It’s official! Blizzard has just started adding card teasers for United in Stormwind reveal season as I’m writing this. The first reveal takes place on Tuesday, July 20, at 10 AM PDT / 19:00 CEST. It links to the official Hearthstone YouTube channel, so I would assume that it will be some kind of video or stream with multiple reveals to start things off.
I won’t post a full image yet, because the schedule is still being updated. Right now it only shows the first couple of days. I’ll post it once Blizzard finishes updating. For now, you can check out the reveal schedule in your own time zone on the official card page.
If it’s your first reveal season, you should know a few things. Once a new card is revealed, I’ll try to post it on our website and social media as quickly as possible. I’m also posting a round-up of all cards revealed on a given day on social media. While the visual quality of revealed cards is not always very high, since they’re cut from screenshots of videos, streams etc. – I always post an HQ version of the card as soon as it’s available.
Reveals are relatively easy for cards I get in English. However, everything gets a bit more complex when the card is revealed in another language. Some foreign content creators are posting both their language version as well as English, but from time to time I get only the non-English version. In that case, I need to find a translation first before posting the card, and for that, I need to rely on early translations found online (on reddit, Twitter etc.). In order to show you the card as quickly as possible, I use those early translations, because it often takes hours to get the official English version from Blizzard.
Our translated cards are USUALLY more or less correct (details like the exact card name or wording on the effect might change, but the overall effect / stats should be fine), but I posted some poorly translated cards with different effects in the past. If you see some weird card names or text that doesn’t follow usual card formatting rules – don’t worry, it most likely means that it’s an early translation and I’ll post a correct version as soon as it’s available. If the wait time for official English version would be shorter, I wouldn’t bother with translations, but in the most extreme cases (cards revealed on Friday night) it can take a few days. That’s why I feel like the risk of some bad early translations doesn’t outweigh the benefit of showing you the cards way sooner.
Here are some of the early teasers. Like I’ve said, I’ll upload a full image once they (more or less) finish updating it.
It’ll last about 7 days of reveal, followed by a dumping of 100+ cards with final stream.
And there goes the sleeping schedule for admin.
By far, the worst way of updating the site for new cards while maintaining non-stop watch over the streams.
Good luck and keep hydrated.
As for the sympathy above, I do somehow prefer longer reveal schedule because it gaves me more time to comment (read:complain) about the cards.
But at least this month won’t be as boring as previous months combined.
(And I still secretly hope to win some giveaway for bundles)