Amalgadon
What are Battlegrounds Trinkets?
Trinkets are a permanent upgrade mechanic in Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Unlike minions you buy and sell, a Trinket stays with you for the rest of the game once you pick it. There are two types:
- Lesser Trinkets — offered on Turn 6 (and occasionally earlier via hero powers or special trinkets)
- Greater Trinkets — offered on Turn 9 (and occasionally earlier via certain Lesser Trinkets)
You pick one from a selection of four each time. Choosing well — and understanding the rules that govern what you'll even be offered — is one of the most skill-testing moments in a Battlegrounds game.
| Lesser Trinkets | Offered Turn 6 · choose 1 from 4 |
| Greater Trinkets | Offered Turn 9 · choose 1 from 4 |
| Permanence | Kept for the rest of the game once picked |
| Cost range | 0–7 Gold · always at least one at (2) or less |
| Duplicates | Cannot own two of the same tier; Lesser + Greater of the same card is allowed |
Offering Rules
When you're offered Trinkets
You're offered four Lesser Trinkets on Turn 6 and four Greater Trinkets on Turn 9. Some Lesser Trinkets let you unlock the Greater offering earlier. Heroes like Buttons and Marin the Manager receive extra trinkets on other turns — if you're playing one of them, check their hero power carefully, because the timing rules shift.Tribe Trinkets: the key rule
The offering system is weighted to match the minions on your board. Some trinkets are tied to a specific tribe and only appear if you're "in" that tribe:
- Turn 6 (Lesser): you need at least 2 matching minions on your board
- Turn 9 (Greater): you need at least 3 matching minions on your board
Note that certain heroes are always considered "in" a type regardless of their warband — for example, Azshara always has access to Naga Trinkets even with no Naga minions on board.
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Tip
Off-tribe rule: You won't be offered more than one trinket for a type that isn't your most common type. If you are offered one, its cost is reduced by (2). This can occasionally make it worth picking outside your tribe if the effect is strong enough.
Menagerie and No-type
Two special categories follow the same logic:
- Menagerie: having 3 or more distinct tribes on your board qualifies you. At most 1 Menagerie trinket can appear in a single offering, so you won't be flooded with them.
- No-type (Neutral): having 3 or more minions with no tribe qualifies you for neutral/typeless trinkets.
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Note
Menagerie Trinkets are often generalist value tools. If you're running a wide board intentionally, know that you'll reliably see one in your offering.
Typeless Trinkets: always at least one
Regardless of your board composition, you're always offered at least one trinket with no tribe. Some are more likely to appear than others — specifically these nine:
Transcribing Typewriter
Goldenizer Supply
Reflective Pendant
Souvenir Stand
Trip Vouchers
Colorful Compass
Warband Whistle
Manipulator Portrait
Gold-plated Compass
These are solid fallbacks if your tribe-specific options are weak.
Cost guarantee: always one cheap option
Trinket costs range from 0 to 7 Gold, and Blizzard re-tunes them heavily most balance patches — 36.4.2 alone moved 56 of them. The system guarantees at least one trinket costing (2) or less in every offering.💡
Tip
If you're low on gold during your trinket turn, you won't necessarily be locked out of a pick — there's always at least one budget option in the pool.
No duplicates (with one exception)
You can't be offered a trinket you already own — except that you can own both the Lesser and Greater version of the same trinket. Picking a Lesser Trinket doesn't prevent you from picking its Greater counterpart on Turn 9.Per-Trinket Conditions
Per-trinket conditions: the hidden layer
Many individual trinkets have their own offering conditions on top of the tribe rules above. These are the ones that most often catch players off guard:
Board requirements
Some trinkets only appear if you have a specific minion type in play:
- Herald Sticker, Blood Amulet, Thornspike Pauldron — require a Deathrattle minion on board
- Dramaloc Sticker — requires a minion with 10 or more Attack in hand
- Lens Case — requires a Tier 3 minion on board
- Tiger Carving — requires Trigore the Lasher, Iridescent Skyblazer, Spiked Savior, or Rabid Panther on board
Hand/board size
- Magician's Top Hat — requires fewer than 5 minions across your hand and board combined
Tier requirements
- Scraper Sticker, Beatboxer Portrait — require you to be at Tier 3 or higher
Game-history triggers (must have happened earlier in the game)
- Baller Portrait — only offered after you've sold a Baller this game
- Ur'zul Sticker, Flaming Portrait — only after buffing the Tavern
- Murky Sticker — only after triggering multiple Battlecries
- Fancy Spellbook, Heart of the Forest — only after buffing Tavern spells
Health/armor threshold
Safety Patch — not offered if you have 16 or more total Health + Armor; also not available in Duos.
Safety Patch
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Warning
Don't count on Safety Patch as a late-game recovery tool if you're healthy. It won't be in your offering above the 16 Health + Armor threshold — the one time you'd most expect to see it.
Hero restrictions
Several trinkets flat-out don't appear for specific heroes:
- Souvenir Stand, Ornate Clock, Trip Vouchers — not for Marin the Manager or Buttons
- Cho'gall Sticker — not for Cho or Gall
- Corrupted Tome — not for Mister Clocksworth
- Skipper Portrait — not for Trade Prince Gallywix or Fungalmancer Flurgl
- Kaleidoscope — not for Rock Master Voone or E.T.C., Band Manager
- Goblin Wallet, Bob's Tip Jar — not for Trade Prince Gallywix
- Fish Portrait — not for Greybough
Lobby composition
- Bob-blehead — not offered in Demon lobbies
At-most-one rule
- Shrine of Evolution — requires 6+ minions on board. It used to share an "at most one of the two" rule with Sacrificial Altar, which left the pool in 36.2.2
- Souvenir Stand, Trip Vouchers, Ornate Clock — at most one of these three can appear in the same offering
- Only one Menagerie trinket can appear in any single offering
Health rewinder requirement
A handful of trinkets explicitly require a Health rewinder effect — a mechanic where your hero's health resets or adjusts at the start of combat.
Demonic Tapestry
The Eye of Sargeras
Nether Pendant
Felburned Ledger
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Note
If you don't have a Health rewinder (typically a specific hero power), none of the four cards above will ever appear in your offering.
Practical Tips
Practical tips
- Know your tribe threshold before Turn 6. If you want tribe-specific trinkets, count your board: 2 matching minions for Lesser, 3 for Greater. Don't assume you'll qualify.
- Read per-trinket conditions on the card. On Amalgadon's Trinkets page, any trinket with special offering conditions shows an inline condition note directly on the card.
- Factor the off-tribe discount. A normally-expensive off-tribe trinket may be a steal at its discounted cost if it solves a specific problem in your build.
- Don't tunnel on tribe trinkets if your board is mixed. If you're running 3+ tribes, Menagerie trinkets are effectively always available to you — lean into that consistency.
- Watch your health before Turn 9. Safety Patch — a popular high-health fallback — won't be offered if you're above the 16 Health + Armor threshold. Don't assume it's always in your pool.
Every Battlegrounds trinket, filterable by tribe, with all per-trinket offering condition notes.