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