Hearthstone’s Goblins vs. Gnomes cards now available in Arena mode

Blizzard isn’t releasing the next expansion for its online card battler until next week, but it’s letting you mess around with some of the cards right now.

All 120 new cards that are coming Monday in the Goblins vs. Gnomes expansion for Hearthstone are now available in its Arena mode. This is the draft that costs real-money or in-game gold to participate in, and it lets you build a temporary deck that you lose access to as soon as you lose three matches. This move gives you a chance to see how some of the cards work before plunking down the cash to buy them next week. Hearthstone is in the top 100 highest-grossing apps on iPad, but it has fallen off the download charts completely, and this add-on should give it a bump.