Fairtravel Battle CCG news & patch notes

It's been 9 years I've been working on this game, and I couldn't be prouder!

We're so close to launch, after so much work! Thank you so much for being here at such a big moment!

I will do my best to make FTB an amazing game!

Hey everyone!

For the second time, Fairtravel Battle will participate in the Steam Deckbuilders Fest!

This comes just before the Steam Next Fest June 2026, which will happen just before launching the game into Early Access on July 31st!

Fairtravel Battle is a huge passion project of mine, with almost 9 years of work put into it! If you're looking for a collectible card game that brings something fresh for the table, make sure to give the demo a try!

With a super cool deckbuilding mode, an amazing resource system, 2-4 player battles, and even a 3v1 raid mode, there's a lot to enjoy! And if that's not enough, Fairtravel Battle has no microtransactions for card packs whatsoever! The cherry on top? It's a normal indie game, meaning it will never shut down!

This demo features multiplayer, so feel free to bring your friends to try it together! If you don't like PVP games, you can change the amount of players and setup teams as you prefer and add CPU players for the other team! Or just play the 3v1 raid mode and set the raid boss as a CPU player!

There's a lot to love and I can't wait to hear your thoughts! Feel free to stop by the discord if you'd like to chat with the community! (Link in the game menu)

Hello everyone! After almost 9 years of work, Fairtravel Battle is approaching its Early Access release date!

With Steam's upcoming Deckbuilders Fest, the Playtest will finally end as we're preparing to launch FTB with an estimated release date of July 31st.

Please note the release date is not fully set in stone but I will do my best to release it at this time!

FTB will participate in Deckbuilders Fest in May, as well as Next Fest in June. If you like what you've played so far, I'd really appreciate it if you shared the demo with your friends during this time, or maybe get your friends to try the Playtest while it's still available!

Thank you so much for your support all these years, it's been a huge challenge and a massive amount of work for a mainly solo-developed game of this magnitude, but I hope you will enjoy it!

Main Changes

• Added more accessible CPU difficulties!

• Added gold tokens which can unlock golden frame cards! You can earn them weekly or for each time you win a raid!

• Added Aurelius Hero

• Added Steam Workshop support for sharing mods

• Updated default deck lists

Card Changes

• Chaos Keepers no longer lose from running out of cards, their discard is shuffled back into their deck and they take 10 damage

• Change Peace Core's attack tax to 1 (down from 2 )

• Changed Crustacean Celebration to Unique Enchantment and "2 : Summon a Crab follower token. At the end of your turn, if your field is full, put a strength counter on your Crabs"

• Changed Construct Factory to Unique Artifact and "Whenever an artifact enters your support, summon a Construct token"

• Reduced amount of card styles

• Reduced Warrant's to 2 (down from 3 )

• Changed Hunt's to 3 (up from 2 )

• Changed Nalari Grove Gatherer to 2 and 2 (down from 3 and 3 )

• Changed Armored Companion's to 2 (up from 1 )

• Changed Enrage, Lifestream Ritual, and Soar's last words to require having the essences of the card to draw

• Changed Fountain Element to 2 and 0 (down from 3 and 1 )

• Updated Essence icons

• Updated mana cards and card back

UI Changes

• Added Playmat Opacity option and removed Colored Playmats option

• Added Voice volume setting

• Many improvements to the UI in general

• Selecting an invalid deck now explains why it's invalid

Other Changes

• Improved the Auto Resource Growth custom game mode option, which now automatically levels up your mana and asks which essence you want to level up

• Conceding a match kicks you out of it after a few seconds instead of waiting for it to finish if your team is still alive

• Fixed some issues with non-english OS languages causing glitches with the code

• Added more animations to some cards

Main Changes

• Removed Legendary card packs from the in-game shop, as they end up giving you much less collection progression than regular packs and could ruin the player experience (as a reminder, there's no way to buy anything with real money)
• Added voice acting to Al'Kai, Anthe Ringwarden Fugitive Vigilante, Capital Guard, Cawn Supporting Ally, Lireziel, Lost Soul, Nalari Grove Gatherer, Paw, Redan Fruit Merchant, Redan Captain, Redan Thief, Tarin Spellburst the Uncounterable, and Thulari Mercenary, by Alec Miller
• Added voice actor field to cards as well as searching by voice actor in the collection
• Upgraded to Unity 6.2, which should improve performance considerably. Also solved the recent unity security issue

Card Changes

• Flame Elemental now triggers once per turn
• Flames of Greed now costs 3 (up from 2)
• Changed Cawn's cost reduction effect to half your :ftblife:
• Cawn no longer draws a card, and has 4 health (down from 5)
• Added Aurelia, a Redan Hero
• Chaos Keepers now have an additional effect in phase 2 onwards: "At the start of your turn, if you have less than 3 cards in your hand, draw a card"

Other Changes

• Fix Back to Nature discarding before selecting targets
• Fixed Sul's discard draw not triggering Struggle
• CPU Players now have more care to draw cards when they're running low
• Fixed Heroic Chaos Raids not having their buffs active in networked matches

Fairtravel Battle has finally reached its 8th development anniversary!

It's been a huge amount of work and things keep getting better!

To celebrate, you can use the shop code FTB8YA to earn 10 card packs, 500 gold and renown, and a unique card style for Monstrous Defeat!

Note: This update is releasing earlier to fix a critical bug with dates in certain systems

Card Changes

• Changed Back to Nature to scale by half your Life essence (instead of X being equal to your Life essence)

• Changed Enfeeble to give each follower -2/-2 until end of turn (instead of -5/-5 to a single follower)

• Changed Satchel to explore for all 3 types at once (instead of choosing a type)

• Threaten no longer draws a card

• Raphael the Wayfinder and Soulite Sword now require 1 mana to explore

• Construct Factory no longer draws cards and costs 1 mana and 1 justice (down from 3 mana and 2 justice)

Other Changes

• Removed quests from Explorer's card list

• Improved CPU logic when dealing with unique cards and mana management

• Explorer now allows custom decks and customization (but decks are locked to 0 cards)

• Added animation when a turn has no more actions

• Fixed copying sub game modes with the same name to allow for creating a duplicate with a slightly diferent name. The sub game mode must have different parameters than all sub game modes of the game mode they belong to

• Added support for disabling redraw and duplicates in Explorer. When redraw is disabled, each player will draw a card each turn

• Fixed Arfactus's first effect destroying everything

• Fixed Frenzy not being used by the CPU

Major Changes

• Added more card animations: Bloom (destroy), Back to Nature (destroy)

• Added Changed Cards screen when updating the game

• Added Spanish language

Card Changes

• Redesigned Shadow Assassin's effects to "Up to two target followers gain Stealth until end of turn; Target weapon or armor gain +2 strength until the start of your next turn; Destroy target follower with cost 4 or less"

• Redesigned Inviting Soul to 3/4 (up from 1/1) and "Deploy - Destroy target follower"

• Changed Dina (Follower) to no longer be a human crab and affect non-dina followers

• Construct Factory's draw effect is now optional

Other Changes

• Fixed custom game modes not respecting the custom card copy limit

• Fixed Cawn's cost reduction to stay active if he is destroyed

• Significantly improved the CPU player logic

• Added error message when the server's game data differs from the client's

Major Changes

• Hon Sweetperson
• Larial
• Nalari Grove Gatherer
• Nalari Skyseeker
• Overseer Construct
• Parched Hound
• Raging Phoenix
• Redan Captain
• Redan Commander
• Redan Entertainer
• Redan Explorer
• Shadow Assassin
• Undead Mob
• Upgradable Servant
• Varlari Trainee
• Undead (Token)

Card Changes

• Added animation to Lost Soul's Last Words trigger
• Changed +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters into strength and weakness counters. This simplifies design by making so these counters affect each card differently - strength counters increase attack, health, and armor, where it makes sense (for example, an armor card will not gain attack or health, but will gain armor), while weakness counters do the opposite
• Changed Blacksmith's effect to choose between two strength counters on a follower or one strength counter on a weapon or armor
• Slightly improved CPU players' intelligence with certain cards

Major Changes

• Updated the UI for resources
• Added Colored Playmats accessibility option
• Added support for disabling card styles in battles as an accessibility option
• Added colorblind accessibility setting (affects only battles)
• Added Large Battle Icons accessibility option (Phones automatically enable this)
• Added Heroic Raids (and nerfed regular raids)
• Added icons for quests, completed quests, and level counters

Card Changes

• Changed Grove Arms's armor slot to Hands (from Wrist)
• Added Full Art Old Photo card style
• Changed Larial's draw effect to draw a single card (down from two)

Other Changes

• Potentially fxed the multiplayer turn skip bug
• Fixed cutouts on heroes
• Fixed players or playmats being placed in the wrong location
• Updated text colors for buffs and debuffs to be slightly less strong/confusing
• Added warning for redrawing too fast or when the player has no mana
• Bumped Tutorial 2's enemy hero health to 9
• Adjusted collection quantity icons to be closer to the card itself to prevent confusion

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)

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

• 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)

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

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

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

What's New

• Fixed a critical lobby bug that kept players from being able to play together in the official server
• CPU logic improvements
• Reduced starting renown reward to 2000 (down from 10000), due to giving too much at the start
• Replaced Booster Box with 3 Card Pack Bundle
• Added Lan Discoverability to local lobbies
• Added Profile Sync to profile menu, so that players can sync their non-steam saves between devices

Card Balance Changes

• Changed Whispering Book to trigger once per turn but affect all essences
• Changed The Shadow's cost to 6 (up from 4)
• Changed Cursed Beast to 2/2 (down from 2/4) and it no longer has Tactician
• Changed Darkness Lookout to 1/4 (from 3/2)
• Changed Enrage to buff attack only and based on half the Passion essence
• Changed Crustacean Celebration and Golem Factory to require 1 mana to trigger at end of turn
• Changed Crustacean Recruit to summon a crab token when entering the field
• Changed Numbing Sphere to 3-cost and 1-justice 2-darkness (down from 4-cost 2-justice 2-darkness), and added draw on enter the field
• Changed Struggle darkness cost to 1 (down from 2) and added draw on enter the field
• Changed Parched Hound to trigger from hero heals instead of everything
• Changed Lireziel, Fledgling Adventurer to trigger from opposing followers and to no longer have tactician
• Changed Chains darkness cost to 2 (up from 1)
• Changed Enfeeble darkness cost to 1 (down from 2)

A new major update for Fairtravel Battle is finally out!

Major Changes

• Brand new battle soundtrack by crisp!
• French language!
• Improved mod setup experience!
• Big fixes to Steam Lobbies!
• Accessibility improvements!
• 36 new avatars!
• 23 new card backs!
• 27 new playmats!

Card Changes

• Added missing Adventurer tags to Anthe, Hon Sweetperson, and Shadow Assassin
• Lifestream Ritual now heals both the follower and the hero
• Justice Core was changed to "3 , Exhaust: Give target follower +X/+X until end of turn, then summon a 1/1 Guardian Soldier follower token with Guardian, where X equals half your rounded down.
• Darkness Core was changed to "3 , Exhaust: Give target follower -X/-X until end of turn, then summon a 2/2 Undead follower token, where X equals half your rounded down.

Improved mod setup experience

• Added support for modding with loose audio files (wav, mp3, ogg)
• Added support for mod file picking and for unzipping zip files

Accessibility improvements

• Added animation multiplier setting
• Reduced motion is now finalized
• Added team text coloring to in-game player names
• You can now skip most animations by clicking (card previews, turn message, player defeat)
• Added settings button to the onboarding sequence

Full patch notes

• Added missing Adventurer tags to Anthe, Hon Sweetperson, and Shadow Assassin
• Lifestream Ritual now heals both the follower and the hero
• Justice Core was changed to "3 , Exhaust: Give target follower +X/+X until end of turn, then summon a 1/1 Guardian Soldier follower token with Guardian, where X equals half your rounded down.
• Darkness Core was changed to "3 , Exhaust: Give target follower -X/-X until end of turn, then summon a 2/2 Undead follower token, where X equals half your rounded down.
• Added support for modding with loose audio files (wav, mp3, ogg)
• Fixed scroll sensitivity in the shop
• Fixed Raging Phoenix not triggering from resurrecting an elemental with Varlari Necromancer
• Adjusted multi move animation sound to be less overwhelming on big moves
• Removed Dina (Barrel) card style
• Fixed demo intro not respecting the local language
• Fixed several networking issues with steam lobbies
• You can now customize the hero for readonly decks
• Modded decks can now be successfully share with non-modded players as long as only the hero becomes an invalid card
• Copy-Pasting custom game modes and decks no longer requires the clipboard to change
• Added support for mod file picking and for unzipping zip files
• Fixed avatar picker on rewards screen not being in sync and not picking correctly
• Card pack card previews now properly zoom into the card style you got
• Changed Steam Lobby into its own lobby mode
• Added concede confirmation prompt
• Onboarding messages can now be advanced by clicking anywhere on the screen
• Fixed Shadow Assassin's 2nd ability never being selectable in some cases
• Added team text coloring to in-game player names
• You can now skip most animations by clicking (card previews, turn message, player defeat)
• Added animation multiplier setting
• Fixed Explorer multiplayer not setting player names and avatars
• Re-added Player is CPU game mode setting
• Picking a hero now shows the full hero card instead of the field image
• Added French translation
• Updated font for headers/titles due to localization issues
• Added settings button to the onboarding sequence
• Improved shop product preview screen
• Updated in-game player avatars

Portuguese Language added!

Card Changes

• Updated Dina Hero field art to be less zoomed in
• Changed Justice Core's effect to "3 COST, Exhaust: Put X + 1 +1/+1 counters on target follower, then draw a card."
• Adjusted Hon Sweetperson's targeting to no longer have restrictions
• Full Art card styles now remove most reminders from the card text so the art is more visible
• Simplified rules text to make it nicer to read and simpler
• Disabled Ranged from Flame Master (was accidentally set)
• Changed Darkness Sword to always return if you don't control a weapon, rather than ask every time you destroy a follower
• Fixed Empowered Fire Ball having two play modes
• Changed "Follower - Token" to "Token Follower - "
• Renamed Lireziel Denizen, Adventurer-in-training into Lireziel Denizen, Fledgling Adventurer
• Renamed Dark Hunter to Darkness Hunter
• Renamed Dark Lookout into Darkness Lookout
• Changed Grip of Darkness into Dark Grip
• Changed A Dark Past to calculate its trigger since the player's last turn
• Changed Darkness Core to also draw in addition to its effect, like Justice Core
• Renamed To The General Store into Let's Get Some Geqar
• Changed Redan Thief to choose a target to discard on deploy rather than when hitting the first time
• Changed Thulari Mercenary's effect to "This gets +1/+1 for each Lari you control"
• Changed "restore health" to "heal" to simplify clarity in rules
• Clarified Siphon Essence's healing effect

Other Changes

• Fixed pack indicator in lobby screen going over the deck customization screens
• Added interaction between +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters (adding one of the other kind will cancel out both)
• Added weekly Booster Box bundle to the shop, to help players who want to complete their collection faster (but at a reasonable rate)
• Fix deck section not resetting its state
• Added New Player rewards
• Fixed resolution handling when having multiple refresh rates
• Added support for debugging translation strings (in launch options: use "--debug-empty-strings" to force empty text to turn into the translation key, use "--debug-all-strings" to force all text into its translation key)
• Fixed missing translations causing a bad state (every text in the game would be the translation key)
• Added shadows to sprites in fullart card style
• Added support for system language to auto select a language when creating a new profile from scratch

Card Changes

• Added card art for Grove Guardian, Dark Lookout, Inviting Soul, Cursed Beast, Grove Tyrant, Plate Chausses, Struggle, Raise Morale, Dina (Hero), Flame Master
• Renamed Flame Master into Flame Elemental
• Changed Flying cards to not be able to attack flying tacticians
• Renamed Impact to Pierce and Quickness to Swift
• Grove Guardian is now a beast elemental (from just elemental)
• Redan Captain is now Unique
• Redan Commander now has 2 health (down from 4) and gives +1/+1 and guardian to other friendly followers

Other Changes

• Removed game over screen from tutorial matches
• Disabled focus camera
• Adjust mass open rarity description to use full words
• Fix first time booting not loading all steam profiles
• Reordered default decks from easier to harder

Changes

• Added card art for Lifestream Ritual, Nalari Grove Gatherer, Siphon Essence, Soldier Training, Defender's Hammer, Lasher Chestplate, Greatsword of Agility, Nalari Skyseeker, Numbing Sphere, Reinforce the Guard, "Flareo, Aspect of Fury", Golem (that's an entire 12 new card arts!)
• Changed Shadow Assassin's 2nd effect to "This gains evasive until end of turn"
• Disabled Tab shortcut for ending turns
• Improved daily chest reward drops to 1 pack and 50 gold per 5 levels (down from 8 levels)
• Updated mass pack open experience to be simpler
• Simplified foil effect to be less obtrusive
• Optimized card textures to be more performance-efficient, while reducing the game's install size by around 100MB on all platforms and allowing lower end devices to run it better as well
• Renamed Greatsword of Agility to Swiftwind Slasher
• Redesigned team list screen
• Changed the Flying keyword into "Non-flying guardians can't defend from this. Can attack tacticians directly"
• Renamed Evasive to Stealth and Clairvoyance to Scout
• Updated card rules to use symbols when referencing to stat changes and cleaned up rules in general

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Explore not revealing cards properly in multiplayer
• Fixed mulligans not cleaning up properly in dedicated servers due to timeout
• Fixed several issues with Steam Lobbies

Balance Changes

• 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"

Other Changes

• 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

Balance Changes

• 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)

Other Changes

• 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)

Balance Changes

• Enrage now gives +x/+X instead of +X attack
• Explorer's map now costs 2 (up from 1)
• Nurturing Elemental now costs 2 (down from 3)
• Redan Captain now has 5 health (down from 6)
• Rush now costs 1 (down from 2)
• Soaring Elemental now has 2 health (up from 1)
• Soulite Sword now has 3 attack (up from 2)
• Tarin Spellburst's second level up effect is now "Gain untargetable by opponents", and he no longer is untargetable by default
• Treasure Dragon now has an additional effect of "At the end of your turn, ready this"
• Varlari Vanguard now has its effects swapped: first, put +1/+1 on a target on discard. second, deal damage with followers that have +1/+1 counters; third: EOT draw a card then discard a card
• Gold per win changed to 20 (up from 15)
• Updated crafting costs to: Commons: 150 (up from 100), Uncommon: 250 (down from 300); rare: 400 (down from 500), epic: 600 (down from 1200), legendary: 1000 (down from 2000)
• Reduced Explore, Heal Damage, Play daily quest steps to 5

Changes

• Updated collection card zom to show arrows on the card style swaps
• Added mulligan selection visual indicator
• Decks with CPU use disabled show an indicator
• Updated tutorial window arrows to be clearer
• When you open a deck, the collection filters will auto select the essences the deck has
• Modding: Added support for characteristic overrides and disabling some characteristics from being validated by the server
• Added descriptions to reward kinds in reward track
• Fixed generated AI decks to no longer have extra cards
• While building a deck, you can now exceed the deck size limi, but it will be invalid for play unless it has the correct amount of cards
• Updated fullart card styles
• Removed Heal Damage quest
• Fixed bugs with negative attack in combat
• Fixed a bug with redan thief triggering after dealing damage to a follower and surviving
• Adjusted prompt hide/show behaviours to hide buttons too
• Improved resource drop UX
• Updated multiessence sprite
• Fixed Grave Aura buff that was misconfigured

Changes

Balance Changes

• 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

Other changes

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

Changes

• 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

Changes

• Changed Purifier's Greatsword to 6-cost (up from 4-cost)
• Added support for creating decks with cards you don't own, which can be played by CPU players
• Added support for allowing a deck to be used by the CPU or not
• Fixed a bug with decks with modded heroes not handling the mod being disabled properly
• Fixed a serious bug with daily quests not being updated properly

Changes

• Updated default decks and increased gold per win to 25 to compensate for the slower new player experience
• Removed summon mana cost for Master Golem and King of Beasts
• Fountain Elemental and Dark Hunter's rules texts have been cleaned up
• Grave Aura only affects friendly discard zones instead of all
• Grove Tyrant is now 6/6 (down from 8/8), and has impact and quickness (instead of only impact)
• Call of Darkness is back on 3-cost (down from 4-cost)
• Tainted Beasts effect now triggers only once per turn
• Several more improvements to AI
• Changed pack rarity code to be simplified and changed pack rarities to rare: 65%; epic: 25%; legendary: 10%
• Possibly fixed a bug regarding timezones and quest resets
• Fixed a bug with cards that have AI essence nudges

Changes

• Many AI improvements
• Adjusted Fountain Elemental and Darkness Hunter to have their effect as "X where X is half your + 1"
• Changed Restoring the Ruins to no longer draw a card
• New profiles now persist profile customization settings
• Reduced requirements for the new daily quests
• Opening a card pack no longer shuffles the pack's cards

Changes

• Added several new daily quests
• Adjusted in-game economy as it is currently too generous and getting a full collection takes less than a week
• Improved collection filtering for multi essence cards to show cards that have at least the essences selected
• Changed Flame Burst to 2-passion (up from 1-passion)
• Changed Satchel activated ability cost to 2 (up from 1)
• Added game configuration data into the game data with additional settings to tweak AI logic
• Fixed loose file modding to properly override files