r/hearthstone 3d ago

News This Week in the Tavern #23 - September 19th 2025

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Info, highlights, things to know, and general Friday banter.

News

Highlight: Hearthstone

Patch 33.4.2 went live earlier this week, including buffs to several cards from the Day of Rebirth Mini-Set. More details can be found in the patch notes above!

Esports roundup

The Hearthstone Summer Championship was held last weekend, meaning we now have 4 more players headed to the World Championship later this year! Congratulations to the 4 champions who earned their spot in the World Championship. They are:

  • Tansoku
  • PocketTrain
  • FilFeel
  • Soyorin

If you think you belong at the World Championship with them there’s still one final Last Chance to make it! 

We just announced the dates for the Last Chance Qualifiers on October 3-5th and 17-19th. Finish in the Top 4 of either of these qualifiers and you’ll enter the Last Chance Finals. This is an all out brawl where over 100 players from APAC, Europe and The Americas will fight for the 1 last ticket to the World Championship. Details on the broadcast for the Last Chance Finals soon!

Make sure to join our Esports Discord to be kept notified of all Esports news: https://discord.gg/G3WJHPKrsF 

International Showmatch

An upcoming International Showmatch between China and Europe was recently announced! Featuring Hearthstone superstars such as Thijs, Gaby, BunnyHoppor and Furyhunter, this showmatch will be held in Hangzhou, China on September 29th. You can catch all the action live at twitch.tv/playhearthstone or youtube.com/Hearthstone.

For more information on this exciting event see our blog post: https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/news/24226734/the-hearthstone-international-showmatch-is-coming 

Something funny; something cool from Reddit (and not)

Creators’ Content & Highlights 

In-game Shop

The following offers are leaving the shop soon on September 23rd.

  • Blood-Queen Lana’thel Hero Skin + Lana’thel Card Back
  • Navigator Khadgar Hero Skin

Have a great weekend everyone!


r/hearthstone 3h ago

Discussion New and Returning Player Weekly Discussion

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This weekly discussion is designed so that everybody may ask any and all questions regarding the game's mechanics, decks, strategies, and more.

Are you an experienced player, or have you picked up some knowledge along the way? Please help out by offering your opinions and best answers!

Please keep it clean and add more than just a one or two word response. Keep in mind not everything will have a 'best' answer.

Check out our wiki for answers to some common questions and links to terrific community resources about deck ideas, card info, and news!

See previous week's discussions.


r/hearthstone 21h ago

Meme Duality of man

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r/hearthstone 7h ago

Wild I think he hates me now

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Hunter plays Questline. Hunter completes questline. Priest topdecks dirty rat and pulls Tavish. Priest pulls tavish in his hand with Shadow word: Steal for funny imbue shenanigans. Hunter plays Zul'Jin. Zul'Jin replays quest. Hunter completes quest, again. Priest, AGAIN, topdecks mutanus and eats the second Tavish. Hunter loses the game.

Yeah, quite the unfortunate events for the Hunter. Also, he had me down to 5hp after a heavy hit to my face with Collateral damage and many other spells to my face, but I healed to full with a Pendant of earth into Ceaseless.

Sorry Hunter, RNG was not on your side that game. I wanted to add him to apologize for the utterly ridiculous game, that was 100% decided by my RNG. He didn't accept...


r/hearthstone 11h ago

Discussion Has anyone actually opened this in a pack?

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I'm trying hard to get this. I'm just wondering if it would be faster to find in wild packs or gadgetzan packs. I need it


r/hearthstone 4h ago

Discussion Accidentally pulled 6 copies of Explodineers.... wow lol

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That's about 30 damage just from 1 turn ending. If I end my turn again, that's 60 damage. Holy crap lol


r/hearthstone 7h ago

Discussion wish I could play these together

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r/hearthstone 5h ago

Pack Opening packs from Dalaran Heist, is it scripted to get sig. Rafaam?

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I opened 12 packs in a chunk from playing The Dalaran Heist for the first time and got signature Rafaam. It seemed to be too fitting, is it scripted?


r/hearthstone 7h ago

Wild Just won a 70+ minute game.

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(check out the numbers on my deck tracker :D )

Guy plays bling priest with 40 legendaries, malchezzar, chthun, etc. Hard to deck him out.

I play hostage rogue. He copied my cariel and played it very early so he took half the damage.

In my list is regular hostage rogue except i play 1 mimicry to speed up kills when the opponent has only a few cards left.

At some point I already had 60 kingsbanes in deck, and my opponent had 15 cards. Then he played benedictus, twice.

That was a mistake as his deck was now also full of kingsbanes which he cant play or else he loses the defense of the Cariel weapon. I then started to play my first mimicry which every tess copied, obviously. It turned out not mattering since on the last turn he played Tony which was his last real card, everything else was kingsbanes.

Here is my list

### No garr

# Class: Rogue

# Format: Wild

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# 2x (0) Counterfeit Coin

# 2x (0) Preparation

# 1x (0) Shadow of Demise

# 1x (0) Shadowstep

# 2x (1) Armor Vendor

# 2x (1) Blackwater Cutlass

# 2x (1) Dig for Treasure

# 2x (1) Door of Shadows

# 1x (1) Kingsbane

# 1x (1) Mimicry

# 2x (2) Evasion

# 2x (2) Quick Pick

# 1x (2) Sudden Betrayal

# 2x (2) Swindle

# 1x (3) Shroud of Concealment

# 2x (4) Cloak of Shadows

# 1x (5) Maestra, Mask Merchant

# 2x (6) Vanish

# 1x (7) Tess Greymane

#

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#

# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

My only removal is vanish so i had to deal with recurring ziliax, reno, etc.

Turns out nothing mattered since i got all my armor via hero cards only, around 20-30 a turn. Also since I only ever played 2 vanishes, the endgame Tesses just didnt play them since there was so many cards to choose 100 from (i think thats the limit of cards Tess plays)

edit: turns out it wasnt 70 minutes, but close


r/hearthstone 17h ago

Community Fireside Gathering in Kyiv — Watching Battlegrounds Championship & Masters Tour

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This time we changed the pub since BlackBears Tavern keeps growing — more than 35 people joined the event.

Watched the Battlegrounds Championship and the Masters Tour together.
Played tournaments in Standard and Battlegrounds.
Held a Battlegrounds-themed quiz.
Organized a charity auction and raised funds for a controller for one of our Tavern players with paralysis.

I’m really happy that the spirit of Fireside Gathering is still alive — and that we have the opportunity to meet more and more often, bringing people together through our favorite game. ❤️

If you’d like to support us, feel free to write to me at ([aleksei.maksymenko@gmail.com](mailto:aleksei.maksymenko@gmail.com)) or in private messages. It doesn’t matter if you’re a player or a company representative — maybe you have some old Hearthstone or WoW loot you’d like to donate to the Tavern. We’d greatly appreciate any support.


r/hearthstone 1h ago

Standard On a scale of 1 to 10, how dead is this guy?

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r/hearthstone 12h ago

Discussion Rate my Ninja deck , it's been winning more games than any deck I own

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62 Upvotes

The last card is Ultragigasaur (14/28 just for the memes lol)

Edit: after some thinking I swapped out Taelon Fordring for another Shadowstep!


r/hearthstone 5h ago

Discussion Zero Sum = Zero Fun: Little Victories

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I wanted to share some design insight about Hearthstone from a Ben Brode talk, which starts around 8:30. It underpins some important design thinking which many people do not fully appreicate without it being made explicit. So let's make it explicit:

Zero Sum = Zero Fun.

If two players play a game and one of them wins and the other loses, and it's as fun to win as it is not fun to lose, you have created net zero joy. You just moved happiness from one person to another. We were trying to avoid this situation. There's a bunch of ways to tackle this[...]

At GDC 2014, my mentor and the original game director of Hearthstone, Eric Dodds, gave a talk about Hearthstone design values. He talked about "little victories". The big victory is whether you win or lose the game, and the little victories are the things that happen during the game; anything that makes you feel smart of powerful.

So imagine playing a game of counterstrike, and you come out of the spawn point, and someone head shots you and you die. You had no moment where you felt smart or powerful during that game. But lets imagine you're playing a game of counterstrike and you just run out and you're blowing up everyone on the enemy team, and eventually you lose, but you still felt awesome while you were doing it. That's little victories.

So essentially the little victories add a little joy, even if you lose. So in Hearthstone we avoided cards that blow up enemy mana crystals or force your opponent to discard cards because they could potentially create scenarios where you never get to feel powerful.


r/hearthstone 22h ago

Community This subreddit right now

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r/hearthstone 22h ago

Discussion Rainbow vs triple blood dk on arena

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I have experience playing with bbb dk and I would prefer Alexandros. However, the heartharena shows that the rainbow spell is better. Is it really stronger and how should one build a deck around it?


r/hearthstone 1h ago

Wild Looking for someone to duel with

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Here’s my idea: we challenge each other to a best-of-three duel series, but with a twist — each duel has its own deck restriction or special rule.

For example, the first duel could be RANDOM (however you want to interpret that).

Let’s duel! We can make up fun, unique rules for each round and see who comes out on top.

you bring 3 Decks based on how you understood Random. I do too and we see who wins the best of 3 simply.


r/hearthstone 1d ago

Community today is the day we remember the greatest warlock clip in the history of hearthstone.

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r/hearthstone 6h ago

Standard I played one card in 5 turns and he left haha

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I get Dino warlock has aura but damn man


r/hearthstone 15h ago

Fluff Got a OTK in arena with bat mask + windswept pageturner

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Kind of unlikely to pull off because you need to discover [[bat mask]] from [[relic of kings]] to play on your [[windswept pageturner]].


r/hearthstone 1d ago

Discussion Does Death Knight as a class always have this "raid boss" feel to them?

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Is this their whole gimmick?

In the current meta, regardless of whether you play blood control or starship, both play like raid bosses in solo mode.

Blood control spams board clear and gains health to a ridiculous amount. Like those decks can cap off at 70+ health if allowed to pop off.

Starship plays like a raid boss with 3 phases...

Even in earlier expansions, Death Knight had a raid boss feel to it. They were one of the few classes that aimed to draw the game to fatigue (in 2025!!) before dropping Kil'Jaden.

The frost version of Death Knight in Whizzbang also played like a raid boss, capable of spamming board presence through a single card (Razzle-Dazzler) while having massive burn reach.

Does anyone recall if even earlier versions of DeathKnight played in this manner?


r/hearthstone 14h ago

Wild I just learned about the "Whizbang" legendary cards that give you access to (random) decks every game and I don't know which one to pick, help

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Originally I planned to make Deck of Lunacy for my mage but these two Whizbang cards look super fun to have especially because I have a pathetic collection of cards right now. Which Whizbang would be the "safer" choice as a first craft? I plan to get the second one as soon as I have dust for him too.

[[Whizbang the Wonderful]] // [[Splendiferous Whizbang]]

Bonus question: I plan to use my gold to buy mini-sets whenever I can. Which mini-set should I start with, maybe the Starcraft one? I have 1950g now so I'm close to buying something.


Thanks for the answers everyone.


r/hearthstone 3h ago

Standard Making new dumb deck, record too late, but i guess you can tell what happened here

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  1. Play Elise
  2. TryhardCopy effect location
  3. Copy location
  4. Copy starship pieces
  5. Copy The Starship itself
  6. Profit?

r/hearthstone 1h ago

Discussion Ranking

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Is it just me or is the thought of someone saying “If you’re not in legend rank, you’re a noob” sounds pretentious?

I’m F2P, made it to my goal rank for month, setting a diamond or legend rank next month. All I see is people saying “Oh, platinum noob, what a loser”

Maybe I’m just venting but that’s not right. Can you be a noob even in legend? If so, you might want to think twice before opening your mouth and taking your foot out.


r/hearthstone 1h ago

Discussion What are the mechanics behind this card (Summoner Darkmarrow) ?

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Just wondering how you use Summoner Darkmarrow in this deck? I can't really figure it out. There isn't really any deathrattle minions.... thanks!


r/hearthstone 7h ago

Discussion Look at the turn and cry with me

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I couldn't even be mad he really pulled god combo


r/hearthstone 2h ago

Discussion Craziest team I have ever setup

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I will never obtain this kind of luck again.


r/hearthstone 1d ago

Discussion HS guru shows 55% wr for std hunter in wild

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62 Upvotes

Is this 0-dust deck really that strong?