In addition to the changes being brought with these patch notes, we also have a promo set that is releasing alongside this update! In case you missed it, we revealed these five cards in our Discord over the course of last week so if you want to catch upcoming teasers for any future card releases you should make sure you're in the Discord!
Here are the five cards (note: their full animations can be found on the Discord or in-game!):
New Cards:
Kira, Cold’s Embrace - 4/10 - 4 Cost - Unique Human
Reach
When you Deploy Kira, another target Character gains +4/+4. If it’s Doltan, he gains +8/+8 and Multistrike 2 instead.
When Kira deals damage to an enemy Character, that Character becomes Exhausted.
Beguiling. Deadly. Beauty as sharp as a steel blade, with a demeanor as cold as a blizzard. She wanders the rifts in search of her missing husband, a blood hunter known to haunt the forests of the infinite worlds.
Seam, Self-Augmenter - 3/4 - 1 Cost - Unique Artificial Human
Pay 1: Choose an augment (once per turn, once each):
- If you control an Artifact, gain Barrier 1 and draw a card.
- If you control a Mission, gain Flying and create a Scouting Drone.
- If you control a Location, gain +6/+6.
Each time he repaired his broken body, Seam incorporated more and more devices and weapons into his augmetics. Whatever the war threw at him, Seam always had the right tool for the job.
Grasp of Undeath - 1 Cost - Ability
Target Character in your Assault Zone gains Infect until the end of turn.
Help spread the Virus of Avarrach with this new combat trick! If you time this properly you can potentially steal a big card from your opponent. If you can combine this with other offensive keywords like Unstoppable or Piercing it can yield a big swing on the board.
Taxera the Unseen - 6/6 - 3 Cost - Unique Undead
Whenever a card is Removed from a Graveyard, Taxera gains +2/+2.
When Taxera leaves combat, if she survived, return her to your hand and create a 4/4 Undead for every 4 attack she had.
Taxera is a potent character that assists both Overseers of Solace and Sleepers of Avarrach strategies. Not only is she a threat that can scale upwards and deal massive damage, but Taxera can also provide you a wide board after she finds a favorable combat against a weaker character or the enemy fortress!
Sabore, Who Finds Balance - 14/14 - 6 Cost - Unique Human
Charge, Vigilance
Pay 2: Target a friendly Character. If it's in your Defense Zone, move it to your Assault Zone and set its attack equal to its health. Otherwise, if it's in your Assault Zone, move it to your Defense Zone and set its health equal to its attack.
This new dual faction card wields the powers of both Flame Dawn and Descendents of Dragons. You can help your units find balance in their stats, and effectively turn your Charge characters into ones with Vigilance and vice versa with Sabore's ability. Once you find enough momentum it will be hard for your opponent to predict where you'll make your cards dance next.
Play with these five new cards in today's Sanctuary Social event!
General Fixes:
Hotfix changes - 0.89.4
- Sabore has been changed to only have one activation, which behaves conditionally for greater ease of use: - Pay 2: Target a friendly Character. If it's in your Defense Zone, move it to your Assault Zone and set its attack equal to its health. Otherwise, if it's in your Assault Zone, move it to your Defense Zone and set its health equal to its attack. - (This also fixes Sabore incorrectly exhausting on activation.)
- Banish has been reworded to “Deal 8 damage to target Character. If it is killed this turn, it is Removed instead.” This is how the card has been functioning in IWC, but previously said “killed this way”.
- Fixed some odd inconsistencies with Purge the Unworthy’s exhaust effect. This should fix the interaction with Ruins of an Ancient Civilization, for instance.
- Sinister Corruption adds a tooltip to the affected card so you don’t have to remember or guess.
- Multistrike-granting cards have been reworded to “+1 Multistrike” instead of “Multistrike 2”. Cards that have or gain Multistrike themselves remain the same.
- In an effort to reduce jargon and word count, the word “subtype” has been replaced with “type” (or “character type”, where there could otherwise be ambiguity). Most prominently, wording such as “becomes a Demon in addition to its other subtypes” has been reworded to “gains the Demon type”.
- Nero’s Experiments now grants the Undead type permanently in addition to permanently granting the resurrection effect.
- Omnitron’s token uses the Unmanned Aerial Destroyer art now.
- Fixed Engine of Reincarnation not triggering via Tome of the Dead.
- Fixed Resolve of the Dragon only preventing a single card death, instead of one death per card.
- Minor reword of Hinekris Circlet due to conflict with Life keyword: At the end of turn, your opponent's Fortress takes 3 Damage for each player with one or fewer cards in Hand.