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With every new patch, there is a public data file released that contains all the data concerning the cards in the game. This data doesn't always reflect exact functionality, but it does often contain changes that don't make it to patch notes. This patch had a few more interesting ones than usual, so here they are.

Flavour text changes

The following cards have apparently had their flavour text changed. These sound more like the reward track bios for these champions than flavour texts, so I'm not sure what they're doing on cards. These strange changes in the community data may not reflect actual changes within the game, but I don't know why else they would be edited. It's particularly odd that Whimsy was changed but not Lulu's Whimsy. EDIT: As u/EmpressTeemo pointed out in the comments, the three champs that seemed changed are also the ones featured in the new Lab, so these shouldn't reflect any card changes. Hopefully!

Trundle (lvl 2)

The Avarosans refused. Trundle gestured, and, like an avalanche, the trolls descended with such momentum that it carried them on for miles afterward, deep into the Avarosan tribelands, battering and breaking everything in their path without reserve.=>Trundle is the savage king of trolls who dominates the Freljord with his fierce and hardy troll army.

Whimsy!

"Adoribus!" - Lulu=>The yordle mage Lulu supports her pals and squirrelifies her foes with her own unique brand of magic.

Aurelion Sol (lvl 1)

"I don't care what you write about me, you middling creature! Just make sure I'm described as handsome. And magnificent. And also very, very intelligent. Can you spell that?"=>Aurelion Sol is an ancient cosmic dragon who has forged countless stars and planets. From Targon's peak he plots the destruction of the... "middling" world of Runeterra.

Dev cards

Several new uncollectible cards were added to the public data files. These new cards have recycled artwork, nonsensical wording, and "dev_[cardname]" instead of a cardcode. I suspect these were testing cards for the upcoming Lab, or possibly even the Lab cards themselves, though that seems unlikely to me since Lab cards have never appeared in the public data before.

https://preview.redd.it/uo5axhzhv4q51.png?width=3400&format=png&auto=webp&s=966a0ab5ad477d6dbb55687ab2a5b4391c3b3b1c

Miscellaneous

Unspeakable Horror and Ravhun now specify that they make non-champion cards. Also Revitalizing Roar is clearer and Monkey Business and Jack, the Winner are shorter. That's nice.

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Originally posted by EmpressTeemo

If you check the patch notes closely you'll see that the Single Player Lab features Lulu, Trundle, and Aurelion Sol, which means these three texts are the description texts for the Lab gamemode and less likely changes to the flavour texts

Correct!

The Labs team moves real fast to try new things quickly, and we expect some bumps and bruises and bugs along the way. This was our first time incorporating main set card content into a Lab... and... as you can see, there was a glitch or two. Sorry for the confusion!

We'll fix up with the next release. In the meantime, check out those sweet prototype cards... once upon a time we used random pictures of cats from the internet for our dev cards, but stopped in case we accidentally shipped any of them. Kind of exactly like this.