For about a month now, Blizzard have been teasing that something big was coming to Hearthstone. It started with a set of scrolls being delivered to a number of different places, inviting them to a special ‘challenge’. The Hearthstone Twitter also began tweeting out references to ‘Champions’, which led people to begin guessing what the new thing was going to be.

Well, the announcement happened during a livestream from Blizzard’s Hearthstone Twitch, live from a Fireside Gathering in San Francisco and just as many guessed it’s a proper expansion akin to Goblins vs Gnomes. Called The Grand Tournament, it is themed around the successor to the WoW lore’s Argent Tournament with noble knights and whacky warriors of all shapes, sizes and species gathering for a friendly and fun filled tournament to prove they are the best at their fighting craft.

The expansion will introduce over 130 new cards, around fifteen which were described in the announcement presentation or we got to see in action through playtests between top Hearthstone players Trump, Amaz and world champion Firebat. Those cards are as follows:

Looking over those cards you’ll see a new keyword effect in the vein of Battlecry or Taunt that some cards can have – Inspire. Inspire’s effect triggers when the player of that card uses their Hero Power, and in fact a lot of cards for The Grand Tournament aim to play with your Hero Power making it more useful in different situations.

As with previous expansions, it also comes with a new playing board themed to it and new packs, with a pre-purchase running now to purchase 50 packs before the big release at a discounted rate to obtain a new exclusive cardback for pre-purchasing. You won’t be able to open those packs until the expansion actually releases of course, but it’ll give you quite the starting point.

When is this big release though? Blizzard didn’t give us an actual date during the stream, but they did say that it was to be released next month. So prepare yourselves for a tournament unlike any other, because it’s coming soon!