Patch 32.0.3 brings balance changes to Hearthstone and Battlegrounds, and more!

Hearthstone Updates

Dev Comment: These changes are a continuation of the changes we made in Patch 32.0 to remove unfun play patterns and give Into the Emerald Dream the best chance to shine. Many of these changes are to cards and strategies that are bad experiences to play against even if they’re not overly powerful. We’re also adjusting a few early power outliers—including buffs! We don’t normally do balance changes this early after an expansion, but we thought making a few changes now would best align our goals for the set with our patch schedule.

Hideous Husk

• Old: Your Leeches steal 2 more Health from their victims. Battlecry: Summon two 0/2 Leeches.
• New: Your Leeches steal 1 more Health from their victims. Battlecry: Summon two 0/2 Leeches.

Amphibian’s Spirit

• Old: [2 Mana]
• New: [3 Mana]

Murmur 

• Old: [6 Mana]
• New: [7 Mana]

Food Fight 

• Old: [3 Mana]
• New: [4 Mana]

Spawning Pool 

• Old: [1 Mana]
• New: [2 Mana]

Lift Off

• Old: [3 Mana]
• New: [4 Mana]

Chrono Boost

• Old: [4 Mana]
• New: [5 Mana]

Artanis

• Old: [7 Mana]
• New: [8 Mana]

Arkonite Defense Crystal

• Old: [4 Mana] 3/4
• New: [5 Mana] 4/5

Seaside Giant

• Old: [10 Mana] Costs (2) less for each time you’ve used a location this game.
• New: [9 Mana] Costs (1) less for each time you’ve used a location this game.

Travelmaster Dungar

• Old: [9 Mana]
• New: [10 Mana]

The Ceaseless Expanse

• Old: [100 Mana]
• New: [125 Mana]

The disenchantable cards listed above, plus Signature Gorgonzormu due to a bug fix, will be eligible for full dust refunds for two weeks following Patch 32.0.3.

Resplendent Dreamweaver 

• Old: 5/4. Battlecry: If you’ve Imbued your Hero Power twice, deal 5 damage to a minion.
• New: 4/4. Lifesteal. Battlecry: If you’ve Imbued your Hero Power twice, deal 4 damage to a minion.

Symbiosis

• Old: Discover a Choose One card from another class.
• New: Discover a Choose One card from another class. It costs (1) less.

Kaldorei Priestess

• Old: [4 Mana] 4/4
• New: [3 Mana] 3/3

Lunarwing Messenger

• Old: 3/1
• New: 3/2

Aspect’s Embrace

• Old: Restore 4 Health. Imbue your Hero Power.
• New: Restore 4 Health. Draw a card. Imbue your Hero Power.

Living Garden

• Old: 2/3
• New: 2/4

Battlegrounds Updates

Dev Comment: This is expected to be our last major balance adjustment to Battlegrounds before the next season. We’re overall happy with how Anomalies were received this season, and most of our adjustments to them this patch are focused on removing a few pain points with specific Anomalies. On the minion side, our aim this patch is to lower the power of Demons and Naga and buff Dragons and Mechs. We also decided to remove Captain Bonerender from the minion pool early, for sentiment reasons. Keep an eye out, we’ll be sharing news about the next Battlegrounds season soon!

Anomaly Pool Updates

• Prudence of Amitus has been removed from the Anomaly Pool.
• Secrets of Norgannon and Cosmic Duality now appear less often.
• Guff Runetotem has been banned from the Secrets of Norgannon Anomaly.
• Pyramad has been banned from the Match Fixing, Golden Friendship, Emergency Landing, and Pooled Resources Anomalies.
• Saloon’s Finest (Tier 5 Tavern Spell) has been banned from the Golganneth’s Tempest Anomaly.
• The following heroes have been banned from being the second hero power option with the Cosmic Duality Anomaly: Lord Jaraxxus, Overlord Saurfang, The Jailer, Professor Putricide, Ragnaros, Tavish Stormpike, Cariel Roame, Sindragosa, Millificent Manastorm, Vanndar Stormpike, Rokara, and Sylvanas Windrunner.

Anomaly Updates

Anomalous Evidence

• Old: At the start of your turn, choose from 2 new Quest Rewards.
• New: At the start of your turn, choose from 2 new Quest Rewards. (Unlocks on turn 4.)

Anomalous Wisdomball

• Old: You occasionally get helpful Refreshes! (Unlocks on turn 6.)
• New: You occasionally get helpful Refreshes! (Unlocks on turn 5.)

Scout’s Honor

• Old: Start with a Patient Scout in play.
• New: Start with a Golden Patient Scout in play.

Instant Warband

• Old: Start with 3 different Tier 1 minions in hand.
• New: Start with 3 different Tier 2 minions in hand.

Armor Updates

The following Hero now has less Armor:

• Queen Azshara: now 10 Armor, 7 Armor in Duos.

The following Heroes now have more Armor: 

• Galakrond: now 16 Armor, 13 Armor in Duos.
• Galewing: now 8 Armor, 5 Armor in Duos.
• Xyrella: now 10 Armor in Duos.

Minion Pool Updates

• The following minions have been removed from the minion pool: Cyborg Drake, Captain Bonerender, and Pilgrimp.
• The following minions have been returned to the minion pool: Upbeat Frontdrake, Utility Drone, and Sanctum Rester.

Minion Updates

Lava Lurker

• Text-only update.

Stitched Salvager

• Old: 20/4. Start of Combat: Destroy the minion to the left of this. Deathrattle: Resummon an exact copy of it.
• New: 16/4. Start of Combat: Destroy the minion to the left. Deathrattle: Summon an exact copy of it. (Except Stitched Salvager).

Utility Drone

• Old: [Tier 4] 4/4. At the end of your turn, give your minions +2/+1 for each Magnetization they have.
• New: [Tier 6] 6/6. At the end of your turn, give your minions +3/+2 for each Magnetization they have.

The Boommobile

• Old: 12/12
• New: 20/20

Big Brother

• Old: 5/4. Taunt. After you cast a Tavern spell, minions in the Tavern have +1/+2 this turn.
• New: 4/4. Taunt. After you cast a Tavern spell, minions in the Tavern have +1/+1 this turn.

Fireworks Fanatic

• Old: 4/4. Whenever you get a minion you already have, give your minions +1/+1.
• New: 5/5. Whenever you get a minion you already have, give your minions +2/+2.

Tidemistress Athissa

• Old: 2/6. Whenever you cast a spell, give your Naga +1/+1.
• New: 6/7. Whenever you cast a spell, give 4 friendly Naga +1/+1.

Sanctum Rester

• Old: 5/5. Start of Combat: Give your other Dragons +8 Health.
• New: 2/5. Start of Combat: Give your Dragons +10 Attack.

Prized Promo-Drake

• Old: 3/3. Start of Combat: Give your other Dragons +3/+3.
• New: 2/2. Start of Combat: Give your Dragons +3/+3.

Mythrax the Unraveler

• Old: 2/1. At the end of your turn, gain +2/+1 for each different friendly minion type.
• New: 2/2. At the end of your turn, gain +2/+2 for each different friendly minion type.

Arena Updates

Arena draft rates have been adjusted so that the following cards appear less frequently:

• Spirit Gatherer
• Aspect’s Embrace
• Fleeing Treant (in Mage, Priest, and Shaman)
• Rite of Atrocity

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Shaladrassil could get activated by your opponent playing cards that cost more than it.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where the dragon in the Horrible Egg (from Clutch of Corruption) would change if the source dragon was transformed.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a bug where Doomkin’s stats weren’t reverted when its effect was reverted.
• [Hearthstone] Updated Merry Moonkin’s text and effect so that it gains all the Armor at once, instead of over multiple activations.
• [Hearthstone] Fixed a visual bug with Shaladrassil’s history tile.
• [Collection] Fixed a bug where Signature Nightmare Lord Xavius couldn’t be disenchanted.
• [Collection] Fixed a bug where Signature Gorgonzormu disenchanted for the wrong dust amount when eligible for a full dust refund. Due to this miss during last refund window, Signature Gorgonzormu has been added to this patch’s refund period.