Hi folks, Merakon from Dire Wolf here.
Today, we pushed some text changes into the game. Most of these text changes are just meant to improve card clarity. Many of the changes are based on your feedback. For example, here is a card that changed: Raiding Party.
Raiding Party previously said “Draw two 1/1 Nord Firebrands.”
Raiding Party now says “Put two 1/1 Nord Firebrands into your hand.”
We made this change based on feedback where some players weren’t sure if cards like this drew the cards from your deck or from “nowhere.” We believe the new text makes it clearer.
We also have some other plans in motion dealing with creature types. We’re planning to break up some creature types into more flavorful “tribes” so to speak. Undead is one of these creature types. We are planning to break up Undead into the following subtypes: Skeletons, Vampires, Spirits, and Mummies. We believe there are several benefits to breaking up the Undead into these subtypes. One such example is the Night Shadow card. We believe that adding the word “Vampire” this card will not only add clarity to the card concept but also establishes design space for future Vampire-based mechanical connectivity.
But in our haste to get the text improvements out to the live environment, we inadvertently pushed a change to the game text of Bone Colossus that doesn’t make sense until the Undead are broken up into different subtypes. So, we are going to undo the text change of Bone Colossus and hold that back until we are prepared to push out different Undead subtypes.
As some of you have asked, if Bone Colossus is changing to buff only Skeletons and not all Undead, will this be considered a “nerf” worthy of soul gem reimbursement. The answer is: yes. When we do officially make this change in the future, any players who crafted Bone Colossus will be allowed to soul trap those copies for full Soul Summon value (1200 soul gems).
I should note, to be clear, that we consider the upcoming change to Bone Colossus to be a flavor-based change, not a change because we had concerns about its power level. And there will still be about half a dozen Skeletons in the card file that Bone Colossus can buff, including the Draugr.
