Armis Guard (20001)

Health:

1 → 2

Power:

1 → 2

Traits:

guard, armor → guard

Dropping Armor for +1/+1, making counterplay to Armis Guard more versatile while letting them have higher stats in the early game. We’d like to expand the Armis subtheme but the presence of so much armor within it makes this difficult and limits design space, so we’re making this change in service of opening up design space.

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Armis Medic (121)

Health:

1 → 3

Traits:

armor, lifesteal → lifesteal

Dropping Armor for +2 health, in keeping with Armis Guard, reducing the presence of Armor slightly.

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Strikestorm (1042)

Text:

Your hero cannot take damage this turn. Your hero attacks each enemy unit.
↓
Your hero cannot take damage while attacking this turn. Your hero attacks each enemy unit.

Adjusting an overperformer to make its damage prevention effect more targeted. We’ve received a fair amount of feedback about Strikestorm’s “synergy” with Vile Vial being frustrating. To combat this, we’ve changed Strikestorm to only protect your hero from damage while attacking.

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Vyper Charmer (1067)

Spell:

Vyper Ambush → None

Power:

2 → 3

Text:

Death: Summon Vyper.
↓
Slay & Death: Summon Vyper.

A buff to an underperformer, granting +1 power and expanding its Death effect to be a Death and Slay effect, at the cost of its attached spell. We’ve received feedback that Zoey could use a boost in the current metagame, and this was a proposed improvement to her kit of units.

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Blademaster (1083)

Health:

3 → 5

Power:

5 → 4

Traits:

lifesteal →

Buff to a thematic but underused card, removing Lifesteal and dropping a little power in exchange for greater health, making it a sturdier threat.

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Spirit of Sleep (2025)

Cost:

2 → 3

Text:

Death: Put enemies to sleep. Attach Hush to your hero.
↓
Death: Put enemies to sleep.

Streamlining and nerfing a defensive tool, as it has been noted as frustrating. The cost effectiveness and security Spirit of Sleep gives control decks can be a bit hard to surmount, so we’ve raised its cost and made the effect a bit simpler to let it hold less value.

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Nomad (2079)

Spell:

Fury → None

Health:

4 → 6

Power:

3 → 2

Text:

Summon: Draw a card that has Lifesteal.
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Summon: Draw a unit that has 6 health or more.

Reworking a somewhat odd Wisdom design. Drawing a Lifesteal card and having Fury didn’t really benefit Wisdom’s general playstyle, so we’ve tweaked its effect to tie into Wisdom’s focus on high-health units.

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Overdraft (2113)

Cost:

4 → 5

Text:

Attach Chains to the lowest-health unit. Do 1 damage to it. Repeat for each card in your hand.
↓
Give a random enemy unit -1 health. Repeat for each card in your hand.

An adjustment to a removal tool to make it a bit slower and more reliable. Overdraft now only hits enemy units, but is 1 cost higher to compensate, and no longer attaches Chains, instead draining health from enemies it targets.

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Krystal (3094)

Text:

Death: If you have no mana, attach Vapors to your hero.
↓
Death: Attach Vapors to your hero.

Small buff to a popular but underperforming card, allowing Krystal to always attach Vapors to the hero, rather than relying on having empty mana.

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Starfield (4015)

Spell:

Barrier → None

Health:

3 → 4

Text:

Glory: Attach your top dead 1 cost or higher spell.
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Slay: Return your top dead 1 cost or higher spell to hand.

Traits:

stealth, lifesteal → stealth, dash

Buffing and reworking an iconic card while staying true to its core purpose. Trading Lifesteal and Glory for Dash and Slay, and dropping its attachment to streamline the design. It also returns a spell to hand, meaning you won’t lose it as easily. This could lead to some interesting synergies with cards like Second Chance and Jar of Souls, so we’ll keep an eye on that.

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