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New Mode—Battlegrounds Duos

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Battlegrounds Duos is a new Mode within Battlegrounds! In Duos, you and a partner team up against three other teams of two. Each team has a shared Health and Armor pool, can see each other’s boards, can communicate with each other using pings, and can Pass each other cards through the Portal.

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Generally, Battlegrounds changes (like minion and hero updates, seasonal mechanics, etc.) will apply to both regular Battlegrounds and Battlegrounds Duos. If you know Battlegrounds, you can jump into Duos right away! But there are also a few features that make Duos special:

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• You can queue into Duos with a friend as a team or on your own to be paired with a random teammate of a similar rating. You and a group of friends can also create private Duos games, just like regular Battlegrounds.
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• In Duos, the cost to upgrade into each of Tavern Tier 4, Tier 5, and Tier 6 costs 2 more Gold than in regular Battlegrounds.
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• There are some special Duos-only minions and Heroes (see below).
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• During the Recruit Phase, you can click on the Portal on the right side of the screen to swap between seeing your board and your teammate’s board.
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• You can right-click (or two-finger tap on mobile) on any interactable card or button, including minions, spells, the Tavern upgrade button, your hero power, and more, on your side or on your teammate’s side when viewing through the Portal, to bring up a simple Ping menu--similar to Emotes on your Hero. Your teammate can see what you pinged and respond with their own ping, so you can implement your strategy together!
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• Drag any card from your hand to the Portal for your teammate, for the price of 1 Gold. They’ll instantly get the card added to their hand (or, if their hand is full, it will appear in their hand once they have the space). But choose wisely: you can only Pass cards from your hand through the Portal. Once you play a minion, you can’t send it from play to your teammate’s hand.
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• Battlegrounds Duos will have its own ratings and leaderboard, separate from regular Battlegrounds.
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Once Upon a Time... There was a New Battlegrounds Season!

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Make your wish come true with Battlegrounds Season 7, Once Upon a Tavern. This is a new chapter in the story of Battlegrounds, bringing a massive minion shakeup for solo Battlegrounds and Battlegrounds Duos!

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On April 16, Battlegrounds Season 6 will end, and Season 7 will begin. That means ratings will be reset, Battlegrounds Quests will be removed, and the Battlegrounds Track will switch over. All rewards that were earned from the Season 6 Track, but not yet claimed, will be automatically claimed. Tavern spells are not being removed and are now considered a regular part of Battlegrounds going forward. Turn timers have been temporarily extended for the start of the new season; turn timers will be reverted in a later update.

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Hero Updates

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New Heroes (Duos Only)

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Cho (6 Armor)

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• Passive. Whenever you play a Golden minion, both you and Gall get a Triple Reward.
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• Can only be selected if your partner chooses Gall.
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Gall (6 Armor)

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• Passive. Whenever you play a Golden minion, both you and Cho get a Triple Reward.
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• Can only be selected if your partner chooses Cho.
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The Nameless One (12 Armor)

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• Passive. Start of Game: Copy your teammate’s Hero Power.
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Flobbidinous Floop (15 Armor)

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• [0 Gold] Choose a friendly minion. Start of Combat: Transform it into your teammate’s highest-Tier minion.
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Madam Goya (8 Armor)

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• [2 Gold] Pass a non-Golden minion.
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• Dev Comment: This hero power can target minions in your Warband or in the Tavern.
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These new heroes will be offered in every Battlegrounds Duos game for the first two weeks after Patch launch.

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Hero Pool Updates

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• Murloc Holmes is not part of the Hero Pool for Battlegrounds Duos.\r\n\t
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• Illidan Stormrage is banned from Dragons games across all Battlegrounds.
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• Sire Denathrius and E.T.C., Band Manager have been temporarily removed from the Hero Pool for all Battlegrounds games.
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• Professor Putricide has been temporarily removed from the Hero Pool for Battlegrounds Duos.
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Hero Effect Updates

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Thorim, Stormlord

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• Passive. At the start of the game, Discover a Tier 7 minion to get after you spend 65 Gold.
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• Argent Braggart has been removed from the Discoverable options. Additionally, Papa Bear now summons three 4/4 Mama Bears that give +4/+4 (Mama Bear herself is not in the minion pool).
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Malygos

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• [0 Gold] Replace a card with a random one of the same Tier. (Twice per turn.)
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• Dev Comment: This used to only target minions, now it can target Tavern spells, too.
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Captain Hooktusk

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• [0 Gold] Remove a minion. Discover one from a Tier lower to get.
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Patchwerk

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• Passive: Start with 30 extra Health.
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• Dev Comment: This is a text-only change to make Patchwerk werk properly in Duos.
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The Great Akazamzarak

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• [0 Gold] Choose a Secret. Put it into the Battlefield.
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• Dev Comment: Instead of a Discover from a pool, it will now always be a choice from the same 4 Secrets: Venomstrike Trap, Pack Tactics, Autodefense Matrix, and Redemption. Street Magician (Akazamzarak’s Buddy) will use the same pool for its random Secret. Ice Block has been removed from Battlegrounds entirely.
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Dinotamer Brann

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• Passive. After you buy 4 Battlecry minions, get Brann Bronzebeard. (Once per game.)
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New Minions

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Fire Dancer (Tier 2)

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• 4/2. Deathrattle: Deal 1 damage to all minions.
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Assistant Guard (Tier 4)

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• 2/3. Battlecry: Give a minion Taunt. Then give your Taunt minions +2/+3.
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Winged Chimera (Tier 4, All)

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• 3/6. Whenever this takes damage, give a friendly minion of each type +2/+1.
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Mooneater’s Champion (Tier 5)

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• 7/8. After you play an odd-Tier card, give your other odd-Tier minions +1/+1.
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Unforgiving Treant (Tier 5)

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• 1/12. Taunt. Whenever this takes damage, give your minions +1 Attack permanently.
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Greymane’s Champion (Tier 6)

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• 6/5. After you play an even-Tier card, give your other even-Tier minions +2/+2.
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Murgl Mk II (Tier 3, Mech/Murloc)

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• 2/4. Avenge (3): Give minions in your hand and board +1/+1 permanently.
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Timecap’n Hooktail (Tier 3, Dragon/Pirate)

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• 1/5. Whenever you cast a Tavern spell, give your other minions +1 Attack.
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Slimy Felblood (Tier 3, Elemental/Demon)

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• 3/4. Battlecry: Minions in the Tavern have +2 Health this game.
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Fiery Felblood (Tier 3, Elemental/Demon)

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• 4/3. Deathrattle: Minions in the Tavern have +3 Attack this game.
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Shellemental (Tier 5, Elemental/Naga)

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• 5/4. Spellcraft: Choose a minion in the Tavern. Give its stats to a random friendly minion.
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Draconic Deathscale (Tier 4, Naga/Dragon)

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• 6/3. Spellcraft: Trigger a friendly minion’s Battlecry.
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Nightbane, Ignited (Tier 4, Dragon/Undead)

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• 6/3. Taunt. Deathrattle: Give 2 random friendly minions this minion’s Attack.
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Untameabull (Tier 6, Mech/Beast)

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• 10/16. Whenever this takes damage, gain Divine Shield.
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Trusty Pup (Tier 1, Beast)

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• 1/3. Whenever this takes damage, gain +1 Attack permanently.
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Irate Rooster (Tier 2, Beast)

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• 3/4. Start of Combat: Deal 1 damage to adjacent minions and give them +4 Attack.
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Silver Goose (Tier 2, Beast)

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• 2/3. Whenever this takes damage, summon a 2/2 Fledgling with Taunt.
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Silithid Burrower(Tier 3, Beast)

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• 3/1. Taunt. Deathrattle: Give your Beasts +1/+1 permanently.
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Rampager (Tier 3, Beast)

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• 8/8. Whenever this attacks, deal 1 damage to your other minions.
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Goldshell Warden (Tier 4, Beast)

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• 3/4. Battlecry: Give your other Beasts +1/+4.
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Iridescent Skyblazer (Tier 4, Beast)

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• 2/5. Whenever a friendly Beast takes damage, give a friendly Beast other than it +1/+1 permanently.
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Trigore the Lasher (Tier 5, Beast)

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• 6/2. Whenever another friendly Beast takes damage, gain +2 Health permanently.
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Spiked Savior (Tier 5, Beast)

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• 12/4. Taunt. Deathrattle: Deal 1 damage to your minions and give them +1 Health.
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False Implicator (Tier 3, Demon)

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• 1/2. At the end of your turn, consume a minion in the Tavern to gain its stats.
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Crafty Aranasi (Tier 4, Demon)

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• 1/8. Whenever this takes damage, deal 5 damage to a random enemy minion.
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Misfit Dragonling (Tier 1, Dragon)

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• 1/2. Start of Combat: Gain stats equal to your Tier.
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Glim Guardian (Tier 1, Dragon)

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• 1/3. Whenever this attacks, gain +2/+1.
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• Dev Comment: This is a redesign and updated art piece for Glyph Guardian, which had Undead/Dragon art, but which we wanted to keep just a Dragon.
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Thousandth Paper Drake (Tier 2, Dragon)

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• 2/3. Start of Combat: Give your left-most Dragon +1/+2 and Windfury.
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Roaring Rallier (Tier 3, Dragon)

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• 3/4. Whenever a friendly Dragon attacks, give it +2/+2.
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Persistent Poet (Tier 4, Dragon)

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• 2/3. Divine Shield. Adjacent Dragons permanently keep your enchantments from combat.
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Yu’lon, Fortune Granter (Tier 5, Dragon)

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• 8/8. Start of Combat: Make your lowest-Tier minion Golden (except Yu’lon, Fortune Granter.)
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Hoarding Hatespawn (Tier 6, Dragon)

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• 10/10. Start of Combat: Steal 10/10 from the highest Health enemy minion.
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Marine Matriarch (Tier 5, Elemental)

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• 3/9. Whenever this takes damage, get a random Tavern spell. (3 times per combat.)
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Cord Puller (Tier 1, Mech)

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• 1/1. Divine Shield. Deathrattle: Summon a 1/1 Microbot.
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Zilliax: Claw Module (Tier 2, Mech)

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• 4/3. Taunt. This minion can triple with any Zilliax Modules.
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• Dev Comment: Each different Zilliax Module has an appearance rate 1/3 that of a regular Tier 2 minion’s. Any combination of 3 Modules will combine into a Golden Zilliax: Assembled, which has all the keywords of the Modules used as the components.
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Zilliax: Crystal Module (Tier 2, Mech)

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• 4/3. Reborn. This minion can triple with any Zilliax Modules.
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Zilliax: Defense Module (Tier 2, Mech)

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• 4/3. Divine Shield. This minion can triple with any Zilliax Modules.
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Zilliax: Smoke Module (Tier 2, Mech)

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• 4/3. Stealth. This minion can triple with any Zilliax Modules.
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Zilliax: Whirring Module (Tier 2, Mech)

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• 4/3. Windfury. This minion can triple with any Zilliax Modules.
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Zilliax: Bonding Module (Tier 2, Mech)

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• 4/3. Magnetic. This minion can triple with any Zilliax Modules.
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Charging Czarina (Tier 5, Mech)

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• 4/2. Divine Shield. Whenever you cast a Tavern spell, give your minions with Divine Shield +3 Attack.
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Very Hungry Winterfinner (Tier 2, Murloc)

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• 2/5. Taunt. Whenever this takes damage, give a minion in your hand +1/+1.
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Shell Whistler (Tier 3, Naga)

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• 3/2. Battlecry: Get a random Tavern spell from Tier 2.
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Soft-hearted Siren (Tier 4, Naga)

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• 3/6. Whenever this takes damage, get a random Spellcraft spell. (3 times per combat.)
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Long John Copper (Tier 4, Pirate)

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• 4/6. Whenever this takes damage, get a Gold Coin. (3 times per combat.)
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Bristling Buffoon (Tier 3, Quilboar)

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• 3/4. Whenever this takes damage, get a Blood Gem. (3 times per combat.)
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Pokey Thornmantle (Tier 6, Quilboar)

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• 4/5. At the end of your turn, your Blood Gems give an extra +1/+1 this game.
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Hateful Hag (Tier 3, Undead)

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• 4/2. Whenever this attacks, give the minion to the right of this Reborn.
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The Uninvited Guest (Tier 6, Undead)

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• 3/2. Start of Combat: Give your other minions “Deathrattle: Summon a 3/2 Shadow.”
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New Minions (Duos Only)

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Passenger (Tier 1)

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• 2/3. The first time your team Passes each turn, gain +2/+2.
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Wanderer Cho (Tier 2)

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• 4/3. 1 Pass each turn is free.
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Friendly Saloonkeeper (Tier 2)

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• 3/4. Battlecry: Your teammate gets a Gold Coin.
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Generous Geomancer (Tier 2, Quilboar)

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• 2/1. Deathrattle: You and your teammate each get a Blood Gem.
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Puddle Prancer (Tier 3, Murloc)

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• 3/3. After this is Passed, gain +3/+3.
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Orc-estra Conductor (Tier 3)

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• 2/2. Give a minion +2/+2. Improve your team’s future Orc-estra Conductors.
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Plunder Pal (Tier 3, Pirate)

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• 2/2. At the start of your turn, you and your teammate each gain 1 Gold.
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Doting Dracthyr (Tier 3, Dragon)

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• 4/3. At the end of your turn, give your teammate’s minions +1 Attack.
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Mirror Monster (Tier 4, All)

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• 4/4. When you buy or Discover this, get an extra copy and Pass it.
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Grave Narrator (Tier 4, Undead)

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• 2/7. Avenge (3): Your teammate gets a random minion of their most common type.
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Storm Splitter (Tier 4, Naga)

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• 5/5. Once per turn, after you Pass a Tavern spell, get a new copy of it.
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Man’ari Messenger (Tier 4, Demon)

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• 7/4. Battlecry: Minions in your team’s Taverns have +2/+1 this game.
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Feisty Freshwater (Tier 4, Elemental)

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• 6/4. Deathrattle: You and your teammate each gain 2 Refreshes that cost (0).
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Magnanimoose (Tier 4, Beast)

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• 5/2. Deathrattle: Summon a copy of a minion from your teammate's warband. Set its Health to 1 (except Magnanimoose).
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Well Wisher (Tier 5)

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• 6/6. Spellcraft: Pass a different non-Golden minion.
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Support System (Tier 5, Mech)

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• 4/5. At the end of your turn, give a minion in your teammate’s warband Divine Shield.
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Sandy (Tier 7)

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• 1/1. Start of Combat: Transform into a copy of your teammate’s highest Health minion.
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Minion Pool Updates

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63 minions have been removed from the Minion Pool:

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• Beleaguered Battler
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• Yrel
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• Strongshell Scavenger
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• Rendle the Mistermind
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• Menagerie Jug
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• Saloon Dancer
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• Living Constellation
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• The Walking Fort
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• Motley Phalanx
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• Mad Matador
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• Mantid Queen
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• Cogwork Copter
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• Hunter of Gatherers
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Boon of Beetles

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The Season 7 Battlegrounds Track, with the Season Pass, features 40 levels of storybook rewards, including the Endless Fables Legendary Strike, 18 additional Hero Skins, a new Bartender, and more!

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On April 16, all ongoing Arena runs will end, and a new Arena season will begin. Like the current season, this next season will include cards across all Hearthstone expansions and each class will get their own curated list of cards in their card pool. Those curated card pools will be adjusted with the seasonal update. The first pick of each Arena draft will still be a Legendary card and the only Legendary card you will be offered during your draft.

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It’s back! Heroic Tavern Brawl returns for the week of May 1-May 8. Compete in fierce, high-stakes Standard games for your shot at glory and amazing prizes! Pay the entry fee and then play against other players until you get either 12 wins or 3 losses.

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Introducing new Diamond Hero Skins! Diamond Hero Skins include a 3D portrait and animations, new voice lines, and unique visual effects. Ner’zhul, our first ever Diamond Hero Skin, is for the Shaman class and will be available starting April 16.

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The first Masters Tour of the year is this weekend, and Hearthstone's best have come to play! Sixteen of the top players from the February and March Ladder rankings will compete for their share of the $50,000 (USD) prize pool and two invites to the 2024 World Champion. This year, we're bringing more Hearthstone action with a third day of streaming action! Read on for everything you need to know to enjoy the action, only on Twitch and YouTube.

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  Drops: Earn up to three Whizbang's Workshop packs while watching on Twitch all weekend (up to one pack per day).

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Once Upon a Tavern, there was a new Battlegrounds season, filled with updates for Traditional Battlegrounds and a magical new Mode, Battlegrounds Duos! Jump into the fray with new fairy-tale themed cards and rewards. Whether you’re playing on your own or with a partner, a new chapter in Battlegrounds unfolds on April 16!

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With Season 7, Battlegrounds Ratings will reset and Battlegrounds Quests will rotate out of the Tavern. Tavern Spells will stay in the Tavern for both traditional Battlegrounds and Battlegrounds Duos as a regular part of Battlegrounds going forward.

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Play Battlegrounds Duos

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Grab a friend or make a new one, Battlegrounds Duos is nearly here! We’ve been hard at work on Duos since we first shared it with you all at BlizzCon, balancing and polishing the mode.

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The basics of Duos are the same as when we first announced it. You and a partner queue together in a game against three other teams of two players. Teams have shared life totals, pass each other cards through the Portal (for 1 Gold), and fight in tag-team combat to take the crown!

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You can swap between solo Battlegrounds and Battlegrounds Duos on the main Battlegrounds menu. From the Duos menu, you can invite a friend to play as your teammate, or you can queue on your own to get paired with a random player and make a new friend! There will be separate ratings for solo Battlegrounds and Battlegrounds Duos, and separate leaderboards.

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New Duos Heroes and Minions

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With the launch of Duos, we’ve added some Duos-specific Heroes and cards that take advantage of the mode’s new gameplay: 4 heroes, 16 minions, and 3 tavern spells. These will only be available in Battlegrounds Duos, not the regular Battlegrounds mode. Some of these will look familiar to people who played Duos at BlizzCon, maybe with a few updates, and some of these are brand new!

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Huge Updates Across Solo and Duos

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Battlegrounds Duos isn’t the only story to tell Once Upon a Tavern. Season 7 includes a massive minion update for both Duos and solo Battlegrounds, including 50 new minions, over a dozen returning minions, and a couple new Tavern Spells. There are changes across the whole game, including a rework to Beasts, big refreshes to Dragons and Mechs, and balance changes to tons of minions and heroes! All these updates apply to all Battlegrounds games, traditional and Duos.

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Exciting Reveal Schedule

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This is just the prologue to this season’s story! Gather around for exciting reveals leading up to launch:

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April 4, 10:00 a.m. PDT – Duos-Specific Minion Reveals*

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April 5, 10:00 a.m. PDT – New Minion Reveals*

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April 9, 10:00 a.m. PDT – Returning Minion Reveals*

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April 11, 10:00 a.m. PDT – 29.2 Patch Notes

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April 15, 9:00 a.m. PDT – Grab a Friend Event

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April 16 – 29.2 Patch Live

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*Look for #HearthstoneDuos on social media at these scheduled reveal times—your favorite creators will have lots more to share on these topics!

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Grab a Friend Livestream Preview Event

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On April 15, the day before Patch 29.2 launches, watch several of your favorite content creators try out Battlegrounds Duos live! But they can’t do it on their own—each invited player has also been allowed to invite their Duos partner of choice.Participating players will be streaming on their own channels, so make sure you have notifications turned on. Time slots by region are:

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APAC region – April 15, 2:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. (PDT)

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NA, LATAM, and EMEA regions – April 15, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (PDT)

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Battlegrounds Track Refresh

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On April 16, Battlegrounds Season 6 will end and Season 7 will begin! At that point, players will switch over to begin earning awards on the new Battlegrounds Season 7 Rewards Track. Any rewards that were already earned in the Season 6 Rewards Track, but not yet claimed, will be automatically claimed for you.

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The Season 7 Battlegrounds Track includes storied fairy tale themed cosmetics. Pick up the Season Pass to instantly unlock +2 Hero options at the start of each game. Then progress through the track to earn the Endless Fables Legendary Strike, 18 additional Hero Skins, a new Bartender, and more!

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This patch, coming when you least expect it, includes updates to Standard, Wild, Battlegrounds, and more!

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Hearthstone Updates

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General Updates

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• Cards in your deck will now be in a random order. We’d get more into the specifics about this change, but we’re not sure that’s a rabbit hole worth exploring.
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• Before queueing for a match, you’ll now select whether you want to go first or second, and then get paired with a player who has made the opposite selection.
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• You’re not imagining it: the toys in Whizbang’s Workshop do move when you’re not looking.
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• You can now pet the dog in Hearthstone.
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Card Updates

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Shadowstep

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• Dev Comment: For player sentiment reasons, Shadowstep has been removed from Core. A new card, called Step, will be added into Core in its place.
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Freebird

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• Old: [4 Mana]
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Living Prairie

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• New: Cowlossal +2
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New Hero Skin: Boulderfist Ogre

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Introducing our bouldist hero skin yet: the Boulderfist Ogre Hero Skin! It’s all ogre now.

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Battlegrounds Updates

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General Updates

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• Battlegrounds is now turn-based! Players must drag their minions during the combat phase to choose where they attack.
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• Selecting A.F. Kay as your hero will now force-close your client for the first 2 turns.
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• All players who said Bob was rooting for them will receive a 7-day suspension. He told you not to tell the others!
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• Toxic Tumbleweed has been removed from the Tavern Spell pool for saying some really hurtful things.
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Introducing: Battlegrounds OCTUPLES

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When we announced the upcoming Battlegrounds Duos, we were really excited to see the positive response from the community. Players who tried the mode had a lot of fun playing with their friends. We’ve spent the last few months polishing the Mode for launch and we realized: if playing as a pair is fun, then playing as a team of eight would be four times as fun!

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So, instead of Battlegrounds Duos, we’ll be launching Battlegrounds Octuples! In Battlegrounds Octuples, you team up with 7 other players to hang out in Bob’s Tavern. Now, everyone’s a winner!

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Hero Change

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Snake Eyes

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• Dev Comment: This change applies to regular Battlegrounds and to Battlegrounds Octuples.
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Meet the Team: Jeff

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Jeff is a big Hearthstone fan, coming to us from the Marketing team as part of a cross-team internship program. A little bit about Jeff: he’s an avid rock collector, an amateur toothpaste historian, and a Control Priest aficionado. Everyone say, “Hi Jeff!”

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As part of Jeff’s internship, he’s designed and implemented some of the changes in this patch.

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Jeff Updates

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• Anduin is now the default Battlegrounds Bartender. Coincidentally, all other Bartenders have been temporarily removed due to a bug.
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Psychic Scream

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• Jeff Comment: I scream, you scream, we all scream for Psychic Scream! :P
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Mindrender Illucia

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Worgen Greaser

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Boulderfist Ogre

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New Feature: In-Client Replay

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In celebration of 10 years of Hearthstone, upon login all players will be shown a replay of all the Hearthstone games they’ve ever played—cementing Hearthstone’s place for another 10 years to come!

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Dev Comment: To make sure you don’t miss anything, the replay will play at .5 speed and will pick up where it left off if your client is accidentally closed while it plays.

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Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

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• [General] As part of our continued modular download project, you can now choose to download or remove the card art of Stoneborn General.
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• [Hearthstone] Playing Warsong Wrangler will now give the King Krush Hero Portrait longer arms so that it can better fire its Steady Shot.
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• [Hearthstone] All Mini minions now have a banana in their art, for scale.
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• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Mixtape didn't have the Fire Spell School.
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• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Gaslight Gatekeeper wasn’t obtainable from packs.
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• [Battlegrounds] Bob’s Tavern now requires a valid government ID to enter.
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• [Battlegrounds] Removed the Pasta the Pirate Hero Skin to clean up some of the spaghetti code.
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• [General] The cross-interdisciplinary internship program has been cancelled and Jeff has been sent to a Marketing team upstate.
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