GamePatchNote Digest
Cards & Tankards Patch Notes — April 21, 2026
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
ADDED
- Casual Matchmaking: Added a new "Queue Casual" runestone next to the Ranked queue. Matches are based on Account Level (capped at 1,000), starting at a +/- 50 level delta and expanding by +/- 100 levels per minute. After 5 minutes in queue, the system will match you against anyone. Casual matches do not affect rank and are open to new players.
UPDATED
- Haven Doors: Door routing now prioritizes joining a haven where a friend is present, followed by the haven with the most active players.
- Hidebearer Huntress: Text changed to "Mobilize X or less except Hidebearer Huntress, where X is the number of friendly Nomads."
- Tormerralian Turncoat: Text adjusted to remove unnecessary "summoned" phrasing.
BALANCE CHANGES
- Altaran's Armory: Mana cost reduced from 5 to 4.
- Gold Pilferer: Stats swapped from 1/2 to 2/1.
- Barbed Bladeflinger: Attack reduced from 4 to 3 and gained Quickstrike.
- Loyal Spellshaper: Now an Undead and Attack raised from 3 to 4.
- Bighorn Packbeast: Health reduced from 6 to 5.
- Boomstick Ranger: Attack raised from 4 to 5.
- Flaming Arrow: If the target is marked, it now also deals 1 damage to an adjacent target.
- Sneaky Saboteur: Gained Loophole.
- Nakoma: Attack raised from 2 to 3.
- Equilibrium: Mana cost reduced from 5 to 4.
- Global Promotions: Now has Reservable.
- Dungeon Instigator: Attack raised from 1 to 2.
- Primordial Catalyst: Stats granted buffed from +1/+1 to +2/+1.
- Traveling Medic: Can now target non-Innate creatures.
- Recursive Redeployment: Mana cost reduced from 7 to 6.
- Royal Filibuster: Removed Doomed.
- Herald of Yanesse: Mana cost reduced from 2 to 1, stats changed to 2/1. Ability changed to "Sacrificed: Add a random Shard of Yanesse to your hand, then it loses 1 spark."
- Systematic Subjugation: Mana cost raised from 1 to 2. Damage increased from 3 (Devotion 5) to 4 (Devotion 6).
- Thalassor: Entrance ability changed to "If you have 10+ different 8 Mana or less creatures in your Reserves, Mobilize 8 or less 8 times."
FIXED
- Barbed Bladeflinger displaying incorrect tooltips.
- Artifact Corroder playing its death animation too slowly.