Fairtravel Battle News

Some of the changes in this update have been applied as game data updates in the past, but I'm consolidating everything in this post!

• Changed Black Market cost to 2 (down from 3)
  
• Changed Crustacean Recruit to mill 2 (up from 1)
  
• Changed Grove Tyrant to 7-mana 7/7 (from 5-mana 6/6)
  
• Changed Sludge Elemental's darkness cost to 2 (down from 3)
  
• Changed Sludge Elemental's discard effect mana cost to 2 (down from 3)
  
• Changed Undead Mob's cost to 2 (down from 4)
  
• Changed Greatsword of Agility to epic rarity
  
• Changed Warrant to rare rarity
  
• Changed Flames of Greed cost to 2 (down from 3)
  
• Changed Enrage, Lifestream Ritual, and Soar to have an additional effect "Last Words - Draw a card"
  
• Changed Fireball to 1-cost 1-passion and replaced rules text with "Deal 2 damage to target character"
  
• Changed Lord cycle (Al'Kai, Master Golem, Flame Master, King of Beasts, Master of Undeath) cost to 3 and health to 3
  
• Renamed Tainted Beast to Cursed Beast
  
• Changed Necromancer tribe to Varlari Lari and renamed to Varlari Necromancer
  
• Redesigned Supplies card effect to "Restore 2 health to target follower, then choose one, where X is the damage restored:
• Deal X damage to target character;
• Put X +1/+1 counters on target follower;
• Summon X 1/1 Life beast tokens"
  

• Updated Sludge Elemental's card art and renamed the card to Slimy
  
• Added card art for Hunted, Obliterate, Redan Commander, Grove Arms, Master Golem, Redan Mender, Golem Factory, Master of Undeath, Undead Mob, Redan Captain, Redan Fruit Merchant, Purifier's Greatsword, Shadow Assassin, Necromancer
  
• Fixed booster pack rarity rolls as they were a bit unreliable
  
• Changed Epic drop chance to 35% (up from 20%)
  
• Changed Legendary drop chance to 20% (up from 10%)
  
• Cleaned up rules formatting and other translations
  
• Fixed Explore not revealing drawn cards
  
• Added foil effect to flamingo bundle cards
  
• Fixed UI overlap while doing a prompt that browses a zone
  
• Added logic to avoid getting mass repeated rares when mass opening packs
  
• Fix steam lobby display not being correctly aligned or having the right font
  

Note: Some changes were recently made with a remote game data update, meaning they were already in the game. If you noticed some sudden changes, that's why!

• Draconic Arbiter is now 4-cost, non-unique, and "Tactician. Opposing cards cost 1 more"
  
• Draconic Might now only targets followers
  
• Tainted Beast will only ever summon 1 token each time (was making more in some situations)
  
• Varlari Vanguard is now named as Urvar, Varlari Vanguard, is a 4-cost 2-passion Unique 2/5 (compared to 5-cost 3-passion non-unique 4/6)
  
• Updated gold per win to 25 (up from 20)
  
• Reduced cosmetic costs to 1000 (playmat) and 500 (card back) to compensate for recent card crafting value adjustments (down from 5000 and 300 respectively)
  

• Added animation to Energy Strike and Lireziel
  
• Updated keyword attachment icons to be easier to see in-game
  
• Fixed revealed cards staying revealed after being sent to the deck and drawn
  
• Easy CPU now uses different calculation formulas to be easier (as currently it was very similar to hard)
  

[h3]Balance Changes[/h3]

• Crustacean Recruit now mills for 1 card (down from 2)
  
• Redan Commander no longer gives a stat buff and no longer has Tactician
  
• Redan Captain no longer has Tactician
  
• Replaced Soldier Training effect with "Friendly followers enter fields with an additional +1/+1 counter"Q
  

[h3]Other changes[/h3]

• Significantly improved Low Memory mode
  
• Fixed several rewards track bugs
  
• Updated reward images for lobbies with rewards
  

This update attempts to solve some economy balancing issues and improve functionality overall.

• Increased legendary pack price to 500g, to be more in line with its actual value
  
• Banned Struggle from Explorer
  
• Removed most of the alternative default game modes
  
• Removed all booster box bundles
  
• Changed gold per win to 15 (down from 25)
  
• Fixed target prompts submitting immediately when in a prompt with variable targets (like Up To)
  
• Rebalanced reward track and weekly chest
  
• Fixed AI Use deck parameter being reset in default decks each run
  
• Restored lobby rewards for sealed and draft modes
  
• Added background to prompt text
  
• Added collection mode dropdown in the collection screen