Playtest notes 10 Jul 2025

Internal playtest86 entries38 bug fixes16 balance changes15 art updates9 interface changes5 wording fixes3 content additions

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.

This week's patch graces you with the presence of a new Act 3 Ancient, whose name may seem oddly familiar... Also, the Test Subject boss has received a major rework, maps have been slightly rebalanced, various UI/UX improvements have been made, and lots of new card and beta art has been added!

Items in this note

40 cards

Deal 9 damage twice.
Channel 2 Glass.

Deal 18 damage.
At the start of your turn, if this is in your Exhaust Pile, play it.
Exhaust.

Gain 9 Plating.

At the start of your turn, play the top card of your Draw Pile.

Gain 15 Block.
Next turn, draw 2 cards and gain .
Exhaust.

Poison is triggered 1 additional time.

Draw 3 cards.
Discard 1 card.

Adaptive Strike

Deal 18 damage.
Add a 0 copy of this card into your Discard Pile.

Deal 10 damage.
Put ALL 0 cards from your Discard Pile into your Hand.

Beat into Shape

Deal 5 damage.
Forge 5.
Forges an additional 5 for every other time you've hit the enemy this turn.

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

Deal 18 damage.
Exhaust 1 card at random.

Forge 3.
Sovereign Blade deals double damage to the enemy this turn.

Deal 21 damage to ALL enemies.
Fill your Hand with Debris.

Deal 10 damage.
Vulnerable and Weak are twice as effective against the enemy for the next 2 turns.

Enfeebling Touch

Ethereal.
Enemy loses 8 Strength this turn.

At the start of your turn, Transform 1 card in your Hand.

The first time you play a
0 Attack each turn,
return it to your Hand.

Ethereal.
Innate.
Unplayable.
Eternal.

Lose 2 Strength.
Gain at the start of each turn.

Genetic Algorithm

Gain 1 Block.
Permanently increase this card's Block by 3.
Exhaust.

Gain 5 Block.
Channel 1 Glass.

Gain .
Draw 1 card.
Next turn, draw 1 card.

Deal 8 damage X times.
Double X if it's 4 or more.

A random card without Replay in your Draw Pile gains Replay 2.

Gain 2 Focus this turn.
Exhaust.

Deal 5 damage twice.
Increase the damage of ALL Maul cards by 1 this combat.

Deal 8 damage.
Damage ALL other enemies equal to the damage dealt.

Pillar of Creation

Whenever you create a card, gain 3 Block.

Gain 1 Strength.
Gain 1 Dexterity.

Rolling Boulder

At the start of your turn, deal 5 damage to ALL enemies and increase this damage by 5.

At the end of combat, gain 30 Gold.

Sleight of Flesh

Whenever you apply a debuff to an enemy, they take 9 damage.

At the start of your turn, Channel 1 Glass.

Whenever you play an Ethereal card, gain 4 Block.

Sovereign Blade gains Replay 1.

Deal 13 damage.
Permanently increase this card's damage by 4.
Exhaust.

Ethereal.
End your turn.
The first 2 cards you play each turn are free to play.

Deal 33 damage.
Stun the enemy.
Exhaust.

Deal 7 damage.
Forge 7.

Relics, potions and powers

Bound Phylactery

Tools of the Trade

Enemies and events

Content

Ancients

Added new Act 3 Ancient, Nonupeipe

Potions & Relics

Reworked Merchant's Robes relic into a new Nonupeipe relic

Enemies

Reworked Test Subject

Balance

Defect

Nerfed Glass Orb: starting value decreased by 1
Changed Adaptive Strike card: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
Changed Genetic Algorithm card: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
Buffed Hotfix card: Focus gain increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
Nerfed Refract card: damage decreased from 11(13) -> 9(11)

Regent

Buffed Conqueror card: upgraded damage increased from +1 -> +4

Enemies

Nerfed Fabricator: big attack damage decreased from 25(28) -> 18(21)
Nerfed Infested Guardian: no longer attacks when it does its Adapt move
Nerfed Magi Knight:
Block gain on first Shield decreased from 8 -> 5
Shield damage decreased from 8(9) -> 6(7)
Spear damage decreased from 15(17) -> 10(11)

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Events

Changed Sunken Treasury event: no longer has a medium chest option
Changed Trash Heap event: no longer gives the player Gold

General

Increased Shop count to 3 and decreased Elite count to 5 per map
The Draft modifier now presents rewards in order and no longer lets you skip

Art

Added card art for the following cards:
Entropy
Hidden Gem
Prowess
Rolling Boulder
Added beta portrait art for the following cards:
Glasswork
Refract
Spinner
The Scythe
Bombardment
Crash Landing
Forgone Conclusion
Royalties
Sword Sage

User interface & experience

Added hovertip for Whistle card's Stun effect
After Image power and Barnacled Pipe relic now grant block much faster
Boss nodes are no longer hoverable if you cannot travel to it
Changing the boss in the Reflections event now updates the top bar UX
Got rid of the room icon at the top of the Run History screen
Poison damage ticks now have the same wait time regardless of whether they kill enemies
Reduced screenshake and audio volume when you skip through the game over animation
Trash Heap event cards are now considered event cards in the compendium
When Necro dies to Doom, Osty dies as well

Wording

Renamed Enfeeble card to Debilitate in order to avoid confusion with Enfeebling Touch card
Improved wording for Bombardment and Cinder cards
Fixed capitalization error in the Channel hovertip
Improved Smoggy affliction's wording and tooltip
Updated wording for static Glass Orb description on cards

Bug fixes

Ironclad

Eternal Armor card and Oddly Heavy Stone relic now combine to properly give twice as much block instead of four times as much block
Eternal Armor card now properly consumes the trigger of relics like Vambrace and Oddly Heavy Stone

Silent

Fixed an issue where killing an enemy with Poison and Accelerant could cause a softlock

Defect

All For One card now properly retrieves cards from the discard pile if their cost has been reduced to 0 via a passive effect like Feral card
Refract card now deals damage before applying the new Orbs

Necrobinder

Bound Phylactery now properly triggers after Friendship card, preventing it from permanently giving you 1 extra energy
Mischief card no longer triggers if unblocked damage is 0
Fixed various visual issues with Osty and Sandpit
Hand Drill relic is now properly triggered when Osty breaks an enemy's block
Osty now actually shakes when you play an Osty attack while it's dead
Sleight of Flesh card now properly triggers when applying negative amounts of certain buffs (like Strength)
Spirit of Ash card no longer incorrectly triggers itself when it's been given Ethereal by an effect like Spectral Knight monster's Hex power

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Regent

Regent no longer has a Neow bundle with a rare card; Beat Into Shape card replaced by Wrought in War card
Black Hole card now decreases Star cost on upgrade
Fixed an issue where, if you had Oracle Bone relic and you played Void Form as your first card, your second turn would end immediately after it started
Glow card no longer exhausts
Heavenly Drill card no longer hits all enemies
Pillar of Creation card now properly triggers when a card is transformed

Colorless Cards

Fixed an interaction between Mayhem and Relax
When Mayhem would auto-play Relax, its extra card draw would trigger immediately, while its energy gain would wait until next turn. Now, both properly wait until next turn.
Fixed delay after Automation power would trigger
The second hit from Omnislice card now properly triggers Phantasmal Gardener monster's Skittish power

Enemies

Knowledge Demon's intent no longer overlaps with the relic bar

Ancients

Folly curse card can no longer be upgraded
Tanx transforming cards into Maul preview no longer shows broken card descriptions

General

Cards in queue now properly disappear after combat ends
Echoing enchantment no longer duplicates the Echo keyword
Fixed a number of issues caused by temporary card energy cost offsets clearing static temporary card energy costs before applying
Fixed an interaction between on-shuffle effects and card draw
Fixed sorting issue in deck view between cards of different colors
Scrolling through climb histories should now be less laggy

Multiplayer

Fixed an issue with Phantasmal Gardener monster's Skittish power in multiplayer
Gravity Well card's power no longer triggers when a teammate plays a card
Bound affliction no longer counts other players playing bound cards as your own in multiplayer
Fixed softlock when playing Sly Acrobatics from Tools of the Trade power
Fixed stuck cards when playing them before Tools of the Trade power triggers
You can no longer hover your own player intent anymore
Osty is no longer summoned by dead players' Bound Phylacteries

Newer: 17 Jul 2025 All patch notes Older: 3 Jul 2025

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