HEX Update – Armies Release Celebration

Hi HEXers! We have many updates today, mostly centered around events leading up to and after the release of Armies of Myth.

Celebrate Good Times

With Armies of Myth launching on July 14th, that means the Release Celebration is coming and we’re making it even better! Let’s start with what’s the same– there are two alternate art prize cards. This set’s promo cards are Brightmoon Brave and Duplicitous Duke.

The Brave is an early worker, helping you win the beatdown battle by giving the next troop you draw some extra size. With Duplicitious Duke, you could play him as a 2/2 that makes an attacking copy of himself that dies at end of turn. With Shift, you get to move that power onto any of your troops! Choose your best beater and attack with that troop, then double up with the copy! Have two Walking Calamities attacking and take your opponent from 20 to zero in a split second. The Brave will be a participation prize for the tournaments listed below.

To win the Duplicitous Duke AA, you can meet one of the following criteria:

Gauntlet: Get 5 Wins in a single Sealed Gauntlet Run (you must finish a Gauntlet run during the event). 8-person Queue: Top 1 is awarded Duplicitous Duke AA (Single-Elim Competitive Draft, and Swiss Draft) Daily Sealed Tournaments: 4-0 and 3-1 will win the Duplicitous Duke AA

The Release Celebration event starts 10 AM Pacific on Friday, July 17th and ends at 10 AM Pacific on Monday, July 20th.

Pre-Game

We’re also spending the week before the big set release celebrating the coming Armies of Myth. That’s right—the party starts early with Arena dropping 50% more gold! Plus, you’ll find HEX dev team members in the Proving Grounds queue at random times each day. We’ll announce on Twitter when the dev team enters queues, so make sure to follow the @HEXTCG account. This event runs from 10 AM Pacific on Tuesday, July 7th until the server closes for the Armies of Myth patch.

Frenemies

We have many community-organized tournaments from the Rock League to the Blood Cup. Players have been asking that we provide a way for them to easily match up and participate in these tournaments, and we’re ready to launch that feature. In the upcoming patch, you’ll be able to add players to your friends list and challenge them to a best-of-three Constructed match. Thank you to everyone who’s building our community by organizing tournaments, and we hope this feature helps you bring everyone together!

Think of the Children!

Last year, you raised over $13,000 for charity. This year, our community is making their charity stream even bigger! The community-run Extra Life charity stream on the HEX Twitch channel will be four days of interviews, games, giveaways, and more!

To mark the event, players who log in to HEX during the stream will receive 4x alternate art Mettle (this card will be distributed after Armies of Myth launches). Only accounts that exist as of 10 AM Pacific today, July 3rd will receive this card in order prevent unscrupulous players–certainly not you, the individual reader, of course; you would never do something like this– from gaming the system to receive more than their playset of Mettles. The stream runs from Midnight UTC on Thursday, July 9th (5 PM Pacific on Wed, July 8th) to Monday, July 13th at 1 AM UTC (6 PM Pacific on Sun, July 12th).

Players who watch the stream on Twitch can win prizes every hour ranging from draft tickets to one lucky viewer getting the chance to have his or her own vanity card in HEX!

You can find all the information about the stream here on the HEX forums.

Collector’s Alternate Art

For you Collector level backers, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for. Which exclusive alternate art cards will you receive?

Well, you probably already saw them before you even started reading this section. There’s no real suspense since the card images are huge and you probably scrolled down enough to reveal them, but still. Exciting times! With Armies of Myth, you’ll receive Periwinkle and Vampire Princess on patch day! These cards feature a different side of the two characters. Periwinkle is powered up and Vampire Princess, well, let’s just say that kiss must’ve been killer.

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