With another sealed league, another chance at complete domination.
How it Works: Open card packs and play in a month-long League, using all the cards you open! The event costs 12,500 gold or 1,100 gems to enter.
Can’t make the first week? Catching up is no problem. You’ll get the packs you missed, and your limit on games that count towards the Leaderboard will increase. You can resign and buy into the League multiple times. Only your most recent run will count toward the leaderboard.
By the way, each participating player will unlock the The Hermit's Controlcard back for immediate use:
Sealed League
Starting Packs
Week 1: 4x Battle Lines; 4x The Flame of Xulta
Week 2: 2x Battle Lines
Week 3: 2x The Flame of Xulta
Week 4: 2x Battle Lines
Minimum Rewards for Playing Include:
4 x Battle Lines packs
1 x premium Uncommon Card
1 x new premium card back upon entering the League
After the dragon Solux has claimed a Xultan settlement as her own, Mother Zora has been asked to convince her to leave.
Heroic Upgrade
Players can purchase this Chapter’s Heroic Upgrade For 1000 gems to get:
Emergency Response Theme deck
4x premium copies of each of this Chapter’s Promo Cards
A Unique Premium Avatar: Zora, First Responder
Reminder: Premium cards will be granted immediately after purchase for any Missions in a Chapter that a player has completed at the time of purchase. Upcoming premium cards in the Chapter will be granted after a player beats the associated Mission, or at the end of the month.
The time has come for a new sealed league, and Mother Zora needs us to stand strong!
How it Works: Open card packs and play in a month-long League, using all the cards you open! The event costs 12,500 gold or 1,100 gems to enter.
Can’t make the first week? Catching up is no problem. You’ll get the packs you missed, and your limit on games that count towards the Leaderboard will increase. You can resign and buy into the League multiple times. Only your most recent run will count toward the leaderboard.
By the way, each participating player will unlock the Stand Strong card back for immediate use:
Sealed League
Starting Packs
Week 1: 4x Battle Lines; 4x Cold Hunt
Week 2: 2x Battle Lines
Week 3: 2x Cold Hunt
Week 4: 2x Battle Lines
Minimum Rewards for Playing Include:
4 x Battle Lines packs
1 x premium Uncommon Card
1 x new premium card back upon entering the League
Welcome to the first balance patch of the new year!
This patch is heavily Expedition-focused, targeting some outliers to bring them more in line.
Nerfs
The Winter Fox to 10-cost, -1 cost for every 2 cards you have Hunted (was 12-cost, -1 cost for every card you have Hunted).
Corrupted Riftborn to 5/4 (was 5/5).
Light the Beacon to 5-cost (was 4-cost).
Deeptrail Vanguard now 2/4 and grants the drawn spell Voidbound (was 2/5).
Unstable Hellion loses Overwhelm.
The Winter Fox is an exciting quest, but can lead to uninteractive and one-sided games when it comes down too early. Decreasing the maximum cost while reducing the speed of the discount should keep it in a healthier range, while increasing the impact of Advantages gained from hunting.
Corrupted Riftborn, Deeptrail Vanguard, and Light the Beacon all have strategic gameplay we believe in, but their current rates have led them to be more dominant than we’d like. These changes should reduce their ubiquity while leaving them as viable options for decks that want to build around them.
Unstable Hellion’s Overwhelm has often meant that if you don’t have an answer to it immediately, you’re dead. Drawing a blocker to trade with the Hellion on its second attack often still meant taking 15 damage to your face. Removing the Overwhelm preserves the gameplay of maximizing its Emtomb damage while making blockers a more viable defensive option.
Buffs
Gold Mine to 2-cost (was 3-cost)
Duel for Steelwarren to 5-cost (was 6-cost)
Fiera, On the Frontlines to 5-cost (was 6-cost)
One Eye Returned to 3/5 (was 3/4)
Champion of Vengeance to 4/4 (was 3/3)
Reeve's Mandate gains “Can’t be negated.”
Insatiable Gorger to 4-cost (was 5- cost)
These are a variety of changes intended to buff underperforming archetypes or inspire new avenues of exploration. The Reeve’s Mandate change in particular should provide more counterplay to the many powerful negate effects that are currently seeing play.
Deeptrail Vanguard is in The Devouring set and Unstable Hellion was recently introduced in the Community Bundle. Players will receive 1,250 gold if they bought the base bundles and an additional 1,250 gold if they bought the premium versions. Corrupted Riftborn premiered in December 2023’s Eternal Chapter – Riftbreakers; players who purchased that chapter will receive 650 gold. All other crafted cards that are receiving a nerf can be destroyed for a full refund.
You can check out hover-over card images on our news site: this patch will be live later today and we will update the forums accordingly.
A new year, a new Chapter! Being a professional gambler’s easy when you can rewind time. Unless they catch you…
Heroic Upgrade Players can purchase this Chapter’s Heroic Upgrade For 1000 gems to get:
Tricks of the Trade Theme deck 4x premium copies of each of this Chapter’s Promo Cards A Unique Premium Avatar: Cuno, Localized Rewind
Reminder: Premium cards will be granted immediately after purchase for any Missions in a Chapter that a player has completed at the time of purchase. Upcoming premium cards in the Chapter will be granted after a player beats the associated Mission, or at the end of the month.
A new Sealed League has dropped! Cuno tried to get ahead of us last month, but this month is actually his time!
How it Works: Open card packs and play in a month-long League, using all the cards you open! The event costs 12,500 gold or 1,100 gems to enter.
Can’t make the first week? Catching up is no problem. You’ll get the packs you missed, and your limit on games that count towards the Leaderboard will increase. You can resign and buy into the League multiple times. Only your most recent run will count toward the leaderboard.
By the way, each participating player will unlock the The Specialists League card back for immediate use:
Sealed League
Starting Packs
Week 1: 4x Battle Lines, 4x Behemoths of Thera
Week 2: 2x Battle Lines
Week 3: 2x Behemoths of Thera
Week 4: 2x Battle Lines
Minimum Rewards for Playing Include:
4 x Battle Lines packs
1 x Premium Uncommon Card
1 x new premium card back upon entering the League
We got one last thing to give you before 2023 wraps up— a big community store update! Also included: some rewards to players for streaming Eternal or watching other people stream Eternal.
Store Update
Community Card Bundle
Earlier this year, we announced the sunsetting of the Design-a-Card product. We are releasing all 19 cards, new and old alike, in a single bundle! We’re offering 3 ways to purchase this bundle: 50,000 influence, 25,000 gold, or 1,000 gems. We’ll also have a premium version of the package for 2,000 gems. Want to upgrade later? No problem as there will be an upgrade for 1,000 gems!
Here are all of the cards:
New Cards!
Ooze Tower (and Oozeling) (Inspired by OlorinTheWise)
Mogen, Demagogue (Inspired by Surfwizard)
Marvelous Imperion (Inspired by marvin_the_imp)
Ageless Knight (Inspired by Why I Salty)
Zadia, Fearsome Outcast (Inspired by Moltavio_the_Mage)
Aeda, Heretical Forgemaster (Inspired by Jeabusierre)
Unstable Hellion (Inspired by Shimrra)
Icy Scrying (Inspired by iron_man)
Master Archivist (Inspired by ItsTenz)
Listening Bug (Inspired by AntMan)
Zephyrus, Unparalleled (Inspired by TempestDragonKing)
Existing Cards!
Torq, Ballistics Crafter (Inspired by Collecter)
Thieving Fox (Inspired by MercurioBlue)
Moldermuck (Inspired by Kasendrith)
Doctor Zytrom (Inspired by Calebovitsch)
Wasteland Broker (Inspired by Beri)
Siege Train (Inspired by gibbon)
Kira, the Prodigy (Inspired by y0ttabyte)
Deans' Chamber (Inspired by KorethVahn)
Expedition Packs
We’re removing the random pack product and replacing it with Expedition Legal packs. Currently, this will include Battle Lines and Behemoths of Thera. We’re also adding boxes of these packs at a 10% discount.
Draft Ticket
We’re keeping the repurchase-able Draft ticket but giving it a slight tweak. We’re dropping the price down to 35,000 influence and making it available once a week. More Draft for everyone!
Quest Frequency
Quests will now update twice a day! The first update will remain at its regular time, midnight (PST), and the next will occur 12 hours later! This will also refresh your ability to reroll a quest twice a day as well.
Avatars and Card Backs
During the lifespan of Eternal, we’ve created many many Avatars and Card Backs. Essentially, there is no way to acquire the ones given for old leagues or time-limited promo card bundles.
When this update goes live, there’ll be 6 card backs and 6 avatars available to purchase with influence. When the month rolls over, 2 different avatars and 2 different card backs will be rotated in and 2 will be rotated out.
The card backs Enemies at the Gates and A Search for Answers will be leaving at the end of December!
The avatars Lieutenant Relia and Wyatt, Junk Collector will be leaving at the end of December!
To earn influence, you’ll need to link your Eternal account to Twitch. Everything in the community store will also be available via our Eternal web store.
Eternals— Get ready for a pretty big Hotfix, chock-full of improvements and bug-fixes to fine-tune your Eternal experience. First things first, Buffmas has come early! When we nerf a card due to its performance in Expedition, that can often push it out of Throne as well. We want to take this opportunity to revert a bunch of changes for cards that are no longer in Expedition and might be fun additions to the Throne metagame.
Phoenix Stone costs 2 to activate (was 3)
Soulfire Drake to 5FFF (was 6FFF)
Helena, Skyguide to 3/4 and +3/+4 (was 3/3 and +1/+1)
Scalesworn Patrol gains Inscribe
Vine Tangler costs 7 to activate (was 9)
Slumbering Stone now plays the 2/2 Gargoyle on Entomb (was draw a 2/2 Gargoyle)
Heart of the Vault to 6/6 (was 5/5)
Acclaimed Artisan to Mastery 4 (was Mastery 6)
The Bandit Queen to 3/3 (was 3/2)
Eremot’s Machinations to 5TS (was 6TTSS)
The Merriest Mandrake to 0/4 (was 0/3)
However, alongside these joyous buffs, there is one particular card that’s been causing some problems of late. Spire Shadows has always been an interesting buildaround, but a dangerous and often uninteractive amount of cost reduction. The recent addition of the Recruit mechanic has pushed the deck to high popularity. While its win rate has remained relatively average due to weak aggro matchups, it preys heavily on midrange decks and has been reducing variety in the Throne metagame.
Spire Shadows becomes a Relic with “Once per turn, when you draw a unit with higher cost than Strength, swap them.
We experimented with a variety of changes, but just increasing the cost or making it a relic pushed the deck even more towards trying to set up a big combo turn without giving the opponent a chance to interact. This version maintains the low cost to start benefiting early, but increases counterplay and limits Recruit and Market shenanigans. Note that multiple copies in play trigger separately, so having three will swap the first three appropriate units you draw each turn.
Note: As Spire Shadows was only available through the set, Shadow of the Spire set, we are giving a one-time grant of 1,250 gold to users who purchased the set. Users that purchased the premium versions of the set will receive an additional 1,250 gold. Users will, of course, keep all their copies of the cards.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed an issue where The Hermit’s Triumph did not play VFX to the chosen units
Fixed an issue where The Hermit’s Triumph could return a unit to the previous owner when you sacrificed one of them early
Fixed an issue where some abilities that count things in the void did not immediately update after Devour effects
Fixed an issue where some Devour cards’ superhinting didn’t update when new targets became present
Fixed an issue where some abilities that count relics in the void didn’t update when a unit-equipped Versatile weapon entered the void
Fixed an issue where Aerial Suppression could retain double damage when Flying units were removed from play
Fixed an issue where Eris, Apex Slayer’s Renown could bypass Aegis
Fixed an issue where Nomnom, Epic Epicure could die when discarding Poacher’s Menagerie
Fixed an issue where Mystical Shackles’ summon could trigger twice when played from the void
Fixed an issue where Bounty Board had no VFX and could sometimes trigger and resolve in the middle of combat animations
Fixed an issue where Bounty Board was not triggered by Killer attacks
Fixed an issue where Eyes of the Hermit didn’t reveal the top card of your deck when played by Recruit.
Fixed an issue where Hunts caused by Living Reflection could bypass Aegis in certain scenarios
Fixed an issue where Reeking Troublemaker could prevent units from blocking if killed/silenced/transformed in response to its summon
Fixed an issue where a stolen Ossuar Longbow would not gain armor from Hunting
Fixed an issue where Cirt, Prime Deserter instantly died when created directly into play
Fixed an issue where Cunning Plan’s sacrifice did not trigger Renown on your unit
Fixed an issue where Cunning Plan’s sacrifice occurred after the enemy response window instead of before
Fixed an issue where Tight-Lipped prevented Cunning Plan from sacrificing a unit
Fixed an issue where Destiny units targeted by Altruistic Bonepicker or Against the Odds could keep their damage after dying
Fixed an issue where Strip for Parts could not play Bloodrite Kalis
Fixed an issue where Veli, Always Watching’s Bolster ability played VFX for the larger debuff first when doubled by Fiera, on the Frontlines
Fixed an issue where Devour units could still buff themselves if they were killed in response. The Devour will still destroy cards if possible.
Fixed an issue where Embargo Officer didn’t prevent Information Leak’s discard
Fixed an issue where Voice of the Speaker did not grant Echo to power cards that were created and drawn
Fixed an issue where Heirloom Blade could be partially played with 2-5 power and only shifted units in play
Fixed an issue where Kosul Elite didn’t grant Fast to Versatile weapons
Fixed an issue where Martyr’s Chains didn’t trigger unless there was at least one unit before a unit is created at the end of the turn
Fixed an issue where Dizo’s Racket did not properly apply Lifesteal from relic weapons
Fixed an issue where Blood of Makkar did not offer a response window when played
Fixed an issue where some ongoing void-binding abilities did not update when stolen
Fixed an issue where Vara, Decisive Action could be sacrificed by Vara, Death’s Master
Fixed an issue where Can’t Remember showed the enemy deck when they had Aegis
Improvements:
Updated Fang Trap’s functionality so that the Bolster debuff can stack correctly with existing damage on the unit. It now grants a permanent debuff to the cursed unit, rather than modifying the curse’s ongoing debuff amount.
Updated Vulk’s Heart so that it can play a Vulk with 0 or less health if the +2/+2 will get Vulk above 0 health
Streamlined VFX for all spells with Unleash to play faster, especially Growth Spurt
Removed outdated Black Market hangers on Rime Conclave Smuggler and Fearless Crescendo
Updated spell-negating abilities like Numbing Cold to not trigger against spells that cannot be negated
Eternals— Brace yourselves. The plates beneath our feet are shifting: the time of the Riftbreakers is beginning.
Heroic Upgrade
Players can purchase this Chapter’s Heroic Upgrade For 1000 gems to get:
Guardians of the Rifts Theme deck
4x premium copies of each of this Chapter’s Promo Cards
A Unique Premium Avatar: Corrupted Riftborn
Reminder: Premium cards will be granted immediately after purchase for any Missions in a Chapter that a player has completed at the time of purchase. Upcoming premium cards in the Chapter will be granted after a player beats the associated Mission, or at the end of the month.
New to Chapter Missions? First Time players will receive the Guardians of the Rifts Theme Deck for free after completing this month’s first Mission, and the Heroic Upgrade price will be reduced to 500 Gems.