With this week's release, we have made the following changes and updates to Kingdoms CCG:
- New, better starting decks for new players - now with 4 rares!
- Reduced singles prices for all Gem priced commons, uncommons, rares, and Legendaries. See our recent blog post for more information on Epic card prices.
- AI Fix: Fliers will no longer set themselves to defend against non-fliers. Revised the deck building rules to the Kingdoms format to make it more new player friendly. Rules have been added to deck builder. See below for more details.
- The Draft format has been removed from the free tournaments. In its place we've added Pauper and Kingdoms constructed, and Tribes Sealed.
- Nomad, Ichor, Thania and Devroth will now appear as rotating heroes and will appear in Arena quests.
- Nomad's gold cost has been reduced to 70,000.
Balancing Fixes:
- Quickdraw Cannon will now destroy itself if it triggers 5 times on a single turn. Note: Each QDC has its own trigger count.
- Gift of the Mystics now only affects the next 4 cards you play.
- Elder's Hammer can now target any Alchemy creature or 'Construct' creature
- Morningstar of the Ages has been reduced in cost to 3.
- Scroll Maker has been reduced to Manacycle 1
- Skullcrusher Giant now only removes 2 charges when attacking.
- Manacycle Wizard has been given Allegiant back. Note: She will never, ever, ever be getting her card draw back.
Known Issue: Mind Over Body has a known bug. If played in a discard with spells, it will recur the spells, but NOT place creatures into the discard pile. It WILL place creatures into an empty discard pile. We have fixed this issue on our development environment. The fix will be out in our next release.
New Kingdoms Constructed Format
The new Kingdoms Constructed format has been designed with new players in mind. Our research has shown that new players like to build decks around the cards of a single Kingdom and often assume that is how the game works. We also recognize that getting 4 of a single card can be challenging for a new player, so we've also reduced the number of copies of any single card in the format as well. The new rules for the Kingdoms format are this:
- 40-60 card deck
- Maximum 12 rares and 3 Epics
- No Legendary rarity cards allowed
- Maximum of 3 copies of any single card.
- ALL cards in the deck must be either Unaligned or belong to the Kingdom of your chosen hero.
The Kingdoms Constructed Format will now appear in free tournaments.