Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Launch Day - Everything You Need To Know!
Hearthstone's newest expansion Madness at the Darkmoon Faire launches today, November 17th. We brought all the information and useful links together in this news post for you.
- The Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Expansion is LIVE.
- Yet another 135 new cards have been added to the game.
- Another 35 cards will follow in a Mini-Set midway through the expansion, but there's no specific release date or other details revealed yet.
- You can view all the new cards in our Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Cards List.
- PvE content for the Madness of the Darkmoon Faire expansion will be a continuation of the Book of Heroes story line.
- Today will also be the start of the New Season in Duels and Battlegrounds, with a rating reset to go with it!
Included for free in the Expansion
- All players logging in will get the Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Legendary card Silas Darkmoon for free!
- All players opening up the first Reward in the new Free Reward Track will get a Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Legendary Card for free!
- There has been no mention so far of a chain of Event Quests to celebrate the release, like there usually is.
New Mechanics
- The Old Gods - Not totally new, but with some new tricks, it is a return of the 4 Old Gods: C'thun, Yogg-Saron, N'zoth and Y'shaarj!
- New Keyword: Corrupt - Cards that upgrade to a more powerful version if you play a higher costed card while they're in your hand.
- Old God Artifacts - Four ancient spells with zany effects. Each based on the original design of an Old God.
- 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:
- Your Lifesteal damages the opponent Hero instead of healing you.
- Draw a card. Guess if your next card costs more or less to draw it.
- After this attacks and kills a minion, excess damage hits the enemy hero.
- Transform spells in your deck into ones that cost (3) more. (They keep their original Cost.)
- Return a friendly minion to your hand. It costs (1) this turn.
- Transform all minions into random ones with the same Cost.
- After your hero attacks, give a Mech, Dragon, and Pirate in your hand +1/+1.
- Swap the Cost and Attack of all minions in your deck.
- You can view all the new cards in our Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Cards List.
Arena Changes
The Arena rotation is being shaken up. This time it is the same card sets you can find in Year of the Phoenix, but the Basic and Classic cards get added, as well as Whispers of the Old Gods, which means the following sets are active:
- Madness at the Darkmoon Faire
- Scholomance Academy
- Demon Hunter Initiate
- Ashes of Outland
- Galakrond's Awakening
- Whispers of the Old Gods
- Basic
- Classic
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 that Decks post 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 Madness at the Darkmoon Faire 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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Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Card List & Expansion Guide
Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated Card List.
Someone knows if we gonna get a free legendary just for log in??
I don't think so, considering we got one for free at level 1 of the new progression system
"New mechanics" is simply misleading. I know, writers wants your attention, they make things more attractive as they really are, but this doesn't mean that this is not misleading. If something is titled new mechanics and most of them aren't really new, there is something not right, isn't it? If in a list titled "VEGETARIAN MENU" most of dishes are with meat, would you call it a vegetarian menu, or perhaps creator of menu gave you too much credit?
I wouldn't bother if there was something like "Amazing cards effects" or "Coming cool mechanics", because they are cool and amazing. But most of them aren't esentially new.
They are 'new mechanics' to this standard rotation though.
For the record, I love the new reward system. I am actually rewarded for how I play the game. Thanks blizzard. This is not sarcastic. The hater haven’t given it a chance it done the math. They just want freebies and it will never be enough for them. I love the new system and hope it’s stays with even more development.
I would say you dont get it. The first rewards are fast and big but it gets harder and harder to level up to a point where you need WEEKS to get one level with something like a pack that is already rotated. The idea is great but the implementation is trash.
Weeks to earn a level? You earn a level with a single weekly quest or two daily quests? Do you play like 2 games a week? If you play 3-5 games a day, you will hit a level or two a day.
Ok maybe it was a bit to much but 9000 XP is still to much for something like 100 gold. You got more out of the old reward system.
How about they fix the broken system instead?
So far nothing from them. Complete radio silence.
they better inprove THIS reward system instead of save all the changes for next expansion like they usually does,
its funny cause when the survey leaked for first time i said that this could happen and people tagged me as a baby rage xd
Dear Blizzard Entertainment;
As you can crystal clearly see in every social media platforms and hearthstone related website , a respectable amount of your player base are not happy because of the new in game economy model, so as a company you are not fulfiling your first reason of existance: "To entertain people". As an entertainment company I think you are doing wrong at what you do. I, for myself, pay only to things that make me happy, unfortunately hearthstone is not amonst those things nowadays. Paying 80$s won't make anyone poor or rich, but from millions of people if you can collect 80$s, these money can make you guys rich, all you need to do is fixing what you have wronged, and rebuild the bridge of trust, which fell because of your actions, and listen your players and make them happy.
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS | Interstate Love Song
There are multiple threads on this, why hijack a launch thread with yet more of the same thing? What's wrong with those threads? This isn't a Blizzard website, you just look like an idiot.
This community deserves nothing. You're a toxic dump round of entitlement and negativity. I'd actually love for Blizzard to enforce a paid download of the game just to see all your heads explode.
Hello mate, while I completely agree with you, I must say this isn't an official hearthstone site. So I would say your complaints should go to a diffrent place ( playhearthstone.com, reddit or even better twitter), where they can actually be heard.
then i just would left the game, is as simple as that, blizzard want me to keep playing, they better do their job correctly and stop liying and hiding information til the last moment, rigth now, they deserve al the hate that they are getting, is not the first time they've done this. is just the worst one by far
I am completely aware of this brother, I am playing hearthstone since... I don't know... years... and I'm a fan of hs and hearthpwn even though being an unofficial hearthstone website, hearthpwn have been the website I always use to read news and I believe hearthpwn contributed hearthstone more than official website, so I wanted to write what I felt and what I want to write, right in here, but the tread is wrong, I am aware of that, still I needed to write what I felt at that moment, I am sorry if I created any visual pollution, moderators are free to delete what I wrote, if they must.
Eh...
I am positive that our outcry won't change much because there will be more than enough morons that will buy into Blizzards crap and that like being treated as scum. They will just call you out for being a poor crybaby and tell you the go-to phrase for sounding smart and educated: "iF yOu dOn'T liKe iT, dON't BUy iT ;)))".
It's the same with EA and their annual sports games. It seems like EVERYONE is upset and boycotting EA, yet they make literal BILLIONS off of Ultimate Team alone. As long as they are making profit, they won't do CRAP. Same with Activision. As long people keep spending 300-400 dollars EACH EXPANSION (this is fucking nuts. You may love the game to hell and back, but spending so much money is just nuts), Blizzard won't move a finger.
We all are still here because we love Hearthstone and because we want to continue to play it, but if I have to grind 50 hours of Hearthstone, just to get a year of the dragons pack (at lvl 48) I'm out. As are many others.
Extra salty.
Ofcourse I am.
The old reward system was nice and tidy. Just a notification popping up, letting you know you have a quest.
This revamped reward system looks like children-bait because it's super flashy and you get the false feeling that you are progressing, while all it serves is firing up your dopamine system. Feels REALLY cheap. Like those random f2p games from the Store.