Two upcoming Twist seasons (June and July 2024) will NOT feature deck building. We will have a lot of pre-made decks. That’s why we’ll have a Hero Tier List instead of the usual deck roundup!
Twist has officially launched! A new mode first released into Beta back in June is now back in full swing. It’s the first major addition to Hearthstone since Mercenaries (which, looking back at it, was a mostly failed experiment). The idea behind Twist is that the format will rotate every couple of seasons (or even every season), changing the list of available expansions, possibly with some extra rules.
We’ve also learned that Caverns of Time – the new straight-to-Wild expansion – will be available in Twist for its first three seasons. It doesn’t mean that they are going to be the same (first and second are similar, but a bit different), just that all of them will include that set.
Current Twist Format – Whizbang’s Heroes
The current Twist format is called “Whizbang’s Heroes” and it’s a brand new format.
Unlike the previous, “Constructed” Twist formats, this one is all about special, pre-built decks with unique Hero Powers and effects. The format will feature 19 Heroes (in June, 9 more will be added in July). In order to unlock each Hero, you need to own their respective card (the first card they appeared on in Hearthstone). So, for example, in order to unlock Brann Brozebeard you need the League of Explorers Brann Bronzebeard card, and for Dr. Boom you need the Goblins vs Gnomes Dr. Boom card. However, the good news that 6 of the Heroes will be “F2P”. 4 of them are unlocked by the cards available in the Core Set, while 2 others are unlocked by the older, free login reward cards (players can still easily get them). I assume that unless you’re a new player, you should already own some of the other cards too, meaning that you should have plenty of choices.
Different Heroes have different starting HP and gameplay strategies. We have the classic Aggro, Midrange, and Control decks, but also more unique options like Xyrella (who starts at 30 out of 60 HP and wins the game once you reach 60 HP) or Nozdormu (who starts with an extra Mana Crystal, but has only 30 seconds to take a turn). Overall, everyone should find something interesting. You can find all of the available Heroes, Hero Powers, Passives and decks here!
Twist (Whizbang’s Heroes) Deck Lists
Due to the nature of the current format, there are no player deck lists we can share.
This is a really fun idea for oldschool players. It is bugged already on day 1: it is not legacy but just the og basic cards with a pinch of cards that were introduced as hall of fame replacements such as brightwing.
For the record, I am having a blast though (pun intended) with some spell damage basivc mage deck.
It took me longer than I want to admit that this is the same thread for all seasons, and was very confused by some of the deck suggestions below. LOL
*to figure out
(We need an edit button, here.)
This mode is fun if you want to play against Jade Rogue for 90%+ of your matches despite the new “seasons”
I don’t come across Jade Rogue very often. The last two days have been very diverse between dude paladin, secret paladin, inner fire priest, freeze/burn mage, miracle rogue, jade rogue, jade druid, reno decks, lots of different stuff really. Sadly not many decks that give off “real” un’goro vibes, like elementals or quest decks though.
Hey guys, i reached legend with a priest deck, but couldn’t upload it here because of the deck builder. I posted it on twitter tagging your profile there.
@Aboba001816851
I don’t like Wonders XL as much. I’m so glad that these formats only last a month. I can play another mode in the meantime.
That warlock deck looks amazingly fun. Quick note: there are 2 Leeroy’s in the list above. One should be a Rag. 🙂
you wrote:
“Update: Sword Eater was removed from Twist Wonders in a recent hotfix, because it was not supposed to be there in the first place (Mean Streets of Gadgetzan is not a part of the format).”
Apparently Gadgetzan IS part of the format, but Sword Eater is from Darkmoon, and THAT set is not part of Twist Wonders
My bad, fixed it.
Sword Eater doesn’t exist in my card pool anymore … I was able to build (and play) decks with him, but since yesterday, the card is red in existing deck lists and is not available in the Warrior card pool anymore.
Moreover, some cards are shown weirdly in the collection.. Acolyte of Pain, for example, is shown 3 times: 2 normal (Core Set), 2 golden (Core Set) and the 2 golden copies I own, which are marked ‘banned’.
Blizzard still a small indie company, it seems.
I don’t know for the other cards, but for sword eater
“Fixed a bug where Sword Eater was playable in Twist, even though it is not in one of the legal expansions for this season”.
Thanks for the decks lists but i don’t know what’s wrong because all the decks code are failing to import into the game. HS doesnt detect the code as it should be usually inside your collection. Maybe because they rushed the Twist mode into the game and something is broken.
I tested import of standard deck list and it’s working so it’s really only the Twis mode import who doesn’t work !
I can import the Paladin and Hunter decks that do not include any of the brand-new cards from Caverns. I also cannot get the others to work.
Thanks for the report, I sort of fixed it! They still import as Wild, but you can convert them to Twist with one button.
Thanks ! Now i could import all the decks but some cant work even after the conversion into Twist because some cards are in red like for exemple in the war control : acolyte of pain or fiery axe.
How is it possible this cards are banned in twits if the player made it legend with this list ?
Sorry, I think deck codes might contain wrong version of the card. The cards on our website are prioritizing Core version and Core is not available in Twist.
But it can be fixed by taking those cards out of the deck, searching for them and adding them back in.
I’ll try to do something about deck codes but it’s hard with so many different formats and the fact that Twist will have different expansions every month :/
You know what is more a shame from Blizzard ? I spent some golds on Caverns of Time packs and i got a lot of copy of cards i aleady have (example Jade Behemoth from Gadgetzan) so it mean they gave me new copy of cards that i already have but they replaced the old cards by by the new cards. The old cards completely diseappeared in my collection and i don’t get dust or any compensation for that tt’s a total scam !
No explanation within Hearthstone what rules the Season 1 Twist format has?
And why on earth is there no filter for Caverns of Time? That way, it’s superdifficult to craft some of the cards if you don’t want to ‘massbuy’ the set… best thing I found is to filter for missing cards in Twist…
Very poorly executed imho.
The in-game filter for Caverns of Time is at the top of the Wild expansions. You need to scroll down a bit from the Standard expansions. There have been some display bugs with Caverns reprints though, there are cases where you cannot see them – also in crafting view – if you own exactly one copy of the reprint and two copies of the original.
Thanks for pointing that out – although I could swear I looked it up and the expansion button wasn’t there a few days ago …
And it seems I’m too dumb to use the filters – After filtering for ‘Caverns’ ‘missing’ with checked boxes ‘Normal – Missing’ and ‘Premium – Owned’, lots of golden wild cards I own aren’t shown (all the Shaman Jade cards, for example).
Ah well, I did it the other way round and checked which cards are played in Wild, then crafted some of those.