Fractured in Alterac Valley Expansion Card List & Guide! Release Date, Reveals, Pre-Purchase Info, New Mechanics and More!
By Stonekeep -
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The temperature is low, but the tensions are high on this storied battlefield, where the Horde and the Alliance fight for honor and shards of a fallen naaru. The two factions are locked in eternal battle, and have put out a call for new Heroes to help turn the tide. Take key Objectives and secure Honorable Kills to help your faction claim victory! The conflict is inevitable, and you must pick a side. So come, claim your place as a champion among those who are Fractured in Alterac Valley!
General Information
- Release Date - December 7, 2021
- 135 New Cards - Reveal schedule here!
- New Keyword - Honorable Kill
- New Mechanic - Objectives
- Hero Cards Are Coming Back!
- Horde vs Alliance Event - Choose Your Side And Earn Honor Points!
- Year-Long Narrative - all three 2021 expansions will be connected by their story.
- Two Pre-Purchase Tiers - $49.99 and $79.99
Cinematic Trailer
Announcement Video
Pre-Purchase
Once again, we'll have two different pre-order bundles. You can get the bundles here. Here's what they include and how much they cost:
Fractured in Alterac Valley Pre-Purchase Bundle ($49.99)
- 60 Fractured in Alterac Valley Packs
- Two Random Legendary cards from Fractured in Alterac Valley
- Vanndar Stormpike Card Back
Fractured in Alterac Valley Mega Bundle ($79.99)
- 80 Fractured in Alterac Valley Card Packs
- 5 Golden Fractured in Alterac Valley Card Packs
- 5 Mercenaries Card Packs
- Two Random Golden Legendaries from Fractured in Alterac Valley
- One Random Legendary from Mercenaries
- Vanndar Stormpike Warrior Cosmetic Hero
- Vanndar Stormpike Prestor Card Back
- Battlegrounds Perks
Pre-purchases are available all the way until expansion's release, but it's always safer to purchase them a day earlier (December 6 in this case).
Alliance vs Horde Event - Honor Points
After Patch 21.8 launched, each player will swear their allegiance to one of the two factions - Alliance or Horde. The choice will come with a different Golden Legendary you get for free - it will be either Drek'Thar (for Horde) or Vanndar Stormpike (for Alliance).
After expansion launches on December 7, two factions will compete for even more free rewards by playing Hearthstone matches (Constructed, Arena or Duels). Here's how many Honor Points you can get for activities:
- 10 Honor for every game played
- 10 more Honor for every game won (20 total)
- 20 more Honor for every game won versus an opponent from the enemy faction (40 total)
As you gain honor, you climb the ranks and progress through a Legendary Quest Chain. Everyone who completes the Legendary Quest Chain will get the same amount of rewards INCLUDING the opposing faction's leader. When the event ends on January 11, every player will get a Diamond copy of the leader from the faction that got more Honor points in total.
New Keyword - Honorable Kill
Honorable kill is a bit similar to the Overkill mechanic introduced a while ago in Rastakhan's Rumble. However, instead of you needing to deal more than enough damage to kill something, Honorable Kill will trigger when you deal the exact necessary amount of damage. For example, if a minion has 3 health left and you deal 3 damage to it, that's when the Honorable Kill will trigger.
Honorable Kill will give you a variety of effects, such as buffing your minions, reducing the cost of cards in your hand, and so on. Strategically, you will need to know what kind of damage thresholds there are for popular Honorable Kill cards and try to set up opponent's minions at that health (if you play them) or try to not leave your own minions at that health (if you play around them).
Most Recently Revealed Cards from Fractured in Alterac Valley
Fractured in Alterac Valley Revealed Card List
If you're looking for cards from a specific class, click on it below:
Demon Hunter - Druid - Hunter - Mage - Paladin - Priest - Rogue - Shaman - Warlock - Warrior - Neutral
Demon Hunter
Druid
Hunter
Mage
Paladin
Priest
Rogue
Shaman
Warlock
Warrior
Neutral
Legendaries
Epics
Rares
Commons
Rarity distribution based on previous expansion, the final version might look slightly different.
Key Art
Game Board
Cinematic Stills/Wallpapers
24 Comments
DarkAviator
I'm sure it's just because nobody told you yet, but, putting up this post including "New Mechanics" in the announcement and then not explaining the new mechanic is a bit lacking. :P
h0lysatan
Then I guess it's only fitting if we help describe the new mechanic. Admin gonna love the next week sleep schedule, so I think explaining a few things in the comment should help.
Stonekeep
At the very top of the page:
"THIS POST IS CURRENTLY GETTING UPDATED WITH ALL THE INFO WE JUST GOT! IF YOU WANT TO SEE A FINAL VERSION, CHECK BACK SOON!"
We just had an expansion reveal, 10 card reveals and a big patch release, and I'm just one person :)
Bombasticbob
thanks for keeping this website updated, its my favorite one to look at for hearthstone stuff!
hope you're doing ok.
Stonekeep
Thank you for your kind words!
And no worries, I'm used to busy release times. But Blizzard has been pushing SO MUCH STUFF over the last ~2 years that it's hard to keep up sometimes :D
Buissonade
you are doing an amazing job, thank you!
h0lysatan
Honorable Kill. Gain bonus effect if you deal exact lethal damage to kill enemy minion. Only on your turn. One time bonus.
nickus89
I am super excited for the expansion for the hero cards and honor system alone.
For the Alliance!
Pandamonium
Hero cards!
h0lysatan
It's very hard to decide whether Horde or Alliance is better, because we don't know what kind of cards they printing, and to make it worse, they force us to choose now and not letting us play the game until then.
Nice move. Very nice. *crossedfingers
Okay then, I guess Vanndar reducing 3 mana from 5+ minions is a lot more viable (Depends on whether you can mulligan said Legendary) than Drek'thar summoning two 3 cost minion from the deck. I can't imagine the broken double battlecry gonna be.
Goodbye Kazakus. You'll be missed sorely.
hANSN
I dont think you summon two copies of a 3 cost minion or whatever <4 cost minion from the deck but if you play such a <4 cost minion you summon two of those. At least thats how I read it (correct me if I am wrong).
hANSN
I correct myself, you were right, it summons two 3 cost minions like „Call to arms“, my bad. Would be to good otherwise.
h0lysatan
A lot of people misread. They could've just use the word recruit or summon 2 of them 'from the deck'.
Like I said, lame wording is lame.
hANSN
Yeah would be easier, but they really dont like to print old keywords on newly released cards, instead they prefer lame wording. All in all I dont think it is a very good card, at least for right now, but who knows what will come.
h0lysatan
At least now that all cards has been revealed. 'someone' can get a good night rest in the weekend before the theorycraft stream happens.
Thanks for all the hard work!
nicodiangelo
I'm all for ads to keep this website running. I appreciate all the work that goes into this. But can we do something about the ads that literally cut across the screen and cover up the content? For me, in the Druid and Mage sections there is an ad that cuts across, covers some of the cards and resizes everything to be extremely small in those two spaces, so I can't see anything there. It's just very annoying.
Stonekeep
I'm really sorry about that, could you please send a screenshot? The problem is that ads are targeted depending on your region and so on, and it doesn't happen to me or the devs. If you show us which ads are problematic we'll try to get rid of them in favor of less intrusive ones.
nicodiangelo
I'm sorry if my tone came across as harsh in that tweet. It was not my intention. Since I posted that, I've had my adblocker working overnight to get rid of the ones that cut across the screen, so now they take up a card slot instead of the whole space, like so https://imgur.com/dM1QQQV
Thanks for your attention to this, I'm glad to say I've resolved this issue for myself, but I was curious to see if anyone else had the same issue, it might have been more unique than I expected.
Thanks so much for your hard work. This website is like the only one I care to check for news on Hearthstone and new deck content.
Vincent
Some powerfull Hero cards. Reminds of Dr. Boom, Mad Genius. Whoever draw the card first usually won.
solaris29
thanks for the list. i tried to find comments on twitch but it seems they prefer playing battleground... :/
change
keywords like honorable kill, outcast and corrupt are missing in the deckbuilder. could you add them?
KonuTech
Tons of really cool cards. Control meta is my dream
lanakias
Many "buff" cards many "draw" cards but very few serious minions or something to combining with these cards. For example "DH" get a legendary that "Tranform into a 6/6 copy of a minion in your deck" but the class did not get some serious and strong demon minions in this expansion.
Druid get one ultra "ramp" legendary card but he did not get some big boys or something big with value. Instead he get some cute minions and some buff spells. What was that?
Mage get some ultra big spell that doing rgn things. No something to get the board, for example cards like "Freeze an enemy and summon two 3/6 elements" or deal 5 dmg and summon an -5 drop". He get some draw cards, some removals and some rng big spells.
Only paladin get some big boys and Hunter some "secret" supporting cards. The other classes sets it looks very comfusing to me. You must depenting a lot from the previous already cards and I feel the meta will not change much. Again "Pirate" warrior, pepega Hunter, Pepega zoo Druid ect. Casual things from Team 5.
h0lysatan
Latest info.
Get 2 packs drops from YT/Twitch by watching theorycraft stream today. December 2nd.
2 hours for getting a pack, 4 hours for a total of 2 packs.
Still unclear if you can get 4 packs by watching both stream. But honestly, I think it's possible.
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