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March 4, 2025By Vyraneerpatch

:new: 31.6.3 Patch Notes

The latest Hearthstone Battlegrounds patch introduces hero and anomaly bans, adjusts anomaly appearance rates, and implements several bug fixes and improvements.

Hero Changes

  • Teron Gorefiend: Now banned in mech lobbies.

Anomaly Changes

  • Cosmic Duality: Aranna and Azshara are removed from the hero pool; Patchwerk is returned to the hero pool (but not in Duos).
  • Golden Arena: Well Wisher and Portal in a Crystal are now banned.

Minion Changes

  • Mawsworn Soulkeeper: The Jailer’s Buddy is temporarily removed from the pool.

Anomalies Appearance Rate Changes

Note: All Anomalies can be found in our official Card Library here.

Decreased Appearance Rates

  • Nguyen’s Shifting Disks
  • Lay of the Land
  • Line in the Sand
  • Pooled Resources
  • Match Fixing
  • Packed Stands
  • Light the Way
  • Summoning of Champions
  • Instant Warband
  • Rising Current
  • Magic Shop
  • Path of the Treasure-Seeker
  • Incubation Mutation
  • Sin’dorei Mirror
  • Emergency Landing
  • Scout’s Honor
  • Continuing Education
  • Factory Line
  • Elven Elite

Increased Appearance Rates

  • Eleventh Hour
  • Audience’s Choice
  • Bring in the Buddies
  • Temperance of Aman’Thul
  • Double Header
  • Marin’s Treasure Box
  • Tavern Special

Bug Fixes and Game Improvements

  • Battlegrounds - Duos: The turn timer has been reduced.
  • Battlegrounds: Jim Raynor is back - “Battlecruiser, operational!”, due to various bug fixes.
  • Battlegrounds: Fixed an issue with Sharkbait (Kragg’s Buddy).
  • Battlegrounds: Fixed a bug where Maxwell, Mighty Steed (Sir Finley’s Buddy) would give the wrong reward when the Hero didn’t have a Buddy.
  • Battlegrounds: Fixed a bug where rerolling a Hero while Secrets of Norgannon was active would result in the new Hero losing the bonus Armor.
  • Battlegrounds: Fixed a visual bug where cards granted from Guff Runetotem’s Hero Power didn’t have Golden effects while The Golden Arena Anomaly was active.
  • Battlegrounds: Fixed a bug where Reckless Cliffdiver didn’t work with Xyrella.
Last updated: April 22, 2025 at 09:17 PM