Last year we saw the first-ever bundle that contributed to Hearthstone Esports and a new one has arrived, though no hero this time around.
- The new bundle is the Dragon Masters Bundle. It costs $20 USD.
- You'll get 1 random Descent of Dragons Legendary & 25 Year of the Dragon Packs.
- Year of Dragon packs can contain cards from any Year of the Dragon set - Rise of Shadows, Saviors of Uldum, and Descent of Dragons.
- 50% of proceeds from the bundle help fund the 2020 Masters tour events. (Caps out at 1.5 Million USD)
- The bundle offer is only available until February 11.
Seeing as how this a completely new type of pack, cool trivia time!
- This is the first time multiple expansions have been combined into a card pack.
- The pity timer does appear to give you a legendary within your first 10 packs.
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Official Announcement
Quote From Blizzard Prize Pool Crowdfunding – Dragon Masters Bundle
The 2020 Hearthstone Masters crowdfunding bundle has arrived! For just $19.99 you can purchase the Dragon Masters Bundle and receive 25 Year of the Dragon card packs and a random Descent of Dragons Legendary.
But that’s not all: 50% of the proceeds from the Dragon Masters Bundle will directly boost the prize pool at all six 2020 Hearthstone Masters Tour events, up to a maximum of $1,500,000 boost in prizing for the whole year. The additional prizing will be divided between the six tournaments in accordance with the tournament rules, including this weekend’s Masters Tour Arlington.
The Dragon Masters Bundle is available now for a limited time. It is giftable through the Blizzard Shop on the Blizzard App and online here! With the Dragon Masters Bundle you can add to your friend’s collection or get a new player started while supporting Hearthstone esports in the process.
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I'm trying to wrap my head around this, does Blizzard not have enough money to fund it's own e-sports? That cannot be it. And if what was mentioned is true, that this has a cap (if they sell more than X packages, everything after that does NOT go to the prize pool) and half of it goes to Blizzard regardless, this is just a shameless move to make money that has little to do with e-sports. They are throwing in the e-sports prize thing just as an excuse.
so they offer a bunch of different bundles throughout the year and all of the money from those goes straight to blizzard
you think that now more people are actually gonna buy the bundles? I don't think so, it's going to be usual spenders, maybe 1-3% more people decide to buy it for the fact that some of that money will go to the players
so looking at it like that, it seems like a cool move from blizz side
also if the cap is not hit, we'll know exactly how many bundles were sold ;)
Well, actually many companies do that. Those bonus money are usually on top of the preestablished money pool.
It's just the way that people can show their support to the event and teams, that are there.
Meh
Only 50% of proceeds will go towards the 2020 Masters tour and it caps out. No surprises here, Blizzard's just looking for another burst of cash behind a thin veil of charity.
well, if they didnt do that and just offered the bundle the same amount of people would probably buy it, so they'd actually earn more money on it, but now they are giving half of the money they earn to contestants
stop looking for any reason to hate blizz and look at the positives sometimes
Sorry I'm not a fan of kissing a company's ass
I just disenchanted my Golden Shu'ma yesterday and Golden Nithogg two weeks ago because I decided not to buy any more DoD packs.
I'm tempted but there's a good chance for those two to show up now.
Unrelated question.. is celeste going to come out tomorrow in another bundle?
Most likely not. Blizzard is not expecting another patch for a month or two (they included Jan and Feb cardback in the recent one) and Celeste is not in the patch
Regardless of what's in them, the card pack design itself is pretty cool.
Nozdormu the Timeless was my freebie, opened Waxadred, Chenvaala, and Nithogg.
From the Year of the Dragon legendary cards I'm only missing Elise the Enlightened and Ysera, Unleashed now.
I'm a little torn over this arrangement, mostly because it also gives you cards from the rotating expansions.
Had it not been for the guaranteed 2 legendaries, I wouldn't have bothered. Still, its good value for money.
Eh, it gives you cards from the Year of the Dragon, while it is the Year of the Raven (Witchwood, Boomsday, Rastakhan) that will be rotating out next.
Could have sworn I saw a boomsday card somewhere. Maybe I've been unpacking a little too fast. Oh well, thanks.
In the example image I saw Vicious Scraphound which I would have sworn was a Boomsday card, but it's apparently Rise of Shadows. I think a few other mechs like Ursatron and Clockwork Goblin are from Shadows as well, but I constantly assume they were BDP.
yeah, I guess I made the same mistake.
I really liked these packs, opened Hagatha and Mindflayer. Hopefully we'll get to see more joint expansion packs like these again!
What I was expecting: Valdris Felgorge, Veranus or Sir Finley of the Sands
What I really got: Shu'ma and Octosari
Feels bad...
I'll bet Shu are Sari you bought that bundle now, huh?
I'll see myself out.