Hearthstone: The Witchwood Expansion Announced

Hearthstone’s next expansion, The Witchwood, has been announced.

Blizzard has announced Hearthstone’s next expansion launches next month, adding 135 new cards to the game and introducing brand new gameplay mechanics. Complete details are available on the game’s website.

Check out the announcement trailer, which shows off some of the new cards from The Witchwood, below:

The expansion is themed around the cursed capital of Gilneas, a kingdom beset by werewolves, ghosts, and other horrors. Witchwood cards will introduce new mechanics like Echo and Rush. Echo cards are minions or spells which may be played over and over again, as long as players have enough mana. The new Rush attribute will allow cards to act immediately upon being played, but only to attack other minions, differentiating it from the Charge mechanic.

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