The Ranked mode comes back to Infinity Wars in this high-stakes, best-of-one competitive experience. Climb the leaderboard and earn your place among the top players. Ranked mode is available in limited-time queue windows every 15 minutes. At the end of the season, ranks will reset, and players will receive exclusive rewards based on their final standing. See you out there rift runners!

Stay connected with text chat! Chat with other players from the main menu to have post match breakdowns with your opponent or discuss deck strategies. Everyone will also receive real-time notifications when someone joins the queue, so you never miss a chance to jump into a game!

• Fixed API issue preventing account registration.
  
• Fix wrong description string for Sinew and Steel per-constructed deck.
  
• Fix Shield Generator not working on the Command Zone.
  
• Fixed deck statistics inside deck builder not updating when opened.
  
• Fixed some transformations not updating card art.
  
• Fixed filing cabinet revealing hand cards to opponent.
  
• Fixed selected deck not saving between sessions.
  
• Fixed Sinew and Steel deck description.

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• Steam cloud support for syncing custom decks.
  
• The scroll wheel can now be used to select cards in deployed zones. This may be helpful for tightly-packed zones.
  
• Added a new menu background for Christmas cheer.

• Fixed Think Fast mutator not drawing if your hand was empty.
  
• Fixed Philosophic Android treating multi targeted abilities as single targeted.
  
• Fixed Lucca Rebellion Leader’s granted barriers lasting beyond end of turn for other characters.
  
• Fixed a potential cause of turn desyncs.
  
• Fixed card layout not correctly updating during fast forward.
  
• Fixed card stamp proportions.
  
• Improved Xi's Plea vfx/sfx.

• Fixed some VFX setups causing card effects to fail
  
• Fixed Avatar of Lingbao animation loop

• Fixed missing description on cards when zooming
  
• Fixed cloud sync causing missing decks
  
• Fixed issue where selected card backs would not get selected automatically

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You can find the foil, gold, and gold foil packs in the store for the next few weeks!
Here’s all the cool art you’ll get:

• Fixed a number of bugs in the Tutorial missions.
  
• Fixed Subjugated Dragon losing modifiers when its ability triggers, such as the permanent buff from Rift Stabilizer.
  
• Fixed Tactical Retreat card text missing the word “if”.
  
• Fix Shockwave Giant missing the text “Reach” after being enraged.
  
• Fix Agent Coyle Zomborg having the wrong text in the first stage (said it would turn into a 6/6 instead of 5/5).
  
• Improved wording on Vasir the Chained Prince to clarify that sacrificing it doesn’t work.
  
• Improved wording on Ceaseless Hunger to clarify that Ceaseless Hunger deals the damage instead of the characters (like Fight).
  
• Fixed right click activate shortcut.
  
• Fixed missing purity in deck builder card view.
  
• Fixed activation button passing mouse events through to local grave zone.
  
• Fixed card zooming breaking when using group select to move cards into their current zone.
  
• Fixed visual inconsistencies in pack opening.
  
• Fixed keyword tooltips disappearing from the right side of the card, if its associated keyword within the description is moused over.
  
• Resized card art inside the card frame, revealing more of the art.

• Fix store tiles for Neverending Nightmares bundles which still said “Preorder” even though they are not preorders.
  
• Fix Corrupted Celestial Dragon profile picture not using the correct alt art.
  
• Add a tooltip for the target of Analyze the Threat.
  
• Fix Marina the Selfless triggering from out of play.
  
• Fix deck not showing the card count on hover.
  
• Fix Agent Coyle, Synergy not correctly allowing Agents to ignore the Unique tag.

• Fixed issue causing login to sometimes fail.
  
• Fixed crash on application exit.
  
• Zealous Protector will now only ascend if it survives the damage.
  
• Fixed Issue where Commander Cards that were returned to Hand would fail to show their stats.
  
• Fixed pack opening screen card text layering issues.
  
• Fixed effector cards in ability layout not displaying description.
  
• Fixed preview cards not displaying mana affordability status.
  
• Fixed card transforms setting incorrect display mode.

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Step into the eerie world of Neverending Nightmares alternate art collection. Preorders are now live in the store! Check out our newsletter for more information.

• We’ve completely revamped the in-game card rendering system! Expect smoother performance and improved visuals. Alongside these changes include an enhanced foiling effect with greater clarity as well as the capability for all cards to be animated at all times during gameplay.
  
• You can now redeem items using codes directly in the store. Take a close look at the patch image to try it out, if you're quick enough to be the first! (Codes are single-use only)
  
• Game initialization has systems that have been reworked improving the loading experience and fixing various issues revolving around player inventory.

• 6/6 Demon tokens with flying that used to cost 3 now cost 2. Their morale was also reduced from 4 to 3 to be consistent with the 0-cost ones.

• Timely Strike can now attempt to target Command Zone in anticipation of moving to Support Zone.
  
• Piercing damage will now correctly let fortress health go negative rather than stopping at zero.
  
• Fix Jade Witch not always overcharging the card if the target left play before the ability triggered.
  
• Fix multiple instances of Exile and/or Recall not stacking correctly.
  
• Fix Tracks the Cowardly not working.
  
• Fix Marina, Touched by Infinity not working properly from the Command Zone, and also protecting her charge from beyond the grave when she shouldn’t.
  
• Fix Rule of Two mutator.
  
• New version of Highlander mutator that asks you to actually make a singleton deck.
  
• Fixed a minor issue with the aspect ratio of Sabore’s artwork.

• Fixed Exile and Recall not increasing the cost of the card properly when the Exile/Recall cost is greater than the original cost of the card.
  
• Fixed Eaten By Zombies SFX.
  
• Fixed missing card arts.
  
• Fixed zone targeting accuracy with zones with large card counts.
  
• Fixed deck-builder list hover card missing description.
  
• Fixed card art not updating on card transformations.
  
• Fixed zoomed cards being cut off by the screen boundary when mousing over the opponent’s Support Zone.
  
• Fixed right click to cancel targeting not working.
  
• Fixed card display mode not updating on draw while fast forwarding.
  
• Fixed tooltips in deck/graveyard view rendering under card scroller.
  
• Fixed negative costs displaying on cards.
  
• Fixed hovering over the opponent’s graveyard not zooming in on the top card..
  
• Always-animate setting now updates properly when changed mid-match.
  
• Fixed default card back reverting to default.
  
• Fixed Issue with Gamespeed not being reverted on disconnect
  
• Fixed Patreon Access.
  
• Improved opacity of dragged cards.
  
• Fixed purchases via Steam.

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Greetings Rift Runners! In our last newsletter we chatted about the Past, Present, and Future of the game. We’re back here to discuss some of the future features that were teased, and talk about other things that weren’t previously discussed in the last newsletter!

(This is a work-in-progress mockup)


First and foremost, we’re excited to bring you Neverending Nightmares, a spooky alternate art pack arriving on the weekend of October 26th, just in time for Halloween! There’s five all new alternate arts for the following cards:

• Corrupted Celestial Dragon
  
• Fetid Intrusion
  
• Shun Howl’s Urn
  
• Voracious Goliath
  
• Melosia, Champion of Despair

Here’s a quick rundown on the different Neverending Nightmare bundles. These will all be available for preorder starting this week. We've heard requests from players that it's too hard to collect full sets of platinum foils, so we made an item to purchase them directly. Additionally, since alt arts can't be opened in packs, we wanted to add a way to collect gold and gold foils of them as well.

Stay tuned this month for the reveals of the final art pieces - the images shown in the store and in this post are in-progress and will be subject to change.

Price: 950 LM -or- Join the Patreon!
Contents: 3x tradable copies of each card
Each card has an 8% chance to be foil
(Patreon reward quantities: Bronze gets 3x of each card, Silver gets 9x, Gold gets 27x)
(Available October 2024 only!)

Price: 2900 LM
Contents: 4x tradable Platinum Foil copies of all 5 cards, Halloween card back
(Available October 2024 only!)

Price: 1200 LM
Contents: 4x tradable Foil copies of all 5 cards, and 4x tradable non-Foil copies of all 5 cards
(Preorder for 10% off!)

Price: 1900 LM
Contents: 4x tradable Gold-border copies of all 5 cards, Halloween card back
(Preorder for 10% off!)

Price: 2900 LM
Contents: 4x tradable Gold-border Foil copies of all 5 cards, Halloween card back
(Preorder for 10% off!)


Sezzadactyl is a talented digital artist, watercolorist, and streamer who we commissioned to produce the headline piece of Neverending Nightmares, Corrupted Celestial Dragon. She'll even be joining us for a special art-tastic Sanctuary Social on the 19th of October.

She's been streaming her creation of the piece over on her Twitch page[www.twitch.tv], so be sure to check out those streams or VODs if you’re interested. You can find more of her excellent work here[sezzadactyl.com]!


In this week's patch we’re changing a bit under the hood for how the game renders cards during gameplay.

The graphical performance of the game will be significantly improved, enabling the possibility to animate all cards on the field at the same time. Foil cards will now be a lot prettier as well, a long-awaited change we've shown off in the past.


We’re excited to bring you Ranked mode and In-Game Chat very soon! Campaigns and additional balance patches are also in-development and will follow afterwards.


We’re excited that we got a chance to deliver on some of the features we teased and we can’t wait to keep getting more done for you! We’ll see you next time in the next future newsletter when we have more features and updates to share with you.

As a reminder, all of this is made possible due to the continued support of players like you! Every card in Infinity Wars Classic is free and accessible for anyone to hop in and try, if you’ve enjoyed our game consider joining our Patreon if you haven’t already!

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Greetings Rift Runners! It’s been a while since we last had our last newsletter, so we here at Lightmare Studios wanted to provide you guys with another where we discuss the Past (couple of months), Present, and Future of Infinity Wars!



We’ve been kicking it making some cards with Promo Sets! Ever since our last Newsletter, we’ve done a couple of these sets releases with five cards in each of them to help keep the game fresh and exciting; with a lot of these cards finding a competitive home!


We also had a big balance update providing changes to over a hundred cards! We’ve been happy with the result of this big balance update since it gave these cards an extra lease on life, both in constructed and limited formats.



Back here in the present, we just had another Promo Set this past weekend with another five cards to shape up the meta! The stuff all of you have been cooking has been exciting to witness, things are already shaping up quite nicely for these newest additions to Infinity Wars!


Another thing which has been fun to continue providing all of you are these weekly Sanctuary Social events![www.twitch.tv] We still have wonderful hosts each weekend from our fantastic community. Sanctuary Socials still remain the best time to play the game as that’s when the most players are online, as well as the best time to try the Mutator Mode!



While the present is nice, here are some things to get excited about regarding the future of Infinity Wars. Our top priority is bringing you Ranked mode and the chance to climb the ladder and prove yourself before 2024 ends!


We’re also working on a chat system so you will be able to find and set up games even more efficiently in the client itself!


The return of single-player campaigns is on the horizon! We’re remaking and improving the story and mission design to improve replayability and to get players involved with the story of the Infinite Worlds.


Ready for something spooky? We’re going to be giving you some alternate arts to coincide with Halloween! So be on the lookout for that soon!


In the near future we are setting out sights on the next full-size expansion, with 100 new cards that will be added to the game. We’re not quite ready to tease the contents of this set yet, but we wanted to let you know where our focus is going because we will be scaling back the releases of Promo Sets to focus on delivering this expansion to all of you. We’re aiming to launch the next major set some time in 2025.


We’ll catch you in game until the next newsletter Rift Runners! 2024 has been an exciting time in Infinity Wars and we hope you enjoy what we’ve been cooking up!

As a reminder, all of this is made possible due to the continued support of players like you! Every card in Infinity Wars Classic is free and accessible for anyone to hop in and try, if you’ve enjoyed our game consider joining our Patreon[www.patreon.com] if you haven’t already!

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New promotional cards are live! Check them out and stay updated on Discord, Patreon, and our Website.

Rosie, Vociferous Hunter - Unique Character Beast
3 Cost | 8 Morale | 8/7

Pay 2: If Rosie is on the Battlefield, Exhaust target Deployed Character. Activate only once per turn.

Kev, High-tech Developer - Unique Character Human
6 Cost | 9 Morale | 6/12
Unstoppable, Barrier 3

When you Deploy Kev, Deploy target Artifact with cost 4 or less from your Deck. For each point of cost less than 4, Kev gets +2/+2.
While Kev is Deployed, activations of Artifacts and Locations you control cost 1 less, to a minimum of 1.

Nameer, Titanium-Clad - Unique Character Human
7 Cost | 10 Morale | 5/20

When you Deploy Nameer, up to three target Characters gain -5/-0. You may target the same character more than once.

Agent Meridius - Unique Character Human
9 Cost | 14 Morale | 16/16

Unstoppable, Barrier 3
When Agent Meridius attacks while he has a Barrier, all Deployed Enemy Characters are moved to the Defense Zone.

Dom, The Sole Shadow - Unique Character Human Spirit
5 Cost | 13 Morale | 7/1

Unstoppable, Lives 3
When Dom loses a life, dies, or is Discarded, it permanently gains +3/+0.

• Fixed single-frame art for the following cards: Annihilate, Chain Lightning, Hubris of the Strong, Rubble Golem, Aura of Arrows, Avatar of Lingbao, Gravedredge Demon, Hungry Abomination, Tibat the Mad Monk, Give Him A Jetpack, Uncontrolled Rift, Flame Dawn Fanatic, Morningstar Accelerator, Swift Strikes, Timely Strike, Tullio the Duelist, EMP Grenade, Interdimensional Phase-Bot, Lucca Rebellion Leader, Overload, Recruit of Solace, Defiant Hunter, Passing Gift, Stampede, Titan of the New World
  
• Prayer of the Dragon now only triggers once, instead of infinite times per turn. This is a return to its IW1 functionality, and mainly because it was too broken with Gao Han, The Stalwart.
  
• Bloodbath no longer moves enemies. This should give it a little bit more counterplay, though it should still be a strong finisher.
  
• The “Agent” keyword is now displayed on the type line.
  
• Fixed the wrong art being used for Corrupted Celestial Dragon. The two-headed one is supposed to be Agent Coyle, Divinedemonic’s transformation.
  
• Azael, the Torn can now target characters in the Command Zone, though the effect will only take place if the target becomes Deployed that turn, similar to other limited-targeting cards like Death Ray.
  
• Fixed quickplay UI issue where the Rift Run toggle kept its previous state if unable to queue, which would leave the toggle on, while not being allowed to queue for that mode.

• Fixed various card spritesheets which were incorrect.
  
• Updated animations of Rosie, Meridius, Sabore
  
• Genesis Researcher joins the crew of reducing costs in hand, deck, graveyard, and command (if you somehow get an artifact there).
  
• Kev no longer causes 0-cost activations to cost 1.
  
• Subject 1/MN-Y now draws randomly.
  
• Fix the text on Junkyard’s choice cards not being updated to reflect their buffed costs.
  
• Fix desync caused by fast-forwarding.

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Preorders for the next community set are now available in the store or on our Patreon. This is a limited time offer to grab these cards in shiny platinum borders!

• Updated how we handle parentheticals in card text. Most of them are “reminder text” which help you remember (or learn) game rules but don’t otherwise change the way the card works. These are now italicized.
  
• The following text has been upgraded from a parenthetical to proper rules text:
  
  • “You may target the same Character more than once.”
    
  • “Rounded down”
    
  • “Rounded up”
• Buff Power of the Underdog from +1/+0 per defender to +2/+2.
  
• Nerf Cowmmando from +3/+3 to +2/+2. Increase its stats from 7/7 to 8/8 in exchange.
  
• Nerf Fiery Ascension to no longer give +4 attack. It was too powerful.

• Fix Infected Purifier’s transformed form having 10/4 stats instead of the intended 9/4. Fix outdated text claiming it’s 7/5 still.
  
• Fix issue with Siege Engineers increasing damage by the target’s Attack rather than doubling it. This was particularly troublesome for noncombat damage.
  
• Reworked Siege Breaker and Siege Engineers on the back end so they work properly together.
  
• Fix Asu-Ra celebrating a successful hunt while dead.
  
• Fix Extended Operation incorrecting having “Remove” keyworded. Use “lose” instead.
  
• Fix Tactical Retreat showing the foe your cards in hand.
  
• Agent Coyle, Zomborg has a bunch of new reminder text in addition to a slight buff to the activated effect: it now stays the same between the two forms that have it, instead of getting worse.

• Fixed Rift Run toggle keeping its previous state if unable to queue, which would leave the toggle on, while not being allowed to queue for that mode.
  
• Fixed misleading Illegal deck text

• Fix issues with the Tutorial missions sometimes being unavailable for new players.
  
• Nysrugh, the Insatiable now sacrifices the adjacent characters rather than just killing them. Good for your morale, and less incredible value with Devil of Despair.
  
• Siege Breaker text changed from “When Siege Breaker deals damage to a Fortress, it deals an additional 8 damage.” to “Siege Breaker deals an additional 8 damage to Fortresses.” to help clarify that it still works when it has 0 or less attack.

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Hello Agents,

Rumors have been swirling amid the mists of the dimensional rifts: The countless perils of the infinite worlds are going through an upheaval… well, more than the usual amount, anyways. Hearing the rumors of foes that are even more ruthlessly efficient than usual, you wonder to yourself what could drive such a trend. Of course, you’re no stranger to danger lurking around every corner… if you’re lucky, you can get by the usual way, with the help of your trusty allies. But if you’re really lucky, and you listen at the edge of Puffy’s pool in a quiet hour, you might just hear the whispers of the answer you’re looking for:

“...balance patch…”

That’s right folks, it’s time for a massive Infinity Wars balance patch! Be aware that some of these card changes are aimed more at Rift Run than Constructed. You may also note in the Table of Contents below that there’s something of a focus on Warpath, Genesis, and Flame Dawn; other factions will receive more buff-centric attention in future balance updates!

• All premade decks have been overhauled! They also have descriptions on mouseover which explain some of their strategy for the benefit of new players.
  
• New music tracks and styles!
  
• Major balance changes! (See below)

• Non-permanent card modifiers are no longer removed when moving between out-of-play zones. (e.g. Hand to Deck)
  
• Fixed Soldier of Purity’s trigger occurring on damage dealt rather than entering combat as the card states.
  
• Fixed Overcharge cards that have an additional target not removing the overcharged card if their target didn’t end up being valid. This was most common with Jade Witch, but also affected Adaptive Ritualist, Crazed Augmenter, Champion’s Attendant, Recruit of Solace, and Angel’s Bane.
  
• Fix Sinister Corruption removing tags it shouldn’t have, such as Enraged and Ascended.
  
• Abilities will now prioritize “Remove when played” over “Return to hand when played”. This can come up when giving Tinker Recall or when using a Recall Ability on Augmented Ninja.
  
• Fix Azael counting opponent’s health loss instead of yours when stolen.
  
• Fixed issue where Alternate Art Profile Pictures would show the original in the store preview instead.
  
• Change art for the 2/2 and 4/4 Undead tokens to Diseased Zombie and Sleeper of Avarrach, respectively.
  
• Fixed Dugg healing player multiple times a turn due to poison.
  
• Fixed Bemmie being able to target cards in your hand.
  
• Fixed deck editing incorrectly being available for premade decks.
  
• Fixed possible soft-lock in Rift Run when attempting to resume deck building
  
• Performed minor startup optimizations to the deckbuilder.
  
• Performed a minor fix to an issue that may have been causing desyncs.
  
• Fixed an issue where piercing damage dealt to a fortress would not count as fortress damage.

Nero, Crypt Delver changed to:
4 cost
When another Character you control is killed or Sacrificed by an effect you control, Nero gains +2/+2.
Pay 1, Sacrifice a Character: Create a Risen of Avarrach in your Graveyard. Activate this only once per turn.
8/8

We’ve come after Nero both directly and indirectly in the past, but Nero remains a cut above the level of free value we want commanders to have. The solution we want to try is to swap Nero’s abilities to reduce the number of free Risen of Avarrachs you can get. The triggered effect has been weakened and the activated one has been strengthened as well, to fit their new roles.

Evellee changed to:
Pay 2, Exhaust: Recruit a Character that costs 1 or less.
Pay 1, Exhaust: Remove another target Deployed Character you control, then Recruit a Character costing X+1, where X is the removed Character's cost.

Evellee has been an ever-present terror of the meta due to her consistency from command. Her second ability will now place the new character in the support zone, preventing surprise hasty threats, which are difficult to counterplay when they are happening all the time. In exchange, she’ll only exhaust for 1 turn again.

Marina, Touched By Infinity changed to:
4 cost
Lifelink 4
Pay 2: If target Character would die this turn while Marina is in Play, that Character is Exhausted for two turns instead, and Marina Transforms into a 10/10 Spirit Dragon with Flying and Lifelink 8. Activate this only once per turn.
8/8
(Previously activation costed 4 and lasted indefinitely)

New Marina is a bit of a strange card with limited application and weird incentives around activating multiple times. We want to buff her and also streamline the usage of the ability.

Raa changed to:
At the end of turn, if an enemy Character died this turn, create a 2/2 Demon, then if you control 16 or more Demons, you win the game.
(Previously made two 1/1 Demons each time and needed 20 to win.)

We like Raa but he makes too many tokens for free, and playing against Raa can feel quite punishing. Previously, Raa was banned in Ranked play, but we would rather balance it as a normal card. In particular, this change will reduce the very high value of making two tokens when you have access to Master of Demons, Volatile Genome, and/or Demonborn.

Tome of the Dead changed to:
4 cost
At the end of turn, Tome of The Dead gains 1 chapter. Then, if it has 3 chapters, Sacrifice Tome of The Dead and kill all Deployed Characters. Move any Characters killed this way to your Graveyard.

Tome of the Dead is an exceedingly powerful card, a key controlling tool which makes up a cornerstone of the Sleepers of Avarrach. This change makes Tome go off one turn faster than before, but come out one turn later. Originally the goal was to reduce the duration of Tome’s chilling effect when played early during the build-up phase. We ended up going a bit sideways from that to make Tome more likely to save your life when drawn later, while weakening its early resource efficiency a bit.

Grimmish, The Persuader changed to:
2 cost
Flying
When Grimmish dies or changes controller, he Removes himself and Immolates your Fortress for 20 (it will take 20 damage at the end of each turn).
12/12

Grimmish is commonly regarded as being too swingy and taking over the entire game whenever he is played. The game turns from “Infinity Wars” into “kill Grimmish and win, or else die”. It’s not ideal. We want to reduce the severity of both the upside and downside, while still keeping Grimmish as a memorable and highly risky card. Now, you’ll still probably die if you don’t kill Grimmish, but slower, and you’ll still probably die if Grimmish dies, but slower, in both cases giving you more chances to make a high-stakes comeback.

Undisturbed Necropolis changed to:
5 cost
When an enemy Character dies, create a 4/4 Undead in your Graveyard. At the end of next turn, Raise it to your Support Zone.

We think Undisturbed Necropolis was too slow and weak. We would like it to be a more interesting location choice in comparison to Lifeless Battlefield or Kyrallic. It will no longer look back in time to before you played it, but it’s cheaper, helps fill your graveyard sooner, and also now Raises, to work with Decrepit Crystal or Infested Scavenger.

Voracious Goliath changed to:
change sacrifice to kill, gain Reach and the Giant type

Voracious Goliath is the finisher of choice for Verore and ensures their dominance in lategame scenarios, no matter what boards they’re up against. While it’s good to have powerful cards that seal the deal for control decks so that games don’t go on too long, it’s also good to have a little more counterplay, especially from cards that are supposed to resist Mass Death, such as immunity to kill effects and Barrier. This also means that Voracious Goliath will now cause morale loss, but we think that’s fine. We also want more reach at the top end of the cost curve, and it has Goliath in the name.

Lightning Blast and Chain Lightning no longer deal extra damage to Artificial characters.

We don’t feel that the “electric damage” clause is worth the added tracking and interaction complexity, and don’t want to keep balancing Artificial characters (especially commanders) around it. Note that there are some other lightning-themed spells such as Overcharged Storm which already do not have this effect. Lightning Blast is very different in role from a specific sideboard hate card like EMP Grenade, in a way that feels more unfortunate to be on the receiving end of.

Cloaked Operative reworked to:
4 cost, 7 morale
11/6
Barrier 1
Overcharge: If Cloaked Operative has no barriers remaining, gain Barrier 1. Activate this only once per turn.
Cloaked Operative has been an odd and weak card for a long time. Redesign to take some inspiration from Covert Battlesuit.

No More Heroes changed to:
5 cost
Choose one:
Kill all Deployed Unique Characters.
Kill all Unique Characters in all Command Zones.

No More Heroes is already great when it’s removing one or more characters from the field, but also hating on expensive Unique commanders as a free bonus makes it very frustrating to play against and near-guarantees a win against multiple archetypes which rely on a Unique character. Typically, commander removal is something that has opportunity cost to include or use, and we don’t think Uniques are a dominant threat that needs such an efficient dedicated hate card. Also, it is now a lot easier to dodge your own No More Heroes, so you can use your own Unique commanders more comfortably in those decks.

Subjugated Dragon changed to:
10 cost
Flying, Unstoppable
When Subjugated Dragon dies or is Removed while Deployed, create four 6/6 Demons with Flying, then lose this effect.
22/22

Subjugated Dragon could use some love. It’ll still be vulnerable to transform effects but will release its demon handlers if removed, and can now be revived. As a side effect, this adds some potentially interesting combos.

Lucca, Rebellion Leader changed to:
Cost 8
When you Deploy Lucca, all Characters you control gain Barrier 1.
15/15

This change adds some extra uses for Lucca, Rebellion Leader. In addition to protecting from Mass Death, she will also let you win a combat for free, and if any of your characters don't fight an enemy that turn, they'll keep the Barrier until it pops, making it more useful for undeployed commanders, supportive characters, and herself.
In exchange, her cost has been raised and the ability trigger has changed to no longer be repeatable with flicker effects.

Support Drone 2/2 -> 2/1

Support Drone is often played as a 5/5 for 1, which is a strange thing to give (with upside) to Genesis in particular. Support Drone is also one of the most-played cards and we don’t intend to harm its popularity significantly, but want to make it less dominant against other 1-drops by making it trade off more when it buffs itself, without affecting its usage for buffing other characters by much (since very few things deal only 1 damage, a 2/2 and a 2/1 are fairly similar).

Carrion Creeper 8/6 -> 8/5

Carrion Creeper is a dominant aggro threat and puts a lot of damage down while trading up well against a variety of blockers. Increasing the amount of smaller things that can trade into it should offset these advantages a bit.

Jade Witch 8/12 -> 8/10, 12 damage -> 10 damage, 1p -> 2p (double hybrid)

Jade Witch is incredible value no matter how you slice it, and surpasses many other cards with its sheer power. We like there being good defensive cards like this one, but it’s an auto-include in too many decks, so we’re reducing both where it can be played and its power level.

Once Was Clean 1p -> 2p (double hybrid)

Powerful haste cards are good at creating advantageous trades, ending the game, and dodging removal. We think Once Was Clean is strong enough that it should be less of a “splash card”. We like this better than weakening it in other ways.

Defiant Monk 2 cost -> 3 cost, 2/6 -> 4/8

The value from Monk is too high for how low the investment is (and how random it is). Slowing your growth chain down by one turn should help.

Lingbao’s Will & Lingbao, Sage of Discipline & United Front 4 morale burn -> 3 morale burn

Morale burn decks tend to make the number of morale loss events more important than the amount of base morale being lost in each. This has been a significant constraint on card design, for instance by creating a massive difference on card effects and characters between 0 morale and 1 morale (whereas 1 vs 2 doesn’t really matter much). This change won’t totally overhaul those dynamics but will reduce their severity somewhat.

Time For Fun Lose Unlimited

This is actually a buff to game client performance. You can still use Uncontrolled Rift for your meme deck (see below for its buff).

Sabore, Who Finds Balance can now only activate once per turn.

Taxera the Unseen has been changed to only grow from your own removal effects:
Whenever a card is Removed from a Graveyard by an effect you control, Taxera gains +2/+2.

Kira, Cold’s Embrace buffs are reduced to +3/+3 and +6/+6 respectively.

• Acid Rain 2p -> 1p, 5 cost -> 4 cost
  
• Abandon All Hope 7 cost -> 6 cost
  
• Undying Dedication Also affects Characters in your graveyard and Command Zone
  
• Lake Shrine Ranger 5/5 -> 7/5
  Previously she would not even trade with a lot of early fliers. This should make her better at her stated job.
  
• Spirit of the Serpent 4 cost -> 3 cost
  
• Eagle-Eye 2p -> 1p
  This change, as well as a lot of the other purity reductions, is mainly to benefit Rift Run. Eagle-Eye in particular should be pretty cool to have in more Sabore decks though!
  
• Ao Shun, Dragon of Wisdom 3p -> 2p, 30/30 -> 36/36
  
• Suppress 2 cost -> 1 cost
  
• Repair Heal Fortress for 15 -> 20
  
• Celestial Dragon 2p -> 1p
  
• Fickle Friendship Gain Exile 5.
  
• Reflective Shield 2p -> 1p, 7 cost -> 5 cost
  Reflective Shield is always being overshadowed by cards like Mass Death, so we’re making it into a 1p option.
  
• Hellmouth Labourer “When Hellmouth Labourer attacks” -> “When Hellmouth Labourer enters the Deployed area or attacks”
  
• Vasir’s Dreadknight Reduce cost by 1 -> 2
  
• Lead By Example “Characters you control get +2/+1 until the end of turn for each Unique Character in your Assault Zone.”
  Was really weak and confusing to play before. It’s probably still marginal/situational but at least will let you order your attackers however you want now.
  
• Ceaseless Hunger 5 cost -> 4 cost
  
• Torment Intruder 13 morale -> 8 morale, 21/18 -> 23/19
  
• Research Become hybrid purity
  Restoring Research to its former glory, because everyone deserves to draw some cards.
  
• Genetic Splicing Gain Recall 2
  
• Uncontrolled Rift Reduces the random card’s cost by 1.
  Rift is a fun card for goofing around with, it deserves a little extra fun.
  
• Aleta, Immortal Traveler Return to only drafting Unlimited Characters
  The current set of Unlimited Abilities are not cards you likely want to pick from her.
  
• Bemmie, Paragon of Community +4/+4 -> +5/+5, but can’t target tokens
  Bemmie had to be nerfed by a lot, but a little compensation is in order since the card hasn’t had any serious showing since then. We’re concerned about the power of Bemmie with a steady source of 1-cost tokens such as Rita’s Guards, and want to make them stronger without having to continue worrying about that, and without having to change the costs of the tokens.
  
• Captain Andrews, Survivor 5/10 -> 5/12, change from “non-Unique Factionless Human Character” to “non-Unique Factionless Character that costs 4 or less” (this strictly expands the recruitment pool in normal cases)
  
• Vault of the Void
  At the end of your turn, if you have no Voidtouched in play, Vault of the Void becomes 34% more complete.
  This makes it still work if the tokens are removed or transformed or something, and also allows it to complete within your lifetime.

• Carries New Life battlefield -> deployed
  This is more so that it’s harder to misplay than for power level reasons.
  
• They Who Rampage 6/6 -> 6/8
  
• Adaptive Hulker +5/+5 -> +6/+6 (15/15 total when overcharged)
  
• Strikes When Struck Gain Vigilance
  Previously Warpath hasn’t gotten Vigilance, but they can have Haste, so it should be fine and cool.
  
• Matriarch Also heals the Command Zone for 2
  Help deal with command damage and is good with Fight, among other things. Should be exciting.
  
• Umbral Warden 4/12 -> 6/15
  
• Kael’s Restoration 4 cost -> 3 cost
  
• Pit Brawler 10/18 -> 10/20, extra 8 damage -> extra 10 damage
  
• Kills By Leaping 16/10 -> 16/16
  
• Force Against The Law 22/22 -> 24/28
  
• Shockwave Giant changed to:
  8 cost
  Reach
  Pay 5: Enrage 10
  When you Enrage Shockwave Giant, it deals 5 damage to all other Characters on the Battlefield.
  15/15
  The other Giants all have Reach. We want more Reach at the top end of the curve. The enrage ability should be a little better at justifying the high cost of the card now.
  
• Dragon of Autumn Wind Reduce the drawn cards’ cost by 3
  
• Caretaker of the Young & Ruins of an Ancient Civilization & Ancient Egg 4/4 Beast tokens changed from 4 morale to 3 morale
  
• Pack Hunt & Stampede 4/5 Beast tokens changed from 4 morale to 3 morale
  
• Never Forget The Fallen & Breeding Grounds 6/6 Beast tokens changed from 6 morale to 3 morale
  
• Ancient Aggression Emblem 2 cost -> 1 cost (to play), move to the front of the Assault Zone
  
• Taunt Work on any Deployed enemy and move to the front of the Defense Zone.
  
• Unstoppable 1 cost -> 2 cost, remove “until the end of turn.”
  
• Wild Hunt top 3 cards -> top 4 cards

• Kinetically Overloaded Drone Morale 4 -> 2
  
• Airborne Scientist 4/4 -> 5/4, morale 2 -> 4
  
• Drone morale 4 -> 3
  
• Assimilation Bot +1/+1 -> +2/+2
  
• Crazed Augmenter +6/+6 -> +8/+8
  
• Tygris, Politically Inclined 1/10 -> 2/10
  
• Overloaded Soldier 4/4 -> 6/6
  
• Immolation Drone 4/10 -> 5/10
  
• Mechanics Overseer 8/10 -> 8/12
  
• Symbiote Prototype 10/10 -> 15/7
  
• Cottontail VX 13 morale -> 7 morale, 2p -> 1p
  
• Inter-Dimensional Phase Bot 8 morale -> 6 morale
  
• Defy Surveillance The +2/+2 now sticks around instead of going away at the end of turn.
  
• Flux Capacitor Overcharge -> Discard
  
• War Machine 13% -> 15%
  
• Junkyard Activation costs 3/4/7 -> 2/3/5
  
• The Dragon Project Activation cost 4 -> 3
  
• Salvage Operation Add “Otherwise, create an 8/8 Artificial.”

• Siege Breaker changed to:
  6/6 -> 4/9, +4 damage to fortress -> +8 damage to fortress
  
• Reckless Zealot 10/4 -> 10/8
  
• Ghost Knight 7/1 -> 9/1
  
• Infected Purifier 7/5 -> 9/4
  This card is almost never played. Sharpened and increased overall stats to help it stand out from Infected Devil, which frequently overshadows it. Now more vulnerable to popular 4-damage removal and sweepers, but it has two ‘lives’ anyways.
  
• Vanguard of the Bond 7/5 -> 7/7
  
• Duelist 5/2 -> 7/3
  
• Flame Ram 0/15 -> 0/20, 15->20 damage to Fortress
  
• Frontline Warrior grows +0/+1 -> +0/+2
  This card is just really bad. We don’t expect this change to suddenly make it really good, but it’ll be more likely to do good things for you.
  
• Protector of the Dawn 8/10 -> 8/16
  
• Vis, the Furious “an additional attack until end of turn” -> “+1 Multistrike”
  
• Dragon of Summer Flame changed to:
  11 cost
  Flying, Unstoppable, Flame Strike 10
  When Dragon of Summer Flame enters the deployed area, deal 5 damage to all enemies in the Support Zone.
  When Dragon of Summer Flame attacks, deal 5 damage to all enemies in the Defense Zone.
  (These effects apply Flame Strike)
  25/25
  
• Hilderic, the Fist of Dawn changed to:
  16 cost
  Charge
  Hilderic costs 1 less for each time a Character you control has attacked this game, divided by 2.
  While Hilderic is in the Assault Zone, your other Characters in Play get +5/+0.
  20/10
  
• Ferocity +2 attack -> +4 attack if friendly
  
• Call the Crusade 5 cost -> 4 cost
  
• Flashbang Can target the Assault Zone as well
  We’d like to expand Flame Dawn’s capacity for controlling strategies. This can be quite a powerful stall tool now. We’ll keep an eye on its power level.
  
• Bloodbath Grants Deadly as well
  
• Ablaze changed to:
  2 cost
  All Characters in the opponent’s Support and Command Zone become Immolated, taking 1 damage at the end of each turn.
  Pay 4 instead to also kill target Location. If you do, increase the immolation to 3.
  
• Tactical Retreat changed to:
  3 cost
  At the end of turn, if you don't have a Character in the Assault Zone, Tactical Retreat becomes 50% more complete. When Tactical Retreat is 100% complete, draw two cards, then all your Characters in Play and in your Hand gain +4/+0.

• Fixed issue with Friends list disappearing.
  
• Fixed Flame Ram’s text not being updated.
  
• Lucca, Rebellion Leader’s Barriers will now only last 1 turn.
  
• Updated a couple of the premade decks.

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