Wyldernook news & patch notes

Welcome to our weekly deckbuilding challenge!

Each week we'll post a new challenge to inspire creative decks and give everyone something fun to build, share, and discuss.

Congratulations to WashExtreeem3393 for winning Week 3 "Highlander Deck"! They snuck through in the last minute and secured a win. You can see the details of their deck here: E.D.H. (Echo Draw Highlander)

In a surprise twist, we have added 1000 gemstones as a prize for each weekly win & removed the need for a comment on the deck post. Past winners will be award gemstones retroactively. We hope this will improve incentive to join. GLHF!

This week's challenge has been posted here: Week 4

As Wyldernook continues through Early Access, cards are making their transitions from concept sketches to their final illustrated form. This month's card art update is now live!

Explore the final illustrations that have replaced the original sketches in-game.

New final art:

• Adreus Castedras

• Armored Pineapple

• Baijin, Thrice Blessed

• Peek

• Chosen for Sacrifice

• Rewrite their Story

(Before/after images for each card below.)

The early art isn't going anywhere! It's just moving.

• For most cards, the original sketch becomes alternate art, pullable from Premium and Collector booster packs going forward.

• For Starter cards like Adreus, which you earn through play rather than packs, you can switch between the sketch and the new art right in the Card Details window through a toggle. Important Note: this is only if you'd already unlocked the sketch version before this update. Any future alternate art for Starter cards will come as its own separate card, not through the toggle.

If you haven't joined already, its a great time to join early access and collect sketch art before it becomes more rare. Your collection will be maintained when we move into full release from early access.

Changes

• Blackmark's Thorn is now a secret choice, the target isn't revealed to the opponent.

  Blackmark's Thorn is a cool concept, but was underperforming massively. This will help boost the card in power while strengthening the flavor of it.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with disclaimer texts being displayed on top of each other in the purchasing preview screen.

• Baijin now properly summons allies on attacking, rather than at the start of the attack step. This fixes various issues with him summoning allies while asleep, or if he died before getting to attack.

• Fixed various issues where cards summoned or moved into the Attack Zone wouldn't attack if it was mid combat-resolution.

• Fixed a bug where if Jappi created cards that couldn't resolve (for instance, from the Rest Zone being full), those cards would hover in the Resolution Zone forever.

• Fixed an issue where unforged cards were always showing the default art, they should now display the artwork you'll get on forging.

• Tell now creates the distinct cards from your collection, rather than simply making new cards of those names. Now you can use Tell to show off all your alternative art, special frames, stickers, wear patterns etc.

• Eater of Civilizations should no longer shuffle into the deck when a would Barrier prevent death.

• The Deck Options will now properly show your default card back.

• Improved the Global Chat filtering to give less false positives (words like assume not longer get censored).

• The Extra filter in the Collection page no longer shows Sleeved cards, since the intention of this filter is to show you which cards are extra to dust.

• If you try to edit a deck with deleted custom cards in it, the game will now give you the option to exit editing, rather than forcing a save with the cards removed.

• Fixed an issue where your collection wouldn't appear when trading.

• You can no longer cast Wish for Campaign cards when not playing the Campaign.

  We have our eye on the ability to Wish for Campaign cards in general... but for now we're letting it slide, it's a cool concept. But you definitely shouldn't be able to Wish for Campaign specific cards while not in a Campaign.

• The CPU now knows how to play Echoing Hate.

New Starter Bundle Added

Chive is now selling a Starter Bundle! This one-time purchase is a great way to kick off a collection with 675 Gems, 3 random champions, 2 random epics, 3 random rares, and 10 random common cards, all for $7.99 USD! Visit Chive's in game shop to purchase.

New Art Added

This patch marks our first release of new card artwork! If you currently own the sketched version of a card, your card will remain as is, however new copies pulled from a booster pack will have the new art. The new art will come into effect at 00:01 Jul 23rd UTC, so if you're reading these patch notes now there may be some time to easily get the old sketched artwork still.

The old sketched versions of these cards will still be available as alternative art pulls from Premium and Collector booster packs after we update their default artwork.

For Starter cards (such as Adreus), which are only earned through gameplay, you can toggle between the original sketch art (if you've previously unlocked it) and the new default art in the Card Details window. Future alternate art versions of Starter cards will be released as separate cards rather than through the toggle system.

Finalized Card Artwork

• Adreus Castedras

• Armored Pineapple

• Baijin, Thrice Blessed

• Peek

• Chosen for Sacrifice

• Rewrite their Story

General Updates

• By community request, there is now an option to protect a card from being traded or destroyed, called "sleeving".

  When you get that super rare card, or have a treasured pet card, it's terrifying to think that a slip of the mouse (or Del key) could erase it from existence. At the community's request, we've added an option to protect a card, which we're calling "sleeving" in homage to our physical TCG roots.

• When purchasing a shop item, there's now a much better UI that displays exactly what you'll be buying, and the odds of all items contained in a booster pack.

  We've gotten a lot of questions on what exactly are the odds of pulls in a booster pack, and previously that information was hidden away in a FAQ, which wasn't very customer friendly. We're putting it in a very obvious place in the client purchasing flow now, so that everybody is aware exactly what their odds are.

  We've also gotten requests to add bulk purchasing and opening of packs, and the truth is that we've been working on it, and have all the UI and animations ready to go (you can get a sneak peek with the new Starter Bundle), but we're currently running into issues with our backend server when buying so many packs in bulk (Our backend service rate-limits each account) so we're not quite ready to launch that yet.

• Added a new button in the Options menu: Link Mobile Account

  When initially creating an account, after the tutorial, there's an option to enter an email address and password in order to be able to login to the eventual mobile client using the same account. Players who opted to skip that have asked us if there's a way to go back and re-add that information, and now there is! We encourage people to register their email if they are interested in mobile when it comes out.

• You can now rotate and scale stickers! Additionally, we've lowered the restrictions on placing the stickers, letting you place stickers on the devotion flags and over the edge of the card art if you want. It's your card, go wild.

• There's now way more random fun stickers that can be earned in matchmaking.

  Stickers have proven to be a surprise hit! We've had a lot of requests to find a way to rotate and scale stickers so they better fit the card art, and that's now possible. Use the mouse wheel to rotate a sticker, and hold shift while using the mouse wheel to scale the sticker up and down. For people without mouse wheels, sorry, we're still figuring out a control scheme that'll work (especially down the line for touch devices). Join our discord to see how the community has been using stickers to make works of art.

• We've updated the rarity icon for alternative art cards. It's a subtle graphic, a small iron halo effect around the rarity gem.

Fixes

• In-play versions of cards now display the stickers too.

• Stickers are now much more accurate when placing, and have more floating point precision when placed.

• Fixed various issues with Jappi where she would not consider many cards, such as a deck created by Tell, as new cards. Additionally, a Jappi that was created during a game wouldn't correctly understand which cards to copy.

• Added a new rule for Jappi, found in her Rules Clarification text: Jappi's that create other Jappi's will not play cards as well, as this creates an infinite loop.

• Fixed the tooltip for Drain which incorrectly stated that you could only gain as much health as the target had left.

• Fixed various issues where Custom Cards that could crash a game server.

• Fixed an issue where the game would add too many cards to your deck if you unlocked a faction and got their starter deck, but already owned any copies of those cards from opening booster packs.

• Fixed a bug where the hit boxes of card backs would overlap when choosing a card back.

Deckbuilder Challenge #2 Winner

Congrats to u/Spinynerd for winning Three Faction Coalition week and taking their place in the Deckbuilder Hall of Fame with deck Inexorable March. We think they deserve bonus points for a deck that works in Campaign!

Try out the winning deck in action, get the deck code here.

New Week #3 Challenge is up: Highlander Deck

Think you can earn the next spot in the Hall of Fame? Build your deck, share your creation, and join this week's challenge! For Details go, see the Reddit Post.

Good Luck & Happy Deckbuilding,

Nami and Keja

The path through the Wyldernook is only just beginning.

Since entering Early Access, your feedback has helped shape the world we're building. Today we're sharing a look at what's ahead as we continue evolving the world’s adventures, cards, and handcrafted art.

On the first Tuesday of the month, faction-focused card drops will deepen each faction's identity, introducing new characters, abilities, and tools for players to discover new ways to build and play their decks. Each faction drop will include 2x Legendary Champions, 2x Epics, 2x Rares, 2x Commons. In the second half of the month we will release art updates as more of Wyldernook's world evolves from early sketches into fully realized illustrations.

In Q3, the most requested Ranked and Leaderboards will arrive, giving players a place to prove their skill and see how they measure up against the rest of the community.

Then in Q4, the journey continues with Chapter 2 of the Campaign, taking you deeper into the heart of the Wyldernook and uncovering more secrets of the arch-witch, Serincenthe.

Throughout it all we will continue to add various community requested features and polish improvements as well.

As with any journey through the unknown, our path may change as we learn from the community and continue developing the game during Early Access. Thank you for walking the path with us! We're excited to share what comes next. As usual, the wylds are wycked so…

Safe Travels, 

Nami and Keja

Deckbuilder Challenge #1 Winner

Congrats to u/Nyte_Crawler for winning Pauper Week and becoming the first entry into the Deckbuilder Hall of Fame with deck Pauper Drain! Some really creative submissions this week and we loved that only starter cards were used in this deck so anyone can try it out. It was even more pauper than we expected!

Try out the winning deck in action, get the deck code here.

New Week #2 Challenge is up: Three Faction Coalition

Think you can earn the next spot in the Hall of Fame? Build your deck, share your creation, and join this week's challenge! For Details go, see the Reddit Post.

Good Luck & Happy Deckbuilding,

Nami and Keja

A quick reminder that if you've been working on a deck you'd like to share, submissions for Deckbuilder of the Week are closing soon!

This week's link thread is here and Voting will close at Monday at 9:00 AM PDT.

The Wylds are Wycked, Safe travels!

Nami and Keja

General

• By community request, it's now possible to clear a devotion slot in the deckbuilder.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug preventing joining a game while in a Campaign game would fail, and cause the Campaign to be considered abandoned.

• Fixed a visual issue where flying characters would be drawn under the enemy when attacking.

• Fixed an issue where killing a cost reducing ally could cause the server to reject plays in the turn.

• Fixed a bug where dragging a card when the turn forcibly ended due to timeouts would cause that card to be forever stuck to your mouse cursor.

• Fixed up various issues in Court mode where zones would be arranged in the wrong orientation when the local player was dead.

• Fixed a bug where Vorephelim Headdress wasn't drawing with health until after a few seconds of the turn starting.

• Fixed a bug in the interaction with Vorephelim Headdress and Augur Orb, where it was only possible to see and draw as many cards as your resources, not health, allowed.

• Fixed various bugs with Grove Spirit and Leysap Attendant not applying their buffs when transformed into or removed from the game in certain circumstances.

• Fixed the Tab key double cycling between fields on the Create Account screen.

• Fixed an issue where if two Brixas hit each other, the attacking Brixa would always live.

• Fixed many visual issues with Barrier's graphic not appearing consistently, or appearing while in the hand.

• Fixed where the opponent's deck would slide a little after falling into place at the start of the game.

• When a character transforms, it will now properly keep any Captured buffs, meaning if it dies it'll release the captured card.

• Fixed an issue where Wendigo could cause the server to crash under certain circumstances.

The wylds are strange, the Coven is dangerous, and your first adventure is waiting.

If you've been curious about Wyldernook, this is the easiest way to start your adventure. The DLC includes a campaign-ready deck of 31 new cards, 1,000 Gemstones to customize your collection, and immediate access to the roguelike campaign.

We are in the last 24 hours to pick up the Thrice Blessed Fury Precon Campaign Deck DLC at its 15% off launch discount.

Every run tells a different story. We hope you'll start yours today. Pack your deck, choose your champion and we'll see you in the Wyldernook!

Safe Travels,

Nami and Keja

This patch marks the 2 week anniversary of our launch, and in those two weeks we've been taking in lots of feedback about the relative strength of each faction and strategies. Midrange Untamed / Coven decks have proven to be very strong, while Gremlin aggro decks have continued to struggle. Swamp Terror in particular has become an oft-discussed card, and is being tuned down this patch.

As games have been played and talented deckbuilders and players have joined the community, we as developers have been learning what makes a card strong or weak, and how sensitive some balance knobs can be. We certainly learned the difference in power between draining 2 and 3 a turn!

In these first two weeks, we recognize that there have been a lot of patches and balance changes. We expected this going into Early Access, with such a small team we knew there'd be bugs and balance issues we hadn't caught. Going forward, our intent is to do balance updates, if any, a maximum of every two weeks, on Tuesday.

Card Changes

• Swamp Terror now drains for 2, down from 3.

  The earlier change to Swamp Terror's drain amount catapulted it to being one of the defining cards of the meta. It wasn't our intention with the previous change to make Swamp Terror such a powerful card, at the time the change was viewed as a way to make it not have such a large delta between its power in Court and 1v1, but the ability to stabilize and close out a game from simply sitting in the Rest Zone has proven to be meta warping in all game types, so the problematic horror is getting double nerfed.

• Kale the Conquerer now costs 5, down from 6.

• Buff Broccoli's power is now 6, up from 5.

• Spore Scout now has 2 health, up from 1.

• Excitable Onion is now 1 devotion cost, down from 2.

• Carrot Cavalier is now 1 devotion cost, down from 2.

• Juiced Up is now 2 devotion cost, up from 1.

  Gremlins have been struggling to find wins, so we're buffing up a few cards. Kale's effect is powerful, but his winrate at 6 was terrible so it's being dropped a little. Spore Scout is an effect we want to push, as the positional requirements lead to interesting games and pay off the faction for going wide, but at one health often would just die to Mighty Roar and do nothing.

  We're also shuffling around some of the devotion requirements of the Gremlin cards. Devotion requirements are meant to "tempt" deckbuilders into committing to that faction to access powerful cards, but Excitable Onion and Carrot Cavalier don't do a good job of this, we think it's fine for more decks to have access to Charge. On the other hand, Juiced Up is a very strong effect, often representing a surprise 8 damage for just 3 resources, and is the kind of card that at 2 devotion encourages committing to Gremlins. Despite Gremlins being considered a weak faction, Juiced Up stood out as a card that should probably get nerfed sooner or later, so we're moving it to 2 devotion now.

• Inspiring Leader now buffs all allies, rather than just Human allies.

  While we like the idea of "typal" decks, the reality is that for now we don't have the card pool size to support them, and they end up restricting deckbuilding options, rather than expanding them. (Stay tuned for an announcement regarding new cards coming soon!) We also considered removing the typal limitation from Kale the Conqueror, but he'd probably have to move to 2 devotion with that change, and all the Starter champions are intentionally kept at a single devotion.

• Soulmates now costs 3, up from 2.

  Soulmates' ability to create 2 2/3 bodies is brutal for aggressive decks, easily trading 2 for 1 on the first turn and stopping aggression in its tracks.

• Stalks-the-Weak is now 2 devotion cost, up from 1.

  Stalks-the-Weak is a very strong card, but also a difficult one to balance. If its stats are lowered, or its cost increased, then it doesn't really "make sense" as a card compared to Tribal Warrior, the faction's baseline card. Of course, in reality the "downside" of the card is actually an upside in the decks that run him. We considered making the Doomed Traveler he summons into a 2/2, but don't think that'll really move the needle on the card's power level. In the end, we settled on increasing the card's devotion requirement. In general, we'd like to avoid increasing devotion requirements, as it makes previously legal decks illegal, but if there's any time to do it, it's now in Early Access, rather than letting a card oppress the game for ages to come.

• The Dusk Queen now costs 4, down from 6.

• The Dusk Queen can no longer trigger off her own ability.

  We recently changed The Dusk Queen's effect to be more universally useful to Faerie decks, but we missed the mark on her cost. Similar effects to her (such as Buffet Table) cost 4 while being in a healthy spot, and it's unclear if she's even better or worse than Buffet Table at the new cost: she can be killed easier and she's harder to trigger. Faeries were also suffering for not having a "generically useful" champion card, which is the role The Dusk Queen should be filling. However, we've removed The Dusk Queen's ability to be a one-girl draw engine: her design intent is to act as support for your other faerie allies, drawing you the cards to keep them alive, while having the body to take a hit and survive against aggressive decks if you need it.

• Maplehowl now has Reach.

  Maplehowl is meant to be the Arbura's version of a board wipe, but against decks that rely on flying he wasn't accomplishing that goal. Also, look how tall that guy is.

• Potion of Youth now leaves both players on at least 1 health after the swap.

  While not currently tearing up the meta, Youth Potion's ability to essentially kill yourself and then use that to immediately kill the opponent instead is a dangerous play pattern. With this change, you'll need at least something on board that seals the deal, which is a healthier spot for the card to be.

• Boundless Imagination now reveals the cards granted.

• Learning Time now reveals the cards granted.

• Keeper of the Flame now reveals the Ritual Candle granted.

• Wish now reveals the card granted.

  We're shifting our design philosophy towards cards that summon random cards in hand to reveal those cards. This is how it played in development for a long time, simply because the engine didn't have the ability to hide them yet. Now that we've had the chance to play with both versions, we found that revealing the cards creates less feel-bad situations where you get blown out by a card you could have never predicted they'd have. It also helps communicate what these cards are doing in the case of cards like Keeper of the Flame: previously the opponent would only see you drawing a card.

Community Requested Improvements

• Due to popular demand, you can now add more than 40 cards in the deck builder, allowing you to add all the cards you're considering, and then cull back down to 40. To clarify: the legal deck size isn't changing, but the deck builder UI no longer stops you from adding cards when you hit 40.

• Unowned cards in the Collection Page now show the devotion flags with more color, to make it easier to understand the faction of the card when it's colored sepia.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where dialogue and a start of turn choice could appear at the same time and lock out input.

• Fixed a bug where Caustic Bite's effect wouldn't end and the end of the turn.

• Cashew will no longer let you give away cards that are going to be sacrificed to other effects, such as Choices Choices shuffling them away, or Lure of the Blue Roses.

We have been having some spirited deckbuilding discussions on our discord forum and we want to bring this to the wider player community. Starting today every week we'll share a new deckbuilding challenge for everyone to try. Build a deck that fits the theme, share it with the community, and see what everyone comes up with!

This week's challenge - Pauper Week: Build a deck using only Starter and Common cards. 

How to enter:

• Build a deck that follows the theme. Note champions can be any rarity.

• Share your deck code in the weekly challenge thread on our subreddit r/wyldernook as a top level comment. This week's link thread is here.

• Give your deck a name

• Tell us in 1–3 sentences how it works.

• Include a deck import code

Winning criteria, to be eligible:

• Your deck must have at least 1 reply posted to your comment from other community members.

• The winner is the highest upvoted eligible deck at the deadline

Deadline: Voting will take place throughout the week and close Monday at 9:00 AM PDT.

Winner’s will be announced every Monday and the winning deck and its creator will be featured across our community channels and added to a Deckbuilder Hall of Fame.

Pro-tip: Since this subreddit is growing, it may be helpful to share your comment, or cross post it to the Steam community discussion board, other subreddits, or our discord deck building forum and redirect them here to help get votes.

We can't wait to see what you create. Good luck, and have fun experimenting!

Nami & Keja

This patch fixes an issue that was causing the tutorial and many campaign missions to freeze at the start.

General Changes

• We've lowered the amount of dust that you get for killing a CPU opponent in Duel CPU and Custom games.

  We want to ensure that the maximally efficient way to gain dust is to queue for matchmaking, or playing the campaign, rather than farming easy wins with custom games or CPU. This helps keep matchmaking queues more active. (A bot found while queuing for Matched Duel counts for full dust.)

• Gruk now gives zero dust when killed in a Custom game.

  He doesn't know how to play the game, it's not fair.

• Private chats no longer reset when you enter/leave a game.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where dialogue and a start of turn choice could appear at the same time and lock out input. (This change had to be reverted as it unintentionally caused campaign missions and the tutorial to break)

• Fixed an issue where Lady Barretspore could cause the server to throw an exception.

• Fixed an issue where Rafaella Blackmark could cause the server to throw an exception.

• Fixed an issue where you couldn't types spaces into the search input field in trade.

• Skulkers no longer can gain power buffs, according to their text box, as their power is always set to the number of Skulkers in play + graveyard.

• Echoes of History now properly grants Echo permanently, rather than for 1 turn.

• Fixed a bug where Humility wouldn't appear to reset Power and Health on a card, even though the server knew its Power and Health were reset, that change wouldn't appear on the client.

Card Changed

• Grow effects now give you option of transforming into cards that cost 1 more than before.

  Not only have Grow cards been pretty weak, but the lack of options of what to Grow cards into feels bad sometimes. We're increasing the range of targets a card can Grow into.

• Mally's extra cards now appear as revealed in the owner's hand.

  This change helps Mally's opponents understand what's happening, instead of simply looking like the opponent has drawn dozens of cards.

• When a card like Posses and Possessing Muse give back control of a card, if the opposing Rest Zone is full, then the card will go to their hand instead.

  When control for a card is given back, it tries to put the card in their Rest Zone. If that zone is full, previously the effect would fail. Now the card will go to their hand, ensuring that they always get it back.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the dust drop rate for cards in play when a player died was not working as intended.

  There are several ways to earn dust that we are monitoring for fine tuning during early access. The intention of our dust ecosystem is to give you an equal chance of getting loot from cards, regardless of how you win. The bug we found would have encouraged the ability to make decks that would maximize looting from having full boards when the opponent dies. We recognize that fixing this bug results in overall lower dust rewards if not rebalanced, so we have increased the amount of direct dust a player drops on death to compensate.

• Fixed Cling to the Past having Echoes of History's art.

• Fixed the Commit Turn button being pressable when you're dead and spectating the game in Court mode.

• Fixed up some plants covering up the game board when the Court board got rearranged and the local player was dead.

• Fixed a bug with Possessing Muse where after returning control of an ally, that ally wouldn't be controllable by the player.

• Fixed a bug where cards that had text written on them (such as The Bloody Mane, Barbed Avenger, etc) would get revealed in hand and deck to other players.

• The Crimson Terror will now attack during Sudden Death.

• 0 damage attacks will no longer break Barrier buffs.

• Updated The End's text to clarify that the game moves to Sudden Death at the end of the turn.

• The CPU (Including cards like Overworked Apprentice) now will play Poisoned Thoughts properly targeting an opponent.

• Fixed an issue where Duel would not properly snapshot power before dealing the damage.

Hello,

It has been one full week since we went public in early access.

Taking moment to reflect & say thank you!

So far we have made so many new friends and been blown away with the amount of positive feedback, support and suggestions. After having been developing mostly in isolation it is deeply touching to see many of you pick up on our design choices and embrace them. It is so heartwarming for Keja and I, truly thank you!

In our first week, we have:

• Released Patch Notes every day & are pretty happy with the game stability so far.

• Added a bunch of community quality of life suggestions (keep them coming!)

• Set up Court mode Community Drop-in events on our discord for players to find more times to explore this multiplayer mode.

• Launched a Precon deck DLC to help you all dive into to the campaign quickly.

• Set up Wyldernook as a Twitch category for streaming! (Not many streams have happened yet on Twitch, but hopefully as a community we can change that ːsteamhappyː)

• Set up a Deck Building forum on our Discord (with some very lively debates!)

• Created a new subreddit (r/wyldernook) for those who don't use Discord. (Again it is pretty new & with your help, we think it will be a a lot of fun)

We dream of full matchmaking queues and a steady stream of new cards for you to discover and experiment with. If you haven't done so yet & want to help shape the game, join us as we grow on Discord & Reddit.

We're building Wyldernook for the long haul, working to bring in more players, more cards, and more ways to outsmart your opponents. Thank you again for all your support of Wyldernook, it fuels us to make the game even better.

Happy Gaming!

Nami & Keja

Team Wyldernook

Today's patch marks one week since we launched! We've been putting out patches nearly each day to try to address any issues that have come up asap. We're happy to say that we're in a place where the game is feeling stable.

Going forward we'll be putting more focus into new cards and features, so please let us know what features you would like us to prioritize! Thank you for all the amazing community support!

General Changes

• Removed the ability to click on a player to directly message them, preferring Game Chat for that social experience. Remember that once a conversation has started in Game Chat, you can click their name to bring up an option to add them as a friend!

• When a player leaves Game Chat, it will no longer expose their full ID.

• Added a graphic for new players to the Shop that tells them that the booster packs on Chive's cart are free.

Fixes

• Refactored how Lord effects (like Master Summoner, Kale, and Inspiring Leader) work so that they more consistently apply/unapply their buffs in the situation where they die, change ownership, or get transformed.

• You are now able to hover over keywords in the UI where you choose a card option, such as with Adaptive Warrior.

• Fixed a visual glitch in Adaptive Warrior's UI where all the cards would show twice for a few frames.

• Fixed an issue where Game Chat would give away the opponent's name if they were hiding their identity.

• Fixed Barrier's tooltip in some places where it didn't say that it prevented kill effects.

• Fixed a spelling mistake in the Shop when you had no free boosters left.

• Fixed yet another issue where the CPU playing Choices Choices would crash the server.

Just more changes as we focus our launch on bug fixing and addressing initial feedback! Thanks for everybody's reports and suggestions!

General Changes

• It's now possible to interact with the game during the resolution phase, so you can loot dust, open the Settings, concede games, and click on the environment etc.

• When a player leaves the game, Game Chat will now say that they've left the game, so you're not left wondering if they're able to talk to you in a post-game situation.

• Fixed some instances where typing into Game Chat wasn't working.

• Friend Notifications (the text that appears when your friends log on/off or open legendaries) now appears behind the chat boxes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Heroic Sacrifice would make you draw a card, despite not saying so in the card's text.

• Fixed an interaction with Duel and Blackmark's Thorn not resolving correctly.

• Fixed an issue where if a card moved immediately after dying, it could get stuck in the graveyard on the player's screen, despite the server thinking it's in play. Notably this came up a lot with The Unending and Cleansing Rot.

• Fixed an issue where some end of turn effects could cause the server to crash.

• Fixed a visual issue where recurring effects would be briefly rendered underneath the hands.

• Fixed a bug where you'd have an empty display on the loading screen if you played a Random CPU opponent with "Hide My Identity" enabled.

• Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to draw cards in the Card Creator tester.

• Fixed various issues where wouldn't progress to the End Game screen.

• Fixed a bug where The Humble Heart's stacks kept resetting.

This patch marks our first big balance update. We've been keeping a close eye on the balance of the various factions and seeing what's been doing well in PvP, as well as playing a lot of PvP ourselves. We've been happy with the variety of decks and the ingenuity of strategies we've seen! Over the course of thousands of games played, we now have the data to see that the Gremlins have been struggling to find wins, while the Untamed have been doing very well, so we're making a few adjustments to bring things a bit more in line. We have our eye on a few things that haven't gotten touched this patch, and we welcome community discussion about them:

• The Bloody Mane has proven to be the most popular non-Starter champion, with a high winrate as well. We decided not to change him directly this patch as the Untamed have already taken several nerfs, but our eye is on him.

• Potion of Youth's ability to one-shot somebody, especially after paying all that life into Vorephelim Headdress, is concerning. At this point we haven't taken action because the winrate of that deck isn't actually very high.

Card Changes

- Infected Cut now draws a card if you kill with it. - No Napping now costs 4, down from 5. - The Final Squeeze now costs 4, down from 5. We're finding that the Gremlin faction is struggling, especially against Untamed midrange decks. We're happy with where the power of Gremlin allies are at, and we don't want to push that, Gremlins quickly demolish a player that has no early defense. However, the faction quickly runs out of steam if the first few turns are stopped. We want to encourage the faction to use more tools and find clever ways to close out games, rather than just buffing the power of the allies dealing damage. - The Unending is now a 2/2 baseline, up from a 1/1. The Unending is a very popular champion, a lot of people want to play with the effect, however the champion's winrate is very low. We're buffing The Unending's starting power so that the deck can output a little more damage and help it win games. - The Dusk Queen has a new effect: "The first time each turn I see an ally damage to an opponent or dodge an opponent's effect, I draw an ability card." - The Dusk Queen now costs 6. Of all the Starter champions, The Dusk Queen was by far the least played. One of the design goals of The Dusk Queen was to teach new players about the dodging mechanics of the game, but she's failed to act as a champion people actually want to helm their deck. - Duel now costs 2, up from 1. - Protects-the-Tribe now heals for 2, down from 3. - Adaptive Warrior now heals for 2, down from 3. The Untamed have come out of the gates as one of the strongest factions, especially against aggressive decks. The nature of the Untamed as a faction means they're already well positioned against fast aggressive decks, so we want their healing options not to take them out of kill range so quickly. Duel was also out of line, as it functions as both a removal card and a synergy piece in most decks.

General Changes

• When hiding your identity in a matchmade game, your profile picture will also be randomized.

• Made some minor adjustments to the tutorial to prevent a rare possibility of soft-locking it.

• Chive no longer swears, he says gleep like the rest of us now.

• When a player's max health is changed midgame (such as with Liberk) the new total will be displayed in-game.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Fawnfluencer would not trigger from Eager-to-Fight's ability.

• Fixed a bug where drawing the card that Ingenuity put on top of your deck too quickly would cause it to go back into your deck.

• Removed Last Stand's clarification notes where it says it can be used on enemy characters, which contradicts the card text.

• Fixed a bug where the targeting system considered Liberk and Sleep Duster to be ability cards, and strongly discouraged you from targeting them.

• Fixed a bug where The Humble Heart's on-field text wouldn't reset if he left play.

• "Lord" cards (such as Kale the Conqueror) are now reapply their buffs to revived cards.

• Fixed a bug where Liberk would heal the enemy player to full, or fail to after reducing their health, as he was checking his own max health, not the enemy's max health.

• Fixed a bug where the CPU casting Choices Choices could cause the server to crash.

• Fixed a bug where Possessing Muse wouldn't give back its possession if it left play by means other than dying.

Thank you everybody that has been submitting in-game bug reports, and reaching out to us about issues! We've also been loving all the spirited discussion about strategies and deckbuilding. If you want to join us on Discord there's been a lot of lively chatter about the game.

Hi Everyone,

Thrice Blessed Fury, our Precon Campaign Deck DLC is now available!

This DLC was created for new players who want to jump directly into Wyldernook's roguelike campaign without needing to build their first deck from scratch. The preconstructed deck is meant to be a strong foundation, not a finished build. As you play, you'll unlock new cards, use the extra gemstones from the bundle to test different strategies, and shape the deck into something to match your unique playstyle.

The DLC includes:

• A campaign-ready preconstructed deck featuring 31 new cards (worth approx 4,150 Gemstones)

• 1,000 Gemstones to craft cards that fit your own playstyle

• Immediate access to the roguelike campaign

In Wyldernook, battles are built around simultaneous turns. Both players secretly plan their actions before they resolve at the same time, creating matches focused on prediction, clever positioning, and outsmarting your opponent rather than waiting through long turns.

Thank you to everyone who has been supporting us through Early Access. We hope this DLC makes it even easier to jump into the campaign, and we can't wait to see the decks and strategies you create!

Happy Gaming!

Nami and Keja

The Wyldernook Team

Hi Everyone,

If you've been thinking about giving Wyldernook a try, now is a great moment.

At 11:00 AM PST, we are releasing our early access Precon Campaign Deck DLC for $14.99 USD, available for a limited time at 15% off. It's designed for players who want to dive right into the roguelike campaign without spending time building their first deck.

The DLC includes:

• A campaign-ready preconstructed deck featuring 31 new cards (worth approx 4,150 Gemstones)

• 1,000 Gemstones to craft cards that fit your own playstyle

• Immediate access to the roguelike campaign

if you want to skip the initial deckbuilding or take a deeper dive, the deck will give you a solid starting point with plenty of room to experiment and curate a deck & adventure in your own playstyle.

Wyldernook is build around simultaneous turns, where each player choose a champion & plan their moves secret. Actions play out at the same time, so there is no waiting turns and every round is about prediction & mind games to outsmart your opponent.

Thank you for all the support. We hope is a quick and fun way to explore the campaign! Can't wait to see what decks you build in the wylds of Wyldernook!

Happy Gaming!

Nami and Keja

The Wyldernook Team

We're really excited by the growth and all the new players coming in! Another small patch for today of various quality of life improvements, fixes and some tuning to cards and campaign.

Card Changes

- Swamp Terror now drains the healthiest opponent for 3, rather than all opponents for 2.

Swamp Terror was pretty underwhelming in 1v1 for an 8 drop, but quite strong in Court. In general, we're concerned that the level of healing in Court games is too high, and keeping an eye on that. For now, we're just changing Swamp Terror to draining the healthiest opponent, a design that has proven to lead to healthier Court games, as it tends to equalize out life totals.

Campaign Changes

We've started to get data about the various scenarios in the game, such as the faction unlocks and campaign, so we're making some adjustments now that we have real data.

- Dali Chalicel's health is now 40, down from 50.

Dali has by far the highest kill rate, dwarfing the other elites (and even the boss encounter), so we're bringing him down a bit.

- Gleeper now has 30 health, down from 40.

- Gleeper now starts off with 1 more resource, and 1 more card in hand.

While Gleeper is in line with the other elites in terms of difficulty, the fight can end up being tedious, especially since you have to kill her with 1/1's. We're lowering her health, but compensating her with more starting resources, to keep the challenge of the fight, but make it flow faster.

- Johanna should no longer target the same cards over and over with Lightning Blast, and should cast them more consistently.

The boss fight of Act 1 seems to land in a good spot of challenge, but sometimes Johanna just targets the same card over and over again with her Lightning Blasts, which not only feels pretty dumb, but can mean the fight is randomly much easier. She should be smarter with them now.

General Changes

- Hovering over a pack in Chive's Shop now tells you what's in the pack, and the percentage chances of special cards in it.

- The collection filter tab is now always visible in the collection page.

We noticed that most players weren't realizing you could filter your collection, and most importantly, didn't realize you could use this to see all the cards you didn't own, which is how you directly craft cards. By default, the Collection filter tab was closed, which in itself was a bug, but upon reflection there's no reason to ever close it, so now it's just always visible.

- We've added a button in General Chat to join our Discord server.

Bug Fixes

- Fixed a bug where Game Chat wasn't active as soon as the End Game animation started. Now you can both chat after the game.

- Taunt now properly according to its text box, working on any character and not just enemies.

- Armored Pineapple on-field version now displays that it has an effect.

- Fixed some invisible error spam that was happening if you had the collection page and chat opened at the same time, causing performance issues.

- Fixed an issue where MacOS bug reports weren't able to send crash logs.

Spelling Fixes

- Fixed a spelling mistake in the Trade UI.

This is our first patch after Early Access launch! Overall launch has been very smooth, and we're very excited about all the positive feedback! It's been heart-warming to see the glowing Steam reviews, and we look forward to seeing this community grow.

This patch addresses a couple of issues that players have had with connecting to matchmaking while already in a game, as well as some other minor fixes. This patch also brings our first nerf-hammer: Barbed Avenger.

Card Changes

- Barbed Avenger now has a devotion cost of 2.

- Barbed Avenger now costs 4 resources.

- Barbed Avenger's base power is now 0.

Barbed Avenger's power level has quickly proven to be way off the mark, especially in combination with Tappy, which can lead to an easy one-turn kill out of nowhere. Barbed Avenger’s cost is going to 4, so that it’s not possible to play two Barbed Avengers and Tappy in the same turn (making the OTK trivially easy with a good draw). The base power is dropping to 0, to lower the damage of the card a little.

Additionally, the devotion cost is being raised to 2, so that the combination isn’t so non-committal to throw into every Fae deck. Ideally, we’d prefer to avoid changing a card’s devotion requirements, as it makes people’s existing decks invalid, but in Barbed Avenger’s case we feel it’s the most appropriate change for the card to end up in a healthy state.

Even with all these nerfs, we still expect this to be a strong card. In the end all these changes don’t stop what the card does, which one shots opponents in the late game in an ability-focused deck.

Barbed Avenger is a strange case. It wasn’t until late in development that we had the ability to see text on the card that showed exactly how bigger it would get when played. Before that text was added, Barbed Avenger was completely underrated, as playtesters had to guess how much it would hit for. Now that we can see exactly when it'll kill the opponent, its launch version proved to be game warpingly strong.

General Changes

- The timeout period at the start of a match when not all players can connect has been reduced to 30 seconds, down from 60 seconds.

Bug Fixes

- Fixed a bug where having a card counterspelled could cause the server to think a player didn't have enough resources to play later cards that turn, and reject them.

- Fixed a bug where players couldn't enter a matchmade game while already in a game vs AI.

- Pressing Esc or Backspace in chat will no longer prompt to delete the card in the Card Highligher.

- Fixed the Send button not appearing in Private chats.

- Fixed an issue with official Kejami accounts not triggering Game Chat notifications.

- Fixed an issue where private chats with official Kejami accounts wouldn't repopulate when the window was reopened.

- Tribal Warrior is no longer a hippopotamus for some reason, it's clearly a bison.

Spelling Fixes

- Fixed a grammatical error in Baijin's text.

- Fixed a spelling error in the Matched Court play option.

- Fixed a spelling mistake on Barbed Avenger's text.

After years of designing cards, rewriting rules, making art, fixing bugs, and wondering if we'd ever actually get here, the gates to Wyldernook will be open at 1pm PST today!

Thank you for wishlisting & following along for updates. We're excited, little nervous too... but mostly excited to share the game with you.

Come join us on the Wyldernook Discord to say hello, find players, show of decks, or get help from us.

May the RNG gods be ever in your favor,

Nami & Keja

aka the Wyldernook Team