Hearthstone: Explaining the rotation and optimization of Dust received from the Hall of Fame in the Year of the Phoenix

It seems that some of you still do not understand how Standard rotation in Hearthstone works. Each time the “new year” begins, the first expansion for that year opens to the next one of Standard’s years. Our current year is “Year of the Dragon” (2019/2020). The next year will be called “Year of the Phoenix” (2020/2021).

How does Rotation work?

While this video is a bit outdated, it explains the basic concept pretty well.

And if you don’t understand the video, it’s quite simple. Hearthstone comes in two formats: Wild and Standard. Wild: You can use all released cards.

Meanwhile, Standard applies rotation. It always includes Evergreen sets (Basic + Classic), and from 4 to 6 most recent expansions (maximum number of sets of the year). Standard rotation takes place during the first expansion of each year. After it’s released, the three “oldest” sets will be rotated out. It is not correct to think that each set is rotated one by one. When the first expansion of 2020 comes out, all three sets from 2018 will be eliminated.

To make it easy to understand in the upcoming rotation, when the first expansion of Year of the Phoenix (2020) comes out in April, The Witchwood, Boomsday Project, and Rastakhan’s Rubmle will be eliminated and only available in Wild. We will only have the Evergreen: Classic + Basic sets, the Year of the Dragon (2019): Rise of Shadows, Saviors of Uldum, Descent of Dragons (+Galakrond’s Awakening) sets, as well as the Year of the Phoenix (2020) sets. ): currently only known Ashes of Outland (released on April 7).

Standard Rotation will take place when the Ashes of Outland expansion comes out, April 7, 2020.

However, the Hall of Fame rotation happens again from March 26. Take note!

The Standard set Year of the Phoenix

The Year of the Phoenix is ​​the 5th year of the Standard. This time, we already know what the first expansion is: Ashes of the Outland launches on April 7. However, we don’t know much more about Expansions 2 and 3, and as every year, Blizzards will continue to tease them.

Here is a list of the sets that will be available in Standard after the rotation:

SET 2020

• Ashes of Outland
• Expansion 2 (Releasing around August 2020)
• Expansion 3 (Releasing around December 2020)

SET 2019

• Rise of Shadows
• Saviors of Uldum
• Descent of Dragons
• Galakrond’s Awakening (Adventure)

EVERGREEN SETS

These are the sets that don’t rotate from Standard

Hall of Fame Year of the Phoenix

Hall of Fame is the concept of rotating cards from Evergreen sets that are considered too strong or problematic. Since the Basic and Classic cards stay in Standard forever, there are two ways to deal with them – nerf or rotate them to Wild, so that they’re not too strong (since the Wild side cards are always higher).

Rotation in the Year of the Phoenix is ​​quite special, because it is also used to rework the Priest class. Anduin will have major changes to the Basic/Classic sets, and to accommodate the new cards, 6 of the old cards (some quite problematic) will be rotated. Here is the complete list:

When a card rotates to the Hall of Fame, the player receives the full Dust for that card AND you still keep a copy of them. This is great, because if you still use them in the Wild, you can keep and get more Dust. If you don’t want to keep it, you can disenchant to get more Dust. You get Dust for the most valuable copy – so if you own both a normal card and a Golden, you’ll only get Dust from Golden.

Hall of Fame rotation taking place on March 26, 2020!

How to optimize the amount of Dust received

A common question we hear a lot is how to maximize the amount of Dust we get from rotated cards. It sounds a bit confusing at first. If you don’t have that card, do you want to craft it? What should you do if you only have a regular copy? What about Golden? This is quite simple if you follow these simple rules:

• If you don’t own a card that rotated into the Hall of Fame, let’s craft Golden. This is the most wordy way. You will get all the Dust back, and then you can disenchant the Golden version. For example, if you don’t have Prophet Velen, craft its Golden, and disenchant AFTER the rotation happens. You will get an extra 1,600 dust for free.
• If you own the normal suit of a Common card, Let’s craft Golden. In short, even if you have a Common card that’s about to be rotated into the Hall of Fame, it’s still worth crafting Golden. Although the amount of dust received is not impressive, you still gain an additional 10 Dust per card. Example: If you already own Acolyte of Pain Usually, it’s still worth crafting Golden.
• If you own a normal set of a Rare, Epic or Legendary card (1 card in the case of Legendary), don’t do anything. You will not receive additional Dust when crafting Golden. For example, if you already own Leeroy Jenkins or two Mountain Giant Usually, leave it alone. If you only have one Rare/Epic card, then read the first dot again, craft Golden.

After the rotation happens, you can disenchant all copies of the Golden you’ve crafted. Or keep them if you want to use them. If you don’t play Wild and don’t plan on using it, you can also disenchant the normal cards.

But is it worth the effort? The answer is yes! For now, let’s say you don’t own those cards. To craft them all into Golden, you need to invest a lot of Dust – 19,200 total. But after the rotate, you will get ALL of the dust back, and still have those Golden cards. You can Disenchant a total of 5,600 Dust. That means you earn 5,600 dust. If you don’t have enough Dust to craft them all into Golden, start with Legendary – they are the most profitable.

And if you own all the normal copies of those cards? Good luck then! You get 5,560 without having to do anything. And then you still own the regular copies. If you decide to disenchant them (for not playing Wild), you can get an extra 1,340 dust: for a total of 6,900 Dust extra.

You should wait as long as possible before deciding to craft. Remember, you can still unlock these cards in the pack before the rotation!

You only receive the maximum Dust according to the set of the card (2x Common/Rare/Epic, 1x Legendary). Having more copies doesn’t get you more Dust.

This tutorial is about how to get the most Dust. If you really care about the Golden versions of the cards that rotate, craft them even if you have a normal card! This way, you’ll be “upgraded” for free, while getting extra Dust for the regular version after disenchant.

Note that you only get it with cards that rotate to the Hall of Fame. Standard Rotation DOES NOT RETURN Dust to you. If you don’t play Wild and don’t plan on using it, you can still disenchant them to get the normal amount of dust (400 for Legendary, 100 for Epic, etc) – The decision is yours.

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