Pandora has awakened, and with it comes a slew of balance changes and card adjustments. Read on to find out more.
Major updates
- Pandora mode will be made available once the Fight for Pandora reaches 100,000 games. (This is done! Click here to learn more about Pandora.)
- Ranked and Unranked mode will return to their previous versions. Highlander Battle will no longer be available.
- Daily Quests now reward you a Pandora Coin in addition to the normal gold amount
- The contents of many starter Codexes have changed. New cards have been added in place of old ones. As a consequence of this, anyone who has already unlocked the starter Codexes but does not possess one of the new cards added to the Codexes will automatically receive it.
10 cards receive their final art:
- Daring Adventurer (concept art: Jordi and Franck/Illustration: Vitaliy)
- Hunted Outlaw (concept art: Jordi and Franck/Illustration: Vitaliy)
- Shaytan Scavenger (Yuan)
- Oradrim Fanatic (Ibrahem)
- Ruunin's Presence (Sarah)
- Unbound Evolution (Mike)
- Seifer's Fodder (concept art: Jordi and Franck/Illustration: Andrey)
- Krog (concept art: Christophe/Illustration: Andrey)
- Firebringer (Mike)
- Ruunin the Relentless (Sarah)
Updates and fixes
- Browsing your collection should now be faster
- The 20 second end of turn timer is now more animated in the game
- When leaving a game lobby, the avatar shown now clears instead of showing the default
- Fixed opponent highlighting on tokens (when opponent hovers over it during his turn)
- Audio level functionality in settings has been improved
- Some improvements have been made to disconnection messages
- Faeria Wells are now colored (distinguishing from yours and opponent)
Balance changes
Once again, this patch contains major balance and card adjustments.
A full detailed explanation of these changes can be found here on our forums.
Neutral
Syland Horsemaster
+1 life, loses charge 2.
Now has “Gift - Give a friendly creature charge 3 until end of turn”.
War Yak
Now has “+2/+0 while your opponent has 10 life or less
Queen’s Favorite
+1f cost, +1 life
Magda, Queen of Meroval
Changes to the following:
Magda, Queen of Meroval - 4 faeria
Creature
Your Legends cost 2 faeria less.
Production - Add a random Legend to your hand.
0/3
Unlikely Hero
-1 Attack, +1 Life
Now gains +3/+3 and charge 3 when it survives a battle.
Siege Engine
+1 Attack
Now gains +1/+0 after attacking.
Wandering Monk
+1 life
Steam Forge
-1 faeria cost
Baron Thulgar
+1 life
Ability changes from Gift to Last Words.
Hunted Outlaw
Now gives 2 faeria to your opponent on last words instead of 3.
Blue
Water Elemental
+1 attack
Loses aquatic, gains jump.
Gabrian Commander
-1 faeria cost
Now gains flying when you draw a card that originally cost 7 faeria or more.
Mimic
Replaced with the following design:
Spring Mochi - 3 faeria, 2 lakes
Creature
Gift - The next card with original cost 7 faeria or higher you draw costs 3f less.
2/2
Gabrian Warden
+2 faeria cost, +1/+1, -1 Lake cost, now can give protection to any creature.
Mystic Beast
Changes to the following design:
Mystic Beast - 3 faeria, 1 lake
Creature
Gift - Gain +2/+2 and Charge 2 if your opponent has 10 faeria or more.
3/4
Gabrian Archon
Changes to the following design:
Gabrian Archon - 4 faeria, 2 lakes
Creature
Gain +2/+2 if you’ve played two cards with original cost 7 faeria or higher.
4/4
Gabrian Enchantment
Now draws a card when played in addition to its previous effect.
Stormspawn
+1 attack
Tale of the Old Turtle
Changes to the following design:
Tale of the Old Turtle - 5 faeria, 2 lakes
Event
Add 3 random blue cards to your hand. They cost 3 faeria less.
Wavecrash Colossus
Changes to the following design
Wavecrash Colossus - 10 faeria, 2 lakes
Creature
Costs 2 faeria less for each time you’ve gathered from an enemy well (minimum: 4 faeria)
Triton Diver
+1 life
Azure Wisp
+2 attack, +1 life, now only gains +1/+1 when you gather from your opponent’s wells.
Luduan
Changes to the following design
Luduan - 3 faeria, 1 lake
Creature
Whenever this creature gathers faeria from an opponent’s well, add a random blue card to your hand. It costs 2 faeria less.
1/4
Wavecrafter
+3 life. Now sets both players’ faeria to 3 at the end of your opponent’s turn.
Windfall
-1 faeria cost, -1 faeria gain.
Green
Ancient Beastmaster
+1 attack, -1 life, now grants +1/+1 instead of +1/+0.
Oakling
+1 faeria cost, +1 life, now gives +5/+5 on death instead of +4/+4.
Tiki Caretaker
-1 faeria cost, now gives +2/+2 instead of +3/+3
Oak Father
-1 faeria cost
Primeval Colossus
Changes to the following design:
Primeval Colossus - 15f faeria, 2 forests
Creature
Costs 1 faeria less for each special land you have (minimum cost 6 faeria).
8/12
Verduran Guardian
Changes to the following design:
Ruunin’s Champion - 6 faeria, 2 forests
Whenever this creature attacks a god, add a random green creature to your hand. It gets +3/+3.
3/6
Wood Elemental
+1 attack, +1 life
Ruunin’s Presence
-1 faeria cost
Red
Kobold Warlord
+1 faeria cost, +2 attack, +2 life
Gut Gorger
-1 mountain cost
Bold Bargainer
+1 faeria cost, +1 life, now discounts a random card in your hand by 7 faeria.
Barbarian Ogre
+1 faeria cost, +1 attack, +1 life
Boulder Thrower
Changes to the following design:
Boulder Thrower - 7 faeria, 1 mountain
Creature
Ranged
Combat - You gain 2 faeria.
3/5
Axe Grinder
Changes to the following design:
Axe Grinder - 3 faeria, 1 mountain
Creature
Gift - Gets +2/+0 if summoned adjacent to an enemy well.
3/4
Kobold Armorsmith
Changes to the following design:
Hate Seed - 6 faeria, 2 mountains
Costs 1 faeria less for each creature with higher attack than life you’ve summoned.
4/5
Flame Spitter
+1 life
Ogre Battler
+1 faeria cost, +1 attack, +2 life
Flame Thrower
Now has, “Whenever this creature attacks a god, deal 1 damage to all enemy creatures”.
Bomb Slinger
Can now hit structures too.
Seifer’s Fodder
+1 life
Volcanic Colossus
Changes to the following design:
Volcanic Colossus - 9 faeria, 2 mountains
Creature
Costs 1 faeria less for each enemy creature that has died in combat (minimum 5 faeria).
8/8
Shedim Pest
Changes to the following design:
Shedim Pest - 4 faeria, 1 mountain
Creature
Gift - Gain +2/+2 if you have another creature with higher attack than life.
4/2
Fire Elemental
-1 attack, loses ranged, gains “combat - deal 2 damage to a random enemy creature
+2 life
Firebringer
Changes to the following design:
Firebringer - 4 faeria, 2 mountains
Gain +1/+1 whenever you summon a creature with higher attack than life.
2/2
Ogre Torturer
Changes to the following design:
Bloodwell Sprite - 4 faeria, 1 mountain
Whenever you gather from an opponent’s well, deal 1 damage to your opponent.
4/4
Ogre Dance
Now reduces by 7 faeria.
Blustering Devil
Changes to the following design:
Red Devil - 9 faeria, 2 mountains
Gift - Gain 5 faeria
6/4
Ignus, the First Flame
-1 mountain cost
Yellow
Oradrim Sagittarius
Changes to the following design:
Oradrim Sagittarius - 3 faeria, 1 desert
Creature
Ranged
Whenever you attack a god, gain 1 faeria.
1/2
Slaughtering Shadow
-1 faeria cost
Deathwish Ghoul
-1 desert cost
Demon Wing
-1 faeria cost
Air Elemental
+1 attack
Oblivion Knight
-1 faeria cost
Shaytan Scavenger
Now triggers off attacking a god instead of a creature dying.
Windstorm Colossus
Changes to the following design:
Windstorm Colossus - 9 faeria, 2 deserts
Costs 1 faeria less for each event you’ve played (minimum cost: 4 faeria)
7/5
Oath to Oblivion
-1 faeria cost
Windstorm Charger
Now has charge 2 instead of charge 3.
Multicolored
Apex Predator
-1 attack, -1 life, gains jump
Icerock Behemoth
-1 faeria cost
Twinsoul Spirit
+1 life
Rarity Changes
Many cards have changed in rarity with this update.
Cycle
- All Colossi > Rare
Neutral
- Famine > Rare
- Queen’s Assassin > Common
- Unlikely Hero > Epic
- Outland Ranger > Rare
Green
- Gaea’s Grace > Rare
- Tiki Totem > Epic
- Living Willow > Common
Blue
- Triton Diver > Rare
- Tale of the Old Turtle > Epic
- Frogify > Common
- Luduan > Epic
- Ancient Herald > Common
- Triton Chef > Common
- Triton Banquet > Rare
Red
- Grim Guard > Common
- Axe Grinder > Rare
- Bomb Slinger > Epic
- Shedim Pest > Common
- Fire Bringer > Rare
- Blood Singer > Common
Yellow
- Windborne Champion > Epic
- Shaytan Assassin > Epic
- Zealous Crusader > Rare
How Rarity changes and disenchanting will work:
As always, we will allow players to disenchant cards that have changed in design or reduced in power level for one week at full value. However, this gets a little trickier when we introduce changing card rarities. We have automatically applied the appropriate refunds for this with the update. Here is how it worked:
For each account, we compute a "Memoria" balance:
- If you had Card A and it switched from LEGENDARY to COMMON, you AUTOMATICALLY EARN the DIFFERENCE of the FULL CRAFTING (not disenchant!) values.
- If you had Card B and it switched from COMMON to RARE, you "LOSE" the difference of the full craft values
- In the end, you may have a Memoria balance that is negative. If negative, NO MEMORIA IS REMOVED FROM YOUR ACCOUNT. If the sum is positive (because you mostly lost rarer cards for more common ones instead of the other way around), the complete sum is given as Memoria to you.
Once again, this has all been done automatically. You should have nothing to worry about, and should be appropriately compensated for Rarity changes in the form of Memoria.
Codex Changes
Several changes have been made to the starter Codexes in-game.
HUMAN
Utllity
OUT - Freedom Fighter
IN - Queen's Assassin
BLUE
Gabrians
OUT - Gabrian Commander
IN - Mystic Beast
OUT - Gabrian Archon
IN - Lore Thief
Wisdom
OUT - Aurora's Disciple
IN - Spellwhirl
GREEN
Strength
IN - Bloomsprite
OUT - Ancient Boar
Blessings
IN - Tiki Chieftain
OUT - Shamanic Dance
Growth
IN - Wild Growth
OUT - Vine Wall
PatienceOUT - Grove GuardianIN - Soulbound Sagami
RED
Ogres
IN - Bloodwell Sprite
OUT - Hate Seed
YELLOW
Corruption
OUT - Malevolent Spirit
IN - Last Nightmare
Windborne
OUT - Wind Wisp
IN - Dune Drake
Whew! Did we miss anything?
Blame Krog.
- The Faeria Team