This update brings the card total over 60 with 6 new cards. Three of these cards, “Pickpocket”, “Cruel divination” and “Improvise”, play well with the new version of “Third eye opens”, allowing you to take full advantage of the visible draw pile.

There are also a few card tweaks. “Shield bash” and “Radiant burst” tend to be hard synergies to get going, so they’ve been made a bit more powerful. The effect of “Embed spikes” now stacks, so if your shield already counters with damage, it will counter with yet more after playing this card now.

Along with some more balancing tweaks, the difficulty curve should be a bit more under control. That means you may soon see one of the final bosses, and when you manage to win, you will find a final story vignette to tie a nice bow around your run.

I would love to hear what you think of it all when you have played.

Here’s a complete list of all the changes:

• You now get a final story vignette after beating the final boss (thanks to fredo46 for the suggestion).
• Added a few new cards:
  • Pickpocket (0AP, common): Steal the top card from your foe’s draw pile.
  • Cruel divination (1AP, common): Draw a card. Do damage equal to its cost.
  • Improvise (1AP, uncommon): Play the top card of your draw pile.
  • Expand mind (1AP, rare): Increase your max AP by 1.
  • Soul trap (Unplayable, rare): When hit, steal all your foe’s AP and gain 1 more. (Thanks to @edbaueris for his help and inspiration)
  • Fire trap (Unplayable, loot from Kobold): When hit, burn one of the cards in your foe’s hand.
• “Shield bash” and “Radiant burst” now does 1 additional point of damage.
• The damage gained on shields with “Embed spikes” now stacks (Thanks again to @edbaueris for bringing up stacking).
• “Barter for power” now gives away all your AP instead of only as much as your opponent can receive, so you essentially always draw as many cards as your AP + 1.
• Added the missing “Healing rain” card to draft tiers and increased its duration to 4 turns.
• The “Clairvoyant” setting in custom runs now reveals all cards instead of only the opponent’s hand.
• “Third eye opens” will, when played by your opponent, no longer reveals any cards to you.
• Improved the card text of “Shield”, “Raise the dead”, “Necrotic blast”, “Fishy chest” and “Shared suffering”.

Have fun!