Saviors of Uldum Launches Today! Here's Everything You Need to Know + Theorycrafted Decks
Hearthstone's newest expansion launches today, August 6th. We brought all the information and useful links together in this news post for you.
- Expansion is LIVE. Good luck everyone with your pack openings and have fun!
- Yet another 135 new cards have been added to the game.
- You can view all the new cards in our Saviors of Uldum Card List & Guide.
- The new Solo Adventure "Tombs of Terror!" will be available in September with no date confirmed.
- There will be a set of action-packed Tavern Brawls leading up to this Adventure.
Included for free in the Expansion
- One random Legendary Quest on login within the first 90 days of the expansion.
- Access to the new "Tombs of Terror!" adventure, delivered in September.
- One Event Quest that rewards 3 Saviors of Uldum packs for playing 100 cards.
Launch Day Goals
- Login to get your free Legendary Quest and your first Daily Quest mentioned 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 our Deckbuilder. Remember, including a good guide means more upvotes!
New Mechanics
We have two new mechanics in Saviors of Uldum, the return of Quest cards, as well as an addition to the existing Lackey mechanic.
- Reborn - Minions with the Reborn Keyword will return to life the first time they’re destroyed, but with 1 remaining Health. See all the new Reborn cards!
- Plagues - Plagues are powerful spells that help clear the board in some way. See all the new Plague cards!
- Quests - Quest cards make a return. They are still 1 mana cards that will always be part of your opening hand, but they are now easier to complete and have a Hero Power reward that will change your game play in some cool way. See all the new Quest cards!
- Lackeys - A new Lackey is being added to the pool: Titanic Lackey. This one gives a friendly minion +2 Health and Taunt. Lackeys are special token minions which are randomly generated through other particular cards. They are 1/1 minions with "devious" battlecries. See all the new Lackey cards!
Highlander cards
Not just the Quest card mechanic saw a return but Blizzard also created new cards for the Highlander style decks, where you can have only 1 copy of each card in your deck to make certain cards activate.
The most interesting of these new Highlander cards is Zephrys the Great a card that when played will look at the state of the board, the amount of mana you have this turn and next turn and how many cards you have (but does NOT look at your hand) and then gives you a choice out of 3 cards tailored specifically to your situation from ANY of the Basic and Classic card sets, including other classes.
This means that if you play Zephrys while the opponent has a big board and you have 4 mana left it might give you Consecration as an option, but with 5 mana left it might give you the option of Holy Nova, and with 6 mana left it might give you the option of Blizzard. It might in those same situations also give you a taunt minion of varying cost as an option. Or something to deal with the situation on your next turn.
And it's not just a defensive tool. If you play it while you have board control with several minions, it might give you the option of Savage Roar or Bloodlust, providing you with the means to finish your opponent. Like the card says it will give you the perfect card!
Arena Changes
The Arena rotation is changing again.
- The new rotation of card sets will include cards from Basic, Classic, League of Explorers, Journey to Un'goro, Kobolds and Catacombs, Rastakhan's Rumble, and of course the new Saviors of Uldum cards.
- Arena tip: With the rotation changes, all the unfinished Arena runs will be retired and you will get a free arena run with the new rotation in its place. Free stuff! (You may need to relog for it to activate though)
Theorycrafted Community Decks
We scoured the internet for theorycrafted community decks and here's what we rounded up:
- A selection of decks by the pros, one for each class.
- All of Kripparrian's theorycrafted decks.
- A selection of popular Standard decks from your fellow users.
- Some WILD decks from your fellow users.
- If that's not enough you can find a lot more pro decks in our Decklists for Day 1 news post from yesterday or our Theorycrafting Livestream news post from before the week-end.
- Alternatively, create your own deck with the Deckbuilder, add a good guide on how to pilot the deck and help create the post-launch meta!
Deck | Author | Cost | Notable SoU Cards |
---|---|---|---|
Egg Token Druid | SkyWalkerSC2 | 3500 | BEEEES!!!, Serpent Egg |
Highlander Secret Hunter | Tars_HS | 12920 | Dinotamer Brann, Zephrys the Great |
Big Mage Dragon | Alliestrasza | 12760 | King Phaoris, Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron |
Murloc Paladin | Thijs | 8040 | Tip the Scales, Fishflinger |
Quest Priest | Kibler | 6980 | Activate the Obelisk, Psychopomp |
Quest Burgle Tess Rogue | Dekkster | 8500 | Bazaar Burglary, Vulpera Scoundrel |
Quest Shaman | Firebat | 13380 | Corrupt the Waters, Siamat |
Zoo Warlock | TrumpSC | 4960 | Dark Pharaoh Tekahn, Diseased Vulture |
Taunt Warrior | Purple | 11400 | Armagedillo, Tomb Warden |
Kripparrian's Saviors of Uldum Theorycrafted Decks:
You can watch Kripp over here.
- KRIPP Mecha'Zoo
- KRIPP Quest Rogue
- KRIPP Quest Shaman
- KRIPP Sandwich Mage
- KRIPP Born to Quest Mechadin
- KRIPP BOAR OTK
- KRIPP Quest Druid
- KRIPP Lucent OTBEEES Druid
HearthPwn Community Saviors of Uldum Theorycrafted Decks:
Standard:
- Quest Bomb Shaman by Birmill
- Yogg-Saron's Puzzle Box of Dragons by Syntex
- Highlander Quest Heal Druid by Siegfried
- Nothing noteworthy (Quest Control Pally) by Wingdude22
- Masochist Warlock by Kiwiinbacon
- Mechatun by Stephflanze
- Murloc Rogue by Sattors
- Hand Priest (with new finisher) by LazaaR
- OTK Quest Hunter by Kiwiinbacon
- Quest Control Warrior by Ixlid
- Taunt Warrior by Kinggo
- Enrage Hack Aggro Warrior by Chacal
Wild:
- Reno Hunter by ncnegoleo
- Burglar Togwaggle by Angelo_CIA
- Reno Shaman by Titansium
- Reno Uldum by Alex_H5
- Vessina Even Shaman by keithnumbersccg
- Mill Quest N'zoth Rogue
That should get you started! Thanks for being with us throughout this exciting Saviors of Uldum reveal period. Shoutout to everyone who helped in one way or another during this time, the other moderators and staff and the devs and all the users who gave us useful suggestions and feedback, and to everyone who enjoyed and supported our coverage. You rock!
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Saviors of Uldum Card List and Expansion Guide
Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated expansion guide.
We all have been warned about 6 days ago for the first time in game. So, it has nothing to do with greed.
Well, I've just bought the 50 bucks pack...
Shame on me, but the cards looks great this time
I did too. Golden Legendary didnt show up. Will it on launch?
yeah it will at launch
So just to clarify, cause i did not find to much info on this: this time the entire advanture is free??? You wont have to purchase wings with gold right??
nah the andventure is coming out in september and probaby will cost money again, i think they added a card back that said "with pre order of the SoU solo adventure". so it will be either cash or gold again probably. correct me if im wrong.
Theres no free legendary card for login again? -.-
Legendary Quest for everyone.
Someone doesnt like to read
One random Legendary Quest on login within the first 90 days of the expansion
Legendary quest could be "play 5 games: Reward 200g"
It doesnt say "free legendary card" anywhere.
He must be joking. The quest card is also legendary. So it is a 'free legendary card'.
It says they give us all a free Legendary Quest (card)n a Legendary known quest that gives 3 packs for free.
When you think getting 9 Legendarys is good for a pack opening of 130 cards . Then you realise you just opened all the quests and now will have to dust the free login reward. WHY DID I OPEN MY PACKS EARLY F***
Troll alert!
Pepega
soooooooooooooooooooooooo pumpeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed, lets goooooooooooooooo :)
What the time for the release?
5 pm UTC / 7 pm CEST / 10 am PDT
This is the most important information that should be in article!
No? You will GET a random Quest card in gold when you login.
Then, it says, you should CRAFT the ones you really want in gold, because if you open packs, the chances of getting a non-golden one of that Legendary quality card is way higher than getting an actual golden one. If you have to disenchant a non-golden legendary, while you could've just gotten another (useful) Legendary, that's a huge dust loss.