If I may be so bold to suggest an improvement: Could you add a little number to each character so we can see how many portraits they got? Like 28 Nemsys, 1 King Rastakhan, ... and then add a sum at the top of the chart, next to the class icon with the total number of portraits for each class. That would complete the picture for me :)
Sure.
This looks considerably more jank because I made it in Paint.net (I made the first one in a sandbox using assets from the Hearthstone wiki). If I do this again next year, I'll put the base heroes on the original list.
If you want a visual list of every single portrait in this style, this page on the wiki has one, albeit not as cleanly arranged.
With 2022 coming to a close, I wanted to compile a nice presentation for every alternate hero skin. Alternate heroes are something I'm strangely passionate about, despite how inundated we are with them now and the fact that I don't even play Hearthstone anymore.
This is a visual list of every alternate hero skin organized by release order, as well as the year they were released. To qualify, the hero has to be a different character than the base hero, and only one character per portrait is counted. That's also including the two that are in the game but not currently obtainable.
EDIT: Apparently Whitemane and Mal'ganis are currently purchasable. My bad. Like I said, I'm not playing the game.
Consistency is a huge hit to combo decks. In the ideal case, yes you can still do the Anub'Rehkan Astalor combo. However, that's now only in the ideal case. You need to get the right mana first. You need the opponent to be at the right health. You need to only play only those cards. You need to have all the pieces line up, which takes more time, which opens the deck up to more losses.
The highest I made it was round 23, because I got lucky with not getting asked for rarity. I have no idea whether something is a common, rare, or epic though. Also, it starts asking for two things after round ten and three things after round twenty. I kinda want to cheat so I can go until it's nothing but card art or something.
Can anyone provide a list of cards that have had their types adjusted? I don't have Hearthstone downloaded anymore (I don't really plan on playing it again), but I would like to know which cards were changed. I've noticed a few bizarre ones in videos I've watched, like Igneous Lavagorger is an Elemental Beast now.
Based on the artwork of Scourge Strike and Remembrance of Ice, I think that they're fallen paladins who were risen as death knights, but broke free of The Lich King and are now helping fight off the Scourge in Silvermoon. That's basically the origin story for the playable Death Knights in WoW.
I bet that the Death Knight treasures will have Rune requirements. Crimson seems like an obvious Blood card to me. Maybe three double-runers and three triple-runers.
Devourer of Souls is actually Blizzard being super-lazy with boss models. Reliquary was a boss in Black Temple, Devourer was a boss in Icecrown Citadel. They just took a boss from an expansion ago and painted it red.
You can't get Rat King. You can't get cards that have an ability and a keyword, only one or the other. Every Zombeast is made of one minion with an ability, and another minion with either only keywords or just a vanilla.
Wrath exists for small minions, Scale of Onyxia exists for... well, everything because Druid is very balanced, but also big minions. You need a board for Wither to be used as removal, and if you have a board as Druid you're playing token. Ergo, just play Power of the Wild.
Wither looks really bad. It's rare that a minion will have enough stats to give a full board +1/+1, and it only works with Undead specifically. Just play Power of the Wild.
Animate Dead is probably crap since we're long past the era of resurrecting your Injured Blademaster. Notably, it's very good with Scourge Rager, though. It certainly has potential, but I'm not hopeful.
Ghostly Strike will either be in every single deck because the utility of 1 damage is better than Dredging, or it'll only be in combo decks that run both it and Gone Fishin'. There's a lot of Reborn stuff in this set, so 1 damage is relevant pretty often.
I'm pretty sure it was just a plot contrivance. Back in Cataclysm, Sylvanas gained the service of Arthas' val'kyr, and she was using them to resurrect fallen Alliance soldiers into new Forsaken. One of the reasons the worgen were brought into the Alliance's ranks was to convert their forces in Lordaeron into worgen so that Sylvanas couldn't do that.
The reason why The Lich King is the exception is so they could justify you rolling a worgen death knight.
It's not Scourge, it's Ardenweald.
I don't have a Reddit account, but you have my permission to post it for me if you give credit and a link back to here.
Sure.
This looks considerably more jank because I made it in Paint.net (I made the first one in a sandbox using assets from the Hearthstone wiki). If I do this again next year, I'll put the base heroes on the original list.
If you want a visual list of every single portrait in this style, this page on the wiki has one, albeit not as cleanly arranged.
TIL Kotori Lightblade is a 'she'. I'd never heard her voice before.
With 2022 coming to a close, I wanted to compile a nice presentation for every alternate hero skin. Alternate heroes are something I'm strangely passionate about, despite how inundated we are with them now and the fact that I don't even play Hearthstone anymore.
This is a visual list of every alternate hero skin organized by release order, as well as the year they were released. To qualify, the hero has to be a different character than the base hero, and only one character per portrait is counted. That's also including the two that are in the game but not currently obtainable.
EDIT: Apparently Whitemane and Mal'ganis are currently purchasable. My bad. Like I said, I'm not playing the game.
Consistency is a huge hit to combo decks. In the ideal case, yes you can still do the Anub'Rehkan Astalor combo. However, that's now only in the ideal case. You need to get the right mana first. You need the opponent to be at the right health. You need to only play only those cards. You need to have all the pieces line up, which takes more time, which opens the deck up to more losses.
The highest I made it was round 23, because I got lucky with not getting asked for rarity. I have no idea whether something is a common, rare, or epic though. Also, it starts asking for two things after round ten and three things after round twenty. I kinda want to cheat so I can go until it's nothing but card art or something.
Can anyone provide a list of cards that have had their types adjusted? I don't have Hearthstone downloaded anymore (I don't really plan on playing it again), but I would like to know which cards were changed. I've noticed a few bizarre ones in videos I've watched, like Igneous Lavagorger is an Elemental Beast now.
It sounds to me like the Rogue generated an Azsharan Defector with Reconnaissance, and the Priest copied the Sunken Defector with Identity Theft.
It's a Kvaldir.
Contagion Concoction damages the minion's controlling hero, not the enemy hero. It's an anti-zoo card.
Based on the artwork of Scourge Strike and Remembrance of Ice, I think that they're fallen paladins who were risen as death knights, but broke free of The Lich King and are now helping fight off the Scourge in Silvermoon. That's basically the origin story for the playable Death Knights in WoW.
I bet that the Death Knight treasures will have Rune requirements. Crimson seems like an obvious Blood card to me. Maybe three double-runers and three triple-runers.
Devourer of Souls is actually Blizzard being super-lazy with boss models. Reliquary was a boss in Black Temple, Devourer was a boss in Icecrown Citadel. They just took a boss from an expansion ago and painted it red.
I like the callback to Crystalsong Portal. Very similar artwork, too.
You can't get Rat King. You can't get cards that have an ability and a keyword, only one or the other. Every Zombeast is made of one minion with an ability, and another minion with either only keywords or just a vanilla.
Ouch. I hope you got them out of there.
Wrath exists for small minions, Scale of Onyxia exists for... well, everything because Druid is very balanced, but also big minions. You need a board for Wither to be used as removal, and if you have a board as Druid you're playing token. Ergo, just play Power of the Wild.
Wither looks really bad. It's rare that a minion will have enough stats to give a full board +1/+1, and it only works with Undead specifically. Just play Power of the Wild.
Animate Dead is probably crap since we're long past the era of resurrecting your Injured Blademaster. Notably, it's very good with Scourge Rager, though. It certainly has potential, but I'm not hopeful.
Ghostly Strike will either be in every single deck because the utility of 1 damage is better than Dredging, or it'll only be in combo decks that run both it and Gone Fishin'. There's a lot of Reborn stuff in this set, so 1 damage is relevant pretty often.
I'm pretty sure it was just a plot contrivance. Back in Cataclysm, Sylvanas gained the service of Arthas' val'kyr, and she was using them to resurrect fallen Alliance soldiers into new Forsaken. One of the reasons the worgen were brought into the Alliance's ranks was to convert their forces in Lordaeron into worgen so that Sylvanas couldn't do that.
The reason why The Lich King is the exception is so they could justify you rolling a worgen death knight.