Hearthstone designer reveals new The Witchwood cards for Even-and-Odd decks

Hearthstone players will soon be headed off to The Witchwood, wherein they will discover 135 new cards, a new Dungeon Run-styled mode called Monster Hunt, and as lead designer Dean "Iksar" Ayala talks about in this new video, an interesting twist on deck building. 

Even-and-Odd Decks are enabled by two new legendary cards that were revealed as part of The Witchwood expansion announcement. Baku the Mooneater upgrades the starting hero power for players who have a deck comprised exclusively of cards with an odd cost, (which means you'll get same hero power as Justicar Trueheart enables), while Genn Greymane reduces the cost of starting hero power to just 1 Mana for players who have a deck built of only even-cost cards. 

In the video we also got to see four new class-specific cards that benefit from being either an even or odd deck: Black Cat for Mage, Gloom Stag for Druid, Murkspark Eel for Shaman, and Glitter Moth for Priest. They're each powerful in their own right, and should provide a strong incentive for players to experiment with the deck-building challenge of only using half your card collection.

It'll be interesting to see what the Warrior, Warlock, and Hunter options are, as these classes feel like they could potentially benefit most from the even or odd-only effects. We already know how good the 'tank up' hero power is in Warrior, and being able to use Lifetap on turn one in Warlock could mean playing a Mountain Giant on turn three. Ouch.

Ayala dives deeper into the details of even and odd decks in the new video, and also talks a bit about strategies and ideas for deck building. More Hearthstone: The Witchwood card reveals will take place during a livestream set for March 26 at 11 am PT/2 pm ET on Twitch.