Rise of Shadows Launches Today! Here's Everything You Need to Know + Theorycrafted Decks
I've fixed an issue with Twinspell cards generating bad deck strings on the site.
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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5 legendaries in 55 packs. 6 with the pre-order. I have pre-ordered 3 expansions before and they were all meh. This has been good.
wow, that's really good
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Wow, the lackeys worked on 1st try ..! ^^
27 packs: 3 legendaries, 6 epic.
Edit: +1 Golden Legendary +1 Epic from firts week pack.
4 legendaries in the first 30 packs, then 0 in the next 30 packs. Odd distribution, but not bad, close to the pity timer now
nope, I enter Here to post it, but you are first
3 legendaries in 73 packs. Kinda poor.
I got 3 in 24 packs. Damn man
Yeah, my buddy got 5 in 26 packs. He probably took all mine x__x
9 legendary (1 golden) in 121 packs.
not bad
28 packs, 1 legendary in pack 8 and 4 epics. Could've been better...
Arena:
Opponent's turn two - some 2-drop.
Turn 3 - Conjurer's Calling 2-drop summons Khadgar and Archmage Arugal,
because of Khadgar it spawns second Archmage Arugal
Turn 4 - snowball into oblivion
50 packs, 2 legendaries (including the first 10 packs legendary), second expansion in a row that I only get pity timers legendaries.
and that's why I've never bought the 50 pack bundles.
Absolute garbage luck (101 packs and 5 legendaries? Ew...), but got a golden Rafaam from the bundle...?
Actually it is garbage luck. As in I had 0 luck in getting any extra legendaries beyond the pity timer ones.
When you log in to the game, exit and log in again. Stuffs is bugged and some pop-ups appear only after the 2nd log in (arena ticket, pre-order legendary, legendary quests).
Am I the only one who didn't get next chain quests after completing the 1st one?
I didn't get it either.