Blizzard Entertainment released a mega update 19.2 for Heathstone this week. This update brings balance updates, new heroes and minions, a massive changes to the game modes, and off-course, bug fixes. As a token of gratitude, Hearthstone is rewarding all players with 500 gold as well as five card packs of Madness at the Darkmoon Faire. Remember, you must login before January 18^th, 2021 to claim the rewards. Let’s look into the highlights.

Old Gods entered Battlegrounds as new Heroes! Also, we have ten new minions.

• C’Thun: Hero Power- Saturday C’Thuns cost 2 and it gives +1/+1 to the friendly minions at the end of turn. Moreover, it upgrades after each use.
• N’Zoth: Passive- Avatar of N’Zoth, allows the hero to start the game with 1/1 Fish that gains all your Deathrattles in combat.
• Y’Shaarj’s Embrace your Rage adds a minion from Tavern Tier to your warband.
• Elistra the Immortal, Tier 6 with 7 Attack and 7 Health: Divine Shield. Reborn: This gets attacked instead a friendly Taunt minion.
• Acolyte of C'Thun, Tier 1 with 2 Attack and 2 Health: Taunt. Reborn.
• Tormented Ritualist, Tier 2 with 2 Attack and 3 Health: Taunt gives an adjacent minions +1/+1 whenever this is attacked.
• Faceless Taverngoer, Tier 5 with 4 Attack and 4 Health: Battlecry allows you to choose a minion in Bob’s Tavern and transform it into a plain copy of itself.
• Arm of the Empire, Tier 3 with 4 Attack and 5 Health: Gives +3 Attack whenever a friendly Taunt minion is attacked.
• Bigfernal, Tier 4 with 4 Attack, 4 Health, and a Demon: Gain +1/+1 permanently after summoning a Demon.
• Mythrax, the Unraveler, Tier 6 with 4 Attack and 4 Health: Gain +1/+2 for each minion type you control at the end of your turn.
• Warden of Old, Tier 3 with 3 Attack and 3 Health: Deathrattle adds a Gold Coin to your hand.
• Qiraji Harbinger, Tier 4 with 5 Attack and 5 Health: Gives its neighbors +2/+2 after a friendly minion with Taunt dies.
• Champion of Y'Shaarj, Tier 4 with 2 Attack and 2 Health: Gains +1/+1 permanently whenever a friendly Taunt minion is attacked.

Nerfs: Overpowered Demon Hunters, Hunters, and Neutrals are being targeted, to bring back the balance to the game.

• Hunter, Dinotamer Brann now costs 8 mana instead of 7 mana.
• Demon Hunter, Shardshatter Mystic now costs 4 mana instead of 3 mana.
• Demon Hunter, Blade Dance’s cost has been increased to 3 mana from 2 mana.
• Neutral, Voracious Reader’s cost has been increased to 3 mana from 2 mana.
• Demon Hunter, Dreadlord's Bite’s Attack and Health has been decreased to 2/2 from 3/2.
• Demon Hunter, Blade Dance’s cost has been increased to 3 mana from 2 mana.
• Neutral, Lorekeeper Polkelt now costs 5 mana instead of 4 mana.