The Unobtainable Things in Hearthstone

Everything you will never have in Hearthstone.. unless you got these card backs, hero skins and promotional cards during their release
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There are over a hundred card backs in Hearthstone that are unobtainable as of now. There are no achievements through which you can unlock them, hero portraits will probably never return to the shop and some cards like a golden Sathrovarr or Marin the Fox are uncraftable for years now.
Also putting my face in the thumbnail becomes less cringe now that I have done that a couple times but it is still a bit weird gotta say
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[@wheelotime2581]

Something I'll never have? A fully optimized Reno deck...

[@kittenlizard4997]

optimization is a construct of your imagination

[@strandededucation622]

Got kazakus, just need reno, dk Jaina, and bran. Almost there

[@batatac4mil86]

@@strandededucation622 20 bucks for the league of explores and you should do it

[@strandededucation622]

@@batatac4mil86 f2p so I'm doing everything with a grind. Given up in standard so wild is where my dust goes.

[@GuilhermeNNNN]

@@strandededucation622 You did the right thing, wild is cheaper in a long time. You will many dust to craft a good deck, but you will have a good deck, forever.

[@yaboymaxime]

The client side skin changing actually is a thing, its done with SpecialK, but all ive seen done with that are lewd mods.

[@Solemhs]

I will look it up for research purposes

[@zaer-ezart]

And here I thought I was the only one who knew about Nudestone

[@ProfPuffOfficial]

I learnt about it when fullas mad a hulk warrior mod

[@mitchsz]

WAIT WHAT

[@TheEel228]

Jaina: stop using a mod to look at my naked pics you heathens.

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

All this stuff and rogue still only has one alternative portrait

[@Solemhs]

pretty much, I guess the level 50 battle pass skin could count towards it but that is still pretty much nothing

[@bellz543]

@@Solemhs Hey Solem, can you make a video on why blizzard hates the rogue class. I know they don’t hate it hate it but but it Would be interesting to see

[@TheEel228]

Garona Halforcen, Edwin Vancleef, HIS FKIN KID Vanessa Vancleef, MATHIAS SHAW HELL EVEN FKIN FLYNN FAIRWIND could ALL BE ROGUE HERO PICS but noooo LETS MAKE SOMEONE NOBODY FKIN HEARD OF IN WOW LORE.

[@TheSquareOnes]

Made even more frustrating by all the alternative rogues in special game modes that haven't been made available to constructed decks for no particular reason. Where is my Eudora skin?! You already made the assets, just let me pay you for doing zero work so I can have a dumb aesthetic thing I don't need for this game I now hate!

[@blakearius]

Nah I need a 7th shaman skin.. Shaman and rogue are my most played classes. Stupid decisions.

[@monkaWGiga]

I'm convinced the only reason people own Dame Hazelbark is to horrify their opponents.

[@PrimeGamator]

So they paid to have a psychological advantage over their opponents? P2W game smh

[@ancient7716]

Hello, Dear

[@BinGutH]

no, its for my treants deck^^

[@TheMisterApp]

Medivh is still aviable through the WOW the Beginning DVD

[@Solemhs]

When looking at ebay I found people selling codes and that CD for the skin

[@user-zg3gh8xg9v]

"The unobtainable Thing in Hearthstone": Pure, unadulterated fun. It is also like a sponge for my sanity. I know hard drugs which are far less problematic and much more fun.

[@tolkienlover7881]

Less expensive too

[@TromboneMaster95]

Amen. Sometimes I think "Oh I'll have fun playing this deck!", only to realize I don't have many of the cards. So I settle for a worse version and hit casual, thinking I'll have good, casual fun. Then it's Reno Priest/Big Priest/Aggro Druid and I shut the client down

[@tolkienlover7881]

@@TromboneMaster95 casual fun? In casual mode? Nooooooooob

[@WhitemageJones]

I got into the beta literally about a week before it ended. Now I am a proud owner of the Pandaria card back and golden Gelbin Mekkatorque & I use both in every deck I play, just to flex.

[@wyjebnik2zuk148]

same with me, golden gelbin flexin B)

[@jsparks1787]

Solem is the type of guy to win a 500K prize pool tournament just for the Golden Celebrations card back.

[@TheDarthNemisis]

Forgot to mention the Overwatch card back. Seams to have been removed last year

[@nomirrors3552]

This reminded me of some content you could create and I think it's the kind of thing you would do. I was using the The Thunder King Shaman Hero and realized I didn't have any "nice" emotes. They were all kind of BM. That got me thinking, which emotes were the more BM? If anyone would do this list, surely it would be you. ;)

[@KnownAsKenji]

I like this idea, even more now with so many new Hero skins coming out. for instance, the new Illidan is supremely BM, his Thanks emote is basically 'yeah, no, I don't want to thank you'.

[@teddys5775]

I got about 10k in achievement points. It would be nice to have some cosmetic unlocks Or literally anything to use them on

[@SubZXD]

I think you can still obtain Medivh if you're lucky enough to find a copy of the Warcraft DVD with the unused code inside.

[@Jumbleman5]

A card back was added to Khadgar's hero skin years later in order for blizzard to justify increasing the price from a $5 donation to a $10 payment. If I remember right, the dalaran flame cardback was also available for a short time to people to bought tickets to certain collegiate events.

[@clockwing6598]

Moo. That’s right. You heard me. I have that card back, I really like it and I feel special knowing I’m one of the last people who play this game with that card back.

[@batatac4mil86]

That's sad

[@clockwing6598]

@@batatac4mil86 moo

[@tolkienlover7881]

I still use the rastakan infection card back BC f*ck blizzard everyone gets that exclusive now

[@dceasar1]

And here we are two years later where everything that was once exclusive is now purchasable in the store.

[@enhancingrice1825]

I am in a weird situation where I clicked on the video because in the preview slide show, I saw "League of Legends" and thought you were running an ad for Legends of Runeterra in your HS video

[@ivansherbinin]

Btw. The card backs in HS are only half shown when they are standing on a table. In LoR they are at list laying on a table so you can see the full art and in MTGA you can actually scroll card backs closer and most of them have some effect when you are hovering over them with a mouse. So - yeah :)

[@Jumbleman5]

The great thing about the golden celebration cardback is that when you see it, you know you're playing a pro player. I've seen it once in my years playing the game in an RNG heavy tavern brawl.

[@ajkcool]

Then you know to immediately concede

[@AlexSaba13]

@@ajkcool You don't concede! I once played thijs(the annoying blonde one), in arena 11-2run! Ok I lost, but it was extremely close!

[@JavisHD]

We could spend the new achievement points on crafting card backs! Maybe not all of them are craftable, but if all the monthly ones were craftable I’d be pretty happy

[@kittenlizard4997]

I have Lunara, Maiev, and I kinda got the secret room card back because I just randomly stumbled upon it after being bored and messing with the tavern brawl for an afternoon.

[@roppis9258]

I've used the Pandaria card back ever since I started playing Hearthstone. It's just so clean and the colours are nice, and as an added bonus it's quite rare

[@kittenburger_prime]

I found N’Zoth deserves real praise. He has several custom voicelines and even more than one when using your hero power.

[@hikari_netto]

This video was really eye opening for me, not because there's a lot that I'm missing, but rather because.. I actually have literally all of it (minus Golden Celebration)? I can even tell you that the Power Core and Thrill of Victory card backs weren't just for participating in esports events like HCT (like the one in the Bahamas you mentioned), but were also distributed to spectators who attended in-person (that's how I got them). It's pretty easy to forget just how many promotions Hearthstone has had over the years when you've participated in all of the as they arrive. Sometimes you start to take all of this stuff for granted.

[@neonoir__]

Interesting you talk about clientside skins since they were actually a thing up till uldum or so and got silently patched (only worked in an older directx version that they stopped supporting). There was a way to run a software that swapped any texture for another one of the same size when your gpu rendered the image (no game modifications --> not detectable). I used it back when exodia mage was still playable to give antonidas some pixel sunglasses and make sorc very deepfried but it was mostly used in a mod called nudestone (you can probably guess what that did). Manually editing the pictures and finding what assets to replace was a giant pain in the ass though.

[@Redishere]

Not being able to buy legacy stuff or bundles etc with gold is the real travisty herr

[@taffeloo]

I actually have TeSPA card back as well as an European. I remember barely that there was some kind of a loophole on TeSPA's website which allowed you to make an account and register yourself in any random university (had to be a real one) and you could claim the card back that way.

[@Cash12121]

Hi Solem! Let me clarify something. The Tespa card back was given to all Tespa Plus members who attend university. You DO NOT have to have a Tespa chapter at your college/university. Just make sure you are a valid student and that's it. However, this has since been unavailable since MyTespa has shut down ("temporary") due to some privacy regulations in California. They were going to rework the website to fix these issues (but never did). Now even more, unfortunately, Tespa as a brand/company is being shut down (primarily because of Activision I think [PURE SPECULATION]). Collegiate leagues will still be a thing for Blizzard/Activision games but no longer will have Tespa along with their chapters. Basically effectively hindering a lot of esports clubs and programs in many colleges.

[@wingedkuriboh98]

I personally love that you threw in an ash blossom feet meme into the video lmao

[@Invenitive]

I used to try my best to keep up. From the beta through them adding hero skins, I was super on top of collecting card backs and exclusive cards. Hero skins getting added at first was really cool, but soon after I realized I didn't want to keep up with all the purchases you have to make to get all skins, and have kinda given up. Then I took a few year break, came back, and seeing the years of things I've missed has broken any dreams of keeping up. I at least still got my beta rewards to flex in wild :')

[@Solemhs]

I have to admit that the golden ETC looks fantasitc

[@Sebasheck]

I stopped playing. This last update was the final straw for me.

[@geld1gelld422]

my final straw was demon hunter

[@whistlerdan7718]

@@geld1gelld422 The game peaked at Year of the Mammoth in my opinion and Year of the Dragon was kind of the best year to end things on a high note.

[@ricklol4183]

You could also get Thrill of Victory from the World Championship of 2018 in Amsterdam. So I guess you could get those by going to the World Championships

[@Arcturus5404]

I got both Thrill of Victory and Electric Core cardback after visiting the HS finals in Amsterdam

[@fluffyshoes1662]

I FUCKING hate how preorder skins never return. I lost my 3 year on going job when the Elise bundle came out and by the time they released that expansion I couldn’t preorder. I now will concede every game vs Elise Druid in spite of not being able to buy that skin again

[@Habugabu]

The conditions to unlock the esports card backs keep changing, right now I think Power Core is unlocked with a top 8 (?) in a Masters Tour Qualifier and Thrill of Victory is unlocked by competing in a Masters Tour. Golden Celebration is much rarer, requiring a top 8 finish in a Masters Tour. at least that's how I remember unlocking all of them :)

[@zer0sum642]

I have all the card backs I want (96), including all of the Heroic ones, Rumble Runner, Candle King, Monster Hunter, Legend, etc... But what I would like is for the random card back option to let me choose which card backs I want to be in the “random card back pool”. I like the random card back option, but I mostly get card backs I don’t like when playing. However, it is fun to open packs with random on for all. It is trivial, I know, but I really would like that possibility.

[@trentsims]

Technically copies of the Live Action Warcraft Movie come with codes for Medivh, weather or not they still work is up in the air, but he might still be obtainable that way.

[@Samkwal]

I got the blue e-sports cardback after going to a IRL hearthstone competetion back in 2017. I think it was officially called a fireside, but I still rock that card back ever since doing that. Hope it helps :D

[@enoxpro112]

Tbh they could make the achievement points (yellow ones) used as currency for card backs. Maybe 2000-3000 points for a cardback. I'm pretty sure this is not gonna happen, they will stick to 500 gold just to screw people more.

[@lukyangho]

You know what else that was unobtainable for the past week? Solem's live streams. FeelsBadMan

[@Dieonceperday]

I absolutely hate and will never get over the fact that Aranna was made available in a bundle for like a month instead of...oh, I don't know, being the reward for completing the adventure that was her entire backstory? Like...what?

[@LogogoFromKeron]

Something I'll never get is a rank higher than 5k in Battlegrounds and fun in Duels.

[@black369ace7]

One day, we'll have a male rogue hero portrait.

[@fabionakada8533]

Never stop dreaming

[@husky2961]

The point about cardback is the people that will see them the most is my opponent.

[@TheZackofSpades]

Golden Celebration is by far the greatest flex card back...and I am okay with that.

[@Innersoulwithinme]

Well, golden celebraton card back is for top8 on events, master tours, prelims, last call(top 8 point earners)

[@TweetyTwT]

I'm able to buy Sylvanas Windrunner and some few others like Dame Hazelbark, I wonder if that's new? They cost 1800 gold each

[@LucasFernandezNimes]

It would be good for everyone if some skins from the past come back. I remember the gratification of having the skin cthun again after losing my first account. I would like that everyone who loves skin could do it with money and after a while with game gold.

[@AnputVT]

I recently posted this on Reddit: I recently started playing the game again and i was sad to see that i can't get Kel Thuzad so i figured unlimited skins would be good for this game. Another game i play, Smite, also had limmited time skins but now swapped over to the unlimited model. This would mean that you can purchase the skin after the limited time period but you have to pay the full price of everything else you had to buy to get it. So this for example would make the pre-order portaits available to new players but at the same price of the pre-order bundle, without the packs ofcoarse. Anyone that would want to spend a lot of money on a skin they like would have the option to do so while still giving poeple that were here when the skin released a huge bonus while blizz makes more money so everyone wins. I would probably get the KT skin like that if it was an option.

[@pinkpidgeon6926]

i have black temple card back from second season (2014 may i think).I still use it.

[@GamePlayMetal]

Number one unobtainable thing in Hearthstone: a fair monetization system

[@ΜαρίνοςςονίραΜ]

I am playing since August of 2014. The game was quite fun(naxrammas was the only special?!), tavern brawls, arenas, climbing sick with decks like Windfury Shaman, Mech Mage, Face Hunter, Zoolock but when the expansions were more and more you were forced to place money to keep up for a free to play game. I did quit for some months and missed some cardbacks and still the game, to play in Standard isnt fun at all. Started playing Beta Battlegrounds but as it seems they force you to purchase the 20€/$ perks. Blizzard see us only as customers and not a community that needs to have fun through a free to play game.

[@spicypepperz]

One hero I regret not getting was king rastakahn dudes got the best emotes

[@bigmaw369]

Unobtainable, not anymore. R.I.P Hearthstone

[@aflowerispower]

So my deck will never have a golden coin because I didnt want to pay 50$ for a blizzcon ticket that i cant attend just to have a golden sathrovarr and have a complete golden deck.... And now you can just buy a bunch of the best legendaries in premade decks for $40. They really take a crap on their player base quite often.

[@The_Fuse_Maestro11]

I play a lot of elemental shaman and I really want both the Ungoro card backs. Especially the tar with the fossil in the middle. I hope that it comes back some day.

[@FumpM]

update on the Tespa one they are re branding and I dont know if it will ever be available again

[@algum504]

I dont see any skin offers in shop (only limited tavern pass that has mage and shaman skins) but if seems i managed to snag tyrande when she was free there ^^

[@anarchistlilia]

I think you can still get the maiev and lunara if you logged in once they relased I think the quest should be there although it also can be removed becaouse of new quest thing

[@attilaolajkar6155]

Thanks for the video. I'm not into the cardback and hero portrait game so I'm happy that only those are the unobtainable stuff. Achievement related cardbacks sounds cool

[@nickbryan_video]

I got the power core card back by holding a playoff tournament back when they let innkeepers run them. (Before masters) All of the players that participated in the fireside event also got it as well. As of now I have no idea how.

[@arturom31]

But the worst part of the card backs is that you never see your own card backs when playing.

[@TheOblomoff]

I got all but one monthly card back. And... it doesn't bother me. Looked through the whole collection and found 4, maybe 6 cardbacks that I would actually use. (that's why there's absolutely zero rewards for ranked season for me in lor)

[@haindicapat]

Solem, I hope this comment will reach you. So i started playing duels recently, I love combo decks so i picked rogue. In order to have the Hero power "connections", you are required to collect 10 darkmoon faire epic cards. I desenchanted some of my cards to craft epic cards for rogue and mage (the 2 classes i use most), so therefore i crafted 2 of each, and to my surprise the game doesnt count 2 identical epic cards as 2 cards, but as 1, the same happens if you craft an epic card, and then uncraft it, it removes it from the counter. There is a flaw in the text because it says "Collect darkmoon faire epic cards (10)", it doesnt say "collect 10 unique epic cards or own 10 epic cards". It just f'ed up my game rn because i dont have any dust left and im stuck with some cards that i wont use just to gain more wins in duels.

[@МаксимКулініч-х5г]

Golden cards mod are available like for 2-3 years

[@Solemhs]

Have never seen or heard of one. When I looked them up there was literally no result but that might just be search results from google, maybe other browsers show different results for it

[@МаксимКулініч-х5г]

@@Solemhs not surprisingly, this mod is distributed on the Russian social network (VKontakte). If u want I can share u link for mod

[@МаксимКулініч-х5г]

vk.com/under_mod Here it is , if u needed.

[@sorbion8916]

You can still buy medivh codes on some websites

[@symraynor]

Something I will never have? Legend's cardback :(

[@imbricitor]

just go play odd paladin, ive gone to legend 5 times with it. ist relatively cheap and very stupid. Just trade and win

[@symraynor]

Edit: I got it yesterday, thanks all for the support

[@Claptrap_]

I played hearthstone alot since beta and have all the early cardbacks and stuff. I don't even play anymore only a bit arena.

[@nicolasgozzi9697]

Heartstone marketing works on the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)....

[@DasFelaxo]

I was never interested into Hero-Skins. But would love to have Sylvanas. Hope they sell it again in future

[@batatac4mil86]

*give it

[@ExSpectre]

I really hate that Sylvanas was limited time. I started right after she left the shop and I’m praying she returns at some point.

[@LiveMorph]

Except for the golden cardback and the red one from "approved events", i have every single exclusive on this game. Enjoy my money Blizzard I guess :/

[@NoNickNameNow]

Something we will never have, Hearthstone free of broken cards

[@Ckapc]

forgotten card backs: All the card backs linked to preorders for other games; Starcraft 2 LoV card back Overwatch card back Warcraft 3 refunded cardback (No one really wants that cardback on their account really) Every WoW expansion preorder cardback

[@sandguyman]

Things we can never have in Hs? A control meta in wild

[@daffodillz9182]

Priest has two of the five best decks in wild... Highlander/mill Warlock is also doing pretty well

[@ChibiRuah]

Some of this exclusive product I think is ok but it really starts feeling like too much (even more that there is no way to trade them)

[@Fatih-xl7yn]

I am from Germany and I have the tespa card back :P there was an event or something like that, I can’t remember.

[@OrdemDoGraveto]

I really think all cardbacks should be available for purchase after the month they were given away. Be it by gold, or only real money.

[@seal869]

I've been playing for about 2 years and I want Maiev and MechaJaraxxus so bad. Would gladly pay for them; they are much cooler than any of the other purchasable heroes IMO. Would like to get Rastakhan too.

[@csabakakuszi3152]

I have all of the first year card backs

[@Jaxsin7]

Only thing i feel like i missed out on was Sylvannas. Best purchasable skin imo (besides Nzoth)

[@EpicRSvids]

Im confused, cant you buy all the cardbacks now!

[@chicknwing2742]

I wanted the N'Zoth portrait so bad but couldn't justify the $80 price tag. Most of the cards from the Darkmoon Faire expansion suck too. Hopefully it will be featured in the shop as a stand-alone purchase option in the future but I won't hold my breath. Damn it Blizzard. Why must you be so greedy?

[@iliqndimitrov6607]

You can buy medivh from the net right?

[@goothulhu4020]

Something ill never have? rastakhans rumble preorder

[@Bad888Max]

Great video. Dalaran cardback we hope they dont ban. And also would be nice for them to let us craft golden etc hero. And does anyone remember the time when you could change your cardback during actual game. So while your opponent is roping you can switch all cardbacks for them to see.

[@longdongchinchong]

5:20 or you can just use speed hack there is an option to make your cards golden view-only-you

[@theflamedruid1456]

i can exclusively scare opponents with hazelbark

[@marcellkovacs2378]

what about the cow king brawl card back??

[@germaa]

got an investment ad, you are welcome

[@ngocpaht7927]

Is the battle pass better for free to play now ?

[@606hunter1]

Back when I played (which was from grand tournament up to around witchwood off and on) I only ever used 3-4 card backs in that entire time. Maybe that's just me but on a side note I have no idea why you're not allowed to set a card back for individual decks you make. That never made sense to me

[@Akiza71]

What do you mean you can't? I've put a different cardback for every deck I play.

[@thold6044]

3:22 sadly doesn't seem so in NA that's disappointing

[@ledros5063]

Freetwoplayer full colection too

[@Closer2Zero]

I love collecting things. I love games with collectibles in them that i can complete. But online games like hearthstone or the MMOs i like, and games where to collect things you have to have no ice but the game and/or an endlessly deep wallet, those are no fun and the worst kind of games to let get their hooks into you. Cause at a certain point, being a completionist stops being fun and starts being a job. Especially in games like MMOs where you need to grind the same things to roll like a slot machine to get something that one day you wont even be able to look at or play with cause the game will end

[@Solemhs]

At one point I thought about playing World of Warcraft to maybe go for the 100% completion, all mounts and achievements and then I saw that Asmongold is not there yet after 1500 days of play time.. so I didnt start playing

[@mitchsz]

Tyrande is not available anymore for free, which is sad

[@Sebasheck]

Quite new to this channel. I love your critisism and ideas!

[@pango4425]

I missed the Fairie Dragon cardback and I'm sad...

[@Der_Waldmeister]

I got all F2P cardbacks except for April, May and June 2014. Should have started playing right from the beginning grrrrr....

[@Cassapphic]

I honestly am not the biggest fan of liking something purely due to exclusivity, it feels like "I want this because other people dont have it" and not "I want this because it is cool" like the people who complain about shiny pokemon being easier to get in modern pokemon games.

[@Dannymiles1987]

I’m missing the 2014 sept card back. I’m still punching air

[@mirthbaron1525]

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus.