August 11, 2026
Cinderfang can walk. Your phone can play. We turned traits off, then remembered that was silly.
August 11, 2026
The simple version
Cinderfang can walk now
He walks around and swings his lava axe. Fen and Gearling look like their pictures too.
The game fits on a phone
Buttons and the shop fit in your hand. You can even turn the phone sideways. Opening the shop will not shove the board away.
Some teams were too strong
The same few teams were winning a lot. We made them weaker. Then we turned traits off. That was a bad idea. We turned them back on the next day.
Big day for looking at the board. Cinderfang used to stand there like a statue. Now he walks and swings that lava axe. Fen and Gearling got the same treatment. Fen also dropped a wand and a spellbook he was not using. We do not know why he had those.
If you play on a phone, this one is for you. The shop and the buttons used to look like a tiny computer screen. Now they fit. You can turn the phone sideways. Opening the shop will not shove the board into a corner.
A few teams were showing up in every game. Emberkin, Feywild, Voidborn, Arcanist, Storm. We made them weaker. Then we tried something dumb: we turned traits off to see if games would feel more mixed. They did. They also felt empty. We put traits back the next morning. Our bad.
Champions
New looks and moves. The damage numbers did not change.
Cinderfang
He has his own body now. He idles, he walks, he swings the axe. If he was moonwalking yesterday, that was on us.
- On the boardIdle, walk, and attack, with the lava axe
Fen
Fen looks like Fen: idle, run, slash. The wand and spellbook were leftover junk. Gone.
- On the boardIdle, run, and slash
- Held propsWand and spellbook stripped
Gearling
The little Clockwork shooter finally looks like the portrait. Idle and shoot. That is the whole job.
- On the boardIdle and shoot
Phone
Phone layout
We stopped pretending a phone is a tiny desktop. Landscape counts as a phone too. The board stays put when you open the shop. The settings gear sits above the round timer instead of covering it, and the round name is back where you can read it.
- Phone layoutShop, buttons, and timer built for a hand
- Sideways phoneTreated as a desktopTreated as a phone
- Shop openBoard no longer jumps
Balance
We want more than three teams in every game. We also want those teams to still do something when you hit them.
Hot teams
Emberkin, Duelist, Sharpshooter, Feywild, Voidborn, Arcanist, Glacian, Clockwork, and Storm were in too many winning boards. We cut them. We cut Duelist a little too hard, so we put some back. Tide Mystics got cut in the same pass. Mossbeard got accidentally weak after an Arcanist tweak. He is back on the 3-cost line.
- Hot teamsCuts across Emberkin, Feywild, Voidborn, Arcanist, Storm
- DuelistRestored after we overshot
- MossbeardPut back on the 3-cost line
The trait experiment
Late in the day we turned trait combat off. Games mixed more. They also felt like nobody was on a team. Payoffs come back tomorrow. We are leaving this in the notes so that is not a mystery.
- Trait combatOnOff (back on the next day)