Put on your detective caps and let's find out who dun it! Murder at Castle Nathria is coming and with it, 135 new cards enter constructed play in Hearthstone. The launch of an expansion is a joyous time, but it can also be stressful with so many things happening all across the tavern.
Welcome to the Out of Cards Murder at Castle Nathria Survival Guide, where we're going to make that introduction into Revendreth a little bit easier. This is a general overview, with relevant links to other resources on the site should you wish to learn any additional details. Now, let's get into the castle interior and start solving the crime!
When Does Murder at Castle Nathria Launch?
Murder at Castle Nathria should launch at or around 10 AM Pacific (1 PM Eastern, 19:00 CET). Refer to the countdown below - make sure your computer's clock is correct.
Murder at Castle Nathria Quick Facts
- 135 new cards have been added to the game - Visit our Murder at Castle Nathria Expansion Guide to see them all.
- New Keyword: Infuse - Play the card like normal or wait until the specified amount of friendly minions die to gain additional benefits. (Learn More)
- New card type: Locations - Untargetable cards that occupy a space on the board and have abilities that the players can activate.
- New mechanic: Suspicious Minions - Minions that let you Discover a card, but give your opponent a copy as well if they can guess your pick.
- Each class gains support for various archetypes, but 3 of them get to play with something more distinct:
- Relics for Demon Hunters - Cards that start off weak, but which upgrade each other when played.
- Wildseeds for Hunter - Uncollectible minions with powerful effects that are summoned by other cards, but which start dormant for a number of turns.
- Volatile Skeletons for Mage - A 2/2 neutral minion that deals 2 damage to a random enemy upon death, which Mages can summon and trigger using a number of their class cards.
If you want to know more about Infuse, Locations, Suspicious cards, and other Castle Nathria mechanics, consider visiting out Mechanics Overview Analysis for Murder at Castle Nathria.
Murder at Castle Nathria Freebies
We've got a couple of freebies in Murder at Castle Nathria, including the early Rewards Track.
- Log in to receive a free copy of Prince Renathal Legendary.
- This has been available since the patch that introduced the pre-order bundles, so you may already own the card.
- Visit the Rewards Track to claim a free Sire Denathrius Legendary for Constructed, and free Campaign Sir Finley for Mercenaries.
- Storming through the initial levels doesn't take long if you have your weekly Quests available, with expansion and Standard card packs along the way and perks such as Random Epic/Legendary card.
- New and returning players can get a free deck if they haven't logged-in for the past 120 days. This now also works and refreshes even if you have previously taken advantage of the offer.
- Prime Gaming members can receive a free random Standard Legendary card! Not guaranteed to be from the new expansion.
Reminder: Sync Your Collection to Out of Cards Automatically
We've got a plugin available for Hearthstone Deck Tracker! You can use this plugin to automatically sync your collection, which can help you find decks to play on the site with personalized crafting costs.
- You can access your collection manager by using your user dropdown on the site's navigation. Click "HS Collection".
- Collections are private and are not shared with other users.
- Calculations are performed in-browser to prevent the servers from melting.
All Legendary Murder Suspects
Okay, but who has really offed the estemeed Sire Denathrius? Assuming it's all not an elaborated ruse on his part. We may have to wait until the Mini-Set to learn the answer to that question, as apparently there won't be any solo adventure content being released for Murder at Castle Nathria.
10 Murder Suspects represent 10 unique Legendary cards, each one standing in for a Hearthstone class. This ongoing theme also extends to special class (Covenant) spells.
What Are Locations?
The first new card type we've seen in 5 years, ever since Hero cards were introduced in Knights of the Frozen Throne back in 2017. Locations occupy a spot on the board, just like minions, but they aren't affected by any of the usual cards (with the exception of Demolition Renovator. Here's how they work:
- Each Location has a Cost and a Durability.
- Every one of them has an ability that the controlling player can activate, at which point the Location loses 1 Durability.
- After the ability is activated, the Location becomes inactive for the remainder of the turn as well as the turn that follows.
- This is indicated with a set of closed doors, or half open doors if the location becomes active next turn.
- Once a Location runs out of Durability, it is removed from the field.
Each class will get a Location for Murder at Castle Nathria. Hearthstone developers have clarified that we'll be seeing Locations more often than we would Hero cards, but not as often as Weapons.
What Are Suspicious Minions?
Three minions in the expansion let you Discover a certain type of card. However, at the start of their turn, your opponent will also be shown these options, and will be given a copy of your card if they can guess what you picked.
The way it works is, your opponent gets a prompt with your choices at the start of their turn, before they draw. If they guess your card, they get to keep it, but they'll still find out what you picked even if they don't guess correctly.
What Are Relics?
Three Demon Hunter collectible cards that each have a unique effect, as well as the effect of upgrading each future Relic you play. They start off weak, but can really snowball and overwhelm your opponent with effects that are very overpowered for the cost. Aside from the 3 Relics themselves, there's also some cards that synergize with them.
What are Wildseeds?
Three uncollectibe cards that are summoned by various Hunter cards in the expansion. They are fairly powerful, but will stay Dormant for a pre-determined amount of time.
What are Volatile Skeletons?
Volatile Skeleton is a Neutral 2/2 Common minion that deals 2 damage to a random enemy when killed. While the card is Neutral, there are a few Mage cards that summon and synergize with it, including the class Legendary and Location.
Murder at Castle Nathria Diamond Cards
Diamond cards continue to make an appearance in Hearthstone as a part of the Rewards Track and achievements.
- Diamond Murloc Holmes
- Instantly obtainable by purchasing the Tavern Pass and claiming the card on the Rewards track.
- Diamond Decimator Olgra
- Obtained by completing the Murder at Castle Nathria Legendary Collector 5/5 Achievement (Collecting 25 Murder at Castle Nathria Legendary cards).
Murder at Castle Nathria New Coins
Another modern tradition follows, with two new coins becoming available for the expansion.
- Venthyr Coin - Earned by completing 90 levels of the Rewards Track. (Requires paid Tavern Pass)
- Castle Nathria Coin - Earned by collecting 135 unique Murder at Castle Nathria cards.
New Murder at Castle Nathria Achievements
Blizzard has added a fresh batch of achievements to the game for Murder at Castle Nathria. If you're looking to farm experience, these have some great potential in helping you complete the Rewards Track earlier than by just playing games alone. You can check out all the new XP achievements here!
Remember: Once the next expansion comes out, in November or December, Murder at Castle Nathria achievements will no longer reward XP, so hunt them down while they are worth it!
Castle Nathria Class Coverage and Day 1 Decks
We've decided to try something different this year, by combining our usual card & class archetype reviews with more Day 1 decklists from all around the tavern. Head down below to check out what we think of the available packages for each suspect, and find some decks to play once the expansion hits.
Even More Theorycraft Options
Be it Standard, Wild, our own crew's favorites, or playing on a Budget, we aim to deliver:
- 15 Standard Community Theorycraft Decks for Murder at Castle Nathria
- Our Top 40 Community Theorycraft Wild Hearthstone Decks for Murder at Castle Nathria
- 10 Budget Theorycraft Decks for Day 1 of Murder at Castle Nathria
- What We're Playing on Murder at Castle Nathria Day 1
Murder at Castle Nathria Community Compendium
There's still time to vote on who murdered Sire Denathrius what you think will be the best cards of the expansion! Our Murder at Castle Nathria Community Compendium is live and will decide how good or bad these cards are in the eyes of the players. Come back in a few weeks to see how good our deductive reasoning is.
Murder at Castle Nathria Cinematic Trailer
Continuing the trend of Year of the Hydra trailers that don't attempt to turn into small musicals on the spot, the mystery of the 'murder most foul' takes center stage. And it even rhymes!
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Comments
I am totally surpisedby the viability of control. I haven't seen a single aggro deck that can stand up to Mage so yet.
It’s been less than two hours, hombre
I normally don't settle on a stance 2 hours into an expansion but holy crap mage is overturned
Wait until today to get my free Twitch Prime Legendary.
It's Cerathine Fleetrunner.
I hate this game sometimes...
Man, can you imagine getting an old card you don't use at all from the free Legendary? That must suck!
May Yogg bless your pack openings and lets hope YOU find out who killed Sire Denathrius
I managed to open two golden Legendaries this set. Unfortunately, one of them was The Stonewright, so you can't win them all.
Good luck to you as well :)
Yogg praised me!
And this was a standard pack!
Wow nice! My first ever double-Legendary pack was a Standard pack as well: The Rat King and Grand Magus Antonidas.
I own all the Nathria Legendaries, 'cause in my excitement I crafted the last two I needed...not even thinking that level 20 and level 50 of the Reward Track would give 'em to me for free :/ Now I have a golden and normal version of Kryxis the Voracious, and some other dupe on the horizon.