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!
When I saw Boomsday I hoped for a second for a James Joyce / Ulysses themed expansion. Nope.
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I persevered through ALL the cringe!
Educated guess:
Regular preorder $39.99
Mega preorder $69.99
60$ mega pls
It's $49.99 and $79.99. I was hoping for at least a $69.99 mega bundle, but I guess since you can buy both they aren't too willing to go below $1/pack. However, WW was $49.99 for 70 packs... so giving a sub $1/pack price on the mega bundle wouldn't be so bad in terms of their profit margin, right?!
add another 10 or 20 to those totals and you're right.
small one is almost 60 USD and big one is almost 80 USD.
EDIT: I've already been on the Blizard store to check them out.
At least they can be gifted though, so maybe theres a chance I can win one on a twitch stream or something.
TL:DR for those who cant watch the vid are:
Legendary spells
Keyword: Magnetic (combines stats and effects of mech minions)
And omega type cards (cards that gain extra effects at 10mana crystals)
A new MEGA pre-order bundle comes with a new warlock hero MECHA-JARAXXUS. You got me on that one Blizzard..
The additional 30 cards in the bundle doesn't hurt, either!
There we go, expansion as expected. Time to save gold peeps
How much the bundles will cost?
That comedy was painfully forced...
Have you ever watched Beakman's World? I think the video is heavily based on the style that kind of shows had during the time.
Even then, the delivery was still incredibly stilted, even if they wanted the cheesy material.
probably 50 for normal pre-oder and 80 for the MECHA_JURAXXUS pre-order
How can you be so stupid, Markir?
Free to play. Facts: You can play for free, stupid kid (and also poor)
Dr. Boom its back!
You mean the Boomsday site? Considering that this was a leak and we're not supposed to know anything yet it would be weird if the site was online already.
I didn't write the post so I can't say why it had 'revealed' in it (that has been changed already, it seems). And that Blizz quote is just the text under the video in Youtube. We'll probably get an official blog at some point today(?) and when that happens the site should go live.