2/15/2019 9:18:44 PM

PATCH NOTES V0.13


Features & Bug Fixes

  • Added level up rewards. Extended player leveling to 100. Pick up your level up rewards in the level panel (player profile page 3)

  • Store

    • Increased starter bundle availability to 7 days

  • Arena mode is now re-enabled

  • Puzzle mode

    • We’re testing another way to learn about keywords and challenge your knowledge of mechanics

  • Brawl mode

    • Quickly challenge the AI without having to jump in a PvP queue

    • Brawl games can be suspended

  • Story

    • Added voice acting

    • Custom music in many scenes (more to come next release)

    • Art touch up

  • New turn timer:

    • Start with 75s (1v1) or 90s (2v2)

    • Bank up to 10s each turn when you end turn early (up to a max of 2x total time)

    • Pauses for disconnect (up to a limit)

    • Pauses for out-of-turn decisions

    • Out-of-turn decisions have a separate 20s timer

  • Disconnect timer

    • Players auto-concede if they use up their “disconnect” time

  • Deck manager

    • Deck stats

    • Click stats for detailed win/loss breakdown

    • Fixed a bug that could invalidate decks when getting single card rewards

  • Deck editor / Collection

    • Mythics are now 500 for unmake / 2500 to make

    • You can now craft from the deck side of the editor

    • Fixed a case where the artifact bar in the deck histogram would be off screen

    • New count plates for cards

    • Fixed a bug in the tutorial popups for the vertical deck editor

    • Fix for essence count in crafting panel being incorrect when zooming/unzooming quickly while crafting

    • Fix for “ghosted” counts when closing modal card filter

  • Player Profile

    • Pips can now be clicked to change page

    • Now properly handles touch pad interaction

  • Ranked

    • Fixed a bug in ranked ladder that would show M10 players as M0

  • Combat

    • New emote menu

    • Zooming / unzooming boneyard should no longer reverse the display order of its cards

  • Gauntlet

    • Gauntlet mobs now select card backs

  • Daily Missions & Achievements

    • Cue is now cleared upon collecting all your missions

    • The “Quick Match” daily mission can now be completed if you win by your 7th turn as stated

    • Removed placeholder FFA achievements

  • Replays

    • Exiting a game replay should return to the correct interface

    • Fixed a bug preventing some games from being replayed

  • Social

    • Fixed social state not getting saved

  • Ongoing main menu UI polishing

  • Gameplay

    • Seal of Exile correctly banishes minions with the same name, regardless of whether they have different token art (like Sovereign Architect Imps and Earthslide Elementals) or were generated by other cards (like Godsbane Transport or Melinoë, Soul Shepherd)

    • Seal of Exile now properly updates known cards when banishing a card from a player’s library

    • Enyo, Murder’s Muse and Stormdottir’s Chosen fixed to no longer proc when enchantments die

    • When presenting boneyard cards for targeting via spells such as Bald Mountain, the cards are now correctly presented with the top-most card to the left

    • Fixed Blood Dolls awaken to affect allied vampires in range in 2v2

    • Tailroot Wurm and Boneyard Abomination fixed to interact correctly with Incubation Chamber

    • Fixed the “strength is 0” effect from Temple at Delphi to be unsuppressable (like it is on Amnesia)

    • Raziel, Keeper of Secrets energy loss fixed to count only your opponent’s draws (instead of both enemy players)

    • Fixed Twin Blanque and Twin Junah buffs to work correctly with suppression and across battle lines

    • Fixed Garden of Iriy and To Heaven and Back to function as described even when the occupying minion is suppressed

    • Scion of Pride now properly takes damage from spirits when suppressed

    • Brísing Necklace is now correctly restricted to enchantments

    • Fixed a bug where a Mardykhor dying at the end of the turn while on a desert could lock the game

    • Matryoshka no longer gains a new action when stacked

    • Fixed a bug where suppressed minions could gain additional abilities

    • Fixed incorrect charge display on cards in the boneyard

Known Issues

  • The Social panel is currently under heavy development, with lots of placeholder functionality

  • Bots cannot currently queue up with players via the “Match with AI challengers” check box in 2v2

  • The death decal from center lane minions can sometimes ghost ride the whip toward your boneyard (spooky)

  • Traitorous Murmur appears to have a nerf in the card text that it doesn’t actually have (no card is awarded, this was leftover text from a test version of the card)
  • Some of your decks may be incorrectly invalidated when receiving individual card rewards (if this happens, you may need to make a trivial edit to the deck and re-save it)

Player Life

Average pvp game times are a little longer than ideal, partly because the longer players live, the more turns their paths have to generate small amounts of life. With most of them switching over to a flat starting life bonus, we’ll no doubt need to collect more data and make further adjustments to individual paths.

  • Starting life baseline lowered from 25 to 20

  • Path interactions with life have been adjusted

    • Disk of Circadia:

      • +6 starting life

      • Removed 1 life gain when flipping to day side

    • Fires of Creation:

      • +8 starting life

      • Changed Forge Elemental Demise from gain life to damage opponent

    • Journey of Souls:

      • +5 starting life

      • Removed 2 life gain when resurrecting a minion

    • Rainbow’s End:

      • +3 starting life

      • Removed 1 life gain when casting an enchantment

    • Turn of Seasons:

      • +2 starting life

      • Retains the 2 life gain when becoming Spring

Cards/Tuning

  • Behemoth Spawn (created by Behemoth)

    • SIZE: 3/3 → 6/3


  • Beimeni Falls

    • HEAL: When you create a minion in this lane, gain 3 life → 2 life


  • Belovode

    • COST: 5[G]GG → 5[G]G


  • Chort Stag

    • ABILITY: Reduces damage taken in combat to 3 → 2


  • Dark Passenger

    • COST: 3[O]O → 2[O]O


  • Dire Benediction

    • SPELL: Give a minion +2/+0 and 'Sacrifice at end of turn unless it attacked or was just created' → Cast on a minion to deal damage to the player opposing it equal to the minion's strength, then it has 0 strength


  • Einherjar Thane

    • ABILITY: Fully heals whenever another minion dies → Fully heals whenever an enemy minion dies


  • Forge Elemental (added to hand by the Fires of Creation path)

    • DEMISE: You are granted 1 life → Deal 1 damage to your opponent

See Player Life section for more context.


  • Forked Lightning

    • COST: 2[B] → 3[B]

    • SPELL: Deal 2 damage to the occupant of a lane and 1 damage to adjacent lanes → Deal 3 damage to the occupant of a lane and 2 damage to adjacent lanes


  • Freki Sidecar

    • COST: 3[B] → 3[B]B


  • The Giant’s Stairway

    • COST: 4[B] → 4[B]B


  • Herald of Death

    • REMOVED: 1🗲 and When an enemy minion dies, +1🗲

    • DEMISE: Deal damage to your opponent and all enemy minions equal to 🗲 → Deal damage to your opponent and all enemy minions equal to strength

Swapping the scaling fantasy away from raw time spent on the board and toward being more interactive with other cards.


  • Hyperborean

    • SIZE: 5/7 → 6/8

    • ABILITY: Armor 1 → Piercing

    • NEW: Overrun


  • Ice Spike

    • COST: 2[B]B → 2[B]


  • Koschei, the Deathless

    • COST: 5[G]GG → 5[G]G

    • ULTIMATE: -8🗲@ → -6🗲@: Destroy all other minions


  • Kushiel the Unforgiving

    • SIZE: 4/10 → 5/10


  • Lavish Proxy

    • SIZE: 3/4 → 4/5


  • Mandatory Vigor

    • SPELL: Deal 2 damage to one of your minions and restore action to it → Give one of your minions -2/-0 until end of turn and restore action to it

Quickly learning that the lower a cantrip’s cost goes, the greater our scrutiny needs to be. Goal here is to broaden the range of minions that can be… “encouraged” while highlighting the spell’s utility over raw offensive momentum.


  • Mend (power)

    • NAME: Rejuvenate → Mend

It was surprisingly tricky to talk about powers without tripping over the verbal difference between this and Reanimate.


  • Ollama Ring

    • RARITY: Uncommon → Rare

Swapping rarities with Pandemic to better reflect impact and desirability.


  • Pandemic

    • COST: 3[Y] → 2[Y]

    • RARITY: Rare → Uncommon

Rarity swapped with Ollama Ring to better reflect desirability and impact.


  • Pillage

    • RARITY: Rare → Mythic

A nod to the actual game impact being a bit closer to Traitorous Murmur when poaching key artifacts.


  • Sandscape

    • NAME: Sandscaping → Sandscape

    • COST: 3[O] → 2[O]

    • TYPE: Desert Spell → Desert Enchantment

    • ABILITY: Enchant three of your adjacent lanes with Deserts that deal 1 damage to your opponent when attacking into them → Awaken: Enchants adjacent lanes with Deserts unless they’re already enchanted.


  • Solomon’s Gale

    • SIZE: 3/5 → 4/6


  • Twin Blanque

    • ABILITY: Both twins get Overrun and Regen 1… → Regen 3


  • Twin Junah

    • ABILITY: Both twins get Overrun and Regen 1… → Regen 3


  • Verdant Jungle

    • REWORK: You have ❶ additional maximum mana → While occupied, you have ❶ additional maximum mana

    • GROWTH: Occupying minion gets ‘@: Gain ❶ temporary mana’ → When you create a minion in this lane, gain ❶ temporary mana


  • Vibrant Quetzal

    • AWAKEN: You are granted 3 life → 2 life


  • Zolea, the Unclean

    • COST: 4[Y]Y → 5[Y]Y

    • ULTIMATE: -5🗲@ → -6🗲@: You are branded with ‘At the end of your opponent’s turn they lose 5 life’