Highlights:

1. Game logs for every game you play. Logs can be accessed from the victory screen or the player profile. Logs are stored in JSON format in your application data (your last 50 logs are saved, but if you copy-paste the file, you could manually go back and look at old logs).
   
2. Emotes for each avatar (click your portrait to emote, or your opponent's portrait to squelch; Esc or the middle left button brings up the menu)
   
3. Much-improved display of prizes & other game end rewards
   
4. More AI decks (unlocked at ranks 28-20)
   
5. Higher threshold for fallback to AI play (up to rank 18) while player pop is low
   

Feature Improvements

• Client defaults to the "desktop" arena display.
  
• Powers stick around longer now, so you've got more time to read them
  
• Rank required to unlock draft lowered to 28 (from 25)
  
• Free draft granted when you unlock draft (if you're already above rank 28, you'll get the free draft too)
  
• Targeting arrows stick around a little longer, and fade out smoothly
  
• Dead cards now indicate that they're dead
  
• Month of Packs/Credits/NanoBots now tells you what day you're on when you collect it.
  
• Tutorial rewards are now granted after each tutorial game
  
• You now get your first daily login reward at the end of the last tutorial
  
• "Trash" button added to deck list decks, for easier list management
  
• Achievements now give you 10 credits per level gained, if they don't give any other rewards.
  
• Keywords have less chance of overlapping the card you're looking at in the arena
  
• Servers can now refresh game data without a restart; lets us patch cards or text with 0 downtime.
  
• Matchmaker server now automatically stands itself back up if it falls over
  

Bug fixes

• Lots of flickering removed from UI panel animations
  
• Tutorial cards no longer become unplayable after waiting a long time
  
• Removed some menu hints that weren't playing well with the UI
  
• Primal Hunter no longer loses Evade when it fights something else.
  
• Ethereal Devourer now actually has unblockable
  
• when a bomb explodes in your hand, it can't leave an insert hovered.
  
• Queen Ordelia can no longer crash the game by running you out of Arena inserts
  

Known Issues:

• If you get "Client Out of Date. Please Update", you'll need to restart your Steam client to force it to download the update.
  
• There's still some failure states with Friends that we haven't tracked down. If you find a Friends bug, let us know, please!
  

Major changes:

1. All the previously-announced card changes are in
   
2. New keyword for Nature: "Fight". This does respect First Strike, but not Double Attack or Overrun.
   
3. While there's a low player population, new players will be matched vs the AI, rather than high-level players.
   
4. The "mobile arena" option is BACK! This a zoomed-in view of the arena; some players prefer it, so both are options.
   
5. The in-game menu can be brought up by hitting Escape (after the starting hand panel closes)
   
6. Arena cards don't re-layout as much while you're targeting another card.
   
7. Crafting is now far more responsive
   
8. When a card gains/loses a keyword or stats, you'll see the loss/gain animated
   

Bug fixes:

• Keyword popups less likely to come up over other cards
  
• Chat, challenge, and new friend notifications are shown after a game, if they came in during a game.
  
• Deck builder missing rows bug is fixed
  
• Card Art Asset manager crash fixed
  
• Targeting a card with a legal activated ability no longer selects the activated ability as well
  
• Player portraits can be targeted by clicking, as well as dragging
  
• Judgement/Ordeila and Assembler Anton bugs fixed
  
• Earth Elemental bug fixed
  
• Zombie Plague et al now send their created units to the correct positions
  
• Basic packs now give the correct cards.
  

Improvements:

• Resolution of effects more closely matches what the server's actually doing (your resolutions and your opponent's resolutions and initiative changes should now all match)
  
• Larger text on card list items
  
• Cost & Aspect filters now show their filtered state on the menu bar
  
• "Friends" moves up to the header; a Leaderboard link replaces it in the footer
  
• "Open Pack" button can't be accidentally clicked twice in a row
  
• Several onboarding hints removed, as they weren't helping
  
• When you get a new card in a pack, text will tell you it's new
  
• Reduced data transfer during games by 4x
  
• The arena resizes more intelligently for different window sizes
  
• The new scalable server architecture is up & running
  
• Improvements to game startup speed
  
• Back-end improvements to let us update the game more easily
  

1. Make Nature cards more playable - our data showed that Nature was by far the least-played aspect. In addition to improving the power level of several Nature cards, we've also added to Nature's disruption sub-theme with Leyline Druid and Minotaur Guide.
   
2. Make mid-range and control strategies more relevant when players don't have complete collections. To that end, we improved some common and rare defensive cards, and nerfed a couple of more aggressive commons/rares.
   

Arcane changes:

Tech changes:

Divine changes:

Chaos changes:

Nature changes:

Bug Fixes:

• CRITICAL FIX - the hint for deck building no longer prevents progress in the game.
  
• Deck list left-hand side no longer slinks off screen at the wrong time
  
• Crafting/scrapping can't be dismissed while animations are playing (dismissing it would cause it to end up in an unusable state)
  

Feature Improvements:

• Deck stats now show unit & power counts
  
• Clients will now connect over IPv6 networks if you're (un)lucky enough to be stuck on an IPv6 only network.
  

Bug Fixes:

• "Cancel" button behaves far better now - cancelling matchmaking will fail (and you'll end up playing your game) if the server's already found you a match, and cancelling won't let you get stuck with a starting hand screen without cards.
  
• Deck builder no longer jumps to the top after adding cards of your second aspect
  
• Preventing the screen from remaining blurred if certain views are opened multiple times
  
• Fixed several friends list bugs where Steam friends wouldn't interact sensibly
  
• Fixed several bugs related to cards being "stuck" in players' hands after being discarded
  
• Fixed a bug with Soul Swap
  
• Fixed a bug where your deck name might be displayed as "Draft Deck" after returning from a game
  

Feature Improvements:

• Improved display of energy bars when gaining/losing energy
  
• Added a "keepalive" to the server connection, to prevent frequent disconnects for some users.
  
• Sped up animations for cards being created and entering players hands
  
• Performance improvements in the main UI
  
• Avatars and card backs can now be bought using Gems as well as Credits
  

Bug Fixes:

• Targeted powers won't lock up the game when moving to combat
  
• When the user exits the deckbuilder with keywords visible they now hide
  
• Activated abilities can no longer be activated while stunned
  
• Fonts now include all common EU accented characters
  
• Improved sprite atlas performance; seems to have reduced the chance of the "white cards" bug reoccurring
  

Feature Improvements:

• "Daily Rewards" feature added -
  
• Most rewards (including daily rewards and Mega Packs/Credits/NanoBots) are now on a cycle beginning every day at 00:00 UTC. This will make it much easier to ensure you collect those rewards. Daily wins still reset on a 24-hour cycle per player. Kickstarter rewards are set to weekly, with a week starting on Monday 00:00 UTC.
  
• Rewards per win are now reduced after your first 30 wins in a 24-hour period.
  
• Deck count is visible on mouseover of decks
  
• Pack opener is less naggy now
  

Bug Fixes:

• Bombs and Curses work properly
  
• Hand hovering bugs have been reduced
  

Feature Improvements:

• Text search is much improved (see below)
  
• Performance of keyword popups is improved
  

New Text Search:

• Numeric values for cost, strength, health, card ownership. "[field]:3" finds all threes. "[field]:3-" finds three or less. "[field]:3+" finds all three or greater. "[field]:3-6" finds three, four, five, and six.
  
• Energy cost, using "energy:3", "mana:3", "cost:3"
  
• Strength, using "strength:3", or "attack:3"
  
• Health, using "health:3"
  
• Owned cards, using "owned:4+" (or "extra:" to find all cards you have 4+ of - you need the colon after "extra" for this one to work)
  
• Artist credits, using "artist:Jack"
  
• Abbreviations of the above work. So "c:4" finds all cards that cost 4. The colon ":" in all of these is important...
  
• Card types (power), and subtypes (goblin)
  
• Rarities (common, rare, epic, legendary)
  
• Aspects (arcane, tech, divine, nature, chaos)
  
• Multiple words, so "damage target" will find all cards with "damage" and "target" anywhere in their name.
  

Bug Fixes:

• Hand hovers more reliably
  
• "Giant Card" bug with Deja Vu is fixed
  
• Players gain time correctly on opponent play
  
• Bound Abomination card text fixed
  
• Disconnecting from a game now correctly credits you with a loss.
  
• The game no longer hangs if you try to log in on a machine with a different steam account (it'll unlink your primary Steam account and link the new one; this process can be reversed by logging in with your main Steam account)
  

Feature Improvements:

• The end of game screen is now animated
  
• Particle system improvements
  
• Minor deck builder improvements
  

Card Balance Changes:

• Shieldcaster Mech no longer grants itself Armor
  
• Singularity now costs 6, and Ultrabots now cost 3
  
• Resupply no longer reduces costs.
  

1. If a player plays a card after both players are "done", their opponent will have a chance to respond
   
2. Player cards will either resolve completely, or fail to play - if your opponent has played a card that stops yours from playing, your card will be returned to hand (previously, it could have been played for no effect)
   
3. Starting hand bug is now completely fixed
   
4. "Massive card" bug is fixed for your cards. There's still a (different) case where an opponent's card can cause it.
   
5. Incorrect card back bugs squashed
   
6. Minor text/ability fixes
   

1. "New card" display improved in the deck builder
   
2. When entering the deck builder, if you have new cards, they will be sorted to the top. You can revert to the default sort order by selecting "My Cards" rather than "New".
   
3. At low ranks, you now gain a small amount of ranking points when losing a game.
   
4. Onboarding cards can be gained more easily
   

1. Starting Hand Panel failing to show you your cards
   
2. Draft pack opener failing to show you your cards on the first pack of a new draft
   
3. Draft now shows your draft deck, not your constructed deck, after a draft game
   
4. Card backs will correctly show the default card back if you or your opponent have selected that card back.
   
5. Draft losses now match up with shields, instead of being offset
   
6. Draft wins & losses are visible on the draft screen
   
7. Combat banner now extends the full width of the arena, rather than stopping 2 pixels short
   
8. The hint popup for crafting can be closed, which will help if it pops up in the wrong place by accident.
   

1. Windowed mode will now remember the window size you selected last time you played.
   
2. Cards you've gained in your current play session now show up with a "New" tag in the deck editor.
   
3. Profile rating slider now animates when you gain rating points
   
4. Achievement views show what you need to hit their next level