Hearthstone Dev Tracker

Patch 31.2.2 is releasing today with the following updates:

Hearthstone Updates 

Dev Comment: This is our last round of changes before the holiday break, so we’re aiming to keep this patch smaller and lower risk. The mini-set is also coming in the not too distant future, and we expect it to do a good job of shaking things up in its own right. Our goal with this patch was to hit the biggest outliers (per usual, considering both play experience and balance).

The following cards are being adjusted to be weaker:

Sonya Waterdancer

• Old: After you play a 1-Cost card, get a copy of it that costs (0).
• New: After you play a 1-Cost minion, get a copy of it that costs (0).
• Dev Comment: We’ve seen this happen many times before—a rogue card or deck that isn’t overly powerful outside of very high level play, but which is a problem for top legend. Sonya has been a focal point in rogue for a...

The Masters Tour World Championship is this weekend! The top point earners from this year's ladder rankings join the top finishers of the Spring and Summer Masters Tours in a showdown for their share of the $500,000 (USD) prize pool, provided by Blizzard Entertainment^® and NetEase Thunderfire! Read on for everything you need to know to enjoy the action, only on Twitch and YouTube...

Patch 31.2, launching tomorrow, kicks off Battlegrounds Season 9, sends an invitation to Bob’s Holiday Bash, and more!

Enter the Technotavern in Battlegrounds Season 9

On December 3, Battlegrounds Season 8 will end and Season 9 will begin. That means ratings will reset in Battlegrounds and Duos, Trinkets will be removed, and the Battlegrounds Rewards Track will switch over. All rewards that were earned on the Season 8 track, but not yet claimed, will be automatically claimed. Learn more about the upcoming Season in our ...

Patch 31.0.3 is rolling out today with the following updates:

Hearthstone Card Changes

Dev Comments: The goal of this patch is to focus on The Great Dark Beyond. The power level of new decks and archetypes is lower than we intended it to be, and older archetypes are more dominant than we’d like. To make new decks and cards stand out more, we’re weakening a number of cards (mostly from older sets) and strengthening others (all from The Great Dark Beyond).

Our long-term ambition is for the overall power level of the game to be closer to The Great Dark Beyond than the power level of the sets before it, but we think some buffs are warranted and needed to hit our immediate goal encouraging exploration in The Great Dark Beyond. Between balancing our immediate and long-term goals, plus the sheer number of changes in this patch, we expect there will be some level of follow-up adjustments that we plan to work on in the next balance patch wind...

In his travels across The Great Dark Beyond, Bob’s decked out the Tavern with cyberpunk style, new technologies, and all kinds of minion updates. Come see what the universe has to offer in Battlegrounds Season 9, Enter the Technotavern, blasting off on December 3!

With Season 9, Battlegrounds Ratings will reset and Trinkets will rotate out of the Tavern. Season 9 will also bring with it an update to the Battlegrounds Track and all new Battlegrounds Tokens, which can be used to Reroll a Hero option at the start of your game—find out more, below.

• Hero Rerolls, Bat...

It’s a big year for the Warcraft universe, and whether you’re a Hearthstone fan, you’ve joined the chaos in Warcraft Rumble, ventured into the world of Azeroth for the first time in Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, or you’re a World of Warcraft player, there’s something for everyone in our Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct stream. Join us for a celebration as we dip into the mana pool of nostalgia and cast far sight on the future of all things Warcraft.

Get the Drop on New Rewards 

Viewers can watch on any Warcraft, Hearthstone, or Warcraft Rumble stream on Twitch or TikTok to earn rewards during the giveaway period from November 13 at 10:00 am PST through December 11 at 10:00 am PST. Learn more in our ...

Watch on Twitch or TikTok* to earn new in-game viewership rewards for Hearthstone, Warcraft Rumble, and World of Warcraft.  

Earn Viewership Rewards

Viewers can watch on any Warcraft, Hearthstone, or Warcraft Rumble stream on Twitch or TikTok to earn rewards during the giveaway period**.

Watching on any platform will earn in-game rewards for all three game titles.

Start Time:  November 13 at 10:00 am PST
End Time: December 11 at 10:00 am PST
Where to Watch: Twitch and TikTok

Here’s what you can collect:

World of Warcraft***

3, 2, 1... Blast off! The Great Dark Beyond is now live, with 145 new collectible cards, out-of-this world Starships, forward-looking Draenei, powerful Spellburst cards, and more!

What’s Included: New Keyword-Starship

Explore The Great Dark Beyond in your very own Starship! You’ll find Starship Pieces floating around in The Great Dark Beyond. You can play them like regular minions, and when they die their stats and effects automatically get added to your Starship construction. Once you’ve built up the perfect ship, hit the button to launch it directly onto the board!

Patch 31.0 launches tomorrow and starts the final countdown until we set off into The Great Dark Beyond on November 5!

Explore the Cosmos!

The Great Dark Beyond, Hearthstone’s next expansion, blasts off on November 5. The new 145-card expansion includes the new Starship keyword, new Draenei minion type, returning Spellburst keyword, and more! See all the new cards in the official Card Library today. Don’t forget to grab your Pre-Purchase...

We’re about to blast off into The Great Dark Beyond, where a new Rewards Track awaits! When the Rewards Track refreshes with The Great Dark Beyond launch, all players will automatically be granted any unclaimed rewards on the current free Rewards Track and the Tavern Pass track (if acquired), before a completely new The Great Dark Beyond Rewards Track takes its place. This time, we’ve improved both the free Rewards Track and the Tavern Pass track with an extra infusion of The Great Dark Beyond packs, so you get access to more new cards faster!*

* On the free Rewards Track, levels 2, 7, 11, 14, and 17 were upgraded from 50 Gold grants to The Great Dark Beyond Packs. On the Tavern Pass track, The Great Dark Beyond Packs were added into four previously empty spots at levels 6-9!...

Join us November 13 at 10:00 am PST for a special presentation celebrating 30 years of Warcraft and a look ahead at what’s next.

Watch the Warcraft 30^th Anniversary Direct on our official channels:

• Twitch
• YouTube
• ...

The final countdown is about to start as we prepare to blast off into The Great Dark Beyond! Join us for stellar community celebrations, a new type of Tavern Brawl, and more as we chart the unknown.

The Great Dark Beyond Theorycrafting Streams October 24-25

Join your favorite content creators as they take their first steps into The Great Dark Beyond and theorycraft the new expansion. Featured players will be streaming their participation on their own personal streams, so make sure you’re following your favorite creators when they go live!

• NA/LATAM/EMEA players will play on October 24, 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. (PDT)
• APAC players will play on October 25, 2:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. (PDT)

All participants need to include at least 10 The Great Dark Beyond cards in their decks (that can be 10 individual cards, 5 duplicates, or anything in between).

Theorycrafters to missio...

Starting next week, on October 29, we’ll be kicking off the Great Dark Beyond Pre-Release Tavern Brawl. This Tavern Brawl will be a place for you to open your pre-purchase packs, try out cards from the new expansion, and earn more new cards to update your decks and try again. We also see this as a way to add value to our pre-purchase bundles without blocking other players from participating in the fun.

This is our first time doing something like this, so I wanted to share a little more about our thought process and open the floor for your feedback.

Eligible Sets and Cards

In the Pre-Release Tavern Brawl, you can build a deck with cards from the following sets: Core Set, Event Set, Whizbang’s Workshop, Perils in Paradise, and The Great Dark Beyond.*

With that card pool, this Tavern Brawl can be like a preview for the upcoming Standard, with a focus on the newest cards rather than just the current Standard meta decks. Doing it this way also keeps th...

Patch 30.6.2 is rolling out today with the following updates: 

Hearthstone Changes

Dev Comment: This round of changes is focusing on preparing for our next expansion: The Great Dark Beyond, launching on November 5 (when Prince Renathal rotates back out of Standard). As we plan for the post-launch meta, our focus is primarily on adjusting harsh play patterns like fast board floods, powerful board wipes, huge life swings, and cards that get end-game cards out too quickly.

Some of these are reversions to prior changes—our balance philosophy remains that we’ll try to make the best changes for the game in each specific patch window and not be afraid to revert changes when they don’t work out or the circumstances are no longer right for them.

Finally, in Wild, we’re changing Radiant Elemental to be consistent with Sorcerer’s Apprentice. This effect is generally very powerful, even by Wild’s standards, and this change is be...

Hi, everyone!

Before we blast off into The Great Dark Beyond, I’m here today to share some information about our next progression adjustments, coming in Patch 31.0. To better understand where we’re going, let’s first go back a bit to see how we got here.

Earlier this year, we made some adjustments to our Weekly Quests. Our initial changes in Patch 29.2 were aimed at rewarding our most committed players while encouraging others to play more. But after the changes went live, they didn’t reward players for their time in-game quite like we had hoped. On the contrary, we saw that some players gave up on those harder quests and played less instead of more. Those who did work to complete the Weekly Quests told us they saw them as a chore.

An important part of design is acknowledging when a change doesn’t work, learning why it doesn’t work, and then adjusting in a different way. So, starting in Patch 31.0, we’re making three changes to our progression syste...

Patch 30.6, launching today, starts the countdown to Hearthstone’s next expansion, The Great Dark Beyond, brings Prince Renathal back to Standard for a limited time, includes free Legendary cards, brings a new infusion of Trinkets to Battlegrounds, and more!

Pre-Purchase The Great Dark Beyond

Prepare to blast off into The Great Dark Beyond on November 5! The Draenei’s planet was taken over by the Burning Legion. Now these “exiled ones” are on the run, and in search of a new home. Join them in their journey and explore everything the cosmos has to offer: build-your-own Starships, the new Draenei minion type, the returning Spellburst keyword, an unstoppable demon army, and more. It’s nearly time to venture into The Great Dark Beyond!

The Great Dark Beyond has 145 all-n...

Announcing

The Great Dark Beyond

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In Patch 30.6, Bob’s restocking the Tavern with even more Trinkets, new and returning minions, and more! Check out the new inventory, including our first-ever Duos-specific Trinkets, coming soon.

New Lesser Trinkets

Deathly Phylactery [4 Gold]

• Discover a Deathrattle minion. Your first Deathrattle each combat triggers an extra time.

Goose Portrait [3 Gold]

• Get a ‘Silver Goose’. After you summon 5 Silver Fledglings, get a Goldenizer.

Electromagnetic Device [2 Gold]

• Discover a Magnetic minion. Whenever you Magnetize a minion, ...

Patch 30.4.3, launching today, brings updates to Hearthstone and Battlegrounds.

Hearthstone Updates

Dev Comments: This patch is focused on adjustments to the mini-set. We have another patch window in a few weeks, between expansion announcement and launch, where we plan to look at the meta more broadly.

The mini-set introduced a major outlier: Big Spell Mage. Although some players enjoy the play pattern, the deck causes frustration due to how prevalent it is and how early it can get its power spike. The goal of these changes is to push back the average Big Spell turn a bit and to shave a little power from the deck, while allowing it to keep its core functionality.

With one mini-set Tourist getting toned down, we wanted to give the other one some help so that players can try another fun vacation destination and make the most of what it has to offer.

Portalmancer Skyla

• Old: [5 Mana]
• ...

Patch 30.4, launching tomorrow, includes a special vacation package: The Traveling Travel Agency Mini-Set, our first-ever Mythic hero skin, and more!

Extend Your Vacation with the Traveling Travel Agency Mini-Set

The Marin’s launch has kicked off a Tourism boom in Hearthstone. Dungar and Zephrys are teaming up to make vacation dreams come true—and they run a tight ship. Get the most out of your trip with more Tourist options, informational Brochure cards, and more!

The Traveling Travel Agency Mini-Set has 38 all-new cards. Get them in Perils in Paradise packs or as a complete 72-card* Mini-Set. Get the normal version for $14.99 or 2000 Gold, or get the all-Golden version for $69.99 or 10,000 Gold. The all-Golden version comes with a bonus Diamond copy of the Travelmaster Dunga...