Cards and Castles

We're going to go ahead and post the complete list of patch notes for tomorrow's balance patch. Our main goals with this patch are to adjust some of our factions' primary roles so that ninjas fit better with their own exclusive strengths, clean up some undesirable mechanics from our previous warlock...

Pre-ninjas balance patch is tomorrow! Lots of changes, most of them minor and a few important meta-game shifts to solidify faction attributes and pull them away from ninja specialities. Look for the patch notes tomorrow!

In order to test first turn / second turn balance, we have changed player 1 to start with 1 less card while both players start with the same gold amount. We'll be monitoring how this works out!

Pirate patch finally broke the Barbarian, who has a scaling problem that has finally tipped over into broken territory. He has been rebalance as such: attack increased to 400, HP reduced to 600, movement reduced to 3. Glass cannon! Expose armor cost was also increased to 2.

After reviewing our previous major balance patch, we have decided to make a few small adjustments to some pirate spells:

MERCHANT'S FAVOR - Gold granted reduced from 8 to 7

THIEF - HP reduced from 700 to 600

We will be performing server maintenance on Thursday, July 25th at 9 PM PST. We expect this maintenance will take no more than an hour.

We've deployed most of our major balance patch just now! Keep in mind these balance changes will only apply to games created AFTER the patch. There are a lot of patch notes, so check our forums for the complete list of changes!

We wanted to make everyone aware that sometime next week or the week after we will be releasing a major balance patch. This patch is based on the ranking data we've collected since the ranked matches system has gone live. Although nothing is finalized, expect to see major improvements to pirates and...

NINJAS! Many of you have guessed it already, but we are officially announcing our upcoming fifth and final faction, ninjas! Ninjas will be will be specialists in mobility, helping their units move across the field and even to and from your hand! Ninjas are also defined by their patience, introducing...

We've been getting a lot of complaints about warlock rush decks that exclusively or almost exclusively kill the base with direct damage spells. Although we do like warlock's to be able to do SOME nuking against the base, nukes are not counterable by the opponent and it's not much fun to fight agains...