Scholomance Academy Launch Day - Everything You Need To Know!
Hearthstone's newest expansion Scholomance Academy launches today, August 6th. We brought all the information and useful links together in this news post for you.
- The Scholomance Academy Expansion is LIVE. Good luck and have fun!
- Yet another 135 new cards have been added to the game.
- You can view all the new cards in our Scholomance Academy Cards List.
- There will be new PvE content coming with Scholomance Academy and it will be FREE, but there's no specific release date or other details revealed yet.
Included for free in the Expansion
- All players logging in will get two of the Scholomance Academy Epic card Transfer Student for free!
- All players logging in will get a Scholomance Academy Legendary Class Card for free!
- There is a chain of Event Quests to celebrate the release: 1 new quest every day, for 3 days with a total of 6 Scholomance Academy packs!
- August 6, 10:00 AM PT / 19:00 CEST: Play 25 Cards in Play mode to earn 2 Scholomance Academy card packs.
- August 7, 10:00 AM PT / 19:00 CEST: Play 20 Spells in any mode to earn 2 Scholomance Academy card packs.
- August 8, 10:00 AM PT / 19:00 CEST: Win 3 games any mode to earn 2 Scholomance Academy card packs.
Launch Day Goals
- Login to get your free Event Quest mentioned above.
- Craft any golden Legendaries you really want. This is important due to the no duplicate legendaries rule.
- Open up your packs! (if you have not already) You get a guaranteed Legendary within your first 10 packs.
- Share your awesome decks with everyone on HearthPwn via our Deckbuilder. Remember, including a good guide means more upvotes!
New Mechanics
- Dual Class Cards - Cards featuring mechanics inspired by both classes' strengths. The set will include 40 Dual Class cards.
- New Keyword: Spellburst - A one time only effect when casting a spell. With a Spellburst minion or weapon in play, casting a spell will activate the Spellburst effect.
- Studies - Spells which allow you to immediately Discover a card and also reduce the mana cost of the next card you play of that type.
- Soul Fragments - Demon Hunter and Warlock will have access to cards that put Soul Fragments in your deck or interact with Soul Fragments already in there. Soul Fragments are token cards that, when drawn, heal the Hero for 2 health and draw another card.
- 135 New Cards.
New Mechanics
Some mechanics that were seen in previous card sets were brought back on new cards, as well as some truly new mechanics were added:
- A Battlecry that makes the opponent's spells cost more next turn.
- Your Minions have "Can't be targeted by spells or Hero Powers"
- At the end of your turn, draw until you have 3 cards.
- Whenever your opponent draws a card, add a copy to your hand.
- At the start of your turn, look at your top card. You can put it on the bottom.
- Reorder your deck from the highest Cost card to the lowest Cost card.
- Whenever a spell is played, this minion remembers it. Deathrattle: Shuffle the spells into your deck.
- Look at 3 cards in your opponent's hand. Shuffle one of them into their deck.
- You can view all the new cards in our Scholomance Academy Cards List.
Arena Changes
The Arena rotation is not really changing it seems. This time it is the same card sets you can find in the Standard game mode, but the Scholomance Academy cards get added, which means the following sets are active:
- Basic
- Classic
- Rise of Shadows
- Saviors of Uldum
- Descent of Dragons
- Galakrond's Awakening
- Ashes of Outland
- Scholomance Academy
- Demon Hunter Initiate
Theorycrafted Decks
We created a special Decks post yesterday, with a lot of new archetypes and a lot of new deck ideas. You can find the links to those Decks posts below.
Alternatively, create your own deck with the Deckbuilder, add a good guide on how to pilot the deck and help create the post-launch meta!
That should get you started! Thanks for being with us throughout this exciting Scholomance Academy reveal period. Shoutout to everyone who helped in one way or another during this time, the other moderators and staff and the devs and all the users who gave us useful suggestions and feedback, and to everyone who enjoyed and supported our coverage. You rock!
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Scholomance Academy Card List & Expansion Guide
Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated Card List.
Wow! check this pull I just did !!!
Nice. Im playing from the very start of hearthstone and i never got 2 legendaries in same pack. And im playing every day.
What Legendaries should i make golden that will see play for sure?
The ones that you will use and enjoy playing with in game
Why my Arena run did not retire ?
Not sure. Mine didn't either. I did get a Scholomance pack for the reward however so, the end result was more or less what I was after.
Well, someone said on reddit thread that there was no reason to retire our Arena run cause no set rotation to wild.
This was previous arena pool as you can see there is no wild expansion
I think it’s the first expansion where I won’t craft any golden legendary. Not that they are all bad or anything, but I usually aim for a good legendary in one of the classes I enjoy but which also generates some cards (to get more “golden” value). So I’m kinda Alabaster, Headmaster Kel and Vectus, but not with the decisiveness I’m used to... Maybe I’ll just wait a week or so to get a more accurate idea of their respective power.
I‘m going for DR-Rogue
I didn't understand, why you recommend do this?:
Craft any golden Legendaries you really want. This is important due to the no duplicate legendaries rule.
I think is to avoid the chance of getting the legendary you really want, but not in golden. That’s it.
If you craft a golden legendary that you really want, you won't get it when you open packs.
It's true for any golden card, not only legendaries anymore.
I don't have preorder, cus I have 5500 gold + 4 card packs from last ranked + +1 pack from arena + 2(?) from incoming quest?
Seems like today I'll open 61 packs - but "in case" I have 33 000 dust.
I'm stuck in plat 5, so I'll have to try new cards to get to this diamond 5, or maybe I/we should aim to legend, cus it's new expansion & every pack matters ;)
There is no other game I'm hyped about right now, but one funny thing: I don't care about new LoL updates/champs, or SONY's stream about PS.
How about you?
I play wild, i'll break my 10 card pity timer and that's it. Everything i need from this set is less than 2k dust.
Is there a battlegrounds patch also coming out with the ability for 4 or more friends to cue into one game?
guys, it's time to fix Innkeeper
I guess they gave up on the project a while back?
I wish there was another site that let you track your collection (and with the help of a program like that), because it's kind of annoying to make a deck list and think, "Oh, I have that!" and I actually don't, because my memory isn't the best.
https://hsreplay.net/ i believe have that
Oh yeah! I didn't think of that because it's not quite setup the same. (*facepalm*)