Hearthstone Patch 13.4 - Rise of Shadows Pre-Order, Random Card Back, Complete My Deck
A new patch has been deployed which gives us access to the new expansion pre-order and some other previously announced goodies.
Quote from BlizzardIn this update we draw up the plans for Rise of Shadows and give you a chance to join the crew before the heist begins. We’re also saying goodbye to the Year of the Mammoth card sets in style, adding some cool quality of life improvements, and fixing some bugs. Read on for details!
Events
Pre-Purchase the Rise of Shadows
Be ready when Rise of Shadows, Hearthstone’s newest expansion, begins!
Rise of Shadows Bundle
Get 50 Rise of Shadows card packs, the Jewel of Lazul card back, and a Legendary minion from Rise of Shadows.Rise of Shadows Mega Bundle
Get 80 Rise of Shadows card packs, the Jewel of Lazul card back, a golden Legendary minion, and the new Priest Hero Villain Madame Lazul!Farewell to Mammoth!
With the Year of the Dragon swiftly approaching let's take a moment to remember and celebrate the Year of the Mammoth which will soon be rotating to Wild. Join us for a Mammoth send-off!
- Free Packs – Log in March 25th through April 2 to receive 3 free card packs! (1 each from Journey to Un’Goro, The Knights of the Frozen Throne, and Kobolds & Catacombs)
- Brawl Block: Year of the Mammoth – The Tavern Brawl starting March 25 invites you to take those free cards and build decks using only expansions from the Year of the Mammoth.
- Shadows Rise in the Tavern! - The Tavern Brawl starting April 1 gives you an opportunity to earn a Rise of Shadows pack that you can open once the expansion is released.
Card Backs!
Game Improvements
We’ve further optimized Hearthstone's app size
It will be necessary to re-download app data, but Hearthstone will take up a lot less space now!Reconnect Improvements – Players attempting to reconnect to matches should now have a smoother overall experience.
Reroll Legendary Quests – To give players more freedom over how they’ll be rewarded while playing Hearthstone, we have now added the ability to reroll legendary quests (Special event quests, Expansion launch quests, etc.) into standard daily quests.
Random Card Back Selector – Let the Innkeeper curate your card back collection. Select the Random card back for a deck, and a random card back from your Collection will be chosen each time you play.Golden Heroes Now Count Arena Wins – Go for the gold in the Arena! We are updating the 500 Wins requirement for Golden Heroes to include Arena wins along with Ranked wins.
- NOTE: This will only apply towards Arena wins earned after this update is live. Any past Arena wins will not count towards the 500 Wins total.
Complete My Deck – Hearthstone’s better at helping you build decks than ever before.
- Helps you build established, proven decks using your collection.
- If you’re short of an established deck, the helper will help you choose the strongest stand-alone cards from what you have available.
Trigger Rules Update - We're updating the rules regarding how Poisonous, Lifesteal, and Overkill keywords work in specific cases, to make cards behave in a more intuitive way.
- Fixed several issues that could cause User Interface elements to overlap.
- Fixed an issue where Gral, the Shark’s effect could cause the eaten card to appear permanently on the gameboard.
- Playing Gral, the Shark will no longer cause visual effects to display on incorrect parts of the board.
- Gral, the Shark will now correctly gain the extra stats if the minion it eats was buffed in the deck.
- Fixed a visual issue with the effects in Rastakhan’s portrait.
- Nozdormu's visual effects will no longer persist after he is transformed.
- The Boomsday! card back will no longer light up during the mulligan phase.
- The lock icon for future overloaded mana crystals will no longer be erased after playing Mojomaster Zihi.
- Fixed issue where Magnetic minions could incorrectly execute their end-of-turn effects additional times after being bounced and replayed.
- Astromancer now correctly summons a minion immediately next to her instead of the far right of the board.
- If Big Bad Voodoo's effect triggers on a minion that doesn't have any valid minions to evolve into, it will now summon a random minion of equal cost.
- Fixed an issue where mulliganed cards would not be tracked as having started in your deck.
- Kalimos' Invocation of Water's card text will no longer indicate that the effect will be doubled while Prophet Velen is in play.
- Fixed an issue which could cause the Mass Disenchant menu to show an incorrect amount of cards and dust.
- Fixed an issue where a person on your Friends list would show their last rank if they set themselves to appear offline instead of going offline.
- Fixed an issue where Card Backs earned from completing a Heroic Adventure would not show up properly in the Collection Manager.
- Returning players who had not previously completed the tutorial or a PvP match will now be included in the New Player Ranks.
- Fixed an issue where players could sometimes get stuck on a loading screen if they tried to spectate a game that ends before they finish loading.
- [Reconnect] Addressed an issue that could cause players who were attempting to reconnect to Arena matches to lose additional matches.
- [Reconnect] Fixed an issue that could cause players who were attempting to reconnect to matches to become stuck in an infinite reconnect loop.
- [Rumble Run] Choices from Branching Paths will no longer trigger twice with Pirate's Mark in play.
- [Mobile] Fixed an issue that could cause some sound effects to fail to play even after all sound files had been downloaded.
- [Mobile] Fixed an issue that could cause the text bubble for the adventure announcer to appear incorrectly sized.
- [Fireside Gatherings] Fixed an issue that could cause missing and duplicate patrons in the friends list when connected to a Fireside Gathering.
Who are you to tell me to stop talking?
What makes you think I said cosmetics should be unlocked for free? Quote me where I said that. That’s right, I didn’t say that. The way you talk makes me vomit. I swear with my life you’re not over 15.
Sheesh. What little monster crawled up your uretha, slithered up through your body past pounds of excess bodyfat and nested itself in your tiny brain to make you that mad and stupid...
Why would I need friends in real life, when I just preordered and got myself a cool new hero skin? Tell me, please
Good job, now enjoy and gtfo. Nobody asked you anything in the first place.
"Who are you to tell me to stop talking?"
That was you, poor fool. Yet you tell me to "gtfo". Imbecile.
I told you to get out of the conversation because nobody asked you anything, you have just brought toxicity in the chat. Also, you're new here, aren't you? You can't call someone 'fool' or 'imbecile' on this forum, expect a ban. See ya.
Well now the update has shown up on the App Store, I downloaded it, but nothing is available in game. Ended up buying the mega bundle on battle.net, but not showing in client.
Update: 1st download didn’t take. Weird. I ended up having to redownload the patch and then everything worked.
It just goes for the closest match with the highest win rate. Try Druid, most things I put in instantly make Mecha'thun Druid. Even Treespeaker which I thought might try and make a Treant druid deck still made Mecha'thun.
Edit: I just tried Captain Hooktusk and it made a deck with no pirates in it... (even though I have pretty much every pirate).
To get this straight,they are revealing an expansion in less than 20 days apart from release? That's a first!
Tried constructing paladin while putting a single Kings in. Result was slightly weird, especially with egg selection:
### My Paladin
# Class: Paladin
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
#
# 1x (1) Argent Squire
# 1x (1) Autodefense Matrix
# 1x (1) Blessing of Might
# 1x (1) Lost in the Jungle
# 1x (1) Noble Sacrifice
# 1x (1) Redemption
# 2x (1) Righteous Protector
# 1x (1) Secretkeeper
# 1x (2) Amani Berserker
# 1x (2) Dire Wolf Alpha
# 1x (2) Hydrologist
# 2x (2) Knife Juggler
# 1x (2) Scarab Egg
# 1x (3) Devilsaur Egg
# 2x (3) Divine Favor
# 2x (3) Unidentified Maul
# 1x (4) Bellringer Sentry
# 2x (4) Blessing of Kings
# 1x (4) Truesilver Champion
# 2x (5) Call to Arms
# 2x (5) Fungalmancer
# 1x (6) Sunkeeper Tarim
# 1x (7) Vinecleaver
#
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#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
I just threw in my Kangor's Endless Army... got an odd paladin deck with no mechs in it. Thanks Blizz!
Hasn't updated yet for me. I think the issues with the shop are something to do with it.
Does anyone have problems with entering the game on Android?
Sure would be nice if Apple would load this to the App Store already.
Disappointed the 50 bundle has a legendary but not a golden legendary. I loved it when both bundles had that.
When is the release date of the patch ?
Now.
So i've been playing around with the auto complete deck thing. Put mechathun in an empty deck, it makes a standard netdeck mechathun deck. Cool. Put cloning gallery in an empty deck, it makes a standard clone priest deck, neat. I put shirvallah in an empty deck assuming it will make one of the OTK pally decks, but no. It just made odd paladin with Shirvallah jammed in with no way to ever play it. I try a deck with Shirvallah, uther DK, and Thekkal, still odd paladin. I try Kang'or, and it just makes some weird basic deck with stonetusk boars and shit. I guess they don't even recognize holy wrath paladin as a deck? Things like cubelock, DR hunter seem to check out normally.
Obviously it isn't going to be a perfect feature first day, just found that funny.
The devs said the feature wouldn't work properly right away, it needs time to collect data. I tried an autocomplete deck a few days ago, tried it again today and it was giving me a lot of the same cards as before (several of the same bad neutrals to be exact). Also tried to put in Antonidas and two sorcerer's apprentices to see if it would give some sort of quest OTK mage, and it didn't come close. But in the coming weeks it should start to work!
@zamutek: To be fair, they said it wouldn't work properly when the expansion was first released, not the deck builder itself (as they wouldn't have the appropriate data with the new set of cards). They already have obscene amounts of data to work with in its current iteration.
However yeah, it's a pretty massive addition, so it'd be surprising if it didn't launch without some teething problems.