Enrage (184)

    Text: Target ally unit fights a random enemy. ➞ Target ally unit attacks a random enemy.

Enrage is included here as a representative for our new rules change. All effects that caused units or heroes to "Fight(s)" each other have been changed to cause them to "Attack(s)" each other instead, to further consolidate the language we use on cards and help to make the game rules simpler and more intuitive. In most cases, the change from Fight to Attack won't make a difference, but there are a few cases where Attack will differ:

A. If a unit with a Glory effect Attacks a hero via an effect (like enrage), it will once again allow that unit's Glory Effect to trigger.

B. Units with the Roots Enchant cannot attack, but this restriction will now also apply to attacks it would attempt to perform via effects like Enrage. In addition, if a card that attacks on Summon (like Bolt) is given Roots via an effect like Amaruath, this will block its attack. This is different to how it worked before, but is more consistent with the new wording, and in general.

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Champ (219)

    Power: 2 ➞ 3

A change people have been asking about for a bit, Champ is a card I think is fairly strong when compared to options like Howl Geist, as it can generate 4/4 worth of stats and draw a new card if you have a unit that can go face. However, Champ is also a worse turn 1 play with vial, so there are different considerations, which makes me willing to try a buff. I would also like aggro decks to feel incentivized to run more 3-5c cards, rather than 90% of their curve being 2c or less.

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Honor Guard (745)

    Spell: None ➞ Lead

Another tweak here - we have a lot of lead but Honor guard feels pretty lacking as a 5-drop, especially next to other options like Toh Tem, which also doesn’t see a huge amount of usage in the current meta, so lead should help Guard endure a bit more punishment from stuff like flames and frozen, and also make it more reliable vs silence and dusting, giving it an unique edge over other similar options.

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Mamba (964)

    Power: 4 ➞ 5

    Health: 4 ➞ 3

This is a card I had heard a fair bit of talk about, and its expected stat pool, after one turn is fairly above curve. To me what stuck out most was the fact its well-rounded, bulky statline felt more STR than AGY so I made it a bit more fragile and aggressive via moving a point of its hp to attack, helping it fit into AGY more thematically and also making it easier to answer when rushed out turn two.

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Khan (971)

    Power: 4 ➞ 3

    Health: 3 ➞ 4

Though he was buffed awhile back, he’s still been kinda underwhelming, so I’m trying another stat redistribution, moving a point of power to health, which should let him survive more often, and maybe allow his Inspire effect to do more work.

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Sworn Oni (994)

    Power: 2 ➞ 3

Another cool card that hasn’t seen too much play, as a 3/3 it seems quite scary if it lives, but it tends to get its quest removed or just get outright killed, so it shouldn’t be too big of a buff, but it was something I felt was worth trying, since it’s a cool potential midrange AGY threat that is pretty unused currently.

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Trident True (1001)

    Power: 3 ➞ 2

    Health: 2 ➞ 3

A final stat swap, 2hp is always a pretty bad place to be, so wanted to try a bit more bulk and a bit less power. He used to be pretty overplayed as a 3/3 so I didn’t want to give him the stat point back, but hopefully the marginally stickier stat distribution will help him see more use.

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Void Knight (1153)

    Spell: Fate ➞ Grim Reprisal

A pretty unique tech card that’s been basically unused from day one, but anything above a 3c 3/3 with Fate feels kinda scary, so I decided to try a different route here, by swapping Fate for the perennially popular Grim Reprisal, making Void Knight into a more proactive option from 4 mana onwards. It also fits in nicely with how he blocks healing, letting him help to immediately kill off a mummy or Earth Golem, and also places more strain on his own players’s health, helping to emphasize that mechanic as a part of AGY, and possibly making his healing-blocking effect a bit risker for his user.

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Trapper Keeper (39)

    Text: When the enemy plays a spell, kill this unit, counter the spell, and add a copy of it to your hand. ➞ When the enemy plays a spell, give this unit a copy of it.

    Health: 6 ➞ 5

Another design I’d been considering for a while. I still like the old effect, and I’m sure it’ll return in the future, but as people had mentioned in the past, it would likely work better on a smaller, more Fly Guy-esqe unit, where the spell negation effect is valued more than the unit’s statline. I also feel that this design makes slightly better use of Skyweaver’s existing mechanics and works better on keeper, since it still has a similar spell mirroring effect, but now doesn’t kill itself, offering different play patterns, since it can still serve as a Guard unit, and its stats are more meaningful, since once it picks up a spell, your opponent can then kill it, to deprive you of it, or, if they are unable to kill it, may be incentivized to not play their spell at all, since it won’t instakill Trapper like it used to. Overall, though this is a fairly sizable change, I think this new design should fit Trapper a little better by allowing it to serve as both a spell deterrent and defensive guard unit, since the two roles it serves will no longer fight against each other.

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Molten Heart (1045)

    Text: Give target unit Quest, lifesteal, and +1/+3. ➞ Give target unit +2/+2. Trigger its death effects. (If any)

We've got a bit of a wacky redesign here. Molten Heart was a pretty underused card, and the focus on being able to give allies Lifesteal has shifted to STR, giving it a unit/combat focused means of healing, so Molten Heart felt a bit odd in HRT thematically as well. As a result, I've tweaked it in a new direction to provide HRT another way for to interact with its own Death effects, via activating them on command, which should open up interesting options with cards like Fun Guy, Flame Phoenix, etc. It may still be on the weak side but it should have more to offer now. Keep it away from your Earth Golems!

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Angler (1089)

    Text: Summon: If you have no mana, draw your lowest cost water spell onto this unit. ➞ Summon: Draw your lowest cost water spell onto this unit. If you have no mana, draw it to hand instead.

    Keywords: None ➞ stealth

    Health: 4 ➞ 2

Angler has always felt kind of awkward. In principle, I like the effect of drawing a Water spell onto itself if you have no mana. It makes sense mechanically for our Water-themed spellseeker, since the “Low Tide” mechanic of triggering an effect if you have no mana is Water-centric, but practically, having a unit only get a spell when you will be almost certainly be unable to use it was pretty awful, and meant that Angler’s statline had to be uncharacteristically beefy to compensate, and maybe let it live long enough to use the spell next turn. This lead to it feeling more like a STR unit, having stats on par with Boulder and Redwood, and as a result, Angler was used primarily for its stats, rather than its effect, if it was used at all. This new change makes Angler’s effect far more reliable, while bringing its statline down to compensate, and still rewards you for emptying your mana, by letting you whisk the spell right to the safety of your hand, helping keep that fun “no mana” theme going while breathing new life into an often-forgotten member of the spellseeker family of units.

KRAMPUS IS HERE, ALONG WITH HIS DIABOLICAL GIFTS, WHICH YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE!