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Artifact

Also known as Artifact, a, artifact

Artifact now features two games: Artifact Classic, the original Dota 2 trading card game, and Artifact Foundry, a special edition with streamlined gameplay, new cards, new single-player content, and an improved new player experience.

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StorePublished 11 Mar 2021

Artifact Foundry is now Generally Available

Although we made Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry free alongside our announcements about those games last week and put them both on the same store page, the button to install or play Artifact Foundry didn't work (i…

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March 2021
Artifact Classic and Artifact FoundryArtifact Classic and Artifact Foundry are two versions of the digital card game originally named Artifact, developed through a collaboration between Valve and renowned designer Richard Garfield. Artifact was designed as…Event6 changesGameplayBalance04 Mar 2021
The Future of ArtifactArtifact, the Dota 2 card game, shipped in November of 2018. Despite good initial sales, our player count fell off pretty dramatically. This warranted a shift from the service/update development model we'd planned to a…Event7 changesBalanceCompatibility04 Mar 2021
Patch Notes 3/4/2021This patch is a part of a larger update to both Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry (formerly Artifact Beta 2.0). See the full announcement here and an explanation of Artifact Classic vs Artifact Foundry here. Economy…Event12 changesFixCompatibility04 Mar 2021
May 2020
The Beta Begins!We’ve sent out the first round of invites! All invited players should immediately see Artifact Beta 2.0 on their accounts. We will keep you updated on additional invites (no timeline yet!), and will continue to work to…Announcement2 changesCompatibility25 May 2020
We are happy to announce that we are moving to the next phase of the Beta! The Beta for the original game started too late and was too short. We’ve decided to approach things a bit differently this time around by gradua…v2.013 changesCompatibilityMapsPatch notes18 May 2020
Welcome back to another round of shop talk! After our last blog post we received a lot of email which made it clear that people still had questions about the specific functioning of the new shop. A lack of clarity in ou…24 changesGameplayUI/audioStore11 May 2020
Before we get into the blog, we wanted to share the results of last week’s poll. Arc Warden was the front-runner right out of the gate – his lead seemed insurmountable. Slow and steady, though, Nyx started to creep up.…23 changesGameplayWorkshopStore04 May 2020
April 2020
This week we wanted to talk a bit more about the heroes in Artifact. These have been viewed as one of the strengths in the original game, but also as one of the missed opportunities. The most common concerns we hear are…6 changesGameplayBalanceStore27 Apr 2020
Mechanics!This one came in hot so please forgive any gram badder, who would have guessed that doing all this remotely would be so hard? Anyway, let’s get to it! Initiative The initiative rules haven't changed much, but the implic…Event15 changesGameplayBalance20 Apr 2020
Deployment Deep DiveI have some good news, some more good news, and some bad news. The good news is that after our previous post, we received a deluge of emails. More good news - it’s high quality feedback that people have clearly spent a…Announcement4 changesFixGameplay13 Apr 2020
Looking Forward, Looking BackWhen the members of the team decided to reboot Artifact we all did it for different reasons. Some of us loved the original game and wanted to see it thrive. Some of us liked the freeing sense of creativity you can have…Announcement5 changesFixGameplay06 Apr 2020

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