{"id":17482,"date":"2021-06-02T18:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/hearthstone-20-4-patch-notes-first-day-of-school-hand-of-a-dal-nerfs-wailing-caverns-mini-set-more"},"modified":"2024-07-19T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:06:24","slug":"hearthstone-20-4-patch-notes-first-day-of-school-hand-of-a-dal-nerfs-wailing-caverns-mini-set-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/hearthstone\/hearthstone-20-4-patch-notes-first-day-of-school-hand-of-a-dal-nerfs-wailing-caverns-mini-set-more","title":{"rendered":"Hearthstone 20.4 patch notes: First Day of School & Hand of A\u2019dal nerfs, Wailing Caverns mini-set, more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hearthstone<\/a> 20.4 patch is almost here and it comes with some much-needed balance changes, as well as an abundance of new content, includes the second Hearthstone mini-set: The Wailing Caverns.<\/p>\n

The Wailing Caverns mini-set<\/a> is slated for release on 3rd June along with update 20.4, and it will include brand new 35 new cards (66 in total), but that’s not the only thing we are excited about when it comes to the 20.4 patch.<\/p>\n

The update also comes with some long-awaited nerfs for Paladin, by far the most dominant class in the game for quite some time now.<\/p>\n

First Day of School will now again provide only two 1-mana minions, but the 1-mana cost will remain the same, and hopefully, this change will finally make the card properly balanced.<\/p>\n

The notorious Hand of A’dal is finally getting nerfed as well, one of the most hated Paladin cards, which provides both insane tempo and value trades while drawing a card.<\/p>\n

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With now giving only 1 HP instead of 2, it will be much harder to make value trades, but it will still remain a strong early game card, especially if Paladin continues to put out minions on turn 1 consistently.<\/p>\n

Strangely enough, the patch also comes with a small nerf to Unbound Elemental, which will now have slightly lesser chances to survive cards like Volcano and Elemental Destruction, due to its effect now activating only after the card is being played and resolved.<\/p>\n