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Version 40 - Big Changes

Major Changes


  • Improved the art assets used in most of the game
  • Added different screens for each screen aspect ratio (work in progress)
  • Added German language
  • Updated board and playmats, main menu, and game over screen


Card Changes
  • Numbing Sphere is now 5 cost and 2 justice (up from 3 cost and 1 justice)
  • Anthe Ringwarden (Follower)'s last effect now reduces 2 cost in total instead of 1 per essence
  • Cawn (follower)'s first level up effect must target other characters
  • Flareo now costs 9 mana and 4 passion, and their buff is now +2/+2 (was 7 mana, 3 passion, and +3/+3)
  • Fountain Elemental's justice cost is now 1 (down from 2)
  • Gauntlet of Power's self damage effect only happens from card effects you control
  • Hon Sweetperson's cost is now 5 (up from 4)
  • Hunted has an additional mode: "Scout, then draw two cards"
  • Nalari Skyseeker's cost is now 5, life cost is 3, and attack is 3 (up from 4 cost, 2 life, 2 attack)
  • Nurturing Elemental's cost is now 3, attack is 2, and no longer has tactician (up from 2 cost and 1 attack)
  • Paw's once per turn effect no longer requires the card to cost less
  • Redan Captain's passion cost is now 3 (up from 2)
  • Redan Thief's darkness cost is now 2 (up from 1)
  • Restoring the Ruins's effect can now target a player
  • Shadow Assassin's level up effects have had their order changed to stealth at level 1, deal damage at level 2, and put counters at level 3
  • Supplies can target characters now, costs 3 mana, 2 passion, and 2 life (up from 2 mana, 1 passion, 1 life)
  • The Shadow now costs 5 mana and 3 darkness (was 6 mana and 2 darkness)
  • Warrant's justice cost is now 3 (up from 2)
  • Solar Eclipse's cost is now 4 and its passion cost is 3 (up from 3 mana and 2 passion)
  • CPU should use Restoring the Ruins properly now
  • Dina (Follower) is now a human crab and her effect affects non-crab followers only


Other Changes


  • CPU handles guardians better
  • Hands are now closer to the viewer
  • Added multiple death phases when players are being removed (so some cards won't be stuck without being cleaned up)
  • When selecting a target, the card asking for the target will appear on the side for widescreen and ultrawide screens
  • Added zoom effect to a player when they are defeated, instead of fading in and out
  • Added slight rotation to cards that are resting or have summon sickness
  • Added target assist to accessibility options
  • Added essence assist to accessibility options
  • Added new in-game hero frame to simplify UI
  • Moved deck and discard to the right
  • Fixed being able to add more copies of a card to a deck than what the player has
  • Improved playmat customization and purchase experience (remember, all the cosmetics in the game cost no IRL money)

Version 39 Update 5 - Fixes to Audio, Card Balancing, and more

Major Changes
  • All audio is now adjusted for -16 db, for better experiences with headsets
  • Added sound effects for Crustacean Recruit, Flareo, Grove Prowler, Grove Tyrant, Guard Patrol, Advisor of the Tribes, Master Construct, Flame Elemental, King of Beasts, and Nurturing Elemental
  • Added sound play button to cards in the collection
  • Adjusted weekly chest rewards to give a pack every 4 levels and 50 gold every 2 levels


Card Changes

This update does some card balance changes to try to improve the overall player experience as some cards felt too good or too bad to play at times.
A lot of these changes are minor and shouldn't affect the game too much.

  • Changed Advisor of the Tribes to 1/1 (down from 2/3)
  • Changed Cawn, Supporting Ally's Life cost to 3 (up from 2)
  • Changed Commune with Nature's cost to 1 (down from 2)
  • Changed Crustacean Recruit's effect to "Deploy - summon a 1/1 Solider follower token with Guardian"
  • Changed Enfeeble's Darkness cost to 2 (up from 1)
  • Changed Explorer's Map to require paying 1 mana to draw (will prompt each time)
  • Changed King of Beast's last effect to "At the end of your turn, summon a 1/1 Beast follower token"
  • Changed Lost Soul's Darkness cost to 2 (up from 1)
  • Changed Raphael, The Wayfinder's Life and Justice cost to 2 (up from 1)
  • Changed Struggle's Darkness cost to 2 (up from 1)
  • Changed Thulari Mercenary to 1-cost 0/0 (down from 2-cost 1/1)
  • Renamed Guardian Soldier to Soldier
  • Changed rules text for attachment enchantments
  • Added Soldier tag to Armored Companion
  • Changed Master Construct's last effect to "At the end of your turn, summon a 1/1 construct"
  • Changed Construct Factory to require 1 mana to draw


Other Changes
  • Potentially fixed some buttons not appearing in-game
  • Discarding with Darkness Hunter is now optional (if you cancel you will not be able to attack)
  • Quests don't trigger Paw's effect anymore
  • Added support for extra card copies in custom game modes (if you have a game mode with more than 4 copies allowed and you have at least 4 copies of that card, it will act as if you have the maximum copies)

Version 39 Update 4 - Networking fixes, Card Balancing, new sound effects

Major Changes


  • Optimized networking massively, multiplayer games should be much smoother now, and fixed several networking bugs
  • Disabled Reconnect support temporarily due to bugs
  • Re-added Fullscreen Switch (Alt+Enter to swap between windowed and fullscreen, PC only)
  • Added sound effects when playing or summoning Armored Companion, Dina Guardian of the Sea, Darkness Hunter, Darkness Lookout, Cursed Beast, Crab, Construct, Beast, Blacksmith, Fountain Elemental, Grove Guardian, Guardian Soldier, Inviting Soul, Master of Undeath, Redan Mender, Varlari Necromancer


Card Changes


  • Changed Arfactus cost to 10 (down from 12)
  • Flames of Greed now triggers whenever any card goes to an opponent's hand
  • Paw's trigger now triggers to explore for any card that has any essence of the card played
  • Changed Souls' Eruption's effect to "Deal X damage to target character, where X is the amount of followers that were destroyed this turn"
  • Changed Souls' Eruption darkness cost to 2 (down from 3)
  • Changed Reinforce the Guard to again be half your Justice instead of full
  • Changed Sul Quillcroft's return card from discard effect to require discarding two cards before doing so
  • Changed Dragon Raid bosses HP to 30/40/50 (from 20/40/60)


Other Changes


  • Added animation to Redan Explorer's trigger
  • Fixed languages not working on dedicated servers

Version 39 Update 3 - Visual Effect updates and bugfixes

Major Changes
  • Added full-board playmats
  • Added some missing visual effects and fixed visual effect rendering issues
    • Redan Thief
    • Delve Into Nature
    • Explorer's Map


Card Changes
  • Replaced Dark Grip card art with original one
  • Added flavor text to Lost Soul
  • Changed Paw to "Whenever a follower enters your field, explore for a follower with the same essences that costs less"


Other Changes
  • Fixed Siphon Soul dealing damage instead of healing
  • Added Rarity Indicator to card preview on collection
  • Fixed a bug with damage prevention layering
  • Fixed a bug with dealt damage not counting if removing armor
  • Fixed exile bug where the card wouldn't be returned in time
  • Fixed players dealing damage or triggering prompts when that player has been defeated
  • Fixed cards being stuck when right clicking while dragging
  • Explore now properly reveals cards on draw
  • Fixed a bug where lethal damage with Darkflame Blast causes the character to stay at 1 HP

Version 39 Update 2

Card Changes


  • Renamed Pau to Paw, Herald of Unity and changed their effect to "Tactician. Whenever a card enters your field or support zone from your hand, explore for a card with the same types"
  • Renamed Urvar, Varlari Vanguard to Advar, Varlari Vanguard
  • Renamed Lost Departed to Lost Soul and replaced the effect with "Last Words - Deal 2 damage to your hero, then summon a 2/2 undead follower token"
  • Changed Darkness Sword to 3-cost 2-attack (from 2-cost 3-attack)
  • Changed Varlari Necromancer to 5-cost 1/3 (from 4-cost 2/2)
  • Changed Arfactus cost to 12 (up from 10) and removed Untargetable
  • Changed Focus Point to 2 cost (down from 3), changed the essence to last while you control it, and added "Enters the supply zone exhausted"
  • Changed Redan Fruit Merchant to Uncommon
  • Changed Staff of the Wilds to Rare
  • Changed Lifestream Ritual to Epic
  • Changed Solar Eclipse's effect to "Increase the damage and healing your spells, enchantments, and artifacts deal by 1"
  • Changed Flame Elemental to put counters from its trigger on itself only
  • Changed Hide Away into an item artifact and renamed it to Hideaway
  • Changed Tarin Spellburst's first effect to "Explore for spell, enchantment, or artifact"
  • Changed Tarin Spellburst's second effect to "Your spells, enchantments, and artifacts deal +1 damage"
  • Added second mode to Back to Nature to give a follower +X/+X until end of turn
  • Reduced quest zone card limit to 6 (down from 12)
  • Reduced support zone card limit to 8 (down from 10)
  • Changed Draft and Sealed deck size to 40
  • Renamed Golems to Constructs
  • Removed health indicator for hero cards in the collection
  • Removed keyword reminders from several cards that became too wordy
  • Changed Black Market to be once per turn
  • Changed Enfeeble cost to 3 (up from 2)


Other Changes


  • Disabled camera auto scroll when mouse is over the bounds of the screen unless attacking
  • Adjusted the logic of the collection browser
  • Added number assist setting to accessibility menu
  • Increased in-game size of quest and support cards
  • Card stat modifiers appear when browsing the discard zone