v1.5.0 Hybrid Costs, Cirno Rework, New Cards
[h2] 5/21 v1.5.0 Hybrid Costs, Cirno Rework, New Cards [/h2]
[h3] General [/h3]
Added theme songs for the Act 1 Elites.
Themes for the later act Elites will be added in future updates.
Implemented animations for Crow Tengus.
Fully completed animations for Hata no Kokoro, masks will now rotated around her.
Upgraded to Spine ver.4.2 and updated character animations.
New Card Art: Evil-Sealing Circle, Binding Border, Hakurei's Evilest Orbs, Three Gods of Sumiyoshi, Time Magic, Apotheosis, Necromancy, Eviction Order.
Updated Card Art: Gift of Nature, Mana Freeze, Frog.
[h3] Hybrid Mana Costs [/h3]
Lost Branch of Legend has always had a problem with the context of two-colored cards with odd numbered costs, especially 1-cost two-colors that always end up with a generic cost.
Our solution to that problem is introducing Hybrid Mana Costs.
It's worth noting that while MtG has cards with multiple types of Hybrid Mana on their cards, such Leyline of the Guildpact with its 4 types,
LBoL only allows for one type of Hybrid Cost on its cards, mostly due to a lack of need for multiple types on the same card and to not complicate automatically spending mana on these cards.
In plaintext notation, we'll be using "H" followed by the letters of the colors in that Hybrid cost.
E.g.: H:WR refers to a cost that can be paid with either one White Mana or one Red Mana. 2HH:WG refers to a cost of 2 generic mana and 2 mana that can be paid in any combination of White and Green.
A large number of two-colored cards had their costs changed to Hybrid (In most cases, this is a buff)
New White/Green Neutral Card added: Half-Human, Half-Phantom.
Maiden's Waltz now provides Barrier pre-Upgrade, Barrier output decreased:5→3, Upgraded cost decreased: WR→H:WR.
Around 30 total cards have had their costs changed to Hybrid, check in-game for further details.
[h3] Cirno Rework [/h3]
Cirno's Blue cards have been completely reworked. While she retains her Cold status, her damage output has increased.
Some of her more experimental cards have been removed, while cards that synergise more with Blue's color identity of strong card draw have been added.
The changes are too numerous to list here, check in-game for further details.
The Neutral Card Yuki-Onna Visitation has been removed.
[h3] New Cards, Generally Filling The Blanks in the Neutral Card Pool [/h3]
New Sakuya Card added: Danmaku Deflection.
New Marisa Card added: Supernova.
New Mono-White Neutral Cards added: Heart Excerpt Slash, Superspeed Flier, Gather Faith, Noctilucae's Nest.
New Two-Colored White Neutral Cards added: Summon Take-Minakata, Oomonoimi's Banquet.
Devour History changed from Rare to Uncommon.
New Mono-Blue Neutral Cards added: Riptide, Tao Fetal Movement, Teacher's Dedication, Memories of the Divine Age.
New Two-Colored Blue Cards added: Dragon Palace's Message, Gathering of Drunk Oni.
Reworked Blue Neutral Cards: Melancholy Eruption, Water Blanket, Transmigration of Hieda, Heavenly Water Miracle.
Other Blue cards had their values and rarities adjusted.
New Mono-Green Neutral Cards added: Flash of Spring, Garden of the Sun, Forest Depths, Moonlit Lotus.
Reworked Green Neutral Card: Beauties of Nature.
Other Green cards had their values and rarities adjusted.
New Red/Green Neutral Card added: Wind God Girl.
New Three Colored Neutral Cards added:Hell's Animal Realm Road, Magic of the Mallet, Runaway Seasons.
Added a new keyword trait: Gadget. Cards with this trait can only appear in the main eight slots of the shop and have an appearance weight of 2.
New Colorless Neutral Cards added: Cucmber Missile, Clean Energy, Private Radar.
[h3] Other Gameplay Adjustments [/h3]
Reimu Hakurei's Spell Card Omnidirectional Demon Binding Circle no longer produces a Yin-Yang Orb.
After Boss Marisa uses her spell card, on top of increasing its next damage by 5, her other attacks deal 1 more damage.
Reduced the damage on most of Boss Cirno's attacks.
Reduced Fox Youkai's life by 4.
Reduced the initial and additional levels of Poison Death from Dolls of Nerium and Belladona.
The final boss's Pyramid-Shaped Puzzle now also adds a card that allows cards to be drawn past its limit at the cost of life.
Adjusted most Mana Gain cards (For the most part they've been buffed)
Examples include: Sunlight Prayer,Ship's Phantom,News Fabrication.
Other noteworthy changes on Mana Gain cards:
Spring-Colored Path cost increased, 0→1.
"Borrow" Materials now costs 0, only adds one Rainbow.
Short Break now costs 0, adds a Radiance instead of a Rainbow.
Sure Gamble now has Retain by default, Upgraded cost decreased:4U→2U.
Most beneficial effects that trigger when a given card is drawn now occur when such cards enter the hand, such as Forest Adventure and Sight of Distant Blade.
Buffs to X cost cards:
Watermelon Knife reworked to not be an X cost card, now gives Firepower after the attack.
Propelling Silver & Gensokyo's Blossoming damage per mana increased, 6/8→7/9. Propelling Silver also has the target change capabilities of pre-rework Watermelon Knife.
Miscellaneous card changes:
Secret Border Upgraded cost reduced,4W→3W, damage is now the same in both versions, 16/20→18.
Faithful Meditation cost reverted, 1WWW→WWW.
Spread Amulet base version damage increased, 12/14→13/14.
One's Last Home Upgraded cost reduced, 2B→2, Upgrade doesn't increase Block gain.
Mushroom Feast now Common and has Exile, life gain increased: 4/5→5/7.
Hand Warmer now Uncommon, reworked to Exile cards for Concentration equal to cards Exiled, Upgrade adds Innate.
Danmaku Notes Upgraded cost loosened1R→2.
Rocket Broom Upgraded cost loosened:RR→1R.
Red Star Explosion cost loosened:1RR→2R.
Shoot the Moon's Overdrive cost is always 2, Upgrade increases damage and adds Accurate.
Emergency Defense Block increased, 20→21.
Starlight Typhoon base hits increased, 1/2→2/3, Upgraded Starlight Convergence no longer Upgrades its Starlight Typhoon, instead increases its damage. (Still places it on the top of the draw pile)
Replenish Fuel now costs 0 by default, has Exile which is lost on Upgrade.
Purchase Materials Upgraded cost loosened, W→1.
Frozen Time's Upgrade no longer increases retained mana.
Quantum Tunneling cost removed, R→0, damage reduced by 4.
Lost Raiment (Token from The Fallen Moon-Rabbit) cost removed:W→0, now has Replenish.
Bass of Taiko damage increased by 1, Upgraded cost loosened:1R→2.
And Then Will There Be None? Upgraded cost increased, 1R→2R.
Grimoire Study life loss increased, 2→3.
Dance of Empty Masks now applies 3/4 Temporary Firepower Down on use
Faith of Native God life loss increased, 1→2.
Waves of Reversed Scale now has Exile
Century's Doppelgangers now has Ethereal, Upgrade removes Ethereal instead of increasing the card limit on its extra turn.
Water Gun damage increased,25→30.
[h3] Miscellaneous [/h3]
Instances of 10 or more colored mana in text will now display as 10x followed by the mana icon.
Tooltip size now also affects enemy intent size.
It's no longer possible to interact with the hand outside of the player's turn. (This is to prevent softlocks from attempting to play cards outside of the player's turn)
If there are more than five Innate cards (Including the Smart Speaker card) in the library, they will all be drawn on the first turn (this does not ignore the maximum hand size).
Tanuki Suwako's Jinx doesn't trigger on Extra turns, similar to Apex Speedster.
The first choice of the "Miyoi: The Solitary Sommelier" now directly draws from enemy pool with 3-3. If the player makes it there afterward, different enemies than those from the event will be prioritized.
Fixed an issue with the Perfect Elegance bonus being invalidated by entering the Final Act. Now it and the Elegance bonus only check for Acts 1-3.
Fixed cards getting stuck in a 3D rotated state.
[h2] 5/21 Hotfix [/h2]
Overall buff for the new 0-cost cards.
Reduced the costs or otherwise buffed some of the other new cards, such as Wind God Girl.
Memories of the Divine Age cost increased, 0→U, now reduces the cost the cards it draws.
Fixed Melancholy Eruption still discarding cards as per its previous effect.
Fixed Meltdown softlock when targeting a card with a Hybrid Cost. Such cards now produce Philosopher's Mana when Exiled this way.
Fixed issues with conditional triggers like Poison Raze's.
Tao Fetal Movement now also discards Unplayable cards.
The following change was part of the initial patch, but wasn't mentioned in the changelog:
Boundary of Life and Death now has a Growth effect increasing its damage.
[h2] 5/28 Hotfix [/h2]
CirnoA (Blue) complexity level increased from 2 to 3
Ice Lance is now Accurate before Upgrade.
Frosty Garden is now Blue/Green
Ice-Forged Blade reverted to a multihit attack
Flash of Spring damage increased to 24/32, mana requirement reduced, 8/7→6。
Yukari Tips Bag's Extra Danmaku added Shoots increased: 3→5.
Fixed Embrace The Darkness not interacting correctly with cards with Hybrid Costs.
Updated card art.
Cards not in the Card Reward Pool are now indicated as such via a tooltip.
Card Pool Advanced Rule adjustment:
"For cards with mana value 5 or greater that have a generic mana cost component (1, 2, etc.), only their non-generic mana cost will count toward rule 1. These cards' mana costs can be reduced through effects."
For this, "5 or greater" was changed to "greater than 5", and the in-game logic was adjusted accordingly. This is closer to how it was intended to be implemented, and doesn't affect a large number of expensive cards.
[h2] 6/7 Update [/h2]
Implemented animations for Rabbit Tricksters.
Danmaku Deflection, Cucumber Missile, Clean Energy values increased.
Frosty Garden is reverted back to its original version.
Beauties of Nature is now an Uncommon.
Moonlit Lotus has Retain, and one of its mana gain is changed from G to P.
Haniwa Front now has 1/1 initial values.
Runaway Seasons has a cost of 4, and Upgraded Runaway Seasons gives 3 extra Firepower.
Updated card art.
Bug fixed: Spirit and similar status effects cannot increase Defense cards' Block/Barrier value if it has already been decreased to 0 (for example, from 5 Temporary Spirit Down).
Sculpture - Circle and its series of card was unaffected by Echo, now fixed.
The timeframe of Echo-generated card adding to hand is now slightly earlier than when the original card goes to the Discard Pile/is Exiled. This change is an attempt to handle edge cases of when Echo has failed to resolve.
[h2] 6/15 Update [/h2]
Absolute Zero Upgaded cost increased: U→UU。
Updated card art.
Updated localizations.
[h2] 6/20 Update [/h2]
New Cirno card added: Garden Gathering.
Updated card art. Most of the new card now have their art completed, and ver. 1.5.0. will be moved to the main branch.
Pressing F4 can view the BattleLog even in the main branch.
This is only a testing tool used to resolve bugs, and will not have its UI updated.
[h3] General [/h3]
Added theme songs for the Act 1 Elites.
Themes for the later act Elites will be added in future updates.
Implemented animations for Crow Tengus.
Fully completed animations for Hata no Kokoro, masks will now rotated around her.
Upgraded to Spine ver.4.2 and updated character animations.
New Card Art: Evil-Sealing Circle, Binding Border, Hakurei's Evilest Orbs, Three Gods of Sumiyoshi, Time Magic, Apotheosis, Necromancy, Eviction Order.
Updated Card Art: Gift of Nature, Mana Freeze, Frog.
[h3] Hybrid Mana Costs [/h3]
Lost Branch of Legend has always had a problem with the context of two-colored cards with odd numbered costs, especially 1-cost two-colors that always end up with a generic cost.
Our solution to that problem is introducing Hybrid Mana Costs.
It's worth noting that while MtG has cards with multiple types of Hybrid Mana on their cards, such Leyline of the Guildpact with its 4 types,
LBoL only allows for one type of Hybrid Cost on its cards, mostly due to a lack of need for multiple types on the same card and to not complicate automatically spending mana on these cards.
In plaintext notation, we'll be using "H" followed by the letters of the colors in that Hybrid cost.
E.g.: H:WR refers to a cost that can be paid with either one White Mana or one Red Mana. 2HH:WG refers to a cost of 2 generic mana and 2 mana that can be paid in any combination of White and Green.
A large number of two-colored cards had their costs changed to Hybrid (In most cases, this is a buff)
New White/Green Neutral Card added: Half-Human, Half-Phantom.
Maiden's Waltz now provides Barrier pre-Upgrade, Barrier output decreased:5→3, Upgraded cost decreased: WR→H:WR.
Around 30 total cards have had their costs changed to Hybrid, check in-game for further details.
[h3] Cirno Rework [/h3]
Cirno's Blue cards have been completely reworked. While she retains her Cold status, her damage output has increased.
Some of her more experimental cards have been removed, while cards that synergise more with Blue's color identity of strong card draw have been added.
The changes are too numerous to list here, check in-game for further details.
The Neutral Card Yuki-Onna Visitation has been removed.
[h3] New Cards, Generally Filling The Blanks in the Neutral Card Pool [/h3]
New Sakuya Card added: Danmaku Deflection.
New Marisa Card added: Supernova.
New Mono-White Neutral Cards added: Heart Excerpt Slash, Superspeed Flier, Gather Faith, Noctilucae's Nest.
New Two-Colored White Neutral Cards added: Summon Take-Minakata, Oomonoimi's Banquet.
Devour History changed from Rare to Uncommon.
New Mono-Blue Neutral Cards added: Riptide, Tao Fetal Movement, Teacher's Dedication, Memories of the Divine Age.
New Two-Colored Blue Cards added: Dragon Palace's Message, Gathering of Drunk Oni.
Reworked Blue Neutral Cards: Melancholy Eruption, Water Blanket, Transmigration of Hieda, Heavenly Water Miracle.
Other Blue cards had their values and rarities adjusted.
New Mono-Green Neutral Cards added: Flash of Spring, Garden of the Sun, Forest Depths, Moonlit Lotus.
Reworked Green Neutral Card: Beauties of Nature.
Other Green cards had their values and rarities adjusted.
New Red/Green Neutral Card added: Wind God Girl.
New Three Colored Neutral Cards added:Hell's Animal Realm Road, Magic of the Mallet, Runaway Seasons.
Added a new keyword trait: Gadget. Cards with this trait can only appear in the main eight slots of the shop and have an appearance weight of 2.
New Colorless Neutral Cards added: Cucmber Missile, Clean Energy, Private Radar.
[h3] Other Gameplay Adjustments [/h3]
Reimu Hakurei's Spell Card Omnidirectional Demon Binding Circle no longer produces a Yin-Yang Orb.
After Boss Marisa uses her spell card, on top of increasing its next damage by 5, her other attacks deal 1 more damage.
Reduced the damage on most of Boss Cirno's attacks.
Reduced Fox Youkai's life by 4.
Reduced the initial and additional levels of Poison Death from Dolls of Nerium and Belladona.
The final boss's Pyramid-Shaped Puzzle now also adds a card that allows cards to be drawn past its limit at the cost of life.
Adjusted most Mana Gain cards (For the most part they've been buffed)
Examples include: Sunlight Prayer,Ship's Phantom,News Fabrication.
Other noteworthy changes on Mana Gain cards:
Spring-Colored Path cost increased, 0→1.
"Borrow" Materials now costs 0, only adds one Rainbow.
Short Break now costs 0, adds a Radiance instead of a Rainbow.
Sure Gamble now has Retain by default, Upgraded cost decreased:4U→2U.
Most beneficial effects that trigger when a given card is drawn now occur when such cards enter the hand, such as Forest Adventure and Sight of Distant Blade.
Buffs to X cost cards:
Watermelon Knife reworked to not be an X cost card, now gives Firepower after the attack.
Propelling Silver & Gensokyo's Blossoming damage per mana increased, 6/8→7/9. Propelling Silver also has the target change capabilities of pre-rework Watermelon Knife.
Miscellaneous card changes:
Secret Border Upgraded cost reduced,4W→3W, damage is now the same in both versions, 16/20→18.
Faithful Meditation cost reverted, 1WWW→WWW.
Spread Amulet base version damage increased, 12/14→13/14.
One's Last Home Upgraded cost reduced, 2B→2, Upgrade doesn't increase Block gain.
Mushroom Feast now Common and has Exile, life gain increased: 4/5→5/7.
Hand Warmer now Uncommon, reworked to Exile cards for Concentration equal to cards Exiled, Upgrade adds Innate.
Danmaku Notes Upgraded cost loosened1R→2.
Rocket Broom Upgraded cost loosened:RR→1R.
Red Star Explosion cost loosened:1RR→2R.
Shoot the Moon's Overdrive cost is always 2, Upgrade increases damage and adds Accurate.
Emergency Defense Block increased, 20→21.
Starlight Typhoon base hits increased, 1/2→2/3, Upgraded Starlight Convergence no longer Upgrades its Starlight Typhoon, instead increases its damage. (Still places it on the top of the draw pile)
Replenish Fuel now costs 0 by default, has Exile which is lost on Upgrade.
Purchase Materials Upgraded cost loosened, W→1.
Frozen Time's Upgrade no longer increases retained mana.
Quantum Tunneling cost removed, R→0, damage reduced by 4.
Lost Raiment (Token from The Fallen Moon-Rabbit) cost removed:W→0, now has Replenish.
Bass of Taiko damage increased by 1, Upgraded cost loosened:1R→2.
And Then Will There Be None? Upgraded cost increased, 1R→2R.
Grimoire Study life loss increased, 2→3.
Dance of Empty Masks now applies 3/4 Temporary Firepower Down on use
Faith of Native God life loss increased, 1→2.
Waves of Reversed Scale now has Exile
Century's Doppelgangers now has Ethereal, Upgrade removes Ethereal instead of increasing the card limit on its extra turn.
Water Gun damage increased,25→30.
[h3] Miscellaneous [/h3]
Instances of 10 or more colored mana in text will now display as 10x followed by the mana icon.
Tooltip size now also affects enemy intent size.
It's no longer possible to interact with the hand outside of the player's turn. (This is to prevent softlocks from attempting to play cards outside of the player's turn)
If there are more than five Innate cards (Including the Smart Speaker card) in the library, they will all be drawn on the first turn (this does not ignore the maximum hand size).
Tanuki Suwako's Jinx doesn't trigger on Extra turns, similar to Apex Speedster.
The first choice of the "Miyoi: The Solitary Sommelier" now directly draws from enemy pool with 3-3. If the player makes it there afterward, different enemies than those from the event will be prioritized.
Fixed an issue with the Perfect Elegance bonus being invalidated by entering the Final Act. Now it and the Elegance bonus only check for Acts 1-3.
Fixed cards getting stuck in a 3D rotated state.
[h2] 5/21 Hotfix [/h2]
Overall buff for the new 0-cost cards.
Reduced the costs or otherwise buffed some of the other new cards, such as Wind God Girl.
Memories of the Divine Age cost increased, 0→U, now reduces the cost the cards it draws.
Fixed Melancholy Eruption still discarding cards as per its previous effect.
Fixed Meltdown softlock when targeting a card with a Hybrid Cost. Such cards now produce Philosopher's Mana when Exiled this way.
Fixed issues with conditional triggers like Poison Raze's.
Tao Fetal Movement now also discards Unplayable cards.
The following change was part of the initial patch, but wasn't mentioned in the changelog:
Boundary of Life and Death now has a Growth effect increasing its damage.
[h2] 5/28 Hotfix [/h2]
CirnoA (Blue) complexity level increased from 2 to 3
Ice Lance is now Accurate before Upgrade.
Frosty Garden is now Blue/Green
Ice-Forged Blade reverted to a multihit attack
Flash of Spring damage increased to 24/32, mana requirement reduced, 8/7→6。
Yukari Tips Bag's Extra Danmaku added Shoots increased: 3→5.
Fixed Embrace The Darkness not interacting correctly with cards with Hybrid Costs.
Updated card art.
Cards not in the Card Reward Pool are now indicated as such via a tooltip.
Card Pool Advanced Rule adjustment:
"For cards with mana value 5 or greater that have a generic mana cost component (1, 2, etc.), only their non-generic mana cost will count toward rule 1. These cards' mana costs can be reduced through effects."
For this, "5 or greater" was changed to "greater than 5", and the in-game logic was adjusted accordingly. This is closer to how it was intended to be implemented, and doesn't affect a large number of expensive cards.
[h2] 6/7 Update [/h2]
Implemented animations for Rabbit Tricksters.
Danmaku Deflection, Cucumber Missile, Clean Energy values increased.
Frosty Garden is reverted back to its original version.
Beauties of Nature is now an Uncommon.
Moonlit Lotus has Retain, and one of its mana gain is changed from G to P.
Haniwa Front now has 1/1 initial values.
Runaway Seasons has a cost of 4, and Upgraded Runaway Seasons gives 3 extra Firepower.
Updated card art.
Bug fixed: Spirit and similar status effects cannot increase Defense cards' Block/Barrier value if it has already been decreased to 0 (for example, from 5 Temporary Spirit Down).
Sculpture - Circle and its series of card was unaffected by Echo, now fixed.
The timeframe of Echo-generated card adding to hand is now slightly earlier than when the original card goes to the Discard Pile/is Exiled. This change is an attempt to handle edge cases of when Echo has failed to resolve.
[h2] 6/15 Update [/h2]
Absolute Zero Upgaded cost increased: U→UU。
Updated card art.
Updated localizations.
[h2] 6/20 Update [/h2]
New Cirno card added: Garden Gathering.
Updated card art. Most of the new card now have their art completed, and ver. 1.5.0. will be moved to the main branch.
Pressing F4 can view the BattleLog even in the main branch.
This is only a testing tool used to resolve bugs, and will not have its UI updated.