Feb 27, 2025 Patch Notes

Cards & Gameplay Changes

• Reworked how relic acquisition works

  • Removed the rotating relic shop

  • Added 80 guide quests to earn each dual faction relic

• All Units now behave as though they have the “Thief” keyword. This keyword has been removed from all cards.

  • To promote a more dynamic and engaging mini game around victory points.

• Removed Signature keyword from all cards.

  • This was not signalled well to players and led to confusion in deck building

• Many cards have had their leveling curves adjusted such that no cards should have spread values at max level

• Units standing on a spawning Victory or Mana Crystals will no longer be stunned.

  • An unnecessary and poorly signalled nuance that tripped players up

• Experiments to reduce average match time

  • All Commanders have had their base HP reduced by around 10%,

  • All Commanders have had their leveling curve adjusted to adjust for lower starting life

  • Players now start with 2 mana on their first turn.

  • Players’ Deployment Zone size increased to all Low Ground within 4 tiles of the Commander’s starting tile

  • No Man’s Land size decreased to include all tiles at least 1 space away from either player’s Deployment Zone

  • Victory Crystals spawn with 2 HP instead of 3.

  • Victory Crystals now spawn more frequently.

• Removed Hold to End Turn functionality

  • This will be reevaluated when a broader look at the gameplay HUD occurs.

Card-Specific Changes

• Changes based on player feedback and internal playtesting intended to smooth to create a larger variety of viable strategies and reduce the strength of the most powerful strategies.

• Artifacts

  • Artifacts tend to clutter the board. Each artifact received a tuning pass to be higher impact and persist for less time.

  • Blightspore Seedling

    • Increase poison stacks applied from 1 to 2

    • Increase self damage from 2 to 3

    • Reduce base health to 6

    • Updated leveling curve

  • Lifespring Seedling

    • Increase healing from 2->3

    • Increase self damage from 1 to 4

    • Updated leveling curve

  • Inspiring Banner

    • Increase damage taken to 2. Increase buff given to adjacent melee units by 1.

    • Increase HP

  • Pile of Tomes

    • Increase damage taken from 1 to 3.

    • Increase HP.

• Baffling presence

  • Replaced thief with damage shield at level 7

• Devoted Curate

  • HP reduced from 8 to 6

• Distorter

  • Added Brutal

• Extinguish the Unworthy

  • Now requires line of sight

  • Reduce health gain from 4 to 3

  • Updated leveling curve

• Flux

  • Reduce cost 1 to 0

• Cannonneer

  • Cost reduced to 7

• Gravity Surge

  • Reduced cost 5 to 4

  • Deals 5 damage to all affected targets instead of being different between main target and adjacent targets

  • Updated wording

• Hollow Fae

  • Added Venomous: 3

  • Changed to Hit: When this attacks a poisoned enemy, this deals 2x damage

• Kindle

  • No longer gives Sluggish or requires adjacency

• Knuckleduster

  • Durability reduced to 2.

  • Now adds +1 Armor

  • Updated leveling curve

• Mind Melter

  • Added Brutal

• Nanobots

  • Increase damage dealt from 3 to 6

  • Increase healing done from 2 to 8

  • Updated leveling curve

• Pawnbroker

  • Added Venomous

• Pebbleborn

  • Removed all keywords at level 1

  • Updated leveling curve

  • Gains minion at level 3

• Phase Attuned Gauntlet

  • Now adds +2 Armor, +1 Attack.

  • Updated leveling curve

• Precise detonation

  • No longer targets Crystals, now only targets Boulders.

  • Increase damage from 7 to 9

• Queensguard Dog

  • Added Brutal

• Rankbreaker

  • Added Brutal

• Relics

  • Creepy blood doll

    • Increase healing to 3.

    • Add restriction that it only triggers when an ally kills something

  • Gravel Chitin:

    • Change to only trigger on playing a unit.

    • Remove references to boulders.

  • Lodestone amulet

    • Updated leveling curve

  • Portal Map

    • Increase HP gain from 1 to 3.

    • Updated leveling curve

• Roar: Immobilize

  • Changed to: Your commander gets +Attack this turn. Stun random adjacent enemy(s) until your next turn.

  • Remove the cost threshold for making it permanent, always lasts this turn.

• Rock Crusher

  • Increased movement to 3.

  • Increased attack, reduced hp/armor.

  • Changed to: This can only be deployed on boulders. Destroys the boulder

• Silverwing

  • Added Damage Shield

• Soul Shifter

  • Added Damage Shield

• Spark of genius:

  • Changed to always grant +attack.

  • Reduced +attack to 3.

• Spark Treader

  • Cost reduced 6 to 4

  • Attack reduced 9 to 8

  • Health reduced 12 to 10

• Starfall Templar

  • Warcry damage reduced 3 to 2

  • Updated leveling curve

• Stormbell Adept

  • Added Brutal

• Strip mine

  • Updated leveling curve

• Valiant Class Mech

  • Removed armor restriction for +attack

• Mobius Greaves

  • Reduced mana gain per turn by 1

• Weavebreaker

  • Added Knockback

• Zephyr Monk

  • Added Brutal

Bug Fixes and Changes

• Fixed an issue with Wind Step’s knockback effect stacking

• Updated many Daily/Weekly/Seasonal Quests

• Redesigned Card Collection and Deck Builder UI

• Daily quests requirements have been reduced to play 4 games for all rewards. Additionally check out the news tab for a free 5000 battle pass XP