General
Site search has been rebuilt from the ground up.
Cards from all eight of our card games are searchable in one place, along with the Pokedex, the games catalogue, community threads, and sealed products.
Typos and partial names work way more reliably. "chariz" finds Charizard.
The results page uses the current site theme (oops) and shows cost, stats, rarity, and set for every game's cards, not just Hearthstone.
Results lean towards the realm you are browsing in more reliably (not perfect though).
Images in articles, guides, and card pages now hold their space while loading so text stops jumping around as a page comes in.
Many pages got noticeably faster: comment sections, listing pages, embedded cards and decks in posts for every card game, galleries, the shoutbox, and member comment pages.
Sealed product pages no longer wait on eBay and Amazon prices before showing you anything, which saves about a second.
Every page now has a proper description and share image when it shows up in search engines or gets shared on Discord and social media. Page titles no longer repeat the section name.
A stray ">" marker no longer shows up beside every comment on the site-wide comments page.
New Today's Challenges that are always open, during events and between them.
Say Something: your first comment of the day anywhere on the site pays 5 Gold.
Join the Conversation: your first reply on a realm thread each day pays another 5 Gold.
Every currency in the shop now has a short guide on its page explaining how to earn it and what it is for.
Blurred background art on card, deck, product, and article pages now fades smoothly into the page instead of ending in a hard line.
Notifications & Email
There is a "send a test notification" button on the Registered Devices tab in Account Management so you can check a device actually receives push notifications.
If you have push enabled in several browsers, you now get notifications in all of them instead of just the first one.
The daily newsletter is now built and sent by our new email system.
The deck section is now "Trending Hearthstone Decks" and shows each deck's class crest.
Card reveals show two per row, or one per row on phones.
Guides can now be featured in emails, not just articles.
No newsletter goes out on a day with nothing new to report.
Email preferences now do what they say.
Saving the page without changing anything no longer re-subscribes you after opting out of everything.
If you hit "Stop all email" you can switch email back on again.
Newsletter unsubscribe links unsubscribe you from the newsletter itself.
Addresses that bounce or report us as spam stop receiving email automatically.
Oozefest
Oozefest 2026 is live for the whole month of October!
Two new currencies (Ectoplasm and Ooze), new October gathering items (Spider Silk and Mythril), three Halloween fish, eight camp defense meters, a 50 level pass, 62 daily and 6 seasonal challenges, The Ooze Emporium, and an avatar border.
Trick-or-treating: knock on member profiles, realms, and articles published during the event for treats, tricks, pranks, and Sugar Rush. The old trick-or-treat achievements were replaced by new Oozefest ones.
Community bosses: everyone attacks one shared boss with live HP. You get three attacks a day (four for Premium), loot on every hit, and a storyline across five bosses. This is just the beginning!!
Bosses hit back. Your character loses HP on each attack and recovers over time, with an HP bar on the boss page.
Eight new Oozefest achievement types covering trick-or-treating, boss fights, crafting, shop listings, and candy donations.
Oozefest fixes since launch:
The Ooze Pouch no longer hands out Ectoplasm.
Ore that does not fit in your bag no longer turns into candy, and rewards no longer vanish when your bag is full.
Boss kill rewards can no longer pay out twice, and a refused attack no longer blanks the boss page.
"Sell from your shop" challenges now credit the seller... oops.
The homepage shows the boss you can fight, with its live health bar, how long is left, and how many people have joined in. Hits from other players pop up over the boss as they happen.
A Combat Log on the boss page shows every swing as it happens, with crits, Sugar Rush, the camp bonus, the boss biting back, loot, and kills.
Trick-or-treat buckets got an overhaul.
Every member's bucket now holds real candy. Each treat a visitor gets comes out of your bucket, and an empty bucket means everyone who knocks gets tricked.
Buckets under 10 candy get 5 more every night at midnight.
You can buy a Bucket of Candy in The Ooze Emporium to top yours up, up to 12 candy a day.
Hitting a boss can drop candy straight into your own bucket.
Your own bucket now shows on your shop page so you can see how full it is.
The Ooze Emporium has arrived in the Shop.
Oozefest Watcher, an animated avatar border with dripping ooze, popping bubbles, and an eyeball that blinks back at people visiting your profile. 100 Platinum.
The pass reward at level 15 is the Oozefest Night profile header, made from the pumpkin patch art.
Throwing Ooze at someone actually shows green ooze flying across a spooky moonlit pumpkin patch now. It used to show the water balloon from Reelfest before we ninja fixed it before going live.
Sidequest
Sidequest got a huge update of its own, with profession trainers, a new crafting interface, Woodworking, and more. Check out the full Sidequest update in the Sidequest realm.
Shops & Marketplace
Every member now has a personal shop with listing slots, decorations, themes, and critters. Sell in any currency, barter, or run free daily giveaways.
A new Shop tab on member profiles shows your shop to everyone.
The Marketplace is now a search page with filters, and each result links into the seller's shop. "My Listings" moved to your shop page.
The site shop sells shelf upgrades, a Cozy Cabin theme, shelf decorations, and critters.
Shop prices are now "price each". Buyers pick a quantity and see a running total, and sellers see what they receive after the fee.
Previously a whole stack could sell for one unit's price. The affected sellers have been credited and notified.
Shop owners can take back part of a stack without removing the whole listing, and a decoration on a shelf can no longer be lost when removing it.
Every purchase now counts towards the shop sales achievement.
News & Guides
The news page has been rebuilt.
A featured band shows the newest article plus the two most-read articles of the week.
The same design covers Opinion, Reviews, and every realm's news list.
Realm guide listings have been rebuilt too. Full readable titles instead of pixel titles cut off at two lines, category chips with counts, title search, and a featured band.
New Steam games widget for articles and guides. It shows the game's art, a live Steam price with any discount, a link to the game on Steam, and a link to our review when we have one. We should get to see this in play today when the steam sale starts.
Realms
The realms page has been rebuilt as a shelf of realm tiles with art, instant search, and pagination.
Members get "Your realms" and "More realms" tabs, and searching shows both together.
Join or leave a realm straight from the page now. Logged-out visitors get a prompt to sign in and follow realms.
Tiles are denser on big screens so a 4K display is no longer a wall of giant cards.
Realm navigation now sits inside the realm header instead of a separate bar below it.
The tab for the section you are in is highlighted.
On phones the tabs are a scrollable strip instead of a "Menu" button.
More of the banner art shows through.
Realms without their own navigation (most of them) now get Discussion, News, Guides, and Game tabs.
The realm page sidebar has been redesigned.
A card with the realm's art, game links, about text, and member, thread, and guide stats.
A guides card that switches between Most Read and Newest.
The daily challenge and recent activities now actually show up there.
Realm hubs load faster.
Games
Games on the games page that had a blank grey tile now have cover art, and any game still missing art gets a placeholder instead of nothing.
Games now show up in site search.
Hearthstone
The deck widget on the Hearthstone realm now defaults to Hot this week without requiring a guide, so it is no longer empty most weeks. It also has a Build a Deck button.
Adventure boss and hero listings work again and only list their own adventure, grouped by chapter.
Faster pages: cards, decks, deck listings, Tavern Brawl, expansions, Mercenaries, parties, bounties, card galleries by day, deck card history, and patch balance changes.
Tavern Brawl link previews no longer show literal template text, and Mercenaries pages got proper share titles.
You can no longer create two top-level deckbuilder folders with the same name.
Marvel Snap
The card database is back. It went from 265 cards to 779 and now includes series, pool, and season pass info. Please note we're still working on card images in some cases.
New deck database pages: Hot Decks ranked by how often decks are being shared, archetype pages, and an Infinite leaderboard with the month's player count and the top 100.
Deck codes work in every format including the game's short code. Copying a deck gives you the short code the game uses, and the deckbuilder imports all of them.
Card and deck pages got better share descriptions and the deck listing loads faster.
Whiteout Survival
Gift code announcements on Discord now link to the real redeemer page.
Redemptions are recorded correctly when the same player and code show up twice.
Kingshot & Lordrush
Gift Code Redeemers are now live for Kingshot and Lordrush, built on the same system as Whiteout Survival.
Link your Player IDs and we redeem new gift codes for you automatically.
Submit codes you find and see site-wide stats.
Accounts that have not logged into the game for a week are marked inactive so we stop trying.
Both realms have navigation for the Code Redeemer, Guides, and News.
Legends of Runeterra
The card database is back up to date with the missing cards from sets 7, 7b, 8, and 9 and the Darkin Saga, and it now checks for updates hourly... not that Riot updates them much at all anymore
Card pages, keyword pages, and deck listings load faster. Cards no longer show a "None" rarity.
Pokemon
Cards now import nightly with images so new sets fill in fully. Perfect Order and 30th Celebration were sitting mostly empty before - oversight and a half.
The Pokedex has its own search category and partial name search works.
Other Games
Magic card embeds in posts load faster and the nightly card import is running again.
Mythgard set pages load faster and cards got better share descriptions.
Path of Exile 2 gem, item, and modifier pages now have share descriptions.
Yu-Gi-Oh card images in posts load faster.
Palworld TCG deck codes load faster and card imports work again.
Bug Fixes
Password reset, email confirmation, and first-time social sign-up pages work again. They were showing an error.
Pages still on the old theme work again: Mercenaries, member collections, events, tavern brawls, and fan creations. Some of these we don't really link anymore though just for the record.
A guide for a game with no realm no longer breaks the homepage or the guide page. Hilarious bug.
Game news feeds work again for games that were imported twice.
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