Is hearthstone canon in wow?

[Narwhalosh Whalescream]

Given that there are many hearthstone boards doesnt that make it canon? But what about the non canon cards like Ragnaros lightlord?

[Pebrocks The Warlock]

It's canon in the sense it's a card game in WoW. That's it.

[Magical Mudcrab]

It's canon in the sense it's a card game in WoW. That's it.

I don't know, looks like it's cannon.

[TheFirstOnes]

There's a Hearthstone game in WoW that references Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, yes. But the game itself, as well as the units such as light Ragnaros, are not canon.

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There's no reason why it should be canon either, tbh. The game only exists to be fun and innocent. That's it.

[KOUNTERPARTS]

No.


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[Dalheim]

There's a Hearthstone game in WoW that references Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, yes. But the game itself, as well as the units such as light Ragnaros, are not canon.

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There's no reason why it should be canon either, tbh. The game only exists to be fun and innocent. That's it.

Well, some things unique to Hearthstone has been added to canon lore - like the Tortollans.

[Jester Joe]

There's NPCs playing it in the MoP inns, and pretty sure the troops in the garrison reference it.

Also in Legion the mage near the bank has a golden dr.boom card from hearthstone.

So yes it's very canon that it exists.
The cards themselves are just based on actual characters though, or alternate versions of them.

[Lochton]

Given that there are many hearthstone boards doesnt that make it canon? But what about the non canon cards like Ragnaros lightlord?

The game itself is canon. What cards are, and aren't, we can't really know.

[McNeil]

The actual game is canon in WoW, but the lore it represents most definately is not.

[AwkwardSquirtle]

But what about the non canon cards like Ragnaros lightlord?

Presumably the card is canon, but it's canonical fiction. Whoever's making Hearthstone cards in the lore is making up fictional stories about real people and places.

[Dead Moose Fandango]

Of all the "Alternate worlds" things WoW has, I wouldn't mind hearthstone worlds being one you could visit. Say for a fun random dungeon that otherwise has no effect on our azeroth. Sorta like how some of the Caverns of Time dungeons.

[Lord Pebbleton]

Not all of it, but they do draw certain things from it if needed. For example the entirety of the Explorer League is WoW, albeit not Rafaam.

Also never forget that N'zoth's "face" was revealed in Hearthstone first.

[Makabreska]

Yes, definitely canon. Scholomance was definitely Hogwart.

[Nnyco]

I wish the Hearthstone Gadgetzan was canon.

[shoc]

I like to think that the world in Hearthstone is canon, but things that appear on cards and the 'what-if' scenarios are not. Like, Gadgetzan in Hearthstone is a much bigger, bustling city than it is ever presented in-game, but I think that's just a limitation of the WoW environment. 'Canonically' every zone, city and settlement is ten times bigger than it really is. So I'd say Gadgetzan canon yes, but Light Ragnaros canon no.

[LemonDemonGirl]

I kinda wish Rastakhan's Rumble was a thing that actually happa- oh that's right. He's dead. Still, it would be cool

[Zuben]

Sometimes Hearthstone proposes something that would be interesting for WoW as well. They could technically take those things and make them canon if they wanted, but by default it's the same as with the RPG books.