Hearthstone

Patch 30.6.2 is rolling out today with the following updates:

Hearthstone Changes

Dev Comment: This round of changes is focusing on preparing for our next expansion: The Great Dark Beyond, launching on November 5 (when Prince Renathal rotates back out of Standard). As we plan for the post-launch meta, our focus is primarily on adjusting harsh play patterns like fast board floods, powerful board wipes, huge life swings, and cards that get end-game cards out too quickly.

Some of these are reversions to prior changes—our balance philosophy remains that we’ll try to make the best changes for the game in each specific patch window and not be afraid to revert changes when they don’t work out or the circumstances are no longer right for them.

Finally, in Wild, we’re changing Radiant Elemental to be consistent with Sorcerer’s Apprentice. This effect is generally very powerful, even by Wild’s standards, and this change is being made with upcoming cards in mind. With this change, we’re also unbanning Crimson Clergy to give him another shot to not get himself re-banned.

The following cards have been adjusted to be weaker:

Yogg-Saron, Unleashed

• Old: [9 Mana]
• New: [10 Mana]

Wondrous Wand (generated by Marin the Manager)

• Old: Draw 3 cards. Reduce their costs to (0).
• New: Draw 3 cards. Reduce their costs by (3).

Puppetmaster Dorian

• Old: [4 Mana]
• New: [5 Mana]

Treasure Distributor

• Old: After you summon a Pirate, give it and this minion +1 Attack.
• New: After you summon a Pirate, give it +1 Attack.

Party Fiend

• Old: [1 Mana] 1/1
• New: [2 Mana] 2/1

Crescendo

• Old: [2 Mana]
• New: [3 Mana]

Tsunami

• Old: [10 Mana] Summon four 3/6 Water Elementals that Freeze. They attack random enemies.
• New: [8 Mana] Summon three 3/6 Water Elementals that Freeze. They attack random enemies.

Razzle-Dazzler

• Old: [6 Mana]
• New: [7 Mana]

Injured Hauler

• Old: Overheal: Deal 2 damage to all enemy minions.
• New: Overheal: Deal 1 damage to all enemy minions.

Radiant Elemental

• Old: Your spells cost (1) less.
• New: Your spells cost (1) less (but not less than 1).

The above disenchantable cards, plus Heistbaron Togwaggle, will be eligible for full dust refunds for two weeks following Patch 30.6.2.

The following card has been adjusted to be stronger:

Golden Kobold (generated by Marin the Manager)

• Old: Taunt. Battlecry: Replace your hand with Legendary minions.
• New: Taunt. Battlecry: Replace your hand with Legendary minions. They cost (1) less.
• Dev Comment: We’ve seen players primarily pick Wondrous Wand off Marin the Manager. As we weaken Wand, we’re giving some help to one of the treasures that isn’t picked very frequently, so that all the choices are more interesting.

Crimson Clergy is no longer banned in Wild.

Battlegrounds Changes

Dev Comment: We hope you're enjoying the new trinkets in both Solos and Duos! Since the meta is still new, we focused our changes primarily on more notable power outliers. We'll be monitoring the game and make further adjustments as needed after The Great Dark Beyond launches.

Lesser Trinket Changes

Goose Portrait

• Old: [4 Gold] Get a ‘Silver Goose’. After you summon 5 Silver Fledglings, get a Goldenizer.
• New: [3 Gold] Get a ‘Silver Goose’. After you summon 3 Silver Fledglings, get a Lucky Egg.

Bleeding Heart

• Old: Avenge (6): Summon and get a random Undead.
• New: Avenge (7): Summon and get a random Undead.

Fishy Sticker

• Old: [0 Gold] Start of Combat: Summon a Fish of N’Zoth that copies Deathrattles.
• New: [3 Gold] Get a Fish of N’Zoth that copies Deathrattles.

Bartend-o-Tron's Oilcan

• Old: [0 Gold] At the start of your turn, reduce the Cost of upgrading the Tavern by (3).
• New: [2 Gold] Reduce the Cost of upgrading the Tavern by (3). At the start of your turn, repeat this.

Fungalmancer Sticker

• Old: [0 Gold]
• New: [3 Gold]

Yogg-Tastic Pastry

• Adjusted the average number of targets for Rod of Roasting so that it’s more consistent.

Mystery Cube

• Marine Signet has been removed from this pool.

Orc-estra Portrait (Duos)

• Old: [3 Gold]
• New: [5 Gold]

Charm of Generosity (Duos)

• Old: [4 Gold]
• New: [5 Gold]

Bottle Sticker (Duos)

• Old: [3 Gold]
• New: [4 Gold]

Investment Contract (Duos)

• Old: [4 Gold]
• New: [0 Gold]

Greater Trinket Changes

Fishy Sticker

• Removed from the Greater Trinket pool.

Shaman Prayer Beads

• Old: [Greater Trinket, 0 Gold]
• New: [Lesser Trinket, 3 Gold]

Promo Portrait

• Old: [4 Gold]
• New: [3 Gold]

Gilnean Thorned Rose

• Old: Avenge (3): Give your minions +3/+3 permanently and deal 1 damage to them.
• New: Avenge (4): Give your minions +3/+3 permanently and deal 1 damage to them.

Flagbearer Portrait

• Old: Get a ‘Sky Pirate Flagbearer’. Your Sky Pirates have +8 Attack.
• New: Get a ‘Sky Pirate Flagbearer’. Your Sky Pirates have +6 Attack.

Quilligraphy Set

• Old: [5 Gold] Avenge (4): Your Blood Gems give an extra +2/+1 this game.
• New: [2 Gold] Avenge (4): Your Blood Gems give an extra +1/+1 this game.

Primalfin Portrait

• Old: [3 Gold]
• New: [4 Gold]

Redeemer Portrait

• Old: [6 Gold]
• New: [7 Gold]

Surprise Portrait

• Reduced the odds of each outcome by a surprising amount.

Minion Changes

Papa Bear

• Old: 12/12. Deathrattle: Summon 3 Mama Bears.
• New: 8/8. Whenever you summon a Beast, give it +8/+8.

Tea Master Theotar

• Old: 6/6. After you play a minion with no type, give 3 friendly minions of different types +2/+2.
• New: 8/8. After you play a minion with no type, give 3 friendly minions of different types +4/+4.

Humming Bird

• Old: 0/4. Start of Combat: For the rest of this combat, your Beasts have +2 Attack.
• New: 1/4. Start of Combat: For the rest of this combat, your Beasts have +1 Attack.

Goldrinn, the Great Wolf

• Old: 4/4. Deathrattle: For the rest of this combat, your Beasts have +4/+4.
• New: 3/3. Deathrattle: For the rest of this combat, your Beasts have +3/+3.

Archimonde

• Old: [Tier 4] 4/5
• New: [Tier 5] 6/7

Amber Guardian

• Old: 5/5. Start of Combat: Give another friendly Dragon +5/+5 and Divine Shield.
• New: 3/3. Start of Combat: Give another friendly Dragon +3/+3 and Divine Shield.

Depraved Felfin

• Old: [Tier 5]
• New: [Tier 4]

Loc Prince

• Old: 3/2. Whenever this gains stats, add +3/+2 to that amount (wherever this is).
• New: 2/2. Divine Shield. Whenever this gains stats, add +2/+2 to that amount (wherever this is).

Slippery Slider

• Old: 4/5. Spellcraft: Refresh the Tavern with two extra Tavern spells that cost (1) less.
• New: 5/5. Spellcraft: Refresh the Tavern with an extra Tavern spell that costs (1) less.

Salty Looter

• Old: 1/1
• New: 5/5

Putrid Pupil

• Old: 1/7. After you summon 7 minions in combat, get a random Tavern spell.
• New: 2/7. After you summon 5 minions in combat, get a random Tavern spell.

Colossus of the Sun

• Old: 8/8
• New: 9/9

Mechanized Gift Horse

• Old: [Tier 4]
• New: [Tier 5]

Karmic Chameleon

• Old: [Tier 5] 5/8
• New: [Tier 4] 4/6

Other Changes

• Top Shelf (Darkmoon Prize) now Discovers a minion from a Tier higher instead of always a Tier 6 minion (but it won’t get Tier 7 minions on Tier 6 unless they are generally in the game, just like Infinite Toki’s Hero Power).
• Galakrond’s Greed (Hero Power) and Token of the Old Gods (Trinket) have had updates to no longer say “Discover.”

Patch 30.4, launching tomorrow, includes a special vacation package: The Traveling Travel Agency Mini-Set, our first-ever Mythic hero skin, and more!

Extend Your Vacation with the Traveling Travel Agency Mini-Set

The Marin’s launch has kicked off a Tourism boom in Hearthstone. Dungar and Zephrys are teaming up to make vacation dreams come true—and they run a tight ship. Get the most out of your trip with more Tourist options, informational Brochure cards, and more!

The Traveling Travel Agency Mini-Set has 38 all-new cards. Get them in Perils in Paradise packs or as a complete 72-card* Mini-Set. Get the normal version for $14.99 or 2000 Gold, or get the all-Golden version for $69.99 or 10,000 Gold. The all-Golden version comes with a bonus Diamond copy of the Travelmaster Dungar Legendary minion! You can see all the cards from The Traveling Travel Agency Mini-Set in the official Card Library.

* 4 Legendary cards, 1 Epic card (x2), 17 Rare cards (x2), and 16 Common cards (x2).

Heat Things Up with Mythic Ragnaros, the Firelord

Hearthstone’s first-ever Mythic hero skin is coming with Patch 30.4: Ragnaros, the Firelord! This dual-class skin can be used by Shamans and Warriors, and includes new emotes, special animations for attacks, victory, and defeat, special board visuals, and more. By fire be fancy!

Battlegrounds Updates

• Effects that cast Tavern Spells have been updated so that now you cast those spells (Temporal Tampering, Untamed Sorcery, Mindflayer Goggles, and Replica Cathedral). This change means that they now trigger effects based on when you cast a spell.
• Nether Pendant now only applies to damage taken on your turn, not in combat.

Arena Season Update

When Patch 30.4 launches, all current Arena runs will end and a new Arena season will begin. Arena will remain Dual-class for this season. The Arena pool will be adjusted so that the following sets make up the Arena card pool this season:

• Core
• Scholomance Academy
• Alterac Valley
• Sunken City
• Whizbang’s Workshop
• Perils in Paradise

In-Game Event: Travelmaster’s Guide to Adventure!

Bring good fortune to your travels with a new in-game event! From September 24 to October 15, complete event quests to earn XP on the special event rewards track. Complete the rewards track to earn the Mudan card back, the Mudan cosmetic coin, the Orgrimmar Faelin Druid Hero Skin, and the Overcharged King Shaman Hero Skin!

Loaner Deck Updates

To celebrate Hearthstone’s imminent return to China, we’re updating the new and returning player* loaner decks for all regions. These new decks will include cards from all current Standard sets, including Perils in Paradise! All decks are available after Patch 30.4 launches.

We’re also adding the ability for players to claim their selected loaner deck early if they want, before the loaner period ends, so they can start making tweaks to their new deck. There’s never been a better time to start (or re-start) playing Hearthstone!

* Returning players who have been away for 90 or more days are eligible for a free deck just for logging in. Returning players can claim these returning decks each time they are eligible. New players are eligible for their free deck after completing the tutorial and Apprentice Track.

Progression Updates

New Gameplay Achievements have been added to five expansions that didn’t have Achievements before! Rise of Shadows, Saviors of Uldum, Descent of Dragons, Ashes of Outland, and Scholomance Academy now each have an Achievement for each class in that set, plus a neutral Achievement.

Wild Boards Return to Standard

All Hearthstone game boards will now be able to appear in Hearthstone matches, including boards from sets that have rotated to Wild. The newest game board will still appear more frequently, but all other game boards will have an equal appearance rate. Hop into a game and check out some old favorites!

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

• [Hearthstone] Adaptive Amalgam and Immortal Prelate will now return with functional Divine Shield or Stealth if it was granted to them and then consumed before they were destroyed.
• [Hearthstone] Updated Zephrys the Great (the original one) to account for Locations.
• [Hearthstone] Bayfin Bodybuilder’s cap on sequential activations has been raised and now activates as minions are summoned when an effect summons several minions, instead of having the effect summon all the minions first and then having Bodybuilder’s effect trigger on all of them at once.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where a Lifesteal minion with the Cursed Souvenir effect on it wouldn’t gain life back when it dealt you damage at the start of your turns.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Tsunami could still be played on a full board.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Conniving Conman could replay Reno, Lone Ranger.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where forced attacks (like Gnome Muncher and Illidari Inquisitor) wouldn’t work after the minion was put to sleep by Sleepy Resident.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Bottomless Toy Chest sometimes lacked its yellow glow, despite having its extra effect active.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where “While Dormant” effects wouldn’t work on minions summoned by Matching Outfits.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Lifesaving Aura would sometimes not give its last Sunscreen.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Narain Soothfancy’s Fortunes could change form in the middle of a Battlecry that would play them.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Sanc’Azel wouldn’t keep Caricature Artist’s funny mustache while in location form.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed various bugs with several Quests and Quest Rewards (currently available through Sire Denathrius’s Hero Power).
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where playing Eyes of the Earth Mother on a minion that was targeted by Xyrella’s Hero Power resulted in the wrong stats.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Burth’s effect didn’t trigger when Clunker Junker’s Battlecry was triggered again by another effect.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Thorncaptain’s effect triggered twice off Doppelganger's Locket (one of those buffs was the other’s doppelganger).
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where the ping function didn’t work on cards in hand.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where granting a minion temporary Stealth and then passing it through the portal could result in it getting permanent Stealth.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where the “has been sold” effect on Jumping Jack didn’t reset when it got Goldenized.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where your teammate couldn’t pass back the first buddy sent over with Portal in a Bottle.
• [Progression] Fixed a bug where the Fortune Favors the Gold Achievement sometimes didn’t track progress correctly.
• [Cosmetic] Fixed a bug where a Minion Sandwich generated by a Golden The Ryecleaver wouldn’t be Golden. Now it looks more appetizing.
• [Settings] Fixed a bug where the Language dropdown in the Options menu was unresponsive on some devices.
• Misc. other bug fixes and game improvements.

Patch 30.2.2, launching today, includes balance changes across modes.

Hearthstone Updates

The following cards have been adjusted to be weaker:

Dev Comment: The Standard metagame has a variety of decks that are feeling balanced against one another. Because of that, we’re only changing a couple cards that are leading to unhealthy play patterns that we want to address. Tidepool Pupil is quite strong, and is allowing decks to copy key cards too easily and play them too many times per game. We hope this change doesn’t delete the card from the metagame entirely, but does make it less effective as an enabler for combos and spells that are particularly effective when repeated many times per game. Doomkin isn’t as much a statistical outlier, but is causing more frustration. The card seems to have overstayed its welcome, so we are slowing it down by a turn to decrease its popularity.

Tidepool Pupil

• Old: [1 Mana] 2/1
• New: [2 Mana] 2/2

Doomkin

• Old: [6 Mana] 3/4
• New: [7 Mana] 4/5

Dev Comment: On the Wild side, we’ve identified a few play patterns that are over the line even for the powerful Wild format. Secret Passage has been a focal point across almost all Rogue decks since its creation, enabling an unhealthy power level across the class as a whole. On top of that, Wildpaw Gnoll could too easily be played on turn 1, keeping opponents from developing onto the board from the start of the game. This change makes the turn 1 Gnoll less common and makes playing multiple Gnolls less efficient. The sheer volume of spells that Sorcerer’s Apprentice allows is something we think should be addressed, so we’re making it no longer go to 0. With that change, we think it’s safe to return to its original mana cost.

Wildpaw Gnoll

• Old: [5 Mana]
• New: [6 Mana]

Secret Passage

• Old: [1 Mana]
• New: [2 Mana]

Sorcerer’s Apprentice

• Old: [4 Mana] Your spells cost (1) less.
• New: [2 Mana] Your spells cost (1) less (but not less than 1).

The above disenchantable cards will be eligible for full dust refunds for two weeks following Patch 30.2.2.

The following cards have been adjusted to be stronger:

Dev Comment: Since our last round of changes, there are a few classes that still don’t have many competitive options as others. These changes focus primarily (but not entirely) on bolstering those classes’ new Perils in Paradise offerings.

Treasure Hunter Eudora

• Old: [6 Mana]
• New: [5 Mana]

Maestra, Mask Merchant

• Old: [6 Mana]
• New: [5 Mana]

Metal Detector

• Old: 2/2
• New: 3/2

Furious Fowls

• Old: Choose an enemy. Summon two 3/2 Birds with Immune while attacking to attack it.
• New: Choose an enemy. Summon two 3/3 Birds with Immune while attacking to attack it.

Mystery Egg

• Old: [5 Mana] Miniaturize. Deathrattle: Get a copy of a random Beast in your deck. It costs (5) less.
• New: [4 Mana] Miniaturize. Deathrattle: Get a copy of a random Beast in your deck. It costs (4) less.

Fetch!

• Old: [2 Mana]
• New: [1 Mana]

Ryecleaver

• Old: 4 Mana Sandwich
• New: 3 Mana Sandwich

Food Fight

• Old: Summon a 0/6 Entree for your opponent. When it dies, summon a minion from your deck.
• New: Summon a 0/4 Entree for your opponent. When it dies, summon a minion from your deck.

Boom Wrench

• Old: [4 Mana]
• New: [3 Mana]

Watercolor Artist

• Old: [4 Mana] 4/4
• New: [3 Mana] 3/3

Raylla, Sand Sculptor

• Old: 2/5
• New: 2/6

Marooned Archmage

• Old: 3/3
• New: 3/4

DJ Manastorm

• Old: [10 Mana]
• New: [9 Mana]

Ci’Cigi

• Old: 4/3. Deathrattle: Get 3 random first-edition Demon Hunter cards (in mint condition).
• New: 4/4. Battlecry, Outcast, and Deathrattle: Get a random first-edition Demon Hunter card (in mint condition).

Battlegrounds Updates

General Update

Now that players have started to get the hang of Trinkets, we’ve reduced turn timers back to their normal lengths.

Hero Change

Guff Runetotem – Natural Balance

• Old: Passive. After you buy 30 Tiers’ worth of cards, get a Triple Reward.
• New: Passive. After you buy 25 Tiers’ worth of cards, get a Triple Reward.

Lesser Trinket Changes

Bob-blehead

• Old: [1 Gold]
• New: [0 Gold]

Kodo Leather Pouch

• Old: [2 Gold]
• New: [0 Gold]

Souvenir Stand

• Old: [3 Gold]
• New: [2 Gold]

Fishy Sticker

• Old: [2 Gold]
• New: [1 Gold]

Alliance Keychain

• Old: [4 Gold]
• New: [3 Gold]

Token of the Old Gods

• Old: [1 Gold]
• New: [0 Gold]

Feral Talisman

• Old: [3 Gold]
• New: [2 Gold]

Replica Cathedral

• Old: [3 Cost]
• New: [2 Cost]

Azeroth Model Globe

• Old: [3 Gold]
• New: [2 Gold]

Demonblood Gourd

• Old: [1 Gold]
• New: [0 Gold]

Shaker Portrait

• Old: [7 Gold]
• New: [6 Gold]

Rockin’ Music Box

• Old: [1 Gold] At the end of each turn, get a random Battlecry minion.
• New: [3 Gold] Get a random Battlecry minion. At the start of each turn get another.

Quilligraphy Set

• Old: [5 Gold] Avenge (4): Your Blood Gems give an extra +1/+1 this game.
• New: [2 Gold] Avenge (5): Your Blood Gems give an extra +1 Health this game.

Automaton Portrait

• Old: [7 Gold]
• New: [6 Gold]

Charging Staff

• Old: [3 Gold]
• New: [4 Gold]

Lava Lamp

• Old: [3 Gold]
• New: [4 Gold]

Comfy Coffin

• Old: [4 Gold]
• New: [5 Gold]

Colorful Compass

• Old: [2 Gold]
• New: [3 Gold]

Tiger Carving

• Old: [2 Gold]
• New: [3 Gold]

Dalaran Cheese Wheel

• Old: [4 Gold]
• New: [5 Gold]

Greater Trinket Changes

Elementium Chest

• Old: [0 Gold] Each combat, after 3 friendly Pirates attack, gain 1 Gold next turn.
• New: [3 Gold] Each combat, after 2 friendly Pirates attack, gain 1 Gold next turn.

Spitescale Sushi Roll

• Old: [6 Gold] Get a ‘Spitescale Special’. Your Spellcraft spells cast twice.
• New: [4 Gold] Get a ‘Spitescale Special’. Your first two Spellcraft spells each turn cast twice.

Enforcer Portrait

• Old: [Lesser, 7 Gold] Get a ‘Lightfang Enforcer’. Your Lightfang Enforcers have all minion types.
• New: [Greater, 1 Gold] Get a ‘Lightfang Enforcer’. Your Lightfang Enforcers have all minion types.

Blood Golem Sticker

• Old: [4 Gold] Whenever a friendly Quilboar dies, summon a Golem with stats equal to its Blood Gems. (3 times per combat.)
• New: [3 Gold] Whenever a friendly Quilboar dies, summon a Golem with stats equal to its Blood Gems. (2 times per combat.)

Rivendare Portrait

• Old: [2 Gold] Get a ‘Titus Rivendare’. Start of Combat: Give your Titus Rivendares Stealth.
• New: [3 Gold] Get a ‘Titus Rivendare’. Start of Combat: Double the Health of your Titus Rivendares.

Felbat Portrait

• Old: [7 Gold]
• New: [9 Gold]

Dalaran Cheese Wheel

• Old: [4 Gold]
• New: [6 Gold]

Darnassus Pie

• Old: [3 Gold]
• New: [5 Gold]

Quilligraphy Set

• Old: [5 Gold]
• New: [7 Gold]

Butcher’s Sickle

• Old: [5 Gold]
• New: [7 Gold]

Comfy Coffin

• Old: [5 Gold]
• New: [6 Gold]

Twin Sky Lanterns

• Old: [2 Gold]
• New: [4 Gold]

Emerald Dreamcatcher

• Old: [5 Gold]
• New: [7 Gold]

Fridge Magnet

• Old: [3 Gold]
• New: [4 Gold]

Conductor Portrait

• Old: Get a ‘Snarling Conductor’. Whenever you discard a card, play a Blood Gem on all your minions.
• New: Get a ‘Snarling Conductor’. Whenever you discard a card, play a Blood Gem on 5 friendly minions.

Booty Bay Brew

• Old: Whenever you spend Gold, give a friendly Pirate +2/+4.
• New: Whenever you spend Gold, give a friendly Pirate +3/+4.

Karazhan Chess Set

• Old: Start of Combat: Summon a copy of each of your minions.
• New: Start of combat: Summon a copy of your 2 left-most minions.

Artisanal Urn

• Old: Your Undead have +7 Attack.
• New: You Undead have +8 Attack.

Glowscale Portrait

• Old: [4 Gold]
• New: [3 Gold]

Kodo Leather Pouch

• Old: After you buy a card, give a friendly minion +4/+4.
• New: After you buy a card, give a friendly minion +5/+5.

Feral Talisman

• Old: Your minions have +5/+3.
• New: Your minions have +6/+4.

Mug of the Sire

• Old: Whenever you would summon a minion that doesn’t fit in your warband, give your minions+4 Attack.
• New: Whenever you would summon a minion that doesn’t fit in your warband, give your minions +5 Attack.

Valorous Medallion

• Old: Start of Combat: Give your minions +5/+5.
• New: Start of Combat: Give your minions +6/+6.

Dragonwing Glider

• Old: Whenever you play a card, give a friendly Dragon +6 Attack.
• New: Whenever you play a card, give a friendly Dragon +8 Attack.

Horde Keychain

• Old: Your minions from Tier 3 or lower have +6/+4.
• New: Your minions from Tier 3 or lower have +7/+5.

Glowing Gauntlet

• Old: Minions in the Tavern have +7/+7.
• New: Minions in the Tavern +8/+8.

Card Changes

Lightfang Enforcer

• Old: 6/6. At the end of your turn, give a friendly minion of each type +3/+3.
• New: 8/6. At the end of your turn, give a friendly minion of each type +4/+3.

Snail Cavalry

• Old: 2/3
• New: 2/2

Zesty Shaker

• Old: 5/4. Once per turn, when a spell is played on this, get a new copy of it.
• New: 6/6. Once per turn, when a Spellcraft spell is played on this, get a new copy of it.

Crow’s Nest Sentry

• Old: 5/2. Battlecry: Give your other Pirates +3 Health.
• New: 4/2. Battlecry: Give your other Pirates +4 Health.

Ice Fisher

• Old: [Tier 6] 8/8
• New: [Tier 5] 2/2

Cruise Controller

• Old: 6/3. Deathrattle: For the rest of this combat, after you summon a Pirate, give it +4 Attack.
• New: 7/3. Deathrattle: For the rest of this combat, after you summon a Pirate, give it +5 Attack.

Thundering Abomination

• Old: 2/6. Whenever you summon a minion in combat, give it +2/+2. If there’s no space, gain +2/+2 permanently.
• New: 3/6. Whenever you summon a minion in combat, give it+3/+2. If there no space, gain +3/+2 permanently.

Bountiful Bedrock

• Old: [Tier 3] 4/3
• New: [Tier 2] 2/2

Ancestral Automaton

• Old: Has +3/+2 for each other Ancestral Automaton you’ve summoned this game (wherever this is).
• New: Has +2/+1 for each other Ancestral Automaton you’ve summoned this game (wherever this is).

Wannabe Gargoyle

• Old: 5/1
• New: 9/1

Hunter of Gatherers

• Old: [Tier 5] 3/6
• New: [Tier 4] 3/5

Channel the Devourer

• Old: [Tier 6]
• New: [Tier 5]

Minion Pool Changes

• Upbeat Frontdrake and Corrupted Myrmidon have been returned to the minion pool.

Armor Changes

The following Heroes now have more Armor:

Ysera

• High Rank: 17, Lower Rank: 5, Duos: 14

Vanndar Stormpike

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 13

Tickatus

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 12

Kurtrus Ashfallen

• High Rank: 17, Lower Rank: 17, Duos: 13

Patches the Pirate

• High Rank: 18, Lower Rank: 5, Duos: 13

Ozumat

• High Rank: 18, Lower Rank: 7, Duos: 15

Kael’thas Sunstrider

• High Rank: 18, Lower Rank: 18, Duos: 15

Edwin VanCleef

• High Rank: 20, Lower Rank: 20, Duos: 17

Greybough

• High Rank: 16, Lower Rank: 16, Duos: 14

Mr. Bigglesworth

• High Rank: 19, Lower Rank: 17, Duos: 17

Tae’thelan Bloodwatcher

• High Rank: 18, Lower Rank: 18, Duos: 15

The following Heroes now have less Armor:

Galewing

• High Rank: 8, Lower Rank: 8, Duos: 5

Arch-Villain Rafaam

• High Rank: 12, Lower Rank: 12, Duos: 10

Dinotamer Brann

• High Rank: 14, Lower Rank: 14, Duos: 11

Doctor Holli’dae

• High Rank: 8, Lower Rank: 8, Duos: 5

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Miniaturize and Gigantify didn’t work after a card went backwards into a zone (like bouncing from field to hand or moving from hand into deck).
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Tickatus’s Raise the Stakes didn’t turn the card Golden.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Tiger Carving (Greater) Trinket only gave +2 Attack instead of +4.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug in Duos where the Bob-blehead Trinket applied to both teammates when one person got it.

Patch 30.2, launching on August 20, brings Battlegrounds Season 8: Trinkets & Travels!

Stop by the Trinket Shop: Battlegrounds Season 8 is Open

On August 20, Battlegrounds Season 7 will end and Season 8 will begin. That means ratings will reset for Battlegrounds and Duos, Buddies will be removed, and the Battlegrounds Track will switch over. All rewards that were earned on the Season 7 track, but not yet claimed, will be automatically claimed.

Learn more about the upcoming Season, including a preview event on August 19, in our Season 8 Announcement Blog.

New Mechanic: Trinkets

Trinkets are passive power-ups that you buy with Gold and then use for the rest of the game! The Trinket shop is open twice per game: on turns 6 (the 8-Gold turn) and 9. Each offering, you’ll get 4 Trinkets to choose from, influenced by your Hero, the Minion Types in the game, and your Warband.

Lesser Trinkets (Turn 6 Pool)

See the Card Library for images of all the Trinkets once Patch 30.2 goes live.

Feral Talisman

• [3 Gold*] Your minions have +2/+1.

Lucky Tabby

• [2 Gold] After 6 friendly minions die, get a random Beast.

Tiger Carving

• [2 Gold] Whenever a friendly minion takes damage, give a random friendly minion +2 Attack permanently.

Felblood Portrait

• [4 Gold] Get a ‘Slimy Felblood.’ Your Fiery and Slimy Felbloods give Attack and Health.

Rewinder Portrait

• [4 Gold] Get a ‘Soul Rewinder’ and a ‘Wrath Weaver’. Your Soul Rewinders also gain Attack.

Glowing Gauntlet

• [4 Gold] Minions in the Tavern have +3/+3.

Darnassus Pie

• [1 Gold] Minions in the Tavern have +1/+1 for each minion you’ve sold this turn.

Demonblood Gourd

• [1 Gold] Spellcraft: Choose a friendly minion. It consumes a random minion in the Tavern to gain its stats.

Holy Mallet

• [3 Gold] Start of Combat: Give your left and right-most minions Divine Shield.

Valorous Medallion

• [2 Gold] Start of Combat: Give your minions +2/+2.

Dragonwing Glider

• [1 Gold] Whenever you play a card, give a friendly Dragon +3 Attack.

Smuggler Portrait

• [1 Gold] Get a ‘Whelp Smuggler’. Your Whelp Smugglers are Dragons.
• Dev Comment: This applies to Whelp Smugglers you see in the Tavern or Discover as well, not just the ones in your warband.

Training Certificate

• [4 Gold] Start of Combat: Double the stats of your two lowest-Attack minions.

Rockin’ Music Box

• [4 Gold] At the end of each turn, get a random Battlecry minion.

Lava Lamp

• [3 Gold] After you sell 4 minions, get a random Elemental.

Nomi Sticker

• [4 Gold] After you play an Elemental, Elementals in the Tavern have +1/+1 this game.

Primordial Terrarium

• [4 Gold] After you play an Elemental, your next Tavern spell costs (1) less.

Dalaran Cheese Wheel

• [4 Gold] Minions in the Tavern have +1/+1. Upgrades every 3 times you Refresh.

Kodo Leather Pouch

• [2 Gold] After you buy a card, give a random friendly minion +2/+1.

Charging Staff

• [3 Gold] At the end of each turn, give your minions with Divine Shield +4 Attack.

Kaboom Bot Portrait

• [2 Gold] Get a ‘Kaboom Bot’. Your Kaboom Bots’ Deathrattles deal 8 extra damage.

Automaton Portrait

• [5 Gold] Get an ‘Ancestral Automaton’. Start of Combat: Summon an Ancestral Automaton.

Blingtron’s Sunglasses

• [3 Gold] After you summon a Mech in combat, give a friendly Mech Divine Shield.

Nerglish Phrasebook

• [1 Gold] After you play a minion, give the left-most minion in your hand +3/+3.

Belcher Portrait

• [4 Gold] Get an ‘Operatic Belcher’. Whenever a friendly minion loses Venomous, it gains +5/+5 permanently.

Rusty Trident

• [3 Gold] Start of Combat: Give your Naga, “Deathrattle: Get a random Spellcraft spell.”

Replica Cathedral

• [3 Gold] Your first spell each turn casts twice.

Shaker Portrait

• [6 Gold] Get a ‘Zesty Shaker’. Your Zesty Shakers give an extra copy of the spell.

Lorewalker Scroll

• [4 Gold] Whenever you cast a spell on a minion, give it +2/+2.

Ship in a Bottle

• [4 Gold] Start of Combat: Get and summon a random Pirate. It attacks immediately.

Booty Bay Brew

• [3 Gold] Whenever you spend Gold, give a friendly Pirate +1/+2.

Ceremonial Sword

• [3 Gold] Whenever a friendly minion attacks, give it +4 Attack.

Hoggy Bank

• [3 Gold] Start of Combat: Give your Quilboar “Deathrattle: Get a Blood Gem”.

Quilligraphy Set

• [4 Gold] Avenge (4): Your Blood Gems give an extra +1/+1 this game.

Great Boar Sticker

• [1 Gold] Your Blood Gems give an extra +3 Attack.

Eternal Portrait

• [4 Gold] Get an ‘Eternal Knight’. Start of Combat: Give your Eternal Knights Taunt and Reborn.

Twin Sky Lanterns

• [2 Gold] When you have space, summon a copy of the first minion you summon each combat.

Staff of the Scourge

• [3 Gold] Avenge (5): Give a random friendly minion Reborn.

Comfy Coffin

• [4 Gold] After you cast a Tavern spell, your Undead have +1 Attack this game (wherever they are).

Fishy Sticker

• [2 Gold] Start of Combat: Summon a Fish of N’Zoth that copies Deathrattles.

Artisanal Urn

• [3 Gold] Your Undead have +3 Attack.

Windrunner Necklace

• [3 Gold] Your left-most minion in combat has +8 Attack in combat.

Alliance Keychain

• [4 Gold] The first time a friendly minion dies each combat, give its maximum stats to a random friendly minion.

The Eye of Dalaran

• [2 Gold] Whenever a friendly minion with no type dies, get a random Tavern spell.

Colorful Compass

• [2 Gold] Get a random <minion type>. At the start of each turn, get another.
• Dev Comment: The minion type offered will be your most common minion type.

Yogg-Tastic Pastry

• [5 Gold] Spin the Wheel of Yogg-Saron. At the start of each turn, spin it again.

Enforcer Portrait

• [6 Gold] Get a ‘Lightfang Enforcer’. Your Lightfang Enforcers have all minion types.

Innkeeper’s Stein

• [2 Gold] The Tavern offers an extra minion of a higher Tier whenever it is Refreshed.

Azeroth Model Globe

• [4 Gold] At the start of every 2 turns, Discover a Tier 6 minion.

Goldenizer Supply

• [0 Gold] At the end of every 3 turns, get a Goldenizer.

Token of the Old Gods

• [1 Gold] Spellcraft: Transform a minion into one of a Tier higher.

Souvenir Stand

• [4 Gold] When you buy your Greater Trinket, this transforms into a copy of it.

Trip Vouchers

• [2 Gold] In 2 turns, choose a Greater Trinket to buy and replace this.

Goblin Wallet

• [2 Gold] At the end of each turn, increase your Maximum Gold by 1.

Bob-blehead

• [2 Gold] The Tavern no longer offers cards from Tier 1 or Tier 2.

Book of Medivh

• [5 Gold] Discover a Tavern spell. At the start of each turn, Discover another.

* All listed Trinket Costs are base Costs. Trinket Costs may be influenced by the minion types in the game and your warband.

Greater Trinkets (Turn 9 Pool)

Feral Talisman

• [3 Gold] Your minions have +5/+3.

Tiger Carving

• [2 Gold] Whenever a friendly minion takes damage, give a random friendly minion +4 Attack permanently.

Glowing Gauntlet

• [4 Gold] Minions in the Tavern have +7/+7.

Nomi Sticker

• [5 Gold] After you play an Elemental, Elementals in the Tavern have +2/+2 this game.

Dalaran Cheese Wheel

• [4 Gold] Minions in the Tavern have +2/+2. Upgrades every 3 times you Refresh.

Nerglish Phrasebook

• [1 Gold] After you play a minion, give the left-most minion in your hand +6/+6.

Belcher Portrait

• [4 Gold] Get an ‘Operatic Belcher’. Whenever a friendly minion loses Venomous, it gains +15/+15 permanently.

Booty Bay Brew

• [3 Gold] Whenever you spend Gold, give a friendly Pirate +2/+4.

Quilligraphy Set

• [3 Gold] Avenge (4): Your Blood Gems give an extra +2/+2 this game.

Twin Sky Lanterns

• [2 Gold] When you have space, summon 2 copies of the first minion you summon each combat.

Gilnean Thorned Rose

• [3 Gold] Avenge (3): Give your minions +3/+3 permanently and deal 1 damage to them.

Slamma Sticker

• [3 Gold] After you summon a Beast in combat, double its stats.

Rivendare Portrait

• [2 Gold] Get a ’Titus Rivendare’. Start of Combat: Give your Titus Rivendares Stealth.

Nether Pendant

• [2 Gold] Minions in the Tavern have +1/+1. Upgrades every 4 times your hero takes damage.

Felbat Portrait

• [5 Gold] Get a ‘Famished Felbat’. The Tavern always has 7 cards.

Darnassus Pie

• [3 Gold] Minions in the Tavern have +2/+2 for each minion you’ve sold this turn.

Valorous Medallion

• [3 Gold] Start of Combat: Give your minions +5/+5.

Dragonwing Glider

• [1 Gold] Whenever you play a card, give a friendly Dragon +6 Attack.

Shaman Prayer Beads

• [3 Gold] After you buy 2 Battlecry minions, get a random Battlecry minion.

Emerald Dreamcatcher

• [4 Gold] Start of Combat: Set your Dragons’ Attack to the highest in your warband.

Jarred Frostling

• [3 Gold] Start of Combat: Give 2 friendly Elementals ‘Deathrattle: Summon a Flourishing Frostling’.

Azerite Portrait

• [5 Gold] Get a ‘Living Azerite’. Your Living Azerites also give stats to friendly Elementals.

Kodo Leather Pouch

• [2 Gold] After you buy a card, give a random friendly minion +4/+4.

Fridge Magnet

• [3 Gold] Avenge (3): Get a random Magnetic minion.

Charging Staff

• [3 Gold] At the end of each turn, give your minions with Divine Shield +7 Attack.

Mechagon Adapter

• [4 Gold] After a friendly Mech loses Divine Shield, give it Divine Shield. (3 times per combat.)

Boom Controller

• [4 Gold] When you have space, summon an exact copy of your first Mech that died each combat.

Essence of Dreams

• [2 Gold] Get a ‘Dreamer’s Embrace’. At the start of each turn, get another.

Bronzebeard Portrait

• [1 Gold] Get a ‘Brann Bronzebeard’. Your Brann Bronzebeards are both Murlocs and Dragons.

Tinyfin Onesie

• [2 Gold] Start of Combat: Your left-most minion gains the stats of the highest Health minion in your hand.

Spitescale Sushi Roll

• [6 Gold] Get a ‘Spitescale Special’. Your Spellcraft spells cast twice.

Glowscale Portrait

• [4 Gold] Get a ‘Glowscale’. Your first Spellcraft enchantment each turn is permanent.

Lorewalker Scroll

• [2 Gold] Whenever you cast a spell on a minion, give it +5/+5.

Elementium Chest

• [3 Gold] Each combat, after 3 friendly Pirates attack, gain 1 Gold next turn.

Balladist Portrait

• [4 Gold] Get a ‘Lovesick Balladist’. At the start of each turn, get another.

Designer Eyepatch

• [5 Gold] You only need 2 copies of a Pirate to make it Golden.

Fancy Spellbook

• [3 Gold] After you spend 7 Gold, get a random Tavern spell.

Conductor Portrait

• [3 Gold] Get a ‘Snarling Conductor’. Whenever you discard a card, play a Blood Gem on all your minions.

Great Boar Sticker

• [6 Gold] Your Blood Gems give an extra +4/+4.

Jar o’ Gems

• [3 Gold] Each combat, after 2 friendly minions attack, play a Blood Gem on all your Quilboar.

Blood Golem Sticker

• [4 Gold] After a friendly Quilboar dies, summon a Golem with stats equal to its Blood Gems. (3 times per combat.)

Butcher’s Sickle

• [3 Gold] Get a ‘Butchering’ and a random Undead with a Deathrattle. At the start of each turn, repeat this.

Artisanal Urn

• [5 Gold] Your Undead have +7 Attack.

Mug of the Sire

• [3 Gold] Whenever you would summon a minion that doesn’t fit in your warband, give your minions +4 Attack.

Comfy Coffin

• [4 Gold] Whenever you cast a Tavern spell, your Undead have +2 Attack this game (wherever they are).

Reinforced Shield

• [3 Gold] Whenever you summon a minion, give it Divine Shield. (4 times per combat.)

Fishy Sticker

• [4 Gold] Start of Combat: Summon a Golden Fish of N’Zoth that copies Deathrattles.

Windrunner Necklace

• [4 Gold] Your left-most minion in combat has +20 Attack in combat.

Bronze Timepiece

• [4 Gold] Start of Combat: Set each of your minions’ Attack and Health to the higher of the two.

Alliance Keychain

• [5 Gold] The first time a friendly minion dies each combat, give its maximum stats to 2 random friendly minions.

Horde Keychain

• [2 Gold] Your minions from Tier 3 or lower have +6/+4.

Colorful Compass

• [3 Gold] Get 2 random <minion type>. At the start of each turn, get 2 more.

Karazhan Chess Set

• [5 Gold] Start of Combat: Summon a copy of each of your minions.

Peacebloom Candle

• [2 Gold] The first two Tavern spells you buy each turn are free.

Devourer Sticker

• [2 Gold] Get a ‘Channel the Devourer’. At the start of each turn, get another.

Exquisite Dishware

• [5 Gold] At the end of each turn, get a random minion of each different type you control.

Book of Medivh

• [5 Gold] Discover 2 Tavern spells. At the start of each turn, Discover 2 more.

Ironforge Anvil

• [4 Gold] Start of Combat: Triple the stats of your minions with no type.

Pagle’s Fishing Rod

• [6 Gold] Get a random Tier 7 minion. At the start of each turn, get another.

Bob’s Tip Jar

• [0 Gold] Gain 3 Gold. Increase your maximum Gold by 3.

Battlegrounds Hero Updates

New Hero

Marin the Manager

• Fantastic Treasure
• Passive. On turn 5, choose a lesser Trinket to buy.

Hero Changes

Alexstrasza, Queen Azshara, Millhouse Manastorm, Cap’n Hoggarr, Vol'jin, Madam Goya, and Sylvannus Windrunner, all of which were temporarily removed from hero pool(s) throughout the last patch, have been returned to their hero pools.

Dancin’ Deryl (Hat Trick)

• Passive. When you play a minion, give it a +1/+1 hat that passes to a friendly minion when sold.
• Dev Comment: Now gives a hat when the minion is played, not bought.

Guff Runetotem (Natural Balance)

• Passive. After you buy 30 Tiers’ worth of cards, get a Triple Reward.
• Dev Comment: This can be triggered multiple times in a game.

Kael’Thas Sunstrider (Verdant Spheres)

• Passive. Every third minion you play gets +1/+1 and improves this by +1/+1.

Ragnaros the Firelord (Sulfuras)

• Passive. At the end of your turn, give your left- and right-most minions +4/+4.

Trade Prince Gallywix

• Now banned from Elemental games.

Aranna Starseeker

• Now unbanned from Elemental games.

Sylvanas Windrunner

• Now unbanned from Undead games. When she said she had no time for games, she didn’t mean those games.

New Armor Totals

Skip to Card Changes

Captain Hooktusk

• High Rank: 11, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 9

Millhouse Manastorm

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 18, Duos: 8

Master Nguyen

• High Rank: 8, Lower Rank: 8, Duos: 5

Forest Warden Omu

• High Rank: 8, Lower Rank: 8, Duos: 5

Galewing

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 7

Mutanus the Devourer

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 13, Duos: 10

Ysera

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 5, Duos: 7

Arch-Villain Rafaam

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 13

Cookie the Cook

• High Rank: 7, Lower Rank: 7, Duos: 5

Scabbs Cutterbutter

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 8

Trade Prince Gallywix

• High Rank: 5, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 3

The Lich King

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 8

Sire Denathrius

• High Rank: 11, Lower Rank: 11, Duos: 8

Vanndar Stormpike

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 8

Murloc Holmes

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 12, Duos: 8

Silas Darkmoon

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 8

Tamsin Roame

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 8

Pyramad

• High Rank: 16, Lower Rank: 16, Duos: 14

The Rat King

• High Rank: 9, Lower Rank: 9, Duos: 7

Vol’jin

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 13

Elise Starseeker

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 13

George the Fallen

• High Rank: 17, Lower Rank: 17, Duos: 15

Xyrella

• High Rank: 8, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 5

Lady Vashj

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 13, Duos: 10

Maiev Shadowsong

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 18, Duos: 10

C’Thun

• High Rank: 19, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 18

Rokara

• High Rank: 14, Lower Rank: 14, Duos: 12

Tickatus

• High Rank: 12, Lower Rank: 12, Duos: 10

Varden Dawngrasp

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 13

N’Zoth

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 13

Kurtrus Ashfallen

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 13, Duos: 10

Ini Stormcoil

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 6, Duos: 8

Al’Akir

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 13, Duos: 10

Lord Barov

• High Rank: 14, Lower Rank: 19, Duos: 12

Jandice Barov

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 13

Dancin’ Deryl

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 8

The Great Akazamzarak

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 8

Lich Baz’hial

• High Rank: 16, Lower Rank: 16, Duos: 13

Patchwerk

• High Rank: 0, Lower Rank: 0, Duos: 0

Sir Finley Mrrgglton

• High Rank: 12, Lower Rank: 12, Duos: 10

Galakrond

• High Rank: 17, Lower Rank: 17, Duos: 14

Guff Runetotem

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 7

Tess Greymane

• High Rank: 17, Lower Rank: 17, Duos: 14

Millificent Manastorm

• High Rank: 16, Lower Rank: 5, Duos: 10

Deathwing

• High Rank: 12, Lower Rank: 12, Duos: 10

Cariel Roame

• High Rank: 16, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 13

Reno Jackson

• High Rank: 16, Lower Rank: 16, Duos: 13

Fungalmancer Flurgl

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 12

Professor Putricide

• High Rank: 16, Lower Rank: 16, Duos: 14

Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End

• High Rank: 14, Lower Rank: 14, Duos: 11

Nozdormu

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 13, Duos: 10

Shudderwock

• High Rank: 5, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 2

Patches the Pirate

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 5, Duos: 10

Heistbaron Togwaggle

• High Rank: 14, Lower Rank: 14, Duos: 12

Malygos

• High Rank: 14, Lower Rank: 14, Duos: 12

Dinotamer Brann

• High Rank: 18, Lower Rank: 18, Duos: 15

Skycap’n Kragg

• High Rank: 14, Lower Rank: 14, Duos: 12

Infinite Toki

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 13, Duos: 10

The Jailer

• High Rank: 19, Lower Rank: 19, Duos: 17

Lord Jaraxxus

• High Rank: 19, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 17

Drek’Thar

• High Rank: 7, Lower Rank: 7, Duos: 5

Enhance-o Mechano

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 13

Ozumat

• High Rank: 12, Lower Rank: 7, Duos: 10

Ragnaros the Firelord

• High Rank: 18, Lower Rank: 13, Duos: 15

Y’Shaarj

• High Rank: 16, Lower Rank: 16, Duos: 14

Kael’thas Sunstrider

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 7

Sneed

• High Rank: 18, Lower Rank: 18, Duos: 16

Onyxia

• High Rank: 18, Lower Rank: 18, Duos: 15

Alexstrasza

• High Rank: 7, Lower Rank: 7, Duos: 7

Ambassador Faelin

• High Rank: 14, Lower Rank: 14, Duos: 12

Bru’kan

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 13, Duos: 11

Zephrys, the Great

• High Rank: 17, Lower Rank: 17, Duos: 15

Edwin VanCleef

• High Rank: 17, Lower Rank: 17, Duos: 15

Rakanishu

• High Rank: 17, Lower Rank: 17, Duos: 15

Queen Azshara

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 13, Duos: 11

Chenvaala

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 7, Duos: 10

Tavish Stormpike

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 13

Captain Eudora

• High Rank: 19, Lower Rank: 19, Duos: 17

Greybough

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 13, Duos: 11

Illidan Stormrage

• High Rank: 14, Lower Rank: 14, Duos: 12

Sindragosa

• High Rank: 18, Lower Rank: 18, Duos: 16

Mr. Bigglesworth

• High Rank: 16, Lower Rank: 16, Duos: 14

Death Speaker Blackthorn

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 7

Queen Wagtoggle

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 13

Overlord Saurfang

• High Rank: 19, Lower Rank: 19, Duos: 17

Aranna Starseeker

• High Rank: 12, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 10

A. F. Kay

• High Rank: 14, Lower Rank: 14, Duos: 12

King Mukla

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 8

The Curator

• High Rank: 13, Lower Rank: 13, Duos: 10

Teron Gorefiend

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 8

E.T.C., Band Manager

• High Rank: 8, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 5

Rock Master Voone

• High Rank: 12, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 9

Inge, the Iron Hymn

• High Rank: 11, Lower Rank: 6, Duos: 8

Cap’n Hoggarr

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 8

Thorim, Stormlord

• High Rank: 15, Lower Rank: 15, Duos: 12

Snake Eyes

• High Rank: 6, Lower Rank: 6, Duos: 3

Tae’thelan Bloodwatcher

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 7

Doctor Holli’dae

• High Rank: 10, Lower Rank: 10, Duos: 8

Cho

• Duos: 14

Gall

• Duos: 14

The Nameless One

• Duos: 12

Flobbidinous Floop

• Duos: 15

Madam Goya

• Duos: 8

Battlegrounds Card Updates

New Cards

Free Travel Winner (Tier 2)

• 2/2. At the start of your turn, if this minion survived last combat, remove this and get a Triple Reward.

Inspiring Underdog (Tier 4)

• 2/1. Battlecry: Give your minions of Tier 3 or lower +2/+1.

Lucky Egg (Tier 5)

• 2/2. Battlecry: Discover a Golden Tier 3 minion to transform into.

Sun Screener (Tier 6)

• 10/1. Start of Combat: Give you and your opponent’s 3 left-most minions Divine Shield.

One-Amalgam Tour Group (Tier 6, All)

• 6/7. Whenever you play a card, give friendly minions of its Tier or lower +1/+1.

Prosthetic Hand (Tier 4, Mech/Undead)

• 3/1. Magnetic, Reborn. Can Magnetize to Mechs and Undead.
• Dev Comment: This card is mostly a card you might recognize from Traditional Hearthstone, but the Battlegrounds version is a Mech/Undead while the Standard version will remain just a Mech.

Depraved Felfin (Tier 5, Demon/Murloc)

• 4/3. After you Discover a minion, gain the stats of the other options.

Indomitable Mount (Tier 6, Beast)

• 3/6. Deathrattle: Summon a random Beast from Tier 3, 4, and 5.

Pilgrimp (Tier 4, Demon)

• 3/4. 1 Demon each turn costs Health instead of Gold to buy.

Mirage Conjurer (Tier 5, Demon)

• 4/4. Choose One – Double the Attack of all minions in the Tavern; or Double their Health.

Wannabe Gargoyle (Tier 4, Dragon)

• 5/1. Reborn. This is Reborn with full Attack.

Bountiful Bedrock (Tier 3, Elemental)

• 4/3. At the end of every 2 turns, get a random Elemental.

Sleeping Sea Glass (Tier 3, Elemental)

• 3/3. Choose One – Double this minion’s Attack; or Health.

Moss of the Schloss (Tier 5, Elemental)

• 3/4. When another friendly Elemental dies, gain its maximum stats. (Once per combat.)

Ancestral Automaton (Tier 2, Mech)

• 2/5. Has +3/+2 for each other Ancestral Automaton you’ve summoned this game (wherever this is).

Mrglin' Burglar (Tier 6, Murloc)

• 6/6. After you play a Murloc, give a friendly minion and a minion in your hand +6/+6.

Volcanic Visitor (Tier 3, Naga)

• 3/3. Spellcraft: Choose One – Give your minions +2 Attack until next turn; or +2 Health until next turn.

Gift Pilferer (Tier 2, Pirate)

• 2/3. Upgrading the Tavern costs (1) less.

Sky Pirate Flagbearer (Tier 4, Pirate)

• 4/4. Start of Combat: Give your other Pirates “Deathrattle: Summon a 1/1 Pirate. It attacks immediately.”

Cruise Controller (Tier 5, Pirate)

• 6/3. Deathrattle: For the rest of this combat, after you summon a Pirate, give it +4 Attack.

Ice Fisher (Tier 6, Pirate)

• 8/8. After you buy a minion, gain stats equal to its Tier.

Fearless Foodie (Tier 4, Quilboar)

• 2/5. Choose One – Your Blood Gems give an extra +1/+1 this game; or Get 4 Blood Gems.

Hot-Air Surveyor (Tier 5, Quilboar)

• 5/8. Blood Gems played from your hand cast an extra time.

Museum Mummy (Tier 2, Undead)

• 5/1. Battlecry: Summon a 1/1 Skeleton.

Cadaver Caretaker (Tier 4, Undead)

• 4/4. Deathrattle: Summon four 1/1 Skeletons.

Thundering Abomination (Tier 4, Undead)

• 2/6. Whenever you summon a minion in combat, give it +2/+2. If there’s no space, gain +2/+2 permanently.

Catacomb Crasher (Tier 5, Undead)

• 5/10. Whenever you would summon a minion that doesn’t fit in your warband, give your minions +1/+1 permanently.

Cry Foul (Tier 2, Tavern spell)

• [2 Gold] Get a plain copy of a random minion from your last opponent’s warband.

Robust Evolution (Tier 3, Tavern spell)

• [2 Gold] Choose a minion. Transform it into a random minion of a higher Tier. It keeps its stats.

Card Pool Changes

Beasts and Dragons can no longer both be in the minion pool for a game due to an unwanted interaction.

41 minions have been removed from the minion pool:

• Corrupted Myrmidon
• Crafty Aranasi
• Deck Swabbie
• Felboar
• Fire Dancer
• Floating Watcher
• Freedealing Gambler
• Geomagus Roogug
• Ghastcoiler
• Greymane’s Champion
• Hateful Hag
• Hungering Abomination
• Magmaloc
• Marine Matriarch
• Mechanized Gift Horse
• Mini-Myrmidon
• Mooneater’s Champion
• Murgl Mk II
• Murozond
• Nightbane, Ignited
• Poetic Pen Pal
• Rat Pack
• Replicating Menace
• Rockpool Hunter
• Silent Swimmer
• Silivaz the Vindictive
• Sin’dorei Straight Shot
• Sister Deathwhisper
• Slitherspear, Lord of Gains
• Thousandth Paper Drake
• Underhanded Dealer
• Unforgiving Treant
• Untameabull
• Very Hungry Winterfinner
• Zapp Slywick
• Zilliax: Bonding Module
• Zilliax: Claw Module
• Zilliax: Crystal Module
• Zilliax: Defense Module
• Zilliax: Smoke Module
• Zilliax: Whirring Module

22 minions have been returned to the minion pool:

• Deadly Spore
• Motley Phalanx
• Lightfang Enforcer
• Interrogator Whitemane
• Mecha-Jaraxxus
• Leapfrogger
• Sly Raptor
• Keyboard Igniter
• Twilight Emissary
• Warpwing
• Kaboom Bot
• Kangor’s Apprentice
• Grease Bot
• Murcules
• Saltscale Honcho
• Tidemistress Athissa
• Orgozoa, the Tender
• Warden of Old
• Critter Wrangler
• Southsea Busker
• Thorncaptain
• Xylo-bones

1 card has been removed from the Tavern spell pool:

• Primal Staff

Card Changes

Deadly Spore (Tier 3)

• 1/1. Venomous.

Motley Phalanx (Tier 4)

• 2/1. Taunt. Deathrattle: Give a friendly minion of each type +2/+1 permanently.

Lightfang Enforcer (Tier 5)

• 6/6. At the end of your turn, give a friendly minion of each type +3/+3.

Interrogator Whitemane (Tier 5)

• 8/5. Start of Combat: Give an enemy minion from Tier 5 or higher Taunt. It takes double damage this combat.

Land Lubber (Tier 3, Elemental/Pirate)

• 4/5. The Tavern offers an extra Tavern spell after each Refresh.

Prime Mate (Tier 5, Beast/Pirate)

• 3/9. After a friendly Deathrattle minion dies, gain 1 Gold next turn.

Monstrous Macaw (Tier 3, Beast)

• 4/3. After this attacks, trigger your left-most Deathrattle (except this minion’s).

Keyboard Igniter (Tier 3, Demon)

• 4/4. Battlecry: Give your other Demons +2/+2 and deal 2 damage to your hero.

Wildfire Elemental (Tier 4, Elemental)

• 9/5. After this attacks and kills a minion, deal excess damage to an adjacent minion.

Annoy-o-Module (Tier 3, Mech)

• 2/4. Magnetic, Divine Shield, Taunt.

Grease Bot (Tier 4, Mech)

• 1/4. Divine Shield. After a friendly minion loses Divine Shield, give it +1/+1 permanently.

Saltscale Honcho (Tier 1, Murloc)

• 3/2. After you play a Murloc, give a friendly Murloc other than it +1 Health.

Snail Cavalry (Tier 1, Naga)

• 3/2. Once per turn, after you cast a spell, gain +1/+1.

Warden of Old (Tier 3, Naga)

• 2/2. Spellcraft: Gain 1 Gold.

Zesty Shaker (Tier 4, Naga)

• 5/4. Once per turn, when a spell is played on this, get a new copy of it.

Critter Wrangler (Tier 5, Naga)

• 3/5. Whenever you cast a spell on a minion, give it +2/+2.
• Dev Comment: Zesty Shaker and Critter Wrangler now work with any spell.

Xylo-bones (Tier 3, Undead)

• 5/1. After you summon a minion in combat, gain +2 Health permanently.

Corrupted Cupcakes (Tier 5, Tavern spell)

• [4 Gold] Choose a friendly Demon. It consumes 3 random minions in the Tavern to gain their stats.

New Battlegrounds Track and Season Pass

The Season 8 Battlegrounds Track, with the Season Pass, features 40 levels of vacation-themed rewards, including the Beach Blast Legendary Strike, 17 additional Hero Skins, a new Bartender, and more!

For full details about the Season 8 Battlegrounds Track and Season Pass, see the Season 8 Announce Blog.

Arena Updates

When Patch 30.2 launches on August 20, all ongoing Arena runs will end and a new Arena season will begin. Like the current season, this season will be a Dual-Class Arena season. We are also keeping the “one Legendary card per draft, as your first card” rule as a general Arena rule until we announce otherwise. The eligible sets will be updated to the following:

• Core
• Perils in Paradise
• Whizbang’s Workshop
• TITANS
• March of the Lich King
• Voyage to the Sunken City

Additionally, we’ll now be tying Arena seasons to all major Patches (30.2, 30.4, 30.6, 31.0, etc.) until our larger-scale Arena adjustments coming down the line (more on that closer to when they come). This will make Arena season refreshes happen a little more frequently and predictably, so you know when to make your leaderboards pushes!

In-Game Event: The Marin Resort’s Treasure Hunt

Go on a treasure hunt for packs with a new type of in-game event! From August 27 to September 17, complete Event Quests to earn XP on the special Event XP Track. This time, there are Weekly Event Quests, instead of a Legendary Quest Chain, alongside the Daily Event Quests. Complete the entire Event Track to earn 14 total packs, 7 from Perils in Paradise, 4 from Whizbang’s Workshop, and 3 from Showdown in the Badlands!

The Weekly Quests are tougher than usual quests, designed to be completed over the course of a week or two instead of a day or two*, but completing the three Weekly Quests awards enough XP to earn the first three tiers of Event Rewards. Complete Daily Quests as you go to get that big Reward at the end of the Treasure Hunt!

* Weekly Quests are unlocked for all players on a weekly reset (start of event, day 7, and day 14), but players who start late or don’t finish one Weekly Quest before the next one is live will be given the next one immediately upon completing the one they were on—giving the opportunity to catch up.

Wild Heroic Tavern Brawl Returns

It’s time to get Wild! Heroic Tavern Brawl returns for the week of August 21-28. Compete in high-stakes games in the explosive Wild format for your chance at glory and huge prizes! Pay the entry fee and then play against other players until you get either 12 wins or 3 losses.

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

• [General] Fixed a bug where playing on full screen Mac desktop and tabbing away from the game would cause a crash.
• [General] Improved Shop Badging (the “!”), including badging on subcategories to make it clearer what is new and removing redundancy across devices so you don’t see the same new thing multiple times.
• [Hearthstone] Updates to the “bonus effect” keyword! Stealth has been replaced with Elusive in the pool of bonus effects. Additionally, Rush will no longer be granted to minions that can already attack for the turn, that already did attack for the turn, or if it’s not your turn.
• [Hearthstone] The cost of Cheese Elementals summoned by Muensterosity will now be based on their stats instead of always 9.
• [Hearthstone] Hydration Station will now only be able to be played if any Taunt minions have died.
• [Hearthstone] Explained to Magic Wisdomball that locations aren’t minions, but they do take up spots on the board, so Mirror Image is not actually helpful if you have a board full of minions and locations.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Cabaret Headliner could target spells that Cost 0 when there were other options available.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Terrible Chef’s Deathrattle didn’t work when transferred to another minion (like with Death Growl).
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Sensory Deprivation counted Armor as Health.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where, if you were under the effect of Reno, Lone Ranger, and your opponent had two or more minions in play, you couldn’t play cards that summon a minion for both players (like Rest in Peace or Duel!).
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where a Location copied by Scrapbooking Student couldn’t be re-used until after the game client was restarted.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Colifero the Artist summoned base copies of minions, instead of buffed ones.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Tolin’s Goblet granted base copies of the card drawn, instead of buffed ones.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where other cost-reduction effects didn’t work on secrets discovered by Hidden Objects.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where different versions of Water Elemental across expansions were treated as distinct cards.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where if your max mana was already above 20, Wildheart Guff wouldn’t reset it to 20.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Owlonius couldn’t double temporary Spell Damage, like from Talented Arcanist.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Trampling Rhino didn’t work correctly with cards like Enchanter (damage should be designated to the enemy hero first, then the minion would take double damage, so this combo would not result in more damage to the enemy hero).
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Whirlwind Tempest didn’t give Raging Worgen Mega-Windfury.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where the Hakkar the Houndmaster hero skin counted as a Demon and could be destroyed with Sacrificial Pact.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed another bunch of Banana Shenanagins.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Leeroy the Reckless’s Deathrattle wouldn’t function when copied by Piloted Whirl-o-Tron or Fish of N’Zoth.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Prime Mate’s effect wouldn’t function when triggered in the Recruit phase.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where ‘Loc Prince’s effect didn’t work with Diremuck Forager.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Generous Geomancer’s Deathrattle triggered Passenger’s effect.
• [Collection] Fixed a bug where one version of Corpse Bride was showing the wrong text.
• [Collection] Fixed bugs with various hero skin emotes not presenting properly.
• [Progression] Fixed a bug where the “Great Victory” Achievement couldn’t be progressed past 6/9.
• [Progression] Fixed a bug where the “Was I a Good Card?” Achievement stopped tracking progress.
• [Shop] Improved visuals for random Signature card offerings.
• [Localization] Fixed a bug where certain cards and hero skins were missing their localized voicelines in several languages.
• [Localization] Fixed a bug where Harth was missing new expansion voicelines in several languages.
• Misc. other bug fixes and game improvements.

Patch 30.0.3, launching today, includes balance changes to Standard, Battlegrounds, and more!

Hearthstone Updates

Dev Comment: Since the launch of Perils in Paradise, we’ve been happy to see a lot of evolving strategies—but we think there’s still room for more new and interesting cards to get a chance to shine. Our main goal with this patch is to add more competitive options from Perils in Paradise. We’re doing that by curbing a few cards that are showing up too often and by buffing some new cards that have some room to improve. We’ll see how the meta reacts to these changes and make further adjustments, if needed, in about three weeks.

The following cards have been adjusted to be weaker:

Hydration Station

• Old: Resurrect your 3 highest Cost Taunt minions.
• New: Resurrect 3 of your different highest Cost Taunt minions.

Inventor Boom

• Old: Resurrect two friendly Mechs that cost (5) or more. They immediately attack random enemies.
• New: Resurrect two different friendly Mechs that cost (5) or more. They attack random enemies.

Dev Comment: Hydration Station and Inventor Boom are adjustments to reduce repetitive and meta-warping gameplay around the Virus-Perfect Zilliax combination (sometimes called “Unkilliax”). While this Zilliax is powerful on its own, it isn’t proving to be a problem outside of decks that can repeatedly resurrect multiple copies of it. These changes will make that play pattern weaker and less repetitive.

Zilliax Deluxe 3000 (Ticking Module)

• Old: [5 Mana] Costs (1) less for each minion in play.
• New: [4 Mana] Costs (1) less for each friendly minion.

Dev Comment: On the other end of the spectrum, the Ticking-Pylon Zilliax combination has continued to be very popular in more aggressive, board-flooding decks. Perils in Paradise added some great board-building cards, and now this Zilliax is a bit too much of a good thing. This change makes the card a little less powerful in those decks, and also shifts the play pattern so that Zilliax no longer punishes other board-centric decks for fighting back on the board.

Lamplighter

• Old: [3 Mana] 3/2
• New: [4 Mana] 4/3

Dev Comment: Lamplighter was made a bit strong to intentionally give an infusion to Elemental strategies that never landed in prior expansions. We love that it successfully brought multiple decks in this archetype to the meta, but it has turned out to be a little too strong. This adjustment should make it a little slower and clunkier to combine with other cards on the same turn.

Concierge

• Old: [3 Mana]
• New: [4 Mana]

Chia Drake

• Old: 3/5
• New: 2/4

Dev Comment: Concierge Dragon Druid is a deck that can follow-up early tempo plays with lots of burst damage from hand, sometimes a little too early in the game. The deck is very powerful, but we like that it’s a new deck and that the metagame has been adapting to it, instead of folding. These changes slow down the deck’s early combo turns a little and weakens midgame plays, but maintain the basic play pattern of the deck. If these changes aren’t enough, we’ll make further adjustments in our next balance window.

The above disenchantable cards will be eligible for full dust refunds for two weeks following Patch 30.0.3.

The following cards have been adjusted to be stronger:

Dev Comments: We’ve noticed that some of the archetypes from Perils in Paradise didn’t land where we wanted them to. We normally don’t do buffs in the first patch after an expansion, but since we gave ourselves more time for this patch, we have more confidence to take a few swings at underperforming cards and archetypes from Perils in Paradise. We hope these buffs will open up some new and exciting options for players.

The Ryecleaver

• Old: 7 Mana base weapon and 2 Mana Minion Sandwich.
• New: 5 Mana base weapon and 4 Mana Minion Sandwich.

Ranger Gilly

• Old: [6 Mana]
• New: [5 Mana]

Razzle-Dazzler

• Old: [7 Mana]
• New: [6 Mana]

Natural Talent

• Old: Get a random Naga and a random spell. They cost (1) less.
• New: Get a random Naga and a random spell. They cost (2) less.

Buttons

• Old: [5 Mana] 5/5
• New: [4 Mana] 4/4

Cruise Captain Lora

• Old: [7 Mana]
• New: [6 Mana]

Tsunami

• Old: [8 Mana] Summon three 3/6 Water Elementals that Freeze. They attack random enemies.
• New: [10 Mana] Summon four 3/6 Water Elementals that Freeze. They attack random enemies.

Service Ace

• Old: [3 Mana] 3/3
• New: [2 Mana] 2/3

Twilight Medium

• Old: [6 Mana] 5/6
• New: [5 Mana] 4/5

Nightshade Tea

• Old: [2 Mana] Deal 3 damage to a minion. Deal 2 damage to your hero. (3 Drinks left!)
• New: [1 Mana] Deal 2 damage to a minion. Deal 2 damage to your hero. (3 Drinks left!)

Conniving Conman

• Old: Battlecry: Replay the last card you’ve played from another class.
• New: Battlecry: Replay the last card you’ve played from a non-Rogue class.

Battlegrounds Updates

Armor Changes

The following heroes now have less Armor:

• Ozumat has 12 Armor at higher levels, 7 Armor at lower levels, and 10 Armor in Duos
• Captain Eudora and Jandice Barov have 16 Armor
• Cariel Roame has 17 Armor

The following heroes now have more Armor:

• Aranna Starseeker has 13 Armor at higher levels, 15 Armor at lower levels, and 10 Armor in Duos
• Sylvanas Windrunner has 20 Armor

Hero Changes

Ozumat – Tentacular

• Old: Passive. Start of Combat: Summon a 2/2 Tentacle with Taunt. (Gains +1/+1 after you sell a minion!)
• New: Passive. When you have space in combat, summon a 1/1 Tentacle with Taunt. (Gains +1/+1 after you sell a minion!)

Buddy Changes

Shadow Warden (Maiev Shadowsong’s Buddy)

• Old: Battlecry: Your next Hero Power makes the target Golden and awaken 1 turn faster.
• New: Battlecry: Your next Hero Power makes the target Golden.

Maxwell, Mighty Steed (Sir Finley Mrrgglton’s Buddy)

• Old: Battlecry: Get the Buddy of your Hero Power.
• New: When you sell this, get the Buddy of your Hero Power.

Dagwik Stickytoe (Captain Eudora’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 3]
• New: [Tier 2]

Captain Fairmount (Cariel Roame’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 5]
• New: [Tier 4]

Spirit Raptor (Bru’kan’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 3]
• New: [Tier 2]

Kil’rek (Lord Jaraxxus’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 4]
• New: [Tier 3]

Mawsworn Soulkeeper (The Jailer’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 2]
• New: [Tier 1]

Jandice’s Apprentice (Jandice Barov’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 3]
• New: [Tier 2]

Crabby (Tavish Stormpike’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 5]
• New: [Tier 4]

Crimson Hand Centurion (Kael’thas Sunstrider’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 5]
• New: [Tier 4]

Karl the Lost (George the Fallen’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 3]
• New: [Tier 2]

Lucifron (Ragnaros the Firelord’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 5]
• New: [Tier 4]

Tentacle of C’Thun (C’Thun’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 3]
• New: [Tier 2]

Faceless One (The Nameless One’s Buddy)

• Old: Battlecry: Get the Buddy of your teammate’s Hero Power.
• New: When you sell this, get the Buddy of your teammate’s Hero Power.

Glorious Gloopling (Flobbidinous Floop’s Buddy)

• Old: [Tier 5] 5/1
• New: [Tier 6] 6/1

Card Pool Changes

• Primal Staff has returned to the Tavern spell pool.
• Dev Comment: This is a temporary boost to some underperforming builds. We are planning to remove it from the Tavern spell pool again with the next Battlegrounds Season (Patch 30.2), coming soon.

Card Changes

Backstage Security

• Old: 4/5
• New: 4/4

Ghoul-acabra

• Old: 3/12. After a friendly Deathrattle minion dies, give your minions +2/+2 permanently.
• New: 4/13. After a friendly Deathrattle minion dies, give your minions +2/+1 permanently.

Shellemental

• Old: [Tier 5]
• New: [Tier 6]

Cultist S’Thara

• Old: 11/3. Stealth. Deathrattle: Summon your first Demon that died this combat. It keeps enchantments.
• New: 12/3. Stealth. Deathrattle: Summon your first Demon that died this combat with its maximum stats.
• Dev Comment: The resummoned Demon will have the maximum stats it had at the moment it died. So if it was stat-buffed in the Tavern or in combat, it would come back buffed, but if it was set to 3/3 by Transmuted Bramblewitch, it would come back as a 3/3. In either case, it wouldn't come back with extra keywords it gained. With this change, The Curator is no longer banned from Demon lobbies.

Murky

• Old: 4/4. Battlecry: Give a friendly Murloc +4/+4 for each one you control.
• New: 3/3. Battlecry: Give a friendly Murloc +3/+3 for each one you control.

Nightbane, Ignited

• Old: [Tier 4] 6/3
• New: [Tier 5] 10/6

Living Azerite

• Old: [Tier 3] 3/3
• New: [Tier 4] 4/4

Portal in a Bottle

• Old: [Tier 3]
• New: [Tier 5]

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

• [Progression] Fixed a bug where players could get Demolition Renovator from random Standard card-grant rewards, like End of Season rewards and Arena winnings. Affected players will be given a compensatory dust grant in an update after the patch is live.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Crane Game was accidentally given the Shadow Spell School.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a visual bug where Languagehacker’s name wasn’t capitalized correctly in his Mage deck recipe deck’s title. Sorry, Languagehacker!
• [Hearthstone] Pitting Carefree Cookie and Bayfin Bodybuilder against each other will no longer cause an infinite loop and crash (now Bodybuilder is capped at 15).

Patch 30.0 launches tomorrow and sets sail for Perils in Paradise, coming to Hearthstone on July 23!

Welcome to Paradise!

Perils in Paradise, Hearthstone’s next expansion, touches down on July 23. The new 145-card expansion includes the new Tourist keyword, tasty Drinks, re-opening Locations, and more! See all the new cards in the official Card Library today. This is your last chance to book your Pre-Purchase bundle, only available until the expansion goes live next week, so don’t miss out!

With the launch of Perils in Paradise comes a new Rewards Track filled with great resort amenities like XP boosts, cards, card packs, and a pile of Gold! Check out the Rewards Track Refresh blog for details.

Theorycrafting, Community Days, and More!

Join your favorite content creators as they explore the amenities and enemies of Perils in Paradise before Marin opens its doors to the public. Invited players will be streaming their participation on their own personal streams, so make sure you’re following your favorite Hearthstone creators and tune in when they go live!

• NA/LATAM/EMEA players will play on July 17, 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. (PDT)
• APAC players will play on July 18, 2:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. (PDT)
• Sottle, Raven, Lorinda, and Edelweiss will return for Theorycasting on July 17 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (PDT)

Twitch Drops will be enabled category-wide from July 17, 9:00 am. to July 18, 9:00 a.m. (PDT), so you can watch any Hearthstone stream you’d like and earn up to 2 Perils in Paradise packs. Participating streams will have Pre-Purchase Mega Bundle codes to give away to their audiences during the event, too!

Then, to celebrate Perils in Paradise, we’re taking Community Day and turning it into a 48-hour weekend getaway! From July 19, 9:00 a.m. (PDT) to July 21, 9:00 a.m. (PDT), you can earn a bag full of drops just for watching any Hearthstone stream!

Finally, with the launch of Perils in Paradise, you can play your favorite creators’ decks straight from in the game! Six top content creators have crafted this expansion’s latest deck recipes, available from the deck construction page. Give them a try!

Check out our dedicatedCommunity Events Blog for deck recipes and details on all these community activations, and make sure you link your Twitch and Battle.net accounts so that your viewing time counts towards the drops.

Card Update

Splish-Splash Whelp had to take a short time-out, but now it's unbanned in Standard, in summer-shape, and ready to enjoy the launch of Perils in Paradise.

• Old: [2 Mana] 1/1
• New: [3 Mana] 3/2

This card will be eligible for a full dust refund for two weeks following Patch 30.0.

Core Set Updates

Perils in Paradise promises tons of scenic views, including 6 new Locations that can open early if you meet the right conditions. But building a new resort takes lots of construction—and lots of demolition—so we brought Demolition Renovator back to the free Core Set in Patch 30.0, with plans that she hang around until the regular Core Set rotation at the start of the next Hearthstone year.

Separately, the limited-time inclusion of Genn Greymane and Baku the Mooneater in the Core Set will end with the launch of Perils in Paradise on July 23, so this is your last call to use them in Standard before they return to Wild-only.

In-Game Event: Perils in Paradise

After you arrive at the Marin and get yourself situated, it’s time to get out and see what the resort has to offer! From July 30 to August 20, complete Event Quests to earn Event XP on the special event rewards track. Complete the rewards track to earn 6 Perils in Paradise packs and the Icecream Sai Death Knight Hero Skin.

Battlegrounds Update

Buddies are sticking around a bit longer (until the next Battlegrounds season, in Patch 30.2), so we’re keeping up the fun with a returning Tavern Spell that lets you make even more friends:

Buddy Up

[Tier 5, 3 Gold] Discover a Buddy.

Arena Updates

On July 16, with Patch 30.0, all ongoing Arena runs will end and a new Arena season will begin. To celebrate island-hopping tourism, dual-class Arena returns! During this season, curated draft pool buckets are out, and full expansions are back in. You will still only be offered one Legendary card, as the first card of your draft, and for this season class cards will appear about twice as often as before!

The eligible sets that will make up this Arena card pool are:

• Core Set
• Festival of Legends
• TITANS
• Showdown in the Badlands
• Whizbang’s Workshop
• Perils in Paradise

Hearthstone: Music of the Tavern

The year-long celebration continues with more sounds of the tavern. Hearthstone: Music from the Tavern - Volume 1, live with Patch 30.0! Start your vacation off right with 50 of Hearthstone’s iconic in-game tracks, available on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, YouTube, and Deezer!

Artist: Uriah Voth

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

• [Hearthstone] “Temporary” has now been made into a keyword, meaning “this card will be discarded at the end of your turn.” This is primarily a text-only change that will not change existing card functionality.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Sandbox Scoundrel’s cost reduction effect persisted if the reduced card was Countered.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where a Nostalgic Clown couldn’t ever activate the effect of the Miniaturized Nostalgic Clown (such as, if the Nostalgic Clown was returned to hand and replayed while the Mini was still in hand).
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Galactic Projection Orb could pick itself for the 10-mana spell, but then be blocked from resolving it, resulting in no 10-mana spell going off.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where newly created copies of Floppy Hydra wouldn’t be drawn by Sharp-Eyed Seeker.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Celestial Ink Set was triggered when the enemy played spells.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Wickerclaw’s effect activated when the enemy gained Attack.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Scourge Supplies didn’t function properly with cards that had effects that immediately triggered when drawn.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Magnetic minions given Spell Damage wouldn’t carry the effect over when Magnetized.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where the Immune tooltip was incomplete.
• [Hearthstone] Updated the text on Lab Patron and Molten Giant to more accurately reflect their effects.
• [Twist] Fixed a bug where Thorim’s hero power could get permanently upgraded.
• [Twist] Updated the interaction between Xyrella and Tamsin so that Tamsin’s second life doesn’t block Xyrella from winning if she purifies her shard.
• [Battlegrounds] In Duos, the first person in combat (between you or your partner) will no longer always swap each turn. You can still see the upcoming combat order on the scoreboard on the left side.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where cards like Defiant Shipwright and Whelp Smuggler only triggered once if they got two of the same triggering condition at the same time (such as if you have two copies of Timecap’n Hooktail in play and played a spell).
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Defiant Shipwright’s effect didn’t trigger if it got its Attack buffed while in the Tavern (on Bob’s side of the board, before you buy it).
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where you could sometimes finish a game in Solo Battlegrounds and then have Duos be selected for your next game.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Feisty Freshwater didn’t work with Millhouse Manastorm’s Hero Power.
• [Shop] Fixed a bug where in-game Gold purchases were blocked for some players.
• [Solo Content] Fixed a bug where Dalaran Heist and Tombs of Terror ignored player deck selection.
• [Social] Fixed a bug where some mobile devices would cause crashes when using the in-game chat feature.
• [Cosmetics] Fixed bugs with Ulfar and Blood Queen Lana’thel’s Hero Power animations.
• Misc. other bug fixed and game improvements.

Patch 29.6.2, launching today, brings balance changes and more!

Hearthstone Updates

Dev Comment: This is a smaller patch, designed to prepare for the launch of Perils in Paradise by weakening a few cards that are warping the meta in a way that could stifle new expansion development. As a note, we want to let that early post-expansion meta develop a bit before we step in, so our next major balance pass is scheduled for slightly later than the last few (about two weeks after expansion launch instead of about 10 days).

Reno, Lone Ranger

• Old: [9 Mana]
• New: [10 Mana]

Zilliax Deluxe 3000 (Virus Module)

• Old: [3 Mana]
• New: [4 Mana]

Celestial Projectionist

• Old: [2 Mana] 3/2
• New: [3 Mana] 3/3

The above craftable cards will be eligible for full dust refunds for two weeks following Patch 29.6.2.

Twist Updates

Dev Comment: The overall goal of these changes is to move more Heroes towards the 35 Health range. This means that, generally speaking, Heroes that had less than 35 Health before this patch had their decks adjusted to be weaker, while Heroes that had more than 35 Health before this patch had their decks (and sometimes effects) adjusted to be stronger. After these changes, we’ll continue using Health as our more regular tuning knob.

Hero Effect Changes

I am Inevitable! (C’Thun's Passive)

• Old: C’Thun starts in your hand. After two friendly minions die, give your C’Thun +1/+1.
• New: C’Thun starts in your hand. After three friendly minions die, give your C’Thun +2/+2.

Boom Barrage (Dr. Boom's Passive)

• Old: After a friendly mech dies, shuffle a Bomb into your opponent’s deck.
• New: After a friendly mech dies, shuffle a Bomb into your opponent’s deck and gain 1 Armor.

Feral Frenzy (Guff Runetotem's Hero Power)

• Old: [1 Mana] +1 Attack this turn. Usable twice a turn.
• New: [1 Mana] +1 Attack this turn. Can be used three times in a turn.

New Hero Health Totals

The following heroes now have more Health:

• Al’Akir, the Windlord: 35
• Kael’thas Sunstrider: 35
• Nozdormu: 35
• The Lich King: 35
• Forest Warden Omu: 35
• Zul’jin: 35
• Arfus: 30

The following heroes now have less Health:

• Illidan Stormrage: 35
• Leeroy Jenkins: 35
• C’Thun: 35
• King Krush: 35
• Dr. Boom: 35
• N’Zoth, the Corruptor: 35
• Brann Bronzebeard: 35
• Guff Runetotem: 35

Hero Deck Changes

The following heroes have had their decks adjusted:

• Illidan Stormrage
• Al’Akir, the Windlord
• Leeroy Jenkins
• Kael’thas Sunstrider
• C’Thun
• Nozdormu
• The Lich King
• Sir Finley Mrrgglton
• King Krush
• Forest Warden Omu
• Dr. Boom
• Zul’jin
• N’Zoth, the Corruptor
• Brann Bronzebeard
• Guff Runetotem
• Arfus

Dev Comment: That’s everyone except for Arch-Villain Rafaam, Xyrella, and Patches the Pirate. New decklists will be viewable from the Hero Selection screen in-game after this patch is live.

Battlegrounds Updates

Dev Comment: We hope you're enjoying the return of Buddies as well as their debut in Duos. In this patch, we're primarily addressing Buddy performance outliers. Most of these are Tier adjustments, though some have additional changes where Tier would not have been sufficient. In addition, we also made some minion adjustments to reduce frustrating play patterns with Beasts, repeated Battlecries, and, frankly, crimes in Duos. We also gave a bit more support to underperfoming Types. We'll continue to monitor the meta as it develops and make more adjustments as needed.

Hero Power Changes

Alexstrasza

• Old: [Passive] At the start of your turn, Discover a Dragon. (Unlocks at Tier 4.)
• New: [1 Gold] Discover a Dragon. (Unlocks at Tier 4.)

Onyxia

• Old: [Passive] Avenge (3): Summon a 3/1 Whelp. It attacks immediately.
• New: [Passive] Avenge (4): Summon a 3/1 Whelp. It attacks immediately.

Hero Armor Changes

The following heroes have been adjusted to have less Armor:

• Galewing now has 8 Armor, and 5 Armor in Duos.
• Scabbs Cutterbutter now has 10 Armor, and 7 Armor in Duos.
• Murloc Holmes now has 10 Armor, and 7 Armor in Duos.
• Xyrella now has 13 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Rokara now has 13 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Varden Dawngrasp now has 13 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Heistbaron Togwaggle now has 13 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Thorim Stormlord now has 13 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Rock Master Voone now has 15 Armor, and 12 Armor in Duos.

The following heroes have been adjusted to have more Armor:

• Doctor Holli’dae now has 8 Armor, and 5 Armor in Duos.
• Alexstrasza now has 10 Armor, and 7 Armor in Duos.
• Queen Azshara now has 10 Armor, and 7 Armor in Duos.
• Onyxia now has 10 Armor, still has 7 Armor in Duos.
• Overlord Saurfang now has 10 Armor, and 7 Armor in Duos.
• Maiev Shadowsong now has 10 Armor at higher ranks, 15 Armor at lower ranks, and 7 Armor in Duos.
• Lich Baz’hial now has 12 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Elise Starseeker now has 13 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Reno Jackson now has 13 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Rakanishu now has 13 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Death Speaker Blackthorn now has 13 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Ini Stormcoil now has 13 Armor at higher ranks, 7 Armor at lower ranks, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Chenvaala now has 13 Armor at higher ranks, 7 Armor at lower ranks, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Vol’jin now has 14 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• Greybough now has 14 Armor, and 10 Armor in Duos.
• The Great Akazamzarak now has 15 Armor, and 12 in Duos.
• The Curator now has 15 Armor, and 12 in Duos.
• Sneed now has 16 Armor, and 13 in Duos.
• Professor Putricide now has 18 Armor, and 13 Armor in Duos.
• Jandice Barov now has 19 Armor, and 16 Armor in Duos.
• Queen Wagtoggle now has 19 Armor, and 16 Armor in Duos.
• Tavish Stormpike now has 19 Armor, and 17 Armor in Duos.
• Pyramad now has 20 Armor, and 17 Armor in Duos.
• Ozumat now has 20 Armor, and 17 Armor in Duos.
• Y’Shaarj now has 20 Armor, and 17 Armor in Duos.
• Kael’thas Sunstrider now has 20 Armor, still has 17 Armor in Duos.
• Cariel Roame now has 20 Armor at higher ranks and 16 Armor in Duos, still has 10 Armor at lower ranks.

Buddy Changes

Vaelstrasz (Alexstrasza)

• Old: [Tier 3] 4/4. Battlecry and Start of Combat: Give your other minions +2/+2.
• New: [Tier 5] 6/6. Battlecry and Start of Combat: Give your other minions +3/+3.

Imperial Defender (Queen Azshara)

• Old: [Tier 4] 2/4
• New: [Tier 6] 4/8

Shining Sailor (Cap’n Hoggarr)

• Old: 3/6. After you buy a Pirate, gain +1/+1 and add a Pirate to the Tavern.
• New: 4/7. After you buy 2 Pirates, gain +1/+1 and add a Pirate to the Tavern.

Acolyte of Yogg-Saron (Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End)

• Old: [Tier 4] 5/4
• New: [Tier 5] 6/4
• Curse of Flesh also now only gives one friendly minion the stats of another friendly minion, instead of two minions gaining stats of two friendly minions.

Dranosh Saurfang (Overlord Saurfang)

• Old: [Tier 4] 2/2
• New: [Tier 5] 6/6

Unearthed Underling (Lich Baz’hial)

• Old: [Tier 3] 3/3
• New: [Tier 4] 5/5

Shadow Warden (Maiev Shadowsong)

• Old: [Tier 2] 4/4
• New: [Tier 3] 6/6

The Nine Frogs (Doctor Holli’dae)

• Old: [Tier 5]
• New: [Tier 6]

Death’s Head Sage (Death Speaker Blackthorn)

• Old: [Tier 5] 3/6
• New: [Tier 6] 3/7

Box Cars (Snake Eyes)

• Old: [Tier 4]
• New: [Tier 6]

Snow Elemental (Chenvaala)

• Old: [Tier 3] 4/3
• New: [Tier 4] 5/4

Lantern Tender (Rakanishu)

• Old: [Tier 4] 5/3
• New: [Tier 5] 6/4

Wandering Treant (Greybough)

• Old: [Tier 4] 2/5
• New: [Tier 5] 2/7

Jr. Navigator (Elise Starseeker)

• Old: [Tier 2] 3/3
• New: [Tier 3] 4/4

Master Gadrin (Vol’jin)

• Old: [Tier 5] 6/5
• New: [Tier 6] 7/6

Sr. Tomb Diver (Reno Jackson)

• Old: [Tier 1] 4/1
• New: [Tier 2] 5/1

Piloted Whirl-O-Tron (Sneed)

• Old: [Tier 5] 5/4
• New: [Tier 6] 6/4

Festergut (Professor Putricide)

• Old: [Tier 3] 4/2
• New: [Tier 4] 6/2

Sub Scrubber (Ini Stormcoil)

• Old: [Tier 4] 4/4
• New: [Tier 5] 6/6

Snack Vendor (A.F. Kay)

• Old: 5/4
• New: 3/2

Mishmash (The Curator)

• Old: [Tier 3] 2/2
• New: [Tier 4] 4/4

Karl the Lost (George the Fallen)

• Old: [Tier 4] 3/4
• New: [Tier 3] 3/4

Watfin (Murloc Holmes)

• Old: [Tier 3] 2/6
• New: [Tier 2] 2/5

SI:7 Scout (Edwin VanCleef)

• Old: [Tier 2] 3/3
• New: [Tier 1] 2/2

Warden Thelwater (Scabbs Cutterbutter)

• Old: [Tier 4] 2/6
• New: [Tier 3] 2/4

Varden’s Aquarrior (Varden Dawngrasp)

• Old: [Tier 4]
• New: [Tier 3]

Icesnarl the Mighty (Rokara)

• Old: [Tier 4]
• New: [Tier 3]

Flight Trainer (Galewing)

• Old: [Tier 2] 2/3
• New: [Tier 1] 2/2

Waxadred, the Drippy (Heistbaron Togwaggle)

• Old: [Tier 5]
• New: [Tier 4]

Nightmare Ectoplasm (Mutanus the Devourer)

• Old: [Tier 3] 5/4
• New: [Tier 2] 4/3

Baby Elekk (Xyrella)

• Old: [Tier 3]
• New: [Tier 2]

Bilgewater Mogul (Trade Prince Gallywix)

• Old: [Tier 4]
• New: [Tier 3]

Akali, Rock Rhino (Rock Master Voone)

• Old: [Tier 4] 5/5
• New: [Tier 3] 3/3

Sparkfin Soothsayer (Fungalmancer Flurgl)

• Old: [Tier 5] 5/4
• New: [Tier 3] 4/3

Veranus, Stormlord’s Mount (Thorim, Stormlord)

• Old: [Tier 3] 6/3
• New: [Tier 2] 5/2

Asher the Haberdasher (Dancin’ Deryl)

• Old: [Tier 4]
• New: [Tier 2]

Mister Chu (Madam Goya)

• Old: [Tier 4]
• New: [Tier 5]

Minion Pool Changes

• Removed from the Minion Pool: Draconic Deathscale.
• Added to the Minion Pool: Gem Smuggler, Hunter of Gatherers.

Other Minion/Spell Changes

Iridescent Skyblazer

• Old: 3/7. Whenever a friendly Beast takes damage, give a friendly Beast other than it +1/+2 permanently.
• New: 4/8. Whenever a friendly Beast takes damage, give a friendly Beast other than it +1/+1 permanently.

Trigore the Lasher

• Old: 5/3. Whenever another friendly Beast takes damage, gain +1/+1 permanently.
• New: 9/3. Whenever another friendly Beast takes damage, gain +2 Health permanently.

Electric Synthesizer

• Old: 3/3. Battlecry: Give your other Dragons +3/+1.
• New: 3/2. Battlecry: Give your other Dragons +3/+2.

Tarecgosa

• Old: 4/4
• New: 5/5

Whelp Smuggler

• Old: 2/3
• New: 2/5

Roaring Rallier

• Old: 3/5. Whenever a friendly Dragon attacks, give it +2/+1.
• New: 2/6. Whenever a friendly Dragon attacks, give it +3/+1.

Ghoul-acabra

• Old: 2/11. Whenever you trigger a Deathrattle, give your minions +2/+2 permanently.
• New: 3/12. After a friendly Deathrattle minion dies, give your minions +2/+2 permanently.

Moon-Bacon Jazzer

• Old: [Tier 3] 2/5
• New: [Tier 2] 2/3

Boon of Beetles

• Old: [2 Gold] When you have space during combat, summon a 3/3 Beetle with Taunt. (4 left!)
• New: [1 Gold] When you have space in combat, summon a 10/10 Beetle with Taunt.
• Dev Comment: It now only summons one large Beetle, instead of four small ones.

Misc. Other Changes

• Mawsworn Soulkeeper (The Jailer’s Buddy) has been removed from E.T.C., Band Manager’s Hero Power pool.
• Lightning Invocation on Spirit Raptor (Brukan’s Buddy) can no longer be triggered in the Recruit phase.
• Several additional Heroes will no longer be able to be paired together in Duos (Shudderwock and Zephrys, the Great were the biggest offenders with the most new banned pairings).

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where the Metamorphosis Illidan portrait had issues if you transformed after getting certain Health modifiers (like Prince Renathal).
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where the Just Keep Swimming Spellcraft spell removed Stealth from Stealth minions.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Ghoul-acabra's effect couldn’t trigger during the Recruit phase.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Halfu’s the Mighty (Cho’s Buddy) could cause a triple for Cho before passing the generated minion to Gall.

Patch 29.6, launching today, starts planning for Hearthstone’s next expansion, Perils in Paradise, returns Baku and Genn to the free Core Set for a limited time, brings Buddies back to Battlegrounds (including Battlegrounds Duos), sets the stage for the next Twist season, and more!

Pre-Purchase Perils in Paradise

Prepare for an island vacation to Hearthstone’s next expansion, Perils in Paradise, arriving on July 23! The old fox Marin has put his questing days behind him and is taking on a new adventure: resort management. Tucked away in the Spiral Isles, his new resort has everything you need for an unforgettable adventure—class-hopping Tourists, tasty Drinks, Locations you’ll want to visit over and over again, and a dash of danger. Book your tickets now, it’s almost time for Perils in Paradise!

Perils in Paradise has 145 all-new collectible cards. You can learn more about what’s on the trip itinerary in the Perils in Paradise Announce Blog. Two pre-purchase options are available now, so pack your bags!

Pre-purchase

Log in and Get Marin the Manager for Free!

What better way to prepare for your trip than a chat with the resort manager? Log in to Hearthstone now to start planning with the free Marin the Manager Legendary card!* Play him and he promises you’ll Treasure your trip.

* Limited one per account. After Patch 30.6, Marin the Manager will be granted upon opening your first Perils in Paradise pack, instead of upon logging in.

Genn and Baku Return to Core

With Patch 29.6, until the launch of Perils in Paradise on July 23, Genn and Baku will be added to the free Core Set! That means they will be playable in Standard and Wild for everyone during that time. Years ago, these two iconic cards were so powerful they were sent to Wild early! Now they’re back to celebrate Hearthstone’s history—and for a bit of revenge. What Odd creations will you Even come up with?

Buddies are Back in Battlegrounds!

Buddies return for the Battlegrounds, and come to Duos for the first time, in the 29.6 mid-season update! Each Hero has a special Buddy that is unique to them and synergizes with their Hero Power. Press your Buddy Button during the shop phase to get yours! The cost to press the Buddy Button reduces throughout the game and resets when pressed—press it again for three total copies of your Buddy.

There are 12 all-new Buddies, 23 updated Buddies, new and returning minions, minion pool changes, and more this patch! Check out our dedicated Battlegrounds preview blog for all the details.

In-Game Event: Midsummer Fire Festival

The summer season is underway, with a new Fire Festival in-game event before we set sail for Perils in Paradise! From June 25 to July 16, complete Event Quests to earn Event XP on the special event rewards track. Complete the rewards track to earn 6 Whizbang’s Workshop Packs and the Reaver V-07-TR-0N Rogue Hero Skin.

July Twist Season: Even More Heroes

Whizbang’s Heroes is returning in July with 9 additional new Heroes to try! Each Hero is unlocked when you have the card with the same name as the Hero in your Collection. You can see all Hero details—including their decklists and a direct link to their unlock card—from the Twist Hero selection screen once the July season begins.

Marin the Manager

• Passive: Seize the Opportunity! - When you play your right-most card, draw a card.
• Hero Power: Investment - [1 Mana] Shuffle 3 Coins into your deck.

Lady Liadrin

• Passive: Liadrin’s Champion – After you cast a spell on a friendly minion, draw a card. It costs (2) less. Once per turn.
• Hero Power: Patience - [0 Mana] Refresh your Mana Crystals. Lock this Hero Power for that many turns.

Sargeras, the Destroyer

• Passive: The End is Nigh! - At the start of your turn, shuffle a 10-Cost spell that deals 30 damage into your deck.
• Hero Power: Twisting Nether - [3 Mana] Destroy all minions. Only usable once.

Elite Tauren Champion

• Passive: KEEP ON ROCKING! - At the end of your turn, give a random Taunt minion in your hand +2/+2.
• Hero Power: Riffraff - [1 Mana] Get a 2/1 Rocker with Taunt. Finale: Summon it.

Halveria Darkraven

• Passive: Outcast Anthem – The left and right-most cards in your hand cost (1) less.
• Hero Power: Song of Angst - [1 Mana] Choose a minion, it takes one extra damage from all sources this turn.

Heartbreaker Hedanis

• Passive: Starstruck – When a minion enters your hand, give it -2 Attack and reduce its cost by (1).
• Hero Power: Captive Audience - [2 Mana] Give a minion +2/+2. If it is Silenced, draw a card.

Thorim Stormlord

• Passive: Titanic Surge – Your Totems have +2 Attack (wherever they are).
• Hero Power: Harness the Storm - [1 Mana] Summon a basic Totem. Summon two if you’re Overloaded.

Queen Azshara

• Passive: Shifting Tides – After you play a spell, refresh a Mana Crystal and switch to Naga. Also swaps your Hero Power.
• Hero Power: Command Naga - [1 Mana] Get a Naga that costs (3) or less. Shifting Tides swaps this.
  • Command Magic - [1 Mana] Get a spell that costs (3) or less. Shifting Tides swaps this.

Tamsin Roame

• Passive: Perfume Phylactery – You have two lives. After you die, your Hero Power deals damage instead of summoning a Demon.
• Hero Power: Blood Pact - [2 Mana] Take 1 damage. Summon a 1/1 Demon. Increases each turn.
  • Soulbound - [2 Mana] Take 1 damage. Deal 1 damage. Increases each turn.

Diamond Disenchanting Update

Starting with Patch 29.6, most Diamond cards will be able to be disenchanted for the same value as if they were Golden cards. As with other card qualities, the Diamond cards that won’t be able to be disenchanted are the ones that are specially granted, like those on the Rewards Track or included in the Golden Mini-Set. As with Signature cards, Diamond cards still won’t be able to be crafted, to keep them exciting and special.

Matchmaking Update

Previously, matchmaking on the ranked ladder was based on your internal rating (commonly called “MMR”) while you had bonus stars and based on ladder rank after you ran out of bonus stars. Now, matchmaking will continue to be based on your internal rating even after you run out of bonus stars. This change should reduce matchmaking complexity and result in more consistent and fairer matches throughout the ladder.

Passive XP Grant Adjustment

In our continued efforts to combat bots and exploitive play patterns, extended periods of inactivity will now reward less XP. This change will not impact players taking normal game actions on their turns, such as playing cards, making attacks, or even just hitting the end turn button, so most players won’t see change in their XP earned—just fewer bots wasting their time.

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

• [General] Updated minimum specifications to require 64-bit support.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where the “Complete Your Deck” button went missing.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where persistent effects like Sigils and Auras didn’t stack if replayed by cards like Tess Greymane or Jotun, the Eternal.
• [Hearthstone] Made Khadgar’s Magic Wisdomball more helpful in cases where all enemy characters are unable to be targeted.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where playing Boom Wrench caused a momentary client freeze up.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Return Policy could Discover cards that were granted Deathrattles—that's outside of policy. Also fixed a visual bug where Golden Return Policy’s main character was missing—it has now been returned.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where T.N.T.s copied by Jotun the Eternal’s effect would hit the enemy side, instead of Jotun’s side.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Treants and Piranha Swarmers with different art pieces were treated as different minions.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where the Cast When Drawn cards shuffled into the deck with Runic Adornment could target functionally dead minions.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Proving Grounds could cause illegal attacks if one of the minions was transformed or changed zones during the attack.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Arcanite Ripper’s effect would only trigger once when dealt damage and healed at the same time.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where a Banana couldn’t have a funny mustache; and a related bug where Remornia, Living Blade’s weapon form couldn’t have a funny mustache.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Poisoned Blade didn’t work with Sing-Along Buddy.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where cards like Spirit of the Dragonhawk and Wickerclaw didn’t work with Sing-Along Buddy.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed various minor visual bugs with the Whizbang’s Heroes Twist user interface.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a visual bug where a card turned into Malygos with Wave of Nostalgia cosplayed as random other minions.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed bugs with Aranna Starseeker and Queen Azshara's transform, and returned them to the Hero Pool.
• [Battlegrounds] Minions that had Venomous and/or Stealth, but lost them in combat before dying, will have them again when resummoned by Cultist S’Thara.
• [Battlegrounds] Reno’s “We’re Gonna be Rich!” can no longer target Putricide’s Creations.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Polarizing Beatboxer wouldn’t gain taunt if you Fortified a Magnetic minion and then Magnetized it.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where the turn timer and the rope were out of sync during the Tavern Phase.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a visual bug where Greybough’s Hero Power caused Undead summoned in combat to not show their Undead buffs.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Putricide’s Creations looked different from your teammate’s perspective.
• [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug causing desyncs.
• [Solo Content] Fixed various Boomsday Puzzles that were unable to be solved due to card updates.
• [Localization] Fixed various localization issues across languages.
• Misc. other bug fixes and game improvements.

In Patch 29.6, Buddies are returning to Battlegrounds including their debut in Battlegrounds Duos!

What’s a Buddy?

Buddies are powerful minions assigned to each Hero. Every Buddy is unique to a particular Hero Power and doesn’t appear in the general minion pool. Throughout the match, you can get copies of your Buddy to add to your Warband and help you win the fight.

Making Friends is Easy

Just like last time Buddies were around, each hero will have a Buddy Button that you can press to get their Buddy. The Buddy Button has an initial cost based on the Tavern Tier of your Buddy, which then goes down by 3 Gold each time you win or tie a combat, or 2 Gold each time you lose a combat.

Your Buddy Button can be pressed twice per game. Pressing the button resets the Cost (and slightly increases it). The first time you press the button, you get one copy of your Buddy; the second time, you get two. Finally, since this is the first time we’ve had Buddies in Duos, we’re temporarily adding 10 seconds to all turn-timers in Duos while you get acquainted.

New Buddies

It’s been a while since we last saw our Buddies. Now there are 12 all-new Buddies to meet!

Cap’n Hoggarr – Shining Sailor [Tier 5, Pirate]

• 3/6. After you buy a Pirate, gain +1/+1 and add a Pirate to the Tavern.

Inge, the Iron Hymn – Solem Serenader [Tier 3, Undead]

• 4/3. After you use your Hero Power on a minion, it gains half this minion’s Attack. (Swaps to Health next turn!)

Rock Master Voone – Akali, Rock Rhino [Tier 4, Beast]

• 5/5. At the end of every 2 turns, get a plain copy of the left-most card in your hand.

Thorim, Stormlord – Veranus, Stormlord’s Mount [Tier 3, Dragon]

• 6/3. At the end of your turn, transform the minion to the left of this into one from a tier higher (up to Tier 7!)

Snake Eyes – Box Cars [Tier 4, Mech]

• 6/6. At the start of your turn, roll a 6-sided die. Discover a Tavern spell of that Tier.

Doctor Holli’dae - The Nine Frogs [Tier 5, Beast]

• 9/9. After you buy a minion, get a random Tavern spell of the same Tier. (9 left!)

Tae’thelan Bloodwatcher – Reliquary Attendant [Tier 4, Elemental]

• 7/4. Once per turn, after you cast a Tavern spell, get a new copy of it.

Nameless One – Faceless One [Tier 4]

• 1/1. Battlecry: Get the Buddy of your teammate’s Hero Power.

Cho – Halfus the Mighty [Tier 4]

• 5/5. At the start of your turn, Discover a minion of your Tier. (50% chance to Pass it!)

Gall – Halfus the Wise [Tier 4]

• 5/5. At the start of your turn, Discover a Tavern spell of your Tier. (50% chance to Pass it!)

Madam Goya – Mister Chu [Tier 4]

• 5/6. Once per turn, after you Pass a minion, get a plain copy of it.

Flobbidinous Floop – Glorious Gloopling [Tier 5]

• 5/1. At the start of your turn, get a plain copy of your teammate’s highest-Tier minion (except Buddies).

Updated Buddies

In addition to new Buddies, we’ve also made updates to several of our old friends.

Overlord Saurfang – Dranosh Saurfang [Tier 4]

• 2/2. After you buy a minion, gain its stats.

Ragnaros the Firelord – Lucifron [Tier 5]

• 6/5. Your end of turn effects trigger an extra time.

Aranna Starseeker – Sklibb, Demon Hunter [Tier 3]

• 4/4. After you buy a card, your next Refresh costs (0).

Alexstrasza – Vaelastrasz [Tier 3, Dragon]

• 4/4. Battlecry and Start of Combat: Give your other minions +2/+2.

Zephrys – Phyresz [Tier 4, Elemental]

• 3/3. Battlecry: Discover a plain copy of a different minion that you have exactly one of.
• Dev Comment: This is primarily a text update for clarity, but there have also been some small functional updates. Phyresz does not count itself or Zilliax modules, but it does now count Golden minions.

A.F. Kay – Snack Vendor [Tier 3]

• 5/4. At the end of your turn, give your Tier 3 minions +1/+2.

Death Speaker Blackthorn – Death's Head Sage [Tier 5, Undead/Quilboar]

• 3/6. After you get a Blood Gem, get an extra one.

Queen Azshara – Imperial Defender [Tier 4, Naga]

• 2/4. Whenever you cast a Spellcraft spell on a different friendly minion, you also cast it on this.

Sire Denathrius – Shady Aristocrat [Tier 3]

• 3/3. When you sell this, Discover a Quest. Complete it to get an 8-Gold Coin Pouch.

Teron Gorefiend – Shadowy Construct [Tier 5, Undead]

• 5/5. Deathrattle: Give this minion’s maximum stats stats to another friendly minion.

Queen Wagtoggle – Elder Taggawag [Tier 4]

• 4/4. Start of Combat: If you control 4 minions with different types, gain your minions’ highest Attack and Health.

Shudderwock – Muckslinger [Tier 5]

• 5/5. Battlecry: Get a random Battlecry minion.

Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End – Acolyte of Yogg-Saron [Tier 4, Murloc]

• 5/4. At the start of every turn, spin the Wheel of Yogg-Saron.
• Some of the Wheel of Yogg-Saron results were also updated:
  • Mindflayer Goggles: Cast 4 random Tavern spells.
  • Rod of Roasting: Cast ‘Pyrobuff’ randomly to give minions +10/+10 until one hits your bartender or hero.
  • Curse of Flesh: Two friendly minions gain the stats of two other random friendly minions.

Dancin’ Deryl – Asher the Haberdasher [Tier 4]

• 2/2. After you sell a minion, gain a +1/+1 hat that passes to a friendly minion when sold.

Ysera – Valithria Dreamwalker [Tier 4, Dragon]

• 6/4. Whenever a Dragon enters your warband or the Tavern, gain +1/+1.

Malygos – Nexus Lord [Tier 4]

• 6/6. ‘Arcane Alteration’ replaces with a card from one Tier higher.

Lord Barov – Barov's Apprentice [Tier 4]

• 5/4. After you play a Coin, gain 1 Gold.
• Dev Comment: This has been updated to include Tavern Coins.

Rakanishu – Lantern Tender [Tier 4]

• 5/3. At the end of your turn, get 2 ‘Lantern Lights’ that give a minion stats equal to your Tier.

Tickatus – Ticket Collector [Tier 5]

• 6/6. When you sell this, Discover a Darkmoon Prize from the next Tier.
• Dev Comment: This is just a wording update for clarity, no functionality change.

Vol’jin - Master Gadrin [Tier 5]

• 6/5. Minions targeted by “Spirit Swap” also gain each other’s Health.

Lich Baz’hial - Unearthed Underling [Tier 3, Undead]

• 3/3. Whenever your hero takes damage, rewind it and gain stats equal to that amount.

Deathwing – Sinestra [Tier 4, Dragon]

• 2/6. Whenever a friendly minion gains Attack during combat, give it +1 Health permanently.

Greybough – Wandering Treant [Tier 4]

• 2/5. Whenever a friendly Taunt minion is attacked, give your minions +1 Attack permanently.

Bud wait, there’s more! In addition to all the Buddy updates, we’re also making updates to existing heroes and minions across both game modes.

Hero Pool Updates

• E.T.C. Band Manager has been returned to the Hero Pool.
• The Curator is banned in Demon lobbies.
  • Dev Comment: This change is because minions summoned by Cultist S’Thara will now resummon with Venomous if they had it before they died, making it easily abuseable with The Curator.

Hero Updates

Alexstrasza – Queen of Dragons

• [Passive] At the start of your turn, Discover a Dragon. (Unlocks at Tier 4).

Tae’thelan Bloodwatcher – Reliquary Research

• [Passive] Every fourth Tavern Spell you buy costs (0).

Rakanishu – Tavern Lighting

• [1 Gold] Get a ‘Lantern Light’ that gives a minion stats equal to your Tier.

Minion Pool Updates

• The following minions will be removed from the minion pool: Augmented Laborer, Bazaar Dealer, Deadstomper, Faceless Disciple, Gem Smuggler, Goldshell Warden, Heedless Hoarder, Long John Copper, Reef Explorer, Timecap’n Hooktail, Vengeful Slitherer, and Winged Chimera.
• The following minions will be returning to the minion pool: Poetic Pen Pal, Imposing Percussionist, and Silent Swimmer.

New Minions

Barrens Brawler [Tier 3]

• 2/6. Battlecry: Get a random Deathrattle minion.

Barrens Conjurer [Tier 5]

• 6/2. Deathrattle: Get a random Battlecry minion.

Arid Atrocity [Tier 6, All]

• 7/7. Deathrattle: Summon a 7/7 Golem. Give it +7/+7 for each friendly minion type that died this combat.

Prime Mate [Tier 4, Beast/Pirate]

• 2/8. After a friendly Deathrattle minion dies, gain 1 Gold next turn.

Ghoul-acabra [Tier 6, Undead/Beast]

• 2/11. Whenever you trigger a Deathrattle, give your minions +2/+2 permanently.

‘Loc Prince [Tier 4, Murloc]

• 2/2. Whenever this gains stats, add +2/+2 to that amount (wherever this is).

Fairy Gillmother [Tier 4, Murloc]

• 1/5. At the end of your turn, get a random Murloc.

Crow’s Nest Sentry [Tier 3, Pirate]

• 5/2. Battlecry: Give your other Pirates +3 Health.

Clunker Junker [Tier 4, Mech]

• 3/4. Battlecry: Choose a friendly Mech. Discover a Mech to Magnetize to it.

Three Lil’ Quilboar [Tier 5, Quilboar]

• 3/3. Deathrattle: Play three Blood Gems on your Quilboar.

Jumping Jack (Duos Only) [Tier 3, All]

• 3/4. The first time this is sold, Pass it instead.

Minion Updates

King Bagurgle [Tier 5, Murloc]

• 6/3. Battlecry: Give your other Murlocs +3/+3.

Imposing Percussionist [Tier 4, Demon]

• 4/4. Battlecry: Discover a Demon. Deal damage to your hero equal to its Tier.

All these updates are coming to Battlegrounds in Patch 29.6. Look out for date announcements and more, soon. Your Buddies have been waiting for you—we'll see you in the Tavern!

Patch 29.4.2, launching today, brings the following balance changes, Weekly Quest updates, and more!

Weekly Quest Updates

Before the Weekly Quests changed in Patch 29.2, we didn’t adequately communicate the changes that were coming, or our reasoning for them. That’s something we’ll keep improving on.

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been listening to your experiences and looking at our data, and it’s clear that the new Weekly Quests didn’t do their job of rewarding you for your time playing the game. Going forward, we want to strike a much better balance between your time spent in Hearthstone and the rewards given by Weekly Quests.

So we’re making some more updates in this patch, reducing the requirements on the Weekly Quests that seem to be blocking player progression for many of you, while leaving the increased XP where it is. We hope these new changes will still reward you more while keeping Weekly Quests an attainable and fun goal for all players. We look forward to seeing how this iteration works out. Please keep the feedback coming! Thanks for playing, and we’ll see you in the Tavern.

- Tyler Bielman, Game Director

Win Games of Ranked

• Old: Win 10 games of Ranked Hearthstone.
• New: Play 10 games of Ranked Hearthstone.

Win Games of Arena, Tavern Brawl, or Battlegrounds

• Old: Win 10 games of Arena, Tavern Brawl, or Battlegrounds.
• New: Play 5 games of Arena, Tavern Brawl, or Battlegrounds.

Play Miniaturize or Mini cards

• Old: Play 32 Miniaturize or Mini cards.
• New: Play 10 Miniaturize or Mini cards.

Spend Mana

• Old: Spend 750 Mana.
• New: Spend 650 Mana.

Hearthstone Updates

Dev Comment: It’s early after the launch of the Dr. Boom’s Incredible Inventions Mini-Set and the metagame is still developing, so we’re making just a few balance adjustments in this patch, aimed at addressing early outlier decks. All three of the target decks are a little too good at flooding the board too early and too efficiently. The Molten Giant change slows Warlock down slightly and also makes the play pattern a bit more dangerous, allowing more room for a counterswing. Showdown is an enabler for Zilliax, Sea Giant, and Prismatic Beam in Paladin, so we think it could be less efficient for that deck. Finally, Thirsty Drifter is another strong swarming card, particularly at higher levels of play, and our data indicates that deck would likely trend upwards if we didn’t adjust it here, too.

Showdown

• Old: [2 Mana]
• New: [3 Mana]

Thirsty Drifter

• Old: [6 Mana]
• New: [7 Mana]

Molten Giant

• Old: [20 Mana]
• New: [22 Mana]

The above craftable cards will be eligible for a full dust refund for two weeks following Patch 29.4.2. (Core Set versions of cards can’t be crafted or disenchanted; access the craftable version of Molten Giant by selecting the “Legacy” filter in the Collection).

Battlegrounds Updates

Minion Pool Changes

The following minions have been removed from the minion pool:

• Kindly Grandmother
• Sly Raptor
• Gentle Djinni

The following minions have been added to the minion pool:

• Manasaber
• Rat Pack
• Lil’ Rag (with updates, see below)

Battlegrounds Card Changes

Rylak Metalhead

• Old: Taunt. Deathrattle: Trigger the Battlecry of the minion to the left of this.
• New: Taunt. Deathrattle: Trigger the Battlecry of an adjacent minion.
• Dev Comment: If there are Battlecry minions on both sides of Rylak, it will randomly trigger one. This is primarily a quality-of-life change after lots of reports from players frustrated that they or their Duos partner accidentally put Rylak in the wrong position and got no effect.

Pokey Thornmantle

• Old: 4/5. At the end of your turn, your Blood Gems give an extra +1/+1 this game.
• New: 6/7. At the start of your turn, your Blood Gems give an extra +1/+1 this game.

Party Elemental

• Old: 4/2. After you play an Elemental, give a friendly Elemental other than it +1/+1.
• New: 3/2. After you play an Elemental, give a friendly Elemental other than it +2/+1.

Deadstomper

• Old: 2/6
• New: 4/11

Whirling Lass-o-Matic

• Old: 9/5
• New: 7/4

Scrap Scraper

• Old: 5/5. Battlecry and Deathrattle: Get a random Magnetic Mech.
• New: 6/5. Deathrattle: Get a random Magnetic Mech.

Winged Chimera

• Old: 1/5. When this takes damage, give a friendly minion of each type +1/+1. (3 times per combat).
• New: 1/6. When this takes damage, give a friendly minion of each type +1/+1. (Twice per combat).

Deep Blue Crooner

• Old: 4/4
• New: 2/2

Spellbound Seafarer

• Old: 4/6. After you buy 4 cards, get a random Tavern spell.
• New: 3/5. After you buy 3 cards, get a random Tavern spell.

Gunpowder Courier

• Old: 2/6. After you spend 5 Gold, give your Pirates +1 Attack.
• New: 1/6. After you spend 4 Gold, give your Pirates +1 Attack.

Sister Deathwhisper

• Old: 4/10. After a friendly minion is Reborn, give your Undead +1/+3 permanently.
• New: 5/9. After a friendly minion is Reborn, give your minions +1/+3 permanently.

Trigore the Lasher

• Old: 8/3. Whenever another friendly Beast takes damage, gain +1 Health permanently.
• New: 5/3. Whenever another friendly Beast takes damage, gain +1/+1 permanently.

Iridescent Skyblazer

• Old: 3/8. Whenever a friendly Beast takes damage, give a friendly Beast other than it +1/+1 permanently.
• New: 3/7. Whenever a friendly Beast takes damage, give a friendly Beast other than it +1/+2 permanently.

Murky

• Old: 6/4. Battlecry: Give a friendly Murloc +10/+10.
• New: 4/4. Battlecry: Give a friendly Murloc +4/+4 for each one you control.

Hungering Abomination

• Old: 6/7. Avenge (1): Gain +1/+1 permanently.
• New: 4/5. Avenge (1): Gain +1/+2 permanently.

Molten Rock

• Old: 3/2
• New: 3/3

Flourishing Frostling

• Old: [Tier 4] 1/1. Has +1/+1 for each Elemental you played this game (wherever this is).
• New: [Tier 5] 2/1. Has +2/+1 for each Elemental you played this game (wherever this is).

Lil’ Rag

• Old: [Tier 5] 6/6
• New: [Tier 4] 4/4

Roaring Rallier

• Old: 3/4. Whenever a friendly Dragon attacks, give it +2/+2.
• New: 3/5. Whenever a friendly Dragon attacks, give it +2/+1.

Amber Guardian

• Old: [Tier 3] 3/2. Start of Combat: Give another friendly Dragon +2/+2 and Divine Shield.
• New: [Tier 5] 7/7. Start of Combat: Give another friendly Dragon +7/+7 and Divine Shield.

Timecap’n Hooktail

• Old: 2/5
• New: 1/4

Impulsive Trickster

• Old: 2/3
• New: 3/3

Oozeling Gladiator

• Old: 1/2
• New: 2/2

Wrath Weaver

• Old: 1/3
• New: 1/4

Backstage Security

• Old: At the start of your turn, deal 1 damage to your hero.
• New: Battlecry: Deal 1 damage to your hero.

Fire Dancer

• Old: 5/2
• New: 6/3

Defiant Shipwright

• Old: Whenever this gains Attack, gain +1 Health.
• New: Whenever this gains Attack, gain +1 Health permanently.
• Dev Comment: This means it will now keep Health gained with this effect during combat.

Fiery Felblood

• Old: 3/2
• New: 2/1

Underhanded Dealer

• Old: 4/4
• New: 6/6

Bream Counter

• Old: 5/5. While this is in your hand, after you play a Murloc, gain +3/+2.
• New: 4/4. While this is in your hand, after you play a Murloc, gain +3/+3.

King Bagurgle

• Old: [Tier 5] 6/3. Battlecry: Give your other Murlocs +3/+3.
• New: [Tier 4] 5/3. Battlecry: Give your other Murlocs +2/+2.

Cloning Conch

• Old: [Tier 5]
• New: [Tier 4]

Dreamer’s Embrace

• Old: [Tier 4]
• New: [Tier 5]

Scavenge for Parts

• Old: [2 Gold]
• New: [3 Gold]

Plunder Seeker

• Old: Steal a random card from the Tavern. Repeat for each friendly Pirate.
• New: Steal a random card from the Tavern for each Pirate you control.

Duos-Only Card Changes

Orc-estra Conductor

• Old: 4/2. Battlecry: Give a minion +2/+1. (Upgraded for each Orc-estra your team has played this game).
• New: 4/4. Battlecry: Give a minion +2/+2. (Upgraded for each Orc-estra your team has played this game).

Man’ari Messenger

• Old: [Tier 4] 8/5
• New: [Tier 5] 9/6

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

• [Battlegrounds] Removed Drakkari Embalmer from the Professor Putricide Hero Power pool due to an undesired interaction.
• [Collection] Fixed a bug where Standardized Pack wasn’t showing under the “NEW” tab in the Collection.