Hearthstone adding Battlegrounds, an Auto Chess-ish mode
Blizzard announced the next Hearthstone expansion, Descent Of Dragons, today at BlizzCon. It’ll add new cards with new abilities – the usual expansion stuff. More curiously, Blizzard also announced Hearthstone: Battlegrounds, a new mode they say is inspired by the Auto Chess. Y’know, the burgeoning genre which began as the Dota 2 mod Dota Auto Chess and has already spawned Valve’s Dota Underlords and the League Of Legends mode Teamfight Tactics. That is not what I expected when I first heard the word “Battlegrounds” on the stream.