Hearthstone Dev Tracker

Patch 28.2.3 is a data-only patch going live today with updates to Standard and Battlegrounds. This patch is our last scheduled patch for the year, and our aim is to make the most fun patch we can for the holiday break. We hope you enjoy and we’ll see you in the Tavern—and in the new year!

Standard Updates

Dev Comment: The overall goals for this patch are to make buffs across underperforming classes, decks, and cards, especially ones from Showdown in the Badlands, and to weaken a few overperforming decks that are keeping other decks down. Our intent isn’t to kill these decks that players generally like, but to bring them down a little to make more room in the meta.

Paladin has been the biggest overperformer since the last adjustment. We’re targeting its AoE board clears because that’s a mechanic we want Paladin to have access to, but not excel in. There are other potential targets that we looked at...

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The final Masters Tour of the year is this weekend! The top point earners from the January through November Ladder rankings join the champions of the Spring, Summer and Fall Masters Tours in a showdown for their share of the $350,000 (USD) prize pool. Read on for everything you need to know to enjoy the action, only on Twitch and YouTube.

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Patch 28.2.1 is a data-only patch launching today with the following updates.

Hearthstone Updates

Dev Comment: This is our balance patch for Worlds! We specifically requested this early balance window so that we could make changes that we think will make the coolest Worlds possible! Overall, we think the meta is in a good spot, with most classes having something interesting to play and most top decks having play patterns we’re comfortable with. That lets us take a high confidence, step-wise approach with this patch, instead of making risky, drastic changes.

Enrage Warrior was the biggest standout we wanted to adjust down, and we wanted to make Sif Mage a bit more attackable. We’re also taking this opportunity to buff some underperforming archetypes, especially with new cards. Excavate as a whole got a little love with buffs to a Treasure at each rarity, the Neutral Burrow Buster, and a couple low-p...

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Patch 28.2, launching tomorrow, brings Battlegrounds Season 6, the Spellslinger’s Saloon, updates to the shop and new player progression, and more!

Saddle Up for Battlegrounds Season 6!

Belly up to the saloon in Battlegrounds Season 6, the Spellslinger’s Saloon. This here saloon’s serving up all new spells, purchased directly from the Tavern. Sit down with over 40 new Tavern spells, over 30 new minions, an update to the Undead minion type, and more!

On December 5, Battlegrounds Season 5 will end and Season 6 will begin. That means rankings will be reset, Anomalies will be removed, and the Battlegrounds Track will switch over. All rewards that were earned from the Season 5 Track, but not yet claimed, will be automatically claimed.

New Mechanic—Tavern Spells

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Battlegrounds Season 6, Spellslinger’s Saloon, is almost here. The Spellslinger’s Saloon is brimming with magic and new Battlegrounds Spells! Belly up to the saloon for your first look at what’s on tap in Patch 28.2.

New Mechanic: Spells in the Tavern

Magic flows like water in the Spellslinger’s Saloon, where Spells can now be purchased directly from the Tavern! Spells have Tavern Tiers just like minions do, but, unlike minions, they also have variable costs! Spells have their own card frame while in the Tavern, displaying both the Cost and Tavern Tier.

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Patch 28.0.3 is a data-only patch, launching today, with the following updates.

Hearthstone Card Updates

Dev Comment: The team is pretty happy with the launch of Showdown in the Badlands. We’re seeing players having fun, exploring, and having success with a variety of decks and strategies. This is a lighter patch based on early data, designed just to hit the biggest feels and power outliers. We’ll continue to watch how the meta develops after these changes as we evaluate data and feedback for our next balance patch, scheduled for late next week, to set up for the World Championships on December 16 and 17!

Blindeye Sharpshooter

• Old: 1/5
• New: 1/3
• Dev Comment: Naga Demon Hunter is an outlier, but it is also one of the popular new archetypes from the expansion, so this change is designed to make the deck weaker without killing it. This change...

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Saddle up, partner! Showdown in the Badlands is now here, with 145 new collectible cards, legendary outlaws, new Quickdraw and Excavate keywords, and more!

What’s Included: Legendary Outlaws and Terrible Townsfolk

The Bloodrock Mining Company is polluting the Badlands and awakening slumbering Elementals, putting everyone at risk! Enter the outlaws: these renegades are fighting to keep the peace. Demon Hunter, Druid, Hunter, Paladin, Priest, and Shaman each have a Legendary outlaw minion that has a powerful effect if your deck has no duplicates in it. To top it all off, Reno, Lone Ranger joins the outlaws as Hearthstone’s first Neutral Hero card!

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The sun is high and a new Rewards Track is on the horizon, ready to ride into the Tavern. When the Rewards Track refreshes with the Showdown in the Badlands launch, all players will automatically be granted any unclaimed rewards on the current free Rewards Track and the Tavern Pass track (if purchased), before a completely new Showdown in the Badlands Rewards Track of excavated treasures takes its place.

TITANS Achievements will stop awarding XP with the launch of Patch 28.0 on November 7, whereas the Rewards Track will swap over with the launch of the Showdown in the Badlands expansion on November 14.

Showdown in the Badlands Rewards Track
 

Eureka! The free Rewards Track for Showdown in...

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Patch 28.0, launching tomorrow, saddles up for Showdown in the Badlands to come to Hearthstone on November 14!

The Showdown in the Badlands is About to Begin!

Hearthstone’s next expansion, Showdown in the Badlands, is riding into Hearthstone on November 14. The new 145-card expansion includes the new Quickdraw and Excavate keywords, Legendary outlaws, and more! See all the new cards in the official Card Library today. This is your last chance to wrangle your ...

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The Tavern is booming with all the Hearthstone news from BlizzCon. From the opening ceremony to the Hearthstone: What’s Next panel, we’ve had an eventful day. But Battlegrounds is especially buzzing with excitement for the announcement of a new way to play coming next year: Battlegrounds Duos!

What is Battlegrounds Duos?
 

Battlegrounds Duos is a new way to play, being added alongside Battlegrounds next year. In Duos, you and a partner share a life total, pass each other cards, and join up in a tag-team fight to take down your opponents! Queue with a friend or join up as a solo player and make a new one; the Tavern is yours for the taking.

Today, we announced Duos will be coming next year, and shared a bit about what it will look like. If you were too busy playing the demo to watch it live, Lead Battlegrounds Designer Mitchell Loewen and Associate Game Designer Jia Dee talked all about Duos during the Hearthstone: What’s Ne...

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As we celebrate BlizzCon together, we’re excited to keep making the Tavern a place that’s open and inviting to everyone. Often, when we talk to players who have been away for a while, or who are looking to try Hearthstone for the first time, they tell us they’re most concerned with building up their collections.

Today, we announced new Catch-Up Packs—game-changing packs designed to get you caught up to the new expansion. Each Catch-Up Pack contains up to 50 cards! We’re giving everybody some Catch-Up Packs for free and we’ve added a ton to both Showdown in the Badlands Pre-Purchase Bundles at no extra cost. For players with small Standard collections, this can mean hundreds of extra cards!* Come find out how.

* A player with no current Standard collection who opens 30 Catch-Up Packs will receive ov...

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Hearthstone’s going big this BlizzCon with card reveals, new Catch-Up Packs, a new way to play Battlegrounds, and more! Grab a friend and head to the show floor; you’re not going to want to miss this!

Showdown in the Badlands Cinematic Trailer and Card Reveals
 

Yee-haw! It’s finally high noon. Time to fire off the Showdown in the Badlands Cinematic Trailer! Join Elise and Reno as these two Legendary Outlaws take on the dastardly Bloodrock Mining Company and form a friendship to last them a lifetime.

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Harth is pulling out all the stops this BlizzCon, opening up the Tavern and inviting some fun friends to the show. Here’s what you need to know as you plan your visit!

Show Schedule

BlizzCon will be bustling with a jam-packed Opening Ceremony, presentations from all your favorite games, and more! Hearthstone fans won’t want to miss the Opening Ceremony or the Hearthstone: What’s Next panel, on the Main Stage on Friday, at 4:30 p.m. (PDT)—including discussion of both Traditional Hearthstone and Battlegrounds. Check out the Hearthstone schedules here:

Hearthstone Activities and Attractions

The action’s not all on the stage! The Tavern’s always a place to gather, mak...

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The third Masters Tour of the year is this weekend! Sixteen of the top players from the July, August, and September Ladder rankings will duel for their share of the $50,000 (USD) prize pool and an invite to the 2023 World Championship. Read on for everything you need to know to enjoy the action, only on Twitch and YouTube.

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Welcome to the Players' Tavern!

Here, we'll highlight some features to help new and returning players quickly jump into the game after going through the updated basics on our website.

Pull up a seat by the hearth, and let’s start!

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Announcing Showdown in the Badlands Hearthstone’s Newest Expansion

The Bloodrock Mining Company found powerful Azerite in the Badlands. They’re digging deep and bleeding the land dry, disrupting the Badlands and awakening slumbering elementals! Now mysterious outlaws are riding into town to set things right. Tumbleweeds roll by and high noon looms. Grab your horse and your hat, it’s nearly time for a Showdown in the Badlands!

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Patch 27.6, launching today, is a huge patch that introduces Hearthstone’s next expansion, Showdown in the Badlands, brings Un'Goro to Twist, makes Battlegrounds mid-season adjustments, and includes goodies for Blizzcon and Hallow’s End festivities!

Pre-Purchase Showdown in the Badlands

Saddle up for Hearthstone’s next expansion, Showdown in the Badlands, coming November 14! In the Badlands, the Bloodrock Mining Company’s struck Gold—or, rather, something even better: Azerite! Now they’re conscripting the townfolk and bleeding the land dry, putting the entire Badlands at risk. A band of mysterious, noble outlaws has banded together to put a stop to it, but the greedy Sheriff Barrelbrim won’t give up that easy. It all leads to this, a massive Showdown in the Badlands!

Showdown in the Badlands has 145 all-new, rootin’ and tootin’ collectible cards! You can learn more in the Showdown in the Badlands ...

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Everyone in the Tavern's talking: BlizzCon® is right around the corner! As a reminder, we’re inviting everyone to celebrate the return of BlizzCon this year, livestreaming all of the content from the Anaheim arena for free! And now we’re rolling out a new set of digital goodies and in-game items called the BlizzCon Collection (formerly packaged as part of the “Virtual Ticket”) for those who can’t attend in person. There are two bundle options that are a must-have for fans of Hearthstone®, World of Warcraft®, Diablo® IV, Overwatch® 2, and Warcraft Rumble^TM.

Epic Pack ($29.99 USD)

Enjoy these items from multiple games in addition to receiving a 10% discount off one item in the Blizzard Gear Store (restrictions apply):

• Hearthstone: the BlizzCon 2023 card back, 5 Standard packs, and 5 Golden...

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Patch 27.4.2 is a data-only balance patch, launching today, with the updates across modes.

Hearthstone Updates

Dev Comment: We have a lot of card changes in this patch, and a lot to share about why these changes are being made. 

For the Standard-focused changes, we’re addressing both power outliers and play experience outliers in this patch. When we buffed Warrior in our last balance patch, we did so knowing that they’d get more powerful tools in the Mini-Set, but we wanted to make sure that the deck hit, so we erred on the side of over-buffing it, knowing that we’d have the option to make a small correction back down if we needed. Now that the Mini-Set has landed, Warrior is looking like one of the most standout classes, so we’re making those adjustments. Hunter also has one of the strongest decks in the format, and we’d expect it to get even stronger after the other changes we’re making in this p...

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Patch 27.4 brings the Fall of Ulduar Mini-Set; Yogg-Saron has escaped and is spreading his Anomalies across Hearthstone!

Ulduar Has Fallen

The titans left their charges to watch over the imprisoned Yogg-Saron, but no prison lasts forever. The Old God has escaped to once again wreak havoc on Azeroth! Will you fight back, or will you succumb to the madness within?!

There’s a new Titan in town. Cast spells to fuel the Old God’s power, bring madness to the Tavern with Chaotic Tendrils, and unleash Yogg-Saron on your opponents with this Mini-Set of 38 all-new cards. Get them in TITANS packs, or as a complete 72-card* Mini-Set. Get the normal version in-game for $14.99 or 2000 Gold, or get the all-Golden version for $69.99 or 10,000 Gold. The all-Golden version also comes with a bonus Diamond copy of the Yogg-Saron, Unleashed Le...

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