BlizzConline's Hearthstone Year of the Gryphon Deep Dive Panel Live Recap - More New Cards

Our coverage of BlizzConline continues with the Hearthstone Deep Dive panel which we're covering live down below.

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Live Recap

• There are 10 new characters being highlighted throughout the year.
• Spell Schools - Like minion types but for spells!
  • Arcane, Fel, Fire, Frost, Nature, Holy, and Shadow are the schools.
• Ranked Spells - Gain power as a match progresses. They grow in power at 5 and 10 mana.
• Wrath of Air Totem replaced with Strength Totem. A 0/2 that at the end of the turn gives a random friendly minion +1 attack.
• New Keyword: Frenzy Effects triggered the first time a minion survives damage.

Core Set

• Basic & Classic get replaced by 235 cards in the new Core Set.
• Some previously rotated cards are coming back into the Core Set to provide modern gameplay.
• 29 of the cards in the Core Set are going to be completely new.
• Everything in the Core set is completely free by leveling your classes.
• Fireball and Tirion Fordring are sticking around for the Core Set.
• Annoy-o-Tron is in the Core Set.
• Tomb Pillager is in the new Core Set.
• Menagerie Warden is in the new Core Set.
• Assassinate is getting buffed and will be in the Core Set.
• Feral Spirit, Earth Elemental, and Lightning Storm are each getting buffed.
• Core Set card reveals are happening next week.

Battlegrounds

• Year of the Gryphon is going to bring even more changes to Battlegrounds to keep it fun and thriving.
• Some of the new mercenary heroes are going to be added to Battlegrounds.
• New minion types are coming!
• In Patch 20.2, Quilboar is a Battlegrounds-exclusive minion type that is being added.
• Quilboars will generate a resource and take advantage of it. They have not finalized all the details yet.

Duels

• More heroes are being added. You will not lose progress on your current heroes.

Book of Heroes

• Stories are still being told this year.
• Valeera is up next!

Book of Mercenaries

• Like the book of heroes, we'll be getting to learn more about the stories behind characters.
• This solo content will focus on the 10 mercenary heroes being added to Hearthstone.

Hearthstone Mercenaries

• A new game mode that takes lots of different elements of other games.
• They take elements of Roguelikes and Tactical RPGs.
• Your three chosen characters have different abilities and you want to use them to create power combos against your opponents.
• You'll progress through a map - combat and other interesting things to do.
• Progression in Mercenaries is permanent. You keep the stuff you've earned.
• If you fail to complete a level, you can come back and try it again.
• It does not use your collection at all, much like Battlegrounds.
• Hearthstone is becoming a platform for different types of card games. Mercenaries is just one type of game within Hearthstone.
• A lot of the content is single-player but there are multi-player parts. They are hoping for high-skill games against other players.
• The mode has less RNG than normal Hearthstone.
• Tirion Fordring is one of the new characters being added.
• The mode releases during Phase 1 of the Year of the Gryphon.

New Forged in the Barrens Cards

New Core Set Cards

Year of the Gryphon Roadmap

Year of the Gryphon Expansion Teasers

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