Hearthstone Card Backs List and How-To Unlock Them

What is a Card Back?

A card back is the art on the back of your cards. It is viewed in game by you and your opponent, when you open a pack, and when you view your cards in the my collection viewer.

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How Do I Use Card Backs?

At the Hearthstone menu, click on My Collection and on the top right (to the left of “My Decks”) look for a card icon. Click on it and select a card back and make it a favorite. Favoriting a card back will make it the default card back for all of your decks. To select a specific card back for a particular deck, select the deck you want in the My Collection area. Click on the card icon and select your card back.

How do I Earn Card Backs?

Some card backs can be obtained by ranking passed rank 20 in each play season. The card back is received at the END of the season, which is at the end of the month. You’ll know a season is coming to an end when you start receiving pop ups indicating how many days are left in that play season.

Card Backs List and Availability

Fireside Friends Card Back Notes

• The “Fireside Friends” card back is earned by completing the Fireside Friends Quest. To complete the quest, you need to be on a subnet (network) with at least THREE other people that are logged into Hearthstone. You must then play one of those connected people at least three times and you’ll receive the card back.
• You can play the same person three times as long as there are three players (including yourself) logged into the same subnet.
• Winning or losing does not matter.
• I obtained my Fireside card back by playing with people on my home network and instantly conceding three times.
• There are Fireside Events you can attend that are really what this card back is all about! Find out more about them here: Fireside Gatherings.
• If you’re really desperate you can use other methods to obtain the card back which are explained here: Reddit

Legend

Legendary Card Back

Here’s the one that every ranked player aspires to receive! This card back is gained by obtaining a legendary rank during a ranked play season.

How-to Get Legendary Rank

Well, there’s no fool-proof method to obtain legendary rank. What I will say is that it takes the following: Time, Skill, Luck, and Patience.

You’ll have to get through these ranks:

Each of these ranks has a certain amount of stars you must obtain via wins to move down in rank. 25 – 21 require 2 stars, 20 – 16 require 3 stars, 15 – 11 require 4 stars, and 10 – 1 require 5 stars. Above rank 21 you cannot lose stars, but after that you can lose stars and go back in rank. Once you’ve passed rank 20, you can no longer move back passed rank 20. If you’re a solid player, you will undoubtedly start to string wins together which allows you to gain a win streak bonus. After winning your third game in a row you will receive one extra bonus star for every win up until rank 5. Once you hit rank 5, you stop receiving a bonus for three straight wins. This makes the ranking process a lot more difficult and you tend to bounce around back and forth between ranks based on your skill level and luck.

Check out our List of the Best Standard Decks for Hearthstone Ladder

The best strategy is to use an Aggro style deck until rank 5. This allows you more consistent wins against a lot of different decks. Once you hit rank 5 the decks start to become more predictable and the importance is on learning what each opponent is playing and how to mulligan. You should stick to the same deck so you learn all of the match-ups and how to mulligan in every match. After that it’s about remaining consistent and getting a bit of luck in what opponents you match up against.

Ranked Play Season Card Backs

This card back is fairly easy to obtain! All you need to do is hit rank 20 during this ranked play season. Seasons are as of now, one month long and each season has a new card back. This may be your one and only chance to get this card back, so if you fancy yourself a collector you’ll want to make sure you obtain at least a rank of 20 every season! Keep in mind you receive the card back at the END of the season.

Alternate Hero Card Backs

When you purchase a new Alternate Hero Skin you receive a card back! Each alternate hero costs $9.99 USD ($12.99 AUD). Tyrande was rewarded to users who tried Twitch Prime.

Expansion/Adventure Pre-Orders

Single-Player Mode Rewards

Holiday/Promotions/Misc

Hearthstone eSports

TeSPA

Here are the requirements for obtaining the TeSPA card back:

We’re sure many of you are chomping at the bit to see this card back in your repertoire, so to get started, there’s just a few quick things to mention:

• The reward will be available to active members of TeSPA Local Chapters
• This card back is available to TeSPA members belonging to chapters with at least 25 members
• Official members will be able to claim this reward in “My TeSPA”, our dashboard for Local Chapters
• This reward becomes available Fall 2014

Source

The TeSPA card back is redeemed using a key. This has lead certain individuals to sell the key for profit. A few popular streamers have received keys from their fans.

Golden Celebration

The Golden Celebration card back was originally only available in the China Hearthstone Region. It is now a reward for participating in Hearthstone Championship Tour events.

Collector’s Editions/Other Blizzard Games

BlizzCon Card Backs