumble. Seriously though, why is it so difficult to include some of the new expansion packs? At least we're not Heroes of the Storm and essentially had our game cancelled this holiday season.
New Card Back
Previous Winter Veil
We first saw Winter Veil three years ago in 2015. It brought a new card back through the Gift Exchange Tavern Brawl which in turn brought forth complaints about the reward not being a free pack. Fast forward to 2016 and instead of complaints about a card back, there were complaints because we had no brawl at all for the holiday season! It was instead was brought back in February 2017.
Last year in 2017 we had a new brawl, Wacky Waxy Winter Veil which was themed for Kobolds & Catacombs, the expansion that had just launched. No card back reward though, instead we received 3 Frozen Throne card packs. Going back to a card back reward, and a new one at that, is a nice change!
This concluded a brief history of Winter Veil in Hearthstone.
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)and it's cold!
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)One of my fav. play sounds :)
https://media-hearth.cursecdn.com/audio/card-sounds/sound/VO_ICC_252_Male_Undead_Play_02.ogg
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)Of course they wouldn't include the new set in this bundle, but instead all the old sets rotating out in april. They want you spending money on sets rotating out of standard soon so your standard collection will be smaller and you'll have to keep buying packs from the latest set to maintain it.
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)Not complaining about free packs (never will!).
Though do wonder if missed opportunity to make the 100 cards quest also valid in new PVE Rumble mode. Be nice incentive to play it for some who would otherwise be uninterested. (Not forced to play it as still valid on ladder/casual etc).
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)Its that time of the year we show all our Xmas spirit by politely emoting "Happy Feast of Winter Veil!" before hitting the mute button.
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)what? you don't want to hear the "Thank You" from Uther as he slams your face with buffed up silver hand recruits?
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)I burned a quest but yeah 4 packs are more than enough to forgive them
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)Aren't three of the expansions in that bundle rotating out soon?
Seems like a bad deal to get, if you aren't planning to play in Wild.
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)It's not that I'm complaining about free packs, but.. why not Rhastakhan packs? ':D
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)Next Winter Veil :p
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)Would have been good to know that this is coming, lost a quest now. :/
Of course free packs are awesome, but I just hate missing out on a quest. ^^
Always have 2 in line as I only complete 1 per day, well whatever, free packs are free packs. :)
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)Has some toehead bemoaned getting a card back instead of a classic pack for the brawl yet?
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)You are the first one to whine so far on here. Grats!
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)Problem with reading comprehension, I guess. Try again.
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)Be careful, 3/5 of the pack-types here are rotating out next spring.
So for standard players, that is like 12 packs and 1800 dust for $20 dollars. Assuming you buy this instead of $20 of Rasta packs youd get 3 less packs but 1800 more dust (kind of like a net 1500 value gain, but sorta less cause of how opening needed cards is kinda like saving the crafting cost rather than the disenchanting cost).
I think it is still kinda worth it, but nothing to feel like you have to buy.
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)Not to sound ungrateful, but how about 5 of the most recent expansion instead?
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)Free packs? Now you are talking my language.
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)I like that they offer a bundle, but I have just hit my pity timer with those 5 expansions, so I will not be treating myself with the offer this time around.
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)me too, i hardly get the last legendary of KoF after open 38 packs
i dont think that this bundle is worth
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Posted Dec 17, 2018 (Rastakhan)I made a mistake in my pity tracker, so I hadn't updated with the last legendary I opened I KoF, I essentially ended up opening another 30 is packs in the thoughts that I only had 14 or so to go. burned my saved RR gold... not so clever, but netted me a lot of dust.
But I saw that Khagdar would be available in the through the Japanese store, so I might look into getting some RR packs there to make up for it and add him to my collection.