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!
This is really cool but I don't want to see flamewaker and secret paladin back in standard
So the leak was true.
Feels like warlock drew the short straw. What do you guys think?
Too right we did. I love fun stuff and creative things as much as the next person, but when you see Mage get Babbling Book and freaking Flamewaker and Warlocks get Renounce Darkness then yeah, I kind of feel that we got the short end.
did you not see that warlock got imp gang boss. that feels pretty above average compared to the other classes.
don't butthurt urself little kid, this is only the truth. The game is going downhill, using braindead old cards to achieve braindead players will not make the game better. But if make sense for u, go ahead, sad for ur life.
Trust me - I feel bad for you.
You really seem to have bigger problems. I mean all your rage has to come from somewhere - right? Take care and try to search for a psychologist, because you seem to need help. I'm done here i guess.
This is exciting!
I kind of wished they would have temporarily added Azure Drake as well, just to see if it would still be an overall good card in the current state of the game. The other HOF cards are not even a big staple in wild anymore and neither is azure drake, but the power creep is so big in wild that it's hard for me to predict how they will fare in standard.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the guaranteed legendary from these packs (and packs like them in the past) have counted against our bad-luck protection counter? I'm not sure how you'd even figure that out without a blue to confirm, but maybe the community has a good idea one way or the other.
Wow i think this is a great event..
Bundles only show how the game is losing in normal sells and also players...
why would you ever need to buy these bundles ? if you only buy the "small" (50packs) pre-orders and save all your gold from your quests, you have more than 130 packs per expensions which is like more than than enough to have a good collection (and that's without even counting additional gold you would get from winning actual games). why would you complain about these bundles? noone's forcing you to buy anything ...
Those event cards can be used in ranked? if so this game is really going downhill...
Yea, right.
Would be a hell of a blast, if they did nothing and we could play the same cards all over again. Well, and you've been able to play these cards in ranked - like all the time - but not in standard.
Trolling around with your nonsense comments because you have some kind of depression, cause nobody loves you...
Paveling book is back
secret pala hype
Have in mind that even after the event ends at 30th of October those 23 wild cards will stay till the next major update which is probably when the new expansion hits.
Duhh... We all can read
To be fair to him, he probably posted that just as I was adding the tweet and update to the news post. I updated with the tweet in this comment section 4 min after he made his post, and I put it in the comments almost immediately after I updated the news. So, he probably didn't see it.
What a helpful person you are, you should look into a career as a motivational speaker.