In today's Twitter Q&A with the Hearthstone team, Celestalon confirmed that the much anticipated "random/favourite hero skin" feature is arriving with Castle Nathria's patch, which should be coming out next week, ahead of the expansion launch on August 2.

It feels like since the dawn of time itself, or at least since Blizzard started adding in a million new hero skins, the community has been asking for the ability to have random hero skins assigned to their decks. The addition of the favourite hero skins functionality will come just a few months after Blizzard pushed the "favourite card back" functionality live, which we had previously datamined earlier this year.


Look at all those favourite card backs!

For those unaware, the favourite card back function allows you to favourite multiple card backs in your collection and they will appear, randomly, when you open packs and play games. Although not confirmed, we're certain the functionality will work the exact same as card backs:

  • You can assign a Hero directly to a deck.
  • If you don't assign a Hero, a random favourite Hero for that class will be picked.
  • If only one Hero is favourited for a class, that Hero will always be displayed when playing games with that class, assuming you didn't assign a specific Hero to the deck.

Overall, more ways of customizing the Hearthstone experience is a great thing to see and can really break up the monotony that is hearing the same voicelines over and over again. Now if only Blizzard would add some more Mage heroes to the game...


Quote From Celestalon

Any upcoming client features to tease?! Love some new features

Murder at Castle Nathria (24.0) will introduce Random/Favorite Hero Skins! Beyond that, the next couple months will be light on new client features.

We’re focused on some much larger features in the following couple of patches. Big things, but we’re not ready to talk about them quite yet! -Celestalon


More Hero Skins

If you want to take a look at all the Hero Skins we've seen in Hearthstone so far, and want to learn some history about how they were all obtained, we've got an excellent set of guides just for you!