Frostmourne Will Be A Collectable Card in Hearthstone’s March of the Lich King Set
On December 6 (December 7 in ANZ/Asia Pacific), Hearthstone is going to change forever, with the release of the game’s 11th playable class - Death Knight, and the March of the Lich King expansion. The new class brings with it some super interesting gameplay, with a Blood, Frost and Unholy rune system for deckbuilding that allows players to specialise in one, two or all three of those areas. Alongside that is a new hero power called Ghoul Rush, which summons a 1/1 ghoul with charge that dies at end of turn. It’s a ping that also guarantees you a corpse - which is another new Death Knight mechanic. (Any friendly minions that die add to your corpse counter, then you can spend those corpses for a bonus effect through a host of different Death Knight cards.)
We have all the news covered in detail here, as well as some fascinating insights into the development of Death Knight here. For now, though, we’re debuting some absolutely iconic Lich King cards (from the Knights of the Frozen Throne set) that are returning to the game as collectable Death Knight class cards.
“When we were starting to develop Death Knight,” says Hearthstone Features Lead Chadd Nervig, “we were looking back at the cards that we had made for the Lich King back in Knights of the Frozen Throne and seeing which of those could be potential ideas for Death Knight cards. I think it was a cool idea to just start from - hey, there's an existing base there, can we try making those collectable cards? And maybe we'll have to do some number tuning on them since they were more of treasure type things before, but as we tried them out, we found several of them do fit.”
The prime example of this is Frostmourne, the Lich King’s weapon, which is back without any changes.
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