Hearthstone gets New Expansion, "The Grand Tournament"

Another day, another Hearthstone expansion. Which, all things considered, is a pretty good, special day, because this is only our second one. Still, its hard not to feel a little fatigued with all this Hearthstone news, between the single-player campaigns and new hero portraits and well, the fact that its a TCG about a slowly dying MMO. I wonder what Blizzard will do when World of Warcraft finally becomes unprofitable, but they still need to keep it around so Hearthstone players understand the source material for all the references on their cards.

Or maybe I'm just bitter that I can't win a match.

As you know, every time a new expansion comes out for World of Warcraft, most things become obscure: in this case, Warcraft looked at its Wrath of the Lich King expansion, plucked out the Argent Tournament, and decided to make its next Hearthstone expansion based on that. So I present to you: the Grand Tournament.



So, what does the Grand Tournament offer? 132 new cards, excitingly, and a new ability called Inspire. Inspire is a special card effect that triggers when you use a class ability. Additionally, there are new cards that will alter or affect your hero abilityempowering it, or multiplying it, or changing it in some strange way so heroes will be a big focus, as you can tell.

And, more interestingly, when The Grand Tournament goes live, the Arena will stop giving away Goblins and Gnomes cards exclusively: youll start getting cards from both expansions and the classic game once again.

If this is your jam, feel free to keep an eye on this page. Blizzard updates it periodically revealing new cards, so if you want to start crafting your strats, best get to it!