Galakrond's Awakening is Hearthstone's newest Solo Adventure and is set to release on January 21, 2020.

Quick Info

• Each week brings us a new chapter and new cards.
• A total of 35 new collectible cards will be added to the game.
• The cards will be unlocked by progressing through the chapters.
• The whole adventure can be purchased for $20, or each chapter can be purchased individually for $7 or 700 gold.

Arena Drafting Pool

The card pool for drafting will (most likely) stay the same and adds Galakrond's Awakening:

• Basic
• Classic
• Blackrock Mountain
• The Grand Tournament
• One Night in Karazhan
• Knights of the Frozen Throne
• Rastakhan's Rumble
• Descent of Dragons
• Galakrond's Awakening

This thread is dedicated to discussing the impact of these cards on the ARENA environment.

Click below to see how Arena Mods at Out of Cards rated the cards revealed so far!

You can read everyones detailed card evaluation by clicking on their pictures.

Below you will find links for all of the cards that have been revealed so far.

This is a work in progress!

SOLVED!

Hi there

Was bored and drunk and decided to see what English words were in the word HEARTHSTONE.  No anagrams or backwards, names etc just straightforward English words.  Here's what I came up with, but removed one - first person to find it gets, um, I dunno, universal karma and a +1 :)

A
HE
ON
TO
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EAR
ONE
TON
HEAR
TONE
HEART
EARTH
STONE
HEARTH
HEARTHS
HEARTHSTONE

Of course possible I missed more other than the word I omitted in which case double karma!

What can I purchase with shards? A part for expeditions and cosmetic stuff. No way to purchase cards? tks

As I understand it, the weekly cap on wildcard purchases is intended to keep people from collecting all the cards too quickly, and the developers hope this will keep the meta from getting stale too quickly. I guess I'm wondering what their definition of "too quickly" is.

There are 24 Champions in the game, and you can have 3 copies of each, so 24 x 3 = 72 is the maximum number of Champ cards you can collect at this time.

If I spent all my wildcards and shards after only three vault openings, I would now have over 40 Champion cards. I am confident that I could easily collect all 72 by the end of the first month. Someone more dedicated than me could have them all a bit sooner by grinding every region with Expedition XP. (I've only completed one region, but I'm very close to finishing my second.)

I've heard several streamers expressing frustration at having to wait to craft a wider variety of decks. My question is: Is the throttle really working as intended?

It seems like it's making paying players unhappy in the short term, while not really slowing things down all that much when you consider the bigger picture. After all, this game is surely going to last a while, and it could be many months before we see an expansion.

Furthermore, once that expansion does arrive, people will easily be able to acquire most of it immediately with saved resources. (I've seen no indication that the current resources won't work on future content.)

It all sounded like a good idea on paper, but I'm not sure the result (a month or less before whales have a full set) is worth the frustration -- especially when the people you are frustrating are the only ones actually giving you money.

I created a deck but it's not visible except in my personal area. tks

Hey, so I wanted to make a list of my opinion on the best cards in the game. So i decided to make a video on it. Let me know your guy's opinion on my list and also what cards you think are really really good. Would love to hear your opinions!
https://youtu.be/_CfFlzRpO8g

So turns out you can play any wild card in this brawl, just copy a deck that has no standard cards and then it will suggest you to paste it once you are in the brawl, then it will select a card from the deck, it will find only wild cards and it will settle on one.. TBH tried a few minutes to figure out how he settles on a card so far it seems that if a certain card exists then it will select it.. how it selects it is unknown to me.

I tried to make it so it chooses Patches the Pirate but I didn't managed to replicate it yet (I faced someone playing patches, added him to question how he did that but of course he wouldn't share, then I remembered this bug and turns out I was right, and it wasn't fixed...)

Anyway nice check if the deck is valid when you queue.

Solution? check the deck's validity on queuing up and ban Pogo-Hopper from this brawl.

EDIT:

Nice suggestion to replace the wild card (Also it lets me replace it).

Have you ever had a moment when you wanted to craft an expensive card (Epic or Legendary) based on an idea you know is going to be bad of a deck you know that will never work, but you just have to do it for the fun of it?

What was the card, and what was the result of this endeavor? 

I am having that moment right now... and was wondering how others handled it :)

as the title sais.....

the game mechanics are PERFECT if not for this nonsense....

what's the logic behind that idea???..cause it's completly illogical and counterintuitive...

Has anybody gotten any extra copies of Champions they already own three of yet? I'm THINKING they might have a similar system to HS where you don't pull a Legendary card you don't need, but I don't have any hard evidence for that.

...And just for laughs, how many shards are extra champions worth?

How does this card work exactly?

Does the detained card retain buffs or damage for example, or is it like the recall mechanic and it reverts to its original state?

Does the detained card get placed back to its original location (bench or battlefield) once the capturing unit leaves play? I'm assuming it gets placed back in the hand if the bench or battlefield is full, and burned if the hand is full.

I dont know if its just me, but feels like im playing druid. Hope this deck helps someone its not optimized yet, but you may understand something about this I do not.

Pretty simple to play just do the most optimal thing you can has lots of card draw for a highlander decks so you can likely burn through most people even the druids pretty often.

Highlander Elemental Mage

Wild · Highlander Mage · by Millergram · 6 years, 4 months ago

• 0 Elemental Evocation x 1
• 1 Elemental Allies x 1
• 1 Magic Trick x 1
• 1 Ray of Frost x 1
• 1 Violet Spellwing x 1
• 2 Frostbolt x 1
• 2 Khadgar x 1
• 2 Mana Cyclone x 1
• 2 Quicksand Elemental x 1
• 2 Sorcerer's Apprentice x 1
• 2 Zephrys the Great x 1
• 3 Arcane Amplifier x 1
• 3 Cinderstorm x 1
• 3 Conjurer's Calling x 1
• 3 Fire Hawk x 1
• 3 Frost Nova x 1
• 3 Nightmare Amalgam x 1
• 4 Cosmic Anomaly x 1
• 4 Polymorph x 1
• 4 Water Elemental x 1
• 5 Bonfire Elemental x 1
• 5 Rolling Fireball x 1
• 5 Zilliax x 1
• 6 Blizzard x 1
• 7 Animated Avalanche x 1
• 7 Flamestrike x 1
• 8 Power of Creation x 1
• 9 Dragonqueen Alexstrasza x 1
• 10 Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron x 1
• 12 Mountain Giant x 1

9,820 Dust 814 0 Copy Deck Code

Hello Guys and Gals!

So i jsut killed it in the second Expeditions Trial!

I got 6 Wins but honestly i think i should have won the last one as well ...

the moneypoint was the last attack from me.

enemy had a4/2, Fiona lvl uped and killed 1 Minion so far and a 3/2

i had 2 Minions on board and a Savage Reckoner which targeted the 3/2 for the last 5 dmg to win the game

Fiona blocks one of the small minions, (2 kills) and plays strike on the Fiona and the second Minion (3 kills)

then the Reckoner kills the other Minion, i expect 5 dmg for lethal to the core but i loose the game ....

Pls help me what happend here?

thank you

A new Common Rogue Spell, Waxmancy, has been revealed!

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Hey all,

I just finished the 3rd chapter of Galakrond's awakening and came across a funny mistake in the german localization that I would like to share (needless to say this contains spoilers about said chapter). Among the auto-attack cannons there is one card called Missile Pod. If you play the game in german you will find that this specific card has its name and card text in italian. An interesting implication of this: If you play the "Trigger all auto-attacks" card, Missile Pod won't trigger. My guess is, the game looks for the string "Automatischer Angriff" but only finds "attacco automatico".

In what language are you playing hearthstone and are there other weird/funny language related moments you came across?

I'm worried that I might be breaking etiquette using emotes...  I get that Braum is like "greetings", Jinx is surprise/amazed, Darius is face-palm/mistake, Heimerdinger is thinking, and poro is sad/disappointed, and I think  Shen is well-played, but I don't know.  Is he supposed to be more like a threat?  Have all my attempts to respectfully acknowledge my opponents at the end of the match actually been misconstrued as childish taunts?  Am I just overthinking all this?

A new Legendary Neutral Minion, Sky Gen'ral Kragg, has been revealed!

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A new Common Priest Minion, Aeon Reaver, has been revealed!

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The ruination as a concept in general is disgusting, all good players understand that setting up your field while diminishing the enemies is more important than constantly belittling the opponents hp, I can't count how many times I've played smarter than my opponent resulting in having a massive lead on field with close to equal cards in hand, then they play The Ruination, and suddenly we're only equal playing field, 6+ rounds of work to best the opponent successfully and its demolished entirely by a single card, it ruins the skill in every match that card is had, the opponent will often times win from the RNG of pulling that card, despite being bested every round up to him being able to play that card. It's beyond broken and a shitty concept in general, if its going to be in the game there has to be a condition for it to be met, maybe have to have a certain range of cards in hand, or requires you to have at least 3 allied units in play it shouldn't be this free card to just fuck your opponents entire setup, when you've been outwitted the entire game and have 0 allies in play. that being said, the majority of the spells in shadow isle are damage spells, and just about all of them are extremely over powered, doing absurd amounts of damage for very little cost, to be frank, almost all the spells in the game should be nerfed, in a game where you have only 20 hp, giving a full field +3/+3 (For Demacia!) is insane, that card alone adds 18 damage to a field, and it can be used as early as round 6 with a full field if you luck out with a nice draw, not to mention the Cursed Keeper, and Ravenous Butcher combo, at round 2 you can have a 3/2 and a 4/4 on the field, that's absurd, no other region has the potential for that strong of a field by round 2. It's possible I'm slightly biased, would love other's opinions, obviously it's a new game, so balance issues are to be expected, then again, Riot Games is known for not being able to balance shit.

Are rewards linked to the active Region or are they random? Tks

So everyone who have been playing Runeterra can't ignore the fact that elusives are a problem specially now as they are everywhere, the main problem with the mechanic is that you can't interact with it unless you are playing elusive units yourself or you deck is mostly spells and you have all niche removals.

It's much harder to deal with when they are buffed and they keep attacking you each round for a lot of damage.

To top it all off Deny is preventing skill/spell answers for the deck.

I posted one idea on one balance thread but I think this specific mechanic needs a dedicated thread.

So what are the options?

1. Make elusive one strike only, this will not only open additional design space but it makes total sense, if you are sneaking around or hard to catch, once you stroke you revealed yourself so you are no longer stealthed, add to Teemo that he regains elusive each round and buff Ezreal's health to compensate.

2. make elusive one turn only like barrier, you play an elusive unit? well you better attack with it/defend because it will lose it at the end of the round- I initially thought about this approach but it would destroy them and it's less thematic.

3. nerfs across the board, nerf all elusive followers hp or attack, make the mechanic have premium cost. because of the inevitable powercreep it's a short term solution

4. Nerf Deny, it will knock down the elusive decks enough.

So what do you guys think?

so maybe i didnt see it but there isnt a clock in the game right? i find just a little bit annoying  to have to go out the game to see the time. does anyone knows if riot plans  to put one in the game?

This deck is so busted. The AoEs are waaay to strong. The 1 mana, 2 mana and 3 mana spells are all acting like Twisting Nether. All of them needs a nerf for 1 or better even 2 mana and they still whould be strong as f***. There is no way to get a board at all against this deck - it`s just ridiculous!

What happens with my Expedition Trial(s) if I don't finish them before the next Vault opening (week)?

I have been trying to experiment with stuff one of them is poros, sadly I don't have all the poro cards or a third braum, but I tried to play it, I am quite sure it's not good enough and I am more unsure which second region fits the poro decks..

didn't get to play them in the preview, but I saw fluff got nerfed(think it was from 5 mana to 6) so there is probably a viable build somehow..

this is what I have so far: