Trials of Fire 1.0 Release

• Communes with otherworldly powers to deal damage or buff your party. Beware though, such power always comes with a price.
• Ranged damage dealer or support character.
• Many of their abilities will do damage or place negative named effects on themself, but others will grow stronger as they take damage or get more afflicted.
• Has the unique ability to remove cards from the battle to thin your deck on the fly or remove weaknesses.

• Many created cards have now been re-branded as ‘Instant’.
• These function largely the same, as before, but are now removed from the game automatically when ending your turn (and do not count towards your 1 held card limit).
• Instant is a new keyword with the following effects:
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• May not be Recycled or Redrawn.
• Automatically removed from the battle at the end of your turn.

• We’ve reworked the Stealth named effect to better suit the Assassin’s playstyle.
• Stealth now has no immediate effect and ticks down like any other named effect.
• If you can maintain stealth until the start of your turn, it triggers some powerful new abilities.
• Stealth effect:
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• Cannot be targeted by enemies unless they are adjacent.
• Every time you are hit, lose 1 stack of Stealth.
• At the start of your turn, gain +2 to Melee and Ranged damage for the turn and add a Move Unseen card to your hand.

• The Spirit Speaker now has a Heavy Armour slot instead of Light Armour to allow for a bit of extra tankiness.
• The Assassin no longer has access to Heavy Armour to slightly reduce their tankiness.

• Russian localisation now fully implemented.

• You may now have up to 4 separate save profiles on your machine to allow other household members to play on one machine.

• We’ve updated a lot of the weaker item cards to make sure more items are viable in high-level builds.
• Most of these buffs come in the form of powerful, conditional effects to boost the cards based on how you play them. This

• ‘Fly’ – Changed effect to, ‘Move to any free space. Any Magic Damage cards in hand gain +1 to damage.’
• ‘Quick Shot’ – Changed effect to, ‘Ranged Attack 1, then draw a card. Deal +2 damage if your previous card played was a Move card.’
• ‘Quick Thinking’ – Changed basic effect to, ‘Look at the top 3 cards of your deck and choose one to draw. Refresh your Talent.’
• ‘Chaos Missiles’ – Changed effect to, ‘Deal 3 Magic Damage to all enemies within 3 spaces. Deal +2 damage if you have 5+ Defence.
• ‘Wing Smash’ – Now deals Magic Damage.
• ‘Reel In’ – Changed effect to, ‘Ranged Attack 1 then Pull the target 3 Spaces. Afterwards, if the target is adjacent to you, draw a card.’
• ‘Lunge’ – Changed effect to, ‘Move 1 to Target, Melee Attack 3. Every time you play a card, increase movement by 1.’
• ‘Strike Through’ – Changed effect to, ‘Melee Attack 3 or Ranged Attack 2. Also hits anyone directly behind the target. If you hit 2 targets, gain 1 Willpower.’
• ‘Sleep Dart’ – Changed effect to, ‘Ranged Attack 2. For every 2 damage dealt, shuffle a temporary Fatigue card into target's deck.’
• ‘Dark Rite’ – Changed effect to, ‘Melee Attack 2. If you deal damage, take 1 raw damage and gain +1 to Magic Damage for the rest of the battle.’
• ‘Reach’ – Increased cost to 1 (from 0).
• ‘Armoured Advance’ – Changed effect to, ‘Move 2, Defend 3 and gain 1 Willpower. Shuffle an Exhausted card into your deck.’
• ‘Wide Sweep’ - Changed effect to, ‘Melee Attack 5 on all adjacent enemies. If you hit 2 or more targets, draw a Defend card from your deck or discard pile.’
• ‘Fearsome Shout’ – Changed effect to, ‘All enemies within Range 2 are inflicted with Exposed and discard a card. Gain 1 Willpower for every WEAKNESS card in hand.’
• ‘Rage’ – Changed effect to, ‘Draw 2 cards. Gain 1 Willpower for every WEAKNESS card in hand. Shuffle a Fatigue into your deck.’
• ‘Detonate’ – Reduced cost to 1 and changed effect to, ‘Destroy a friendly Summoned character and deal Magic Damage to all adjacent characters equal to the health of the destroyed unit.
• ’Piercing Arrow’ – Changed effect to, ‘Unblockable Ranged Attack 3. If you spent 0 Willpower for this card, remove Defence equal to the damage dealt.’
• ‘Phosphor Arrow’ – Changed effect to, ‘Ranged Attack 5. If the target is Burning, deal 3 Magic Damage to all enemies within 2 spaces.’
• ‘Coordinate’ – Changed effect to, ‘Target other friendly Hero draws 1 card. If the target has any named effects, Activate yourself.’
• ‘Improvise’ – Changed effect to, ‘Target friendly Hero upgrades a card in hand and reduces its cost by 1.’
• ‘Last Stand’ – Increased defence bonus to 2 for each point of health below 10 (from 1).
• ‘Aimed Shot’ – Changed effect to, ‘Ranged Attack 8. This card cannot be played. Cancel this effect at the end of your turn or when you play a Power on yourself.’
• ‘Grit’ – Changed effect to, ‘Gain Protected 2 then Defend 2.’
• ‘Think Ahead’ – Reduced cost to 0 and changed effect to, ‘Shuffle 2 cards from Shiv, Simple Shot and Guard into your deck. The next time you draw cards this turn, draw 1 extra card.’
• ‘Insult’ (Warlord) – Changed effect to, ‘Inflict Defenceless 2 to an enemy character or grant Inspired 2 to a friendly character. Inflict +1 stack for every WEAKNESS card in hand.’
• ‘Intimidate’ (Warrior) – Changed effect to, ‘Inflict Weakened 2 on all enemies within 2 spaces. Inflict +1 stack for every WEAKNESS card in hand.’
• ‘Unstable Flask’ (Alchemist) – Changed upgraded effect to, ‘Choose 1 from 3 random BASIC cards to create in your hand and reduce its Willpower cost by 1. Then do this a second time.’
• ‘Elixir of Power’ (Alchemist) – Increased card options to 4 (from 2).
• ‘Run+’ – Changed effect to, ‘Move 4 and gain 1 Willpower. Activate.’
• ‘Momentum’ (Warrior) – Changed effect to, ‘Defend 2. If your last card played was a Melee Attack card, draw a card.’
• ‘Stalk’ – Increased Resilience to 3 (from 1).
• ‘Battle Ready’ – Increased cost to 4 (from 3).
• ‘Teamwork’ – Increased cost to 1 (from 0).
• ‘Sneak’ (Assassin) – Now grants Stealth 2 (up from 1).
• ‘Hidden Shot’ (Assassin) – Now grants Stealth 2 (up from 1).
• ‘Smoke Bomb’ (Assassin) – Now grants Stealth 2 (up from 1) and increased cost to 2 (from 1).
• ‘Shadow Strike’ (Assassin) – Changed effect to, ‘Ranged Attack 2 then move to the closest free space adjacent to the target. If you have Stealth, gain 1 Willpower.’
• ‘Opening’ (Assassin) – Reduced damage to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Low Profile’ (Assassin) – Increased cost to 1 (from 0).

• Increased the Willpower of the Red Dragon.
• Reduced the Willpower of the Planar.
• Reworked Blue Dragon deck a bit to increase challenge slightly.

• Standard (non) boss encounters will now ‘level up’ with every 5 objectives completed.
• Enemies’ health will increase by 100% and they will draw 1 extra card each turn.
• Enemy numbers will be reduced by 50%.
• This is to stop the difficulty of these encounters being limited by the 9 unit maximum and to introduce more variety for those players fighting on in this mode.
• Random (non-objective) boss encounters will also now increase in difficulty the further in you go.

• Cataclysm 6 effect is now, ‘Bosses gain an additional 15% health and Power resilience bonus per Tier.’ Top Tier bosses now have a 200% bonus to Power resilience.