GamePatchNote Digest
Cards & Tankards Patch Notes — February 23, 2026
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
ADDED
- New Ashes of Ur-Enku Cards: Trained Fangstalker, Tribal Waykeeper, Primordial Catalyst, Punitive Peacekeeper, and Recursive Redeployment.
UPDATED
- VR Tutorial: Added a ghost hand visual to demonstrate how to grab the tavern door handle during tutorials.
BALANCE CHANGES
- Grand Tutoring: Mana cost reduced by 1.
- Alkar: No longer causes life loss per spell cast.
- Dreadful Drain: Mana reduced from 2 to 1.
- Improvised Medic: Attack raised from 0 to 1, Life gained when Mobilized reduced from 2 to 1.
- Gelatinous Mass: Ability changed to: "Entrance: Give all creatures in your Reserves +1/+0. Mobilized: Give all creatures in your Reserves +0/+1."
- Righteous Bannerman: Health reduced from 3 to 2.
- Exit Strategist: Mana Cost raised from 2 to 3, Attack raised from 2 to 3.
- Loyal Spellshaper: Attack raised from 2 to 3.
- Veil of Shadows: Now marks 3 creatures instead of 2.
- Aetherial Rift: Ability changed to: "Shuffle 3 Surges into your Deck and gain 4 Mana. Devotion: Shuffle 5 instead."
- Surge (Boon): Ability changed to: "When drawn, gain a Mana Fragment. Draw another card."
- Devilish Larceny: Ability changed to: "Fetch (Innate non-Legendary) from the opponent’s Deck and steal it. Enhance: Costs 1 less Mana for 1 Coin."
FIXED
- Dante appearing above the card popup in VR.