Playtest notes 13 Feb 2025

Internal playtest113 entries51 content additions27 balance changes10 bug fixes8 wording fixes7 audio updates6 interface changes4 art updates

This is a pre-release internal note from the closed playtest, quoted as it was written for testers. It describes a build that no longer exists; treat it as history, not as a description of the current game.

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39 cards

At the start of your turn, draw 1 card and Exhaust 1 card from your Hand.

Summon 6.
Exhaust.

Whenever you spend or gain , deal 3 damage to ALL enemies.

If Osty is alive, he deals 9 damage to ALL enemies and you gain 9 Block.
Osty dies.

Collision Course

Deal 11 damage.
Add a Debris into your Hand.

At the start of your turn, apply 6 Doom to a random enemy.

Choose 1 of 3 random cards to add into your Hand. It's free to play this turn.
Exhaust.

Gain 13 Block.
Retain your Hand this turn.

Deal 3 damage to ALL enemies 4 times.

Can only be played if there are no cards in your Draw Pile. Deal 60 damage to ALL enemies.

Whenever you play a Soul, a random enemy loses 6 HP.

Deal 15 damage.
Next turn, gain .

Discard 2 cards.
Add 2 Shivs into your Hand.

Howl from Beyond

Deal 16 damage to ALL enemies.
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Exhaust Pile, play it.

Next turn, Summon 2 and gain .

Deal 27 damage.
Whenever you draw this card, reduce its cost by 1.

Deal 8 damage.
Whenever you draw this card, increase its damage by 4 this combat.

Ethereal.
The first Attack each turn deals 50% additional damage.

Manifest Authority

Gain 7 Block.
Add 1 random Colorless card into your Hand.

The first Attack or Skill you play each turn is placed on top of your Draw Pile.

Every 4 you spend,
gain .

If you have 3 or more cards in your Exhaust Pile,
deal 17 damage to ALL enemies.

Whenever you draw an Ethereal card, draw 1 card.

Gain 8 Block.
Gain 2 Vigor.

Deal 6 damage.
Apply 3 Poison.

Deal 13 damage.
Deals 2 less damage for each other card in your Hand.

Pull from Below

Deal 5 damage for each Ethereal card played this combat.

Retain.
Deal 27 damage.

Whenever Attacks deal damage, apply that much Doom.

Draw cards until your Hand is full.
Exhaust.

Deal 13 damage.
Add a Soul into your Draw Pile, Hand, and Discard Pile.

Unplayable.
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, gain 1 Frail.

Deal 8 damage.
Gain .
Put this card on top of your Draw Pile.

Apply 3 Weak and Vulnerable to ALL enemies.
Exhaust.

Whenever you apply Doom, gain 2 Block.

Add Replay to a card in your Hand.
It costs an extra .
Exhaust.

Gain .
Exhaust.

Deal 7 damage.
Forge 7.

Relics, potions and powers

Enemies and events

Content

Ironclad

Re-added Heavy Blade card
Deprecated cards:
- Pulverize
- Seeing Red

Silent

Added new cards:
- Hidden Daggers
- Precise Cut
Reworked Shadowstep card
Deprecated cards:
- Concentrate
- Crippling Cloud
- Die Die Die
- Quicken

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Necrobinder

Added new cards:
- Afterlife
- Blight
- Invoke
- Fester
- Pagestorm
- Severance
- Shroud
- Spectral
- Swipe
- Transfigure
- Wisp
Reworked cards:
Deprecated cards:
- Nine Lives
- Plague Carrier
- Etherburst
- Tackle
- Jumpscare

Regent

Added new cards:
Reworked cards:
- Wrought in War
- Eternal Solstice
- Orbit
- Tyranny
Deprecated Singularity card

Colorless Cards

Added Nostalgia card
Added Debris status card
Deprecated Earthquake card

Ancients

Zlatir blessings are now all in one shared pool
Reworked Zlatir's Choice's Paradox blessing

Balance

Ironclad

Changed Howl From Beyond card: type changed from Skill -> Attack

Silent

Changed Grand Finale card: is now Colorless
Changed Poisoned Stab card:
- Damage decreased from 6(8) -> 5(6)
- Poison increased from 3(4) -> 4(5)

Defect

Changed Equilibrium card: is now Colorless

Necrobinder

Changed Corpse Explosion card: is now a Darv Card
Nerfed Countdown card: Doom applied decreased from 6(9) -> 6(8)
Changed Lethality card: now applies to Osty's attacks in addition to yours
Buffed Reap card: damage increased from 23(29) -> 24(31)
Nerfed Reaper Form card: Doom decreased from 6(9) -> 4(5)

Regent

Buffed Manifest Authority card: Block gain increased from 8(11) -> 9(11)
Buffed Black Hole card: damage increased from 7(9) -> 8(11)
Buffed Kingly Kick card: damage increased from 21(27) -> 23(29)
Buffed Kingly Punch card: damage increased from 7+3(4) -> 8+4(7)

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Colorless Cards

Changed Scrawl card: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare

Enemies

Changed Ceremonial Beast: Plow move's Dexterity decrease decreased from -1 -> -2
Changed Bowlbug encounter: reworked Egg and Goop Bowlbug movesets
Nerfed Mechaknight: no longer has the Vanguard power
Buffed Slithering Strangler: HP increased from 44(44)-46(46) -> 53(54)-55(56)
Buffed Soul Nexus: now gains additional damage on all three of its moves

Events

Changed Colorful Philosophers event: moved from Act 3 -> Act 2
Buffed Exterminate event card: damage increased from 3(4) -> 4(5)

Multiplayer

Dead players now revive with 1HP after combat ends
Multiplayer scaling adjusted to be harder
- In addition to being multiplied by player count, additional scaling is now applied on top of enemy HP, block, and power amount. This scaling goes up based on the Act index.
Certain powers are now scaled specially: Artifact, Slippery, Plating, and Buffer

Art

Added portrait art for Tyranny card
Updated portrait art for various Ironclad cards
Added beta portrait art to various cards
Implemented new Vine Shambler vine attack VFX

User interface & experience

Tezcatara's Ember blessing now displays Eternal hovertip
Visual feedback has been added for when a card play is duplicated by an effect like Duplication Potion

Multiplayer

A targeting line is now shown when another player is targeting a card or potion
Added an icon next to remote players indicating the screen they are looking at
Console and reaction wheel now only open if you're not already focused on an edit control
Other players can now see which card, relic, or potion you are hovering over

Audio

Added SFX for enemies:
- Slimed Berserker
- Flyconid
- Axebot
- Furry Wurm Crawler
- Soul Nexus
- Turret Operator

Wording

Renamed Shiny Strike -> Polish
Eternal keyword now clarifies that it also prevents transforming
Fixed capitalization in Orobas' Venom Discovery title
Pact's End card now correctly says "all enemies"
Scroll of Biting power wording improvements
Tangled power and corresponding Entangled affliction wording improvements
Tea Master Event's "Tea of Shame" choice now has its own description
Thieving Hopper encounter Run History wording changed from Thieves -> Thief

Bug fixes

Ironclad

Shockwave card art has now been correctly implemented

Potions & Relics

Ruby Earrings relic now properly generates Uncommon and Rare card rewards

Enemies

Fixed an error with Rampart power's description that caused its hovertip not to display

Events

Tinker Time event's "Speed" choice no longer incorrectly claims to add Innate when creating a Power

General

Fixed an issue where creating a card and attempting to add it to a full hand would leave the discard pile's displayed count inaccurate
It is no longer possible for the Merchant to restock duplicate items when you have The Courier relic

Multiplayer

Exiting a multiplayer run and starting a new one no longer causes a black screen at first combat
Feel No Pain power now only triggers for your own card plays in multiplayer
Launching multiplayer after quitting mid-single player combat no longer immediately cause a divergence
You can no longer remove multiple cards in multiplayer during a lag spike

Newer: 20 Feb 2025 All patch notes Older: 6 Feb 2025

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