There is a lot more information now than was available when these cards leaked. Here are some articles you should check out!
- Showcase Stream 2020 Recap
- Card Rarity Drop Protection Extends Past Legendaries
- Ranked Play Changes Coming to Hearthstone in April
- 5 Cards are Moving to the Hall of Fame Including Leeroy Jenkins
- Cinematics for Ashes of Outland & Demon Hunter
- Demon Hunters Will Receive Classic Cards Eventually
- Everything You Need to Know About the Demon Hunter Initiate Set
The first Hearthstone expansion of 2020 is Ashes of Outland! You can learn more about the expansion, including seeing all the revealed cards, in our dedicated Ashes of Outland Expansion Guide!
Polygon has leaked the new expansion! Wow, what idiots!! The article that was leaked has since been removed.
Here is everything we know so far about Ashes of Outland. (Polygon referred to the expansion as Ashes of Outlands which makes no sense since its Outland and not Outlands)
- The expansion launches April 7.
- Demon Hunter is a new class and we've got 20 cards to showcase.
- Priests are getting an overhaul.
- 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.
New Legendary Card - Kael'thas Sunstrider
Quote From Polygon The first piece of Ashes of Outlands will drop on Tuesday, March 17. Players can log in and receive the Legendary card Kael’thas Sunstrider. When Kael’thas is on the board, the third spell cast every turn is free.
New Class: Demon Hunter
Hearthstone is getting a new class - The Demon Hunter! Illidan Stormrage is finally getting his time in the spotlight.
- Hero Power: Demon Claws, a 1-Mana ability that grants 1 Attack
Quote From Chadd Nervig [Demon Hunters] don’t have much in the way of card generation, but you can run them out of resources,” says Chadd Nervig, game designer on Hearthstone. “They have card draw, but not generation, so you can fatigue them. They’re susceptible to hard removal. They also just don’t have much in the way of hard removal themselves; if they want to clear a big minion of yours, they have to use their face to do it. They don’t have any assassinate or polymorph cards.
Demon Hunter Cards
These are all the cards revealed so far for the Demon Hunter class.
Basic Demon Hunter Cards
Ashes of Outland Demon Hunter Cards
Demon Hunter Tokens
Priest Overhaul
Priests are getting an overhaul!
Quote From Chadd Nervig There were aspects of their basic and classic sets that we weren’t planning to support, so they were sort of misleading Priests and taking up space, Things like Prophet Velen, which is an iconic Legendary for Priests, sounded really cool … but really was only used for [one-turn kill strategies], which we weren’t planning to support. These cards are now in the Hall of Fame, and can be used in the game’s Wild mode.
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We weren't at the summit, they were. Anyone at the summit won't be talking about it until tomorrow.
I was watching Kibler after this came out and to every question he was like "You guys talk about it all you want, I am waiting to discuss it until tomorrow after the stream." So yeah, NDA "cannot confirm nor deny" type of talk. The main thing I'm wondering now though... Is there more that wasn't in the article?! A tournament mode perhaps?!?! We shall see tomorrow.
If the upgraded Demon Hunter Hero Power gives +2 Attack to your Hero then Odd Demon Hunter will be insane. It’d be 2 damage every turn for 1 Mana from turn
This brings up the question of if Genn will work with this. I hope Team 5 would add support and make the hp 0 or something, but as is, I doubt it will.
More to your point, the hero power synergizes very well with Hench-Clan Thug. Also, the demon hunters themselves have a wide arrange of very powerful tempo odd-costed cards.
Constructive criticism: I think the jab at Polygon staff "Wow, what idiots!!" is a little excessive. I always dig this site and your constant great content, but to jab so harshly at what is likely a single person who clearly knows they made a mistake, just seems a little petty. I follow a handful of sites, including Polygon, and while they don't focus on Hearthstone, they're usually pretty accurate when they write something up on the game and are obvious fans. I'm not trying to sound like I'm policing the internet, and it's important to have thick skin when floating around web pages, but just wanted to drop off a comment to say that maybe hold back some of the harshness on a fellow gaming journalist, ESPECIALLY if you're going to essentially copy that same material into your own write-up. Again, just constructive criticism, golden rule type stuff, ya know?
I think its supposed to be a sort of a satirical joke. Obviously a jab at a popular, successful gaming media outlet's mistake. Harmless fun, not malicious.
Edit: well, Flux went on and provided a better explanation. I guess my post went up the same time.
I find it very difficult to not be critical of people that are given early access to content and then butcher the delivery this bad. When it is your job to protect content and it is of this severity, you better do it correctly.
The saddest part about this is they aren't even going to be penalized. Blizzard will pretend to be upset about it, perhaps make a comment on it on tomorrow's stream, and then give them more content for the next expansion. Meanwhile, if Out of Cards had early access to info and we hit the publish button a day early, we'd be forever blacklisted from Blizzard since we aren't critical to their non-Hearthstone outreach. If we are going to be held to a higher standard than others, then I'm going to hold people as equal. If we made a mistake like that, I'd call us idiots as well. Even Out of Cards has steps to prevent embargoed information from going live or being seen by members of the team that should not be privy to those releases.
I understand your point, and again, only meant that as constructive, from a reader's point of view. I know they messed up bad, and I think some poking is understandable, but I guess I'd never heard ya make such a blatant call out in a write up before, where those things are often left in comments. I know it's one thing to open yourself to be called an idiot, but another to be the one to send that jab yourself. With that, I respect your response, and the hard work you do. I'd definitely be upset if I put this much time into my passion and someone else dropped the ball so poorly and kinda ruined it for me and everyone else. I'm not looking for you to file away the edge that you have, as indicative of your passion, to please others or soften yourself or your creative decisions, but for some reason that comment just kinda stood out to me a bit and I thought I'd bring it up. Hell, maybe it's a bit of stir craziness naggin' at me or something and I'm catching things that poke at me more than they may have otherwise.
That all said, again, thanks for the response, and I really do think it's amazing what you and your team do here. I'm definitely excited for more of your coverage and the community discussions, sounds like there's a ton of great news comin' up soon!
As easy as this:
Did Out of Cards sign a NDA?
No, right?
Then all good.
Yeah they should have mechanisms in place to make it literally impossible to do this. Either someone was an idiot to not put them in place or someone was an idiot to somehow still screw it up. This is a really horrible leak. It does feel like Polygon deserves some kind of punishment for this. That's not how things work for though. They probably won't even apologize. This would have been an amazing surprise and now it's ruined. At the same time Out of Cards didn't have to say anything. Hearthpwn hasn't yet. Maybe that's intentional. It still would have been on Reddit but guaranteed less people would have had the surprise spoiled for them if not for this article on Out of Cards. I say Out of Cards should take some responsibility for leaking. You didn't have to say anything. If I hadn't read about it here I probably wouldn't have checked and seen anything on Reddit before the reveal. So yeah...thanks.
We're in the business of news, we're never going to skip covering anything unless we're bound by a legal agreement. Very hard to say no when this is likely going to be the biggest article we've ever posted on the site and it is stuff like this that'll help us stay on the map.
Google Heathstone Demon Hunter and Ashes of Outland. We're there.
Yeah you're right.
Ok I guess Hearthpwn is saying nothing just because of their obligation from going to the recent summit. I guess it's too much to ask you to not report this. Maybe that would back fire on you and people would say oh OutofCards was sleeping and not paying attention and missded it. You probably can't affort taking that chance. Such is journalism if that's what this is. Sucks hard though.
This some sort of early April Fools joke? The Demon Hunter class is interesting, but the obvious counter to it is warlock with all the demon destruction tools. Also, the priest class will be impossible to play any sort of big minion deck (Dragon Queen anybody?) against with the removal discounts is crazy. A board clear for 4 mana?
Maybe they'll HOF sac pact.
My guess is that they'll just change it so it will only target your demons: in this way, both Lord Jaraxxus and Demon Hunter's Demons will be spared.
Demon destruction tools? Huh?
EDIT: For context, this was a reply to somebody complaining that they were adding an anti-Warlock class with lots of demon destruction tools, obviously having read the class name and none of the cards. The comment seems to have been deleted.
Yeah this must be a joke.
Double Feast of Souls on the board. Just wanted to point it out.