Very informative thread.

A new Legendary Neutral Minion, Zayle, Shadow Cloak, has been revealed!

Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!

Learn more about Rise of Shadows

Head on over to our dedicated guide for Rise of Shadows!

I was wandering if entering hearthpwn community for some months, but I never did it because I dislike curse for some old Minecraft experience.

Now I did it! :)

I'm Synesthesy from Italy, I'm a coder and I'm a huge fan of trading/collective card game, and I'm trying to create my own. In my free time, I like to play wild hearthstone with some stupid fan homemade deck.

Hope to enjoy this community!

^

I for one absolutely love Dragon Consort, it's just so sexy and let's not forget it allowing me to summon other sexy dragons even faster? OOhh gotta get me a freak like that.

Ysera would have to be the runner up, she'd be even better if she'd survive longer than 1 turn.

Title Card by Vilegloom

Introduction

There are artifacts in this world that hold great power. The power to bend the will of all who stand before its wielder. The power to harness the arcane energy that courses through the veins of this world. The power to turn its user into a beast that can cut down any foe. Should these weapons fall into the wrong hands, Azeroth would fall into chaos. The Earthen Ring has taken it upon themselves to protect the world from the most destructive weapons on Azeroth, storing them away in the deep recesses of Deepholm. But evildoers desire to take these weapons and use them for their own diabolical plans. Can you help this organization preserve the safety of this world?

Themes and Mechanics

The expansion's unique keyword is called Crystallize. When a character is Crystallized, it means it's encased in a Crystallize that protects it from everything, prevents it from being targeted, and takes away its ability to attack. When the controller's next turn ends, the character that has been Crystallized will be destroyed.

Deepholm is coursing at the seams with magical energies, which many seek to harness to strengthen themselves. Several cards this expansion benefit from Spell Damage in unorthodox ways!

The Crystalarium was made to hold dangerous and powerful artifacts, so that evil people can't use them to wreak havoc upon Azeroth. All these weapons must be attacked with in order to get their full power out.

Cards (All Done!!!)

Neutral Commons (Finished!)

Latest: Rock Collector, Shalehide Basilisk, Voidstone Nabber, Earthmender (+Earthen Ring Elemental), Resonance Tuner

Changed:
Charming Quartermaster - Only triggers from minions, instead of all cards.

Neutral Rares (Finished!)

Newest: Glacial Guardian, Earthen Groundtender, Earthshrine Trainer, Ore Golem

Changed: N/A

Neutral Epics (Finished!)

Newest: N/A

(Tokens for Prismatic Servant can be found in their respective class sections)

Neutral Legendaries (Finished!)

Newest: Pebble, High Priestess Azil, Terrastra

Changed: N/A 

Druid (Finished!)

Newest: Grove Guardian, Cinderbloom Alchemist, Emerald Jabberer, Lunar Weave, Keeper Corvus, Fangs of Ashamane

Changed: N/A

Hunter (Finished!)

Newest: Naga Huntress, Wild Bearyl, Crystalarium Tamer, Pet Fathom Eel, Stwarf, the Mole, Titanstrike

Changed: Brutal Banshee - Stats to 7/6, Changed text and effect, Changed rarity from Rare to Epic

Mage (Finished!)

Newest: Reorigination, Cryolem

Changed:
Shimmerslash - Casts a copy of the spell, instead of the spell itself.

Paladin (Finished!)

Newest: Stalagspike, Bronze Banneret, Divine Interceptor, Recruiter of Light, Hammer of Khaz'gorath

Changed: N/A

Priest (Finished!)

Newest: Whelp Healer, Harbinger of the End, Dragonheart Essence, Aeosera

Changed: N/A

Rogue (Finished!)

Newest: Klling Spree, Adrenaline Rush, Xal'atath

Changed: N/A

Shaman (Finished!)

Newest: Commune, Inferiorize, Glacial Hound, Stonemother's Fury

Changed: N/A

Warlock (Finished!)

Newest: Seething Elemental, Hollow Earth, Corrode Blood

Changed: N/A

Warrior (Finished!)

Newest: Tremor, EZ-Blaster, Molten Colossus, The Rubble Rouser

Changed: N/A

F.A.Q. (Even tho no one actually asked)

Q: What year is this a part of?
A: It's part of the fictional Year of the Viper, which it shares with Azeroth's Most Wanted, the expansion that came before it. Just pretend that Year of the Viper happens alongside Year of the Dragon.

Q: What sets influence The Crystalarium's balance?
A: Currently, Azeroth's Most Wanted and all the cards that are currently in the standard cycle.

Q: What are the full plans for this set?
A: Voice acting for the cards, more lore, perhaps a logo for the expansion (and the previous one), stuff like that. If you wanna help, feel free to shoot me a DM if you wanna help!

The Eclectic and Eminent Dev Team

Dezitronix     -     Lead Designer and Project Lead
Cyclick     -     Balancer Dude, Senior Designer
Daffythscoot     -     Senior Designer
Spindan     -     Senior Designer
steli2     -     Designer
DragonGenetics     -     Designer (Former)
Mega-Pixel     -     Art Editor
Gnawgore     -     Balancer Dude

Other Expansions

(Viper Set 1) Azeroth's Most Wanted

Cards We're Nerfing Because We Hate Them

This card breaks our national treasure, Nexus-Prince Zakat from Azeroth's Most Wanted. That card replaced your Hero Power with one that worked similarly to the Coin. We love that card way more than we like Coldarra Drake, so we're taking our frustration out on Coldarra Drake. Especially since Coldarra Drake sucks and doesn't see any play, and thus basically only exists to ruin our cool ideas. So Coldarra Drake got nerfed.

Hello everyone!

I heard the terrible news about hearthpwn closing and heard some users say they were gonna come here.

Hope this will be a great experience to everyone.

Cheers !

Title.

For me, it's been fairly great! I mean, the grind is a hassle and some matchups get really annoying and tedious, but I am managing to climb really well. 

I took a really long break from HS and it's pretty fun getting back into it for the last couple months.

Anyway enough rambling, are you guys enjoying this season - and also, where do you rank currently in ladder? :)

Thief Rogue, with the bomb package for fun. I plan on reworking the deck with a more bomb/mech oriented package when the RoS Buffs happen.

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Can we get these threads replicated from Hearthpwn? They were definitely very useful.

What is your opinions on the new buffs and the new legendary?  

Next Arena rotation will happen in less than a week. On June 3rd to be exact!

(source)

New drafting pool will contain these sets:

• Basic
• Classic
• Goblins vs. Gnomes
• The Grand Tournament
• Karazhan
• The Boomsday Project
• Rise of Shadows

Free Arena Ticket for Unfinished Run

Since the old sets are rotating, the "old" decks should get retired which means we should get an arena ticket for our unfinished run.

Now keep in mind, this is the first time such rotation happens, so we dont know exactly if the old decks will get retired for sure and/or if we get the Arena Ticket for unfinished run. Logic dictates that it should be yes on both accounts, but until next week, we cannot be 100% sure, so keep that in mind!

Side note: even tho the rotation happens in the middle of the season and many of you might not need/want more ROS packs, it is still cheaper dust per gold value than if you bought packs in a shop for 100g, so id recommend doing it either way.

/edit: Blizzard confirmed that we will be getting a Free Arena Ticket for unfinished run this time around. There could be like 1% chance it is cause of the bug with the countdown, so still not 100% it will happen next time around, but we will have to see :) Go start your runs ppl!

In terms of the art, audio, and animations of the card and not the power level. What cards stand out the most to you for whatever reason?

Catrina Muerte has a great intro and i enjoy when it's played on either side of the board. I made sure to get a gold copy of this because i love to play rez priest and resurrecting golden minions is awesome.

Convincing Infiltrator is another one i like the flavour of. The voice line and art is just amusing every time.

Underbelly Fence is my favourite of the rogue cards. The voice line is really good, although i am still unsure exactly what underbelly fence means.

Finally Archmage Vargoth is such a cool card. The art is bright and exciting and i never got tired of hearing 'free of that blasted tower!' repeatedly after he summons copies of himself.

We've got about a week before several cards from Boomsday are getting buffs. What do you all figure will be the biggest changes in the meta? Personally i'm really interested to see what can be done with Extra Arms in Priest. That will be a very flexible card to enable healing synergy and resilient boards. A 1 cost [Hearthstone Card (pogo hopper) Not Found] sounds ridiculous though.

Besides that, how do you feel about this happening and about the fact that the meta is changing again in a potentially significant way?

The Buffs

Druid

• Gloop Sprayer to (7) Mana. (Down from 8)
• Mulchmuncher to (9) Mana. (Down from 10)

Hunter

• Necromechanic to (4) Mana. (Down from 5)
• Flark's Boom-Zooka to (7) Mana. (Down from 8)

Mage

• Unexpected Results to (3) Mana. (Down from 4)
• Luna's Pocket Galaxy to (5) Mana. (Down from 7)

Paladin

• Crystology to (1) Mana. (Down from 2)
• Glowstone Technician to (5) Mana. (Down from 6)

Priest

• Extra Arms to (2) Mana. (Down from 3)
• Cloning Device to (1) Mana. (Down from 2)

Rogue

• Pogo-Hopper to (1) Mana. (Down from 2)
• Violet Haze to (2) Mana. (Down from 3)

Shaman

• The Storm Bringer to (6) Mana. (Down from 7)
• Thunderhead to 3/6 (Up from 3/5)

Warlock

• Spirit Bomb to (1) Mana. (Down from 2)
• Dr. Morrigan to (6) Mana. (Down from 8)

Warrior

• Security Rover to 2/6 stats. (Up from 2/5)
• Beryllium Nullifier to 4/8 stats. (Up from 3/8)

So far expansion has been fun as hell. Conjurer's Calling has been game busting so far. Turn 5 Khadgar into a Mountain Giant for a board of 4 7/8's with taunt has been so satisfying.

How's everyone spending their last few games before RoS is live, if you are playing at all? I've been having fun with OTK priest thanks to the early legendary and it's pretty fun to set up a board of archmages to cast a barrage of Mind Blasts. IveI got the list i am using, and an idea of how i may attempt to play it in the new standard year.

Vargoth Pre Launch OTK

Wild · OTK Priest · by Chimera · 7 years ago

• 1 Holy Smite x 1
• 1 Power Word: Shield x 1
• 2 Divine Hymn x 1
• 2 Mind Blast x 2
• 2 Shadow Visions x 2
• 2 Shadow Word: Death x 2
• 2 Shadow Word: Pain x 2
• 2 Spirit Lash x 2
• 3 Vivid Nightmare x 2
• 4 Archmage Vargoth x 1
• 4 Eternal Servitude x 2
• 4 Mass Dispel x 1
• 5 Power Word: Replicate x 2
• 6 Damaged Stegotron x 1
• 7 Lesser Diamond Spellstone x 2
• 7 Prophet Velen x 1
• 7 Psychic Scream x 2
• 7 Shadow Essence x 2
• 9 Malygos x 1

8,940 Dust 609 0 Copy Deck Code

Vargoth Post Launch OTK

Wild · OTK Priest · by Chimera · 7 years ago

• 0 Forbidden Words x 2
• 0 Lazul's Scheme x 2
• 1 Holy Smite x 2
• 1 Power Word: Shield x 2
• 2 Divine Hymn x 2
• 2 Mind Blast x 2
• 2 Shadow Word: Death x 2
• 2 Shadow Word: Pain x 2
• 3 Vivid Nightmare x 2
• 4 Archmage Vargoth x 1
• 4 Mass Dispel x 1
• 5 Convincing Infiltrator x 2
• 5 Power Word: Replicate x 2
• 7 Catrina Muerte x 1
• 7 Prophet Velen x 1
• 9 Malygos x 1
• 9 Mass Resurrection x 2
• 9 Zerek's Cloning Gallery x 1

11,260 Dust 571 0 Copy Deck Code

Just wondering how everybody else's fireside pack openings have gone so far. Here it was outta 131

Kalecgos, Barista Lynchen, Archivist Elysiana, Chef Nomi, Keeper Stalladris, Scargil  

24 epics total, 21 golden cards total.

Something I completely forgot about until today: Zayle, Shadow Cloak!  I fully expected this to be part of the reveals when they started, and then after they all came out I forgot about it.  But that should also means Zayle can't be found in the packs, therefore, you won't waste a legendary pull on a regular Cloak, only to dust it later after finishing the solo content.

I know not much has been revealed on Zayle, other than it's a Whizbang-type of card that can give you one of five possible decks.  I assume these decks are going to be from the five EVIL classes, and I also assume they won't be the same deck recipes that Whizbang is giving us.  I mainly say this because if they are, what's the point?  Then we're just playing Zayle over Whizbang because you specifically want to play one of those five classes and not the other four.  Yes, Whizbang would change over time where Zayle may not, so using the new RoS deck recipes could be fine, but again it seems redundant.

Anyway, interested to hear your thoughts on what the Zayle decks could be like.  It would be crazy if they were themed more after the final bosses in the solo mission wings, but that could be too OP!  Feel like if that was the case they'd have to be toned down just a bit to be fair.

https://imgur.com/eKZ30Ie

Granted I don't put much stock in this competitively bc this was in casual and the guy was just trying to finish a play mage cards quest or something. Regardless it was fun to get the hoppers this high! 

Now with the rotation, which cards will you truly miss? In other words, which are you favourite cards rotating out?

I will surely miss Lich King, Zola and Jaina