Storybook Brawl

Opening a New Chapter

Which Heroes can play with all the new Spooky treasures, characters and spells?

• Brand new Spooky heroes.
  
• Existing heroes that have a Spooky costume.
  
• New Heroes and Spooky Costumes will be purchasable via dust or gems.
  

• A variety of Witches, some good, some not so good.
  
• A breadcrumb trail that leads to Hansel and Gretel.
  
• Baba Yaga is back, and she's worked up quite an appetite. She's glad that Hansel and Gretel are in the set as well...
  
• A 19/19 character at level 4!
  
• Multiple new character types to build around.
  
• New Heroes that call the Spooky Forest home.
  

Art Updates

• Black Cat
  
• Cat
  
• Evil Twin
  
• Feasting Dragon
  
• Good Witch of the North
  
• Lordy
  
• Mirror Mirror
  
• Muerte
  
• Queen of Hearts
  
• Shoulder Faeries
  
• Shrink Ray
  
• Skip, the Time Skipper
  
• Sky Castle
  
• Spectral Dragon
  
• Spell Weaver
  
• Sting
  
• The Three Bears
  
• Three Little Witches
  
• Worm Root
  

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed: Timer volume has been fixed, it is no longer tied to the music volume.
  
• Fixed/improved: The sound notification in Hero Selection, that tells you that you have found a game, is now tied to the timer volume.
  

• Fixed/improved: Chains from locking the shop in a prior turn are now properly removed when casting a spell; chains on spells are also properly removed whenever you buy a locked spell
  
• Improved: Your "starting" characters retain the "starting" tag consistently- all transformations are still considered the "same" character, so they remain "starting" characters e.g. through a Polywoggle slay or Medusa transform; whereas resummoned units e.g. Phoenix Feather are never considered "starting" characters.
  
• Fixed: Shard of the Ice Queen on Cinderella with 1 counter will properly proc quest and transform into an upgraded level 2 "evil" unit
  
• Fixed: Pup the Magic Dragon now only gives one +2/+1 bonus when supporting with Baba Yaga
  
• Fixed: When merging two Lonely Princes on Wonder Waddle that just transformed, the upgraded Frog Prince should not disappear for a turn
  
• Fixed: Alignment changes from treasures/heroes should now update related auras immediately (various bugs with World Tree + tokens, Mrs. Claus, etc.)
  
• Fixed: Auras also apply immediately after each individual Copycat trigger e.g. if the left proc summons a token, Crown of Atlas will apply immediately before the right proc e.g. Good Boy
  
• Fixed: Medusa or Pigomorph on a Mixawizzle'd or Ambrosia'd character no longer removes existing buffs permanently
  
• Fixed: If you Kidnap a finished Quester and it's put into the shop (due to full hand/board) you will still get a treasure and the opportunity to "buy" an upgraded character
  
• Fixed/improved: Several adjustments to prioritization of simultaneous summons e.g. when multiple characters die or are damaged simultaneously, summons will be prioritized in this order: (* denotes items that are still work-in-progress and are not consistent yet / may change further)
  
  
  • (Phoenix Feather / Mirror Mirror / Croc Bait / Southern Siren)
  • 
    
  • Golden Tweedle Dee
    
  • Golden Wombats in Disguise
    
  • Tweedle Dee
    
  • Wombats in Disguise
    
  • Golden Baby Bear
    
  • Baby Bear
    
  • (The Great Pumpkin)
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  • Golden Romeo
    
  • Romeo
    
  • Golden Trojan Donkey
    
  • (12/12) "Golden" Papa Bear
    
  • (6/6) Papa Bear / Golden Three Big Pigs
    
  • Trojan Donkey
    
  • (3/3) Three Big Pigs
    
  • (2/2) Golden Princess Peep / Golden Black Cat
    
  • (1/1) Princess Peep / Black Cat
    
  • (Reduplicator / Mordred / Time Flies / Cat's Call)
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Fall Championship Details

Where can I watch?

What are the prizes and format?

Prizes

Day One

Top 8

Who are the qualified players?

How can I qualify for tournaments like this?

Next Season

Other helpful info

Points Breakdown

Tiebreakers

• Highest finish
  
• Next-highest finish
  
• ...continued...
  
• Day One finish (for final placement in Top 8)
  
• Day Two finish from qualifying event
  

Players

• Use the !signup YourGameName command in the #tournament-signup channel of the official Storybook Brawl Discord.
  
  
  • You generally only need to register once - only reuse the command if you have changed your in-game name.
    
  • Note that your in-game name is no longer tied to your Steam name. It is now set when you create your SBB account.
    
  
  
• Registered players gain access to private tournament channels, where tournament organizers will post further instructions for signing up for the tournament itself.
  
• Please register your names by Thursday, October 20 in order to participate.
  

Prizes

Cash Prizes

SBB Pro Club

Charity Matching

Format

Day One

• Staggered flights at different times (listed below). Each player signs up for one flight.
  
• Each flight consists of seven (7) rounds in 8-player or 6-player pods.
  
  
  • 6-player pods are used when players cannot be cleanly divided into full 8-player pods.
    
  • See the player documentation for more information.
    
  
  
• Points are awarded for placement in each pod, based on the pod's size.
  
• After all rounds, players with points above the Day Two cut will be eligible to play Day Two on Sunday.
  
  
  • The Day Two point cut will be posted in #tournament-announcements at the start of the tournament.
    
  
  

Day One Flight Times

Day Two

• Starts Sunday at 9am PST / 5p UTC.
  
• Players' points reset at the start of Day Two.
  
• Seven (7) rounds, following the same structure as Day One.
  
• After all rounds are complete, the 8 players with the highest points cut to the Top 8 race.
  

Top 8 Race

• Players' points reset at the start of the Top 8.
  
• The Top 8 is a "race" format over several rounds:
  
  
  • After earning 10 points, players become "live" to win the event.
    
  • The Top 8 continues until a "live" player takes 1st-place in a match. They win the event and the remaining players are sorted by points for standings.
    
  
  

Tiebreakers for Points

• Highest finish, second highest finish and so on.
  
• Previous section's point total.
  
• Final rank on September ladder.
  

Rules

• The event is run through the official Storybook Brawl Discord. To participate in this event you must be registered there:
  
  
  • Use the !signup YourGameName command in #tournament-signups by the deadline (specified earlier in this announcement) to be eligible to participate.
    
  • Choose a Day One flight time after the tournament organizer starts flight signups, and follow any associated TO instructions.
    
  
  
• Lobbies with bugs or issues at or before Hero select will be restarted.
  
• Lobbies with bugs or issues (internet disconnects, etc.) after that point will play on.
  
• All rulings are the right of the tournament organizers.
  
• Streaming on Twitch or other platforms is allowed for any Day One flights that are not officially covered, but streaming with no delay is at your own risk.
  
• Streaming on Twitch or other platforms is allowed for any covered Day One flights and Day Two, but must use the same 15-minute delay as coverage.
  

Coverage

• Official Day One coverage starts at 9am Pacific Time on October 22.
  
• Official Day Two coverage starts at 9am Pacific Time on October 23.
  
• Coverage will be on Storybook Brawl's Twitch.
  

New Heroes

Goldilocks

When you level up, you get +2 gold and your next shop is all characters of your level.

Puffy

You start with a 1/1 Baby Puff Puff. (Last Breath: Give all your Puff Puffs everywhere +1/+1 permanently.)

Balance Changes

Sporko / Lady of the Lake -> 2/2 stats, +4 support bonus

Evil Eye -> Level 4

Horn of Olympus -> Level 5

Wombats in Disguise -> 6/6

Oni Tyrant -> Now gives +13/+13 to attacking Monsters

Art Updates

Characters

• Brave Princess
  
• Crafty (polish)
  
• Fanny
  
• Lady of the Lake
  
• Lucky
  
• Medusa
  
• Oni Tyrant
  
• Puff Puff (replacing the OG art that is now Puffy)
  
• Sleeping Princess/Awoken Princess (polish)
  
• The Great Pumpkin (polish)
  
• Wicked Witch of the West (polish)
  

Spells

• Falling Stars
  
• Flourish
  
• Fierceify (was Hugeify)
  
• Fog
  
• Gigantify
  
• Healing Potion
  
• Knighthood
  
• Mixawizzle
  
• Roll the Dice
  
• Shard of the Ice Queen
  
• Sugar and Spice (polish)
  
• True Love's Kiss
  
• Turkish Delight
  

Treasures

• Ambrosia
  
• Big Book of Spells (was Merlin's Slippers)
  
• Bounty Board (changed bounties to SBB characters)
  
• Cursed Throne
  
• Embiggening Stone
  
• Eye of Ares
  
• Fairy Queen's Wand (polish)
  
• Hand of Midas
  
• Hermes' Sandals (was Hermes Boots)
  
• Locked Chest (polish)
  
• Magic Sword +100
  
• Secret Stash
  
• Spinning Wheel
  
• The Ark
  
• Three of Swords (was Ring of Rage)
  
• Three of Shields (was Six of Shields)
  
• Ugly Gosling Helm (polish)
  

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• We made several improvements to matchmaking:
  
  
  
  
  • You should never get back-to-back ghost fights.
    
  • Back-to-back fights against other players have been greatly reduced as well.
    
  • The round-robin phase of matchmaking has also been randomized (used until at least two players die) e.g. there won't be one player who always fights Sharebear's last opponent.
  
  
• We've improved where a newly-golden character ends up on your board to try and best match player intuition:
  
  
  
  
  • When you buy the third copy of a character, the new golden should end up wherever you place the newly-bought copy.
    
  • When a triple occurs from a spell or other effect, the game will prioritize slots of existing copies on your board, or empty slots on your board otherwise.
    
  • The latter should ensure that Croc Bait with Black Prism places all your golden Crocs somewhere useful. (non-Golden Crocs may still end up in your hand currently)
  
  
• Shop locking behavior has been slightly modified to visually remind players that they locked the shop in the previous turn. The "chains" will remain on the cards in your shop until you take a card, then unlock automatically. (rolling will also unlock as before) We believe this should not interfere with any existing user behaviors, but please let us know if we missed any scenarios.
  
• We've completely reworked how summoning a character from off-board works in relation to permanent effects:
  
  
  
  
  • You should always keep all permanent buffs and effects on "owned" (non-token) characters, regardless of how the character was summoned or how many copies were summoned.
    
  • If multiple copies are summoned (e.g. Mordred + Reduplicator, Phoenix Feather + Mimic, two Romeos, Croc + Copycat) these buffs and effects "merge" back onto the original character at end of brawl.
    
  • This includes quest progress- if any copy completes the quest, the character will upgrade; otherwise, quest progress will be set to the lowest (best) number.
    
  • If you somehow get multiple copies of a character to complete their quests in one brawl, you'll get that many treasures.
    
  • If multiple copies of a Polywoggle transform, the first transformation that the player fully observes will be the one kept permanently. This will be the first Polywoggle that slays and survives; otherwise, the first one that slays and dies.
  
  
• When you triple a quest unit, you now get to keep the quest. (you still get the treasure for tripling and upgrading the character) Quest progress will be set to the lowest (best) number. King Midas can now double quest units in a similar way. (without getting a treasure for the initial doubling, of course)
  
• Buffs from Charon, Coin of Charon, and slay abilities will now apply before any summons that trigger from that character e.g. buffs will apply to a Wombats In Disguise in time to be added to the newly-summoned character.
  
• Fixed a bug where if the opponent's Southern Siren would steal a Captain Croc with an animal inside and you had a Bearstein, that animal would retain the buff if summoned through the stolen croc.
  
• Fixed a bug with Snow Angel where if you cast The End on a character in your far left hand while having a treasure that would copy the spell, it would devour the character gotten from Snow Angels ability
  
• Fixed a bug with Apocalypse where if you cast and copy The End the second instance of the devour effect would occur after Apocalypse's ability causing you to lose a character
  
• Fixed a bug where Echowood wasn't gaining stats from a character that was revived in slot 1 while having a treasure that buffed a character in slot 1 (e.g. Phoenix Feather + Magic Sword +100)
  
• Fixed a bug where if you Croc Bait a character whose alignment has been changed it would come out as its original alignment during the brawl
  
• Fixed a bug where if Polywoggle slayed and survived the attack and you had Bad Moon, the transformed character wouldn't get the +1/+2 buff.
  
• Fixed an issue where if you Kidnapped/Gloves of Thieving a character who completed its quest during the brawl, you would get a quest character with no quest or treasure discovery. You will now be rewarded with an upgraded Quest character with its quest complete and a treasure discovery
  
• Fixed an issue where an Ambrosia'd Echowood wouldn't maintain stats from an Ivory Owl buff if echowood would be transformed during the brawl
  
• Fixed a bug where Hungry Hungry Hippocampus wouldn't maintain any health buffs from animal summons during a brawl if it got transformed
  
• Fixed a bug where if you had Cinder-ella with 1 quest counter left and would cast The End on her while playing as Mihri, King Lion it wouldn't immediately gain a counter
  
• Fixed an issue where some players were unable to make RMT purchases through steam
  
• Our sound systems have been updated - this lays the groundwork for awesome improvements coming soon!
  
  
  
  
  • Note that for now, music is missing during the brawl phase and you'll hear some abrupt transitions during some of the in-game phases, and the timer sound doesn't speed up. This is temporary and will be fixed when we get our new music in.
    
  • Added new SFX for the following effects:
    
    
    
    
    • Frog Prince Transformation
      
    • Shrink Spell
      
    • Magic Buff (e.g. Magic Research )
      
    • Sugar and Spice
  
  
• Several cards' names were changed:
  
  
  
  
  • Skip's Skipping Stone (was Skip's Puzzle Rune)
    
  • Fierceify (was Hugeify)
    
  • Big Book of Spells (was Merlin's Slippers)
    
  • Hermes' Sandals (was Hermes Boots)
    
  • Three of Swords (was Ring of Rage)
    
  • Three of Shields (was Six of Shields)
    

New Heroes

Rumplestiltskin

You start with Spinning Gold. (Double your gold.)

Zippee the Zombee

You get an Evil Twin every 15 enemies you kill. (Create a plain copy of a Good character, but it's Evil!)

New Costume

RagnaROCK

New Card

Fanny

Neutral Dwarf | Level 4 | 4/4
Dwarf Support: +4/+4.

Balance Changes

Wonder Waddle -> now only works with Level 2 Animals.

Empress Pea -> 5/5 (and name change)

Fairy Godmother -> add Mage type

Spinning Gold -> renamed to Reckless Wager

Potion Master's Cookbook -> renamed to Boiling Beaker

Login Flow / Display Name Changes

Known Issues

• After registering, your display name won't show up correctly in some areas of the game. Once you relog, that issue will be fixed.
  
• Tutorial is disabled for this patch so any new players that join will currently be sent to the main menu upon logging in with "I'm new".
  

Mobile Invite Info

Camera adjustments and Board View

Shop camera shift

Player Nameplates

Art Updates

Remastered

Heroes

• Fallen Angel
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Treasures

• Boiling Beaker (was Potion Master's Cookbook)
  
• Crystal Ball
  
• Pandora's Box
  
• Fountain of Youth
  
• Bad Moon
  

Characters

• Aon
  
• Fairy Godmother
  
• The Green Knight
  
• Nian, Sea Terror
  
• Darkwood Creeper
  
• Kitty Cutpurse
  
• Amy
  
• Prized Pig
  

Updated Crops

• Excalibur
  
• Dracula's Saber
  
• Ring of Rage
  
• Deck of Many Things
  
• Ring of Thunder
  
• Fancy Pants
  
• Cloak of the Assassin
  
• Ring of Regeneration
  
• Ring of Meteors
  
• Needle Nose Daggers
  
• Dragon Nest
  
• Dancing Sword
  
• Corrupted Heartwood
  
• Bounty Board
  

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed an issue where the Roll button wouldn't trigger a roll on every press
  
• Fixed a bug with the roll and lock tooltips not displaying on mouse over
  
• Fixed an issue where Groups was giving out crowns for games with less than 8 real players
  
• Candy Rain will now correctly buff characters you got during the previous brawl, and not characters that were transformed during the previous brawl.
  
• If you "It Was All a Dream" into Snow Angel, you now get a Good character of your level immediately.
  
• Fixed issues with not being able to replace treasures when gaining multiple new treasures at the start of a round.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed you to get two of the same treasure if multiple treasure discoveries happened at the start of a round.
  
• Fixed an issue where Empress Pea's Last Breath ability could stop working if you replaced an Evil Eye.
  
• Fixed an issue where Pan's Shadow could get level 2 and 3 shop characters after replacing a Staff of the Old Toad.
  
• Fixed a bug where if you got Staff of the Old Toad through Krampus' Sleigh then "It was all a dream" after your shop could see level 2 and 3 characters again.
  
• Fixed an issue where upon reconnection your next opponent wouldn't be highlighted on the hero leaderboard
  
• Cleaned up what slot cards added to the shop get put in. Most relevant for Fates (with locked shops).
  
• Added an Untapped link to the main menu
  
• We Improved our pairing algorithm by having pairings be round robin until at least 2 players are dead
  
• Improvements and bug fixes for reconnecting to lobbies
  

Overlay

• Hero Guide with general strategy and hero-specific compositions.
  
• Meta tab with most common compositions
  
• Hero select overlay with:
  
  
  • Hero difficulty
    
  • Popular tribes
    
  • Average finish
    
  • Finish distribution

Stats Site

• Hero Tier List with additional stats for advanced users. Using this list, you can view how powerful and how popular each SBB Hero is, alongside their difficulty level and key strategies.
  
• Winning Builds with thousands of searchable final boards, you can see what other people are winning with.

Subscriber Rewards

Links & Resources:

• Untapped.gg Landing Page for Storybook Brawl
  
• Hero Tier List
  
• First Place Builds List
  
• Untapped.gg Premium
  

Your Potential is Untapped

New Art

Remastered

• Sword of Fire and Ice
  
• Lightning Dragon
  
• Wretched Mummy
  
• Bearded Vulture
  

Polish & Crop Updates

• Labyrinth Minotaur
  
• Wizard's Familiar
  
• Trojan Donkey
  
• Princess Wight
  
• Mihri, King Lion
  
• The Fates
  

Group Updates

• Added the ability to disable timers in group games.
  • As a note, players who click battle early will sit on the versus screen until all players have clicked battle.
    
• Added the ability to make lobbies with less than 8 players that do not fill with bots. Bots will still fill to make even numbers.
  

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed a bug that was causing your shop to roll or lock if you released your mouse over those buttons as you sold characters.
  
• Fixed an issue where Cat's Call would incorrectly trigger if your last front row character was one that summoned another character upon death. (For example, if your last front row character is Baby Bear, Cat's Call won't trigger until Mama Bear dies.)
  
• Fixed a bug where The Fates with a destined Polywoggle that slays didn't give the new destined character immediately.
  
• Fixed a bug with an Ambrosia'd Polywoggle that slays and dies was incorrectly reverting to a Polywoggle; now you end up with a permanently Upgraded copy of the transformed character.
  
• Fixed a bug where a mixawizzled Princess Wight would buff dwarves in your next non-locked shop an additional time.
  
• Fixed an issue where Puff Puffs in your shop that got buffed from Gingerbread Party / Feasting Dragon were showing incorrect stats.
  
• Fixed an issue where if you had Crystal Ball & Merlin Slippers with a full hand/board/shop and cast Evil Twin, the shop would fill with a spell instead of your evil twinned character.
  
• Fixed an issue where randomly casted targeted spells didn't display animation when you had Crystal Ball. (This should help you know which spell got cast now!)
  

LSV & Matt Nass discuss the new changes

Balance Changes

Characters

Queen of Hearts -> 1/1

Princess Wight -> 3/5

Amy -> 6/6

Greedy -> 5/9

Angry -> 10/15

Copycat ->2/10

Wombats -> 5/5

Hercules -> 25/25

Boom Hilda -> Gained "Mage" type

Heroes

Xelhua -> 40 Health

Treasures

Radiant Prism -> World Tree

Book of Heroes -> +2/+2

New Cards

Princess Pea - Good Royal Level 6 10/10

I get double bonuses from Supports.
Last Breath: Give the characters Supporting me my Attack and Health this brawl.

New Art

Remastered

• Ring of Regeneration
  
• Dracula's Saber
  
• Labyrinth Minotaur
  
• Deck of Many Things
  
• Needle Nose Daggers
  
• Dancing Sword
  
• Ring of Rage
  
• Ring of Meteors
  
• Corrupted Heartwood
  
• Dragon Nest
  
• Burn Beard (new name of Burning Tree)
  
• Ring of Thunder (new name of Ring of Revenge)
  
• Cloak of the Assassin
  
• The Round Table
  
• Bounty Board
  
• Fancy Pants
  
• Excalibur
  
• Fireball
  
• Lightning Bolt
  
• Flourish
  
• Sugar and Spice
  
• The Singing Sword
  
• Magic Research
  
• Fairy Queen's Wand
  
• Phoenix Feather
  
• Sting
  

Polished

• Trojan Donkey
  
• Shadow Assassin
  
• Wizard's Familiar
  
• Frog Prince
  
• Pup the Magic Dragon
  

Temporary

• Merlin's Slippers (new name of Great Library Card)
  
• World Tree (new name of Radiant Prism)
  

New Features

Emote Selection in Collection

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• No more shared pools. Each player has a personal pool that doesn't empty.
  
  
  • This change was already made for SBB99, and we decided to make it standard across all modes. It simplifies things, and wasn't a key gameplay element.
    
• We did a major refactor of trigger timing, fixing many bugs involving interactions with triggers occurring at the same time:
  
  
  • When two or more characters die simultaneously (Doombreath, Falling Stars, etc.) Phoenix Feather will no longer revive the wrong (smaller) character.
    
  • If Wretched Mummy trades with Soltak Ancient, the Last Breath trigger can now damage characters that were previously protected by Soltak.
    
  • Time Flies should no longer take priority over other summon effects in any scenario.
    
  • Muerte with Copycat will now double the first (leftmost) Last Breath effect.
    
  • With Ring of Meteors/Falling Stars, a full board, and one 1 health character, Trojan Donkey will now properly summon a character into the newly-vacated slot.
    
• Randomly cast targeted spells now trigger "cast directly on me" abilities:
  
  
  • Random spells from Genie's Wish now work with Potion Master.
    
  • Crystal Ball adds a spell and allows casting another spell if Genie's Wish produces a targeted spell.
    
  • Random spells from Genie's Wish and/or Loki can now wake a Sleeping Princess and/or trigger Potion Master's Cookbook.
    
• Fixed a bug with International dates causing errors for players when redeeming Untapped codes.
  
• Fixed an issue with formatting on text for cards not being centered.
  
• Fixed an issue with Giganify's art being pixelated.
  
• Fixed a bug where if you had a Great Library Card and played For Glory! your bonus character wasn't added to shop when you had a full board/hand/shop.
  
• Fixed a bug where Fates destined character was not added to shop if you had Great Library Card and you had a full board/hand/shop.
  
• Fixed an issue with Winningest Hero in Profile not displaying your alt hero costume if you had one.
  
• Added three new Costumes and a new hero frame for Untapped. (More info soon!)