Hearthstone's new format will see old expansions retired from 'Standard' play

Exciting changes are coming to the Tavern! We’re proud to announce that we’re introducing game formats to Hearthstone! Whether you’re just getting into Hearthstone or you’re a seasoned veteran, the new Standard format will help keep Hearthstone fresh, exciting, and accessible for years to come, while the Wild format will preserve everything you already know and love about Hearthstone!

Designer Insights with Ben Brode: A New Way to Play



The New Standard
Standard is a new format in Play mode that allows players to go head-to-head using only the most recently released Hearthstone cards. You’ll play Standard using a deck built solely from a pool of cards that were released in the current and previous calendar year, along with a core foundation of the Basic and Classic card sets (which will always be valid for Standard). You’ll be matched against other players who are also using Standard decks.



Standard is only available as a format in Friendly Challenges, Ranked, and Casual play, so it won’t affect Arena, Solo play, or Adventures.

Gone Wild
Adventures and Expansions that are not part of the Standard format will no longer be available for purchase from the Shop—this year, that includes Naxxramas and Goblins vs Gnomes. If you want any cards you missed out on for Wild play or just to fill out your collection, you’ll be able to craft them using Arcane Dust—even cards from Adventures that were previously un-craftable. Speaking of Adventures, if you’ve purchased at least the first wing of an Adventure before it cycled out, you’ll still be able to finish acquiring and playing the remaining wings.

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On standard mode, no more Sludge Belcher, Piloted Shredder, Antique Healbot, Dr. Boom, Zombie Chow, Loatheb Mad Scientist, Nerubian Egg, Velen's Chosen, Unstable Portal and many more cards.
I h8 this change, we wont be able to access over 150 cards, also because all tournaments will be played on this mode, it wont be fun as before, only good thing here is that we will get 18 slots for making deck, and that u would be able to chase what standard will u play on ranked
What do u think about this ?

 

They will always remove cards from oldest expansions, am not sure are they doing that when new expansion is out or on end of year, basically they wana keep number of cards as lower as possible. All cards from removed expansion will be craftable with arcane dust

 

Am not sure, but it sounds like that, it is quite new thing, so we dont know all info