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!
wow, nice changes!
New portraits drool
time for another 50/50 wins with ragnaros. what a time to be alive RNGjesus
Can we also have reroll 50 into 60-100 ?
We already have that...
Yes, but not every time.
Just finished all 9 golden. My closest to 1000 is mage and hunter above 900 wins.
New race is on for all new chrecters!
Mmm mm those portaits. Glad 1000 wins has something to fight for.
Hidden F2P Gold NERF
If you want to reroll quest will offer you a 50g one.
Exactly, no more rerolling 50g in hope for better one.
You're wrong, rerolling a 50g quest can give you a better quest, but rerolling a +60g quest will always give a 50g quest. To make it easier to complete quest for those that value their time over maximizing their gold.
Do you guys even read?
It will only reroll to 50g if you try on 60g quest
Rerolling 50g obviously can give you anything
Finally some 1000 wins rewards - time to get them new hero portraits.
when i have Ragnaros already, will i get some dust, or i just need to disenchant card before 4th october to get free copy?
Disenchant it right away to get double the dust.
You will always have the new copy, but DO NOT DUST YOUR CARDS, the free copies are just temporary
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/d9mizy/behind_the_tavern_doors_see_whats_coming_to/f1jdaqf/
yes, disenchant before 4th and get the free copy. xD
Very good job blizz team
keep nice work up!
I'm glad Blizz is at least trying to do SOMETHING to change things up for the game. Kudos.
I wish they were a lot more involved with wild changes too though.
My only real concern is with the questing system: Does the new reroll system mean we can no longer get the challenge a friend quest if we reroll? Did they eliminate the challenge a friend quest, win 5 games, and play 100 murlocs quests altogether?
Hopefully they get more specific about this kind of stuff soon.
That is a good point. I hope they did not touch higer quests