Start working in your questionable faux-Jamaican accent, as a result of Hearthstone is hamming it up prefer it’s the nineties in its newest enlargement at present. Rastakhan’s Rumble is themed round a once-in-a-lifetime enviornment brawl to determine the following nice troll champion. This means new playing cards, a brand new key phrase (Overkill!), wrestling jokes, sketchy invocations of voodoo, dinosaurs, ticket scalpers and ice cream. All the cartoon nonsense that defines Warcraft’s world, even when some Blizzard insist it’s about angst and elven war-crimes. As all the time, there’s some free launch-day goodies to assert too.
As with different Hearthstone expansions, launch day brings the playing cards, and the single-player content material comes later. On December 13th, they’ll be rolling out the Rumble Run mode, a brand new troll-themed solo marketing campaign, the place you play as an enviornment hopeful on the lookout for a crew and bashing your approach by the event. Logging in at present nets you a beneficiant six boosters from the brand new set, two Spirit playing cards and one of many Legendary Loa playing cards. Not unhealthy, however I’ll in all probability not be taking part in an excessive amount of till the brand new solo stuff is dwell.
The new playing cards – 135, listed here – are an curiously blended bunch. It’s not fairly as wacky because the earlier Boomsday Project enlargement, which included some actual Hail Mary playing cards that would throw a whole match into chaos. There’s some enjoyable concepts although, just like the Dozing Marksman, a two-mana summon who is available in as a 0/four card till broken, after which positive factors 4 assault. Some of the playing cards are simply outlandish, like Shirvallah, the Tiger, who could be very beefy, however prices prices 25 mana. Thankfully that worth goes down by one for every level of mana you’ve spent on spells that match.
The new key phrase, Overkill, prompts everytime you use a card with it to do extra harm than is critical to kill a minion. Some Overkills allow you to assault once more, others summon minions – it’s about pushing a bonus. Given that there’s a ton of playing cards on this enlargement that spam up the board with 1/1 minions, it’s not onerous to see how they’ve arrange deliberate Overkill fodder to escalate the match. Fits the over-the-top (if culturally wonky) theme of this enlargement, even when there’s not as many ‘roll the dice, eat half your deck’ playing cards because the earlier outing.
The Rastakhan’s Rumble enlargement is dwell now and gifting away its ordinary launch-day goodies. Hearthstone stays free-to-play, and will be discovered on its official page here.
