Doom in the Tomb!
Spooky Scary Skeletons! Blizzard today announced the new Hallow's End Event: Doom in the Tomb. This event will run from 8th till 30th October and with it we will see the return of 23 cards from the Wild format back to Standard untill the next Major Update! As well as several new Tavern Brawls with Golden Card rewards, Quest and log in rewards, as well as some new Bundles on the store. To top it off there's also going to be a new Arena rotation!
Update: The community manager for Hearthstone has said on Twitter that the Wild cards will stay in Standard for 2 months! This would take us to early December, which is also the likely release date for the next expansion, which we assume will be revealed at Blizzcon on Nov 1st.
Check out the details and the introduction video below:
Quote from BlizzardLegends have told of dangers lurking within the Haunted Temple of Uldum and the grand ancient treasures they conceal. Of course, “treasure” was all anyone had to mention to get Reno and Rafaam on board, and now their sights are set on acquiring the temple’s powerful artifacts for their own campaigns!
It won’t be an easy task, though. While our Heroes and Villains battle to push deeper through the Haunted Temple, the Headless Horseman has resorted to a nefarious contingency and opened a sealed sarcophagus full of WILD terrors. Now it will be up to you to aid the conquests of good, or E.V.I.L, in a race to uncover the tomb’s precious secrets and escape the doom in the tomb!
Step into the Haunted Tomb
The spooky spelunking adventures begin at 10:00 AM PT on October 8 and end at 9:00 AM PT on October 30 – three weeks packed full of new activities to participate in:
Unique Tavern Brawls
- Week 1: Doom in the Tomb, Part 1
- Gear up with your favorite member from the League of E.V.I.L and delve into the Haunted Temple, full of the baddest bosses in Uldum! The clock is running, too – race to set the record for the fastest Temple run!
- Rewards
- Complete a run in under 1 hour and earn a Rastakhan’s Rumble Card Pack.
- Complete a run in under 40 minutes to earn a Golden Common Ancient Mysteries!
- Week 2: Doom in the Tomb, Part 2
- E.V.I.L has their turn, and now it’s up to Reno and the League of Explorers to join the run and flex their Temple diving speed. New enemies and challenges await!
- Rewards
- Complete a run in under 1 hour and receive a Golden Common Temple Berserker
- Complete a run in under 40 minutes to earn a Golden Rare Generous Mummy
- Week 3: The Haunted Carousel
- Get ready for the big mix-up! In this Tavern Brawl, you’ll need to strategize around minions constantly rotating board positions – all while controlling the Horseman’s time-shifted Dreadsteeds!
- Rewards
- Summon 100 Dreadsteeds to earn a Rise of Shadows Card Pack
Treasures from the Tomb!
23 cards from across Hearthstone history have been unsealed from Wild and unleashed by the Headless Horseman! Until our next major update, these cards are stepping out of Wild and will be playable in Standard matches. 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 straight into the action.
These cards will be considered "event" cards, which essentially means that they're temporary copies and not permanent additions to your collection. Even if you already own the cards, you'll still receive these event copies. When the event ends they'll disappear, just like the Headless Horseman himself!
- Card List:
- Druid:
- Mage:
- Babbling Book
- Flamewaker
- Paladin:
- Mysterious Challenger
- Avenge
- Hunter:
- Lock and Load
- Call of the Wild
- Shaman:
- Evolve
- Thing from Below
- Rogue:
- Shaku, the Collector
- Swashburglar
- Warlock:
- Imp Gang Boss
- Renounce Darkness
- Warrior:
- Varian Wrynn
- Bloodhoof Brave
- Neutral:
- N'Zoth, the Corruptor
- Sylvanas Windrunner
- Ragnaros the Firelord
- The Curator
- Emperor Thaurissan
Dual-Class Arenas
The Dual-Class Arena Hallow’s End dress-up party is back! When you start an Arena run during the Doom in the Tomb event, you’ll choose a Hero, then a Hero Power, and card offerings will feature cards from BOTH of those classes, in addition to neutral cards.
- Players who have an active Arena run when this begins will have their current run ended and will receive an Arena Ticket as compensation.
- To ensure that players have a chance to try out this devilish dual-class deck-building dress-up party, weeks 1 and 2 of this event will award Arena Tickets on login!
- This event will also coincide with our normal Arena rotation. The new Arena sets in rotation will be as follows:
- Curse of Naxxramas
- Goblins vs. Gnomes
- Blackrock Mountain
- The Grand Tournament
- League of Explorers
- Whispers of the Old Gods
- One Night in Karazhan
- Mean Streets of Gadgetzan
- Journey to Un'Goro
- Knights of the Frozen Throne
- Kobolds & Catacombs
Hex & Flex Bundles
- Hex Bundle:
- If you thought the League of E.V.I.L. was securely under wraps, think again! Arch-Villain Rafaam has leveraged his lackeys and put together the Hex Bundle, 20 Rise of Shadows card packs and a random Rise of Shadows Legendary card at the discounted price of $19.99 USD.
- Flex Bundle:
- Reno’s vest just doesn’t have room for bulging biceps AND stacks of card packs. That’s why he’s whipped together the Flex Bundle! Get 20 Saviors of Uldum packs and a random Saviors of Uldum Legendary card at the discounted price of $19.99 USD.
Legendary Quests and Login Rewards
- Begin your Quest:
- A new Legendary Doom in the Tomb quest* will be unlocked at the start of each week during the event, in addition to your normal daily quests. These new quests will reward you with either card packs from one of the current standard sets, or a hefty sum of Gold!
- * Legendary quests will replace an existing normal quest if your quest log is full, so we recommend that you have a spot open when this event goes live.
- Legendary Login Rewards:
- Login any time during the event (10/8-10/30) to earn a bundle of 5 Hearthstone card packs!
- 2 Saviors of Uldum packs
- 2 Rise of Shadows packs
- 1 Rastakhan’s Rumble pack
Good luck, Heroes. Try not to lose your heads!
Dual class arena will end in 3 days right? Just making sure i get a free arena ticket if i leave my run at 2 losses.
Pls, remove this already. Ur game will die if u keep going on this way
So is it just my devices or is mobile dead again?
Shouldn't the Update be live right now? Nothing on EU atm
It looks like nobody has a clue :/
No mobile update either
We get temporary copies of those 23 cards within the event but after they will be still playable in standard?
10:25 Pacific Time where I am. No update yet. Have any of you gotten it yet?
Update: Almost noon PST, still nothing.
you mean next set ? rotation is in april
No update yet on Iphone.
edit: Still nothing. Normally updates come about 24+ hours before something goes live. The event is scheduled for today, isn't it?
Why is it so hard for blizz to post this kind of stuff with the date and TIME if you are not giving it at midnight?
I used to play WoW wich is a much more complex game and it actually mattered because of guilds competing for the first kills on raid bosses. And in that game when the server time hit midnight we had a new expansion/patch/event no problem in all regions. But playing this silly little card game in Europe you never know... It's ridiculous.
No, you will just have more big priest
Who else is hyped up for the release happening soon?!
What a great idea. Lets take the cards like Ragnaros the Firelord and Sylvannas Windrunner that everyone including the creators unanimously agreed were bad for the game, and put them back into standard!
They've already shown like what they did last summer that taking good cards then buffing them and putting in cards like snip-snap is actually terrible for the game and causes the meta to become more stale. Having cards like snip-snap that are just really good cards makes it so hearthstone becomes a card game where you can make a deck of 29 cards instead of 30
what time is it gonna start tomorrow?
10 am pacific 1 pm eastern
Well... time for some shenanigans again.
So we'll have some kind of weird "new" meta until December?
Will be an interesting 3-weeks
3 weeks? Probably more like 8-10 weeks. I think this new meta (w/ the 23 cards) is going to be Standard-legal until the next rotation in early December. I don't have the source, but I'm pretty sure that's what Blizzard said.