Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons

Mechanics

According to tradition, Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons introduces 135 new cards, including Galakrond, a character available for five classes of heroes. Each of them received a different version of the dragon, but all of them can strengthen it by playing cards with the new keyword - Invoke. Another novelty are the Side Quests. The rewards for completing them are not as big as those for Quests from Journey to Un'Goro and Saviors of Uldum, but they are also much easier. As a result, Side Quests do not require the creation of a special deck for the benefit of summoning a minion.

Game modes

Hearthstone: Descent of Dragons introduces a new game mode - Battlegrounds. It offers game gameplay, similat to auto battlers like Dota Underlords. In it, eight players fight as one of 24 heroes with unique special powers, trying to create an invincible army to stand as the only winner on the battlefield. However, we do not create our own deck here. Instead, we recruit ers in Bob's Inn, similar to Adventures from previous additions, but with significant changes: we get a certain amount of cards, from which we choose a few that we want to use in the fight. We choose our minions by paying coins for them, but we can also use them to draw a new set of cards, get rid of unnecessary copies or improve the inn to offer more powerful minions.

Technical aspects

Descent of Dragons does not change anything in the audio-visual layer of the game, except for the introduction of new illustrations and effects when playing cards introduced in the add-on.