The Hearthstone 6th Birthday Celebration has Begun! Login for the Year of the Dragon Card Back, Free Packs, and Great Quests

Published 6 years, 1 month ago by (Updated 6 years, 1 month ago)

Happy Birthday, Hearthstone! Although it may not really level up to 6 until March 11, we've got some serious festivities you won't want to miss!

Celebrating Out of Cards Style - Derpcorn Has Presents!

Our cuddly little unicorn has presents for you. Go ahead and give Derpcorn a tickle!

* You may hug (click) on Derpcorn only for the next month to get rewards. On April 1, Derpcorn will be all out of food.

The Hearthstone's 6th Birthday Unlocks

🎂 New Forum Title 🎂

Funnel Cakes

🎂 New Profile Headers 🎂

Funnel Cakes

Hearthstone's 6th Birthday Login Rewards

Treat yo' self to 6 card packs and a celebratory card back! You have until March 17 to obtain these rewards.

  • Year of the Dragon Card Back
  • 2 Rise of Shadows Packs
  • 2 Saviors of Uldum Packs
  • 2 Descent of Dragons Packs

Datamined Birthday Legendary Quest Chain

As we originally reported on last week, here are the quests that are active during the Birthday event!

  • The Spirit of Competition (1)
    • Play 2 games in any mode.
    • Rewards 1 Descent of Dragons card pack.
  • The Spirit of Competition (2)
    • Play 20 cards in any mode.
    • Rewards 1 Rise of Shadows Pack & 1 Saviors of Uldum Pack
  • The Spirit of Competition (3)
    • Taks 30 turns in any mode.
    • Rewards 1 Rise of Shadows Pack & 1 Saviors of Uldum Pack

These quests below were not in the official announcement blog post Hearthstone shared but were datamined as also being available. We're not sure what this means.

  • The Spirit of Competition (4)
    • Draw 30 cards in any mode.
    • Rewards 1 Rise of Shadows Pack & 1 Saviors of Uldum Pack
  • The Spirit of Competition (5)
    • Play 2 games in any mode.
    • Rewards 1 Saviors of Uldum Pack.
  • The Spirit of Competition (6)
    • Play 10 spells in any mode.
    • Rewards 1 Rise of Shadows Pack & 1 Descent of Dragons Pack

Special Tavern Brawl

Blizzard stated we were going to see some special brawls for the celebration. Today "The Burndown - Rekindled" went live. The Burndown returns and is better than ever! Take control of a random deck, if you lose you'll get a copy of your opponent's deck! How long can your deck survive THE BURNDOWN!?

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  • No 4th quest today ☹️

  • Loving all the freebies!

    As for more story lines I would love if they introduced new heros and villains instead of always using the same ones over and over. There is lots of lore to dig into and they could even invent their own characters again. 

    But it seems like it will probably be some time before we get another story arc. And thats totally fine by me! It was fun for a year.

  • I can't wait for the announcements about the next year theme, first expansion of the year and ofc the new hof additions :)

  • Dudes is it safe to re roll the quests (to get 2packs instead of the single) anyone know?

    • You cant reroll legendary quests, i mean you can reroll, but they dont work in a same fashion as when double gold or dust event is up for example, sou you cant reroll your regular quests into them, nor can you reroll to duplicate. Just do the ones you have ;-)

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    • I think you always get quest (1) for the first day, quest (2) for the second day etc.

      • I rerolled the quest and it just disapeared. Logged back in and it was back, this time unable to being rerolled. Guess you are right

        • Fanks guys xoxo (soz troY :P)

  • Funnel cake!! Get your funnel cake!

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  • What'll be in store for HS's 6th year? 

    They blew up all their cool villains! And maybe the League of Explorers as well! 

    Let's see what this year's storyline has in store for the players 

    (I'm always hoping for more Gadgetzan)

    • Quote From PLANETCRUNCH

      What'll be in store for HS's 6th year? 

      They blew up all their cool villains! And maybe the League of Explorers as well! 

      Let's see what this year's storyline has in store for the players 

      (I'm always hoping for more Gadgetzan)

      I don't think anyone actually got blown up. 

      In my mind, Hearthstone is a place to tell stories. The expansions are each just a story. This means everything that happens in HS is not canon in WoW. 

      Look at Gadgetzan for example. Gadgetzan in WoW is NOTHING like Gadgetzan in HS. The whole idea of that expansion, was imagining Gadgetzan years later, and how the city would develop. This is not canon to the WoW universe. You can still go to Gadgetzan in WoW, and it is still just a few huts and goblins, instead of a crime filled metropolis that HS made it out to be. 

      Sure HS has had it's effect on the WoW lore. Tortollans and even the League of Explorers all exist in WoW now because they were well received in HS. 

      But I think it's safe to say, that none of the characters that were "blown up" at the end are actually dead. Furthermore, the story ends with 2 different endings (Explorers and EVIL), it would be impossible to make the story canon to the WoW universe with 2 separate endings. The fact that there are 2 endings to this story, further proves that the stories told in HS are just that... stories.

      Also look at the Galakronds Awakening trailer. Rafaam and Reno are doing a puppet show trying to tell how their story ends. Would make no sense for this entire trailer to occur if everything that happened in the story was actually happening. 

      What implications does this have on Reno being a Dragon? That is up to Blizzard to decide what to do now. They could decide to make this canon, and write in Reno as a Dragon Aspect in the WoW universe. Or, they can simply ignore it and chalk it up to Reno having a big imagination and telling a fun story!

      Personally, I think HS is better if they are just stories and not canon to the WoW universe. This allows the HS team to just focus on telling a good story, instead of worrying about if it matches up with WoW lore. Trying to keep WoW lore straight has already turned into a mess for WoW, and severely limits the storytelling they are able to do in WoW now days. I say, don't let HS fall into that same trap. 

      That being said, they totally need to write in Reno as a Dragon Aspect into the WoW lore. That needs to be real and not just made up for a good story. 

      And to wrap back around to your point now that I've finished my rant... the league of EVIL and LoE could very well make a return to HS one day. They weren't actually blown up, it was just a story. And our favorite villians and heroes could easily return to tell us another story some day. 

    • Quote From PLANETCRUNCH

      What'll be in store for HS's 6th year? 

      They blew up all their cool villains! And maybe the League of Explorers as well! 

      Let's see what this year's storyline has in store for the players 

      (I'm always hoping for more Gadgetzan)

      They blew up all but raffam as for the explores idk if all of then got blown up but reno definatley on the evil side

      • Didn’t like, dr boom survive too? Could’ve sworn at least one of them survived

        • based on the fire story told by ooc

          dr boom's mech died

          lazul sacraficed herself to the old gods

          hagatha died

          eudora left

          so yeah dr boom might still be alive

           

    • I wouldn't mind some more gadgetzan either since it was when I started playing. Controversially I loved golems but never used druid so I would love a revisit to see Aya again plus the tri-class mechanic was sweet and I'm confused why they never did that again.

      • Gadgetzan was a failure of an expansion in my opinion, and I would not want to see anything Gadgetzan related or Tri-class related again. There are soooo many other towns they could do new unique expansions of before ever having to think about revisiting Gadgetzan. 

        Also, Gadgetzan meta is one of my top 3 least favorite metas of all time in HS history. MSoG Jade Druid and Pirate Warrior are two decks that I can feel the anger boiling under my skin when I think about. I came very close to quitting the game during that xpac. Ungoro saved the game from that terrible expansion.

        But I respect your opinion and desire for more Gadgetzan. That's one great thing about this game, each expansion doesn't have to cater to all players. The expansions have had enough variety in them, that just about everyone can find an expansion that has a flavor they love. Just voicing my own opinion on Gadgetzan as I assume there are others who would agree.  

      • The tri-class mechanic had the downside of making classes feel more similar than they otherwise would, and hence the meta feel less diverse.

        Jades were a good example of this: while jade rogue was all deathrattle shenanigans and a bit more unique than the other two, to the opponent they all amount to needing to deal with ever growing dudes.

        Besides, what they did over the last year with Lackeys is essentially an incarnation of the tri-class system, albeit with 5 classes.

    • They said earlier they wouldn’t be doing another storyline for awhile

      • Oh that's kinda...disappointing...

        • I mean...the need time to establish new characters, unless they want to keep recycling the same ones.

           

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