Oh, that’s a good question. Old cards (like I don’t know, Menagerie Warden) will obviously still be accessible since they’re from previous expansions. And when it comes to the new 29 cards created solely for Core Set, they will rotate out to Legacy Set in the Wild (the same set Basic & Classic cards are in) and you will be able to craft them. I hope that answers your question.

I’m not sure what you mean, could you elaborate?

Nope, no dates were given at all.

Those new Dragons are not reworks, actually. They are completely new cards 🙂

But we don’t know if Nozdormu will get a new version yet.

Yes, you’re right, I forgot about it! 🙂

He meant Bo3 as a format in game, not tournament qualifiers etc.

Like if you play Standard ladder and you could pick between Bo1 and Bo3. MTG Arena has something like that if you played it.

Oh I absolutely hate China’s censorship, and it’s only getting worse. I just don’t think it was the reason in this case. They would probably just chance artworks in Chinese game client like they always did, no reason to do it globally.

I think that that they changed them because Hearthstone is heavily marketed towards kids and you don’t want to have too many suggestive/brutal artwork then. But of course, I might be wrong.

I’m 99.9% sure that Shadowflame never damaged enemy Hero. It was always enemy minions. I looked through Classic patch notes and haven’t found any change like that.

I’m not sure what you mean. Soulfire could always do face damage, then and now. The card’s effect never changed, only mana cost.

Well, the official reason was that they “didn’t meet their standards” and that they “wouldn’t print similar ones today”.

Some people suspect that it’s because of China censorship, but I honestly don’t think so. China already had alternative versions of some cards that they didn’t like (such as the ones depicting skeletons). If they didn’t like those, they could just remake them for China only. My guess is that the game is also targeted at kids and having artwork like Succubus doesn’t help, especially with parents. And while it’s just my opinion, most of the new artworks are just better.

The only thing I disagree with was getting rid of Succubus completely. I mean, they could just leave the card, but with a less suggestive artwork (like new Mistress of Pain, or I guess Queen of Pain). After all, Succubi are a part of Warcraft universe and there’s no point pretending that it’s not the case.

Sorry it took so long. With so many things constantly coming to Hearthstone over the last few months we’ve been really busy. New game modes, new formats, regular expansions, mini-sets, progression system update, now the core set etc. There are so many things to constantly update that I don’t know where to start so I have to delay/ignore some stuff and take care of the others first.

Hopefully we’ll see it this weekend at BlizzCon!

And we might as well get Pandas later this year. Last year we went from alternative, Rust Legion Outland to non-Undead version of Scholomance to Darkmoon Faire influenced by Old gods, three non-related things.

Hahah, I don’t know what kind of question you would have to ask to get yourself banned 😀

But I think it’s more like it’s not something so important that needs to be confirmed by logging in so they made it easier for everyone.

Thanks, fixed!

Shockadin was Aggro Pally with Avenging Wrath right? I think it will be playable in Classic, actually.

Mill Rogue was first played in Naxx I think, but really became more popular in GvG thanks to Healbot giving a defensive option. Some form of Mill Rogue might be playable in Classic, though.

The first deck I hit Legend with was Tempo Rogue. Then I took it all the way to around Top 50 Legend finisher around the time we’ll land in Classic (it was either May or June 2014). But hitting high Legend was way, way easier back then.

Yes, reverting nerfs means buffing the cards to their original state. They never gave dust compensations for buffs.

At least now we know that Core Set is free, so they won’t screw players out of their gold or anything like that. But we’ll see how well the Core Set works as a replacement for Basic/Classic. I think that it’s a great idea overall (I’ve been talking about it for YEARS now), but they need to nail the balance and flavor for it to work.

Maybe from some of them, but probably not all.

That said, I’m 100% sure that HS is the most popular online CCG. And by a huge margin.

Sorry, fixed!

I’m nearly sure that we had some undiscovered, strong decks. Deck building skills were much worse back then, and we didn’t have stat-tracking tools like HSReplay etc. People will probably find something new to play that we didn’t discover back then. That’s actually the thing I’m waiting for most.

Some people don’t mind playing the same thing over and over again. I mean, Chess didn’t have any major rule changes in hundreds of years and people still enjoy it 😀

And to be honest, they never said that they won’t balance Classic format. If it turns out that X deck is overpowered, it might get nerfed in Classic only (Classic will have its own versions of cards anyway). If they land at a balanced meta, it might be pretty fun to play a few old decks every now and then. It definitely won’t be my main format, but I’m looking forward to it.

I also think that it will get stale quickly, but we’ll see. In the worst case scenario I’ll have fun for a week and then forget about it, haha.