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The Glitch

Backers played pivotal role in the development of Duelyst II. With this patch, we want to pay homage to the game’s roots. A glitch in the timeline: we’re reverting all the “core set” cards to their original version from three and a half years ago, back when Duelyst just released after a successful Kickstarter.
However, this glitch is only temporary. In roughly a month the cards will be reverted back to their present-day version. Enjoy a little bit of chaos in the meantime!

Bug Fixes

Fixed desync issues caused when Synchronic Abomination ends the game.
Fixed desyncs caused by playing Firewhirl after Assassination Protocol.
Fixed Next button not working when claiming 0 season rewards.
Improved memory usage in AI games to improve backend stability.

Mech Updates

S.I.L.V.E.R

Shield now counts as a basic keyword and can be gained by S.I.L.V.E.R’s ability.

Project Ω

Card Changes

Reminder: for every patch, you can type “patched-[version number]” (patched-0.2.40 in this case) in card collection search bar to see all changed cards.

Lyonar

Sunstone Templar

Stats: 2 Mana | 1 ATK → 3 ATK | 3 HP → 2 HP Description changed:

Before: “Airdrop. Allied minions have Airdrop when played.”
After: “Airdrop. Opening Gambit: This turn, allied minions have Airdrop when played.”

Sunriser

Stats: 4 Mana | 3 ATK | 4 HP → 5 HP

War Surge

Mana: 1 → 2

Divine Bond

Mana: 1 → 3 Description changed:

Before: “Give a minion: “This has Attack equal to its Health”.”
After: “Give a minion Attack equal to its Health.”

Aegis Barrier

Description changed:

Before: “Give an allied minion a Shield.”
After: “Give an allied minion “This has Veil during your opponent’s turn”.”

Songhai

Kaido Assassin

Stats: 1 Mana → 2 Mana | 1 ATK → 2 ATK | 3 HP Description changed:

Before: “Backstab: 2.”
After: “Backstab: 1.”

Gore Horn

Stats: 3 Mana | 3 ATK | 4 HP → 3 HP

Jade Monk

Stats: 3 Mana → 4 Mana | 4 ATK | 3 HP → 4 HP

Celestial Phantom

Stats: 2 Mana → 3 Mana | 1 ATK | 3 HP → 5 HP

Spiral Technique

Stats: 8 Mana → 7 Mana

Saberspine Seal

Description changed:

Before: “Give a unit +2/+0 this turn.”
After: “Give a unit +3/+0 this turn.”

Twin Strike

Description changed:

Before: “Deal 2 damage to exactly two enemy minions. Draw a card at the end of your turn.”
After: “Deal 2 damage to exactly two random enemy minions. Draw a card at the end of your turn.”

Juxtaposition

Description changed:

Before: “Switch the positions of two minions with the same owner.”
After: “Switch the positions of two minions.”

Artifact Defiler (Restored Spell)

Mana: 1 Description: “Destroy all artifacts equipped to the enemy General.”

Inner Focus (Restored Spell)

Mana: 0 Description: “Activate an allied minion with 3 or less Attack.”

Mask of Shadows

Mana: 1 → 2 Description changed:

Before: “Your General has +1/+0 and Backstab: 3.”
After: “Your General has Backstab: 5.”

Bloodrage Mask

Description changed:

Before: “When you play a spell, your General gains +1/+0 until your next turn.”
After: “When you play a spell, your General deals 1 damage to the enemy General.”

Vetruvian

Sand Howler

Stats: 4 Mana | 4 ATK → 3 ATK | 4 HP

Imperial Saboteur → Imperial Mechanyst

Stats: 2 Mana | 2 ATK → 1 ATK | 3 HP → 4 HP Description changed:

Before: “Opening Gambit: Give a nearby minion -2/-0 until your next turn.”
After: “Opening Gambit: Restore your artifacts to full durability.”

Oserix

Stats: 7 Mana | 9 ATK → 8 ATK | 8 HP → 6 HP Description changed:

Before: “Your General deals double damage. Your General takes no damage on your turn.”
After: “Blast. Your General deals double damage.”

Siphon Energy

Description changed:

Before: “Dispel a minion.”
After: “Dispel an enemy minion.”

Entropic Decay

Mana: 3 → 4

Description changed:

Before: “Destroy all minions on the same row as your General.”
After: “Destroy a minion nearby your General.”

Time Maelstrom

Mana: 4 → 9 Description changed:

Before: “Destroy minions that were summoned since your last turn. End your turn.”
After: “Take another turn after this one.”

Counterpoise → Astral Phasing

Mana: 2 → 3 Description changed:

Before: “Give a minion -2/+2. Give a minion +2/-2.”
After: “Give a minion +0/+6 and Flying.”

Hexblade

Description changed:

Before: “Your General has +3/+0. When your General damages an enemy, set that enemy’s Attack to 1 until the end of the next turn.”
After: “Your General has +3/+0. When your General damages a minion, set that minion’s Attack to 1.”

Abyssian

Abyssal Crawler

Stats: 1 Mana | 3 ATK → 2 ATK | 1 HP Description changed:

Before: “At the end of your turn, create a Shadow Creep tile under this unit.”
After: “Dying Wish: Create a Shadow Creep tile on this space.”

Abyssal Juggernaut

Stats: 3 Mana → 4 Mana | 1 ATK → 3 ATK | 1 HP → 5 HP Description changed:

Before: “This has +1/+1 for each of your Shadow Creep tiles.”
After: “When this damages an enemy minion, create a Shadow Creep tile on that space.”

Blood Siren

Description changed:

Before: “Dying Wish: If it’s your turn, heal your General for 2. Otherwise deal 2 damage to the enemy General.”
After: “Opening Gambit: Set the enemy General’s Attack to 0 this turn.”

Shadow Watcher

Stats: 3 Mana | 2 ATK → 3 ATK | 3 HP → 2 HP

Darkspine Elemental

Stats: 2 Mana | 2 ATK → 1 ATK | 3 HP → 1 HP Description changed:

Before: “When this damages a unit, create a Shadow Creep tile on that space.”
After: “This has +2/+2 for each of your Shadow Creep tiles.”

Gloomchaser

Stats: 2 Mana | 3 ATK → 2 ATK | 1 HP → 2 HP

Shadowdancer

Stats: 5 Mana | 5 ATK | 3 HP → 4 HP

Black Solus

Stats: 4 Mana → 5 Mana | 4 ATK → 5 ATK | 4 HP → 7 HP Description changed:

Before: “Opening Gambit: Put two Wraithlings into your action bar.”
After: “After you summon a Wraithling, this gains +2/+2.”

Reaper of the Nine Moons

Stats: 4 Mana → 5 Mana | 4 ATK → 7 ATK | 3 HP

Nether Summoning

Mana: 5 → 4

Shadow Nova

Mana: 4 → 7

Void Pulse

Description changed:

Before: “Deal 1 damage to a unit and heal your General for 2.”
After: “Deal 2 damage to enemy General and heal your General for 3.”

Dark Terminus

Mana: 4 → 5

Dark Seed

Mana: 5 → 4

Horn of the Forsaken

Mana: 4 → 1 Description changed:

Before: “When this is equipped and destroyed, summon a Wraithling directly above, below, in front and behind your General.”
After: “When your General deals damage, summon a Wraithling on a random space nearby them.”

Shadow Creep

Description changed:

Before: “Deals 2 damage to enemies standing on this space at the end of owner’s turn.”
After: “Deals damage to enemy minions and Generals standing on it at the end of owner’s turn.”

Magmar

Earth Walker

Stats: 2 Mana → 3 Mana | 2 ATK | 2 HP → 4 HP

Phalanxar

Stats: 2 Mana → 3 Mana | 4 ATK → 7 ATK | 4 HP → 2 HP
Removed text: “This moves 1 less space.”

Spirit Harvester

Description changed:

Before: “At the end of your turn, deal 1 damage to other minions.”
After: “At the end of your turn, deal 2 damage to other minions.”

Vindicator

Stats: 2 Mana → 3 Mana | 2 ATK → 1 ATK | 3 HP Description changed:

Before: “The next time an allied minion is summoned nearby this, give it Rush. It cannot damage Generals this turn.”
After: “Rush. Give the first allied minion summoned nearby this each turn Rush.”

Flash Reincarnation

Mana: 2 → 0 Description changed:

Before: “At the start of your next turn, gain 2 mana that turn. It can exceed the mana limit.”
After: “The next minion you play this turn costs 2 less. Deal 2 damage to it when played.”

Amplification

Mana: 2 → 0 Description changed:

Before: “Give a minion “Grow: +2/+2″. Grow allies with Grow.”
After: “Give a damaged minion +3/+0.”

Earth Sphere

Description changed:

Before: “Heal your General for 9.”
After: “Heal your General for 8.”

Plasma Storm

Mana: 4 → 5 Description changed:

Before: “Destroy minions with 3 or less Attack in a 3×3 area.”
After: “Destroy minions with 3 or less Attack.”

Chrysalis Burst

Mana: 2 → 3

Kinetic Equilibrium

Mana: 2 → 3

Vanar

Frosthorn Rhyno

Stats: 6 Mana → 5 Mana | 6 ATK | 8 HP → 5 HP

Draugar Lord

Stats: 5 Mana → 6 Mana | 6 ATK → 7 ATK | 5 HP → 6 HP

Ice Drake (Token)

Stats: 3 Mana | 2 ATK | 6 HP → 7 HP

Wolfraven

Stats: 3 Mana | 2 ATK | 3 HP → 4 HP Description changed:

Before: “Flying. This takes no damage from units with 3 or more Attack.”
After: “Flying. Infiltrate: This takes no damage from units with 3 or more Attack.”

Ghost Wolf (Token)

Stats: 2 Mana | 3 ATK | 2 HP → 3 HP

Glacial Elemental

Stats: 3 Mana | 1 ATK → 2 ATK | 3 HP

Whyte Wyrm (Token)

Stats: 3 Mana | 3 ATK → 4 ATK | 4 HP Description changed:

Before: (no description)
After: “Flying”

Seismic Elemental (Token)

Stats: 4 Mana → 3 Mana | 5 ATK | 5 HP

Frigid Spines (Token)

Stats: 0 Mana → 1 Mana | 2 ATK → 3 ATK | 3 HP

Arctic Displacer

Stats: 4 Mana → 5 Mana | 4 ATK → 10 ATK | 4 HP Description changed:

Before: “Airdrop. Opening Gambit: Stun a nearby minion.”
After: “Airdrop”

Blazing Spines

Mana: 2 → 3

Boundless Courage

Description changed:

Before: “This turn, give a unit +2/+0 and “This takes no damage”.”
After: “Give a unit +2/+0. It takes no damage this turn.”

Mesmerize

Mana: 2 → 1 Description changed:

Before: “Deal 3 damage to enemy minions on a column and Stun them.”
After: “Both players lose a mana crystal.”

Mark of Solitude

Description changed:

Before: “Give a minion “This cannot attack Generals”. It becomes 6/6.”
After: “Give a minion “This cannot attack Generals”. It becomes 5/5.”

Aspect of the Wyrm

Mana: 2 → 4 Description changed:

Before: “Put a copy of a minion into its owner’s action bar and transform that minion into a Whyte Wyrm.”
After: “Transform a minion into a Whyte Wyrm and give allied minions nearby it Flying.”

Spirit of the Wild

Mana: 5 → 4 Description changed:

Before: “Activate allies on your opponent’s starting side of the battlefield.”
After: “Activate allied minions on your opponent’s starting side of the battlefield.”

Neutral

Fire Spitter

Stats: 1 Mana → 3 Mana | 2 ATK → 3 ATK | 1 HP → 2 HP

Komodo Scavenger

Stats: 1 Mana | 1 ATK → 2 ATK | 3 HP → 2 HP Description changed:

Before: “This gains Attack equal to the cost of the next artifact you equip.”
After: “This gains Health equal to the cost of the next artifact you equip.”

Primus Shieldmaster

Stats: 4 Mana | 3 ATK → 2 ATK | 6 HP → 5 HP Description changed:

Before: “Provoke”
After: “Provoke. At the end of your turn, give nearby allied minions +0/+1.”

Thorn Needler

Description changed:

Before: “When this takes damage, it gains +2/+0.”
After: “When this takes damage, it gains +2/+0 until your next turn.”

Putrid Dreadflayer

Stats: 4 Mana → 3 Mana | 4 ATK → 1 ATK | 3 HP → 5 HP Description changed:

Before: “Dying Wish: Deal 4 damage to nearby enemies.”
After: “Flying. Dying Wish: Deal 1 damage to nearby enemies.”

Whistling Blade

Stats: 7 Mana | 5 ATK → 3 ATK | 10 HP → 13 HP Description changed:

Before: “Veil, Provoke”
After: “Veil”

Golem Vanguard

Stats: 3 Mana | 3 ATK → 2 ATK | 4 HP

Piercing Mantis

Stats: 2 Mana | 1 ATK → 2 ATK | 3 HP → 2 HP

Archon Spellbinder

Stats: 6 Mana | 6 ATK → 7 ATK | 9 HP

Spelljammer

Description changed:

Before: “Opening Gambit: Until your next turn, both players draw 2 fewer cards at the end of their turn.”
After: “Players draw 1 fewer card at the end of their turn.”

Dioltas

Stats: 4 Mana | 4 ATK → 6 ATK | 3 HP → 2 HP

Tombstone (Token)

Stats: 3 Mana | 0 ATK | 6 HP → 10 HP

Sarlac the Eternal

Stats: 2 Mana → 3 Mana | 1 ATK | 1 HP Description changed:

Before: “Dying Wish: Summon a copy of this behind your General.”
After: “Dying Wish: Summon a copy of this on a random space.”

Owlbeast Sage

Description changed:

Before: “When you play a spell, other allied Arcanysts gain +0/+2.”
After: “When you play a spell, allied Arcanysts gain +0/+2.”

Manaforger

Description changed:

Before: “Your spells cost 1 less. (3 per turn)”
After: “Your spells cost 1 less to play.”

Twilight Sorcerer

Stats: 5 Mana | 3 ATK → 4 ATK | 7 HP → 6 HP

Sand Burrower

Stats: 3 Mana | 3 ATK → 2 ATK | 3 HP

Shield Oracle

Stats: 3 Mana | 1 ATK → 0 ATK | 5 HP

Jax Truesight

Stats: 7 Mana → 6 Mana | 3 ATK → 1 ATK | 2 HP → 1 HP

Rust Crawler

Stats: 2 Mana | 2 ATK → 1 ATK | 2 HP → 4 HP

Dagger Kiri

Stats: 5 Mana | 3 ATK → 2 ATK | 8 HP

Ash Mephyt

Description changed:

Before: “Airdrop. Opening Gambit: Summon two exact copies of this on any two spaces.”
After: “Opening Gambit: Summon two exact copies of this nearby.”

Lady Locke

Description changed:

Before: “Provoke. Opening Gambit: Other minions you summon this turn gain +1/+1. Other minions you play this turn gain Provoke.”
After: “Provoke. Opening Gambit: Give other minions you summon this turn +1/+1 and Provoke.”

Silhouette Tracer

Description changed:

Before: “Opening Gambit: Teleport your General up to 3 spaces.”
After: “Opening Gambit: Teleport your General up to 4 spaces.”

Zen’Rui, the Blightspawned

Description changed:

Before: “Opening Gambit: Destroy a nearby enemy minion with 2 or less attack and summon a 2/2 copy of it on its space.”
After: “Opening Gambit: Take control of a nearby enemy minion with 2 or less Attack.”

Morbius → Moebius

Stats: 0 Mana → 1 Mana | 0 ATK → 1 ATK | 1 HP Description changed:

Before: “Opening Gambit: Spend your remaining mana. This gains +1/+1 for each mana spent.”
After: “Airdrop. Opening Gambit: Spend your remaining mana. This gains +1/+1 for each mana spent.”

Sun Elemental

Stats: 4 Mana | 2 ATK → 1 ATK | 7 HP

Prophet of the White Palm

Stats: 1 Mana | 2 ATK → 1 ATK | 2 HP → 3 HP Description changed:

Before: “Opening Gambit: Give all units “This takes no damage from spells” until your next turn.”
After: “Opening Gambit: Prevent damage dealt by spells until your next turn.”

White Widow

Stats: 4 Mana | 3 ATK | 3 HP → 4 HP Description changed:

Before: “When you replace a card, deal 1 damage to the enemy General and 1 damage to a random enemy minion.”
After: “When you replace a card, deal 2 damage split randomly among enemies.”

Wind Runner

Description changed:

Before: “After this moves or teleports, give nearby allied minions +1/+1.”
After: “After this moves, give nearby allied minions +1/+1.”

Ghost Lynx

Stats: 2 Mana | 1 ATK → 2 ATK | 3 HP → 2 HP Description changed:

Before: “Opening Gambit: Draw a card at the end of your turn.”
After: “Opening Gambit: Teleport a nearby minion to a random space.”

Jaxi

Stats: 2 Mana | 3 ATK → 2 ATK | 1 HP

Zurael, the Lifegiver

Stats: 9 Mana | 9 ATK | 6 HP → 7 HP