There is a lot more information now than was available when these cards leaked. Here are some articles you should check out!
- Showcase Stream 2020 Recap
- Card Rarity Drop Protection Extends Past Legendaries
- Ranked Play Changes Coming to Hearthstone in April
- 5 Cards are Moving to the Hall of Fame Including Leeroy Jenkins
- Cinematics for Ashes of Outland & Demon Hunter
- Demon Hunters Will Receive Classic Cards Eventually
- Everything You Need to Know About the Demon Hunter Initiate Set
The first Hearthstone expansion of 2020 is Ashes of Outland! You can learn more about the expansion, including seeing all the revealed cards, in our dedicated Ashes of Outland Expansion Guide!
Polygon has leaked the new expansion! Wow, what idiots!! The article that was leaked has since been removed.
Here is everything we know so far about Ashes of Outland. (Polygon referred to the expansion as Ashes of Outlands which makes no sense since its Outland and not Outlands)
- The expansion launches April 7.
- Demon Hunter is a new class and we've got 20 cards to showcase.
- Priests are getting an overhaul.
- Outcast, the new Demon Hunter Keyword gives the card a bonus if it is cast while being the right-most or left-most card in your hand.
New Legendary Card - Kael'thas Sunstrider
Quote From Polygon The first piece of Ashes of Outlands will drop on Tuesday, March 17. Players can log in and receive the Legendary card Kael’thas Sunstrider. When Kael’thas is on the board, the third spell cast every turn is free.
New Class: Demon Hunter
Hearthstone is getting a new class - The Demon Hunter! Illidan Stormrage is finally getting his time in the spotlight.
- Hero Power: Demon Claws, a 1-Mana ability that grants 1 Attack
Quote From Chadd Nervig [Demon Hunters] don’t have much in the way of card generation, but you can run them out of resources,” says Chadd Nervig, game designer on Hearthstone. “They have card draw, but not generation, so you can fatigue them. They’re susceptible to hard removal. They also just don’t have much in the way of hard removal themselves; if they want to clear a big minion of yours, they have to use their face to do it. They don’t have any assassinate or polymorph cards.
Demon Hunter Cards
These are all the cards revealed so far for the Demon Hunter class.
Basic Demon Hunter Cards
Ashes of Outland Demon Hunter Cards
Demon Hunter Tokens
Priest Overhaul
Priests are getting an overhaul!
Quote From Chadd Nervig There were aspects of their basic and classic sets that we weren’t planning to support, so they were sort of misleading Priests and taking up space, Things like Prophet Velen, which is an iconic Legendary for Priests, sounded really cool … but really was only used for [one-turn kill strategies], which we weren’t planning to support. These cards are now in the Hall of Fame, and can be used in the game’s Wild mode.
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Blah-blah-blah-blah, buddy. Do you have to say anything on point of stated HS issues? Or you're a kind of money-to-the-monitor-thrower-bli$$ard-fanboy?
You act like this leak shows everything the update has to offer, this is just a part of the announcement tommorow
Less than a day people. Can't wait for that announcement.
And if the information about the priest in this article is true - then I guess divine spirit is going to get the HoF hammer for sure.
Monks are crying.
Cries in DK as well
I hope this is fake, because:
1. A new class doesn`t make sense for me, because it will be only playable in Standard and will be useless for Wild, which would be really dumb imo. "New classes" should imo only be like the old death knights heroes.
2. The buffs to priest are looking waaaay too strong imo. Especially the 4 mana boardclear is absolutely nuts!
I hope, this is an out of season april joke... otherwise this will be the worst news for HS in its history so far. :(
The Priest boardclear is actually somewhat weak.
Like sure, a 4-mana Nether sounds crazy....except cheap boardclears should usually matter early game...which this doesn't. It's a dead card against most aggro or zoo decks because they rarely play anything above 4-attack outside of the rare sea giant or Edwin....at which point it's just an overpriced SW:D
Where it shines is in the late to mid game where it acts as a cheap removal that allows you to either build a board afterwards, or keep your own if it's small enough.
I'M also pretty sure they have some sort of plan for Demon Hunters that makes them not totally useless. If you really break it down, only a small fraction of class cards is actually useful overall...if they just don't print obvious garbage for Demon Hunter they'll be just as viable as any other class...only seemingly less diverse.
It's not fake it's just a failed embargo..
1. Playable in wild since there are tonnes of neutral options to use in the class
2.Nah it's not too crazy the 4 mana spell is the secondary effect of the priest deathknight which proved to be ok in balance, sure it costs 4 less but you can play around it, and most minions don't have more than 3 attack.
I think those are good news.. Priest is in a bad state constantly only really played when a broken combo comes around.. the new/reworked cards barely are playable in ress priest so they open up the class for being a better control class.. and they solidified the class in being able to remove 5 or more attack minions easily with the rework as well as having a lot of health buffs to abuse the hero power, the 2 mana 2/3 is amazing and is something priest was looking for forever a good 2 drop but with northshire and inner fire in the game such card would be busted..
@DoubleSummon: I think reworking the Priest class is a good thing. Don`t get me wrong. What I don`t like is to push the "passive control part" of priest even further. When Reno Priest was T1 it most of the time felt for me, that the Priest just "played for his own" and I had nearly no ways to interact with him, because 90% of what he did was remove my minions without playing something to interact with. I always hated this "full passive control style".
And I am not a totally control hater! I got Legend with Reno-Mage last month in Wild. I only hate the passive removal heavy control decks and this playstyle seems to get pushed at most by the update. I whould have loved a stronger focus on a more midrangy Priest identity like in Dragon Priest. To focus Priest more on a "dragon core identity" whould be much more healthier imo than pushing the passive control identity even more. :(
I see a lot of tempo tools here there are 7 cards that interact with hp here (buffs,heals) to solidify the priest hero power.
we got a Kabal Talonpriest here (the 2 mana 2/3 +2 hp) which is huge, now that the set is revamped we can get new cards that further buff the attack of minions now hat innerfire is out.. or more hp buffs, priest minions can afford to be more sticky.
I think that priest will now get better tools to fight for tempo cause now they can't burst you from 30 as long as there is a 5 hp minion on board..
I believe Demon Hunter is for this expansion only. You can play Huňter cards with Demon hunter but cannot play Demon Hunter cards with Hunter. No hunter in this expansion.
beware - speculation only.
Well, the best part is we don't have to wait very long for the official confirmation. Reminder that they're livestreaming tomorrow! (At 3 PM UTC, pretty sure). If this is legit, I'm pretty excited, but I still need to see how they're gonna improve the F2P experience.
Holy maccarony!
i hate this to be a leak though! I would have loved to watch a 2h anouncment stream or at least some professional teasing
This almost sounds like an April Fool's joke...or one of those fake reddit leaks that just tell people what they wish would happen.
Good on them though, revamping Priest was more than necessary.
Also, with a new class coming I DEMAND AT LEAST TWO MORE DECKSLOTS OR CONFUSION WILL GET THE BEST OF ME!
I dunno man, this is far too elaborate to be fake. All of that art is brand new, I doubt someone would go out of their way to produce that many pieces in the correct art style just for a fake. Plus, this was posted on Polygon, who as far as I'm aware aren't one to spread hoaxes.
I didn't actually think it was fake, it just seemed almost comical how it's exactly what people have been speculating for years.
Old memes never die huh?
I think the UI will be heavely revamped the game currently has a lot of visual elements for 9 classes but now we will have 10..
depends on how DH will be handled.
HS has been known to cut corners in that department. I wouldn't be surprised if they just pulled a Whizbang for the time being, where building a deck with a specific card (i. e.: Illidan) will open up a Demon Hunter tab.
I am so glad that I save my classics pack that I get from the brawls all year to open them at the start of the new year because I have 71 classic packs just waiting to be opened to get these new cards!!!!!!!
I'm looking forward to knowing whether this overhaul will result in the disappearance of cards like Circle of Healing, Northshire Priest, Mind Control, Divine Spirit & Inner Fire, Silence, Lightspawn, Lightwell, Auchenai Soulpriest, Mass Dispel, Shadowform, Mindgames and Cabal Shadow Priest...
After all only five new cards have been revealed and I guess some of these fourteen cards are definitely on the chopping block.
I do look forward to the buffs to Holy Nova, Holy Smite, Shadow Madness, Shadow Word: Death and Thoughtsteal (also kinda Temple Enforcer; it seems more playable now despite losing one attack). Also most of the new cards also seem fun and even Natalie Seline seems useful as hard removal which can even hit elusive target.