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!
For the first time this is SOMETHING that we all should give credit to blizzard for not giving a shit about the game. This is hands down a good (if not the best) change that comes to hearthstone in a very, very long time! IMO blizzard should implement this on a regular basis adding cards from wild to standard, as a wild player i fully support this idea because it gives a flow of freshness to this stale-as-fuck standard format. They should consider doing this as a kind of a rotation format thing - all of you should know this will prevent standard from getting boring.
Bring back god damn Reno ! I mean permanently
Best card ever designed, make Hearthstone great again
(and maybe Yogg Saron)
I think reno would be too much with the highlander decks now.
Unlikely, especially as there would then be two Renoes at the same time. (And they would be used in the same decks)
For sure Reno will be too over power, I think.
There's 2 Hagatha's now and it ain't a problem
big thumbs up to more / additional events ! I played the midsummer-arena more often than all the previous ones together, simply because it was reaaally FUN !
but seeing N'Zoth returning to Standard makes my blood freeze - NO ! HELL NO ! OH GOD PLEASE NOOO !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H07zYvkNYL8
The N'Zoth-deathrattle-decks were the pure horror back then, when you somehow managed to survive the DR-minions, N'Zoth brought them all back - AT ONCE ! this was absolutely no fun at all for the one who had to play against these decks and a more or less brainless win for the opponent, as he basically only had to drop one DR-minion after the other, the DR-effect did the rest...
so pleeease - pick ANY other card from wild but not such a game-changing overpowered card ! Rather bring back Yogg'Saron, as the effect could also backfire for the owner, basically a "russian-roulette-card" rather than a "almost-auto-win-card" !!
Jaina looks worse and worse each year. Yikes
I think only uglyies and primitives. That's why we see so many murlock and pirate cards issued by Blizzard team.
To bad the cards don't return pernamentely :( I don't even care if we get them or not, I probably have all of them any way.
There are some cards I would love to be evergreen Loatheb and Dirty Rat to name two just from the top of my head. Not any of the degenerate OP stuff, but solid tech cards that are not useless when your opponent is not playing what you teched for.
It seems like they will readd free bunches of cards from wild every once in a while. I bet you will see loatheb somewhen in 2020.
Jaina should've been casting frost and leave fire to Kael'thas alternate portrait hopefully coming in the future.
thanks!
Nothing special...
Jaina's portred is sexy af! Can't wait for that patch!
another jaina nerf ?
I JUST got my last hero to 500 and was thinking I'd reached my goal and might stop playing Hearthstone. They must have heard me.
I just hope that one of these 23 cards is Emperor Thaurissan he will enable so many cool combos
Damn, I am still struggling with the 500-wins portrait
By the gods, they are gonna bring back old murk eye?