v1.1.9: Moving Clockwise

Glaives

After some playtesting with glaives in the live server, I still don't really like how they are playing, especially Ricochet which has too big a gap between its floor and ceiling.

As such, the entire glaive line has been reworked this patch.

Future Design Space

While I feel that Aethermancer is in a great place right now with a lot of meat in it already, I want to continue to make new cards and explore new design space. Here's what I have in mind for new mechanics in v1.2:

Regeneration: A new counter that players can have. Each counter of regeneration gives you +1hp at the start of each turn.

Ritual of the Healer line: Ritual of the Healer will no longer be a core, and be available as a new ranked spell, likely in restorer.

Pyramid: A new ritual that gives you regeneration every turn.

Regeneration Burn: A new effect of spells, that modifies to opponent with negative regeneration, causing them to lose life at the start of their turns. These will probably be found in evoker.

Poisonous: A new keyword on creatures. When a creature with poisonous deals damage to a creature, it is modified with -1 attack and loses some life. When it deals damage to a player, the player is modified with -1 regeneration.

But, to avoid some balance issues with ! attack, we need to first change some game rules.

! Attack

As it's well known, attack modifying effects are far more powerful on ! creatures than other creatures. As such, from this patch onwards, any modification to ! attack only lasts for one attack.

With this in mind, a few balance changes need to be made:

Empower: [43] -> [45], and no longer banned with E4.

Magic Hydra (Neutral 6): Removed from the game.

Was:

Card(AETHER, 6, "Magic Hydra", 1, 14,
     tar="Modify me with +1 attack.",
     attack_all=True, bonus=7)

Hasten (Chronomancer 5) is becoming a new splitline:

(Formerly: @ ally is modified with +1 attack. It immediately attacks twice.)

Other Balance

Cards are looking pretty balanced according to the stats I have. Glaive Ricochet Rank 7 was overperforming, but it got reworked.

Rifleman (Banisher 4): 3/10 -> 3/11

v1.2 is going to be quite a big update, so expect about a week for me to make it.

I've also adjusted the AI random decks to ensure that all decks have at least 1 card with cost 6 or greater.