I’m afraid not. Only the pre-purchase packs will be available during pre-release.

I’m pretty sure that the last day before expansion’s launch is the last moment you can buy it (so in this case April 8th).

“Pre-nerf backstab” oh man, given that the card was nerfed right after the Closed Beta account wipe, most of people don’t even remember the old version.

Even I wasn’t playing back then – I started like 2 weeks after that patch (but I was watching some streams already so I vaguely remember it).

You could say that at 0 mana they would be… nuts.

*ba dum tsss*

I think that everyone assumes that they cost 1 mana. It would be really weird if they costed more.

I was only helping during the previous reveal season (Evident was doing most of the work), so I had more time to do reviews. I did it for the first batch, but the reveal season is really fast and I wouldn’t be able to keep up with reviews.

That said, I’ll do some reviews for the most interesting cards in the period after reveal season and before the expansion’s launch (we’ll also have lots of theorycraftings, so stay tuned). I would love to do more but I just don’t have time 🙁

The artwork looks so bad because we had to scale it up from a low quality small image. But we’ve probably blurred it out too much anyway lol. We’ll add a higher quality one once Blizzard releases it.

The problem is that we don’t have images for most of the tokens. When Blizzard releases a HQ card, they do it only for the card and not the tokens it generates. We’ll try to get our hands on those too (and if not, we’ll add all of them after all the cards are revealed – they do a big dump with ALL of the cards including tokens then).

Not really, for Kel’Thuzad to work you needed minions that died THIS TURN, not THIS GAME. This is guaranteed to summon something (if something died this game, that is), for Kel’Thuzad you needed a board first AND a way to kill it off.

I’d say that this is better than Kel’Thuzad, which was a win-more card – this is also great on an empty board or sometimes even when behind (especially if you had Taunt minions that died).

No worries, it happens 🙂

Official English translation is up. Enjoy!

Official English translation is up. Enjoy!

English subs on the reveal video say nothing about random: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=78&v=0-AfiutrL1w

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I don’t believe you (I know no Korean at all), but so far we have more sources for the current translation. So I’ll just wait for some official words from Blizzard.

Maybe it’s random friendly minion? As in “random friendly Deathrattle minion on the board”? It might roll the RNG dice instead of letting you target if you have multiple Deathrattle minions on the board.

Did you translate the original one yourself? Because I’ve read both translations already, with the current one being more common.

It’s always difficult with those Asian card reveals 🙁

1. Yes, that’s exactly what it means. The cards will still be playable in Wild, but no longer in Standard.
2. Like you’ve already calculated it below… For Commons, craft a Golden version no matter if you don’t own it or own a regular one. For Rare/Epic/Legendary, if you own a regular version, don’t do anything. If you don’t own it at all, craft Golden. I think that your question was why you don’t want to do anything if you own a regular version and the answer is simple – because it won’t give you any extra Dust. You CAN do that but it just doesn’t matter (you just have to invest more Dust upfront).
3. No, it does not. Average is 1 Legendary per 20 packs no matter whether you spend Gold or real money, but you can go up to 40 packs without a single Legendary (if you don’t open one in 39 packs, 40th one has a guaranteed Legend). You just got unlucky (there’s really nothing you can do about it, sorry).

Because Skiffington added them to the site and not me, then I somehow assumed that he added them to this post too without checking. I’ve updated it now.

War Master Voone was not changed after the reveal (which was my point), they just showcased a wrong (outdated) version. The card was changed when it was still in development. They immediately pushed out the right version on Twitter, and made an explanation post right after. My guess is that Wronchi animations (during one of which he was revealed) took quite a lot of time to create, so they were ready a long time before reveal season, and they just forgot to update that part. So I’d say that my point still stands.

Every card will be released in the state in which it is showcased – we never had any cards changed after they were revealed. Maybe, MAYBE it might happen in some extreme cases, but I doubt it – if anything, problematic card might be changed a few weeks after the expansion’s release.

You can learn more about Standard rotation with our Ultimate Guide! Check it out here: https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/guides/hearthstone-standard-rotation-schedule-guide/

And thank you, I guess – it’s nice to hear that you got much more info from our site than from the official one 🙂

I don’t think that synergies are pushed because “someone specifically asks for them”, but more people than you might think have asked for Dragon Paladin. Because we had Dragon Pally cards dripped one by one every few expansions instead of just pushing the archetype, it was a rather common request, especially back in the day.

Actually, Paladin was one of the original two Dragon synergy classes from Blackrock Mountain (alongside Priest) and one of the three Dragon synergy classes in general. Dragon Consort was a really strong card and it has seen a decent amount of play (not as much as it would see in let’s say . Later the class also got Nightbane Templar in Karazhan, but that one wasn’t as good (the pay-off was just too small).

I always felt that there should be a third “Dragon class” (first undoubtedly being Priest, and second being Warrior) and I was wondering why they didn’t push Dragon Paladin harder. I guess they’re doing it now, and I don’t mind it at all.