#Battlegrounds

Hearthstone's Reign of the Black Empire Arrives October 20 — Monk Class Follows in March 2027

Blizzard's BlizzCon 2026 Hearthstone roadmap: the Reign of the Black Empire expansion and Assemble keyword on October 20, Battlegrounds Aberrations on September 22, and the Monk class — which Blizzard calls the first new class in six years, though Death Knight actually launched more recently, in December 2022 — in March 2027.