{"id":10760,"date":"2015-06-04T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2015-06-04T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:10:06","slug":"magni-new-hearthstone-alternate-hero-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2015\/06\/04\/magni-new-hearthstone-alternate-hero-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Magni is the first Hearthstone alternate hero portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s speculation on <a href=\"http:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2015\/06\/03\/hearthstone-alternate-hero-portraits\/\"><i>Hearthstone<\/i>\u00a0alternate hero portraits<\/a> has turned out to be true \u2014 today we&#8217;ve gotten our first new <em>Hearthstone<\/em> Hero since the game&#8217;s launch. From the teaser image, many of us thought it would be Muradin, but it turns out the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.battle.net\/hearthstone\/en\/blog\/19508175\/heroes-emerge-new-hearthstone-heroes-are-coming-6-4-2015\">warrior hero alternate is none other than King Magni Bronzebeard<\/a>.\u00a0He is the first of many new Heroes that will change the faces of the classes in the game. New Heroes will feature animated portraits with all-new art, unique Hero power animations, emotes, and voices. On top of that, purchasing new Heroes nets you a card back specific to that hero.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GXxmHgaJfco\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alternate Heroes will be available from the in-game Shop for $9.99. Is a what&#8217;s essentially a\u00a0skin worth that to you? Compared\u00a0to the prices in <em>Heroes of the Storm<\/em>, where new Heroes also cost $10, but come with new abilities and gameplay, a $10 skin seems pretty steep. Still, we&#8217;ve hoped for alternate Heroes\u00a0since <em>Hearthstone<\/em>\u00a0launched and we&#8217;re glad to see them in game&#8230; we&#8217;re just hoping they go on sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking to spice up your Hearthstone game, check out Magni Bronzebeard, the first Hearthstone alternate hero portrait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":10762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[2158,2157,230,1700,2159,2160],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}