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Year of the Dragon is the Standard format year from April 9, 2019 to April 7, 2020.[1]

Card sets[]

These card sets are released as a part of Year of the Dragon.

Patches[]

These patches were released during Year of the Dragon.

VersionBuildRelease dateHighlights
16.6.0 43246 2020-03-17 Ashes of Outland pre-order, Card changes, Battlegrounds' card changes
16.4.0 42174 2020-02-26 Battlegrounds updates: Dragon, Arena rotation
16.2.3 40734 2020-02-06 Battlegrounds' card changes
16.2.0 39954 2020-01-21 Galakrond's Awakening release, Battlegrounds updates
16.0.8 39282 2020-01-09 Card changes, Battlegrounds' card changes
16.0.5 38377 2019-12-19 Card changes, Battlegrounds' card changes
16.0.3 38203 2019-12-12 Arena changes, Battlegrounds' card changes
16.0.0 37060 2019-12-05 Descent of Dragons release, Arena rotation, Winter Veil event, Battlegrounds updates, Echo and Transform changes, In-game Shop's New UI
15.6.2 36393 2019-11-11 Battlegrounds open beta, Battlegrounds' card changes
15.6.0 35747 2019-11-05 Descent of Dragons pre-order, Battlegrounds introduction, Daily quests changes, Smart Deck Builder introduction, Streamer mode introduction
15.4.0 34670 2019-10-08 Doom in the Tomb event, 1000-win alternate portraits introduction
15.2.0 33717 2019-09-10 Tombs of Terror release, Discover change
15.0.4 33402 2019-08-26 Card changes
15.0.0 32708 2019-08-01 Saviors of Uldum release, Arena rotation
14.6.0 31761 2019-07-01 Saviors of Uldum pre-order, Basic Hall of Fame rotation, New Basic and Classic cards, Card art changes, reduced Tavern Brawl downtime
14.4.0 31268 2019-06-03 Rise of the Mech, Card changes, Arena rotation
14.2.2 31022 2019-05-22 Card changes
14.2.0 30795 2019-05-14 The Dalaran Heist release
14.0.0 29933 2019-04-04 Year of the Dragon rotation, Rise of Shadows release, Regular Arena rotation introduction

Notable announcements[]

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Year of the Dragon teaser

A sneak peek at the content released during the Year of the Dragon.

The fourth Standard year started with the release of the Rise of Shadows expansion. The beginning of 2019 saw the Journey to Un'Goro, Knights of the Frozen Throne and Kobolds & Catacombs sets moved to Wild format. Additionally, three cards from the Classic (Naturalize, Doomguard and Divine Favor) were moved to the Hall of Fame, and six cards from The Witchwood (Baku the Mooneater, Genn Greymane, Gloom Stag, Black Cat, Glitter Moth and Murkspark Eel) were moved to the Hall of Fame instead of waiting for their scheduled rotation to Wild in 2020, which is the first time cards from an expansion were moved to the Hall of Fame.

To celebrate the start of the Year of the Dragon, starting March 25, 2019 until April 2, 2019, logging in daily rewarded a random card pack from Journey to Un'Goro, Knights of the Frozen Throne, Kobolds & Catacombs, also a new Tavern Brawl, Brawl Block – Year of the Mammoth, was available.

Beginning with the Year of the Dragon, the Arena draft pool is updated by rotating out sets and adding new ones twice every expansion to keep things fresh. With the first rotation, the Arena draft pool contained the following sets: Basic, Classic, Curse of Naxxramas, Whispers of the Old Gods, Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, The Witchwood, and Rise of Shadows.

In the Year of the Dragon, Blizzard has made major changes to the Standard Card pool at other times besides the release of the expansions. On May 21, the Rise of the Mech event was announced, which brought Hearthstone's first-ever card buffs, and added the legendary mech SN1P-SN4P to The Boomsday Project card set. On October 8, the Doom in the Tomb event brought 23 Wild cards temporarily back into Standard play, and gave all players temporary copies of those cards. It also featured Galakrond's Awakening, which was both an entirely new set of 35 cards and a return to classic Adventure mode gameplay.

One consistent feature was the Lackey ability, which generated evil minions for the player. It saw support and new synergies added throughout the entire year, and even had two new Lackeys - Titanic Lackey and Draconic Lackey - added for Saviors of Uldum and Descent of Dragons.

Another recurring theme of the Year of the Dragon has been the return of elements from previous years:

References[]

 
  1. Light It Up in the Year of the Dragon. (2019-02-28). Retrieved on 2022-04-09.
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