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Voyage to the Sunken City Launch Day - Everything You Need To Know!

Hearthstone's newest expansion Voyage to the Sunken City launches today, April 12th. We brought all the information and useful links together in this news post for you.

• The Voyage to the Sunken City 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. There's not been any official details revealed yet!
• You can view all the new cards in our Voyage to the Sunken City Card List.
• PvE content for the Voyage to the Sunken City expansion has not been announced.

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Seems like the EU packs have now started appearing!

— Nicholas “DeckTech” Weiss (@hsdecktech) April 12, 2022

Included for free in the Expansion

• Login now to receive Blademaster Okani for free! The spell-hungry Naga destroyed his people, so now he stands ready to Counter their spells or their minions.
• All players opening up the first Reward in the new Free Reward Track will get two Cards for free, Ambassador Faelin for Constructed and Murky for the Mercenaries game mode!
• All players will have access to the free Core set, a replacement for the Classic and Basic set, see the Year of the Hydra set here.
• There has been no mention so far of a chain of Event Quests to celebrate the release, like there often was, nor anything about any free PvE content this expansion.
• Sir Finley, Sea Guide and Golden copies of Ambassador Faelin will be eligible for a full dust refund until April 13, at 10 a.m. Pacific. (So that's 10am PT/ 1pm ET/ 19:00 CEST/ 18:00 BST).

New Mechanics

• New Keyword: Colossal - Minions with extra appendages that synergize with their main body in powerful ways. These appendages are summoned with the main body, even if the Colossal minion wasn’t played from hand.
• New Tribe: Naga - The Naga are a spell-focused minion type that tend to give bonuses for playing spells while the Naga are in your hand.
• New Keyword: Dredge - Lets you look at the bottom three cards of your deck and pick one to put at the top of your deck, much like Discover does. It does not draw the card unless specified.

Other 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:

• Giant that costs less when you have spent Mana on spells.
• Refresh Mana Crystals based on the most expensive spell in your hand.
• Pick a minion. When it dies deal AoE damage.
• A "Repeatable this turn" spell for Paladin.
• Draw 2 minions and swap their stats.
• Put an enemy minion on the bottom of your opponent's deck.
• There are several Shaman cards that deal with multiple spell schools for their effects.
• Warlock has multiple cards that shuffle Curses into their opponent's hand that deal damage on the opponent's turn, but can be played by them to reduce further damage.
• Replace your deck with minions that cost (5) or more. They cost (5).
• You can view all the new cards in our Voyage to the Sunken City Cards List.

Keyword: Colossal

Minions with extra appendages that synergize with their main body in powerful ways. These appendages are summoned with the main body, even if the Colossal minion wasn’t played from hand.

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Arena Changes

When the expansion unlocks on April 12, ongoing Arena runs will end and a new Arena season will begin. The eligible pool of card sets will rotate so that the following sets will make up the Arena card pool:

• Core
• League of Explorers
• Whispers of the Old Gods
• The Grand Tournament
• United in Stormwind
• Fractured in Alterac Valley
• Voyage to the Sunken City

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!

• Big Deck Preview for Voyage to the Sunken City

That should get you started! Thanks for being with us throughout this exciting Voyage to the Sunken City 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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Voyage to the Sunken City Card List & Expansion Guide

Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated Card List.