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.
For me it is rather a payed game with a f2p component.
I don't want to play constructed anymore ... hey there are duels ... but to get the treasures and hero powers i must get 20 epics from Scholomance and 100 cards from Darkmoon ... and for the treasures coming soon ... i think we have to get all the cards from future expansions to play duels with all the treasueres and hero powers ... sad but true.
I literally can’t keep up with the expansions :( I could only craft one deck by disenchanting wild cards and it seems like I’ll need those wild cards that I disenchanted like K’T, loatheb, Ragnaros etc. in duels. I really wanted to play the duels but I don’t think I’ll be able to play Hearthstone with the heavy prices I need to pay and the disappointment.
By the way, after seeing what happened this expansion I don’t think they’ll ever change the way they sabotate their own success.
Bro if you're that tight on dust, you should not have crafted any cards on day 1. Chances are the cards you crafted won't even be played later on. Specially dusting a wild staple like loatheb that would be good in almost any duel deck.
If Blizzard does not fix the reward system over the next 4 months this might be the last expansion for many.
Why? It's supposed to be a F2P game with P2W options. But if one compares with old decks the number of legendaries needed in successful decks is slowly increasing on average. Also increasing is the number of legendaries per expansion. And, well, the amount of expansions is also kind of increasing, though we've been at 3/year for a long time now (both the year of the dragon and the phoenix so a mini-expansion at their respective end, increasing this to basically 3.3 expansions/year currently).
To be fair, until recently the amount of gold one could get did also increase (remember the days when quests would grant 30 gold?) which kept things pretty much in the balance. If one plays enough to do daily quests only one cold still get about 8000 gold/expansion from the daily quests alone, plus some bonus gold along the side for winning a few games, amounting to say 9k. enough for 90ish packs, which is enough to get all commons, rares, a decent amount of epics, and together with free legendary rewards one would probably end up having about 7+-1 legendaries.
With events here and there one could grab up to 20 free packs from various expansions during one expansion, too.
The new free reward track still hands out quite a few things. Unfortunately, the *actual* amount of gold you will collect will drop significantly (4200 until level 50). Only 7 of the packs on the track are actually from the newest expansion, so only these are actually worth 100 gold. All other packs, some even from the previous year, are worth significantly less.
By never wasting daily/weekly quests casual players should manage to get past level 50, but not far beyond that.
I see myself reaching something between 60 and 65... That's about 25% less gold than the about 10k gold I used to make between expansions. :/ maybe I am wrong here, but ... we'll see.
official interview with Blizzard Kappa https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/jvac8w/official_blizzard_interview_on_battlepass_system/
Inbefore: Don't you guys have money to give us ?
What the new artifact of Yogg? I can't find... Don't tell me it is deck of chaos/oh my yogg!
Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron
They had to cheat a little bit with the new paladin secret, as they already made puzzle box.
It is Oh My Yogg! :)
The artifacts are:
-Mask of C'Thun
-Jewel of N'Zoth
-Oh My Yogg!
-Idol of Y'Shaarj
It's probably the weakest theme I've ever seen for a card cycle. Doesn't help that the card itself is a flavour nightmare.
Probably should include Duels Season 1 starts today...
Good point! Battlegrounds should get a new season with new rating too I think. Added to the post!
The idea of progress system is not bad, but implementation is totally fucked up...
Thanks for the full coverage to the Hearthpwn team! I'm new to the forums but i do feel like i'm addicted to them! As a comment, It would be helpful to have a post with all the new quests (daily and weekly) added in the revamp! Cheers
Should we avoid opening packs now, due to incoming mini-set? Not inclined to buy those 20 dollar packs again.
since the miniset is supose to not get legendaries id just save some packs for it, or packs that i gaim fro now on
the mini set comes in 2 months, imo isn't worth to keep the packs for that long, with the dupe protection you should get the new cards anyway just save some gold for 10-15 packs that should be enough
Now I'm more interested in today's Zack's Snyder stream & come back of ZS's JL teaser, but yeah - I'm curious what I'll open today & which legendary quest's will I see.
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