Blizzard Games released an announcement last week, saying they would announce details of a new version of Hearthstone in the early hours of March 16, theoretically including the first expansion pack for 2022, blueprints for 2022 development, a new core series and the like. However, ticket hopping is a tradition in Blizzard, and on March 15, Hearthstone's official Twitter announced that the release of the content of the new Hearthstone year has been postponed by two days, which means that new news will not be available until the early morning of March 18.
Originally everyone wanted to stay up late tonight to watch the live broadcast, now you can go directly to sleep, fortunately, US time has become daylight saving time this week, and there is new content at 1 a.m. If you don't want to stay up late, you can get up on Friday morning to see the game summary, and Sara will also summarize various information at that time.
Hearthstone appointed a new interim game director last week, Iksar, who is familiar to us, and he mentioned a blast in a Tweet Q&A last weekend. He said he's been joining Hearthstone for so long, and the next expansion pack still excites him, and many designers say it's the most anticipated new version Hearthstone has ever seen. Of course, if the designers tout this kind of praise, we believe half of it, but the next version should be interesting.
As the first expansion pack for the new Hearthstone year, the new expansion pack in April should have decent playability and strength, as the expansion pack will exist in a standard environment for up to two years. Designers should have learned the lesson of being very monotonous when barren land first came online last year, adding more game themes to the new expansion pack. Sara is now most concerned about whether this expansion pack includes new professional martial monks, the official has previously hinted at various things, but there is no accurate disclosure content yet.
In addition, the announcement of the new core series is also the focus of the early morning of March 18. Starting last year, Hearthstone launched the Core Series, which permanently retires the Base and Classic series, releasing a Core Series every year, where all players get the core series cards for free. The core series has a lot of reprinted cards, but there are also some new cards, last year's core series with the dragon as the theme, the official designer of a new set of dragons, of which the new red dragon in the construction mode is also a good performance.
Each year's core series is a different theme, the cards will rotate, and judging from the current news, this year's core series will reintroduce the "cosmic system", which is a mechanism that many players are looking forward to. The cosmic system is derived from Magic's EDH format, which can only be invested in one card, and in order to encourage players to try this one-trick deck, the designers have added a lot of "XXX if you don't have the same cards in your deck" cards in the past few years.
Among the cosmic system cards, Sara believes that the most powerful are the first version of Renault, Jeffries and the first version of Kazakus, especially Reynolds is really strong enough to explode. 6 Fee 4/6 is a small threat, after the appearance can return to 30 blood, I believe many players have encountered Renault 1 blood back to 30 blood situation. Renault became a nightmare for all fast-attack decks, especially the designers had a lot of recycling behind them, and Sara tried a game to play the opposite four Renault, which was simply playing bosses. The reason why cosmology, cosmic shepherd, and cosmic law have been able to exist in wild mode for a long time is because of Renault to fight against fast attacks.
On March 15, Pro Feno tweeted that he was looking forward to seeing cards return from all cosmic systems, except Renault. Below the tweet, Chakki, the designer responsible for the hearthstone game balance, sent a pretend not to care. Another designer, Cora, also made a coughing expression. Obviously, the designers have made it clear that Renault has a great chance of returning in this core series. After all, everyone likes the thrill of bloody counter-killing, and there are still many players in the game who are not in the fast attack style.
Renault has been away from the standard environment for too long, perhaps new players have forgotten his terrible point, this card gives all the cosmic decks the confidence to play late, 6 fees can catch Renault, often determine whether you can win the game. Especially now that Hearthstone's fast-attack deck is getting stronger and stronger, 6 fees can hit you to the killing line range, and Renault will turn you from blood to full blood in an instant, and the fast-attack deck that lacks cards often can't hit the second set of damage. Besides, the cosmic system has other powerful means of clearance and recovery, and dragging it into the late game is a variety of performances.
However, every time you retire from the environment, it is the weakest version of hearthstone's standard card pool, and only one Renault is difficult to impact the existing game environment, but it will eliminate some quick attack decks that are not enough climate. But designers should add more than one Renault, and perhaps design new cosmic system cards, and as the card pool gets bigger and bigger, Renault will become very powerful when it waits for the version at the end of the year. In the existing standard environment, warlocks are not very suitable for the cosmic system, and Sara feels that the priest and the thief will have more room to play.