New Signature Cards - What Are They and How Do I Get Them?
Signature cards, a new collectible card type, are coming to Hearthstone! How do you obtain them, what are the drop rates compared to Golden Legendaries and other questions are answered below!
What is a Signature Card?
Signature is a new cosmetic quality that cards can have (like Golden or Diamond), with stylized full-art images.
**Note, the Lor'themar card shows Runes, like a Death Knight card. The card is not a Death Knight card however and this must have been an oversight with mocking up the cards for the stream they were shown on.
Is this how Signature Cards will always look?
Every expansion is going to have its own look and feel to the Signature cards. For the first iteration in March of the Lich King Blizzard chose an icy sepia style, evoking the Lich King’s powers over Frost and the Undead.
The art style of Signature cards within each expansion will match their respective expansion’s style and the card frame for future Signature cards might also change from time to time. That means Signature cards from future sets will look different from these ones, to evoke different tones and styles.
How do I get Signature Cards?
Signature Cards can’t be crafted or disenchanted; they can only be opened in packs or earned through special means. They can be opened in Standard Packs, Class Packs, March of the Lich King Packs, and new March of the Lich King Signature Golden Packs.
How many Signature Cards are there?
There are a total of 18 Signature cards coming with the launch of March of the Lich King, including 15 Legendary cards. Two of the Legendary cards will be available on the Tavern Pass, and the three non-Legendary cards will be earnable for free as part of an event with the expansion launch. The 13 remaining Signature Legendaries come from packs or bundles.
So what are the Drop Rates on Signature Cards?
In normal packs, the drop rate of a Signature Card is the same as that of a Golden Legendary, meaning you have a 1 in 181 packs chance, on average. For the new Golden Signature packs (that replace the normal Golden Packs moving forward), the chances of getting a Signature Card are much higher, 1 in 7 packs, on average. These do not replace other drops. They are purely bonus (Apart from replacing a normal common in the pack).
Source: Celestalon on Twitter.
CARD DROP RATES REGULAR PACKS | |
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Card Quality | Drop Rates |
Signature Legendary | 181 packs on average |
Golden Legendary | 181 packs on average |
Golden Epic | 71 packs on average |
Golden Rare | 15 packs on average |
Golden Common | 13 packs on average |
Normal Legendary | 20 packs on average** |
Normal Epic | 5 packs on average |
Remaining cards will be Normal Common cards | Average of 3.5 cards per pack |
**One Legendary card is guaranteed within the first 10 packs of a new card expansion, then subsequent Legendary card drops will follow the above rule.
CARD DROP RATES SIGNATURE GOLDEN PACKS | |
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Card Quality | Drop Rates |
Signature Legendary | 7 packs on average |
Golden Legendary | 20 packs on average** |
Golden Epic | 5 packs on average |
Guaranteed at least 1 Golden Rare card or better | Every Pack |
Remaining cards will be Golden Common cards | Average of 3.7 cards per pack |
**One Golden Legendary card is guaranteed within the first 10 packs of a new card expansion, then subsequent Golden Legendary card drops will follow the above rule.
Information taken from the Official Blizzard Support page, found here.
Is there Duplicate Protection on Signature Cards?
With many players wanting Signature Card versions of cards they already own, Blizzard has made the duplicate protection for Signature Cards work in reverse! A Signature Card version can drop of a card you already own, but when it does you’ll get a popup that asks if you’d like to reroll your existing normal/golden copy for free. Say yes, and it rerolls to a different card of the same set, rarity, and quality, while respecting duplicate protection!
Wait, Re-Roll? Can I get that on other cards too?
Yep! This reroll offer happens any time that you are awarded a non-disenchantable version of a card that you already have a disenchantable version of. Reward Tracks, Achievements, Signatures in Packs, Bundles, etc.
Source: Celestalon on Twitter.
What happens if I already own all Signature Cards?
Once you own all Signature Legendary Cards in a card expansion set, you will start receiving Golden Legendary cards in place of Signature Legendary cards!
This means that once you own all Signature Cards, the drop rate for Golden Legendaries goes up. It will be 2x the rate in normal packs and 4x the rate in Signature Golden Packs (90.5 packs on average in Normal Packs and 5 packs on average in Signature Packs).
Do Signature Cards Count towards getting the Golden Coin?
Yes, Signature Cards do count toward Golden Coins, just like Diamonds Cards do.
Source: Celestalon on Twitter.
Wait I only just noticed the insane drop rates, that's 13 x 181 = an average of 2.353 packs ($3.724) to get all signature cards per expansion what the fuck Blizzard
Yes. But this is only per expansion. So, 4 x 3.724= 14.896, per year (and this is only the average case). Overwatch 2 has an estimated entry cost for new players (in order to collect everything) of 15K and Diablo Immortal, well between 100K to 500K to max out only one character. But as someone will answer, these are only cosmetics, if you don't like it, don't buy it. :) LOL. Blizzard went a cancer for the industry.
After Diablo Immortal are you actually surprised? This is Activision now.
I do not like these at all. I will be using the golden versions instead.
I'm not digging the single color tone. Sacrificing the ability to instantly recognize something in favor of making it pretty is never a good idea in graphic design.
I still instantly recognize the artwork so not sure what your problem is haha.
When you directly look at a large version of it, yes. But when a card flies into your hand in the corner of your eye you should be able to go "oh it's the big red blob thingy on a blue background, that's card X" without even thinking about it
I get what they're trying to do with the "themed look" but I really don't think it works all that well. At least in this case, it looks boring, washed out and flat.
Could've went with a cool foiled look or something. But the way cards are looked at in hearthstone probably doesn't work that well with that either tbf.
are the common cards you get from signature packs golden or is this a rip off?
I wonder if some signature cards get nerfed, how they calculate the compensation for them?
The last time a special card get nerfed, they refund all 3000 gold or $25 for everyone who bought Diamond Drek'thar, depend on which method you paid for, then get a free copy Diamond Drek'thar. For all 15 new Signature legendary cards, I doubt we can see a nerf wave soon, especially on new broken class Deathknight 🤤
Well, that's a good question. Hadn't thought of that.
And there's an issue with this in general, cause Signature Cards can't be disenchanted. So in that sense there's no compensation coming.
On the flipside of that, you also can't craft Signature Cards, so you can't claim you lost out on anything in that regard either, which would also, logically, mean no compensation is needed.
But, in terms of community feeling, it is obviously extremely shitty when a Signature Card gets nerfed, and ruins your deck, and you get no compensation to try other decks with. Cause for many people that's the method, you craft and play something, in the knowledge that you can swap to a different build with the dust compensation should something get nerfed.
I assume Blizz have a plan for this situation, and I'd love to hear it.
i'd assume they'd offer you to reroll a nerfed card since rerolling is now a feature
No money back for Drek’thar. They gave gold. Blizzard is hilarious.
You could ask them directly from that day and ask for refund, they have to give money back. There is no tool to take 3K gold back,
so they just let you keep it. Then they said "this is one-time exception" 🥴
The only way you can get money back from Blizzard is if you ask them back to PayPal, Apple, Google or maybe your bank account. Blizzard will always tell you to go to hell. They have 0 refund policy for nearly everything. Or with a lawsuit :) they are collecting them, so nothing new.
Have we had any information at all about how these signature card packs will be priced?
Signature card packs are treated the same as Golden Packs in terms of pricing and availability.
Availability, yes, but how do you know for sure the pricing is the same?
Signature packs replace golden packs. We obviously don't know if the price will change, but chances are they won't.