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Patch notes: August 16th, 2016

Written by Abrakam  |  08/16/2016

It's here! With the assistance of abundant player feedback and an intense period of internal testing and discussion, we've arrived at a set of balance changes for you to sink your teeth into. As always, we hope to improve the state of the game and increase the variety of decks played with each balance patch. We will continue to monitor and observe as always.

A new build-order strategy: The Forest Kick

Card Changes

NEUTRAL

  • Daring Adventurer
    Reduced Faeria cost by 1
    Now costs 4f
    (Down from 5f)

YELLOW

  • Shaytan Vampire
    Design reworked. Now:
    6f DD
    5/6
    Whenever Shaytan Vampire damages a god, you gain that much life.
    (was 7f DD, 7/4 Gift- This creature drains 2 life from all adjacent creatures)
  • Deathwish Ghoul
    Now: Last words - Gain 2f
    (was Last words - Gain 3f)
  • Oradrim Sagittarius
    Added both an additional Desert requirement and one health.
    3f DD
    1/3
    (was 3f D, 1/2)
  • Wind Gate
    Reduced Faeria and Desert requirement by 1.
    Now: 1f D
    (instead of 2f DD)

BLUE

  • Sunken Tower
    Reduced Faeria cost by 1
    0f LL
    (was 1f LL)
  • Prophet of Tides
    3f LL
    3/1
    "Move a land you control twice."
    (was 1/1, "Move a land twice")
  • Mystic Beast
    Design reworked. Now:
    3f LLL
    2/5
    Gift: Gets +2/+0 and Jump if played adjacent to an enemy well.
    (was 3fL, Gift: Gets +2/+2 and Charge 2 if your opponent has 10f or more)
  • Ancient Herald
    Health increased by 1.
    5/6
    (was 5/5)

GREEN

  • Ruunin's Champion renamed to Ruunin's Messenger
    5f F (was 4fF)
    3/5 (was 2/6)
    Jump. Whenever this creature attacks a god, add a random green creature to your hand and decrease its cost by 2f.
    (was: Whenever this creature attacks a god, add a random green creature to your hand. It gets +2/+2)
  • Faeria Tree
    Now blows up at 5 life instead of 6.

MULTICOLOR

  • Apex Predator
    Increased Faeria cost by one.
  • Soul Eater
    Now has:
    Flying, Charge 3
  • Three Wishes:
    2f (was 0f) DDFFLLMM
    Gain 3 life (was 4 life) and copy the top 3 cards of your opponent's deck. They cost 3f (was 2f) less. You cannot wish for more wishes.

Rarity Changes

The following cards were swapped in rarity in regards to the affects this balance patch will have on Pandora. With Ruunin's Messenger now a much more powerful force in the common slot, we wanted to shift it to Epic to make it a little less easy to pick.

  • Ruunin's Messenger is now Epic (was common)
  • Ruunin's Avenger is now Rare (was Epic)
  • Sagami Elder is now Common (was Rare)

(Click here for an explanation on how rarity changes are compensated in memoria automatically for you)

Full disenchant values:

As a result of these balance changes, cards that have been reduced in power will be available for their full disenchant cost for 1 week. Those cards are as follows:

  • Apex Predator
  • Three Wishes
  • Shaytan Vampire
  • Deathwish Ghoul
  • Oradrim Sagittarius

Patch design notes:

Click here to head to our Official Boards and read some designer insight from Dan and the team

We'd like to give a big thank you to our Vanguard testers for taking time in helping to test this set of changes.

  • The Faeria Team