Hearthstone’s Year of the Dragon: Genn and Baku in Hall of Fame, better adventures, and year-long story

The Year of the Dragon kicks off in April for Hearthstone, Blizzard Entertainment’s mammoth digital card game. It’s the top dog in the market, which research firm Newzoo estimated would be worth $2 billion by 2020. It’s entering its fifth year, and come April, it’ll send three sets of cards out of its Standard format … and make some in-game history while doing so.

Hearthstone is saying goodbye to more than the Year of the Mammoth when Journey to Un’Goro, Knights of the Frozen Throne, and Kobolds & Catacombs rotate out and usher in the Year of the Dragon. The world’s most dominant digital card game is also making a number of quality of life improvements — including sending cards from a Standard set into Wild for the first time since Blizzard introduced the format in 2016. It’ll also tell a single storyline over its next three expansions, something its designers have never done before. And it’s making changes to how its single-player solo adventures work.