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