The Punished patch (10 November 2026): every balance change

The 10 November 2026 patch shipped with The Punished DLC and changed eight cards, one Pyre Heart and boss immunity; everything else is a fix. Shiny Shoe’s notes give no version number; the community wiki files the changes as 3.0.0.

Balance changes

Clan	Card	Before	After
Banished	Martyr’s Signet	Health gain 6	Health gain 8
Hellhorned	Horned Warrior	15 Attack	20 Attack
Hellhorned	Shardtail Queen	Imp Toss ignored Spell Shield	Imp Toss respects Spell Shield and has Piercing
Stygian Guard	Guard of the Unnamed	25 Health, no Armor, Incant: +3 Armor	20 Health, 20 starting Armor, Incant: +4 Armor
Melting Remnant	Formless Child	2 Ember	1 Ember
Melting Remnant	Exploding Candle	Undocumented Piercing	Piercing removed
Railforged	Pyre Steward	No ability	Pyre Blast: 3-turn cooldown, deals 3 damage to your Pyre and damage equal to the Pyre’s Attack to enemies on its floor
Awoken	Restoration Detonation	Not a damage spell	Counts as a damage spell for Conduit Tethys and similar effects
Pyre Hearts	Heart of the Pact	Did not work in Deployment	Works in the Deployment phase
Enemies	All bosses	Could be made Immobile	Immune to Immobile

The two largest shifts for strategy: Pyre Steward now turns a high-Attack Pyre Heart into floor damage every third turn, and bosses can no longer be made Immobile, so Imprison’s Immobile now only holds ordinary enemies.

Fixes that change how cards play

• Melting Remnant: Rector Flicker’s Dark Calling no longer puts cards into the draw pile when your hand is full, and cannot be used with a full hand. Encased Ember now triggers when a Tomb unit dies with Reanimate.
• Wurmkin: Echo Seedling no longer puts cards into the draw pile with a full hand.
• Underlegion: Rally triggered one time too many the first time a Funguy stack was created on a floor; that extra trigger is gone. World-ending Strain now always applies to enemies.
• Railforged: Molten Manifold’s effect no longer doubles when copied by Spellchain. Smelting merged equipment now grants Ember and Forge Points.
• Stygian Guard: Ancient Synergy now counts consumed spells from your deck. Kinstone Totem’s text now says it triggers when a unit, spell or artifact discarded a card that turn.
• Clanless artifacts: Crystallized Wing no longer freezes discounted Spellchain copies costing under 3 Ember, and no longer strips Permafrost when combined with Freezestone. Sketches of Salvation summons now trigger Rally.
• Status effects: Frostpiercer and Plague Doctor now apply their stacks to every enemy hit by a Sweep when the last target survives through Fate Link (for example Entropy at 1 Health). Ephemeral now works on cards given temporary Consume by Returned Soul or Gifts for a Guard.
• Events: Clipped Wings upgrades can no longer go on Immobile units. Dusk Mantle granted through Red Crown no longer applies twice on New Moon turns outside Luna Coven runs.
• Shops: rerolls no longer show duplicate upgrades, and Holystone can be applied to a spell whose base cost was reduced to 0.

Fixes to the Titans fight and progression

• The Titans victory crown no longer appears for a champion that only beat the Titans below Covenant 10 after the clan’s other champion won at Covenant 10.
• Daily Challenges no longer appear expired in some languages and regions, and run history no longer creates challenges that need DLC you have uninstalled.
• A softlock when resuming a save that closed as the Pyre was dying is fixed, as is one where the boss kill camera played during your turn after a Trample attack (reported most with Sentry Turret).

The patch also updated the soundtrack with all post-launch songs, added a DLC banner to the Covenant Outpost and improved the Mac app icon.