What do you think? 

Descent of Dragons is Hearthstone's 13th expansion and is set to release on December 10, 2019.

Quick Info

• Pre-order bundles return, with more card packs than usual (60 & 100)!
• Every class will be getting a legendary Dragon! In fact, this expansion will have the most Dragons out of any set.
• New Keyword: Invoke - Upgrade the mighty Galakrond! Playing these cards will also cast his Hero Power.
  Galakrond and Invoke cards will not be available in Arena (source).
• New Keyword: Sidequests - Similar to quests except they don't start in your hand and can be played alongside active quests.
  Sidequests will be available in Arena (source).
• New Mechanic: Explorers - Dragon cards for the non-evil classes which Discover a Dragon alongside another, class-themed effect.
• New Mechanic: Breaths - Spells that make use of Dragon-holding mechanics to power-up their effects.
• A solo adventure will be launching in January 2020. It is linear rather than a dungeon run.
• More free stuff than ever before including 5 Legendaries.

Arena Drafting Pool

The card pool for drafting will change to include the following sets:

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

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

NEW! We are adapting to a new scoring system -1 being the worst and 5 being the best score- to get in line with the general scoring system on the site!

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!

I've noticed the last two days I've been kicked off Hearthstone after a match or the game crashes on the PC more often.

Thought it was bad enough I couldn't play it on my tablet as we await the mobile patch/expansion purchase options there.

Just a strict copy paste from their homepage, for the readers here to get an idea of what is coming.

Mythgard Development Roadmap

Disclaimer: All dates are estimates. Intermediate patches, including possible minor balance tuning, are not listed

Calendar

Major Features

Localization

Crowd localization platform

ETA: Nov 2019, with specific language localizations to follow

Tournaments

First iteration of in-client, some possible proposed features include:

• Both official and user-initiated tournaments
• Invitational / Open / Mixed
• 1v1 and 2v2
• Constructed, synchronous draft, and sealed deck
• Deck restrictions: essence cap, rarity limits, ban lists
• Swiss, single- and double- elimination, melee, top cuts
• Bo1/3
• Conquest, Last Hero Standing
• Open vs closed lists, other organizer options
• Entry fee, prizes

ETA: End 2019 (first iteration)

Expansion One

~130 card expansion

New path & power

Story Chapter 2

ETA: Mar/Apr 2020

Guilds

Exact functionality TBD

ETA: May 2020

Single-Player Campaign

Replayable single-player game mode drawing inspiration from 4X games, Shandalar, and rogue-like CCGs like DreamQuest and Slay the Spire

ETA: Aug 2020

Expansion Two

Contents TBD

ETA: Sep 2020

Minor Features

(in no particular order and by no means exhaustive)

• Overall UI polish
• Various special events
• Deck overview in editor
• Deck editor “views”
• Additional game boards & other cosmetics
• Alternate path art
• Game board & path interaction (cosmetic animations on click)
• More voice-overs including attack/death
• Start of match visual polish (coin flip, etc)
• Pack opening visual polish, label new cards
• Additional turn timer warning visual cues
• Change of turn visual effects
• Additional Gauntlet / Arena draft functionality
• 2v2 / Arena leaderboards
• 2v2 rules rework
• 2v2 UI update
• 2v2 communication
• Deck lending
• Emote customization
• Ability to hide card wheel (when making a Divination choice, etc)
• Key config
• More Twitch overlay support
• Game data API

If you are playing an EVIL class, and you use a card has "invoke Galakarond", I am reading that the new hero power is triggered as well. That is, even if you don't have the new hero card equipped yet.

For example, if you are playing as a Warlock and you use Dragonblight Cultist, you will get the following result for 3 mana:

• 2 1/1 imps are created on the board, as that is the Warlock upgraded hero power (achieved after using Galakrond later in the game)
• the 1/1 minion actually becomes at least a 3/1 minion, as he gains 1 attack for every other minion on the board (including the two 1/1 imps)

There is a video on the Blizzard website for this expansion which shows how such a card works with the Rogue class.

Assuming I have this right (?), suddenly the "invoke Galakarond" cards seem much, much better. 

Did anyone copy that by any chance, the decks changed before I got a chance but I enjoyed it

I'm happy that Hearthstone FINALLY got a new game mode. Even though it's not for me I'm happy that they've made something new to keep the community interested.

I wanted to ask the OOC community how you all felt about this game mode. Like is this what you wanted? Or would you have preferred something else.

Edit 05Nov: I’m glad I’m not the only one who isn’t satisfied with the game mode. I see some of you drawing the direct comparison to Heroes of the Storm in terms of being late to the game and it’s a very realistic critique. We all saw what happened to HotS, not saying it will happen to HS, but the Battlegrounds may go in that direction unless it gets continuous support (I don’t know if they’ve mentioned it anywhere).

I know they wanted to dive into the Autochess world, but they shouldn’t have. They should have innovated on something not seen in the digital CCG world. Hearthstone Mathematician just did an amazing video on a Two-Headed Giant mode that outlines most of the design questions for Team 5. This is a mode that would be more than welcomed in HS. 

Video: https://youtu.be/U3q4lss8mWE

Edit 07Nov: After playing several matches of Battlegrounds and sitting on the thought of the game mode itself.... it's not a new game mode, it's just a different game that utilizes Hearthstone assets. Let me elaborate on that.

Watching the Hearthstone panel for Blizzcon one of the designers explained how they came about the idea of Battlegrounds. They stated that when Autochess and the other Auto-battlers released that the team had a lot of fun playing those games and that they wanted to create one for HS. Six months later Battlegrounds was born and shown to the world.

If you notice in the previous paragraph the Dev said that THE TEAM wanted to create one. So I want everyone to think about that. I'm sure some of you all have browsed the Sub-reddit and read some of the post asking for new game modes and other posts that offer ideas for now ways to play the game (here's mine that I posted on OoC and the Sub-reddit: https://outof.cards/forums/hearthstone/hearthstone-general/1488-six-formats-hearthstone-could-easily-have). I just don't get it. Like we're here, telling the Devs what we want/would like to have/what needs improvement, and they give us something that literally nobody asked for.

Either way, Battlegrounds feels samey after a while. It's high RNG (Yogg be praised) and once you fall behind, that's it. There are key cards that if you don't find after re-rolling over and over again, you simply lose. The game "mode" is not for me. Still wanting and waiting on modes like the ones I've linked above. See y'all on ladder.

A new Legendary Paladin Minion, Nozdormu the Timeless, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Warrior Spell, Molten Breath, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Rogue Spell, Dragon's Hoard, has been revealed!

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A new Common Rogue Spell, Candle Breath, has been revealed!

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A new Common Paladin Spell, Sand Breath, has been revealed!

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A new Common Hunter Spell, Corrosive Breath, has been revealed!

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A new Legendary Rogue Minion, Waxadred, has been revealed!

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A new Legendary Warrior Minion, Deathwing, Mad Aspect, has been revealed!

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A new Legendary Mage Minion, Malygos, Aspect of Magic, has been revealed!

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A new Common Hunter Minion, Primordial Explorer, has been revealed!

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A new Common Mage Minion, Azure Explorer, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Hunter Spell, Toxic Reinforcements, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Priest Spell, Time Rip, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Priest Minion, Fate Weaver, has been revealed!

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A new Common Neutral Minion, Devoted Maniac, has been revealed!

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A new Legendary Priest Hero, Galakrond, the Unspeakable, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Warlock Minion, Dragonblight Cultist, has been revealed!

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A new Legendary Hunter Minion, Dragonbane, has been revealed!

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