Mythgard News

With Patch 19.6, the Winter War has begun. The new expansion is here, along with a multitude of new cosmetics. In addition, the patch brings with it the inaugural ranked ladder season for the 2021 Competitive Season as well as numerous bug fixes. Be sure to check out discord / your mailing list for new codes!
[h3]Features & Bug Fixes[/h3]

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  Winter War Expansion
  
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    140+ new cards (of which 110+ are collectible)
    
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    Two new paths (Alliance Command Center and Rebellion Safehouse)
    
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    Two new powers (Bolster and Erode)
    
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  New Winter War Featured decks
  
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  New Winter War AI mobs
  
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  New Winter War loading screens
  
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  Two new boards (Gandamak and Seraglio)
  
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  New Winter War portraits
  
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  New Winter War sleeves
  
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  New Winter War main menu backgrounds (see Known Issues)
  
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  New daily missions for new paths and powers
  
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  Champions Tier will use Kismet to rank players
  
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    This is an ELO rating which is visible in the player profile for all players
    
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    Kismet will only be at stake in ranked vs. ranked games
    
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    Kismet uses a weighted revert-to-mean function between seasons
    
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  The emotes customization dropdown now lists emotes you own first
  
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  Fixed a visual bug with animated emote rendering
  
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  Fixed broken replay skip forward/back buttons
  
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  Fixed a rendering bug when dragging cards in the draft interface
  
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  Fixed some Rings of Immortality cards not appearing in the gallery
  
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  Fixed a bug where tourney invites were appearing despite being declined
  
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  Fixed a bug where reward singles were showing incorrect strength/health
  
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  Fixed an issue where a card could be rendered incorrectly in the store specials tab
  

[h3]Known Issues[/h3]

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  Not all Winter War main menu backgrounds are enabled, and they all need polish
  
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  SFX is incomplete/placeholder in some instances
  
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  Guilds are NYI
  

[h3]Cards/Tuning[/h3]
Arclighter can be unmade at cost if crafted within the last 20 days.

Arclighter

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  3/2 → 2/2
  

In combination with several of the new low-cost green spells introduced by Winter War, the 3/2 version of Arclighter was simply too much.

Mythgard servers will be coming offline at 9:30 am PST to launch our latest expansion The Winter War.

The expected downtime to patch is ~4 hours.

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[h3]You can learn more about what is coming in our latest dev blog, where Rhino Noah sits down with WhatsUpWoody to discuss The Winter War.[/h3]

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[h3]If you're interested in the world of Mythgard and the plots brewing in the greater world, be sure to check out this lore recap video from our community member MantidMan![/h3]

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Our next developer update will be on Thursday, January 21st where we will be discussing the upcoming expansion, The Winter War!

Release 19.5 is primarily to lay the groundwork for our upcoming Winter War expansion. However, there are some notable changes, including the availability of the Winter War starter bundle in the store, the beta for regional payments on platforms where that feature is supported, and changing the end date of the current ranked ladder season to Jan 25th.
[h3]Features & Bug Fixes[/h3]

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  The Winter War Starter Bundle is now available in stores:
  
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    25 Winter War card packs
    
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    1,000 Mythril
    
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    Alliance Command Center Path
    
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    Rebel Safehouse Path
    
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    Erode Power
    
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    Bolster Power
    
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    Exclusive Winter War card material and trim
    
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  Added regional pricing to Steam, Android and Web
  
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  The end date for the current Ranked Ladder season has been pushed to Jan 25th
  
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  Players can now set their main menu background to those from previous sets
  
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  Enabled Rings of Immortality path & power specific daily missions
  
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  The Teleport ability now allows movement to your ally’s side of the board in 2v2
  
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  Fixed a case of continual game reloading during divination
  
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  Fixed an issue where the client could get stuck when using Shopworn Bull’s activated ability and having non non-Ephemeral cards to shuffle back
  
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  Root of the World activation should no longer be available to fizzle on minions that can’t be returned to hand or deck from play
  
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  Fixed Boneyard Abomination not gaining attack and health upon minions entering the boneyard
  
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  Fixed a bug where the Energy tooltip could appear twice in a single tooltip
  
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  Fixed missing strings on Season II ranked trims
  
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  Fixed an issue causing daily rewards to be uncollectible if logged in when reward became available
  

[h3]Known Issues[/h3]

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  Guilds are NYI