Amalgadon Blog
Build showcases, guides and patch note digests for Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Announcements, news and updates from the Amalgadon team.
Patch Notes Digest: 36.2.2 (248348 to 249896)
A heavy tuning pass across every tribe: 53 minions changed, Dark Gift timing windows reshuffled, Charisma banned from ten minions, six trinkets leave the pool and 49 trinket costs move.
Read more →Hearthstone Battlegrounds Dark Gifts: How Dark Discovery Works and When to Spend
Everything you need to know about Dark Gifts: how the Dark Discovery button works, the tier table for every turn, which minions can be offered, and the pairing rules that decide which gifts land on which minions.
Read more →Patch Notes Digest: 36.0.3 (246003 to 247416)
A light pre-season tuning pass: Mechs get targeted nerfs, Elementals and Quilboar pick up buffs, Dreaming Thornweaver rotates out, Sanguine Refiner returns, and Trinket costs are heavily rebalanced.
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Community Spotlight: Stuntdrake's Avenge!
A Japanese Battlegrounds tournament digest site is using Amalgadon to recreate final boards from tournament matches, making domestic event results easier to browse and study.
Read more →Patch Notes Digest: 35.6.2 (243002 to 244584)
Three minions return (Felhorn, Trench Fighter, Costume Enthusiast), Egg of the Endtimes is pulled from the pool, Undead and Murloc cards receive buffs, and a wide pass of Trinket cost adjustments lands alongside several targeted text changes.
Read more →Hotfix 35.6.1: Lullabot returns, Annoy-o-tron gone. Alliance Keychain and Training Certificate return to trinket pool.
Replica Cathedral is removed from Yogg-Saron's offerings, Alliance Keychain and Training Certificate return to the Trinket pool, Lullabot rejoins the minion pool, and Annoy-o-Tron is removed.
Read more →Patch Notes Digest: 242566 to 243002
Anomalies return with seven new entries, broad minion pool rotation introduces Dead Sea Ravager and Ingenious Inventor, and Trinkets get a new wave including Rylak Portrait and Chillmere Mosaic.
Read more →Patch Notes Digest: 241958 to 242566
Famished Felbat and Twisted Wrathguard swap tiers, Dragon trinkets Egg of the Endtimes and Chromatic Tear are redesigned, and nearly every trinket in the pool receives a cost adjustment.
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Hearthstone Battlegrounds Trinkets: How They Work and How to Win With Them
Everything you need to know about Battlegrounds Trinkets: when they're offered, how tribe and menagerie rules work, cost guarantees, and the per-trinket conditions that catch players off guard.
Read more →Patch Notes Digest: 239550 to 241135
A high-impact Battlegrounds balance patch focused on Trinket pricing, Hero armor, and broad Minion tuning. Here is the fast breakdown.
Read more →Build on Amalgadon: the Developer API
A new public API lets you create board builds, look up cards, and generate shareable permalinks from your own tools — no card IDs required.
Read more →Amalgadon is now on Discord
Look up cards, generate shareable board links, and share builds with your friends — all without leaving Discord.
Read more →Introducing the Amalgadon HDT Plugin
Capture your Battlegrounds board directly from Hearthstone Deck Tracker and open it in Amalgadon — pre-filled and ready to annotate or share.
Read more →Season 12 Build Showcase: AOE Damage Demons
One of Battlegrounds' most satisfying archetypes: a demon comp that permanently stacks attack buffs and threatens the entire enemy board with AOE damage.
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