Last year we saw the first-ever bundle that contributed to Hearthstone Esports and a new one has arrived, though no hero this time around.
- The new bundle is the Dragon Masters Bundle. It costs $20 USD.
- You'll get 1 random Descent of Dragons Legendary & 25 Year of the Dragon Packs.
- Year of Dragon packs can contain cards from any Year of the Dragon set - Rise of Shadows, Saviors of Uldum, and Descent of Dragons.
- 50% of proceeds from the bundle help fund the 2020 Masters tour events. (Caps out at 1.5 Million USD)
- The bundle offer is only available until February 11.
Seeing as how this a completely new type of pack, cool trivia time!
- This is the first time multiple expansions have been combined into a card pack.
- The pity timer does appear to give you a legendary within your first 10 packs.
Open a Year of the Dragon Pack in Our Pack Simulator
We've added the Year of the Dragon pack to our pack opening simulator.
Official Announcement
Quote From Blizzard Prize Pool Crowdfunding – Dragon Masters Bundle
The 2020 Hearthstone Masters crowdfunding bundle has arrived! For just $19.99 you can purchase the Dragon Masters Bundle and receive 25 Year of the Dragon card packs and a random Descent of Dragons Legendary.
But that’s not all: 50% of the proceeds from the Dragon Masters Bundle will directly boost the prize pool at all six 2020 Hearthstone Masters Tour events, up to a maximum of $1,500,000 boost in prizing for the whole year. The additional prizing will be divided between the six tournaments in accordance with the tournament rules, including this weekend’s Masters Tour Arlington.
The Dragon Masters Bundle is available now for a limited time. It is giftable through the Blizzard Shop on the Blizzard App and online here! With the Dragon Masters Bundle you can add to your friend’s collection or get a new player started while supporting Hearthstone esports in the process.
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I got a Shu'ma as well, but I like to play Quest Hunter, so I'm quite happy with it. It might be playable in Token Druid as well, if you have a deck that's not exclusively doesn't lean too heavily on Treants.
20€/$ for 25 packs, equals 0.8€/pack, that's better than the 50€ preorder, which was 0.83€/pack.
Seeing these cards will stay with us for more than a year, and the Year of the Dragon being the strongest year ever alongside Year of the Mammoth, I think this pack is very well worth it for both Standard and Wild players wanting to expand their collection. Not even mentioning the guaranteed 2 or more Legendaries.
Do we know when this will no longer be available? I need pay-day to hurry.
Sorry, I should have included this in the post.
The offer expires on February 11, so you've got about 2 weeks to get it.
Here's a question on pity timers/this one specifically since it's new - does the free DoD legendary (or if one gets a DoD legendary out of these "year of the dragon packs") reset the current DoD timer? Or does that keep ticking away since it wasn't "obtained for DoD packs"?
To whit: I'm currently on pack 28 of my regular DoD timer - if it does reset the timer then arguably it would be "most" beneficial to wait until I get another pack legendary since I'm most of the way there already.
Receiving a legendary card through a promo has always not touched the pity timer, so the assumption here is the same.
This pack should not reset any pity timers since it is a unique pack from the rest and packs have always been unique on the timers
Can we get year of the dragon packs from shop with gold, or this is only way?
no gold option that I see.
This is the only way.
I gotta say though, I love the idea of themed boosters and would love to see these become available in other ways.
It would be an interesting way to help new collectors out with Wild packs, as it is much more efficient for getting commons when it takes 3 times as long before you are only getting duplicates (aka 5 dust).
I cannot think of any other great uses for grouping multiple sets, but it does open up a world of possibilities if they want to take them. Perhaps tribal packs where all the cards are elementals, or pirates etc, along with associated synergy cards. I doubt they would do it but it would be an interesting option for the people who would love to play those decks but just don't have the means to make them.
I agree, im sure we could use more specific pack to control the rng a little desirable, if any.
Does this mean that we get 2 guaranteed legendary, 1 from the random DoD and 1 from 10 pack pity-timer? Isn't this a good deal, then?
Yes and yes.
Pack simulator was updated quick - nice!
I have a question about the pity timer. I do have almost all legendaries in the Year-of-the-Dragon sets, minus Murazond (the Priest dragon from DoD).
I also have a few golden legendaries. I might be tempted by the bundle, I assume I would get Murazond as free legendary (since he is the only one missing). If I get another legendary due to the pity timer, will it check all sets for the ones missing, meaning if I have all DoD legendaries, but miss one from SoU, am I bound to get that one?
Or is the set of any given legendary predetermined? Let's say I disenchant Barista Lynchen (RoS) and Hack the System (SoU), but keep all DoD legendaries, could I end up with a copy of that last set?
My assumption is that due to all the sets being combined into one pool, all legendaries from those sets that you have are removed from the pool. When the pool of unobtained legendaries is empty, you have a chance of getting any legendary since dupes are now allowed.
There should be equal odds of getting any legendary that you do not own. If you disenchant a card and it becomes the only legendary you are missing from the combined sets, the pity timer would give you that legendary back. It can be a good way to chase a particular golden legendary, assuming the game actually gives you a golden legendary in a pack.
Thank you!
The 10-pack pity timer activating for this makes it a much better deal than past bundles for those of us primarily grinding Legendaries and dust. I know it's not very fashionable to praise Blizzard, but it's a really nice improvement to the value proposition.
It only works because the packs are treated as a new set, technically. Imo its an oversight on Blizzards part, or lazy coding (again). Thankfully, this time it benefits the player, so yay!
Since they're not *actually* a small indie company, I'm willing to bet this was very much intentional.