Mythgard News

We're happy to announce that the next expansion will be called "The Winter War" and we can't wait for you to see what it has in store!

Follow us on Twitter/Facebook for a spoiler later today:
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Watch this month’s special edition of the dev blog where Martha (aka Matt) talks Mythgard vfx:

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We're also bringing you a doubleheader for top 5 plays. Woody walks us through the best plays of both November AND December in one video!
Submit your clips on our Discord server if you'd like a chance to win some card packs.

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All of us at Rhino Games wish you and your loved ones a safe and happy holiday season!

Patch 19.4.1 is a bug fix patch.
[h3]Features & Bug Fixes[/h3]

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  Test cards should no longer appear in Core packs for Tournament Draft
  
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  Fixed a bug that failed to properly card count when unmaking
  
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  Fixed a bug where queuing for the Winter Holiday event with Victorious Podium in your deck prevents the match from starting
  
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  Fixed a bug where adding an Artifact to an existing stack wasn’t counting towards the Build for the Ages faction mission
  
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  Fixed a soft lock when casting an Ephemeral Mind Freak
  
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  Fixed a bug where Academy Analyst was reducing the cost for Items
  
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  Fixed a bug where transforming a minion on Guardian Plateau could erroneously generate Sand Guardians
  
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  Fixed a bug where creating a minion on Guardian Plateau and having it immediately die could erroneously generate a Sand Guardian on the enchantment itself
  
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  Fixed a bug where a Blighted minion that dies and creates another minion was passing the Blight to the created minion while Miasma Catalyst is in play
  
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  The modifier for Hall of Matrimony now shows up in tooltips
  
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  Fixed a bug where a Gama Sennin banished by Profane Locus was not granting the Ring of Eternity
  
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  Fixed a bug where creating a minion during your opponent’s turn no longer triggers Model of Duality
  
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  Fixed a bug preventing the Deepest Winter board from being purchasable
  
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  Fixed missing strings on Season II ranked trims
  
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  Added explanations in the guide regarding the interaction of Demise effects and Banish vs. Ephemeral
  
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  Changed animation for Ephemeral minion death to better reflect when the card is removed from play
  

[h3]Known Issues[/h3]
The various card bugs were discovered too late for fixes to be included in this update. They should be fixed in the following patch.

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  Mana cost reduction effects are not functioning correctly with respect to variable cost spells such as Anhelli and Extract Life
  
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  Transforming a minion on Whitemoon Arena or Nazca Memorial can result in the minion having double the intended stat bonus
  
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  Reanimate effects (Re:Spawn, Stairway to Hades, etc) don’t work for the right-player’s lanes in 2v2.
  
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  Guilds are NYI
  

Mythgard servers will be going offline today 12/18 @ 3 pm PST for ~3 hours in order to update to our latest patch.

Patch 19.4 sets up our Winter Holiday event and introduces tons of new emotes. It also includes a handful of balance tweaks and new items in the store (including freebies!)



Take part in the new Winter Holiday Event!

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  Dec 18 - Jan 10
  
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  2v2 event mode
  
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  Penguins for Every Faction
  
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  Win a Special Gift
  

Check out our most recent dev blog on youtube.

[h3]Features & Bug Fixes[/h3]

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  Added around 70 new emotes, courtesy of foxfire_kadrpg!
  
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    Enable up to 16 emotes at a time
    
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    Improved rendering system for animated emotes
    
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  New specials in the store
  
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    Including free mythril!
    
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  Win mythril for 8/9 wins in Arena
  
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  Sets end of Ladder Season to Jan 18
  
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  Automatically switches to your system language upon first launch
  
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  Fixed some characters appearing as boxes in Chinese
  
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  Fixed an issue that could cause AIs to “freeze”
  
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  Fixed an issue that could cause the game to get into a reload loop
  
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  Fixed Null Seeker sacrificing itself upon using its ability
  
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  Disabled Minmaxer’s Challenge puzzle due to change to Volition™
  

[h3]Cards/Tuning[/h3]

The following cards can be unmade for full cost if they were crafted after Nov 23: Racer in Shadow, Volition™

Tree of Life

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  0/4 → 0/3
  

The win rate for Tree of Life on the draw was too damn (slightly) high. If you were on Discord, you got to vote for either making it 0/3 or cost (1). The 0/3 votes won by a greater than 2:1 ratio. Neither change was anticipated to bring the winrate for Turn of Seasons on the draw to below 50%, so we thought it’d be fun to involve the community. Thank you everyone who voted!

Racer in Shadow

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  Add Sundown: Banish this
  

Racer in Shadow was always meant to feel extremely “ephemeral”. Sticking around after the end of turn just didn’t feel quite right for this card. Racer has always been one of Harmony’s strongest cards in the one slot, and we don’t expect that to change.

Volition™

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  2[Y] → 2[Y]Y
  
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  Give a friendly minion a standard action and ｢Is Stunned after attacking｣ until Sundown → ｢Sunrise: Empower with an extra standard action｣.
  
  

People really dislike surprise Volition™ wins. Does this change nerf it into unplayability, or is there the possibility of a deck that takes advantage of the delay? Either way, the slower effect is more in keeping with the thematic flavor of Aztlan.

Frankly, the gem change on top of that may be overkill - we’ll have to keep an eye on it. However, there was enough worry about bringing back Volition™ stacking that we thought it would be better to be on the safe side.

“Hacker” type removal: This is an unused/unreferenced “flavor” type that’s giving way to the “Rebel” type in preparation for the next expansion and a couple of minions that would otherwise clearly call for more than two starting types, something to be avoided.

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  Fey Plagiarist and Black Hatter: Elf Hacker → Rebel Elf
  
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  Skilled Hacktivist: Troll Hacker → Rebel Troll
  
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  The Recursionist: Witch Hacker → Rebel Witch
  
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  Hacker’s Intuition and Synapse Overclock: Hacker Spell → Witch Spell