Hearthstone’s Special Announcement Liveblog (Whispers of the Old Gods)!

Well, the cat might already be out of the back because we’ve gotten a lot of leaks in the last couple of days that Whispers of the Old Gods will be Hearthstone’s next expansion. So, unless Blizzard has pulled the biggest flimflam on us ever, we should see the official unveiling of that today. We should also get to see cards from the set, and maybe we’ll hear the actual release date, because based on the leaks it will be late April or early May, which is still a long ways out. The meta is super stale right now, let alone the meta basically two months from now.

If you want to see the announcement live then check out Hearthstone’s Twitch at 10:00AM PST! If you won’t be able to watch, but want to keep up with the announcements then check out below as I will be posting all of the relevant information.

After the liveblog is over, check out these pages for all things Whispers of the Old Gods!

Hearthstone’s Special Announcement Liveblog

Stay tuned, the announcement will be at 10:00AM PST!

Announcement Information

  • Announcement is over, but they’ll be releasing new cards throughout the Americas Winter Championship!
  • You can pre-purchase 50 packs on Monday with the new patch! You get a free Card Back if you pre-purchase.
  • Opening your first pack gives you C’Thun for free – and you get three free packs for logging in!
  • New Card: C'Thun – 10 Mana 6/6 – Battlecry: Deal damage equal to this minion’s Attack randomly split among all enemies.
  • New Card: Twilight Elder
  • New Card: Beckoner of Evil
  • 16 Cultist cards that interaction with C’Thun
  • New Cultist minions buff C’Thun on the board, hand, or deck
  • C’Thun is the most insidious of the 4 gods.
  • 4 old gods, each is a legendary minion.
  • New Card: Validated Doomsayer
  • Doomsayer has been corrupted!
  • New Card: Corrupted Healbot
  • Antique Healbot has also been corrupted!
  • New Card: Polluted Hoarder
  • The old gods have corrupted cards we know of now, e.g. Loot Hoarder into Polluted Hoarder
  • 134 new cards – release late april / early may
  • Whispers of the Old Gods officially announced!
  • Here comes the trailer!
  • Here comes talk about the new expansion, and how there’s been hooded figures coming into the inn.
  • New deck recipes coming in patch as well as more search functionality.
  • New patch brings 9 more deck slots!
  • Patching on Monday – with the patch showing a preview of the new interface.
  • Starting off with some talk about how Standard is going to change the game.
  • Here we go!!!
  • 5 minutes and the hype is increasing to maximum levels!
  • 10 minutes to go and I’m starting to get nervous!
  • We’re 30 minutes away from the big announcement, buckle your seatbelts!

Announcement Screenshots

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C’Thun Animation

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Check out more screenshots after the jump! 

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