Update 7:21 PM: Patch is now live! Restart your clients to grab the update if you haven't gotten it already.
Update 11:06 AM: Added note about Blackrock Mountain.
Hearthstone Patch 8036
A small patch has appeared on the Blizzard download servers which contains information about three upcoming card backs.
Blackrock Mountain - Possible New Hearthstone Adventure / Expansion
Speculation: We may be getting a Blackrock Mountain adventure / expansion. There is a string which points to a presale of it becoming available and buying it will reward you with a Molten Core card back. This may not be final, it could also be Blizzard just messing around with us. Keep that in mind!
If you are not familiar with Blackrock Mountain, it is a massive Mountain between Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge (Warcraft zones) which is home to Ragnaros, Elementals, the Dark Iron, and Nefarian. In World of Warcraft, it houses several instances and three raids, and the first Hearthstone adventure, Naxxramas, was based off a raid in World of Warcraft.
Read more about Blackrock Mountain on Wowpedia.
New Card Backs
Three new card backs have been datamined, but no images are present in the client at this time. It looks like Ragnaros will be an upcoming Seasonal card back, and the other two are related to achievements.
- Molten Core
- Reward From: License Detected
- Note: purchase brm presale
- Ragnaros
- Reward From: Ranked Season Play
- Golden Celebration
- Reward From: License Detected
- Note: golden celebration cardback
Historically speaking, Achievements / Rewards which trigger off a "license detection" are related to owning a game (Warlords of Draenor Collector's Edition) or ticket (BlizzCon) on your Battle.net account. We cannot say for certain how Molten Core or Golden Celebration will be obtained at this time, but Molten Core does currently point towards a content pre-sale.
Well, this thread should solve the mystery.
Edit: It's gotta be for the HS release date then. March 11 is the day it officially launched last year. Can't believe I didn't see that one coming, lol. Not sure what will trigger it though, usually 'Licensed Detected' tags are for codes you put into your battle.net profile. Maybe something at PAX East, but hopefully it's something we can all get in game or with a small purchase.
Them won't implement a card which you can obtain end of the year. Generally cards added to the client are released within 1-2 months.
It's has to be the HearthStone 1 year anniversary then, and that makes a lot more sense.
Super Excited!!
Is that a real picture of you? You are what you eat ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Can someone explain to me what "license detected" means?
This is the last paragraph of this article. It explains "license detected", you see?
Holy shit I'm blind, didn't even see that.
Thank you
brm= Blackrock mountain?
No I think its Broom Riders Mountain. Lots of witches and spells I'd expect. Kappa
Hope the gold cardback looks good!
Just an idea i had earlier:
do you think "golden celebration" would be a cardback for having all the classes to 60, so all basic cards in golden? or just a bday thing?
That's an interesting thought. It could be that, I hope not though. I've been around for a year but I'm far from 9 60s! Either way, I think it will look awesome!
really bud? I have had them all since august!
Insert "I have a life" comment here. #rekt
Truth be told I haven't put that much time into it. Too many other things I gotta do :) GJ yourself though man!
I'm with you. Leveling every class to 60 requires a job where you get paid to play HS.
Other than that, its sooo boring to play classes that you aren't even interested in.
The next species will probably be Dwarves, since it was the Dark Iron Dwarves that unleashed Ragnaros.
I think they will go deeper (HA puns) into the Dragons subtype. Nefarian and his creations are mostly dragonoid of some kind. I would like to see that preferably, as we already have quite a few dragons and they could do a lot with them.
Yeah maybe didn't think about that.