Hearthstone's next expansion will add one of the most requested classes to the game at last. March of the Lich King will include 145 new cards, alongside 68 new Death Knight cards to define the new class. The core Death Knight cards will be added for free for all players, while the rest of the new cards will be obtainable through packs.
That's not the only big new addition to the card pool. March of the Lich King will introduce Signature cards, a new level of rarity that includes special card art. Each expansion will include its own look for the Signature cards. You can't craft or disenchant them. March of the Lich King will include 18 Signature cards.
The new Death Knight's cards look very different than the norm, too, thanks to one of its unique mechanics. Death Knights use a special Rune system to determine their special abilities from three types: Blood, Frost, or Unholy. Each rune takes up one of three slots, letting you build 10 different combinations. For example, you could slot in two Blood and one Frost rune, letting you use Level 2 Blood spells and Level 1 Frost spells. Or you could place Blood in all three Rune slots to use the most powerful Blood spells, but you'd be unable to use any Frost or Unholy spells.
The Death Knight will also have a unique corpse counter, which acts as a resource for some spells. Every time a minion dies it adds another body to the Lich King's corpses, which can then be tapped to cast your abilities.
March of the Lich King is coming on December 6, with card reveals scheduled to come regularly until the release date. Preorders are now available for March of the Lich King bundles. In the lead-up to the launch, Blizzard has brought back all of the cards from the previous Death Knight-themed expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne. You can also login now to claim a free card from the upcoming expansion, the neutral legendary spell The Sunwell, which you can put into your decks now.
You can check out all of the cards we've seen so far below.
Acolyte of Death
Army of the Dead
Battlefield Necromancer
Blood Boil
Dark Transformation
Patchwerk
Corpse Explosion
Vampiric Blood
Defrost
Plague Strike
Deal with a Devil
Nerubian Flyer
Frostwyrm's Fury
Glacial Advance
Gnome Muncher
Graveyard Shift
Horn of Winter
Arcane Quiver
Icy Touch
Lord Marrowgar
Arcane Defenders
Arcane Bolt
Infected Peasant
Street Sweeper
Bone Flinger
Sunfury Clergy
Silvermoon Sentinel
The Sunwell
Invincible
Lor'themar Theron
Scourge Rager
Obliterate
Overseer Frigidara
For Quel'Thalas!
Blood Matriarch Liadrin
Unliving Champion
Skeletal Sidekick
Silverfury Stalwart
Embers of Strength
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