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Courtesy of our wonderful community artist Pasty, Chromatic Cup now has unique skins! Starting with the next tournament, every entrant will be able to choose Chromatic Shroud or Chromatic Lynx alongside the usual rewards; top 4 will also receive Chromatic Zurael! Hope to see you there!
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Don’t forget to join the Epic Series server to follow the tournaments!
Chromatic Cup 57 starts this Sunday, July 26 at 16:00 UTC. You get 200 shards worth of cosmetic items of your choice just for participating.
All you have to do is join the Epic Series Discord server and send P3P0 an image of your deck before the tournament starts. You can generate an image of your deck at Redecklyst. This tournament uses an open deck format. Games will be cast on P3P0's Twitch channel.
Have fun!
Chromatic Cup 56 starts this Saturday, July 11 at 16:00 UTC. You get 200 shards worth of cosmetic items of your choice just for participating.
All you have to do is join the Epic Series Discord server and send P3P0 an image of your deck before the tournament starts. You can generate an image of your deck at Redecklyst. This tournament uses an open deck format. Games will be cast on P3P0's Twitch channel.
Have fun!
Chromatic Cup 55 starts this Sunday, June 28 at 16:00 UTC. You get 200 shards worth of cosmetic items of your choice just for participating.
All you have to do is join the Epic Series Discord server and send P3P0 an image of your deck before the tournament starts. You can generate an image of your deck at Redecklyst. This tournament uses an open deck format.
Have fun!
Chromatic Cup 54 starts this Sunday, June 14 at 16:00 UTC. You get 200 shards worth of cosmetic items of your choice just for participating.
All you have to do is join the Epic Series Discord server and send P3P0 an image of your deck before the tournament starts. You can generate an image of your deck at Redecklyst. This tournament uses an open deck format.
Have fun!
Phew, we managed to revert the Glitch, and all the cards should be back to the way they were in patch 0.2.40. Unfortunately, that means the Sisters had to go too, but don’t worry, they will be returning in their true forms in a patch very soon…
In the meantime, this patch has some small fixes/QoL improvements:
New news widget on the main screen will now pull posts from this news site.
Fixed an issue with Chrome extensions causing the main menu to infinitely refresh
Fixed an issue with cards in Custom Scenarios using current text instead of the text that matches the effect for the card as the puzzle was created. Custom scenarios should be mostly unaffected by changes to the cards in patch updates now unless the scenario is edited (then the current version of the cards will be used when the scenario is saved again).
Shift+clicking a card in your collection when building a deck will automatically add the max cards to the deck, and shift+clicking a card in the deck will remove all copies of the card in the deck (to make it easier to work with 3x cards when deck building).
Chromatic Cup 53 starts this Saturday, May 30 at 16:00 UTC. You get 200 shards worth of cosmetic items of your choice just for participating.
This will be the last Chromatic Cup on the Glitch patch which ends in May.
All you have to do is join the Epic Series Discord server and send P3P0 an image of your deck before the tournament starts. You can generate an image of your deck at Redecklyst. This tournament uses an open deck format.
Have fun!
Chromatic Cup 52 starts this Sunday, May 17 at 16:00 UTC. You get 200 shards worth of cosmetic items of your choice just for participating.
All you have to do is join the Epic Series Discord server and send P3P0 an image of your deck before the tournament starts. You can generate an image of your deck at Redecklyst. This tournament uses an open deck format.
Have fun!
Patch notes for 0.2.41 below. You can also read the patch notes on the Duelyst II website.
With this patch, we’re making another reference to earlier times: for the remainder of the Glitch event we’re introducing the Seven Sisters. Based on the Duelyst 1 designs but slightly adjusted, they are available to everyone as free event cards. In case you’re wondering why this addition is temporary, the answer is quite simple: we have different designs planned for the Seven Sisters in D2.
Besides that, we’re temporary reverting our signature card – Slothguard Letharus – to its release cost. Get your Zen’ruis ready!
\ Lyonar | Legendary | Minion | 4 | 4 / 4 | When a unit is healed, put a True Strike into your action bar. \ Lyonar | Basic | Minion | 4 | 3 / 4 | When a unit is healed, put a True Strike into your action bar. It costs 0.
\ Songhai | Legendary | Minion | 4 | 3 / 5 | Spells you play that deal damage deal +1 damage. \ Songhai | Basic | Minion | 4 | 3 / 3 | When an allied minion damages an enemy, it deals +1 damage.
\ Vetruvian | Legendary | Minion | 4 | 4 / 4 | Your General has +1 Attack. \ Vetruvian | Basic | Minion | 4 | 3 / 4 | Your General has +1 Attack and “This takes 1 less damage”.
Perfection. No change from D1 except rarity.
\ Magmar | Legendary | Minion | 4 | 3 / 4 | When this takes damage, deal that much damage to nearby enemies. \ Magmar | Basic | Minion | 4 | 3 / 3 | When this takes damage, deal that much damage to nearby enemies.
\ Vanar | Legendary | Minion | 4 | 4 / 5 | Allied minions with Infiltrate have +1/+1. \ Vanar | Basic | Minion | 4 | 3 / 4 | Minions you summon on your opponent’s side of the board gain +1/+1 and Flying.
\ Neutral | Legendary | Minion | 4 | 2 / 4 | Opening Gambit: Put 2 random cards from your Faction to your action bar. \ Neutral | Basic | Minion | 4 | 3 / 4 | Opening Gambit: Draw 2 different Faction cards from your deck.
\ Neutral | Legendary | Minion | 5 | 1 / 6 | Provoke Opening Gambit: Create a Ruby Aura, Emerald Aura, and Sapphire Aura nearby. \ Neutral | Legendary | Minion | 4 | 1 / 6 | Provoke Opening Gambit: Create a Ruby Aura, Emerald Aura, and Sapphire Aura nearby.
Chromatic Cup 51 starts this Sunday, May 3 at 16:00 UTC. You get 200 shards worth of cosmetic items of your choice just for participating. For this tournament, you may choose to claim Fog emotes (200 shards each). Fog emotes are available exclusively as rewards during certain tournaments.
For this tournament only, New Moon Hex and Sphere of Darkness are allowed.
All you have to do is join the Epic Series Discord server and send P3P0 an image of your deck before the tournament starts. You can generate an image of your deck at Redecklyst. This tournament uses an open deck format.
Have fun!
We pushed a hotfix that resolves the following issues:
Effects:
Nightsorrow Assassin is Attack-based (minions with 3 or less Attack) (also updated in the patch notes)
New Moon Hex and Dark Sphere are banned from Ranked for the duration of the Glitch (hope some of you got to taste giga broken Creep while you could)
Eonbound Phalanx and Shimmering Sensu mana cost fixed
Text:
Void Pulse says "the enemy General"
Phalanxar has no text
Adamantite Claws - Timeless is bolded
The following will correctly provide a full Spirit refund on disenchant:
Saberspine Seal
Boundless Courage
Firespitter
Fenrir Warmaster
Aspect of the Mountains
The following will no longer provide a full Spirit refund:
Tusk Boar
Blindscorch
Consuming Rebirth
Breath of the Unborn
Adamantite Claws
Elucidator
Bonechill Barrier
Tethermancer
The High Hand
Songweaver
Paddo
Disenchant bonuses will end in 2 weeks, so get that spirit while you can!
Also those of you that participated in the Dec 2025 Frostfire Puzzle event - check your Profile Titles, you should have some new snazzy titles there now! Everyone who participated got a Frostfire Puzzler title, those who won the contest got their respective titles.
Patch notes for 0.2.40 below. You can also read the patch notes on the Duelyst II website.
We were featured in the Backed by Backers Steam Festival! Organized by Crytivo, it celebrates the games that wouldn’t exist without their communities. Check out the festival here, and be sure to check out the Featured tab in the in-game shop to see all the Kickstarter card bundles and skins on sale at 50% off!
Backers played pivotal role in the development of Duelyst II. With this patch, we want to pay homage to the game’s roots. A glitch in the timeline: we’re reverting all the “core set” cards to their original version from three and a half years ago, back when Duelyst just released after a successful Kickstarter. However, this glitch is only temporary. In roughly a month the cards will be reverted back to their present-day version. Enjoy a little bit of chaos in the meantime!
Fixed desync issues caused when Synchronic Abomination ends the game.
Fixed desyncs caused by playing Firewhirl after Assassination Protocol.
Fixed Next button not working when claiming 0 season rewards.
Improved memory usage in AI games to improve backend stability.
Shield now counts as a basic keyword and can be gained by S.I.L.V.E.R’s ability.
\ Neutral | Legendary | Minion | 4 | 1 / 1 | When you summon a Mech, double this unit’s Attack and Health. \ Neutral | Legendary | Minion | 3 | 1 / 1 | Shield At the end of each turn, if you control a Mech with higher Attack or Health, double this unit’s Attack and Health.
Reminder: for every patch, you can type "patched-\" (patched-0.2.40 in this case) in card collection search bar to see all changed cards.
The entire list is a bit too long, please refer to our blog post.
If you're not a member of Duelyst Discord server or Epic Series Discord server you may not know that we have regular community-organized tournaments.
Chromatic Cup 50 starts this Saturday, April 18 at 16:00 UTC. You get 200 shards worth of cosmetic items of your choice just for participating. All you have to do is join the Epic Series Discord server and send P3P0 an image of your deck before the tournament starts. Have fun!
Happy New Year, Duelysts!
You all smashed through the December Global Community challenge, so don't forget to log in and claim your free skins and a Prismatic Orb before February 1st!
As a small gift to welcome the new year, you can also redeem the gift code frostfire2025 in the shop to receive 200 shards! This code is valid only until January 15th, so be sure to redeem it before then!
Additionally, don't forget to vote for your favorite community puzzle here! Voting ends on the 9th!
The following have been fixed in the latest patch some of the community issues that were reported:
Fix Null Reverence causing desyncs in pvp matches.
Fix Vindicator getting the Null Reverence buff after its effect is activated.
Fix some cards missing from the sandbox scenario editor.
Show Player 1/2 instead of You/Opponent and actually render the map that the scenario was saved with.
In sandbox, allow decks of any size.
Fix some puzzles erroring/not uploading properly.
Fix some puzzles not validating properly in some situations
Allow replaces in puzzles
Fix emotes not appearing for opponents
Patch notes for 0.2.39 below. You can also read the patch notes on the Duelyst II website.
Community Favorite
We will share a form after the 25th with valid submissions that the community can vote for.
Dripping with Style
The puzzle that makes the most creative use of themes, skins, etc. Tell a story with your puzzle!
Tactical Teacher
The puzzle that best teaches an interesting/obscure mechanic or interaction.
Rogue Legacy Argeon, the reward for 10K games!
Such Cute, Much Dogehai
Prismatic Spirit Orbs grant 5 guaranteed Prismatic cards (1 guaranteed Legendary card and 4 cards with a 50% chance of being either Epic or Legendary)
You can track the community’s progress with the following graphic, which will update every day around 8pm ET.Thanks to community member Rocken for compiling these stats and this image!
To learn more and participate, join the Epic Series Discord here!We're past 7900 games for our community challenge!
In case you missed it, you can read more about the challenge here:
An extra prize or two await those that prove themselves in battle this month!
If players collectively complete 10,000 ranked battles this month, then all those who participated will get an exclusive Sarlac Prime skin, and those who reach S-Rank will also receive a Prismatic Spirit Orb with five guaranteed prismatic cards!
The Monolith awaits...
Patch notes for 0.2.38 below. As a reminder, you can also read the patch notes on the Duelyst II website.
\ Neutral | Epic | Minion | 4 | 1 / 6 | Your minions cost 1 more. Minions you play gain +2/+2.
We’re adding a time-limited community-designed card (submitted by buyingcoats) to spice things up a bit while you’re waiting for a bigger patch. 3 copies will be rewarded to all players who log into the game after this update.
We’ve decreased the time it takes for matchmaker to expand the search range when looking for players. Additionally we’ve disabled the rule that prevents two players repeatedly match against each other.
Made all Vanar – Earth skins individually purchasable.
Added 6 new music tracks written by Archaeologist. You can stream the entire soundtrack on Spotify or purchase it on Bandcamp.
In case you didn’t know, I frequently discuss balance changes with the community in the Duelyst Official Discord server, and since there’s no proper balance patch this month, I promised to make a post that explains why and what I’ve been working on.
My original plan was to make a relatively small “feels good” update – eliminate or at least tone down the most irritating things (based on what people talk about), and then take my time to work on the last part of the Sisters update. You wouldn’t get anything substantial for quite some time, but at least nothing would be getting on your nerves.
It seemed relatively easy at first, but I soon realized that one thing leads to another as everything is interconnected balance-wise and it’s difficult to decide where to stop. Which gets even more complicated when you need to come up with appropriate replacement and rebalancing first. Once I realized I don’t have anything ready for the start of August I thought that it would probably be best to move to the end goal right away – work on the last part of the Sisters.
Here’s the current plan, along with some reasoning.
Remove Cyclone Mask and Wildfire Ankh. Try to move artifact decks away from combo-ish “I avoid your board and punch you for big damage” towards tempo-ish “I efficiently trade into your board and punch you for moderate damage” (something along the lines of Adamantite Claws + Iridium Scale). Replace Cyclone with Crescent Spear (2 mana); replace Ankh with Iris Barrier (maybe Obdurator). Probably add spells that give Ranged/Blast to your General for one turn. I don’t think Spear will be problematic as D2’s Hai has much less spell burn options and throwing spells into the opponent’s face until they die will not be as easy.
Start reworking Arcanysts. Now this is probably the part where you all will be disappointed as the fabled Arcanyst rework is nothing fancy. Issue with Arcanysts is that the entire theme is carried by one card – Owlbeast Sage – and does nothing without it. How do we fix that? By removing Owlbeast Sage. Arcanyst synergy is that there’s no synergy. The theme is caring about spells – either do something when spells are played or create more spells to play. If we buff/rework Arcanysts into self-sufficient cards that can work individually, they will naturally gravitate towards each other. Tribe will no longer have any mechanical effect but it will remain as a reminder that these cards are somewhat related. Some cards will lose Arcanyst tribe as it doesn’t make sense on them (Aethermaster, Mindwarper, Sun Seer, Temporal Sage Lily, Eclipse). Card changes: Owlbeast Sage now buffs itself. Prismatic Illusionist to 3/3.
Rework/remove Penance. No idea what to do with it, current plan is to change it to 3 mana “Destroy a minion”.
Rework Star’s Fury. Same as Penance, no idea what to do with it, but the positional trap it creates has been an issue for too long. The easiest solution is to make it summon Iron Dervishes instead of Wind Dervishes. Another option: summon a set number of Wind Dervishes in a set location (around your General, for instance); summon a Wind Dervish nearby each allied Obelysk.
Rework White Widow. This is a weird one as I don’t see Widow that much and it doesn’t seem like a problematic card, but each time it shows up it’s a major PITA. What I want to try out is “Both players can replace one card less each turn”. I don’t think Psionic Resonator will be an issue without WW so I’m not touching it.
Start removing card recursion. I imagine many will disagree with me on this one as Alcuin Loremaster and Keeper of the Vale are fun cards. Additionally, this further hampers control decks. The issue here is that Duelyst is unevenly balanced – some cards are significantly above the power curve. These cards define their respective factions and games often revolve around anticipating, setting up or baiting these cards out. This is fine and interesting when players are limited to a maximum of 3 copies per card, but quickly becomes an issue when card limit is removed. All the fun aspects of additional copies are shoved aside in favor of copying only the most efficient options. Card changes: Alcuin copies enemy spells (and discounts by 1?). Keeper copies enemy minions. Aerial Rift has not changed, for now.
Whistling Blade to 4/9.
Thicket Augur to 3 mana.
Darkfire Sacrifice – discount reduced to 1 mana or discount only applies to Dying Wish minions.
Darkspine Elemental to 1/3. Finally being on par with other factions in the 2-drop department feels nice but I have to admit it’s a mistake from a balance standpoint. Another hit at Creep, which is unfortunate but necessary.
Grow rework? Big maybe here. You most likely know all the issues with Grow: it’s an infinite value generator; it has weak board presence at base; it’s slow; it’s weak to dispel; it promotes nonengagement. Over the years, multiple rework ideas have been floated. Changing Grow to a one-time effect was the one that I liked the most. The way I see it is you have a deck full of Primordial Gazers: decently stated minions that buff another minion you have on board. If you manage to maintain board presence, you’re rewarded with favorable trades. Unfortunately, after I started prototyping it I realized that it’s much easier to implement this kind of effect through tribes and I don’t need the keyword at all. So Grow rework turned out to be another faction tribal which works only within itself. Not particularly exciting, but I’m going to playtest it anyway.
Sisters part 3. This is by far the toughest task, not even technically but creatively. Also my biggest excuse for taking it slow.
Remember that all of the above is not final. The reason for making this post is to discuss the changes and come up with something you will enjoy.
Patch notes for 0.2.37 below. Steam posts have pictures now, too! But you can still read the patch notes on the Duelyst II website.
First of all, thank you to TOPDECKTIMMY, Scuttle, Cody, Calvin and other community members for providing feedback and ideas! Community help is greatly appreciated!
Lyonar | Rare | Spell | 1 | Set a minion’s attack equal to its Health. Lyonar | Rare | Spell | 1 | Give a minion: “This has Attack equal to its Health”.
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Bond seems fine from the balance perspective, but some players still get frustrated by it. Additionally, players get confused by the fact that old Bond is undispellable (permanent “set” effects like Divine Bond, Equality Constraint and Mark of Solitude are not dispellable). We are changing the card to increase the overall player enjoyment – new effect is weaker and it’s dispellable.
Lyonar | Common | Minion | 1 | 1 / 1 | Opening Gambit: Give allies directly in front and behind your General +1/+1. Lyonar | Common | Minion | 1 | 1 / 4
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Squire has an interesting effect but it gets overshadowed by Daybreaker, War Surge and Halo Bulwark. It seems that Lyonar players would prefer a cheap body to carry the buffs instead of another source of buffs. Thus, we’re reverting it to its previous version.
Lyonar | Common | Minion | 4 | 4 / 5 | When this attacks, add a Fading True Strike to your action bar. It costs one less. Lyonar | Common | Arcanyst | 5 | 3 / 5 | Opening Gambit: Fill your action bar with True Strikes. Zeal: The first True Strike you play each turn costs 0.
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Sunforge Advance is largely disliked, so we are replacing it with a new card – War Judicator. It is supposed to serve as a pseudo-draw engine for Daybreaker decks as well as a tie-in for upcoming Arcanyst rework.
Lyonar | Epic | Spell | 6 | Summon a column of 1/3 Recruits. Lyonar | Epic | Spell | 6 | Summon a column of Recruits. They have Shield until the start of your next turn.
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Eonbound’s effect is underwhelming for its cost. This buff is supposed to help both Eonbound as well as Dynasty Standard. Additionally, we’re clearing up the text by removing unnecessary mention of Recruits’ stats.
Songhai | Epic | Spell | 2 | Transform a minion into a Panddo. Songhai | Epic | Spell | 3 | Transform a minion into a Panddo.
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2 mana OBS was a temporary change to help Songhai when they were weaker. Currently faction seems to be in a good spot so they don’t need cheap removal anymore.
Vetruvian | Rare | Minion | 2 | 2 / 2 | Nearby enemies have -1/-0. Vetruvian | Rare | Minion | 2 | 2 / 3 | Opening Gambit: Give a nearby minion -2/-0 until your next turn.
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Vetruvian | Epic | Dervish | 4 | 4 / 4 | Opening Gambit: Give a nearby minion -4/-0 until your next turn. Vetruvian | Epic | Dervish | 4 | 4 / 4 | Nearby enemies have -1/-0.
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Swapping the effects of Sabo and Howler back due to community request.
Abyssian | Common | Minion | 3 | 3 / 2 | Deathwatch: This gains +1/+1. Abyssian | Common | Minion | 3 | 2 / 3 | Deathwatch: This gains +1/+1.
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A buff to help swarm decks a little.
Vanar | Common | Vespyr | 4 | 4 / 6 | Airdrop Opening Gambit: Stun a nearby minion. Vanar | Common | Vespyr | 4 | 4 / 4 | Airdrop Opening Gambit: Stun a nearby minion.
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4/6 statline on Displacer was pushed so we’re bringing it down now that players have noticed the card.
Neutral | Rare | Minion | 3 | 3 / 3 | Minions cannot be played on this row or column. Neutral | Rare | Minion | 3 | 3 / 4 | Minions cannot be played on this row or column.
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A nudge change.
Neutral | Rare | Minion | 3 | 2 / 1 | Airdrop Opening Gambit: Deal 2 damage to the nearest unit in front, behind, above, and below this. Neutral | Rare | Minion | 3 | 2 / 3 | Opening Gambit: Deal 2 damage to the nearest unit in front, behind, above, and below this.
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Trading Airdrop for more health. Riftwalker is a backer card and we’re making this change following the backer’s request.
Fixed Deja-Vu Engineer summoning the first minion instead of the last one if multiple Dying Wish minions died in the same turn.
War Surge going to 1 mana had less impact than anticipated so we’re keeping it, for now.
You may have noticed that Rasha’s Curse was renamed to Rasha’s Blessing. Now that the boss battle is over, this cosmetic change is gone as well. But stealthy card renames are fun in their own way, so you may find another card being slightly different.
Edited challenges 2-4, 3-3 and 5-4 to account for card changes.
Removed replace limitation for challenges – previously, challenges were created with 0 replaces available.
Backtick (`) shortcut to copy the game ID for bug reporting now works independently of player’s input language.
Added a notification that game ID was copied.
Improved application telemetry for debugging and support.
Added search tags for the cards with an apostrophe in the middle:
Zir’An Sunforge
Grandmaster Z’ir
Staff Of Y’kir
Wind Shrike (Staff Of Y’kir)
Zen’Rui, the Blightspawned
Now you can search for Z’ir by typing “Zir”.
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