NEWEST EXPANSION (August 6th, 2020)
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Announcing Scholomance Academy – Hearthstone’s Newest Expansion!
Scholomance Academy brings 135 new cards designed to supercharge your matches with arcane splendor and encourage all manner of never-before-seen sorcerous synergies.
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This is a huge year for Hearthstone and a lot of changes coming to the game.
Remindme! 10 years
Blizzards Official Announcement for Year of the Phoenix
- Ashes of Outland releases April 7, 2020
- Prime Minions - Legendary minions with two forms. After they are removed from the board, they come back more powerful.
- Imprisoned Demons - They are inactive for two turns but have powerful effects.
- Outcast, the new Demon Hunter Keyword gives the card a bonus if it is cast while being the right-most or left-most card in your hand.
- Introducing the Demon Hunterclass. Hearthstone's finally got a new playable class!
- Illidan is the basic Demon Hunter hero.
- The Priest class sees a large overhaul with the launch of the expansion.
- New Priest Cards
- Priest chard changes
- Priest cards going to Hall of Fame
- Card Pack Changes
- Free Deck for New and Returning Players
- Ranked Mode Overhaul
- Star Bonuses
- New Ranked Rewards
- Hall of Fame for 5 Neutral cards
- Acolyte of Pain
- Spellbreaker
- Mind Control Tech
- Leeroy Jenkins
- Mountain Giant
New Class: Demon Hunter
Hearthpwn Demon Hunter overview
With Hearthstone's new expansion, Ashes of Outland, we will also see the introduction of the game's 10th class, the Demon Hunter which will come to Hearthstone, for FREE, through a 4 game introduction experience starting April 2nd 2020.
But what is a Demon Hunter?
They are not Hunters, equipped with Bow and Arrows, the masters of Beasts, nor are they Demons, the foul spawn usually allied with Sargeras and the Burning Legion.
In-depth overviews from outof.cards:
Demon Hunter Portal
Priest Class Overhaul
Ranked Play Overhaul
What is Hearthstone?
Hearthstone is a free-to-play online collectible card game.
How to Play?
Download the PC client (Windows, Mac) on the main site. Note, you will also need a Blizzard account to log in to their launcher.
Also available on iOS and Android.
General:
Official Forums - Blizzard's official discussion forums.
Hearthstone Wiki - Hearthstone reference written and maintained by the players.
New Player:
Reddit Guide - Start here if you are completely new to the game.
Beginner Guide to Free Cards 2020 - This guide is intended to help you find and obtain all the free cards you can.
Trump Teachings - A video series by one of the game's most notable streamers. This is essentially
Hearthstone 101 and is mandatory viewing for any new player looking for a crash course in Hearthstone strategy.
Budget Rise of Shadows Decks - Reddit post outlining budget decks. (or just craft Whizbang)
Deck Building and Sharing:
Hearthpwn- Most popular site for building and sharing decks.
Out of Cards: Deck building, sharing, news and forums from ex-HearthPwn team.
Gutshot's Hearthstone Collection Spreadsheet - You can use this to keep track of your current card collection.
Disguised Toast - Meta lists, deck lists and guides
Sharehs - List of pro player decks
Hearthstone Top Decks: Top ladder decks sorted by newest submissions
Hearthstone-Decks: Top decks, meta reports, guides and articles.
Stat Trackers and Meta Reports:
HSReplay.net: Most comprehensive and up-to-date resource for live stats, meta reports, decks. All stats generated from users of Hearthstone Deck Tracker.
Vicious Syndicate Data Reaper Report: Home of the most popular meta report and lesser used live stat tracker
Best Deck Lists to Climb the Standard Ladder - Metastats.net: Metastats is a lesser known compendium of game and deck stats. Decklists are selected using machine learning algorithm so there is some weird stuff there, but these are typically actual decks people are playing at the time.
Competitive and Pro resources and twitter feed:
Competitive Hearthstone subreddit: Heavily moderated to focus on serious discussions and deck talk based on stats.
ahirunHS Twitter Feed: Curated list of decks and tweets. A go to twitter account for many pros.
neon31HS Twitter feed: Curated list of top ladder and streamer decks.
HS Pro Deck Feed: Curated list of decks from top streamers and pros.
YAYtears: Browsable list of Grandmasters, Battlefly Tournament and Specialist deck lists.
Arena:
HearthArena - A website about Hearthstone Arena. It's best known by its Arena Drafting Tool that thousands of people use on a daily basis.
Podcasts:
Top 20 Hearthstone Podcasts
Playerfm Hearthstone Podcast links
vS Data Reaper Podcast
ResetEra Hearthstone Discord Server
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