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United in Stormwind Card Reveal Season Starts on July 20
It’s official! Blizzard has just started adding card teasers for United in Stormwind reveal season as I’m writing this. The first reveal takes place on Tuesday, July 20, at 10 AM PDT / 19:00 CEST. It links to the official Hearthstone YouTube channel, so I would assume that it will be some kind of video […]
Balance Update Coming Next Thursday (July 15), Three Cards Nerfed, Devs Looking at Priest & Druid
Alec to the rescue! The recent meta has been really stale – not much has changed ever since the mini-set was released. Luckily, we might see one last shake-up before the next expansion. Next Thursday, on July 15, we’ll get a small balance patch. Devs are looking at card generation/burst healing in […]
Iksar’s Twitter Q&A #20 Summary – Wailing Caverns Design, Return of Hero Cards, Undead Minion Type, Card Generation in Priest, “Hearthstone 2” And More!
Dean “Iksar” Ayala is a Lead Designer on Hearthstone team, and he’s been doing weekly Q&A sessions on Twitter for a while now. (Update: He had a long, 6 weeks break because of a paternal leave – but he should be back to regular weekly posting now). They usually happen on Wednesdays, afternoon-evening Pacific Time. People […]
Fire Festival 2021’s Week 1 Starts Now With Free Packs & Druid of the Flame Malfurion Hero Skin + Event Tavern Brawl!
This year’s Hearthstone Fire Festival starts today, on July 6. The first week brings probably the most important thing for many of you – freebies! A chain of seven Legendary Quests will appear – you should automatically start each after finishing the previous one. The first six Quests will reward players with […]
Is Core Set Successful? Which Cards Are the Best and How Many See Play?
Core Set has been released a few months ago, and it’s been a huge step forward when it comes to Hearthstone’s affordability. While the game had a bunch of free cards already (Basics) – let’s just say that they weren’t perfect. Not only most of them have never been competitively viable, but their design was […]
