The Gauntlet will open every Friday through Monday, with each weekend featuring a single format from the Gauntlet rotation. Gauntlets are limited-time competitive modes with unique deckbuilding rules. We hope you enjoy the changes I covered along with the other balance adjustments, and can’t wait to see how they inspire your deckbuilding! Thank you for your continued feedback on how we can continue to improve LoR’s gameplay.

This kind of effect now also has a dedicated keyword, Nab, which reads “Draw a non-champion card from the bottom of the enemy deck.” We felt general champion viability and appeal was a particular culprit, and have made changes to Braum and Anivia to make them more attractive options for a wider variety of decks and help Freljord line up better with the other regions in usability.įinally, we’ve adjusted Bilgewater’s steal-from-deck mechanic to work in a more healthy way by drawing cards from the bottom of the enemy deck, rather than the top. While it's seen a bit more play recently, it’s often splashed for a few specifically powerful cards (like Sejuani) rather than a general regional toolbox. For this patch, we’ve adjusted underutilized Epic cards from each region with the goal of reinvigorating them for all levels of play, and we hope you find homes for them in some of your decks!įreljord as a region has seen a relatively low playrate for some time, particularly in higher ranked play. This can make for some really fun or game-changing options, but also leave some of them feeling overly expensive or unwieldy to use.

In addition to our normal commitment to game balance and metagame diversity, many of the card changes in this patch (particularly the rework-level ones) are part of more focused efforts to address issues or opportunities across several groups of cards-specifically Epics, Freljord, and steal-from-deck effects.Įpics in LoR are generally intended to be exciting cards with compelling, unique, and powerful effects.

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