Hearthstone Duels Receives a Card Ban and Updates to Hero Powers and a Trove of Treasures

This article previously incorrectly stated Card Back in the title instead of Card Ban. Apologies for the confusion.

Duels is receiving a major update in today's patch! We've got a load of updates to treasures and some hero powers are receiving balance changes too. Read on for all the details.

Patch 25.2.2

• Standard Changes
• Duels Changes
• Battlegrounds Changes

Quote From Blizzard

Card Pool Update

• To the Front! has been banned from deck building and card buckets.

Hero Power Updates

• Scourging (Death Knight):
  • Old: [2 Mana]
  • New: [1 Mana]

• Illidari Strike (Demon Hunter)
  • Old: [2 Mana]
  • New: [1 Mana]

• Harvest Time! (Druid)
  • Old: [2 Mana]
  • New: [3 Mana]

• Frost Shards (Mage)
  • Old: [2 Mana]
  • New: [1 Mana]

• Call of Madness (Priest)
  • Old: [2 Mana]
  • New: [1 Mana]

Passive Treasure Update

• Bitter Cold
  • Old: +2 Frost Damage
  • New: +1 Frost Damage

Signature Treasure Updates

• Glaciaxe
  • Old: [4 Mana] 5 Attack, 2 Durability
  • New: [4 Mana] 3 Attack, 2 Durability

• Wings of Glaciaxe (generated by Glaciaxe)
  • Old: [4 Mana] 2 Attack, 5 Durability. Windfury, Deathrattle: Summon four 1/1 Zombies with Reborn.
  • New: [4 Mana] 2 Attack, 3 Durability. Windfury, Deathrattle: Summon three 1/1 Zombies with Reborn.

• Crimson
  • Old: 1 Attack, 1 Health
  • New: 2 Attack, 2 Health

• Blade of Quickening
  • Old: [5 Mana]
  • New: [4 Mana]

• Academic Research
  • Old: [3 Mana]
  • New: [2 Mana]

• Herding Horn
  • Old: [4 Mana]
  • New: [3 Mana]

• Ol’ Faithful
  • Old: [5 Mana]
  • New: [4 Mana]

• Flo Slatebrand
  • Old: [6 Mana]
  • New: [5 Mana]

• Slate’s Syringe
  • Old: [3 Mana]
  • New: [2 Mana]

• Reno’s Torch
  • Old: Deal 4 damage. Combo: Shuffle a copy of this card into your deck that deals 2 more damage.
  • New: Deal 4 damage. Combo: Shuffle a copy of this card into your deck that deals 1 more damage.

• Britz Blazebucket
  • Old: [2 Mana]
  • New: [3 Mana]

• Karl the Lost
  • Old: [8 Mana]
  • New: [10 Mana]

• Forge in Light
  • Old: [6 Mana]
  • New: [7 Mana]

• Devout Blessings
  • Old: [4 Mana]
  • New: [5 Mana]

• Herald of the Scaled Ones
  • Old: [5 Mana] 4 Attack, 6 Health
  • New: [4 Mana] 4 Attack, 5 Health

• Droplet of Insanity
  • Old: [4 Mana]
  • New: [3 Mana]

• Scion of the Deep
  • Old: [2 Mana] 2 Attack, 4 Health
  • New: [1 Mana] 1 Attack, 3 Health

• Sr. Navigator
  • Old: [5 Mana] 2 Attack, 10 Health
  • New: [4 Mana] 2 Attack, 6 Health

• Staff of Renewal
  • Old: 10 Mana
  • New: 8 Mana

• Green Shell
  • Old: [2 Mana] 1 Attack, 2 Durability
  • New: [3 Mana] 1 Attack, 3 Durability

• Spymaster’s Gambit
  • Old: [7 Mana]
  • New: [8 Mana]

• Invoke the Void
  • Old: [7 Mana]
  • New: [6 Mana]

• Grizzled Reinforcement
  • Old: [5 Mana]
  • New: [4 Mana]

• Collector’s Ire
  • Old: [5 Mana]
  • New: [4 Mana]

• Brewster, the Brutal
  • Old: [7 Mana] 8 Attack, 6 Health
  • New: [6 Mana] 7 Attack, 5 Health