Patch 31.0.0.210009
Patch 31.0.0.210009 is a Hearthstone patch released on October 29, 2024. It's a major patch, containing the card data for The Great Dark Beyond, an Arena rotation, a new Event Track: Warcraft Anniversary, a new Pre-Release Tavern Brawl system, a new card: 
Champions of Azeroth, and card changes.
A hotfix for this patch, 31.0.1, was released on November 1, 2024.
Another hotfix for this patch, 31.0.2, was released on November 8, 2024.
Patch Notes[edit | edit source]
Patch 31.0 launches tomorrow and starts the final countdown until we set off into The Great Dark Beyond on November 5!
Explore the Cosmos![edit | edit source]
The Great Dark Beyond, Hearthstone's next expansion, blasts off on November 5. The new 145-card expansion includes the new Starship keyword, new Draenei minion type, returning Spellburst keyword, and more! See all the new cards in the official Card Library today. Don't forget to grab your Pre-Purchase before the expansion launches and it's gone!
With the launch of The Great Dark Beyond comes a new and improved Rewards Track, filled with out-of-this-world goodies like XP boosts, cards, Gold, and more card packs than any track before! Check out the Rewards Track Refresh blog for details.
Open Your Packs Early and Join the Pre-Release Tavern Brawl![edit | edit source]
The Great Dark Beyond Pre-Release Tavern Brawl begins tomorrow with Patch 31.0 and runs until expansion launch on November 5. Crack open your The Great Dark Beyond packs early, build a deck, and compete in a mini-competition to earn more The Great Dark Beyond prizes!
Everyone will get one free entry into the Pre-Release Tavern Brawl. After that, entry will cost 2 Tavern Tickets, 300 Gold, or 400 Runestones per run. For each run, you'll lock in a deck and play until you get either 6 wins or 3 losses. Decks can be built with cards from Core Set, Whizbang's Workshop, Perils in Paradise, and The Great Dark Beyond. Prize payouts will be based on how well you do on your run, as follows:
You can learn more about the Pre-Release Tavern Brawl in our dedicated Developer Insights blog.
Celebrate Community Days[edit | edit source]
In space, one Community Day is the same as four Community Days here in the Tavern. Watch your favorite streamers as they take on the Pre-Release Tavern Brawl and earn packs that you can use on your own runs! From October 29, 10:00 a.m. (PDT) to November 2, 10:00 a.m. (PDT), you can get up to 10 packs just for watching any Hearthstone stream (2 hours per drop):
- 1st Drop: 3 Whizbang's Workshop Packs
- 2nd Drop: 3 Perils in Paradise Packs
- 3rd Drop: 4 The Great Dark Beyond Packs
Creator Deck Recipes Return[edit | edit source]
When The Great Dark Beyond launches on November 5, the in-game deck recipes will update to include decks from Hearthstone stars:
- Cantelope's Rainbow Starship Death Knight
- Kibler's Starship Crew Demon Hunter
- Kibler's Starcaneship Druid
- Day9's Ceaseless Discover Hunter
- SwayBae's Fiery Elementals Mage
- Roffle's Libram Paladin
- MarkMcKz's Mystified Draenei Priest
- Clark's Schematic Heist Rogue
- Roffle's Spacerock Shaman
- MarkMcKz's Demon Starship Warlock
- Sloot's Akamattack Warrior
New and returning player loaner decks will update with the 31.4 Patch and will include cards from the main expansion, as they did in the 30.4 update.
Progression Updates[edit | edit source]
Three major progression updates are going live in Patch 31.0:
- Weekly Quests are being made easier to complete, but to grant less XP (reverting to the versions from before Patch 29.2).
- Tavern Brawls will now grant the latest expansion packs, instead of Standard Packs.
- The new Rewards Track and Tavern Pass have been upgraded with more The Great Dark Beyond Packs.
See the Progression Update blog from Game Director Tyler Bielman for more about these changes.
Card Updates[edit | edit source]
- Old: [3 Mana]
- New: [2 Mana]
- Reworded effect to remove Discover. This is a non-functional change to any existing interactions, but is in preparation for the new cards in The Great Dark Beyond.
In-Game Event: Warcraft Anniversary[edit | edit source]
Celebrate 30 years of Warcraft, and 20 years in the World of Warcraft, with a special Wacraft-themed event! From November 12 to December 3, complete Event Quests to earn Event XP on the special event rewards track. Complete the rewards track to earn 2 copies of the Champions of Azeroth card, 2 copies of the Golden Champions of Azeroth card, the World of Warcraft 20th Anniversary card back, and the Hogger Warrior Hero Skin.
Arena Updates[edit | edit source]
On October 29, with Patch 31.0, all ongoing Arena runs will end and a new Arena season will begin. With this season, we return to single-class Arena. The eligible sets that will make up this Arena card pool are:
- The Great Dark Beyond
- Perils in Paradise
- Showdown in the Badlands
- Festival of Legends
- Caverns of Time
- Scholomance Academy
Bug Fixes and Game Improvements[edit | edit source]
- [General] Fixed various issues with swapping between languages or accounts on mobile.
- [Hearthstone] Rules update: cards that relate to
C'Thun (like those that buff C'Thun) or Galakrond (like those that Invoke Galakrond) will now only be transformed into, Discovered, or randomly generated if a card from that grouping was in your starting deck. - [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where playing the
Horseman's Head from hand drew you a card. (This fix would have been written as a flavorful rhyme, if we were cleverer or had some more time). - [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where, if you conceded during
Mistah Vistah's Scenic Vistah effect, it caused the background ambient sound effect to replay on loop into your next game—nobody signed up for that long of a hike. - [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where a transformed Hero didn't show its Lesser Trinket in the Leaderboard.
- [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where minions summoned by
Cultist S'Thara were not getting Taunt from Greybough's Hero Power. - [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where the Valorous Medallion Trinket triggered after Start of Combat Hero Power triggers.
- [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where the Emerald Dreamcatcher Trinket triggered after Bru'kan's Hero Power.
- [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Elder Taggawag gained the wrong stats with the Promo Portrait Trinket in play.
- [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where the Bob-blehead Trinket didn't work with Wheel of Yogg-Saron.
- [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Duos Warbands could appear empty or misaligned in the Full Stats tab.
- [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where your own Hero could sometimes appear in the Duos Portal instead of your partner's.
- [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where all Bartenders appeared as Bob in the Duos Portal.
- [Progression] Corrected the wording on the KEEP OUT: BEWARE OF DOGS Achievement.
- [Progression] Fixed a bug where the Valedictorian's Honor Achievement couldn't be completed.
- [Cosmetics] Updated the Mythic Ragnaros Hero Power to differentiate for Golden Hero Powers.
- [???] Fixed a bug impacting the Alterac Valley Mysteries.
- [Misc.] Hearthstone: Music from the Tavern Volume 2, with over 50 tracks, will come in a later patch, towards the end of this calendar year.
Undocumented changes[edit | edit source]
- The Tavern Brawl cards Shieldsman and Swordsman received a wording change from "Battlecry" to "When this is summoned".
- Previous cards that were Draenei but didn't have the minion type received the type in this patch:
Akama Prime- Akama
- Aldor Attendant
Aldor Peacekeeper- Aldor Truthseeker
Argent Braggart- Ashtongue Battlelord
- Ashtongue Slayer
Auchenai Phantasm- Auchenai Soulpriest
Battle Vicar
Blackguard- Broken Ambusher
Chillfallen Baron
Class Action Lawyer
Cornered Sentry- Cosplay Contestant
Crystalweaver- Defender of Argus
- Defender
Draenei Totemcarver
Dragoncaster
Enthusiastic Banker- Envoy of Prosperity
- Flame Juggler
- Free Agent
- Frozen Shadoweaver
- Gear Grubber
- Greyheart Sage
Guild Recruiter- High Abbess Alura
High Exarch Yrel- Kabal Crystal Runner
Kirin Tor Tricaster
Lawful Longarm- Lightforged Crusader
- Lightforged Zealot
- Lightwarden
Lost Exarch
Lost Soul- Mystery Winner
- Package Runner
Popstar- Prophet Velen
- Proud Defender
- Raylla, Sand Sculptor
Runi, Time Explorer- Saronite Chain Gang
- Selfless Hero
- Shadowjeweler Hanar
- Shield of Galakrond
- Shieldbearer
Skydiving Instructor- Snoozin' Zookeeper
- Soulbound Ashtongue
- Soulshard Lapidary
Stargazer Luna- Stonehearth Vindicator
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Trinket Artist
- Twilight Deceptor
- Windspeaker
- Wretched Tutor
- Xyrella, the Sanctified
Xyrella
- Akama Prime
- Akama
- Aldor Attendant
- Aldor Peacekeeper
- Aldor Truthseeker
- Argent Braggart
- Ashtongue Battlelord
- Ashtongue Slayer
- Auchenai Phantasm
- Auchenai Soulpriest
- Battle Vicar
- Blackguard
- Broken Ambusher
- Chillfallen Baron
- Class Action Lawyer
- Cornered Sentry
- Cosplay Contestant
- Crystalweaver
- Defender of Argus
- Defender
- Draenei Totemcarver
- Dragoncaster
- Enthusiastic Banker
- Envoy of Prosperity
- Flame Juggler
- Free Agent
- Frozen Shadoweaver
- Gear Grubber
- Greyheart Sage
- Guild Recruiter
- High Abbess Alura
- High Exarch Yrel
- Kabal Crystal Runner
- Kirin Tor Tricaster
- Lawful Longarm
- Lightforged Crusader
- Lightforged Zealot
- Lightwarden
- Lost Exarch
- Lost Soul
- Mystery Winner
- Package Runner
- Popstar
- Prophet Velen
- Proud Defender
- Raylla, Sand Sculptor
- Runi, Time Explorer
- Saronite Chain Gang
- Selfless Hero
- Shadowjeweler Hanar
- Shield of Galakrond
- Shieldbearer
- Skydiving Instructor
- Snoozin' Zookeeper
- Soulbound Ashtongue
- Soulshard Lapidary
- Stargazer Luna
- Stonehearth Vindicator
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Toy Soldier
- Trinket Artist
- Twilight Deceptor
- Windspeaker
- Wretched Tutor
- Xyrella, the Sanctified
- Xyrella
31.0.1 Patch Notes[edit | edit source]
Patch 31.0.1 is a server-side patch rolling out now with the following updates.
Battlegrounds General Updates
- Sneed is now unavailable in games with Undead.
Battlegrounds Trinket Updates
Lesser Trinkets
Rewinder Portrait
- Old: [5 Gold]
- New: [4 Gold]
Goose Portrait
- Old: [3 Gold]
- New: [1 Gold]
Kaboom Portrait
- Old: [1 Gold]
- New: [0 Gold]
Lucky Tabby
- Old: [3 Gold]
- New: [2 Gold]
Shaman Prayer Beads
- Old: [3 Gold]
- New: [2 Gold]
Automaton Portrait
- Old: [6 Gold]
- New: [5 Gold]
Marine Signet
- Old: [2 Gold]
- New: [1 Gold]
Book of Medivh
- Old: [3 Gold]
- New: [2 Gold]
Greater Trinkets
Glowscale Portrait
- Old: [1 Gold]
- New: [0 Gold]
Reinforced Shield
- Old: [2 Gold]
- New: [1 Gold]
Charging Staff
- Old: [2 Gold]
- New: [1 Gold]
Glowing Gauntlet
- Old: [1 Gold]
- New: [0 Gold]
Surveyor Portrait
- Old: [4 Gold]
- New: [6 Gold]
Shaker Portrait
- Old: [5 Gold]
- New: [6 Gold]
Primalfin Portrait
- Old: [6 Gold]
- New: [8 Gold]
Arena Update
- Removed Huddle Up from the Arena draft pool.
Bug Fixes and Game Improvements
- [Hearthstone] Made it so that
Exarch Akama would work with Titan abilities. - [Hearthstone] Fixed an issue where too many Asteroid animations could cause turns to be skipped.
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Titans' abilities could activate twice under certain conditions.
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where “Orbital” cards' effects wouldn't be triggered if the adjacent card's effect added a card in the same spot (like Miniaturize or Drink cards).
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Doommaiden wasn't mean enough (she returned Casts When Drawn cards to the enemy deck despite them being cast).
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Gravity Lapse wouldn't work correctly with
Astral Automaton. - [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Ace Wayfinder didn't grant its effects to the next Draenei if Wayfinder's effect came from Velen, Leader of the Exiled.
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Scrapbooking Student would make an unusable The Galaxy's Lens. Now he knows how to apply his studies.
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a visual bug where Asteroids shuffled into your deck would always say “Deal 2 damage” even after upgrading them.
- [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug causing several Discover cards to stop working.
- [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where Cultist S'Thara's Deathrattle would bring minions back without their enchantments.
31.0.2 Patch Notes[edit | edit source]
Patch 31.0.2 is a small server-side patch rolling out today with the following bug fixes:
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where PVE opponents didn't know how to use Starships, resulting in never-ending turns.
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where cards that Discovered once but granted multiple cards under certain circumstances (like Master's Call) would reduce the cost of Alien Encounters multiple times when those conditions were met.
- [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where, if a minion summoned by Spore Empress Moldara's Replicating Spore was transformed, the new transformed minion would be the one summoned by subsequent Spores.
- [Battlegrounds] Fixed a bug where the Mystery Cube Trinket would also change Marin's Hero Power Trinket.
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