Warcraft's Death Knight Class Is Coming to Hearthstone!
The Hearthstone team today announced a hugely exciting set of updates. Let me just bullet point it out for you to give you an idea of the scope, and then we'll dive into the details:
- The Death Knight class is being added to Hearthstone and has impressively varied gameplay thanks to a Blood/Frost/Undead rune system and corpse mechanic. It will have 68 cards at launch.
- Alongside the new class will be a new expansion - March of the Lich King, which is rooted in Warcraft lore and is based around the Lich King's Scourge attacking the Blood Elves of Silvermoon City. It will introduce a new keyword - Manathirst.
- Undead is a new minion type debuting with the set, and hundreds of legacy cards have also been tagged as Undead. Many minions are now dual-type too.
- Hearthstone is getting its first neutral spell - The Sunwell. Not only that, if you log into the game now you'll get it for free.
- Starting now and going through to the release of March of the Lich King (on December 6), the entire Knights of the Frozen Throne set (originally released in 2017 and the first expansion to feature hero cards) has been added back to the Standard format.
- Signature cards are being introduced to Hearthstone, which have alternate expansion-specific art.
Okay, let's go over the above in more detail.
The Death Knight Class & Runes
The Death Knight is only the second new class that's been added to Hearthstone beyond the initial nine, and the team has really gone all-in to represent the myriad of ways there are to play Death Knight in World of Warcraft. At the core of its identity is the new rune system, which allows players to specialise in three different areas: Blood, Frost and Unholy.
When building a Death Knight deck, players have three rune slots
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