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.
They look like a banned and forgotten card. It fits with the graveyard theme, but it's colorless so... pretty meh.
in the mega bundle you still get 5 golden packs its just they also have more chance of having these
which is nowhere near what you used to get - 2 guaranteed golden legendries vs a chance at getting one or more with some other gold cards - on top of which you would have gotten the gold packs anyway, this is strictly worse than before.
So the normal bundle is better than mega bundle, in terms of dust?
Whales will buy anything Blizzard prints out.
whales keep the game free for us
Would implementing uncraftable cards on a large enough scale eventually introduce the possibility of trading them?
I think they actually talked about a trading/selling card market at the end of last year as one of the big things they have on the list.
https://twitter.com/IksarHS/status/1467673538203033605/photo/1
Blizz white knights in here defending the "can't be crafted" logic is just about right.
Beginning: Golden Cards have a gif instead of a jpeg. All are craftable if you wanna treat yourself to something nice.
Last Year: Introducing Diamond Cards, the gifs moves a little more. Obtained with $20 or having every card in a set and are uncraftable.
Coming Soon: Introducing Signature Cards, Definitely-Not-Legends of Runeterra cards with a 1 in 181 drop rate and are uncraftable.
Coming Next Year: Introducing Golden Signature Cards, now with color but a 1 in 1,810 drop rate and are uncraftable.
I know adding cosmetics isn't harmful on its own since you can just choose not to get them. I just wish they weren’t so bad at it.
In my opinion, this is harmful. There is no point in saying if you don't like it, don't buy it. This is like when someone sees a drug dealer selling heavy drugs, and you say if you don't want it you don't buy it, instead, you have to denounce it. Well, it is the same. Blizzard with the cost of 3.724 in signature cards, it is the drug dealer for weaker people, addicted, excessive fans and so on. So, I hate companies like this that use these tools. I wonder how it is possible that no consumer society intervenes to stop these imbecile practices. Nowadays, you can ask for 500K to upgrade the character or 3.724 in cards and there is no one to raise his hand and say: "But, maybe you don't ruin someone's life with such a practice?"
Yeah, poor Lt. Eddy. How much is he gonna spend for the Rogue Signatures every expansion?
It's just a business expense for him. He probably writes it off in taxes
You can pull them in packs, but you can't disenchant them? That makes no sense
How much dust are they worth to disenchant? I think they are ugly and would prefer just the base version.
double the price of a normal golden legendary....
the bishing of this community is endless.
they are a corporation, it's just another way to finance quarterly earnings to fans/players of the game.
get over it.
The things look so ugly as black and white.
The style they went with is fairly self-defeating, they make the signature cards more detailed and in full 3D but then go and make it in black and white??? They take a step forward and go a step back. These need to be in full color. They can still keep the black outside trim but the actual art shouldn't be as well, makes it washed out it was a bad idea.
More predatory Trash to seperate Addicts from their real life earnings.
Of course "non-craftable" so they can further force you to go buy the highest cost Mega Bundle.