New Arena Rotation After Wailing Caverns Mini-Set Releases

Earlier today, Celestalon announced a new Arena rotation on Twitter. Those are always a big deal for Arena players, since they impact the meta heavily. Not only the new mini-set will be added, but we’ll have two more expansions rotating out (and two others taking their place). Here’s the list:

Removed: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, Rise of Shadows

Added: Goblins vs Gnomes, Kobolds & Catacombs, Wailing Caverns

While at it, you might want to keep an Arena run open (but not finished) – at rotations, Arena runs usually get canceled and refunded with a free ticket, but you still get to keep the rewards from the retired run. The best idea is to get your run to 2 loses and stop there to not risk ending it yourself. For example, if you hit 3-2 tomorrow, you can just stop there and get your 3 wins rewards for “free”. Profit!

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  1. H0lysatan
    June 1, 2021 at 7:45 PM

    Well, I still have 4 tickets, 1 from the last arena, and 3 from FitB reward track. Time to do some quick reward grab (4 packs for free). Thanks for the reminder.

  2. WIMPDRAGN
    June 1, 2021 at 6:09 PM

    What time would you think the update would happen? (Eastern time zone) that way i know when to have my run ready for a free ticket

    • Durps
      June 1, 2021 at 7:03 PM

      1pm EST (the usual would be my guess)
      and what is it? 1 hour before rotation new Arena tickets are disabled.

      Hopefully they remove Ysera from Arena or something like that (only draftable not discoverable?)

    • Stonekeep - Author
      June 1, 2021 at 10:22 PM

      Updates usually drop at 10 AM PT, so that would be 1 PM EST I think.

      But like Durps said, be sure to start your Arena run earlier, not right before the update. They disable an option to start new runs shortly before rotation. I would go even further than 1h, at least a few hours just to be sure.