With your trusted Hero by your side, you’re ready to test your deck-building skills by selecting cards. Perhaps you’ll be in the mood for a bit of spell-slinging with Gul'dan the Warlock, or maybe you’d like to try smashing the competition with the brutality of Garrosh the Warrior. Three random Heroes out of the total nine are presented. Inside The Arena, your first decision is to choose the Hero that you’ll base your deck around. Each time you want to start a new Arena playthrough, you simply pay the entry fee with gold acquired from Play mode and quests, or with real money. The Arena really puts your deck-building knowledge to the test, and it’s just one of the many fun ways you can play Hearthstone. After 30 cards have been selected, you’ll have a full deck of destruction that you’ll use to crush your opponents. You’ll be presented with three random cards at a time, and you’ll choose one of the presented cards to go into your deck. The Arena is our “build-and-battle” mode where you construct a 30-card deck on the fly, and then battle it out with other Arena players. In today’s blog, we’ll be going over some more of The Arena details in depth, and recapping some of the essentials in case you missed anything in the excitement.

We hope you had just as much fun as we did! In that hour, we discussed the basics of this alternative, competitive deck-building game mode. Last week, you may have joined us for our first ever live stream of The Arena.

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