New Resource & Trading: Zeal is a new resource that is required to play cards. Additionally it is now possible to trade resource 2:1 in the following order: Supplies -> Zeal -> Might -> Supplies.
Leader Cards: A new card type that bring new abilities to your strategy. Leader cards can be played any time without the need to have them on your hand.
Right-Click Card Detail: You can now inspect any card by right-clicking and admire the (not yet ready) beautiful art.
Event Visual Effects: When a new event enters the board a board white visual effect takes place like god-rays and a pulsing vignette.
Visual & UI Improvements
Cards are now larger and easier to read
Cards have a spawn animation with a satisfying flip
Card backgrounds now vary by card type — at a glance you can tell what you're looking at
Health loss is now visualized with cracks and particle effects on the prestige counter
Animated resource piles bring the board to life
Subtle shadows have been added to all cards
The Main Menu now features god ray lighting effects
Player profiles with their coat of arms are displayed in the intro animation and in-game
New visual indicators clearly show whose turn it is
The prestige counter is now displayed as a pile of resource icons
Added small animation delays after actions for better readability
Balance & Design Changes
The Trade Row has been renamed to Market
Plague now deals –2 Prestige for 6 turns
Resource icons have been removed from cards to reduce visual noise
The option to ban cards using Might has been removed
The board layout has been rearranged
Bug Fixes
Fixed crashes by downgrading to Godot 4.6
Fixed an issue where damage particles spawned even when no damage was dealt
Fixed cards not being visually removed from the Market when an effect removes them
Fixed missing target selection when removing cards from the Market
Fixed a bug where the card flyover tooltip blocked card interaction
Fixed nested effects not being processed correctly by the effect queue
Fixed board interactions being incorrectly blocked when clicking cards
Fixed the missing Zeal indicator on cards that have an on-play ability