Season 6 of Battlegrounds saw spells arrive in the tavern to shake up the meta. But with the announcement of Mystifix Workshop, the tavern is undergoing some changes. For patch 28.6, quests return to Battlegrounds, accompanied by new spells and minions. Some welcome changes that should change the way Battlegrounds plays.
Quests and their rewards
- Fill the cauldron
- Unlikely duo
- Play 5
or
- Play 5
- Invite guests
- Take fingerprints
- Add 20 cards to your hand
- Scream for help
- Play 4 minions with Battlecry
- Exhume the remains
- Trigger 7 allied Deathrattles
- Search for a suspect
- Find the murder weapon
- Increase the characteristics of a minion 14 times
- Reenact the murder
- Let 19 allied minions die
- Disentangling the false from the true
- Sort your minions in ascending order according to their ATK for 4 fights
- Follow the money
- Spend 33 gold coins
- Hire an investigator
- Complete your turn 3 times with unspent gold coins
- Business that runs
- Have your allied minions attack 12 times
- Popular protest
- Reach a total of 35 ATK with your warband
- Arrest of suspects
- Destroy 18 enemy minions
Other quests underwent modifications before being reinstated as a choice. The full list is available on the official note.
Something new for spells
- Ease [niveau 3, 1 pièce d’or]
- Exchange a non-gold allied minion for a random tavern minion
- Toxic twirling [niveau 4, 2 pièces
d’or]- Start of combat: Summons a 1/1 twirling assassin with Venimosity who attacks immediately
- Channeling the Devourer [niveau 6, 4 pièces
d’or]- Remove a minion. Gives its characteristics to a random allied minion
- Material search [niveau 4, 4 pièces
d’or]- At the end of your turn, you get a random minion with Magnetism. Lasts 3 turns
- Cloning Conch [niveau 5, 5 pièces
d’or]- You get a copy of a Murloc in your hand
- In a row [niveau 4, 4 pièces d’or]
- At the end of your turn, give your Dragons +4 ATK. Lasts 3 turns
- Favor of the cockchafers [niveau 4, 2 pièces
d’or]- Start of combat: grants your minions “Death rattle: summon a 2/2 cockchafer”
- Slaughter [niveau 4, 2 pièces d’or]
- Destroys an allied Undead. Your Undead gain an amount of ATK equivalent to their level during this game
- Questionable stimulant [niveau 3, 2 pièces d’or]
- Freezes a tavern servant. If it is still frozen at the end of the turn, double its characteristics
- Vexscale specialty [niveau 3, 2 pièces
d’or]- You get 3 random spells with Sorcery
- Corrupted Cakes [niveau 5, 3 pièces d’or]
- You choose an allied Demon. It swallows all the servants in the tavern in order to gain their characteristics
- In search of loot [niveau 4, 6 pièces
d’or]- Steal a random card from the tavern. Repeat for each allied Pirate
- Confiscation of gems [niveau 4, 1 pièce
d’or]- Play 2 blood gems on a friendly minion. Steals all of your neighbors’ blood gems
A new rotation of minions
- Poiscaile [niveau 3, Murloc/Bête]
- 7/1. War cry : gives +2/+3 to another random allied minion and a minion in your hand
- Vengeful Whistler [niveau 3,
Naga/Mort-vivant]- 5/1. Witchcraft: gives +1 VP to your minions until the next turn. Anyone who dies in the next fight gains this upgrade permanently!
- Saloon dancer [niveau 4]
- 4/5. Provocation. Each time you cast a tavern spell, give another allied minion +3/+3
- Improved Worker [niveau 5,
Méca/Démon]- 1/6. Revenge (4): you get a random mecha-demon
- Fel Boar [niveau 6, Huran/Démon]
- 1/4. Once you have cast 3 spells, swallow a minion in the tavern to gain its characteristics
- Annihilopod [niveau 6,
Mort-vivant/Bête]- 2/6. Once you summon a minion in battle, give your minions +3 ATK
- Spinning Lass-o-Matic [niveau 6, Méca]
- 9/2. Divine Shield. Fury of the Winds. Every time this minion attacks, you get a random spell from the tavern
In addition to these new servants, others have undergone changes or have been removed from the tavern. The full list is available on the official note.
What impacts on the meta for patch 28.6
Even if no heroes are affected, patch 28.6 should shake things up in Battlegrounds. The return of quests will allow some people to get by a little more easily in the games. But adding spells geared towards a specific composition offers the possibility of strengthening a playstyle without much difficulty. It’s difficult to say who will benefit the most from these changes, but it is certain that there will be movement.