GamePatchNote Digest
Cards & Tankards Patch Notes — May 5, 2026
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
ADDED
- New Avatar Model: Added the Cat Person player avatar model.
- Animated Outfits: Added animated versions of the 3 new expansion outfits (these will be available exclusively in the weekly rotating outfit shop).
UPDATED
- Account Creation & Sign-In: Streamlined the onboarding process. Removed the double-entry confirmation fields for emails and passwords. Consolidated the email login into a single, less confusing page with updated button labels ("Continue" instead of "Sign In", "Back" instead of "Cancel").
- Customizations UI: Reversed the outfit sorting order so the newest outfits are shown at the top and older ones at the bottom.
- Cry for Numbers: Removed the "Innate" keyword from the card text.
BALANCE CHANGES
- Heirloom Enchantment: Ability changed to "Give a friendly creature +2/+2. Enhance: Also 'Last Word: Add a base cantrip Heirloom Enchantment to your hand' for 2 Coins."
- Lavoraad Whelp: Self-damage reduced from 2 to 1.
- Pickpocket: Base effect now steals 2 cards. Enhance removed.
- Beneficial Agreement: Blocked life gain increased from 2 to 3.
- Mystic Envisioner: Ability now activates from any Activates.
- Big Game Poacher: Enhance removed. Health raised from 4 to 5.
- Pillaging Prince: Health raised from 2 to 3. Enhance cost/buff reduced from "+0/+2 for 2 Coins" to "+0/+1 for 1 Coin".
- Wanted Notice: Enhance cost reduced from 2 to 1.
- Talisman of Might: Sparks increased from 4 to 5.
- Sunlight Elemental: Buff changed from +1/+1 to +2/+0.
- Nullmage: Mana cost reduced from 6 to 5.
- Sunfire Evoker: Ability condition reduced from 5+ to 4+.
- Pact of Non-Aggression: Condition adjusted from 5 life to 4 life.
- Vengeful Empath: Enrage buff increased from +1/+0 to +2/+0.
- Dark Matter Devastator: Ability self-damage reduced from 3 to 2.
- Lunareal's Light: Enrage health gain raised from 2 to 3.
- Field Bureaucrat: Ability changed to "After you cast your second spell in a turn, draw a card."
- Elemental Reign: Ability changed to "When a friendly Elemental is targeted by an opponent, deal 1 direct damage."
- Barony Socialite: Enhance changed to "Gain Multiblocker for 2 Coins."
- Corrupted Current: Buff raised from +1/+0 to +1/+1.
- Corpse Retrieval: Second ability changed to "Otherwise, Shift an Undead creature from your Graveyard to the bottom of your Deck."
- Cursed Coffer: Given ability separated into "Deathblow: Gain +2/+0" and "After this deals direct damage, gain a Coin."
FIXED
- VR first boot locomotion settings defaulting snap turn to 15 and smooth turn to 30 (now correctly defaults to 45 snap and 90 smooth).
- Collection book filter for "7+" mana only showing 7 mana creatures instead of 7 and above.
- Private Room restrictions while in Ranked matches failing to show the visual indicator that a player cannot hear you.