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.
85 packs and only 3 legendaries. I'm never ever lucky with the pack openings :(
Well, this has been my worst pack opening since Boomsday. Out of 200 packs, 6 legendaries (not counting the 3 free), zero of which were golden, and my set is still very incomplete.
Guess this set will cost me an arm and a leg to play all of. Feelsbadman
each expansion I have a card that shows up in every 2nd pack. I end up with well over 20 of those cards while missing some other cards the entire season...this time its Ancestral Guardian
I have 7 Lazul's Scheme from League of Evil
I got about 8 of the new rogue weapon...
Can already tell you thatMaking Mummies is overpowered. I can usually win without even hitting an egg or Tirion with the hero power.
there definitly killed the hype kripp is only at 22k viewers back in the day he had like 60-70k
Not going to say Blizz didn't over do it with expansion exposure (cause they probably did), but it's also true that there's a global launch now. Back in the day I watched Kripp open packs and do silly stuff because I couldn't open my own yet. Big difference too.
77 packs only 2 legendaries.... tnx again Blizz
20 packs, 3 legendaries (1 is golden). i won't open more :P
that's because you already have Ferrari and supermodel girl, so Blizzard adjusts drops to match you life quality,
looking forward to see you as USA president
That's why I'm lucky with packs lately!
this community is so trash man. it was just a joke, people get mad. get a life :)
Is it live already??
Yes!
Logged on for my free cards.
Quest - mage one. Definitely the one I wanted the least. :(
golden card from pre release bundle - bran the Dinotamer. Now that's pretty sweet! Shame the golden animation is pretty bad.
Now to open 100 packs. Good luck everyone!
2 h and 30 minutes left. I'm unjustifiably annoyed. Want to crack some packs.
One hour left huhu
More like 1h 40min left.
FYI, most of Europe uses 24h clock format, so you should give the release times for EU in that format.
It will be at 19:00 CEST, roughly 1 hour from right now. :)