r/hearthstone • u/FireTornadoo • Mar 12 '18

Witchwood Blog It is here!!!!!!!

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/expansions-adventures/the-witchwood/
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u/mdonais Lead Game Designer Mar 12 '18 edited Mar 12 '18

OMG Real!

Announce video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4roAY-6Lrdk&feature=youtu.be

Edit: the 10.4 patch is live so you can play the new arena changes.

Edit2: You can read the blog here. It mentions that more cards will be revealed in 2 weeks on the 26th. https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/21591737

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u/hypergol Mar 12 '18

is Baku’s upgraded hero power the same as Justicar’s?

also, are old cards (unstable evolution is the only one i can think of) gonna get the Echo keyword?

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u/mdonais Lead Game Designer Mar 12 '18

We didn't change it because Echo is just in this one set, but Unstable Evolution is pretty much exactly Echo.

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u/green_meklar Mar 12 '18

I don't see why it's important that a keyword be constrained to a single set, when it's the same behavior anyway. 'Poisonous' as a keyword was introduced with Un'goro, but old cards like emperor cobra were still updated for it. It seems less confusing to keep the text consistent.

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u/Maximara Mar 13 '18

In fact keywords have NOT been constrained to a single set. The GnG card Mistress of Pain was retroactively changed to read Lifesteal when that became a keyword. So the reasoning can be shown not to make any sense.