Balance Changes — July 2024 (Season 61)
An all-nerf patch reining in the new Goblin Queen's Journey cards alongside Tesla, Dagger Duchess, and the charge mechanics of Prince and Ram Rider.
Every change this month was a nerf. The three Goblin cards introduced with the Goblin Queen's Journey mode in June — Goblin Curse, Goblin Demolisher, and Goblin Machine — all came down after a dominant first few weeks.
Prince and Ram Rider had their charge distance requirement lowered from 3 to 1.5 tiles in June; this patch walked part of that back, settling both at 2 tiles.
Nerfs
(8)
- Radius: 4 → 3 tiles (-25%)
- Damage amplification: 35% → 20%
Second consecutive nerf to its damage amplification after launching at 50%.
- Death damage: 465 → 404 (-13%)
- Death damage radius: 3 → 2.5 tiles
- Hit speed: 1.1s → 1.2s
- Hitpoints: 2598 → 2196 (-15%)
- First hit speed: 0.2s → 0.5s
- Charge distance requirement: 1.5 → 2 tiles
Partial revert of June's charge-distance buff.
- Damage: 230 → 220 (-4%)
- Hit speed: 1.1s → 1.2s
- Evolution shield hitpoints: 371 → 296 (-20%)
Targets the Wizard Evolution only; the base card was untouched.
- Dagger recharge period: 0.8s → 0.9s
- Hit speed: 0.35s → 0.45s
Slows both her burst output and how quickly she refills daggers.