Updates:

What did you do this week?

Quests?  Ranked play?  Fun Guaranteed with friends?

Espo: 2660 Gold, Silver 9 Rank

Vastidious: 1210 gold, Bronze 10

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News

New Expansion Announced!

Scholomance Academy

• Release Date – Early August
• Login now – Get Transfer Student for free – 2 mana 2/2, This has different effects based on which game board you’re on.  
• New Keyword: Spellburst
  • A one-time only effect when you cast a spell.  With a Spellburst minion or weapon in play, casting a Spell will activate its Spellburst effect.
• New Spell type: Studies
  • These allow you to Discover a card immediately and also reduce the mana cost of the next card you play of that type.
• Dual-Class cards
• This expansion marks the beginning of Phase 2 in Year of the Phoenix. Phase 2 has the following items mentioned at the beginning of the year in store for us.
  • New card mechanics
  • New Tavern Brawls
  • Battleground updates
  • A Seasonal Event
  • Balance updates
  • New Game Mode
  • New Solo Experience
  • New Battlegrounds Feature
• 2 Bundles Available now for pre-purchase
  • Scholomance Bundle – $49.99
    • 55 Scholomance Academy card packs
    • Kel’thuzad card back
    • A random Scholomance Academy Golden Legendary card
  • Scholomance Mega bundle – $79.99
    • 85 Scholomance Academy card packs
    • 5 of these will be Golden Scholomance Academy packs
    • A random Scholomance Academy Golden Legendary card
    • Kel’Thuzad Mage Hero
    • Kel’Thuzad card back
    • The Tavern Pass
    • 4 Arena tickets
• Patch 17.6
  • Battlegrounds
    • New Hero
      • Tess Greymane – Bob’s Burgles (1 cost) – Refresh Bob’s Tavern with minions from your last opponent’s warband
    • Returning Heroes
      • King Mukla – Bananarama (1 cost) – Get 2 Bananas. At the end of your turn, give everyone else one.
      • Dinotamer Brann – Battle Brand (1 cost) – Refresh Bob’s Tavern with Battlecry minions.
    • Updated Heroes
      • Aranna Starseeker – Demon Hunter Training (Passive) – 
        • Old: After you Refresh 7 times, Bob always has 7 minions. 
        • New: After you Refresh 5 times, Bob always has 7 minions.
      • Captain Hooktusk – Trash for Treasure (0 Cost)
        • Old: Remove a friendly minion. Discover one from a Tavern Tier lower.
        • New: Remove a friendly minion. Get a random one from a Tavern Tier lower.
    • Pirates are no longer guaranteed to appear in every game.
    • New Minion
      • Amalgadon – Tier 6; 6 Attack, 6 Health (golden 12 /12)
        • Battlecry: For each different minion type you have, Adapt randomly.  (golden: Adapt twice)
    • Updated Minion
      • Goldrinn, the Great Wolf – Old Tier – 5 : New Tier – 6
  • Balance Updates
    • Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
      • Old: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, add 2 other random Dragons to your hand. They cost (0). 
      • New: Battlecry: If your deck has no duplicates, add 2 other random Dragons to your hand. They cost (1). 
    • Corsair Cache
      • Old: Draw a weapon. Give it +1/+1.
      • New: Draw a weapon. Give it +1 Durability.
    • Metamorphosis
      • Old: Swap your Hero Power to “Deal 5 damage.” After 2 uses, swap it back. 
      • New: Swap your Hero Power to “Deal 4 damage.  “After 2 uses, swap it back.
    • Kayn Sunfury
      • Old: 3 Attack, 5 Health
      • New: 3 Attack, 4 Health
    • Warglaives of Azzinoth
      • Old: Cost 5
      • New: Cost 6
    • Dragoncaster
      • Old: Cost 6
      • New: Cost 7
    • Fungal Fortunes
      • Old: Cost 2
      • New: Cost 3
    • Galakrond (Rogue)
      • , the Nightmare
        • Old: Battlecry: Draw 1 card. It costs (0)
        • New: Battlecry: Draw 1 card. It costs (1)
      • , the Apocalypse
        • Old: Battlecry: Draw 2 cards. They cost (0)
        • New: Battlecry: Draw 2 cards. They cost (1)
      • , Azeroth’s End
        • Old: Battlecry: Draw 4 cards. They cost (0)
        • New: Battlecry: Draw 4 cards. They cost (1)
  • When a random card back is selected, you will now see a randomized card back every time you open a pack.
  • Weapon Frames update coming July 30th
    • With the introduction of Dual-Class cards, they went back and applied a class specific frame to every weapon in Hearthstone.

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Espo Mode 

A Peek to the Past

Rules:

Let’s take it a notch down there brawler. Make a deck using only cards from the Basic and Classic sets, but none of those fancy Epics or Legendaries, ya hear?

Rewards:

A Classic Card Pack for winning the Brawl once.

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Getting Better

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Hints and Tips/Top 5

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Outro

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