We want to make the game more focused on the board and positioning of minions. This means nerfing some "answer or die" cards too since most of the removal is also nerfed.
Here're the full patch notes:
- Ranged minions attack range is now limited depending on the strength of the Ranged keyword. Most ranged minions are Ranged (2), some have more. Small stat increases have been givin to certain ranged minions.
- Widowmaker now has equipment (Blacksteel Glave) that gives Range (2)
- Ephemeral Shroud mana cost increased from 2 to 3 and attack from 1 to 2.
- Reworked Plasma Storm. It now gives all minions Grow -2/-2
- EMP openging gambit changed to Ability 0.
- Blood of air. Removed the increasing mana cost effect. Mana cost increased from 5 to 6.
- Reworked Unstable Leviathan. It is now a 5 mana 12/12 that has Grow -3/-3 wich cannot be dispelled.
- Bloodtide Priestess now only summons wraithlings adjacent. Attack increased from 3 to 4.
- New Keyword: Echo. When a card with Echo is played from your hand, a copy of that card is imediatly added to your hand but the Echo keyword is removed.
- Dauntless Advance, Blind Scorch, Auryn Nexus, Auroraboros gains Echo.
- Increased max hand size from 6 to 7.
- Reworked Huldra. It now costs 4 mana. It now has Ability 2: Return a minion to it's owners hand. It gains Echo.
- Mana cost of all wall tokens reduced from 1 to 0. Gravity Well, Luminous Charge, Bonechill Barrier, Blazing Spines.
- Chittering Tiller opening gambit changed to: "Opening Gambit and Ability 1: Teleport the enemy General one space.". Note that it is one space in any direction as opposed to before where it was one space forward.
- Aperions Claim reworked. It now costs 6 mana. Now creates 3x3 hallowed ground. At the end of your opponents next turn kills any enemy minion standing on hallowed ground.
- Twilight Sorcerer reworked. "When this minion enters play it learns your Bloodbound Spell It can then cast it as Ability 1.". Mana cost also reduced from 5 to 4.
- Nightsorrow assassin reworked. it is now a 6 mana for a 5/5 that has "This minions mana cost is reduced by 1 for each minion killed during your turn."
- Golden Justicar rewokred. It is now a 5 mana, 5/5. It now has equipment (Justicar's Bastion) that gives Provoke, +3 Health and +1 movement.
- Decorated Enlistee reworked. It now has +2 Attack for each friendly minion nearby it.
- Sandburrower reworked. it's effect now reads "At the end of it's owners turn this minion deals 1 damage to and stuns the enemy minion infront of it."
- Gatekeeper's movement restriction now cannot be dispelled.
- Silverguard Knight now only has Provoke when he has Zeal.
- Reworked Dreadnaught. It is now a 4 mana 7/7 with Rebirth. It cannot move and this cannot be disppeled. It has an 2 mana Ability that allows it to move 1 space that doesnt exhaust it.
- Reworked Soboro. It is now a 2 mana 4/4 that has Echo and Opening Gambit: lose one mana crystal.
- Reworked Whisper of the Sands: It now transforms all friendly wind dervishes into Sand Howlers. It also has Echo.
- Reworked Azure Summoning. it now reads "Summon the highest mana cost minion from your deck. It costs 2 less and it returns to your hand at the end of your next turn";
- Swarmking Scarab. Damage reduced from 5 to 2.
- Cassava Soulreapers BBS now deals it's one damage at the end of the turn instead of imediatly.
- Whenever a tile would have overwritten an tile belonging to the other player, they are both destroyed instead. A visual indicator was added for this.
- Echoing Shriek reworked. now reads "Create a minor summoning circle under each friendly minion that dies this turn". It also has Echo.
- Wind Sister Maria now gives her +1/+1 buff to any friendly minion summoned on the opponents side of the field instead of friendly minions with infiltrate (this includes herself)
- Sand Sister Saon now gives your general Armour in addition to the +1 Attack.
- Juggernaut. Grow reduced from 5 to 2.
- Reworked wanderlust and changed name to Silent Intensity. for 1 mana. "Give a friendly minion +4 Attack during your opponents turn.". It also has Echo.
- Lionize. manacost reduced from 5 to 4. can now target any friendly minion (as opposed to friendly minion behind your genereal), but the minion cannot attack this turn.
- Skullprophet now gives your General +1 Attack in addition to taking 1 Attack away from the enemy General.
- Radiant Dragoon now gives a friendly random minion +2 health instead of +1. It also prioritizes the minion infront of it.
- Angered Okkadok, stats reduced to 0/1 from 1/2. intensify increased to +2/+2, up from +1/+1
- Spellshield now also blocks the Ability keyword from targeting an enemy minion. (It still wont block other minion effects like Opening Gambit)
- Reworked Dragonlark. it is now a 2 mana 0/2 with Celerity but it cant attack or counterattack. It creates Eruptive Eggs when it moves.
- Reworked Matron Elveiti. It is now a 5 mana 5/6. It has Infiltrate: All friendly minions on the oppoenents starting side gain +1/+1 at the end of each turn.
- Reworked Denadoro. It now reads. Infiltrate: Your General has Infiltrate: +1 Attack and Force Field.
- Reworked Lighting Blitz. It now has Echo and reads: Move an enemy minion up to 4 spaces backwards.
- Shadowcreep now does 3 damage instead of 1 but it now triggers at the end of the opponents turn instead of the end of your turn.
- Abyssal Crawler will now prioritize the space in front if there is no tile on it.
- Abyssal Juggernaut now read. This minion has +2/+2 for each Shadow Creep nearby it at the start of the turn.
- Abyssal Tormentor reworked. it now reads: At the end of your turn, each nearby friendly Shadow Creep that has open space becomes a 3/2 Shadow Creeper.
- Kindling and Owlbeast sage now only affects nearby frienly arcanysts
- Maehv Skinsoldier BBS now longer deals damage to herself.
- Painfull pluck can now target any tile (that doesnt have influence on it) instead of being random.
- Scioness Sajj's BBS now also reduces all damage she takes this turn by 2.
- Shidai Stormblossom BBS changed to Murasame. Murasame now changes your BBS to Kiyomori, Kiyomori to Kotetsu, Kotetsu to Tonahashi and Tanahashi back to Murasame. Aditionally all the spellswords can now be replaced.
- Alabaster Titan is now 8 mana 4/6 instead of 7 mana 5/7.
- Ayamara Healer no longer deals damage when she dies.
- Boneswarm changed to deal damage around your General instead of around the enemy General.
- Gold Vitriol now only triggers from healing originating from a friendly source.
- Sunforge Lancer. Bonus damage Given to General is now an aura (Meaning the bonus damage will be lost if the Sungorge Lancer dies or gets dispelled etc. In addition the effect will only trigger on healing originating from a friendly source.
- Sunriser's effect now only triggers from healing originating from a friendly source.
- Sunrise Cleric. Health reduced from 3 to 2.
- Grandmaster Kraigon: Reduced the grow on itself and your General from +7/+7 to +2/+2.
- Makantor Warbeast: Health reduced from 4 to 2.
- Mist Dragon Seal bonus stats reduced from +1/+1 to +1/+0.
- Proginitor now targets up to 2 friendly minions instead of working on all friendly minions.
- Ragebinder attack reduced from 3 to 2.
- Ragnora the Relentless BBS. Rippers no longer have celerity but they may move 2 additional spaces.
- Astral Phasing. A minion affected by Astral Phasing can no longer damage Generals.
- Kinematic Projection. A minion affected by Kinematic Projection can no longer damage Generals.
- Reworked Darkspine Elemental. It now reads: Opening Gambit and Ability 0: Relocate up to 2 shadow creep.
- Kolosus. Grow reduced from +4/+4 to +3/+3.
- Moloki Huntress. Now only affects nearby friendly minions.
- Oropsisaur. Now only affects nearby friendly minions.
- Coalfist reworked. It now has Ability 1: Friendly minions in a 2x2 area gain +3 Attack until the start of your next turn.
- Reworked Twilight Fox. It now reads: Blood Surge: Teleport to the enemy General's starting column staying in the same row and gain +2 speed until the end of turn.
- Reworked Whiplash. it is now a 3/4 that reads: Opening Gambit and Ability 1: Deal 2 damage to anything.;
- Reworked Pupabomb. it now costs 3 mana and reads: Return all eggs to your hand. They gain echo.
- Eternity Painter, Sunset Paragon, Stars Fury, Saberspine Alpha, Necrotic Spere, Munch, Lost in the Desert, Inquisitor Kron, Hailstone Prison, Entropic Decay, Chromatic Cold, Circle of Life, Dark Transformation, Homeastatic Rebuke, Lightbender, Onyx Bear Seal, Bamboozle, Punish, Holy Immolation, Sunbloom, Natural Selection, Daemonic Lure, Aspect of the Ravager, Aspect of the Bear, Aspect of Shimzar, Decimate manacost increased by 1.
- Winters Wake, Obliterate, Ghost Azalea, Khanuumka, Wind Stopper, Rizen, Nimbus, Mnemovore, Lurking Fear, Grandmaster Nosh Rak, All 6 Trials, Flameing Stampede, Divine Bond, Divine Liturgy, Eclipse, Decimus, Evolutionary Apex, Carrion Collector has been removed from the game pending rework, nerf or reconsideration.
- 3D versions of 2 of the arena's has been created, any battles that take place on those arena's will have a moveable camera.
- Splash screen with summary of patch changes will now show up once when the game starts.
