Hearthstone’s Latest Expansion, Festival of Legends, Is Now Live

Blizzard’s online card game Hearthstone was just updated with a new expansion that adds 145 new cards to the game and introduces two new keywords – Finale and a new Priest Class Keyword called Overheal. 

Here’s a quick rundown from Blizzard on what to expect from the new expansion.

Introducing All New Mechanics

• Legendary Musicians and Songs: Each class has their own Legendary musician, plus a Legendary spell that showcases that musician’s most famous song. Plus all-new class instrument weapon cards carry special effects that improve while in play.

• Soloist Minions and Harmonic Spells: Soloist Minions have special Battlecry effects if they’re the only minion in your control, while Harmonic Spells switch between harmonic and dissonant frequencies each turn they’re in hand, giving players an opportunity to flex between strategies.

• New Keyword: Finale: Cards with the new Finale keyword get special bonuses if playing them uses up all remaining mana.

Priest Class Tuning

• The Priest class receives a tune-up starting with the Festival of Legends expansion (includes Core Set, too).

• New Class Keyword: Overheal gives Minions with Overheal a special effect that triggers when they are healed above their max health.

Core Set Updates

• Originally introduced with the United in Stormwind set, Tradeable will be an evergreen keyword starting this year. New Tradeable cards will be introduced throughout the Year of the Wolf and for years to come.

• Also new to this update is the inclusion of a handful of past Magnetic minions. Magnetic is a temporary keyword added to Core this year and will not necessarily stay in Core beyond this update.

Those who login to Hearthstone now will receive the E.T.C Band Manager Legendary card. All players can also get another Legendary card called Pozzik, Audio Engineer for free by opening the first reward in the new Free Reward Track in the game.

A Mini-Set is planned and is expected to launch midway through the Festival of Legends expansion. Currently, there are no details about the 38-card set.

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