Rastakhan’s Rumble Hearthstone Expansion Releases Today!
Rastakhan’s Rumble came out today to the thrill and enjoyment of the Hearthstone community! Rastakhan’s Rumble is the newest addition to the Hearthstone universe and will feature 135 new cards to the game. The expansion features new loa based legendary minions and even class-based champions!
The theme of the expansion follows the storyline of the trolls and utilizes Loa Spirits, Wild Gods, spiritual voodoo, and other elements to make the game unique. When players log into the game, they will be greeted with 6 new free card packs and can opt to purchase 2 packs from $2.99 to 60 packs at $69.99.
There are two different bundle packs available for this expansion through the in-game Hearthstone shop:
Challengers Bundle
- 17 card packs
- Card Back: Ready to Rumble!
Rumble Bundle
- 50 card packs
- Card Back: Ready to Rumble!
- King Rastakhan Shaman Hero
Rastakhan’s Rumble New Features
- Legendary Champions for all nine classes – Each class gets a new powerful legendary champion that specializes in a different fighting style.
- Loa Minions for all nine classes – These are new legendary minions based on the powerful Wild Gods that troll’s worship. They are very powerful and unique for each class.
- Spiritual Synergy – There are now effects that allow special minions for each class to be imbued and “synergize” with other cards.
- Overkill – Overkill is the new effect added with this expansion that will reward players when dealing excess damage to an opponent. For example, a minion who is able to attack again after overkilling a minion.
- Rumble Run (Single Player Mode) – Rumble Run will have players choose a troll champion to climb the ranks. You can choose 1 of 3 troll champions to climb the ranks with and each has their own unique abilities, class, and minions.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
- There were some additional gaming-based improvements and bug fixes that were addressed in this expansion release.
- Different damage redirection effects can work with one another, but each will only occur once. The re-directed damage will be applied before modifiers are active and will only damage the final target once.
- Enchantment tiles will now use a square border
- Deathrattles that move a card to the deck without activating the other deathrattle effects should be fixed.
- Tracking will no longer make a card invisible when your hand is full
- Minor UI visual issues
- Single-player content had several interaction issues solved.
- Set watermarks will no longer appear on non-collectible cards.
- Undo button available now after disenchanting a Wild card while still in new player ranks.
- Legend rank in both Standard and Wild will now work appropriately. If the wild rank is higher it will be shown on the Quest Log and Friends List.
Summary
There are many new legendary minions and heroes available to all classes that will change the way that players set up their decks significantly. The main important addition to Hearthstone comes in the form of the new Overkill ability added to the game.
Overkill works by adding an additional effect upon dealing excess damage to an opponent. For example, if the opposing minion is 3/3 and attacked by a 4/4 minion with Overkill, the 3/3 minion would die, and the now 4/1 minion’s overkill effect will activate.
There were also the additions of new champion heroes to each of the classes that could be monumental to changing up what gets played this season. Based on the current meta decks that are popular, these champion cards could change everything.
We will have to just wait to see what champions and meta decks reign supreme this season.
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