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Hearthstone Releases a Brand-New 11.2 Update

Published Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:45:02 -0500

Today, Blizzard released a brand new update for Hearthstone that will bring in some much-needed improvements in certain areas, but the primary focus of the additions are to bring in the new Taverns of Time event and Free Pack Day. The latter will occur on June 13th where all you need to do is log in and you automatically get a free pack.

Meanwhile, the Taverns of Time event will have you dealing with Toki who has tangled the timelines, leaving you stuck with chronological issues in alternate realities. You'll draft 28 special cards unique to the Arena for it where you'll have daily quests that reward in both gold and dust. You can read more about the latest Hearthstone updates below.

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Game Mechanics Updates

Continued updates to game event timing to make card interactions more intuitive. Read our previous Game Mechanics Updates blog for more insight!

Summon and Play triggers are now evaluated using their in-hand stats before they are affected by board modifiers and their Battlecry.

Ex. Playing Faceless Manipulator targeting a 5-attack minion will no longer advance Jungle Giants. It will be considered a 3/3.

Minions that enter the battlefield without being played from hand will have any (Whenever or After) summon triggers evaluated before board modifiers are applied.

Ex. If Azure Drake is pulled onto the battlefield adjacent to Dire Wolf Alpha it will no longer advance Jungle Giants.

Choose One minions that Transform now consider their transformation effects before entering play.

Ex. Playing Shellshifter and selecting the 5/3 option will count as a 5-attack minion and advance Jungle Giants.

Arena Updates

Added several new pick "buckets" for non-Legendary cards and two for Legendary cards.

The new buckets are halfway in power between the existing buckets, and they're intended to create more varied choices when drafting an Arena deck.

The very strongest and very weakest cards do not appear in these new buckets, so those cards will appear as picks about half as frequently as they did previously.