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The full spoilers for The Witchwood have been released following a reveal stream with Ben Brode and Day[9].

 

A final reveal stream with Day[9] and Ben Brode has provided us with all of the remaining spoilers for The Witchwood. You can view the entire gallery of newly revealed cards right here. Every card from Witchwood Imp to Curse of Weakness was revealed today.

I've chosen a few of my favorite cards from among them to discuss below. I expect some of these cards to be major players in the post-rotation meta, and others I've highlighted because for their compelling designs:

 

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The spoilers for Shaman are kind of all over the place. They'll be getting cards that care about Battlecry, cards for an Elemental deck, cards that are clearly intended for control decks, a Murloc card, and this enticing removal spell. Its cheap, its efficient, and I'm a fan of the kinds of play patterns this encourages. You'll have to plan out your Mana usage well to get the most out of Zap!, which leads me to believe that smart players will be able to get a lot more out of this card than others.

 

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The best friend of Fatigue decks, Coldlight Oracle, will be rotating to the Hall of Fame when The Year of the Raven begins. Baleful Banker fills a different role than Coldlight Oracle did, but it offers these decks a tool they didn't have before. Being able to generate 2 additional copies of a key win condition will give Fatigue-style decks a way to guarantee victory in the late game. It could also be used to enable certain combos which require more than 2 copies of a card to execute. Its too early to say exactly which decks this will fit into, but I think it has enough application that I expect it to see play in several decks throughout its time in Standard.

 

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Kingsbane Rogue has been one of the better decks for what has been one of the weakest classes in the Kobolds & Catacombs meta. It's losing Coldlight Oracle, but its gaining a new tool in Cutthroat Buccaneer which is arguably even better the deck's strategy. This card plays to the board excellently for its Mana cost (something Kingsbane Rogue struggles with at times), and I'm of the opinion that Kingsbane decks should take basically every +1 Attack to weapon effect they can find. Combo is never as hard to trigger as people seem to think it is, and I expect Cutthroat Buccaneer to show up every Kingsbane deck.

 

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I don't expect many people to be excited about Lifedrinker, but I think its going to surprise people. A 4 Mana 3/3 isn't great, dealing 3 damage to the enemy Hero isn't great, and gaining 3 Health isn't great. However, if you put all three of those things on the same card and add Beast synergy to it, what you get is something that adds up to playable. The sum is greater than the whole of its parts with Lifedrinker.

 

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Nightscale Matriarch offers a ton of potential stats for the steep cost of 7 Mana. She'll likely have to survive for a turn before she can start to create 3/3s, but at the same time it probably won't be easy for your opponent to remove all 9 of its Health from the board. It has dragon synergy, its awesome with Lady in White and Inner Fire, and I think it does more than enough to see play.

 

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It looks like the leaked cards were correct, as both Shudderwock and Prince Liam ended up in The Witchwood. Prince Liam is hot garbage, but Shudderwock has an incredible amount of potential. I'm guessing that he is probably one of the reasons that Coldlight Oracle was added to the Hall of fame, because some combination of Coldlight OracleGrumble, WorldshakerMurmuring Elemental, and Shudderwock would be bonkers. Even without Coldlight, I expect there will be plenty of busted stuff to do with Shudderwock. I plan on spending the next few hours trying to brew up an OTK with this card, and will report back with my results.

 

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Mage and Shaman are both picking up support for Elemental decks in The Witchwood, and I expect Sandbinder to make the cut in them. The downside to Sandbinder is that it doesn't chain into Servant of Kalimos, but its probably a better turn 4 play than Fire Plume Phoenix in the average situation. This could also be used to pull key Elementals for decks that run low numbers of the minion type, such as Lyra the SunshardGrumble, Worldshaker, or Ragnaros, Lightlord.

 

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This is so much stats for Inner Fire and Lady in White. I honestly couldn't say if this does enough to see play as a purely defensive tool for Control decks, but I expect we'll find out quickly whether this card is the real deal in Combo Priest.

 

There's definitely a lot of cards for us to parse through in today's reveals, but its never too early for wild speculation! Let us know in the comments which among these cards you expect to be the strongest and which you are the most excited to play with, and be sure to check out our Witchwood Hub for more information on the upcoming expansion.

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Honestly I don't think much of Sandbinder.   The body is negligible and you could play spells, play actual elementals, etc instead.

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Sandbinder is terrible for an elemental deck but can be played in a deck with a single or few elemental as a tutor like in a Priest deck with only Lyra/Radiant for example

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They really saved the big cards for the final stream. I definitely like to try them out.

Why can't I snap and it's suddenly Thursday?

Side note: Can you stop linking to FB, it sucks :D also sites like hearthpwn offer a much better and user friendly overview :)

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3 minutes ago, AlSyafiq said:

ls there a Legendary card for free in this expansion

Yes, all players will get one random class Legendary!

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17 minutes ago, Aleco said:

Yes, all players will get one random class Legendary!

I think there was a three pack quest on launch as well (so make sure questlog got room).

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I want to point out some additional cards that caught my eye.

"Earthen Might" (+2/+2 and a random Elemental for 2 Mana) seems quite strong. Its a bit worse than Mark of Y'Shaarj (which saw a lot of play) but most Elementals you can get are usefull.

"Night Prowler": yeah, its a bit harder to trigger than Lone Champion but a 6/6 beast for 4 Mana...wow. It might be to hard to trigger against aggro- or midrange-decks but against control the board is often empty. So it seems promising.

"Curse of Weakness": what a strange card. My first reaction was "wow". My second was "meh". But after thinking about it, this spell might actually be quite usefull for control-Warlock in the future. You basically buy time and (most importantly) you can use this to bait your opponent in contributing more minions to the board for a Twisting Nether or Hellfire. It might not make the cut now, but I would watch out for this one in the future. Oh and it combos with Corrupting Mist...whatever thats worth...

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I have to say that I'm a little afraid of having 2 minion with yogg-style effects. Actually, the shaman one is much better then Yogg, as you can plan what to repeat.

And for Shudderwock, I'm curious. Will a second copy trigger the first one's battlecry? :O

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1 hour ago, Synesthesy said:

And for Shudderwock, I'm curious. Will a second copy trigger the first one's battlecry? :O

Ehh...probably?

Thinking about it, I got some more questions regarding Shudderwock:

- does the Battlecry of Grumble, Worldshaker bring "Shudderwock" back on your hand, so you can play him (theoretically) 10 times next turn?

- is the kind of Kalimos, Primal Lord battlecry also triggered randomly?

- i guess The Darkness-battlecry shuffles more candles in your opponents deck and they still have to draw 3?

- is the order of the triggers also random?

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For gumble, the answer should be yes... If you also activate something like saronite gang chain to summon a copy... As I have said, I'm a little afraid of this card.

And repeating a battlecry that repeats battlecries, is a nice logic problem about recursion. If you think about it well, the second copy could repeat infinite times his battlecry!

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7 minutes ago, Synesthesy said:

And repeating a battlecry that repeats battlecries, is a nice logic problem about recursion. If you think about it well, the second copy could repeat infinite times his battlecry

We already thought about this with 2xMurmuring Elemental and Fire Elemental. Battlecries don't add up. I don't know why, but that's the case.

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8 minutes ago, Synesthesy said:

If you think about it well, the second copy could repeat infinite times his battlecry!

I would guess that the term "repeat all OTHER Battlecries..." could mean the Battlecry itself and not necessarily the card. So a second Shudderwock would neither trigger its own Battlecry a second time, nor would it trigger the Battlecry of the first copy. But Iam only guessing here.

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1 hour ago, Taan said:

I would guess that the term "repeat all OTHER Battlecries..." could mean the Battlecry itself and not necessarily the card. So a second Shudderwock would neither trigger its own Battlecry a second time, nor would it trigger the Battlecry of the first copy. But Iam only guessing here.

The first game they played on the reveal stream involved shudderwocks. The first is played at 27min into the stream. The same player then plays a second at 29.5min into the stream, it doesn’t cast the Battlecry of the first Shudderwock.

Was still utterly insane, and this was mostly uncontrolled shudderwock (stolen by Paladin, who also randomly got the hunter dragon that battlecries doubling HP and Attack of all your minions).

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there’s a deck out there where shudderwock Battlecry is essentially win the game most of the time. In which case we could be seeing the fastest nerf in HS history...

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5 hours ago, Synesthesy said:

I have to say that I'm a little afraid of having 2 minion with yogg-style effects. Actually, the shaman one is much better then Yogg, as you can plan what to repeat.

I think the strength of the Rogue one, if it proves to be viable, will be more it’s N’Zoth-style effect than it’s Yogg-style effect. You’re unlikely to get the amount of spells that Yogg used to thrive on as you first have to generate them, then have to cast them, whilst also likely rejecting some. But getting every generated minion back for free should be very strong, and has much less likelyhood of backfiring.

May be slightly biased by the games in the reveal stream but I’m less convinced this one will be viable than the Shudderwock one.

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Okay, maybe I should have watched the reveal-stream first. Ben Brode also stated, that the order is random (after he said, that it is always the same).

I don't know if this will become completely busted in standard. A probably pretty nice combo could be:

Grumble, Worldshaker on 6

Kalimos, Primal Lord on 8

"Shudderwock" on 9

This should trigger Kalimos Battlecry and give you a 1-cost copy of "Shudderwock" back on your hand. On your next turn (or you next turn after you played an elemental?) you could play 10 1-cost-"Shudderwocks", getting 10 triggers of Kalimos' Battlecry. With some triggers of his "Invocation of Fire" (6 damage to enemy hero) this could easely kill your opponent.

But I still feel, that I could be wrong with this. Does someone see a reason that this will not work?

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I think the trick will be building a deck in such a way that you are still alive on turn 9 against Aggro. If Aggro destroys you it’s never going to be a meta-breaker.

Lifedrinker (and even nightblade?) could be interesting since they do targeted damage to enemy face with Battlecry. A lot of damage/heal effects will be random and so not that useful.

On first glance through the available options, I think an OTK style deck might be hard to build in a manner that it survives to actually pull off the kill. A more board-centric build might be the way forward.

Although Lifedrinker -> Grumble -> Shudderwock -> 10 Shudderwocks seems a strong OTK line. I’m not sure it brings back Shudderwock though since the Grumble Battlecry is ‘return all other minions’ so if Shudderwock is casting it does he stay?

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1 hour ago, Taan said:

 

This should trigger Kalimos Battlecry and give you a 1-cost copy of "Shudderwock" back on your hand. On your next turn (or you next turn after you played an elemental?) you could play 10 1-cost-"Shudderwocks", getting 10 triggers of Kalimos' Battlecry. With some triggers of his "Invocation of Fire" (6 damage to enemy hero) this could easely kill your opponent.

But I still feel, that I could be wrong with this. Does someone see a reason that this will not work?

The Grumble can not return more to your hand than you have and once a minion is returned it can't be returned again.

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2 hours ago, Bozonik said:

I’m not sure it brings back Shudderwock though since the Grumble Battlecry is ‘return all other minions’ so if Shudderwock is casting it does he stay?

Ahh yeah, of course. That will probably stop it from working.

But just for clarification:

35 minutes ago, Caldyrvan said:

The Grumble can not return more to your hand than you have and once a minion is returned it can't be returned again.

I meant, that Grumble returns one 1-cost-Shudderwock, then you play that one, then you get another one, then you play that one...and so on. One after another until you run out of mana. But since it returns only "other" cards you will have to use two Shudderwocks and this will probably turn out to be way to complicated.

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31 minutes ago, Caldyrvan said:

The Grumble can not return more to your hand than you have and once a minion is returned it can't be returned again.

The suggestion is, play Grumble at some point. Later play Shudderwock. This triggers the Grumble battlecry, returning Shudderwock to hand as a 1 cost minion.

Then next turn play that 1 cost Shudderwock. The Grumble Battlecry triggers, returning Shudderwock to hand as a 1 cost minion. Repeat.

Or does this not happen because Shudderwock is casting the battlecries and hence is not one of your ‘other minions’ as specified by the Grumble Battlecry?

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      A new Hearthstone update prepares the Tavern for United in Stormwind, launching August 3. Here are the official patch notes.
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      The 21.0 patch prepares the Tavern for United in Stormwind, launching August 3. It also brings a new Hero and cosmetics for Battlegrounds, a major update for Duels, an Arena rotation, and more.
      You can check out all 135 new cards included in United in Stormwind on the card library here.
      Battlegrounds Updates
      NEW HERO
      Galewing Dungar’s Gryphon Choose a flightpath. Complete it to get a bonus!
      Players with Battlegrounds Perks will have early access to Galewing before it's formally released on August 10.
      Duels Updates
      When the 21.0 patch goes live on July 27, all players’ Duels ratings will be reset and the pool of eligible cards you can use to build your 15-card start deck will be updated as follows:
      (NEW) United in Stormwind Wailing Caverns Mini-Set Forged in the Barrens The Darkmoon Races Mini-Set Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Scholomance Academy (NEW) Kobolds & Catacombs Journey to Un’Goro One Night in Kharazan Whispers of the Old Gods Curse of Naxxramas Legacy (Basic/Classic) Core NEW PASSIVE TREASURES
      Party Replacement At the start of your turn, summon a 2/2 Adventurer with a random bonus effect.
      Inspiring Presence After you play a Legendary minion, reduce the cost of a random minion in your hand by (1).
      Greedy Gains Your minions have +2/+2 but cost (2) more (up to 10).
      Meek Mastery Your Neutral minions cost (1) less and have +1/+1.
      Legendary Loot At the start of the game, equip a random Legendary weapon.
      Deathly Death! After a friendly Deathrattle minion dies, destroy the minion with the lowest Health.
      Ooops, All Spells! At the start of the game, destroy all minions in your deck. Your spells cost (1) less and gain +2 Spell Damage.
      BANNED CARDS & BUCKETS
      The following cards have been banned from between-game card buckets and will not be Discoverable:
      Final Showdown              Lost in the Park Defend the Dwarven District       Sorcerer's Gambit            Rise to the Occasion        Seek Guidance  Find the Imposter            Command the Elements The Demon Seed             Raid the Docks  Other Banned cards:
      Unstable Evolution is banned from card buckets but will still be Discoverable. Maestra of the Masquerade is banned from deckbuilding, card buckets, and will not be Discoverable. Seven new designer card buckets have been added as well:
      Furious Fel (Demon Hunter) AHHHH RATS!!!! (Hunter) Fire!!! (Mage) SI:7 (Rogue) ARRRRRRG! (Warrior) Auction House (Neutral) Live to Win (Neutral) Smart buckets have also been updated to include the two new card sets, and two previously missed card sets: Legacy (Classic/Basic) and Demon Hunter Initiate. Lastly, you’ll be able to find United in Stormwind cards in Duels card buckets after the patch goes live and before the expansion launches.
      Arena Rotation

      When United in Stormwind launches on August 3, the Arena will include cards from the following sets:
      United in Stormwind Forged in the Barrens Wailing Caverns Mini-Set Madness at the Darkmoon Faire Darkmoon Races Mini-Set The Witchwood Saviors of Uldum Rastakhan's Rumble Core Book of Heroes Illidan – Coming August 10

      After regaining his freedom, Illidan was eager to prove himself once and for all. But even as he journeyed far from his homeland and joined forces with new allies, the thirst for power never left him. It was only a matter of time before it interfered with his judgment, resulting in more dire consequences than ever before…Defeating all 8 bosses in this linear adventure will reward 1 Demon Hunter pack, containing only Demon Hunter cards from Standard.
      United in Stormwind Rewards Track & Tavern Pass
      When the Rewards Track refreshes when United in Stormwind launches, all players will automatically be granted any unclaimed rewards on both the free track and the Tavern Pass track (if purchased), and a completely new Rewards Track of unlockable loot will take its place.

      The Forged in the Barrens Tavern Pass will expire with the launch of United in Stormwind and a new Tavern Pass will be made available for purchase—offering a host of brand-new cosmetic rewards and XP boosts.

      Learn more about the United in Stormwind Rewards Track and Tavern Pass here.
      As a reminder, Battlegrounds Perks are now available as a standalone purchase, separate from the Tavern Pass.
      New Cosmetic Coins
      Two new Cosmetic Coins are being added with United in Stormwind, the Stormwind coin and the Lordaeron coin. The Stormwind coin is obtainable by completing the first 90 levels of the Rewards Track with the Tavern Pass. The Lordaeron coin is obtainable by collecting 135 unique United in Stormwind cards.

      Keep in mind that United in Stormwind will have a 35-card Mini-Set that will make it easier to reach both the 25 total United in Stormwind Legendary cards for the Archbishop Benedictus Diamond card reward and the 135 total United in Stormwind cards for the Lordaeron Cosmetic Coin. We’ll have more information to share about the United in Stormwind Mini-Set in the coming months.
      Bug Fixes & Game Improvements
      Fixed a bug where Shenanigans would not transform Soul Fragments into Bananas. Fixed a bug where Wicked Stab could be upgraded by cards that temporarily increase mana. Fixed a bug where Shan’do Wildclaw would not lay flat on the board. Fixed a bug where Defender would not play its VO when summoned by Noble Sacrifice. Fixed a bug where golden Soul of the Forest would not summon golden Treants. Fixed a bug where golden Ancestral Spirit would not summon a golden minion. Fixed a bug where golden Grave Rune would not summon golden minions. Fixed a bug where golden Primal Talisman would not summon golden minions. Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Y’shaarj’s Battlegrounds Hero Power would not take its newly summoned minion into account when deciding which warband attacked first. Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Baron Rivendare was causing visual issues when in a warband with golden Kaboom Bot. Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Galakrond’s Greed was missing a tooltip for Discover. Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Come One, Come All! Was missing a tooltip for Discover. Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Avatar of N’Zoth was missing a tooltip for Deathrattle. Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Sprout It Out! Was missing a tooltip for Taunt. Fixed a Battlegrounds bug where Hero Powers for Aranna Starseeker, Infinite Toki, Millhouse Manastorm, Nozdormu, and Tess Greymane were missing a tooltip for Refresh. Fixed a Duels bug where Diamond cards would only be Diamond in appearance for the first game of a run. Fixed a Duels bug where Lone Champion and minions summoned by Gift of Luminance were not buffed by Hold the Line. Updated the description of the Roguish Maneuvers Hero Power in Duels to be more accurate. Fixed a bug with Book of Mercenaries Guff where A Party of Adventurers will cast Against All Odds, even if they have board control. Fixed a bug where one of Lady Katrana Prestor’s emotes was showing incorrect text. Searching “Refund” in the Collection will now populate with cards eligible for a dust refund. Pressing and holding on the Rewards Track page arrows will now flip through the pages quickly. Fixed a bug where if a player disconnected from a ranked match, they’d get a message stating they won their last ranked game upon relogging.  


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