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Arcane Showdown

Announcement from Big Huge Games
Greeting Mages,


It’s with heavy hearts we’re announcing the doors to the Citadel will be closing.
Service for Arcane Showdown will be terminated on May 31st, 2021.

We began this journey with the goal of creating a deep, Real-Time Strategy game for mobile and we are so proud of how it evolved over time thanks to your support. We saw a Community that loved this game as much as we did, even before our official launch. We saw players who could not get enough of the Citadel, even creating their own competitive tournaments. During our run, you’ve helped us to navigate everything from bugs to balance and to create an environment that we were eager to build on. However, a game cannot run on ambition alone and we are unable to continue with this project.

For more information about our decision, please read our Reddit post here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcaneShowdown/comments/mfotdl/announcement_from_big_huge_games/

Thank you for taking this journey with us and for supporting the Citadel to the very end. We hope to see you again in our future.

Arcane Showdown v1.4.0 Update is here!
v1.4.0 brings some Quality of Life changes and much anticipated bug fixes. Stay tuned for additional content coming in our next Season Update!

Randomize Deck Button

  • Try out different deck combinations with the Randomize Deck button, you may just find your new favorite card combination! You can copy a randomly rolled deck to your Current Deck or any of the numbered deck slots.


Additional Deck Collection Sorting

  • You can now sort your deck by School of Magic


Bug Fixes and Improvements

  • Friendly Map Cycle now follows the same cycle as 1v1 matches
  • Fixed an issue where Elder Rune Chest was not granting 100 essence
  • Fixed an issue where Rune Chest was not granting 30 essence
  • Chest Speed Up Boost is now correctly displayed in Trophy Road
  • Fixed several quest bugs

Arcane Showdown v1.2.0 Update out Now!

New Features



Chest Inventory Changes

  • Mages can now store up to 10 chests (increased from 4)
  • The interface for unlocking and opening chests has been updated
  • Chests now reflect the Mage’s current floor, regardless of the floor they were earned on


More Leaderboards

  • The Guild Leaderboard ranks top guilds by guild score
  • Mages now have access to Local 1v1 and 2v2 Trophy leaderboards as well as total trophy leaderboards (the sum of 1v1 and 2v2 trophies)


Daily Guild Rewards

  • Mages in Guilds can claim a new Guild Chest every day for bonus Coins
  • The level of the chest depends on how many guild members claimed it the day before
  • The highest three levels also contain an Epic, Legendary, or Guardian card respectively


Friend Codes

  • Mages can now easily add friends via Friend Codes
  • Each Mage has a friend code formatted as follows: Archmage#AB12
  • This works between all platforms and can be found inside the Friends tab of the Social menu



Content Changes



New Floors
The Citadel is getting 5 additional floors, increasing from 15 to 20! These new floors have more rewards to collect and some existing cards have moved to these floors:

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Floor 16 (4,000 trophies)
Card Unlocks

  • Boomer (was Floor 9)
  • Whelp Roost (was Floor 14)

Rewards

  • 4,100: Coins x1,000
  • 4,200: Rune Chest x1
  • 4,300: Gems x50
  • 4,400: Epic Wildcards x5

Floor 17 (4,500 trophies)
Card Unlocks

  • Mortar (was Floor 10)
  • Recall (was Floor 12)

Rewards

  • 4,600: Common Cards x100
  • 4,700: Coins x1,000
  • 4,800: Rare Cards x20
  • 4,900: Epic Chest x1

Floor 18 (5,000 trophies)
Card Unlocks

  • Boulder (was Floor 7)
  • Stone Wall (was Floor 14)

Rewards

  • 5,150: Coins x1,500
  • 5,300: Crystal Chest x1
  • 5,450: Gems x100
  • 5,600: Mystic Essence Chest x1

Floor 19 (5,750 trophies)
Card Unlocks

  • Acid Turret (was Floor 12)
  • Alchemist (was Floor 12)

Rewards

  • 5,900: Common Wildcards x50
  • 6,050: Rare Wildcards x20
  • 6,200: Epic Wildcards x 5
  • 6,350: Mage’s Chest x1

Floor 20 (6,500 trophies)
Card Unlocks

  • Reaper (was Floor 14)
  • Scorching Ray (was Floor 14)

Rewards

  • 6,700: Gems x100
  • 6,900: Epic Chest x1
  • 7,100: Legendary Chest x1
  • 7,300: Archmage’s Chest x1

Archmage’s Order (7,500 trophies)
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Additional Floor Changes
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Floors 1-15

  • Victory Coins from winning duels is now roughly doubled for all floors

Floor 15
Rewards

  • 3,680: Mages Chest x1 -> Monstrous Chest x1

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Additional Card Changes
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Arcane Missiles

  • Floor 2 -> Floor 3

Behemoth

  • Floor 10 -> Floor 12

Cleaver

  • Floor 17 -> Floor 2

Haste

  • Floor 3 -> Floor 10

Hunger Demon

  • Floor 10 -> Floor 12

Magelings

  • Floor 2 -> Floor 5

Mana Crystal

  • Floor 8 -> Floor 14

Meteor

  • Floor 6 -> Floor 11

Polliwog

  • Floor 4 -> Floor 13

Rootwalker

  • Floor 8 -> Floor 7

Sporeguard

  • Floor 5 -> Floor 14

Sporelings

  • Floor 8 -> Floor 7

Vortex

  • Floor 10 -> Floor 12

Warlock

  • Floor 10 -> Floor 8

Wild Growth

  • Floor 5 -> Floor 2

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Archmage’s Order

  • Mages will now enter the Archmage's Order at 7,500 trophies (increased from 4,000)
  • The Archmage’s Order will now give you rewards for each trophy milestone reached during a season, instead of a single chest at the end
  • Mages will also earn a 12-hour Chest Speedup each time they reach a new rank

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Rank Trophy Requirements and Rewards
Adept I (4,000 -> 7,500)
Rewards

  • 7,650: Coins x3,000
  • 7,800: Common Cards x200
  • 7,950: Random Essence x3
  • 8,100: Enchanted Chest x1

Adept II (4,400 -> 8,250)
Rewards

  • 8,400: Coins x3,000
  • 8,550: Rare Cards x20
  • 8,700: Random Essence x3
  • 8,850: Monstrous Chest x1

Adept III (4,800 -> 9,000)
Rewards

  • 9,150: Coins x3,000
  • 9,300: Epic Cards x2
  • 9,450: Random Essence x3
  • 9,600: Mega Crystal Chest x1

Expert I (5,200 -> 9,750)
Rewards

  • 9,900: Coins x3,000
  • 10,050: Common Cards x400
  • 10,200: Random Essence x5
  • 10,350: Epic Chest x1

Expert II (5,600 -> 10,500)
Rewards

  • 10,650: Coins x3,000
  • 10,800: Rare Cards x40
  • 10,950: Random Essence x5
  • 11,100: Crystal Chest x1

Expert III (6,000 -> 11,250)
Rewards

  • 11,400: Coins x3,000
  • 11,550: Epic Cards x4
  • 11,700: Random Essence x5
  • 11,850: Caster’s Chest x1

Master I (6,400 -> 12,000)
Rewards

  • 12,150: Coins x3,000
  • 12,300: Common Wildcards x200
  • 12,450: Random Essence x10
  • 12,600: Monstrous Chest x1

Master II (6,800 -> 12,800)
Rewards

  • 13,000: Coins x3,000
  • 13,200: Rare Wildcards x20
  • 13,400: Random Essence x10
  • 13,600: Legendary Chest x1

Master III (7,200 -> 13,800)
Rewards

  • 14,000: Coins x3,000
  • 14,200: Epic Wildcards x2
  • 14,400: Random Essence x10
  • 14,600: Guardian Chest x1

Archmage (was Grandmaster; 8,000 -> 15,000)
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Schools of Magic
Greenkin

  • Card level requirement increased by one for chapters 2 to 4 and 6 to 9

Order

  • Card level requirement increased by one for chapter 5

Technology

  • Card level requirement decreased by one for chapter 5


Guilds

  • Guilds can now have 60 members


Leaderboards

  • Minimum medal requirements for the 1-vs-1 and 2-vs-2 global leaderboards are now 7,500 (increased from 4,000)


Mystery Chest Changes

  • Mystery Chests now have a chance to reward Essence, as well as a chance to reward Common cards


Locksmith

  • The Locksmith has retired and is now called the 2nd Chest Slot (no change to functionality)
  • The cost has been reduced to 600 Gems


Bug Fixes and Improvements

  • Fixed an issue where Guardians could not be activated by tapping
  • Trophy counts for 2v2 duels appears correctly for both players in the Activity Log
  • Mages can now make progress on quests that require them to fully enchant structures if their teammate contributes to the full enchant during a 2v2 duel
  • Steam client frames per second no longer cap at 60 frames per second
  • Improvements have been made to the account linking flow on Steam