Our focus for Strength was buffing a few underperforming cards to push a more midrange, Unit-focused metagame, in particular those which have historically been very underrepresented in the meta, as well as reducing the amount of Guard units in the Prism slightly, and focusing on stats instead.

Browl (28)

Text:

Summon: Mulligan 5 cost and higher cards in your hand.
↓
Play: Attach Silence to target enemy unit.

Power:

3 → 4

Spell:

Hush → None

Rework while keeping the core theme - dropping the useless Summon effect and spell for +1 power and attaching Silence as a Play effect.

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Polar Bear (38)

Text:

Death: Attach Seek to your hero.
↓
Death: Attach Ice Bolt to your hero.

Traits:

guard → None

Power:

5 → 6

Now attaches Ice Bolt to the Hero, rather than Seek, gains +1 power and drops Guard. Reworked to be more appropriate for Strength’s stats and removal-focused playstyle.

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Grunk (76)

Traits:

guard → None

Health:

3 → 4

Dropping Guard for +1 health. A small buff.

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Treefolk Stomper (145)

Traits:

guard → None

Power:

4 → 5

Health:

4 → 6

Dropping Guard for +1/+2. The card was a pretty major underperformer.

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Overgrowth (162)

Cost:

6 → 5

Text:

This game, all your Earth and Metal units have +1/+1. Draw an Earth or Metal unit.
↓
This game, your Earth and Metal units have +1/+1. Draw an Earth or Metal unit.

A -1 cost buff. The elemental buffing cycle hasn’t had much of a Constructed impact so we’d like to improve it to give elemental decks a bit more focus.

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For Agility, we're focusing on buffing a few elemental cards, and removing an effect that is likely to present some concerning design limitations moving forwards.

Trailblazer (1033)

Cost:

3 → 2

Text:

Glory: Give the left and right-most Fire cards in your hand -1 cost.
↓
Glory: Give a random Fire card in your hand -1 cost.

Traits:

stealth,lifesteal → None

Health:

3 → 4

Slight rework and streamlining, reducing Trailblazer to 2 cost, dropping Lifesteal and Stealth, and giving it +1 health. Its Glory effect now only discounts 1 Fire card in hand, lowering the ceiling and raising the floor.

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Sky Keeper (1090)

Text:

Sunrise and sunset effects don't trigger.
↓
None

Power:

3 → 4

We’re doing some future-proofing here by cutting Sky Keeper’s ability. With Hero Abilities starting to use Sunrise and Sunset more, this ability presented a bit of a design limitation, as disabling such a fundamental mechanic is something that could limit Hero Ability designs moving forward. We’ve opted to remove the ability and give Sky Keeper +1 power instead.

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Raze the Banners (1105)

Cost:

3 → 2

Traits:

banner → None

Dropping Banner and giving -1 cost, with the goal of making an elemental synergy card more playable, ideally supporting new deck types.

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Storm's Fury (1135)

Cost:

6 → 5

Same -1 cost buff as the other elemental cycle members.

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Our focus for Wisdom this patch was to buff a few defensive options, as well as reworking an odd, outdated design. Nothing too radical, just aiming to give Wisdom a few new tools to work with.

Mr. Whiskers (2012)

Health:

6 → 7

Buffing with +1 health to provide a better defensive pivot for Wisdom.

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Seal of Doom (2036)

Cost:

5 → 4

-1 cost buff to an underperformer, trying to offer Wisdom some better defensive tools.

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Frost Adept (2081)

Text:

Sunset: If you have no mana, attach Frostbite with -2 cost to enemies.
↓
Summon: All enemies have -2 power until your next turn.

Traits:

wither → guard,wither

Power:

2 → 3

Spell:

Icy Touch → None

Reworking a bizarre damage-focused Wisdom card to be a defensive tool, Adept always felt oddly out of place in Wisdom.

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Sky United (2157)

Cost:

6 → 5

Same -1 cost buff as the other elemental cycle members.

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Our focus for Heart this patch was to improve the ‘health gain’ subtheme heart has had for some time now, in hopes of pushing it as a package that decks can make use of. We’ve also buffed a few underperformers, and made an adjustment to a card to remove some unintended interactions.

Bard Rock (3034)

Traits:

banner → None

Power:

4 → 5

Health:

4 → 6

Streamlining the design by dropping Banner and giving it +1/+2.

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Second Chance (3043)

Cost:

5 → 4

Buffing an underperforming revival spell with -1 cost.

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Cosmicon (3071)

Cost:

5 → 4

Text:

When your hero gains health, they gain +1 health more.
↓
If an ally would gain health, it gains 1 additional health.

Traits:

lifesteal,banner → lifesteal

Spell:

Sanctuary → None

Part of a series of buffs to health boosting Heart cards. Grants +1 health whenever any ally gains health, rather than just the hero, while reducing the cost and dropping banner.

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Hexed Surit (3124)

Health:

4 → 5

Spell:

Hexfection → None

Removing the attachment and granting +1 health.

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Dawndelver (3133)

Text:

After a unit's death effect triggers, attach Shield to this unit, and that unit (if it's not dead).
↓
After your unit's death effect triggers, attach Shield to this unit, and that unit (if it's not dead).

A small ‘nerf’ in the form of fixing the unintended effect of Dawndelver triggering off of enemy Units’ Death effects.

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Cycle of Life (3162)

Cost:

6 → 5

Same -1 cost buff as the other elemental cycle members.

For Intellect, we’re nerfing a few cards in the service of toning down a powerful metagame deck and future-proofing a problematic design that could lead to infinite loops. Beyond that, we’re looking to buff a defensive option for Intellect, and streamline a design that was being held back by another card.

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Frigid Blizzard (4004)

Text:

Attach Frostbite to all units, and do 1 damage to them.
↓
Attach Frostbite to all units, and do 2 damage to them.

Buffing a weak boardclear, it now does 2 damage, rather than 1 to all Units.

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Leonitus (4090)

Text:

After another ally unit is summoned, attach Zap to it.
↓
After you play a unit, attach Zap to it.

Power:

2 → 3

Future-Proofing. Leonitus’ ability to attach Zap to all summoned units was a design limitation since it could create infinite loops with some Unit compositions, so we’re making this nerf to remove that issue.

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Torques (4108)

Text:

Inspire Spell: Summon Micron Drone with Lead.
↓
Inspire Spell: Summon Micron Drone.

With Leonitus being adjusted, Torques no longer needs to put Lead on the Drones it summons, since the two cards can no longer produce an infinite loop.

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See Beyond (4162)

Cost:

6 → 5

Same -1 cost buff as the other elemental cycle members.

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Unophobia (20040)

Cost:

10 → 11

Small nerf here. Unophobia, especially in Mai decks, has been noted as a dominant strategy, so we’re giving it +1 cost to slow it down slightly.

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Gadgeteer (25010)

Text:

Every four spells you play, summon Micron Drone.
↓
After every fourth spell you play, summon Micron Drone.

A minor adjustment to an inconsistency. Mai's ability now triggers after every fourth spell you play resolves, rather than as you play the fourth spell, keeping it consistent with other effects, like Inspire.

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Psychomancy (25012)

Text:

Destroy target ally unit. Draw a spell and give it -1 cost.
↓
Destroy target ally unit. Draw a spell.

Rebalancing Sitti's Ability to not give -1 cost to the spell it draws. We have received a lot of feedback that the ability is leading to an imbalance in the metagame, and the stats support that Sitti is powerful at high levels of play, so we're making this change in service of protecting metagame health.

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