13th Edition

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It's time for a spooky update! 13th Edition is very similar to 12th Edition, but makes some tweaks to help make the gameplay flow more smoothly and reward stalling behaviors significantly less. Unfortunately, one of the changes necessitated making this a clean slate edition, so old cards have been invalidated. The following changes have been made since 12th Edition:

• Added a mechanic called "piercing damage", which inflicts any excess damage that would have been inflicted to a minion to its controller instead. This prevents 0 HP minions from functioning as walls and causes most battles to advance the overall game state in some way.
• Removed blowback damage when attacking directly, as this was a disincentive to attacking in some cases. The only damage the attacker takes now is piercing damage, which can be strategically maximized by the victim but doesn't include excess dice.
• When the victim of an attack is a minion and dice are left over after the minion is destroyed, the victim's controller now takes damage equal to the remaining dice, as if the player were the victim.
• Removed the reserves mechanic. While it was interesting on paper, in practice, it was a little too flexible and in practice only served to delay the outcome of games sooner, while at the same time diminishing the importance of proper deck building.
• Removed the traps mechanic. Traps were inspired by trap cards in Yu-Gi-Oh, but in practice only served as a way to delay costs, and were never all that fun of a mechanic.
• Added a mulligan rule: once, at the start of the game, each player can bury any number of cards in their hand and then draw that same number of cards. This replaces the real utility the reserves had.
• The graveyard has been renamed to the "grave" to shorten card texts.
• Doubled the cost of drawing and bouncing cards.
• Updated all cards in both starter decks to fit better with the changes, making both of them more aggressive and improving cards' usefulness.

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This discussion was created from the release 13th Edition.