Rise of Shadows Launches Today! Here's Everything You Need to Know + Theorycrafted Decks
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Hearthstone's newest expansion launches today, April 9. Everything you need to know to get through today can be found below.
EXPANSION IS LIVE!
- The new Adventure will be available in May with no date confirmed.
- Another 135 new cards have been added to the game.
- For the next week you can purchase the "Shadow Bundle". It contains 9 cards packs and an Arena Ticket for $10 USD.
- You can view all the new cards in our dedicated visual guide to Rise of Shadows.
- You can come kill time with me and some HearthPwners on Discord.
Freebies
- One Archmage Vargoth on login (if you haven't logged in and received him yet).
- A quest chain with card packs.
- The first wing of the new "Great Dalaran Heist" adventure, delivered in May.
Launch Day Goals
- Login to get your free stuff outlined above.
- Craft any golden Legendaries you really want. This is important due to the no duplicate legendaries rule.
- Open up your packs! You get a guaranteed Legendary within your first 10 packs.
- Share your awesome decks with everyone on HearthPwn via or Deckbuilder. Don't forget to write a guide!
New Mechanics
We have three core mechanics in Rise of Shadows.
- Twinspell adds another copy of the card (without Twinspell) to your hand.
- Lackeys - Special token minions which are randomly generated through other particular cards. They are 1/1 minions with "devious" battlecries.
- Schemes - These cards grow in power each turn they are in your hand!
Year of the Dragon Begins
New year, new you! For those that play Standard, say goodbye to friends from the past. The following Hearthstone sets are now WILD ONLY.
- Journey to Un'Goro
- Knights of the Frozen Throne
- Kobolds and Catacombs
A reminder that this is the only set rotation that is happening this year, as always. The next rotation will take place in April 2020 and you can learn more about how set rotations work in this post from just over a year ago.
In addition to the sets above, the following cards have been sent to Wild as they were moved to the Hall of Fame set.
- Divine Favor
- Doomguard
- Naturalize
- Baku the Mooneater
- Genn Greymane
- Black Cat
- Glitter Moth
- Gloom Stag
- Murkspark Eel
Arena Changes
The Arena is getting a massive change with the start of Rise of Shadows.
- We will now have rotating card sets for the Arena.
- The initial rotation of card sets will include cards from Basic, Classic, Naxxramas, Old Gods, Gadgetzan, Witchwood, and Rise of Shadows.
Reveal Day Stream
Theorycrafted Decks From RegisKillbin
Regis has been hard at working building ideas for the new expansion. Check out his concepts and expansion stream where we may see some of them evolve.
Deck | Author | Cost |
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Midrange Dragon Paladin | RegisKillbin | 6400 |
Bomb Control Warrior | RegisKillbin | 8520 |
Thief Rogue | RegisKillbin | 7640 |
Khadgar Summoner Mage | RegisKillbin | 8360 |
Tempo Mage | RegisKillbin | 3880 |
Mech Deathrattle Hunter | RegisKillbin | 5960 |
Control Hagatha Shaman | RegisKillbin | 16160 |
Lucentbark Heal Druid | RegisKillbin | 6680 |
Vereesa Spell Hunter | RegisKillbin | 4140 |
Tempo Togwaggle Rogue | RegisKillbin | 8000 |
Big Warrior | RegisKillbin | 6320 |
Betrug Portal Warlock | RegisKillbin | 6360 |
Silence Priest | RegisKillbin | 1040 |
Demon Zoo Warlock | RegisKillbin | 7120 |
Secret Paladin | RegisKillbin | 6600 |
Murloc Shaman | RegisKillbin | 4680 |
Theorycrafted Decks From Kripparrian
Deck | Author | Cost |
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KRIPP Bomb Midrange Warrior | Kripparrian | 12960 |
KRIPP Jepetto Spell Hunter | Kripparrian | 9900 |
KRIPP Silence Lady Priest | Kripparrian | 7080 |
KRIPP Malygos Jepetto Shaman | Kripparrian | 13140 |
KRIPP Undatakah Paladin | Kripparrian | 10420 |
KRIPP Mecha'thun NOT DEAD Warlock | Kripparrian | 11040 |
KRIPP Token Aggro Druid | Kripparrian | 2800 |
Theorycrafted Community Decks
We're shining the light on some theorycrafted community goodness.
Rise of Shadows Expansion Guide
Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated expansion guide.
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"The new Adventure will be available in May with no date confirmed". Omg, why so long ???
fuck this game.. thank you for completely ruining this when Ben left.
LOL nonsense. Ben Brode was one person from a big team. For example he was against the release of Shudderwock but they didn’t change it. „When Ben left.“ people still think the advertising face of hearthstone is the whole designing team. Completely irrational.
Did anyone else not get a quest chain? Only one quest with packs tho today is Tavern brawl.
April 12th never mind. I got quest daily since after noon. Weird timing.
Same here. Only 1 quest yesterday with 2 packs (one from RoS and one from Witchwood [I think…]).
Did you try again? Seems that the Quests from the chain don't go out until 10am PDT thus giving you your regular quest for the day as well.
Yes, you have absolutly right! All working like intend :). Thank you.
How many quests should there be in a quest chain? because I got only one
They’re one per day for the first 5 days of the expansion being released
Well this time opening packs sucked ALOT, in 70 bought packs 2 legendaries, i mean what a freaking hell, and a third in my next 3 or 4 packs, that´s just terrible.
75 Packs + 4k Dust.
with all the dust from doubled cards and my 4k i have all cards but two legends now :D
worth it
3 Legendary from 92 packs . Okay I'm done buying pack.
The game feels broken now, especially weak minions below 5 mana in mage. I like to play control super hard now, rouges are everywhere.
64 packages = 7 legendaries, Dr Boom, Kalecgos, Togwaggle, Chef Nomi, Archivist Elysiana, Catrina Muerte and Lucenbark. I can't complain
Nice haul, grats!
Did Bomb Warrior vs. Bomb Warrior.
It's basically Big Spell Mage mirror match -- he/she who gets to the hero card first likely wins, unless you got horrible luck on bomb draws.
/yeah, I got to both Dr. Booms first and won.
Isn't that pretty much every mirror match tho?
7 legs from 99 packs + 1 free +1 from 50 pack bundle, quite well, also crafted 3 more already, got 7.4k dust from HOF anyway....33 cards to complete the set.
3 legendaries in 78 packs F2P: feelsreallybadman.
Also didn't get the second quest in the chain: is it just a problem of mine?Edit: never mind, I found an article on Reddit
I have a hard time believing that cause there is a pity timer at 10 packs before epic