Talonous (1040)

    Text: Summon: If an enemy has stealth, gain +1/+1 and guard. ➞ Summon: If an enemy has stealth, gain +1/+2 and guard.

A minor buff to an underwhelming card, now gains +1 more health when your opponent has a stealth unit in play, which should increase its viability a bit.

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Honk (1077)

    Power: 3 ➞ 2

A small power nerf to a card with a high win rate and versatility that was being played ubiquitously in Agility heroes. Honk would often perform as a removal spell, Banner source, and a way to push damage all tied into one package. We felt that it’s ability to push damage was a little too strong, especially considering that it often already traded 1 for 1 or 1 for 2 frequently.

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Montage (1063)

    Cost: 2 ➞ 3

    Text: Ready your hero. ➞ Your hero attacks target enemy.

A berf/simplification here, raising Montage 3c to slow down some of the combos with Flock slightly and buffing the effect to make it simpler to use. Montage now allows your hero to attack an enemy target, meaning it can be used to hit Stealth units or the enemy hero directly, bypassing Guards, and can be used before using your normal attack for the turn, allowing that attack to benefit from the +1 damage from Banner as well.

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Grim Reprisal (1066)

    Text: Do 3 damage to target unit and 2 damage to your hero. ➞ Do 3 damage to target unit and 3 damage to your hero.

A small reversion, Grim Reprisal is consistently among the top 3 Agility cards in Constructed, so we’re returning the face damage it deals to three, from two, which should be a minor nerf overall, especially since Cards like Disciple of Gusto have allowed Agility to manage its self-damaging effects a bit more.

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Waterline (2017)

    Cost: 3 ➞ 4

Nerf to a really powerful Wisdom removal tool, at four mana Waterline is likely to be far less appealing, but its ability to kill both wide boards of small units and multiple larger units (if they shared a cost) pushed it over the edge slightly, and it was by far the most played Wisdom card, so a Nerf felt reasonable.

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Ill Will (2038)

    Cost: 4 ➞ 3

    Text: Attach Hex to enemy units. Give the enemy's left and right-most cards in hand +2 cost and reveal them. ➞ Attach Hex to enemy units. Give the enemy's left and right-most cards in hand +1 cost and reveal them.

With Waterline moving up to 4c, Ill Will moves down to the 3c slot, along with reducing the cost nerf effect from +2c to +1c, putting a bit more emphasis on the mass hex part of the card and offering an earlygame AOE option to replace Waterline in the 3c slot. The delayed nature of Hex’s removal effect is also thematic for Wisdom.

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Octavian (2029)

    Text: Inspire Water: Gain 1 mana. ➞ Inspire Water: Give the left and right-most cards in your hand -1 cost.

This was a change that was spurred into effect by certain decks, but long term honestly felt near inevitable. Being able to generate mana is an incredibly abusable ability, and it was only a matter of time until Octavian broke something. While we do enjoy combo decks, combos using octavian were very grindy, often taking 3-5 minute turns to establish a win while the opponent was forced to watch without any hope of interaction, making for a pretty miserable experience. This change still leaves the door open for some combos via discounting your hand, but limits the possible range they have, and allows Octavian to get more value from a few water spells, as it now generates twice the effective ‘mana’ but the change from raw mana gain to discounting cards in hand should make it less abusable overall.

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Grover (2033)

    Text: Summon: Discard 1 cost and less units in your deck. ➞ Summon: Discard a 1 cost unit of each element from your deck.

A toning down of a particularly scary card, Grover’s ability to instantly turn a 30 card deck to a 15 card one in a single trigger made decks built around it a bit too consistent and allowed them to turbo out particularly scary plays a bit too quickly. Grover now only discards one 1c unit of each element, which still allows it to set up rainbow synergies like World Tree and Sky Phoenix effectively, but limits the amount of deck thinning a single Grover trigger can provide, requiring decks seeking to take advantage of Grover to either copy it to get its trigger off twice, or adjust their strategy to be a bit slower to compensate for its reduced deck thinning ability.

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Archivist (2045)

    Text: Inspire Spell: Give your hero health equal to the spell's cost. ➞ Inspire Spell: Give your hero +1 health.

    Traits: None ➞ banner

    Health: 4 ➞ 3

Another change to a particularly scary card, and one that was contemplated for a while. While cards like Archivist have proven sustainable in other games, when combined with Skyweavers uncapped mana, the amount of passive healing archivist offered scaled too effectively into the lategame, leading to extremely stally and long games when combined with spells that possessed scaling costs like Study, Smite, Invest, etc.

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Twist & Turn (2050)

    Text: Dust target unit to draw and summon a unit of its element for its player. If it's an ally, attach Barrier to it. ➞ Dust target unit to draw and summon a unit of its element for its player. If it's an ally, give it +2/+1.

A small buff to an underperforming card which was at the literal bottom of win rates in Wisdom, allowing it to buff the unit it summons (if it’s an ally), making it a bit more effective in Constructed and Discovery alike.

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Xythe (3007)

    Power: 1 ➞ 2

    Health: 3 ➞ 2

Xythe was a little too good at destroying a lot of small units or nullifying large units. When combined with it’s attached spell’s ability to apply Chains and Wither damage, removing blockers or Hero Armor, it felt too versatile. We’ve opted to reduce its health by 1 to help players destroy it with Banner and cheaper removal more easily. We’ve given it 1 more power to compensate with its newfound fragility, and bring it into line with its sister card Cube Jr.

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Nature's Grasp (2003)

    Text: Summon two Elderwood with +1 health. Attach Roots with +1 cost to enemy units. ➞ Summon two Elderwood with +1 health. Attach Roots to enemy units.

In playtesting we found this card to be extremely impactful and disruptive, often ending in essentially a turn 3 win against aggressive strategies. We like cards that provide counterplay to aggro, but Grasp felt too efficient for its cost, so we removed the increased cost from Roots.

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Disciple of Gusto (1100)

    Power: 4 ➞ 3

Disciple has a high win rate in Constructed and Discovery. It provides a Banner source and lets you hit large units with your face worry free. We love that aspect of the card, but the overall Stealth/Banner/Shroud package coupled it’s ability to push damage was slightly too powerful. As such, we’ve reduced its power by 1 to make it less potent.