Patch 0.3.4: Imbue, Carve and free upgrades

Patch 0.3.4 reworks how you improve your cards, makes Medea's starter cards stronger, and fixes a crash some graphics cards had with Medea's fireball.

In this update

• Improving your cards
• Medea
• Rules
• On the map and in fights

Improving your cards

• Capturing a Stronghold gives one free upgrade, of any card in your deck. You no longer pay to upgrade while standing on a Stronghold.
• The Smith of Hephaestus upgrades a card for free, once a round. His other ability: Block 34.
• Upgrading uses the usual card row: click a card and it is upgraded, with no Continue button.
• New: Imbue. Beating a Lair gives a free Imbue as well as its 2 Blessings. Pick a card, then one of two keywords for its bottom half: Echo, Twofold, Phoenix, Fated, Aegis, Hydra or Pandora.
• New at a conquered Oracle: Carve a card. For 6 Coins and 1 Blessing of its colour, the card loses its top half and its gem, and its bottom half needs no mana from then on. Once a turn.

Medea

• Her fireball no longer uses two graphics effects that crashed the game on some graphics cards.
• Her starter cards are stronger.
• A Small Price: Move 34. Gain a red BoonYou may take a Wound into your hand to gain a red Blessing.
• Keep the Pain: Attack or Block 34, +1+2 with a Wound in hand.
• Ash for Ash: Attack 2, or discard a Wound for Ranged Fire Attack 3Ranged Fire Attack 3, and you may discard a Wound from your hand for +1.

Rules

• Each Blessing you have left at the end of the game scores 1 point per two1 point, on its own line under Treasure.
• Invoke: when the top card is not a match, it stays face down, so you can still undo. A short animation shows the miss.

On the map and in fights

• The Grove at Eleusis shows the cards it puts back on your deck.
• A ruin you have taken flies your flag, and its night glow goes out.
• Spent Blessings that come back at the end of your turn gather in the middle of the screen, then fly home one by one.
• A Boon now lands in its own seat in the tray.
• Wall Spearmen level their spears at you while you block, then stab. The Citadel Captain stabs with his standard.
• In a city fight, four or five defenders stand closer to the camera.