Hearthstone’s new pet, a “cute” version of C’Thun, continues the unfortunate trend of gacha pets

A while ago, Hearthstone introduced pets, that could only be obtained by playing a gacha-style roulette game with terrible, terrible odds — which meant that, realistically, they ended up costing up to $158. There were a few months where things were even worse: we once had two top prizes at the same time, a Hogger Pet and a Mythic Varian skin, which made the maximum (and likely) cost go up to as much $200. This month, the next offering is going to be this C’Thun pet — with a face only a mother could love, but already confirmed to still be part of this awful Darkmoon Faire Treasures roulette, meaning it will most likely still cost $158.

You can read the full details on our previous post, but the gist of the Darkmoon Faire roulette is that it’s a gacha-style roulette with several possible prizes, and your first roll is free. But the chances of getting the top-tier item on that single free roll are microscopically low (around 0.1%), and they increase by absolutely measly amounts with each new roll. At the same time, each roll costs proportionally more than the previous. By the time you’ve already purchased nine rolls and there are only two prizes left, you’d think your chances to get the pet would be at around 50%, right? Wrong: they’re still at a diabolical 6.67%.

The only way to guarantee you’ll get the top prize is to purchase all ten rolls, so you’ll obtain every item on the roulette. Assuming the top tier reward will still have the same low odds and Runestone cost as all the previous top rewards, the total Runestone cost to guarantee you’ll get all ten rewards is still going to be a high ludicrous amount: 15,800 the last few times, which equates to $158.

This time, the pet isn’t even cute. Most players probably don’t even want this C’Thun thing, like they wanted the cute King Krush or the cute Deathwing. Maybe that makes it sting a little less? Who knows. What I do know is that the Hearthstone team keeps putting up these pets in the game, and most of them look really great, but the vast majority of players still don’t have a single one, which is an absolutely ridiculous situation.

Last published April 14, 2026. Updated June 3, 2026.