Update: 12:06 PM EDT June 9: Added new art to the end of the post - tavern brawl art.
Update 1:36 PM EDT: According to the German Facebook page, there are no plans for co-op
New Main Button Being Added to Hearthstone
Thanks to a post on the Hearthstone facebook page, it looks like a new button is being added to the main screen in Hearthstone.
We are not yet sure what it will be for, although it is worth pointing out that the current buttons we have are all for various play modes.
We have confirmed that the new Heroes will be chosen via the collection manager, which means Zhang Dong's statement that there was still more to come appears to be accurate. We are indeed getting another large piece of content! What are you hoping for?
Clarifications
Quote from BlizzardThere are currently no plans for a co-op mode. (Hearthstone.de Facebook)
Will new hero portraits be usable in arena?
How does this selection process work? In the settings or when you click 'play ranked'
It'll be a part of the collection manager. - Zeriyah (Source)
Tavern Brawl Art
Some new art has been posted on the @PlayHearthstone Twitter account. We aren't sure if it has any relation to the new button, but it is worth mentioning.
Please let it be draft!
I want a fist fight mode.
Holy crap -- I was only joking. Based on the Tavern Brawl art, it looks like it's going to happen!
Solo Raiding Icecrown Citadel, Black Temple PogChamp?
rofl just kidding
(that would be so sick though)
Auto-Squelch?
Turn on Flying in Warlords of Draenor?
Seriously..best case - Tournament mode lobby
Worst - Link to the Blizz store
likely, cosmetics manager.
Would be nice. I think they'll need a better UI for stuff like that eventually since we're already getting to have so many card backs for those that started at launch.
We talkin' about practice man.. Practice!
I would love to see a tournament mode
Let's pray about using the new button will be free of charge.
Cause regarding some latest Blizzard's moves I have a bad feeling... And let's think even further - how long Blizzard will be keeping intrigue ?
There's too many buttons on the main screen now. I am confused as to what play mode I want. /sarcasm
Put your faith in the Lig... in Blizzard!
Tournament mode?
Except that it's actually just a BM tournament. No decks or cards, just whoever can BM the hardest wins.
I imagine an achievements screen would probably be found with the quests. I'm betting on Tournament mode.
Tournament mode. Similar to Arena but you are locked to use a created deck.
I'm optimistic that it's tournament mode. I'd love to see something like MTGO where you can kick in gold (or real money) into a pot and award packs and prizes to the winners. Blizz (in my opinion) likely feels the need to come up with a way to get people to keep using gold, especially ladder players that don't arena. The problem (I beleive) they're running into is that people have the format down pat: An adventure every summer and a full blown expansion every winter. I was, in fact, thinking today about how I'd like to have saved 5,000 gold by the end of summer for 50 packs of the new expansion's boosters.
That being said, an idea that I conceived some time ago was something akin to outdoor raid bosses. An enemy with a collective pool of a few million health (i had originally conceived it to be ragnaros, although now that he is a boss, perhaps one of the outdoor dragons from vanilla), depleted in real time by players (and healed by itself) server-wide. Each attempt at the boss would cost some amount of gold, and could also be purchased with real money (Blizzard Likey). The boss would have failsafes built into it that would make it impossible to play infinitely, and every turns against the boss would be the equivalent of an arena key, and prizes would be rewarded based on how many rounds your hero could last (and, in some way, how much damage you did to the boss) until finally the boss fell on your server and everyone who participated would get a card back or something. I think it would be a fun departure from the meta to make a deck that could do as much damage as possible against a boss with infinite health, or survive as long as possible against a boss with really OP abilities.
Its as if you copied that whole idea exactly from elemental kingdoms :p
I would be happy with just a tournament mode
Maybe it's a Fireside Gathering thing.
Going with the Tournament button eve if I Don't really believe in it. Revamping the ladder seems easier to implement and they still didn't change it.