Hearthstone enters The Witchwood subsequent week

If you go right down to the woods immediately, you’re certain of an enormous shock: daffodils ought to nonetheless be flowering. Highly beneficial. But if you wish to go right down to The Witchwood, you’ll want to attend till Thursday, as a result of Blizzard have introduced that’s after they’ll launch that new Hearthstone growth. Venturing into the spooky ooky forest outdoors the Worgen metropolis of Gilneas, The Witchwood will add 135 new playing cards. Expect witches, wolfmen, wisps, and different bizarre and alliterative woodlife.

The Witchwood brings a brand new card skill to Hearthstone, named Echo, which lets gamers solid a card a number of instances if they will afford it. That’s discovered on some minions in addition to spells. And is barely complicated as a result of each Magic: The Gathering and Eternal use ‘Echo’ to imply different things.

Also new is Rush, which is a bit like Charge however in that it lets minions assault different minions on the flip they’re summoned – however, in contrast to Charge, doesn’t allow them to assault the enemy hero.

The growth additionally has a theme of playing cards which give boosts if all playing cards in your deck playing cards have solely odd or solely even casting prices, with new impartial Legendary creatures for every kind.

You can see the playing cards revealed to date over here. Blizzard will end the gradual reveal in a Twitch livestream on Monday the ninth at 11am PDT (that’s 7pm UK time).

Hearthstone: The Witchwood will launch on April 12th. As ever, Witchwood card packs will likely be winnable in addition to offered for the in-game foreign money or actual cash.