Galakrond's Awakening Adventure - Chapter 1 Guide
Today is the much anticipated release of the Galakrond's Awakening Adventure and we have gathered all the info you need!
What is Galakrond's Awakening?
Galakrond's Awakening is a solo adventure in the classic Adventure style, where you can play through the story with pre-made decks and unlock collectible cards on normal mode and play through with self made decks on Heroic for some Card Backs. The goal is to defeat the given PvE Encounters in a Chapter. Each Chapter typically has 3 Encounters for the Good side of the League of Explorers and 3 encounters for the E.V.I.L. side with the League of E.V.I.L., with both sides giving collectible cards as rewards and a card for finishing the Chapter.
What Time does the Adventure Release?
If things go as they have done in the past Chapter 1 will release on Tuesday January 21st at 10am PT/1pm ET/18:00 GMT/19:00 CET, if circumstances allow.
How do I unlock the Chapters?
The Chapters unlock individually for 700 in-game gold (or €6.99 EUR/$6.99 USD) or all Chapters at once in a €19.99 EUR/$19.99 USD launch bundle. You will still have to wait for Blizzard to release the Chapters to play them however! Chapter 1 opens today.
What are the Rewards?
Playing through the Adventure will allow you to unlock 35 collectible cards, as well as 2 card backs for finishing the Adventure on both sides of the story on Heroic. If you get the Pre-Purchase Bundle, you also get a Golden Classic pack. Today's Chapter 1 will allow you to unlock 11 cards already!
What can you expect?
This first chapter is called "Battle on the Frozen Coast" and can be played through on both Good (Explorers) and E.V.I.L. side, where the E.V.I.L. side will grant 4 cards total for completing and Good will grant 4 cards plus an additional 3 bonus cards.
On the Good side there are 3 fights: First against Dr. Boom, then against Avalanchan and lastly against Kriziki the Winged.
On the E.V.I.L. side there are 3 fights: First against Sir Finley, then against Chenvaala and lastly against the Amazing Reno.
The Cards
E.V.I.L. side cards
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Bonus cards
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Heroic Decks
You can find Decks to beat specific Heroic bosses uploaded on our site, visible in the widget on the front page or if you search the decks and select "Deck Type" as "PvE Adventure" in the Additional Filters or by using this link!
Creating Decks for Heroic
If you are playing Heroic and have a great deck for a certain Boss, then please, upload it using our Deckbuilder. Simply make the deck like you normally would, then instead of "Ranked Deck" pick "PvE Adventure" from the drop down and under the "Boss" drop down, select which boss the deck is for. Write a description on how to use the deck for more chance at those sweet sweet upvotes. The community thanks you in helping them beat this Adventure and getting the cool Card Backs.
We put some images below to show where the drop downs are!
First the PvE Adventure
Then the Specific Boss
Galakrond's Awakening Card List & Guide
Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated adventure guide.
Following weeks; If we spend 700 golds, are we gonna have access to the both sides of the chapter?
Yes
Not strange at all. They just increased the cost of playing Standard.
it is very strange that they suddenly decided to return to the old system of receiving cards 🤔
Jade+dragon druid worked for the 60 HP bosses (except birdo); Waygate Exodia mage worked for the massive HP bosses. Initially had some issues with birdo - 1 mana reborn is nuts, and if that's not enough (especially combined with N'Zoth and Hadronox), Albatross is actually a problem for decks in this one given how many they'll end up getting.
Ultimately beat that one with Galakrond rogue - not even tailored for this fight; just my normal ladder Galakrond rogue. Took 2 tries, but if you get one of the higher tempo starts (basically huge Van Cleef and Heistbaron into Zarog's Crown) you can overpower him.
It says in your guide when you buy the adventure it unlocks all wings but it hasn't for me.
Well, the Chapters are all yours, but the remaining chapters are not released yet by Blizzard. They'll be unlocked for you the minute they are released in future weeks. I'll add to that sentence to make it clear hwo it works. Sorry for the confusion!
Very stupid pve content. We don't build deck and actually what is the point of players? Only to navigate the cards? I mean obviously deck is build the way that it can beat the boss. I am not even saying that we don't even know what we have in our deck. Pretty disappointing. I like deck building mainly, not just throwing random cards.
Edit: Actually on heroic we choose deck which is good. Not like it is much more interesting. Somehow bosses are boring.
Check out my video from chapter 1.
EDIT
Wait... You get Chapter 1 for the EVIL guys for free but you have to buy the League of Explorers one... Is that gonna be for all the chapters? 1400 each week for both sides? Man, that's freaking expensive af
Its supposed to be that both side's first chapters are free, then the other 4 (2 each side) are 700g each, equaling out to the typical 2800g cost for adventures previously.
No. You unlock for both leagues paying 700 gold
league side is actually not free today, evil is... so you have to pay 700g to unlock it
That's what Im asking about. If you have yo buy each chapter for each story separetly, it's not 2800, it's 4900, because there are 4 chapters for both stories you would have to pay 700 each. But one is free, so that's 7 chapters to buy
you only have to pay 2800. the only bad thing here is that they are not giving you 1st chapter for free, only halkf of the chapter for free
I don't want to sound like a pompous dick.... but maybe you should just buy the per-order so you don't have to worry about these things. Less stress, ya know.
JMO.
700g buys you both League of E.V.I.L. and League of Explorers for weeks 2, 3, and 4.
I see no one gave you clear answer so I'm going to
during the first week they wanted to give at least something for free so they gave one side of the first chapter free, but to unlock the full chapter you have to pay gold/money
in the following weeks by paying 700g/whatever it costs in money you will be getting access to both sides
So, is it live yet? Anyone?