PATCH NOTES
\New expansion releases generally do not include actual card patches/updates unless they are hotfixes like with Leesin's case*
For anyone who missed any of the reveals free feel to check here!
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Prismatic Card Styles & Essence
Along with Cosmic Creation, Patch 1.16 introduces Prismatic Card Styles - a new way to customize your favorite cards in your collection.
Each of your cards can be upgraded to a Prismatic in a few different ways; the process upgrades all of that card’s copies in your collection, present and future. No need to upgrade 3 copies of each to get a full set:
- Prismatic Chests: There are various qualities of Prismatic Chests; opening one allows you to choose one of three cards to upgrade to Prismatic, along with some Essence (explained below). Prismatic Chests can be earned through new Card Styles Quests (separate from current Daily Quests), and they’ll be included as Ranked Rewards at the end of a Season. The higher your rank, the more / better Prismatic Chests you’ll receive - these rewards will be first implemented for the end of Cosmic Creation’s Ranked Season.
- Essence: A new resource, earnable from Prismatic Chests, Essence Pouches, and Quests. Shown in the example above, Essence can be used in your collection to upgrade your card of choice to a Prismatic. Essence prices vary based on card type, from Common to Champion.
- Coins: Like Essence, Coins can be used to directly upgrade a card of your choice to a Prismatic.
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Special Lab: Multilab
Heimerdinger's Lab has expanded to make more room for science, with three times the experimentation! Each experiment is a new way to play. Try them all, find your favorites, and tell us what you think!
This is a permanent Lab expansion! Moving forward, there will be multiple Labs available at a given time. Every once in a while, one of the Labs on the list will be rotated out for a new Lab, so there’s always something new to discover!
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Expeditions
For Cosmic Creation we’re adding four new archetypes to the Expeditions pool, featuring the new champions and strategies highlighted in this expansion.
- Four new Cosmic Creation archetypes added to the Expeditions draft pool.
- Awesome Augments: Viktor and Zoe work together to create lots of cards and potentially (not *always* guaranteed in the archetype!) summon a giant Catastrophe.
- Blades and Buffs: archetype based around enhancing your units featuring Riven and Taric.
- Augmented Assault: bonus archetype based around Riven’s blade fragments powering up Viktor’s Augmented creations.
- Vault of Crowns: Garen and Thresh bonus archetype revolving around The Grand Plaza and Vaults of Helia.
- Cosmic Creation archetypes will temporarily be three times as likely as they would otherwise be to appear in the initial Champion Picks. We’ll even out these chances in a later patch.
- Cards from Cosmic Creation have been added to various appropriate archetypes.
- We’re also retiring two bonus archetypes: Cataclysm and Crimson Guard. This means that each region will have exactly two bonus archetypes in the Cosmic Creation format.
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Emotes
- 4 new emotes available for purchase in the store.
Bundles
- The Zaun Bundle is now available for 1422 Coins. Bundle includes:
- The Undercity Board
- Nyandroid Von Yipp Guardian
- Bundle-exclusive Calculated Creations Icon
Deck Bundles
The Forged For Battle Bundle is now available for 2034 Coins (prorated for any excess card copies based on your existing collection). Bundle includes a collection of cards focused on combat buffs and combos to make the most of Riven and Taric’s abilities._________________________________________________________________________________________________
Miscellaneous
The patching upgrades mentioned in the Patch 1.15 notes will be live with Patch 1.16. An additional 200mb download will be required for this patch, and patching should be significantly faster for future patches.
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Bugfixes
- Eclipse Dragon cost reduction is no longer consumed by Celestial spells
- Vladimir's level 2 attack effect no longer fizzles if Vladimir is removed from combat
- Several text updates to improve consistency