Whispers of the Old Gods Announced

by JR Cook - 5 years ago

Ben Brode and Yong Woo took the stage during the America Winter Hearthstone Championships to make a special announcement about the future of Hearthstone.

The Inn is becoming a bit of a darker place lately and characters you have come to known are changing a bit as they succumb to the whispers they have been hearing from down below. The Old Gods living beneath Azeroth are whispering and changing how these characters react.

With that, the next Hearthstone expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods has been announced.

This will be a 134 card set that is planned to release in late April or early May 2016. When the set is released, so will the new Standard and Wild Formats. The set is centered around the 4 Old Gods – C’Thun, Yogg-Saron, Y’Shaarj, and N’Zoth. As of right now C’Thun is the only card revealed and he has 16 different minions that help buff him up.

Additional Information from Press Conference

We were able to attend a media event on March 9th at Blizzard HQ regarding the sets announcement and were able to interview Ben Brode and Yong Woo during the event. Some of this extra information came from that event.

C’Thun and Beckoner of Evil will be free. They felt this was only fair because it would feel bad if you kept getting minions that helped C’Thun without ever actually being lucky enough to open him in a pack.

Players will receive 3 free packs of Whispers of the Old Gods during their release event by simply logging in.

Patch next week includes: Pre-Purchase (includes card back) Thailand localization Additional deck slots Deck recipes

Classic card nerfs will not be announced until much closer to release. They feel it would feel bad to know this far ahead which cards you own will be getting nerfed.

No new tribes are added to this expansion.

C’thun is the only Old God which has the minion support. The other gods will have different style of abilities.

There will be at least 1 new dragon in this expansion (Brian Kibler was happy).

Arena will not have the C’Thun cards included. Since they have specific synergy with 1 card they decided to not have them even show up in arena at all.

You’ll get full dust credit for any cards that are nerfed in classic. So make sure you hang on to your classic cards and don’t dust them until it becomes nerfing time!

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