Highlights
- Zilliax Deluxe 3000 lets Hearthstone players customize their own minion with 28 cards in one, a game-first feature.
- Year of the Pegasus brings a Core Set refresh and Whizbang’s Workshop expansion, celebrating 10 years of Hearthstone history.
- Zilliax Deluxe 3000, a neutral Legendary minion, allows players to pick and choose modules for unique stats and abilities.
Hearthstone recently revealed Zilliax Deluxe 3000, a new Legendary that lets players build their own minion when they add it to their decks. This new customizable minion is 28 cards in one, and is the most ambitious single Hearthstone card in the game’s history.
Recently, Hearthstone revealed some big plans for the Year of the Pegasus, including a Core Set refresh and the new Whizbang’s Workshop expansion. 2024 marks Hearthstone’s 10-year anniversary, so Blizzard is focusing on callbacks to iconic characters and mechanics from the game’s history while simultaneously pushing the boundaries on what it has done before.
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Zilliax Deluxe 3000 is a new neutral Legendary minion coming to Hearthstone in Whizbang’s Workshop. However, unlike most minions, Zilliax Deluxe 3000 does not have set stats, cost, or even keywords. Instead, when players add it to their decks, they are able to pick and choose two of eight different modules, which are combined to create the statistics and abilities of their Zilliax, allowing it to fit in any deck. Fans can even choose one of eight different pieces of artwork to use for their creation, meaning there are technically 224 permutations players can make with Zilliax Deluxe 3000.
Zilliax Deluxe 3000 is 28 Hearthstone Cards in One
Hearthstone senior game designer and initial design lead Cora Georgiou went into detail about the process of creating this card on her personal Twitter. Hearthstone devs come up with tons of cards, and given the toy shop theme of Whizbang’s Workshop, Hearthstone wanted to make a card that let players become designers as well. While fans have been able to do so to an extent with Kazakus, Ignis, and similar cards, Zilliax Deluxe 3000 took the sideboard technology from E.T.C., Band Manager to create Hearthstone’s most ambitious card yet.
Fans might recognize Zilliax from the Boomsday Project, Hearthstone’s ninth expansion. The mad science set was the first to introduce the Magnetic mechanic, and Zilliax was one of the most iconic Mechs to use it. With five keywords on a single card, and the memorable “Unity. Precision. Perfection.” voice line, he quickly joined the ranks of iconic Hearthstone Legendary minions, leading to his return in Whizbang’s Workshop.
Blizzard’s collectible card game has some big plans for its 10-year anniversary. In-game events, Twitch Drops, and even a collaboration with World of Warcraft are coming throughout the next month. Right now, players can pick up the Harth Stonebrew and Colifero Legendary minions and a cycle of Gift cards for each class simply by logging in.
Hearthstone
Hearthstone is a free-to-play digital trading card game from Blizzard and features many characters from the World of Warcraft universe.
- Released
- March 11, 2014
- Genre(s)
- Digital Card Game
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Alcohol Reference, Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes
