This Mystery is LIVE as of March 17, 2022 and solved as of March 23, 2022. Thanks to the Warcraft Secrets Finding Discord for bringing the community together to solve the Mystery. This guide is here to explain how to complete these mysteries so you can obtain your card back as quickly and pain-free as possible. Use the links below to quickly jump to any of the puzzles you have yet to solve.

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    History

    On February 14, Blizzard patched the game for the Onyxia's Lair Mini-set and within it, included a new achievement and card back that were attached to a third Hearthstone Mystery. The previous Mysteries were for Barrens and Stormwind and they also rewarded card backs.


    What Does the Alterac Valley Mystery Reward?

    Here's everything you will obtain by completing this mystery:

    • Shimmering Snowflake card back. (Click your achieves to add to collection)
    • 100 Achievement Points.

    This is a bit different since previous Mystery achievements contained rewards track XP as well.


    How to Solve Alterac Valley Mystery #1 - Kurtrus the Juggler


    How to Start Kurtrus the Juggler

    • Visit the Solo Adventures section in Hearthstone's Game Modes.
    • Select Book of Mercenaries and choose Kurtrus' chapter.
    • Click on the top left corner of the challenge background - see below.

    Check out the solution here with a reference to Health + Position here.


    How to Solve Alterac Valley Mystery #2 - Xyrella's Rubik's Cube

    Xyrella's part of this mystery is us solving a 2x2 Rubik's Cube!


    How to Start Xyrella's Rubix Cube

    • Visit the Solo Adventures section in Hearthstone's Game Modes.
    • Select Book of Mercenaries and choose Xyrella's chapter.
    • Click on the bottom left corner of the challenge background - see below.


    How to Complete Xyrella's Rubix Cube

    • You need to look at the minions on your board and take note of their Tribes.
      • Tribes should be thought of as the colors on a cube.
      • These Tribes need to be mapped to a Rubik's Cube based on their positions.
    •  The cards in your hand each make a different play on the Rubik's cube.
      • The numbers below are the position in hand of the card and assume you're looking at the face in question.
      • 1 - Front Counter-Clockwise
      • 2 - Back Counter-Clockwise
      • 3 - Top Counter-Clockwise
      • 4 - Bottom Counter-Clockwise
      • 5 - Left Counter-Clockwise
      • 6 - Right Counter-Clockwise

    Follow along with this document using this Rubik's Cube solver.


    How to Solve Alterac Valley Mystery #3 - Cariel's Maze


    How to Start Cariel's Maze

    • Visit the Solo Adventures section in Hearthstone's Game Modes.
    • Select Book of Mercenaries and choose Cariel's chapter.
    • Click on the top right corner of the challenge background - see below.

    You will want to use this document to solve the maze.