• A new Chronicler's Pass, themed on Set 1's American history: the Revolution, Franklin's lightning and the frontier. Washington leads the season. The free row and the premium row pay exactly the same gold, packs, wildcards, shards and gems as the Founder's Season pass, at the same prices (950 gems, or 1,850 for Deluxe).
• 26 new cosmetics to collect, such as the Kite Spark card treatment, the Franklin's Storm board, the Continental Coat, the Tricorne Hat and the Lightning Crown leader frame. To be upfront: they reuse and recolour art already in the game rather than brand new art.
• Launch week, November 5 to 12: double pass XP on matches and challenges, and a Founder's Farewell gift of 300 gold once you finish a match that week.
• Founder's Season rewards stay yours. Anything you reached on the Founder's Season pass but didn't claim is collected for you automatically when the season ends, and the Founder badge, title and card back are yours forever.
• Silk Roads moves to Season 2.

• How it works: pay an entry of 2,500 gold or 250 gems, choose a Leader from three of the six historical Leaders, then make 30 picks, choosing 1 card from 3 each time. Picks come from Set 1 cards in your Leader's colours. Your deck is topped up to 40 with basic Commons, and you play against the AI until you reach 3 wins or 2 losses.
• Rewards: 1 win pays 200 gold. 2 wins pay 600 gold and an Uncommon wildcard. 3 wins pay a pack and a Rare wildcard.
• Good to know: drafted cards are for that run only and are not added to your collection. Only the end rewards are.

Rules

• 3 copies per deck. A deck can now hold up to 3 copies of any card (was 2).
• Replace when full. Your field still holds 5 characters, but you can now play a character onto a full field. You choose one of your own characters to trash to make room.
• Lightning is now a keyword. Cards that deal damage when played now say "Lightning X" so you can read them at a glance. You will see it on cards like Kite and Key, Zap, Buffalo Bill, Edgar Allan Poe, Molly Pitcher and George Westinghouse.

Cards

• Named partners. Many cards now get better alongside a famous partner. A few examples: John Henry and The Steam Engine, P.T. Barnum and The Circus, Malcolm X and Dr. King, Sally Ann Thunder and Davy Crockett, Thomas Jefferson or Abigail Adams with John Adams, The Queen Anne's Revenge with Blackbeard, and The Constitution with James Madison.
• Charge-first cards. Some Emerald and Garnet cards now reward you for charging before you play them, including Daniel Boone, Corps of Discovery, Bartholomew Roberts, Charles Lee and Spoils of War.
• Item synergies in Gold. Thomas Edison, Finished Product and The Steam Engine now trigger when you play other Items.
• Variety pass. Many cards got new or sharper abilities so each colour has more than one way to win.
• Rarity changes. A handful of cards moved down a rarity to better match how complex they are.

Leaders

We tested every Leader in thousands of AI games and tuned the ones that won too often or too rarely.

• Amelia Earhart: her Adventurers and Pilots still have Explore, but no longer get +1/+0, and her Recover trigger is gone. She was winning far too often.
• Neil Armstrong: lost his Items and Locations discount.
• Devin: your Items now cost 1 less.
• Collin: power 4 to 5.
• Bekah: her Command, Write It Down, now costs 2 (was 3).
• Brody: his Command, Scale for Sale, now costs 3 (was 4).
• Andy: power 5 to 6, and his Flash ability now costs 2 crystals (was 3).
• Phillip: his Command, Objection!, now costs 4 (was 3).
• Josh: his Command, The Mending Room, now costs 4 (was 3) and no longer Recovers Life. His power stays at 5. This change mostly tames him in Free-for-All.

Economy and rewards

• New pack prices. Packs now cost 4,400 gold or 440 gems. You can still open free packs from rewards.
• Wildcards. Pull a 4th copy of a card and it becomes a wildcard of that rarity. Spend wildcards to craft any card of the same rarity, so nothing you pull goes to waste.
• Gems to gold. You can trade gems for gold in the Store (100 gems = 1,000 gold). There is no gold to gems trade.
• A bigger season pass. The Chronicler's Pass was redesigned with more gold and wildcards on both the free and premium rows.
• Starter deck guarantee. Every account always owns a full, legal deck, so you can jump into a match any time.

• The First Chapter. New players now start with four guided battles that teach the game one idea at a time, with rewards along the way.
• Choose your first deck. After the First Chapter, pick one of five ready-made decks, one for each colour. You keep it forever.
• A calmer hub. Features unlock as you play instead of all at once, with short pointers the first time you visit each one.
• AI difficulty. Choose Easy, Normal or Hard when you play the AI. Easy is the default.
• Accounts with email. Sign up with an email, a username and a password, and use recovery codes if you ever get locked out. Existing accounts can add an email.
• Friends. Add friends, see who is online and invite them to a match in one tap.
• Install it like an app. Lost Chapters can now be installed from your browser on desktop and phone.
• The Chronicler's Pass. The season track grew into a 50-level pass with a free row for everyone and an optional premium row. Everything on it is cosmetic, currency or packs; no card is exclusive to the pass, and its packs hold the same cards anyone can open.
• Clearer battles. Combat is easier to read, with better pacing and motion.
• Card text clean-up. We checked every card's text against what it actually does and fixed the ones that did not match.