Hearthstone Announces New Boomsday Project Expansion
By Nicholas Barth ·
The newest expansion for Blizzard's highly popular digital card game Hearthstone has been announced, as the Boomsday Project expansion looks to introduce a whole host of new cards to Hearthstone.
Today, Tuesday, July 10th, Blizzard announced the next expansion for its highly popular digital card game Hearthstone in the Boomsday Project.
The Boomsday Project will be having a strong focus on the Hearthstone character of Dr Boom and his irresponsible experiments that will be the subjects of the vast array of new cards that will be introduced into Hearthstone with the Boomsday Project expansion.
135 new cards are to be added to the collection of ones that players of Blizzard's popular title are currently using to achieve victory in their matches. These will include 9 new Legendary Spells. Also being introduced to Hearthstone by the way of the Boomsday Project expansion will be Projects, spells that will have affects that at first will look to benefit both players, but will at the same time be deceiving in nature. Omega cards will be another new addition to the title thanks to the Boomsday expansion, and they will be able to grant players incredible rewards when they are used with 10 mana crystals.
Dr. Boom will also be bringing a brand new term to the world of Hearthstone in the Boomsday Project with Magnetic attraction. This new Magnetic term will allow players to combine Mech minions in order to merge their attack, health and abilities together to form powerful creatures under the control of Dr Boom.
Blizzard will be adding a new single player experience into Hearthstone with the implementation of the Boomsday Project in the form of The Puzzle Lab. No more information regarding details of The Puzzle Lab were announced, but it was revealed that details of the new single player experience coming to Hearthstone will be announced in the coming weeks.
Cards from the new Hearthstone expansion will be available for players to win in the game's Arena mode.
Blizzard will also be offering two separate bundles starting today until the release of the upcoming expansion. The 50 pack bundle will include a free random golden class Legendary and the Mecha-Jaraxxus card back, while the 80 card pack will include a free golden class Legendary and Mecha-Jaraxxus card back, as well as a new playable Warlock Hero—Mecha-Jaraxxus, Eredar Lord of the scientific community. Each pack will be available to purchase once per account.
The Boomsday Project expansion is set to be released for Hearthstone on Windows® and Mac® PCs; Windows, iOS, and Android™ tablets; and mobile phones August 7th, 2018.
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