Hearthstone‘s (Free) Battlegrounds has become my go-to way of playing the game, so you can all understand my excitement when I found out that the mode is ready to take flight (pun wholeheartedly intended) with the addition of dragons! I’m excited to see more of everything in Battlegrounds because for me this new mode’s fun factor is closely tied to an influx of new cards and heroes on a regular basis.
As revealed during the Hearthstone summit last week, we are getting 7 new Dragon heroes and 18 new minions, 12 of them Dragons. The new Heroes are Galakrond, Deathwing, Ysera, Nozdormu, Malygos, Alexstrasza, and Reno Jackson, most of which should give you all kinds of nostalgia feels. We’re also getting a ton of fun minions, like the Hangry Dragon, which gets +2/+2 if you won your last combat, although that little guy jinxed me during my playthroughs at the summit and I almost never won a round after buying him. Bronze Warden, a dragon with Divine Shield and Reborn was also a fun card to play and more powerful than you would initially think. Head over to Blizzard’s Hearthstone blog to see all the new minions as well as some balance changes and improvements, including speeding up some animations.
Based on my time playing with the new cards and heroes, dragons are a fun tribe to play, and it should hopefully shake up the current meta. Even if some of the new heroes fail to take off, the new minions should make things interesting. These new additi...