Blizzard announced some huge changes to the game, including introducing 23 Wild cards back into the Standard meta, and giving those cards to everyone for FREE, more info about this change will come in a blog about a sensationally spooky event next Friday, Oct 4th. There will also be more events in the future like Fire Fest-E.V.I.L. (also announced Oct 4th) and new exclusive 1000 win portraits! Read about all this and more in the blog below.
EDIT: Blizzard responded on Reddit with a clarification about the Wild cards being brought back, and how they are sadly a temporary addition to your collection if you do not own them:
"Quick clarification! The cards that are rotating back to standard for a limited time are going to be granted as free event cards, which means they're basically new, temporary versions of the cards. Even if you already own the cards, you'll still get these event copies.
When the event ends the event copies will go away."
Quote from BlizzardWhile we’re constantly recruiting lackeys, tinkering with experimental tech, and delving into dusty tombs to bring you new Hearthstone expansions and Adventures, we’re also hard at work on some awesome, albeit less flashy, new stuff. In this blog we’ll shine a light on some of the smaller, but still exciting new features, events, and changes coming to Hearthstone in the near future.
Adding More Events
After the overwhelmingly positive response to the recent Fire Fest-E.V.I.L. event, we’re looking for more opportunities to introduce even more large-scale in-game events with rewards, themed Tavern Brawls, and changes that could temporarily (or permanently!) create fun new Hearthstone experiences for players.
We’re starting off with a new event in just a couple weeks featuring Dungeon Run-inspired Tavern Brawls, dual-class Arenas, Legendary quest rewards, and some meta-shifting changes outlined in the “Shaking up Standard Play” section below.
We’ll have more to share on this sensationally spooky event on October 4, but in the meantime . . . try not to lose your head!
Shaking up Standard Play
Now that the Saviors of Uldum Standard ladder experience has solidified, we think it’s a great time to throw a wrench or two (or twenty-three) in the gears. We’re going to be pulling some of the most popular and game-changing cards from across Hearthstone history, including Ragnaros, the Firelord and N’Zoth the Corruptor, out of Wild and dropping them back into Standard for a limited time. To ensure that everyone can participate in this meta-mixing event, we’ll be granting everyone free copies of each card (these copies cannot be disenchanted or crafted) so they can add these heavy-hitters to their decks and get them into the action.
We’ll be sharing more details (including the full list of 23 cards) in a blog update on October 4. Stay tuned!
1,000 Win Class Portraits
Looking ahead, we want to continue celebrating personal successes and milestones for all you dedicated Hearthstone players. Our next major update will introduce some really cool new portraits that you can earn by earning 1,000 wins with each class. Wins earned before this update goes live will retroactively count towards these totals. Take a look at a couple of examples below and start stacking up those wins!
Quality of Life Improvements
Alternate Search Terms
We want it to be easier to quickly find the cards you’re looking for while deckbuilding, so we’re adding alternate search terms for some hard-to-type cards. We’ll be adding common misspellings and simplified versions of leetspeak card names (found on some Mech minions). For example, searching “snip” or “snap” will now show you SN1P-SN4P. While this feature will only be enabled for a few commonly misspelled cards at first, we’ll be able to add even more alternate search terms as needed.
- This feature will also support languages other than English. For example, SN1P-SN4P in Latin American Spanish is “CL1C-CL4C”, so searching “clic” would return the expected results.
Quest Changes
While not included in our next major update, here’s a preview of some of the changes we’re making to quests a little further down the line.
- We’re cutting some of the less popular daily quests and tuning down some of their requirements to make them quicker and easier to complete. We’ll also be adding some new quests to the pool to mix things up!
- We split most daily quests into two buckets: Easy (50g) and Slightly More Difficult (60g). Rerolling a Slightly More Difficult (60g) quest (like Play 10 Beasts) always gives you an Easy (50g) quest, so players can be guaranteed to get an Easy quest every day if they want. We love Murlocs and Pirates as much as anyone, but it should be your choice if you decide to complete their quests.
We’re excited to be bringing these new features, events, and other changes to Hearthstone soon. Please let us know what you think on social media or the official Hearthstone forums. Until then, we’ll see you in the Tavern!
What time today does it go live?
Read carefully, they’re only giving more infos about the event today, the patch will probably be live in 2 weeks
I also misread it the first time thinking the event was for today because of how the guy wrote the article
ah okay. Thanx for soothing my hype. Was hurting myself in confusion on why nobody was talking about this.
So the leak is fake? I can't wait to see the real cards.
Can’t wait for all of the new changes. Thank you Blizzard.
ohh baby, my 1300 wins anduin is waiting
full golden pries collection with 1k golden hero ? CHECK
Why has Jaina's boobs shrunk so much? And she also looks much older. I thought plot characters don't age. D:
Because China
butthurt grown up kid detected hihihi
PS.: I played WC3/DOTA before u even born
So they are reducing the gold rewards even more … nice
I am not against lightbomb and all but I'd really love to see 1 mana potion of madness.
Vol'jin is kind of not so great on this meta where there ain't that many high hp minions going around and midrange is more prevalent.
I think Vol'jin might be teched into the current priest deck, imagine the potential in a mirror match.
Well kind of, I mean druids and warlocks don't run high hp minions neither does paladin as of late. Warrior has I guess 6 hp taunts for 8 mana sometimes boosted to 8 hp but it comes out rather late.
Currently Vol'jin on curve is a bad play that is all. He might still work late in the game but damn there are better cards for that.
And i thatconsidering priest that is not combo priest, that rerely runs much early presence and combo priest already has a great deck list with no need for Vol'jin
PogChamp
it's Lina, not Jaina on portrait.
You know that Lina is just a copy of Jaina from Warcraft 3 Defense of the Ancients, right?
This is Jaina's design in the most recent WoW expansion.
I think you might be confusing Lina and Rylai/CM
Lina was a Human Sorceress in WC3 DotA. Rylai/CM was Jaina.
thanks blizz i finally get 9 new portraits with the update as i have over 23k wins and well over a 1000 wins with each class.....amazing
Maybe use a little common sense? Portrait-upgrade happens at 500 wins on ranked play. On an announcement of a new portrait upgrade at 1000 wins, it's safe to assume they mean ranked wins. so, obvious, if you use your brain.
The blue post didn't distinguish between ranked and casual, just "wins"... so no, not so obvious.