Hearthstone New Players

Coming with the Hearthstone Ashes of Outland expansion, all players will get duplicate protection for all cards -- meaning they won't get any duplicate cards until they've collected every card at every rarity in a set, which was previously only applied to Legendary cards.

Every game has its own special vocabulary, and Hearthstone is no different.

A new player starting Hearthstone faces two big, interconnected problems.

Hearthstone's Senior Game Designer Ben Brode took to the Hearthstone YouTube channel yesterday to get his thoughts out on the state of the game and directly address player concerns.