Update 11:00 PM EDT: Check out an animated version of the new card back.
Update 6:35 PM EDT: Our Grand Tournament info page is now live. Don't worry, updates will continue to be posted on this news post.
Hearthstone Expansion - The Grand Tournament
Hearthstone's newest expansion is The Grand Tournament.
The official site is now live, check it out here.
- The Grand Tournament launches this August.
- 132 new cards! Some cards can be found below.
- Lots of new cards which will effect hero powers!
- New Keyword: Inspire! Activates every time you use your hero power.
- 50 Pack pre-purchase available next week for $49.99 USD. Gives you a card back.
New Cards
All of these cards are available in our deckbuilder so you can theorycraft new decks!
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New Card Back
A card back is available for pre-purchasing 50 card packs. The pre-purchase goes live next week. An animated card back preview can be found below. To see it in the highest quality possible, use Google Chrome.
Hearthstone Patch 9554
A new patch has been discovered on Blizzard's CDN. It includes the new card back, the troll card back for this month's ranked season, and some new Tavern Brawl background featuring Hearthstones, a Portal, and some Murlocs.
The Grand Tournament Store Music
New store music was added in the datamined patch for The Grand Tournament. Listen below!
New Gameboard
Official Trailer
Hearthstone Special Announcement Livestream
The livestream has concluded. The vod can be accessed here, with two additional parts with streamed gameplay available here, and here.
Screenshot Gallery
Below are screenshots taken from the stream.
Ohhhh yeaaaaaaaah :) So glad!
I watch the announcement live yesterday! I must say, I like the theme, I like the card we have seen, I like the new mechanic, I like what we have seen for the Shaman
Just can't wait :)
Time for Gold Farming!
Shut up and take my money!
Blizzards fucks my money - Heroes and Hearthstone, StarcraftII CE woot, glad i have a job haha
I can't wait for this! Gonna save as much Gold as possible!
Why is that?
Sure blizz, 50€ for 50 packs of 0 and 1...
Saving gold from now
Can we pre-order on Mobile?
Can one pre purchase multiple packs?
1 mana 2/4? The drawback is going to be insane...
CLarification on inspire: does it trigger before or after the hero power is cast?
before? how should that work?
Before:
Click on Hero Power, Inspire , Hero Power
After:
Click on Hero Power, Hero Power, Inspire
tqktl0s: Inspire could trigger either right before or right after the effect of the hero power and both would make sense. When you have Thunder Bluff Valiant on board, the outcome would depend on whether Inspire happens before or after the Totemic Call.
DRTauli: In the VoD you can see Inspire in action. At first, the hero power resolves and then Inspire effects happen.
Thanks TSMS.
yep the question was brought about by the Thunder Bluff Valiant Card if the +2 affects the newly summoned totem.
i'm so freakin excited
I really love some of the new cards already.
Lock and Load is some quality carddraw for Hunter without being abusable by aggressive decks. Totem Golem is just beautiful. The interactions of Fallen Hero, Maiden of the Lake and Coldarra Drake might make for some cool combos, but might prove to hard to be pulled off reliably.
The Inspire-Keyword looks like a good thing for Hearthstone. Unless you are playing Hunter, heropowering usually means, you are running a slower kind of deck, so Inspire should slow down the meta game a bit.
Looking forward to see more cards being revealed.
"Hi, not sure if you heard us, but did we mention TOTEMS??"
I want to hear the presenter laugh some more.
Good part : The new cards are awesome.
Inspire is great.
Bad part : Outside of a new mechanic, there really isn't any big or surprising news -= I was expecting a new play mode, new class, 2 v 2 , something ! =-.
Arena gives random packs now ? what a slap in the face !
I just want the random cards like piloted shredder to be phased out of existence by something that is actually fun.