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.
Comments
A new class in hearthstone and priest is potentially usable?! It really is the end of the world huh.
Yup, as we know it.
Listen, this was a big oopsie on Polygon's part. A lot of people are mad at Flux like he wrote some hit piece on Polygon or that somehow he's to blame for their mistake. OutofCards had no NDA since they weren't at the HS summit, so this leak was fair game. I'd actually argue that it would be lazy for the site not to report on this as it's pretty massive news for Hearthstone. Plus, any news that isn't associated with coronavirus is welcome at the moment. Hopefully that's something we can all agree on. Exciting stuff in the leak and keep up the good reporting!
That countdown for the announcement on the main page
It could be a leak of an aprils fool article...
We're too far away from April Fools Day, and the actual content will be announced tomorrow anyway. Besides, none of the cards are funny AND all the art looks official.
An April Fools joke would be a Bard class or something. Or 4 mana 7/7s for every class. Something injokey that nobody would actually want.
Joking about a new class addition or Priest rehaul? They wouldn't go as far as pulling such a deceptive move on the community. Like MurlocAggroB said, April fool's are more obvious and inconsequential, see Fluxxflashor avatar as alternate art for Deathwing as example. Teasing us with something we actually wanted for a while would be a bad PR.
Damn, really angry with Polygon right now.
I know right? Fucking assholes.
Will Velen be moved to HoF?
Yes
The buffed Priest cards are really strong. If Northshire Cleric is still in the game it will be insanely broken.
HOF
AHAHAHAHAHAH
Man, I'm laughing my ass off.
That was so funny! But did you trust 100% the source?
I mean, this entire leak looks terrible... I really doubt that something this bad would cement HS for the next decade.
Also, if this was fake it would ruin everyone's hype and make the next expansion less appealing, and you know that blizzard creates hype so that they can get closer to your wallet. If only polygon didn't fuck it up.
Its Polygon, they'd be even more stupid if they were posting fake Hearthstone stuff.
So much for no new class... or nice troll
I'm genuinely excited by a lot of the Priest changes, but cutting Northshire Cleric and removing the draw from Power Word: Shield dramatically impacts the card draw potential for Priest, and Priest already struggled with card draw.
I’m guessing they’re trying to move towards Priest using more card generation (thoughtsteal type cards) rather than card draw
Hearthpwn has no coverage of this. Maybe Blizzard called them and asked them not to say anything? Either Out of Cards wasn't asked or said no, but I would have preferred them taking the high road and not ruining the surprise. Of course Reddit cannot be stopped but still. Feels bad.