Hearthstone’s Next Expansion March of the Lich King Will Introduce the Death Knight Class

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Blizzard announced that their next expansion for their free-to-play card game Hearthstone will be March of the Lich King, and it comes with the inclusion of the Death Knight class. This will be the last expansion for the year and will include 203 new cards. 

New class - Death Knight

The new Death Knight class will launch with 68 new class cards, 32 of them will be part of the game’s Core set of cards. He will have a Hero Power called Ghoul Charge, which summons a 1/1 Ghoul with Charge that dies at the end of the turn. The class will then have a new resource called Corpses as any friendly minion that dies will be counted as a Corpse. The class will then feature three specific runes for deckbuilding a Death Knight deck. 

  • Blood for control gameplay with health manipulation.

  • Frost for direct damage with icy spells.

  • Unholy for swarms of minions across the board.

You can have three runes attached to the deck. Simply put, the rune combinations you attach on your deck will determine which Death Knight cards you can include in your deck.

March of the Lich King expansion features

For the March of the Lich King expansion, it will introduce a new Minion type called Undead and all cards from previous expansions will be updated to have the Undead minion type. The expansion will also introduce dual-type minions, so you’ll have cards that identify as Undead and Dragon, for example.The new keyword for this expansion will be Manathirst. Cards simply become stronger versions of themselves once you reach the required amount of mana needed for Manathirst. 

  • Cards have additional powers when you have enough mana crystals to trigger the effect.

  • No mana needs to be consumed for the bonus effect to be triggered.

You’ll also see the return of the keyword Reborn in this expansion, a keyword that if a reborn minion dies, it gets resummoned with 1 health. 

The launch of the expansion will also come with a revamp of the game’s event system as future events will now have a dedicated place within the Hearthstone user interface. 

  • Events will now have a dedicated place within the Hearthstone user interface.

  • When an event is active, the Journal button is modified; reward content also will now have a dedicated space within the Journal.

  • Knights of Hallow’s End event will be live TODAY - bringing all Knights of the Frozen Throne cards back into Standard until March of the Lich King releases!

There is currently no release date for the March of the Lich King expansion but players can now pre-purchase a pack bundle for the upcoming expansion. The March of the Lich King Mega Bundle contains 80 March of the Lich King card packs, 5 Signature Golden march of the Lich King card packs, two random Signature Legendary cards from the new expansion, the Path of Arthas set, and the Lor’themar Hunter hero skin and card back. The bundle costs $79.99

There’s also a $49.99 bundle called the March of the Lich King bundle, which contains 60 March of the Lich King packs, two random Legendaries from the new expansion, and the Lor’themar card back. 

[Source: Blizzard]