• Zipp's Zappinator

• Rocket Scrat

New Arena in the Battlepass

• Showdown Arena

Feature Updates

• Arenas Graphics Overhaul
  
• Loads of icons updated
  
• New card art implemented for Ravenous Swarmers, Rock Rivals, Tantrum Throwers
  
• New Adventure, coop and solo
  
• Old adventures updated to be playable coop and solo

Rebalance

• Bonus damage 25 > 35%
  
• No longer affect targeting

Marked was almost exclusively used with bazooka scrat, and that was not the intended main use case. To solve this we are removing that specific interaction while giving marked a bit more damage.

• Half healing on Masters
  
• Removes Rage and Shield ONLY from opponents
  
• Removes Poison and Curse from friendly minions

Clear skies is mostly a game delay card, with the only goal of decks playing it being to get to the late game and get mana frenzy. By reducing the healing, but giving it better utility we hope to bring it to a healthier state.

• Summon a random minion card that costs 7 mana

If this is the cheapest card in your deck, instead summon one that costs 8-9 mana
Ritual of Servitude is used in very unvaried decks. With this change we hope to give the card more flexibility in its decks, allowing it to be used in a healthier variety of decks.

• Summon a flightless dragon every 5 secs. If you cast a spell, the next time it spawns an extra flightless dragon

Dragon nest is a card that is always either completely useless or completely controlling the top ranks, so we want to try this change to solve that problem.

• Dam 30 > 35
  
• Gains 5 > 3 damage per spell cast

Milloween always seems to be a problem at top ranks, especially her perk 3, so rebalancing her a bit to make the golem weaker at high ranks should give us a bit more time to work on a rework for her.

• Rage + Haste > Berserker's Rage

This should give the zealots a bit more weakness to swarms without touching their dps much.

• BRUTUS and TERROR BRUTUS no longer heals on attacks
  
• BRUTUS health 800 > 1000
  
• TERROR BRUTUS health 2000 > 2500

Brutus' healing was a very inconsistent power, allowing some masters to just destroy him while other masters could not deal damage to him. With this change it is a bit more consistent, and removes a rather unexplained ability from the game.

BUFFS

• No longer self-harms

• ScratTank
  
• CannonRoller
  
• DefensoChopper
  
• ZeppelinBomber
  
• MissileTank
  
• Wreckinator
  
• Zap Tank

Piloted spawns 1 Scrat after the Scrat vehicle died. This is mostly intended as a lore/flavor thing, but should be a small buff to these units in most cases.

• AS 1 > 0.9

• Gain 2 > 3 souls for each sacrifice

• Dam 200 > 300

• Mana 5 > 4

• Duration 2 > 3

• Tech cost 40 > 30

• Dam 80 > 100

• Dam 200 > 300

• No longer goes dormant
  
• Mana 7 > 8

• Hp 65 -> 100
  
• Half master damage

NERFS

• HP 35 > 30

Swarmers and Swarmer totem are both used a lot. With this we are hitting both, and we will look at the other cards that have swarmers after we have a clearer picture of how much this change impacts them.

• Healing 400 > 350

Healing Fireball is used a bit too much, and too high a winrate, so a small nerf to get both to fit the card better.

• No longer works for Ability cards

Ability cards generating Tech meant you could get “free” tech by drawing cards you did not have to spend mana on to cycle afterwards, as they would go away when their unit died. This takes away that bonus scrap.

• reduce lifetime 15 > 12

Pebbles are used a lot, and often to keep bridge control for long periods of time. With this their uses should be more focussed on when the fight happens, and not too long afterwards.

• charge buildup time 4 > 5

Mountainshaper is dominating 2v2, and its drawback of needing time to power up is barely being felt. Hopefully there will be more openings for pushes now.

• Copies 3 > 1

Jolo’s winrate skyrockets when he is wildcarded, this should stop that.

• Redirect all damage to Shield Totem
  
• lifetime 7->15
  
• Health 250 > 400

Apep’s perk 2 is a too effective tool, blocking damage of entire pushes, and with very few ways to counter it. This version, while being a bit less special, should still have unique ways of defending you, as it can defend against spells and splash damage better than a wall can, but gives decks with big pushes a bit more of a chance against Apep.

• AS 1.8 > 2

Cannon roller’s winrate has gone up over time, with its extremely effective handling of mid and high tier units, with very few weaknesses when it's defending. This should allow a bit more units to catch up with it and take it down if it is alone.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue with revelry animation missing on several revelry cards
  
• Fixed an issue with clipping on Slitherbound
  
• Fixed an issue with a missing description on Avea's completed quest buff icon
  
• Fixed an issue causing absurd amounts of mana freeze in adventures - Thanks me
  
• Fixed an issue where Illusory explosion damage would trigger voidborne wound for all players in the match - Thanks fishy
  
• Fixed adventure buckets containing cards that did not fit within the bucket theme - Thanks Jackeaa

Bladestar

• Damage 100 > 110

Bladestar got nerfed a bit too hard, so now we are slowly trying to find the right spot for it.


Rimargaal

• Damage 400 > 420

Magma Storm

• Magma Rocks 11 > 12

Impetus Blast

• Cast delay 1 > 0.5

We really like how some players have used Impetus blast, but by reducing the cast delay we hope to make it a bit easier to use.


Stun Blast

• Cast delay 1 > 0.5

Rockin roller

• Cast delay 1 > 0.5

Similar to Impetus Blast, no reason for these spells to have a full second delay, lets make it a bit faster and easier to use.


FrozenWoodsman

• AS 2.5 > 2.2

Kurrrnath

• Ability range global -> 14

Kurrrnath had been a bit of a menace in the arena this patch, by giving him a range we want to limit his effectiveness a bit while still leaving his ability as impactful.


Skeleton Horde

• Copies 3 > 2

Skeleton Horde is one of those cards that needs somewhat specific counters because of the fairly high hp swarm it spawns. Stats shows that 3x skeleton horde was MASSIVELY outperforming 1 or 2x skeleton horde, so we are limiting that.


Zealots of the Burning Fist

• Damage 100 > 90

Zealots are a bit too strong, so limiting their damage output a bit.


ScrapYard

• Tech per mana 10 > 13

Scrapyard turned out to be one of the best performing cards in the game this patch, so increasing the tech cost a bit to make it a bit less value-generating.



Shield-Captain Avea

• Dam 100 > 90
  
• Health 450 > 500

For now we want Avea to be in sync with damage with the Zealots, but she needs a bit of a buff if she gets less damage, and more hp fits her ability very well.


Call To Arms

• Rework:
  
• Target a friendly building: heal it for 15% of max health and summon 1 Warrior and 2 Crossbow Dudes by it

Call to arms has been a card we have been looking for a good design for a very long time, so we want to try this version out, and see if it solves the infinite-value-dream problem of previous designs.


Sun Burn

• Doesnt damage friendly minions
  
• Mana 3 > 4

Combustion

• Rework:
  
• Targets 1 minion. After 2.5 secs, deal 200 true damage to self and all enemies in range
  
• Tower Damage 50% > 10%

• Fixed various animation issues, mostly related to frozen.
  
• Fixed various localization issues
  
• Fixed an issue with Azog’s interaction with Morellia’s book causing a spell to be missing from the book. - Thanks Merlin pfp
  
• Fixed an issue with Decoy Trap losing taunt after being stunned. - Thanks DeathShoottOneyOoney
  
• Fixed a rare issue where Sapphire Pebble would fail to spawn all the Pebbles that was being played. - Thanks sinwa/HEALTHY
  
• Fixed Jade Flingers not being affected by damage buffs. - Thanks Jackeaa
  
• Fixed some emotes being low resolution.
  
• Fixed Poison Strike failing to sacrifice slitherbound - Thanks Jackeaa
  
• Fixed an issue with Morellia’s book and ability cards making cards unplayable. - Thanks BadAsAFish80
  
• Fixed an issue where the UI for wild cards wouldn’t mention the possibility that the card would be restricted from being wildcardable. - Thanks youresuchanerd
  
• Fixed an issue with Prowler losing its ability to jump after being hypnotized.
  
• Fixed minions with ability cards spawning frozen if played during permafrost. - Thanks Orestella

1.35 has been released, bringing with it new cards and balance changes.

Full details can be found here.


Chief Ice Breaker Bolf

Snap Freeze



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Kurrrnath Crystalback

• Now deals damage with his crystal when ANY player plays a spell.
  
• Crystal damage effect can no longer target masters

Daggerfall

• Mana 4 > 3
  
• Damage 80 > 50

Milloween

• Arcane Missiles Reworked: A one-use copy is now added to your deck every 25 secs.

King Puff

• Minions with no attack can no longer pick up King Puff’s buffs.

Scrat swarm

• Reworked: There is now a 5-second grace period after you gain Scrat Swarm where you can get the effect.
  
• Scrats required to gain Scrat Swarm 3 > 5

Scrap Yard

• Reworked: Now summons a 2-5 mana Outlander ground minion every 5 secs. Costs 10 tech per mana spent in this way.
  
• No longer gives Tech

Armored Escort

• Reworked: The next 2 ranged minions you play get escorted by a Crystal Sentry. They also gain Marksmanship and Mana Freeze (2)
  
• Mana 9 > 5

Empowered Soul Stealer

• Souls gained per sacrifice 1 > 2

Sun Burn

• Reworked: deals 50% damage to friendly minions.

Wrecked Walker

• Gn4ts spawned 1 > 2

Dormant Defenders

• Now gains Haste

Bladestar

• Reworked: Can now bounce off of arena edges.
  
• Kill threshold removed, Bladestar will bounce off of everything

Lash Of Ahmun

• Gains Call Slitherbound (2)

Impatient Statue

• Call Slitherbound 2 > 3

Shield-captain Avea

• No longer deals damage to herself on attack
  
• Damage 120 > 100

Zealots of the Burning Fist

• No longer deals damage to herself on attack
  
• Damage 120 > 100

Magma Storm

• Rocks 10 > 11

Rimargaal

• Improved attack pattern to more consistently freeze and do damage.

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Sapphire Pebble:

• Copies 2 > 1

Morellia

• Book page Drain cost 0 > 1
  
• Book age Sekeletons cost 0 > 1

Scrat Tunnels

• Emergency Tunneling start activation cost 0 > 1

Blastmancer

• Mana 4 > 5

Xiao Long

• Only triggers when OPPONENT plays a spell

Jing Long

• Now only triggers when YOU cast a spell

_______________________

• Fixed emote resolution being too low - Thanks BadAsAFish80
  
• Fixed various visual and description issues in the newest Adventure
  
• Fixed an issue causing xbox players to disconnect from the first match of a session.
  
• Fixed old adventure bundles gold costs. - Thanks NMe
  
• Fixed A’zog not triggering voidborne wound
  
• Fixed Coax’ accursed ascension stacks doubling
  
• Fixed Walking Blind Date failing to spawn a minion if killed while frozen
  
• Fixed Wrecked Walker description indicating an incorrect tech cost
  
• Fixed Armored Escort description - Thanks Jackeea
  
• Fixed various ability cards staying in hand after the minion dies - Thanks noran and EpicStoffer
  
• Fixed Tantrum Throwers correctly indicating whether they are activated
  
• Fixed Jahun failing to attack certain flying units. - Thanks spree
  
• Fixed an interaction between Ardera and Caeleth/Divine Warrior where the divine shield would become permanent.

Coop Adventures are here! See this post for more details.






Shars’Rakk Twins

• Reworked: Now has a side A and B (like Void Brothers) - alternates between playing Succubus and Incubus.
  
• Mana cost 8 > 6
  
• Now gives Rage

Gor’Rakk Brutes

• Reworked: Now has a side A and B (like Void Brothers) - alternates between playing Cleaver and Rammer.
  
• Also summons an Illusion of the other side of the card.
  
• Mana 8 > 6

High Inquisitor Ardera

• Damage 27 > 30

Spirit Infusion

• Mana cost 4 > 3

Puffs

• Movement speed of Squire Puff, Heal Puff, Shroom Puff and Mana Puff 5 > 6

Gambler's Ball

• Mana cost 4 > 3
  
• Sacrifice cost 2 > 3

Zeppelin Bomber

• Reworked: Scrat Swarm: instead of Haste, now summons an extra zeppelin bomber
  
• Health 100 -> 80

Construct/Guardian

• Now has Mana Surge

Shen's Storm Stick

• Now cast 1 > 2 Shock Rocks for each charge.

Wrecked Walker

• Reworked: Gain 1 Gn4t escort instead of mana reduction
  
• Tech cost 60 > 40

Empowered Soul Stealer

• Now has Rage
  
• Reworked: Sacrifice (x): Gain 1 soul for each Sacrificed Slitherbound

Armored Escort

• Mana 8 > 9

Morellia

• Queen's Dragon Mana cost 9 > 10

Slithering Summons

• Mana 6 > 5
  
• Sacrifice (3): Minion gain Spirit

Stun Lancers

• Now spawns horizontally

Gor'Rakk Gate

• Mana 3 > 4
  
• Voidborne Wound: Reduce mana cost by 1

Crossbow Dudes

• AS 2 > 2.2

Ravager

• Frenzy Threshold 66% > 50%

Ruby

• Health 1000->900

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where card trigger activations would not be indicated by the UI.
  
• Fixed an issue where xbox players would have issues claiming purchased DLCs.
  
• Increased maximally permitted matchmaking range after having been in queue for a while in an effort to reduce queue times for outliers.
  
• Fixed an issue with Emergency Tunneling not being removed from hand when Scrat Tunnels died.

1.33

The update features both new cards, bug fixes and balance changes.

As an experiment both the new cards are available in the free track of the battle pass!

New cards:



For a full list of the balance changes and bug fixes check out the blog!
https://blog.betadwarf.com/2022/03/version-1.html

Patch 1.32 is coming in hot and with it two awesome cards and a ton of Balance changes to go with it!

Minion Masters Invasion - Season 2


A'zog, Voidfiend of Shars'Rakk



Impetus Blast




Mordar
Dev comments: As we promised a couple updates ago, mordar would get a buff after we swapped his perks. By making stuns a less consistent trigger-blocker, countering the resurrections becomes more skill-based, and if they are more consistent, we can balance them a lot better than in the extremely binary, “Do you have a stunning spell?” scenario. We had to be a bit careful with the buff, as Mordar also had a bug where his perk 2 did not work until perk 3 was gained, so that is fixed now as well, which should help him a lot as well.

• Stuns no longer reset timer on tombstones (but cant ress while stunned)
  
• activation delay 10->15

Demon Warrior
Dev comments: Demon warrior can use a bit of a buff, but we want to take it slow.

• AS 2 > 1.9

Spawn of Fury
Dev comments: Just a small buff to make the card a bit more usable.

• Reduces max health/damage by 33% > 25%

Crystal Construct/Guardian
Dev comments: All the construct variants are underperforming, so we make them all a bit better at tanking.

• HP 800 > 850

Spirit Infusion
Dev comments:Spirit infusion is one of the least played cards, and performing badly when it is. Historically we have seen some balance issues with it though, so we want to see if we can push it a bit more into accursed ascension, to make up for the potential strength of lots of spirits.

• Accursed Ascension count 1 > 2

Gor'Rakk Gate
Dev comments: Gor’Rakk Gate comes with a great cost in health and is not played a lot, and with the set cycle, we are not too afraid of 3 mana being too good. We limited the number of copies to 1 to prevent you from quickly playing 3x the best option in a row.

• Mana cost 4 > 3
  
• Copies 3 > 1

Mana Puff Madness
Dev comments: While Mana Puff Madness is not a card we would ever want to be in the actual meta, we do want it to be played by some players. This should give it a bit more viability, without making it too strong.

• Mana 3 > 1
  
• Add mana freeze (2)

Mountainshaper
Dev comments: Mountainshaper was mostly played by wildcarding it, now that you can’t do that anymore, a buff is in order.

• Dam 100 > 125

Bridge Shrine
Dev comments: Bridge shrine is both underplayed and underperforming, so by giving it a decent buff, but not in xp generation we hope to make it more consistent, but not strengthening

• Its peak usage.

• HP 400 > 500

Sapphire Pebble
Dev comments: Pebbles were a very weak released card and have not found a place yet. By increasing their damage and lowering their myriad we hope to make a 2 pebble play worth it, but with the CardCount up to 2 a 4 Pebble play is possible, and we would love to see what you can do with that!

• Myriad 2 > 1
  
• Dam 40 > 50
  
• Count 1 > 2

Bats Bats Bats
Dev comments: At high level Bats Bats Bats is both the card with the lowest playrate AND the lowest winrate, so while this buff might not be enough, this is a card, similar to mana puff madness, that should never really be meta, but does deserve some play!

• Mana 5 > 4

QuestingKnight
Dev comments: Avea has not been performing great, with very low playrates and winrates, so we decided on a decently big buff, and we will keep an eye out to see if we overdid it.

• HP 350 > 450

Thunder Shrine
Dev comments: Thunder shrine has been a bit frustrating with massive spawn stun, stunning even the masters! So we decided to reduce the cost, but lower the range, no longer allwing the Thunder shrine to hit the base.

• Range 25 > 20
  
• Mana 4 > 3

Gambler's Ball
Dev comments: Gamblers ball has not performed well, so making its ability to active easier should help.

• Sacrifice 3 > 2

NERFS
Burn the bridges:
Dev comments: Burn the bridges is a spell with extreme potential, most effectively used in 2v2, and the rage of volco is most effective used in premades. The result of this is that volco has a pretty bad winrate in 1v1, but very high winrates in 2v2. We will be looking into ways to make volco better in 1v1, but we could not have a master be this dominating in 2v2.

• Renamed to Burn the Bridge
  
• Burn 1 of the 2 bridges (whichever is closest)

Harmful souls
Dev comments: We wanted to give more counterplay against harmful souls, by delaying the souls a bit you have more time to play minions in the area.

• Starts at +0.5s and between souls at +0.1s

Dragon nest
Dev comments: Dragon nest is the main reason Milloween has been dominating at the top level in 1v1, so by nerfing dragon nests duration we hope to solve the 1 master that stood out in 1v1.

• Lifetime 35 >25s

Scott
Dev comments: Scott has been performing really well for a long time, and has pretty insane dps, so by lowering it a bit he should be a bit more in line with other cards

• Damage 65 >60

Incubus
Dev Comments: Now that incubus can’t jump to the base anymore he deserves a little bit off love, and succubus is too busy with the enemy's minions ;)

• Damage 60 >65

Scrap yard
Dev comments: Since Ruby was added to the game scrap yard has been popping off, with the possibility to get a lot of scraps from such an expensive outlander card, that has even more scrap generation potential through the ability card. By removing the base, but also fixing the stun bug that caused it to reset to 0 scraps spent, we hope to get it balanced, but because of the bug, it was hard to see what the actual strength was, so we will keep an eye out.

• Remove base 60
  
• Fixed the stun bug

Ruby
Dev comments: Ruby has been a staple of the meta this patch, and despite that we like seeing new cards being used, she is definitely being used a bit too much. While her winrates are pretty average, we feel like she has no clear counters, so we wanted to give her a more clear weakness by making her side cannons not hit flying units.

We have heard your complaints about her ability, and will keep a close eye to her in the upcoming patch!

• Can't hit flying

Stormbringer
Dev comments: More of a bug-fix than a balance change, but there was a bit of frustration with Stormbringer, where he would waste arrows more often than death prediction should allow. This might mean he needs a nerf next patch, but we want to see how much of an effect it actually has first.

• Added Stormbringer Death Prediction

• Fixed an issue with the King Puff tips being outdated - Thanks Badasafish80
  
• Fixed an issue with stuns resetting scrarpyard’s scraps
  
• Fixed an issue with tombstones not giving haste
  
• Fixed an issue with tombstones not glowing again after they’ve been stunned - Thanks Matt
  
• Fixed an issue with Scrat tunnels ability card
  
• Fixed an issue with Death prediction not accounting for Stonebjorn’s damage reduction
  
• Fixed an issue with shield guard of light getting triggered when shielded by Sugilite shield - Thanks Me
  
• Fixed an issue with TTT not stopping its attacks when being stunned - Thanks Doc_Banane
  
• Fixed an issue with achievements not being synced correctly
  
• Added the Description to the Mecha suit of Volco
  
• Fixed an issue with Spawn of Fury and rounding errors - Thanks Jackeea
  
• Fixed an issue with that searing light using the Valorian skin equipped by your own Valorian
  
• Fixed an issue with Avea causing FPS drops while in hand after completing a quest
  
• Fixed an issue with Chain Gang causing FPS drops while in hand

Calling all able Masters to man their stations, an invasion is slowly hurling towards the Arenas!

We’re thrilled to announce Minion Master’s newest expansion….


With this expansion, we’ll be releasing 2 new cards and moar balance changes have been added…Cough Hypno changes? Cough

We’ve also made matchmaking a bit stricter thus reducing the frequency of skill discrepancies.

Introducing 2 new cards










King Puff
Dev Comments: King puff is still underperforming a little bit, here’s a small buff to bring him to that sweet spot.

• Birthday Cooldown 45 > 43

Call to Arms
Dev Comments: Call to Arms has been in a weird spot for a while. With the gradual balance we gave it based on the health of the buildings, we feel more comfortable letting the buildings remain despite getting Call to Arms value.

• Doesn't transform buildings
  
• Copies 3 > 1
  
• Warriors summoned 1 > 0
  
• Only target own buildings

Caeleth & Brothers of Light
Dev Comments: Two cards that can use a small buff, and this puts them in line with Brother of the burning first.

• Caeleth: Health 550 > 600
  
• Brothers Of Light: Health 550 > 600

Kurrrnath
Dev Comments: Kurrrnath has been underperforming since his release, and this will hopefully make him a bit stronger, without allowing him to get sneak hits to the base by lucky spawn timings as someone else uses a spell.

• Make the ability damage any target instead of only minions
  
• The ability is not active during summoning sickness

Lycanthropy
Dev Comments: Lycanthropy has been in a good spot lately but with once bitten it has been too easy value by playing it on an already damaged unit. With this change we hope to make that play more skillful, and less reliable, while still allowing you to get value with Once Bitten (and this should not affect the other lycanthropy in any meaningful way).

• Activates on 50% of (max health -> health when gained lycanthropy)

Flightless Dragon Whelps
Dev Comments: Flightless dragons has been not up to par ever since we nerfed it, but it was too good at 4 mana, so by making it less reliable at 4 mana we hope to get it to a well-balanced spot.

• Voidborne Wound: Reduce cost by 1

Stun Blast
Dev Comments: Adding some outlander flavor to an underused card.

• Also Inflicts Marked

Stormy
Dev Comments: This should make stormy, and stormy’s spawn effect faster and more reliable.

• Attack Delay 2 -> 1.5

Scrat Spawner, Crossbow guild & Swarmer totem
Dev Comments: All these spawners are underperforming, and this should get them a bit more value.

• Scrat Spawner Every 5 > 4 seconds
  
• Crossbow guild every 4 -> 3.7 seconds
  
• Swarmer totem every 5.7 -> 5.0 seconds

Sapphire Pebble
Dev Comments: Similar to Kurrrnath, we’re still not happy with the Sapphire Pebbles current state and it’s in a dire need of a buff.

• Damage 50 -> 40
  
• Attack cooldown 2.0 -> 1.4 seconds attack delay 1.0 -> 0.7seconds

Impatient Statue
Dev Comments: Impatient statue has been underperforming, this should make it slightly stronger.

• Call Slitherbound 1 > 2

Ghost
Dev Comments: A long overdue QoL change to Ghost so that it feels better to ghost a Mythic unit.

• Give Mythic units Curse

Scrapyard
Dev Comments: Small QoL change mainly for Apep.

• Removed from random pool

Poison Strike
Dev Comments: Poison strike is a bit weak, and with this change, we’re adding another use for sacrifices.

• 2 sacrifices -> +4 seconds poison

Grenadier
Dev Comments: We are getting close to a good spot for grenadier, but he still survives a bit too many fights, so a small hp nerf to get him right.

• Health 60 -> 50

Hypnotize
Dev Comments: Hypno has been THE spell of the game for a while now and needs a nerf, this should allow more units to survive hypnotizes.[/i]

• Duration 5 -> 4 seconds

Pincer Of Dread
Dev Comments: Similar to Hypnotize, pincer has been one of the main spells, killing and damaging just a little bit too much for its cost.

• Damage 130->100

Brother Of The Burning Fist
Dev Comments: Brother of the Burning fist has been a bit too strong, and this puts his armor in line with the armor of light.

• Armor of Holy Fire Cooldown 12 > 14

Scrat Pack
Dev Comments: Scrat pack has been performing too well for a long time, so a small value reduction while still letting it shine in most of its strong points.

• Count 5 > 4

Scrat horde
Dev Comments: Similar to Scrat pack, Scrat horde is too strong, so a similar nerf.

• count 10 -> 8

Warrior
Dev Comments: Small warrior nerf as she is still a bit too strong compared to other similar cards

• AS 2 > 2.1

Stun Lancers
Dev Comments: Stun lancers have been a mainstay in 2v2 for a long time, and have become more popular in 1v1 as well. Nerfing the stun duration hopefully makes them less strong defensively, while still being a good addition to a push.

• Stun duration 5 > 4 sec

Musketeer
Dev Comments: Musketeer has been performing extremely well, regardless of the decks he was played with, so a hp nerf to make him a bit more vulnerable to hits.

• Health 230 > 200

Slither Summons
Dev Comments: Slithering Summons has dominated the meta, and with this, nerf and some of the nerfs above it should be nerfed to a point where we are sure the meta changes away from it, and we can then look for the right spot.

• Removed Call Slitherbound

After our announcement regarding the cease and desist of all our modes except for 1v1 and 2v2 in Minion Masters remastered, we heard your feedback and we've decided to do something about it!

We're super thrilled to announce that we're creating a new mode for Minion Masters Remastered. With this mode, we'll be collecting a lot of your feedback and you'll even help us name it! 🙂

• Chaos Mode (working title) is a new game in Minion Masters 2.0.
  
• The mode will be centered around drafting but may expand over time to include different modes of play.

• Every 2 weeks, a new event will start, which changes the pool of cards that will appear in the draft.
  
• An example of such rules is the Faction Wars event: During this event, each Master will only have access to a unique selection of 3 factions.

Drafting works as usual, where you draft a master and 10 cards, with a few new changes added changes to the rules:

• +33% chance of cards from faction(s) player has picked will appear. This helps you build up synergies in your deck more easily.
  
• Redrafts: Redrafts is a new currency that lets players redraft a card. They let you redraft a card in your deck and can be used in-between matches. You will start with 1 Redraft token, and you gain 1 more each time you lose.
  
• The card ban list is gone. With the addition of faction bias in card picking, the redraft feature as well card pools being limited by event rules, the card ban list is no longer needed.

There are two types of rewards in Chaos Mode:

• Win Rewards: You gain rewards based on how many wins you achieve. These rewards have been rebalanced to be more rewarding (including supreme, legendary cards, rubies, card slots, and Season Pass tiers!)
  
• Event Rewards: These rewards can be claimed only once per event. They can be claimed the first time you win 3, 6, and 10 wins within each event.

Chaos Mode will function as a platform for experimenting with new content to come, for example:

• More different draft pool events.
  
• New game rules.
  
• Constructed mode (pick from your collection instead of drafting), combined with altered game rules.

We are extremely excited about this event, and we'd love to hear your feedback so we can make this mode the best it can be.

• Which draft pool themes would you like to see?
  
• We need help finding a name for this mode. Please pitch your ideas on our Discord

Oh daaaaaamn, did you know that we’re turning 5 years old on the 2nd of December!!!

Patch 1.30 is finally upon us and we’re thrilled to introduce, 2 new cards, balance changes, and a bunch of bugs have been squished!

• All remaining Adventures are now free
  
• To celebrate our 5th anniversary of Minion Masters we’re introducing a new King Puff Birthday Skin. All players can get it for free through the free Battle Pass!
  
• Free birthday gift in shop only today (ends tomorrow afternoon)
  
• All DLC's on sale with Steam Autumn Sale

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Introducing 2 new cards







Dragons Nest
Dev comments: Dragon nest is not quite where we want it to be, so we are giving it a buff, and then we will see where it ends up and how much more we might have to do.

• Mana: 5 > 4

Growthburst Shroom
Dev comments: Almost all Growthburst shroom cards are underperforming, so a small general growth burst buff should get them a bit more in line.

• 25% > 30%

Scrat Tunnels & Nova scrat
Dev comments Impatient has not worked out as we had liked, so we are removing it, except from Impatient Statue.

• Removed impatient

Kurrrnath
Dev comments: Kurrrnath is a bit too weak right now, making him a bit tankier will hopefully get him to last a bit longer and let him protect against spells.

• Health 350 > 400

Rabid prowler
Dev comments: Simplifying Rabid prowler, making it somewhat easier to pull off as well.

• Call slitherbound removed
  
• Sacrifice 2 > 1

Crystal Sentry

• Health 275 > 300

Ardera

• Burn 6% -> 4%

Void altar

• Health 500 > 550

Bannerman
Dev comments: Bannerman is a bit too weak, letting him shield more units should get him a bit more value.

• Targets Shielded 5 > 7

King Puff
Dev comments: The king birthday cooldown had a far bigger impact than we had expected, so we toned it down a bit.

• Birthday cooldown 50 > 45

Propeller Scrat

• Attack speed cooldown 0.9 -> 0.8s

Sugilite Shield
Dev comments: Sugilite shield is being rebalanced to a 1 mana spell, It does not shield against masters. So hopefully this can become an interactive spell, but we will keep a close eye to see if it is too strong with these stats.

• Removed Mana Freeze
  
• Duration 5 > 4

Adjusted

Infray
Dev comments: Infray has been a bit too strong for a while, specifically the 3x infray version. By reducing it to 2x we hope to tone down the power a bit without removing the multi-infray decks completely.

• Copies 3 > 2

Gambler's Ball
Dev comments: Gamblers ball is currently neither a gamble nor a used card. We want to go back to the gambling aspects of the card, knowing that it will not be popular in the more competitive parts of the player base, but hopefully creating fun moments for the more casual and wacky players among us.

• Instead, Sacrifice (3): Cast this spell twice

Masters
Dev comments: After seeing how the game went, and the feedback on the master attack change we decided to remove the true damage part, but keep them special. This means things like sugilite shield will still be penetrated, but shields and barrels will be useful against master attacks once more.

• Removed True Damage

Mordar
Dev comments: Mordar Has been a very difficult master to find a sweet spot for, with his very strong perks…. If you can pull them off. With the % health nerf we did previously he has only played with wreckinator and Lord fanriel, which is not a state, or a deck we like to see be a big thing. The main way he has been able to pull them off is by having multiple tombstones, making it extremely difficult to block both of them. By swapping perk 2 and 3 we hope to make it a bit more about the tombstone fight so that we can make it more consistent in the future after we see the impact of this change.

• Swapped perk 2 and 3

Nerfed

Plasma Marines
Dev Comments: Plasma Marines have dominated the low cost ranged unit meta together with crossbow dudes since the start of the game, with a small re-balance which nerfs them a bit and focuses more on their fast attack speed we hope to get more space for low cost ranged units, without making them all too strong.

• Damage 15->10
  
• Attack Speed cooldown 0.9 > 0.7

Grenadier
Dev comments: Grenadier has been too strong for a while now, and combined with nerfing some swarm we hope to get him to a healthier spot in the meta.

• Attack Speed cooldown 2 > 2.2

Skeletons
Dev Comments: Skeletons…. Skeletons…. Skeletons….. They are everywhere, both in accursed decks and outside of them. But they are a bit too good at what they do, so by lowering their damage a bit we hope to make them a bit more of a damage sponge, and less of a direct threat, opening up for more interaction.

• Damage 25 >20

Elite Swarmer
Dev Comments: Elite Swarmer is too good at what it does, so a small nerf should get him to a healthier spot.

• Health 250 > 225

S.T.INT
Dev comments: S.T.INTs is a (too) good unit, but we see a lot of wasting tech on its ability, so we want to make it more of a decision if you want to spend the tech, or waste it all.

• Ability cost (outlander tech) 50 >75 tech

Stonebjorn
Dev comments: To solve the problem of Stonebjorn tanking against masters forever and to give a bit more counterplay we have removed Stonebjorns blocking from buildings (which includes the base). This should mostly affect masters, but will give a bit more damage to the turrets in the game.

• Only reduces damage from Spells and Minions

Bug Fixes

• Spawning four pebbles can cause two of them to overlap
  
• Wrecked walker still requires tech if it costs 0 mana - Thank you Jackeaa
  
• Sometimes tech was not generated when Morellia’s book of the dead is activated - Thank you Jackeaa
  
• Dab emote was in low rez - Thanks BadAsAFish80
  
• Fixed a tooltip issue with Kurrrnath - Thanks BadAsAFish80
  
• Fixed an issue with being stuck in the loading screen for adventures with Caeleth

Patch 1.29 is swarming into the Arenas and with it, a ton of balance changes, two new cards, and a bunch of bugs have been squished!

Cards Added:

All masters attacks have now special and true damage:

There were a couple of interactions in the game we disliked and wanted to solve, most notable:

• Sugilite shield protecting from master damage (we will look at a buff for sugilite shield in future patches)
  
• Stonebjorn tanking some masters for extremely long
  
• Confusion about Ravager being ranged
  
• Incubus jumping into your face (we will look if incubus needs a buff in future patches)
  
• Divine shield (chaining) in front of the masters

This change should solve all of these, and appropriate buffs to cards involved will be looked at once we see how big the impact is.

Balance Changes

Stormbringer
Dev comments: To make up for the global damage being true damage we make stormbringers attack slower.

• Attack cooldown 3.8s -> 4.0s

King puff
Dev comments: King puff is extremely strong atm, we want to lower his strength potential, but give him more flexibility in return.

• birthday cooldown -> 50 seconds
  
• Added 7 mana cards to his threshold

Guardian
Dev comments: Guardian has been a card that we had to balance several times and then became unbalanced again when new crystal cards came out. With this change, we hope to make guardian chaining more counterable and futureproof the card.

• Protectection 100 -> 75%

Haunting Hugger
Dev comments: Haunting hugger is a card currently only used to get some fast stacks for ascension and is basically useless outside of that. By giving him more damage, but lowering his attack speed we hope to give him more defense potency by killing units faster but without increasing his strength too much.

• Attack cooldown 1.8s-> 2.5s
  
• Damage 50 -> 100

Chisma boomstick
Dev comments: There were some weird interactions of Chisma attacking a unit and then running straight into that unit in fear. We have changed this so that it runs away from whatever unit it was attacking instead of running away from the enemy's base. We also donated him a small buff within the explosion radius as he felt a bit too weak.

• Runs away from the target
  
• Explosion Radius 4->5

Call to Arms
Dev comments: Call to arms has needed a rework for a long time, and with Sapphire Pebbles, it really became paramount to do it now. With this change, we hope to solve both the issue of buildings giving a lot of value before transforming and then still getting full value from transforming (i.e. an almost dead crossbow guild transforming into a warrior) and solving the problem of the limitations we have in buildings. With this change, we can create cheap buildings as long as they do not have a lot of health. The exception is wall, but considering wall is limited to one copy AND call to arms + wall is still not more valuable than two warriors are, it is an exception that should not be a problem

• Cost 6->4

Now spawns different Empyrean units based on the remaining health (always spawns a warrior at base):

• 100 or less -> spear thrower
  
• 200 or less -> legionnaire
  
• 201 or more -> warrior

Gor’ Rakk Gate
Dev comments: Gor’ Rakk Gate is not in a good place, and swarmers are easily the worst option in the gate, opening for tons of damage from spells, while also not being the best option to kill something, nor do face damage. With three elite swarmers, we hope to make it less risky, while giving an option to get a fair amount of tankiness with some damage on the field for a low price (outside of health).

• 7 swarmers -> 3 elite swarmers

Raging Reinforcements, Ahmun's Chosen & Gor'Rakk Gate

These cards now cycle through their options rather than being random. The starting point is random, but after that, it is consistently the same cycle.

We want to remove the randomness to the point that it can decide a game’s outcome (win or lose). With this change, we hope to make them more consistent, while keeping the fun of the alternating gameplay that they offer.

Border Patrol
Dev comments: Border Patrol has been bad and underplayed for a long time, and we hope that by making it cheaper more people will make use of the card.

• Shield no longer costs 1 Mana freeze

Zeppelin Bomber
Dev comments: We really wanna give this Zeppelin a small umpf because let’s be honest, it does really need a bit of love.

• Added: Scrat Swarm: Gain Haste

Empowered SoulStealer
Dev comments: Empowered Soulstealer has been rather weak, by giving him a stronger baseline he should feel better on the Arena.

• Starting stacks 3->4

Demon Warrior and Avea
Dev comments: Cards with a quest are really awkward to get from a random card like a blind date or walking blind date, as they can basically never complete their quest, so cards with a quest will generally be excluded from the random pool.

• Removed from randompool

Avea
Dev comments: Similar to Demon warrior it is generally a bad idea to triple Avea and to prevent confusion from people getting 3 to get the quest done faster, only to realize that is not how it works we limit Avea to 1 copy, which should have basically no gameplay effect.

• CardCount 3->1

Stormy
Dev comments: Stormy is a bit weak atm, and rarely gets its 2 hits off. By giving Stormy a bit more hp, it should be a bit more consistent.

• Health 125->150

Coax the Diplomancer
Dev comments: We have heard a lot of complaints about the Diplomancer, and when we looked at the stats we noticed that at high ranks coax was doing average to cards there, but in low and medium ranks coax was performing a lot better. By limiting the max value the Diplomancer can get with 1 minion (10 seconds) while also making sure he can get a minimum amount of value if played well we hope we solve the problem of the Diplomancer taking 1 big minion and hypnotised minion continuously destroying whatever is being flooded in while still keeping him as a viable card.

By reducing the health of the Diplomancer a bit as well we open him up a bit more for removal, making it a choice of fighting him with minions, or “overspending” on spells if you do not have the perfect cards.

• Health 400 ->350
  
• Hypnosis: while attacking -> 10s once per minion.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue with Hellfire not being removed when t.a.a.s. dies - Thanks Anno
  
• Fixed an issue with Akinlep and Morellia mistakenly removing cards from decks - Thanks The Mike 1979
  
• Fixed a visual bug with Adera attacking friendly units - Thanks me
  
• Fixed an issue with the Musketeer sprinting when hypnotize is used - Thanks Last_Elf
  
• Fixed Nyrvir’s description to better indicate attack range when initiating an attack - Thanks me
  
• Fixed an issue with Eeeek the sneak’s abilities in the patch match screen looking like Doomapocalypse’s abilities.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Wrecked walker spending tech even with 0 mana - Thanks Jackeea
  
• Fixed an issue wíth the Stonebjorn having excessively long spawn time.