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HCT Spring Championship will be in Shanghai from July 7 through July 9.  Top four players from each region’s Spring Playoff will qualify for a spot in this championship.  Total prize pool for the Spring Championship is $250,000.

Spring Playoffs have been announced, including locations.  (Blizzard Announcement)

Europe – May 20-21

Americas – May 27-28

Asia-Pacific – June 2-3

Mike Donais and Peter Whalen interview with IGN.  Talked about designing Un’Goro Legendaries.  For example, one version of Elise the Trailblazer, was “Discover a Quest”.  Once the Quest was discovered, you would get a package of helper cards in your deck to help complete it. However this made the Quests overall feel “less cool.”  The Un’Goro Pack she ended up with, was originally going to be the Priest Quest Reward but it didn’t feel good enough for that.  Check out the interview here:  IGN

Blizzard announces New Features Coming Soontm

Friends Forever

When the new update arrives, you will be able to complete quests in Friendly Challenges! Challenge a friend, and you get credit towards most of your quests.  Quests that require you to play vs the Innkeeper or watch a match, won’t work.  The last line is funny, “so now you’ll have a reason to make friends with a recent opponent that isn’t just to send them a compliment.”

Golden and non-Golden cards will now stack in decklists

Sharing is Caring – Deck List Importing!  (Blizzard)

You will soon be able to easily copy and share decklists with Deck importing.  Click on a full deck and when you click on the Hero portrait, you’ll see a Copy button.  Press the button and the decklist will be copied to your clipboard. The decklist will look like this: There is a code at the bottom of that text that you can use to share the deck with friends over social media or other places.

When you want to import the deck, copy the code into your clipboard and Hearthstone will “know” you have a valid code in your clipboard and will ask if you want to create a new deck with the one you have copied.  

You will also be able to import decklists to Tavern Brawls.

If you don’t have all the cards, it will be faded like it does with the current Blizzard recipes and when you click on that card, it will suggest replacements.

Espo Mode

100th Tavern Brawl

To celebrate 100 weeks of Brawls, there is a special brawl this past week. How it works is you pick your class and based on the class you choose, you get a different brawl.  So there are 9 different brawls that you will encounter.  It’s fixed based on the class you choose.  When you start the game, little pop up info boxes tell you a few details on what brawl you have and what your opponent has.  It also tells you about when it originally was seen.

Druid – Idols of Azeroth

Your entire deck is filled with Raven Idols (1 mana, Choose One – Discover a minion; or Discover a spell.)

Hunter – Randomonium

The entire deck’s contents are randomized and so are the costs.  Keeping high cost minions was viable because the costs were randomized each turn.

Warrior – Banana Brawl

Deck is randomized.  When one of your minions dies, you get a banana to celebrate.  

Bananas – Give a minion +1/+1

Big Banana – Give a minion +2/+2

Deviate Banana – Swap a minion’s Attack and Health