There's some really awesome, fun designs in the legendaries in the Classic set, but they just haven't really aged with the game and they're not really competitive. Quite a lot of that's actually in the legendary cards themselves. And rather than just making a new card with new art, it's cool for players to have a call-back of, ‘Hey, that's that card I played years ago, and it's back.’ So in general, as a guiding light, absolutely, that's totally on point, but sometimes gameplay has to take priority too.” Designing New Cards for the Core Set and How That Fits With the Goals for the Year Ben Lee: “I think the original idea comes from the fact that there were just some holes when you look at the set as a whole and what we would want to do in the future. So there's some examples that might feel a little out of place, but that card was really awesome for the core set and the mechanics and linking in with the way that it works. In terms of the core set, we've tried to be mindful of that, but sometimes gameplay has to take precedence too. So you can expect to see that appearing through Standard, Battlegrounds, Duels and also Mercenaries as well. I mean, that's generally how we're thinking about our content across all of our modes this year, there's definitely some leaning into that classic era of Warcraft lore and history. “ The Core Set and Tying in With This Year’s Classic Warcraft Theme Ben Lee: “We've tried to carry that across to the core set as well.

And so this really does touch on new players getting a meaningfully powerful core set of cards, completely for free, to come in and engaged players are getting a big shake-up from what they're normally seeing. And then there's some cards that just aren't powerful at all and we don't see those, and that's generally okay for the experienced players, but new players, you're getting a bunch of cards that aren't powerful now, and aren't having as easy a time. Gnomes, and over time, we've just seen some of the cards in the core set be super powerful, and as a result, we've sent them to the Hall of Fame because we don't want to keep seeing the same cards over and over again. I somehow got a beta key and I was in and hooked, right? And I loved the Classic set, and then we got Naxxramas and we got Goblins vs. The Core Set for New and Engaged Players Nathan Lyons-Smith: “I've been playing for a long time, since before I was at Blizzard. Here are some of the juicier nuggets from that conversation. I quizzed Game Director Ben Lee and Production Director Nathan Lyons-Smith about the core set to find out more. And not only that, but the team are making a bunch of tweaks to existing cards to bring them into line with Hearthstone in 2021. And best of all, the core set will change each and every year.Īs part of Hearthstone’s Blizzcon 2021 announcements, we’ve now seen some of the new cards, and we’ve found out that magical spell schools are being added to the game – including retroactive changes to all relevant spells. It’s a huge change, giving new and returning players a base collection that has value and ensuring that Hearthstone feels completely fresh for seasoned players. This set will be completely free, and will be fully unlocked out of the gate for more experienced players, while newcomers will be able to unlock them all quite quickly. As of rotation, the Basic and Classic cards will be out and a new core set of 235 cards – mostly comprised of existing cards, but also featuring 29 brand new inclusions – will form the baseline for the next year. Not only that, but Hearthstone’s designers have learnt an awful lot since those first cards were created, and yet they’re the ones that will always be around. This means we’ve been playing with the same baseline set of cards for seven years, and it also means that some classes simply have better building blocks than others. They’ve always been there as the underpinning to additional sets that come and go.

Up until now, the Basic cards for each class and the Classic set – the cards that launched with the game back in early 2014 – have been the evergreen cards of Hearthstone.

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