r/hearthstone • • 5h ago

Discussion New and Returning Player Weekly Discussion

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This weekly discussion is designed so that everybody may ask any and all questions regarding the game's mechanics, decks, strategies, and more.

Are you an experienced player, or have you picked up some knowledge along the way? Please help out by offering your opinions and best answers!

Please keep it clean and add more than just a one or two word response. Keep in mind not everything will have a 'best' answer.

Check out our wiki for answers to some common questions and links to terrific community resources about deck ideas, card info, and news!

See previous week's discussions.


r/hearthstone • • 5d ago

Highlight Developer Insight: Reign of Black Empire - Old Gods

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Hello everyone!

Here's our thread for all things Old Gods in Reign of Black Empire! But before we get into it, here's a quick overview of the new cards:

Reign of the Black Empire features the four Old Gods as Legendary Neutral minions: 

  • Y'Shaarj, Titan Bane 
  • C'Thun, Eye of the Empire 
  • N'Zoth, Dream's End 
  • Mastermind Yogg-Saron 

This is the age of the Black Empire, when these nightmarish rulers stood at the height of their power and their influence shaped all of Azeroth. For this reason, Old Gods pack a lot of power and work a bit differently than normal cards. 

  • You may include only one Old God in your deck.  
  • Each Old God possesses four potent abilities. Instead of attacking, you can invoke two of those powers each turn.  
  • Once all four abilities have been used, the Old God is free to attack. 

Now, let's take a look behind the curtain with John McIntyre, Principal Game Designer Supervisor, as he walks through the design of each Old God.

⚔️ Y’Shaarj, Titan Bane 

Early in development, Y'Shaarj was the only Old God that could use two abilities each turn. It quickly proved to be the most viable because it offered much more flexibility. Instead of choosing between responding to your opponent or developing your own threats, you could do both. 

The mechanic felt so good in playtesting that we adopted it as a baseline for all the Old Gods. Being able to combine and sequence abilities added meaningful decisions and gave players more ways to influence the game. 

We still wanted Y'Shaarj to feel distinct, so we gave it its Immune Battlecry. This helps it survive your opponent's turn and reinforces the fantasy that Y'Shaarj has access to more power than the other Old Gods. One point of clarification: the 30 Mana spent on minions does not include Y'Shaarj itself. 

 
👁️C'Thun, Eye of the Empire 

Earlier versions of C'Thun also tripled the effects of your other cards that triggered C'Thun abilities. In practice, this led to a strategy where players would simply pair C'Thun with the cheapest possible followers and quickly overwhelm the game. 

That play pattern ran counter to the fantasy we wanted. C'Thun should be the source of power, not just an amplifier for its servants. To better capture that feeling, we changed the design so C'Thun only empowers the abilities it uses directly. This also allowed us to shift more of the power budget into C'Thun itself. 

 
🐙N'Zoth, Dream's End 

Originally, Army of N'Zoth didn't resurrect different minions. It only took a few playtests alongside Quest Priest for us to change that. 

The update reduced repetition and encouraged players to build decks with a wider variety of Deathrattle minions, leading to more interesting gameplay and more varied resurrection pools. 

 
🧠 Mastermind Yogg-Saron 

When Mastermind Yogg-Saron takes your turn, it follows logic similar to the "normal" difficulty AI opponents found in Practice Mode. It's not random, but it's not especially clever either. 

During testing, it felt jarring when Yogg-Saron used its abilities in the middle of a turn, so we changed the behavior to always begin the turn by using an ability. We also made Ascent of Yogg-Saron always resolve after Domain of Yogg-Saron so any newly drawn spells could still be transformed. 

Ascent of Yogg-Saron still has the same chance of being selected as any of the other three abilities. 

 

We hope you enjoyed this peek behind the curtain!

If you have questions about other Reign of the Black Empire cards, please check out Reign of the Black Empire: How does this work? thread, you might find your answer there!

- Hearthstone Team


r/hearthstone • • 8h ago

Pack My hunt for Signature Grommash

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I spend all my gold, many thousands at this point, On classic packs to try and pull the signature Gommash…I finally pull a signature and it’s the next best thing lol.


r/hearthstone • • 17h ago

Fluff Agamaggan+SN1P-SN4P=🥇

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r/hearthstone • • 15h ago

News Embark on Your Hearthstone Journey

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r/hearthstone • • 1h ago

Fluff I've been saved

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r/hearthstone • • 3h ago

Discussion What have they done to arena?

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Just an old hearthstone player who just returned to the game.
Seriously, what have they done to the game?

Every limited draft has endless resources, cards, and value. Every game is 30 minutes long. It doesn't matter what class I take or what hero power I have. All decks end up the same. Endless value and resources. Why does every card have good stats for a low cost while at the same time draw or discorver cards that have deathrattle that summon even more creatures. It never ends. Worst design I have seen in a long time.


r/hearthstone • • 18h ago

News A first look at the redesigned Hearthstone menu and calendar for the Rise of the Black Empire expansion.

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r/hearthstone • • 1h ago

News Black Market prices just reset to their base prices for the last day of the event

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Not sure what the "haggling" period will be like but hopefully that pushes items back into a reasonable price range for most of you.


r/hearthstone • • 1h ago

Discussion I feel like people are underestimating Isiset.

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So people are probably missing the following: When you play Isiset, the constructs are frozen and have summoning sickness. But afterwards they are only frozen and immediately stop being frozen after casting 15 mana worth of spells. That means, that they will be able to attack immediately once unfrozen unless Isiset was played the same turn.

So for your opponent that means they either have to deal with the 10/10s anyway or risk suddenly getting hit with 20 damage to the face.

Now don't get me wrong. I don't think that Isiset will be a top tier card or anything. You still have to find a turn to be able to play her without dying. But I also don't think that it will be garbage.


r/hearthstone • • 16h ago

Meme So... will we get 10+ expensive beasts next rotation, or they just forgor? 💀

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r/hearthstone • • 1h ago

Fluff I will get the last bit I need tomorrow

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Do they think they are being funny? I figured 900 on the end will be enough to get it.bit's max 15% increase right? 51% increase 😂


r/hearthstone • • 5h ago

Discussion I suck at this game, but I don't want to suck. Advice?

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At least not as bad. I'm new to card games like this. Never played Magic, or Pokemon or anything remotely like this.

I booted it up and did the tutorial and played around versus some AI, which I can kind of win. Any real match? I get absolutely trounced and I lack any dust or know how to really craft any kind of slightly usable deck.

I used to be really bad at fighting games, but after some studying I managed to get pretty good, and that's where I want to be with Hearthstone.

I don't want to be a top 500 competitor or even hit legend or anything, I just want to be able to win one match every 10-20 matches or so, but I have no idea how to build decks effectively or what to even play.

Do you guys have any resources on where someone should get started? Any Youtube people you trust, or decks you recommend for new people? What class/heroes?


r/hearthstone • • 11h ago

Meme The original Jailhouse Manastorm

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r/hearthstone • • 52m ago

Meme Sale season

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r/hearthstone • • 19h ago

Community Reno, Long Ranger – Winner od previous voting! What is the best 9 cost card?

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Another Reno card was chosen as the best hearthstone card of it's cost. Great card, ​​​​​​just like our second place — the Ragnaros! And then there is this piece of..

Alright, here are the rules guys! The card must be collectible and must cost exactly 9 mana as for today's voting. Which card would it be and what criteria will be chosen to determine it – it's up to you! ​


r/hearthstone • • 11h ago

Discussion It's really impressive how many nerfs Dragon Warrior has received and how it's still meta-dominant.

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Literally all of its cards have been nerfed throughout the year, and yet Dragon Warrior is always Tier 1.

I think the main thing that has kept it alive and strong is that the "good dragons" archetype has been consistently supported throughout the entire year. (Print good cards every set and they get played, duh, I know.)

But I don't think any other deck currently uses as many cards from across the entire year as Dragon Warrior does. Prescient Slitherdrake and Stadium Announcer in timeways, Carrier Whelp in cata, Darkrider, warptooth etc etc


r/hearthstone • • 1h ago

Discussion tavern track

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is it possible to reach 400lvl without 1800quest friend?


r/hearthstone • • 10h ago

Wild accidentally did infinite damage to myself while haveing demon seed active

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I don't think this ends


r/hearthstone • • 3h ago

Discussion Haven't played in 8 years. Worth picking back up?

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Yo - Watching Trump play Hand Warlock in an 11 year old youtube video made me realize how much i Missed this game. I remember playing control warrior and ramp druid like it was yesterday. Is the game as good as it was back then?


r/hearthstone • • 13h ago

Discussion Yogg's Assemble Asylum - a free fan site where you can Assemble cards before Reign of the Black Empire launches

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Assemble is the new keyword coming Oct 20: you get a random minion, then swap the top or bottom half of its text with half of one of two other minions. I wanted to try it before launch, so I built a little site for it.

https://yoggs-assemble-asylum.pages.dev

What you can do

  • Daily Assemble: one random minion a day, just for you. Pick a half and your card gets a power rating out of 100, plus how your pick ranked against your other three options. Post yours below.
  • Workshop: pick any class and any revealed Assemble card (Sandcrafter, Chisel, Rajh, Mismatcher and the rest) and roll as many times as you like. Using another class's card? It tells you whether your class can actually get it in Standard, and how.
  • Save or copy your card as an image.

How it's built

It follows what Blizzard has confirmed: the cost band (same Cost up to 2 more), Neutral plus your class, no Assemble minions or Old Gods, nothing that needs the minion alive under a Deathrattle, and the trait cards (Chisel, Fleshshape, Sandcrafter) only promising the trait on your minion. Rajh gets its own pool of halves that work as a passive hero power.

What it can't know is the exact list of ~250 pool cards, so I use a wider pool (about 590 minions) and cut cards whose halves can't work apart. Some cards you make here won't exist in the real game. There's a "What's real here?" panel that separates confirmed rules from my own calls.

If you build something that couldn't work in game, there's a "report it here" link under every result. I've already cut a few cards from early reports.

What's the dumbest card you can make?


r/hearthstone • • 14h ago

Meme Infinite dmg torch aura

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r/hearthstone • • 52m ago

Fluff Oh well

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29 Gold short 😭😅


r/hearthstone • • 13h ago

Fluff So close, but so, so far.

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The last price update will make it even cheaper, right? Right?


r/hearthstone • • 5h ago

Fluff I hear there is a mythic Y'shaarj skin coming out.

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warrior skin because recruit warrior.

n'zoth and c'thun already gone to warlock and druid Priest got the g'huun.