Update 1 PM EDT: Added more info from the official blog post.
The Boomsday Project is Hearthstone's Next Expansion
The second Hearthstone expansion for Year of the Raven has been announced and five new cards have been revealed.
- The expansion launches on August 7!
- New Keyword: Magnetic - Played by themselves or can attach to a Mech minion to add on their health, attack, and ability.
- Projects are new spell cards with extremely powerful effects, but they help both players.
- Omega Project - These cards are normal, but have a Battlecry that works when you have 10 Mana Crystals.
- There will be legendary spells, such as one that draws your entire deck!
- We're getting a new Warlock Hero - MECHA JARAXXUS!
- Warriors are getting a new Dr. Boom as a Legendary playable hero (at least that's what it appears to be in the video).
- Logging in after the expansion launches gives you 3 card packs and a random legendary minion from the set.
Puzzle Lab
When you experience The Boomsday Project’s free single-player content, The Puzzle Lab, you’ll discover that science is fun! And dangerous! Not necessarily in that order!
You’ll need to get your security clearance before you can gain access to these secrets, though. The Puzzle Lab will become available starting August 21.
New Cards
More cards will be revealed starting on July 23!
Pre-orders
There are two different pre-orders, a Hearthstone first. You're able to buy both if you want the value!
Normal Pre-order
- 50 card packs
- A random golden legendary
- The Mecha Jaraxxus card back
MEGA BUNDLE
- Everything in the normal pre-order plus
- 30 additional card packs (80 total)
- Mecha Jaraxxus Warlock Hero
New Gameboard
Reveal Video
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LEARN MORE about The Boomsday Project at: http://www.theboomsdayproject.com
The Boomsday Project card reveal livestream will begin at 10:00 am PST on July 23 at twitch.tv/playhearthstone.
Pre-purchase The Boomsday Project to receive a 50 card pack bundle, a random Golden Legendary card from The Boomsday Project, and the Mecha-Jaraxxus card back! PLUS, you can also pre-purchase the new MEGA BUNDLE, which features an 80 card pack bundle, a random Golden Legendary card from The Boomsday Project, the Mecha-Jaraxxus card back, and a new Warlock Hero: MECHA-JARAXXUS!
Get both the pre-purchase AND the MEGA BUNDLE for double the value!
For a limited time, log-in after The Boomsday Project launches for three card packs and a random Class legendary minion card from The Boomsday Project!
The Boomsday Project releases August 7 2018 PST!
I can get them in Germany, so certainly not US only.
OMEGALUL Defender not mech wtf?
Yeah 50 Euro for 50 packs and 80 Euro for 80 packs. No thanks. How much greedier can you get?
Dave's acting ability improves from trailer to trailer :)
That is not how statistic works, my friend. The average value of each pack is about 102.5 dust if i remember correctly. Which means you have average value of 102.5 dust opening pack in any given moment. Statistical average is very opposite of "luck".
Mean and Median are both valid ways of calculating average
No, it's not. It is, but it isn't.
100 dust/pack only holds true when you factor in golden legendaries and lucky streaks with a high number of legendaries and golden epics, which heavily raise the average amount per pack. In other words, you need above average results to get your average number, but across several hundred or thousand packs, these rare cases occur often enough for the number to stay consistently high. If you open 16 packs right now, the chance is very high that you will average something around 70 or 80 dust per pack.
I just hope we got a neutral chickenmorph (like in the video) in this expansion :3
Amazon coins are US only, last time I checked
Mech Mage is still strong right now if you play below the 10 ceiling. I am really stoked about new mechs!
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Oh boy, oh boy...
From expansion to expansion they are getting price higher and higher.
Though, I can afford buy both bundles, i'm not quite sure it's the right choice.
I see that Dave Kosak is trying hard but I really missed Ben Brode in the videos.
When Ben Brode do the intro video, he just seems so natural in doing it.
So if you play the Omega dude at 10 mana crystals, are you using 4 mana or 10 mana?
4 mana of course. Basic "if" condition; it doesn't say spend 10 mana.
is it a legendary minion from the set you are getting? or a legendary card? cause then the variety is quite smaller it's about 8 class legendaries (warrior has a playable hero, that's for sure), and 4-5 neutral legendaries.
"Starting to see"?
well... it's collectible card game... so...
D'aw, Mecha Jaraxxus even has a voice line for when you use Renounce Darkness... "Darkness, DELETED!"
looks cool, and excited to see more cards... but no more $ from me for a while on this game. I’ll just keep playing with the saved gold. It would probably take 3-4 normal bundles or 2-3 mega bundles to get a complete collection for one of 3-4 expansions per year. Not sure where / how blizzard thinks spending $500-$1000 per year on cards that have at max a 2 year cycle to them before moving to a largely under-utilized forum (Wild) is sustainable. Starting to really see this as a huge money grab, as the past couple of expansions have been largely crap with regard to content in my opinion. I get the card backs, however don’t really see the allure to them other than collection. They have no value to me in any bundle, and coupling in a hero skin seems pretty scammy to me as well.
game is still fun to me... just tired of spending money on it at this point. I think I actually prefer just watching others play on twitch now in lieu of paying / playing myself....
Not to mention how fast these expansions die out.
If it was deep enough like magic, we'd play for months for new strategy.
In hearthstone, people find the best decks in 2-weeks. :/