Oddly, I got a duplicate epic card in my single free pack, despite not having all mage epics in standard
These packs are special in that they don't follow normal pack rules.
You can receive duplicates
You are not guaranteed a legendary card in 10 packs
The reason is because of how special the packs are. They use the same rules the Golden Packs do. Kinda cheesed about the whole situation but it just means it isn't worth buying the packs if they ever show up.
I can confirm there is a bug with the front page deck widget with regions not working.
The reason we have a region option, even though it doesn't work, is because we were not aware it was broken. As a workaround, use Sanns' link above to find Freljord decks on our deck listing. We'll get the issue fixed on our next site deploy.
We import all the card data out of the Hearthstone client, so it would appear that Blizzard goofed with the card text! I just did a quick look to confirm this was the case. We'll have to add a string replacement to the importer to make sure this is resolved on our end since I doubt they'll fix it.
Thanks for finding that! I've manually changed Eerie Statue for now.
I think the real reason we're getting Jaina first is because she is the first hero you unlock when playing Hearthstone. They can move new players from the tutorial over to the adventure easily and it's an extra step of learning for the game.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Book of Heroes is a new tutorial mode and once it's completed with all heroes available, that will be the new way to unlock them all. The Demon Hunter campaign was a great way to introduce heroes and its possible Basic card unlocks could be moved to individual fights in the adventure.
That is a great point! Demon Hunter is such an awkward class to talk about with stuff like this because they simply don't have the larger card pool everyone else does and with them being so aggressive, all the good cards are always so cheap.
MTG Arena is more aggressive than Hearthstone when it comes to monetization. It is a lot more expensive if you want to play a large variety of decks in constructed, and they have more frequent content releases which can make it easy to get behind.
With that said though, I know multiple people who play the game free to play and have fun doing so. I definitely recommend giving it a shot
Honestly, I've been very disappointed with MTG sites over the years. A lot of them are built... interestingly... and that was one of the reasons why I decided that Out of Cards wasn't just going to be a Hearthstone site, but rather something we could build upon over time and cover other games we love.
It has taken us longer than I would have liked to get to the point of us covering MTG more, but I'm happy we're making progress towards that goal :D
The second update in the deck widget series has arrived!
New Features
Deck Widget Preferences
You can now customize preferences for the homepage deck widget.
Preferences are accessed on portal pages and the home page via the cog/gear icon found at the top right of the decks widget.
Selecting a homepage game will force that game's decks to always load on the homepage, no matter where you've been on the site.
You can customize each game's default deck widget preferences independently.
Changes
Deck Widget
Selected game gets a colored icon.
Hearthstone
Portal page now has the new and improved deck widget.
Runeterra
Portal page now has the new and improved deck widget.
Improvements to performance on deck pages.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue with deck widgets not loading for new users to the site. (Issue with initial deploy)
Notes
We should have had the ability to sort forum threads in recent threads by their game. There's an issue preventing us from pushing this live and is going to require some serious digging. This was supposed to be a simple change.
These packs are special in that they don't follow normal pack rules.
The reason is because of how special the packs are. They use the same rules the Golden Packs do. Kinda cheesed about the whole situation but it just means it isn't worth buying the packs if they ever show up.
A site deploy has gone live tonight with support for Magic the Gathering cards. We've also fixed issues with site cache.
New Features
Magic the Gathering
Changes
Hearthstone
General
Bug Fixes
Runeterra
General
I can confirm there is a bug with the front page deck widget with regions not working.
The reason we have a region option, even though it doesn't work, is because we were not aware it was broken. As a workaround, use Sanns' link above to find Freljord decks on our deck listing. We'll get the issue fixed on our next site deploy.
Taric definitely went there first =D
Please don't leave me
You're fired
We import all the card data out of the Hearthstone client, so it would appear that Blizzard goofed with the card text! I just did a quick look to confirm this was the case. We'll have to add a string replacement to the importer to make sure this is resolved on our end since I doubt they'll fix it.
Thanks for finding that! I've manually changed Eerie Statue for now.
Sorry everyone, little late on the update - 8 new cards added!
Honestly, it does feel kinda ridiculous at this point lmao
OOPS!
Don't pin that one on Echo, that was on me! Sorry about that and thank you, added the correct text to the article =)
We have had two other purchasable Hunter heroes - Alleria Windrunner and Sylvanas Windrunner.
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/guides/39-how-to-obtain-hearthstones-alternate-hunter-heroes/
For Rogue, yeah, we've only had Maiev Shadowsong and that was a while ago. At least we can't be too far off a new Rogue hero!
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/guides/43-how-to-obtain-hearthstones-alternate-rogue-heroes/
I think the real reason we're getting Jaina first is because she is the first hero you unlock when playing Hearthstone. They can move new players from the tutorial over to the adventure easily and it's an extra step of learning for the game.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Book of Heroes is a new tutorial mode and once it's completed with all heroes available, that will be the new way to unlock them all. The Demon Hunter campaign was a great way to introduce heroes and its possible Basic card unlocks could be moved to individual fights in the adventure.
That is a great point! Demon Hunter is such an awkward class to talk about with stuff like this because they simply don't have the larger card pool everyone else does and with them being so aggressive, all the good cards are always so cheap.
I'm guessing $15 USD, though $10 would be ideal considering we're getting 10 new heroes in total.
$10 for the hero, $5 for the packs isn't a bad breakdown for $15 though.
Nope!
Most of the time, we do post a Tavern Brawl article. Things have just been hectic these past few days and one didn't make it up.
MTG Arena is more aggressive than Hearthstone when it comes to monetization. It is a lot more expensive if you want to play a large variety of decks in constructed, and they have more frequent content releases which can make it easy to get behind.
With that said though, I know multiple people who play the game free to play and have fun doing so. I definitely recommend giving it a shot
I cannot wait to get my hands on it to try it out. I also didn't think that MTG would ever translate well to mobile, but I'd love to be wrong.
Thanks! <3
Honestly, I've been very disappointed with MTG sites over the years. A lot of them are built... interestingly... and that was one of the reasons why I decided that Out of Cards wasn't just going to be a Hearthstone site, but rather something we could build upon over time and cover other games we love.
It has taken us longer than I would have liked to get to the point of us covering MTG more, but I'm happy we're making progress towards that goal :D
The second update in the deck widget series has arrived!
New Features
Deck Widget Preferences
Changes
Deck Widget
Hearthstone
Runeterra
Bug Fixes
Notes