Reno Jackson returns as part of Hearthstone's annual core set shakeup
pcgamer.comBlizzard announced today that Hearthstone's Year of the Hydra will kick off on April 12 with the launch of Voyage to the Sunken Sea, the underwater expansion announced in March. The new year will bring «a renewed focus on sustainability and optimization,» Blizzard said, along with all-new content and updates for Hearthstone's established game modes.
«You can expect quality-of-life and other improvements, such as being able to equip a random hero skin, in-game reporting, and an overall emphasis on client-performance improvements,» Blizzard promised, clearly cognizant of complaints about how buggy the platform has become in recent years. «That’s on top of our usual three card sets and a mountain of planned new content for Battlegrounds, Mercenaries, and more.»
The start of a new year in Hearthstone will also see the rotation of card sets: Ashes of Outland, Scholomance Academy, and Madness at the Darkmoon Faire will go to Wild, leaving the Standard card pool to include Forged in the Barrens, United in Stormwind, Fractured in Alterac Valley, Voyage to the Sunken City, and the Core set.
Speaking of the Core set, today's announcement also detailed which cards are being cut, and which ones are returning. Top billing goes to the original League of Explorers, all of whom are back in the Core set: Reno Jackson, Brann Bronzebeard, Elise Starseeker, and Sir Finley Mrrgglton.
Some people are happy about this development:
So core set just got rid of a lot of bad cards and put good ones in, very cool.April 5, 2022
Others, not so much:
Reno Jackson is a stupid card for idiots being brought back by morons who should know betterApril 5, 2022
Reno has always been a highly polarizing card because he grants a full heal to your hero (so
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