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Take a look at the aggressive pirates of Runeterra’s Bilgewater expansionPlay close to your chest
Play close to your chest
Watch out. Pirates about.Legends Of Runeterra’s first expansion comes out this Thursday, packing a new faction, 120 new cards, 11 new champions, and a couple of cosmetic mascots I actually care about for once. Thursday is also when the game sails out of open beta, launching for realises with patch 1.0. It’s coming out for mobile phones on Thursday, too.
Developers Riot Games have already shipped out some info about how the new cards work, so let’s dig in.
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The six new keywords play into that. Playing cards with “Attune” give you one spell mana, while “Scout” units replenish your attack token if you don’t attack with any other unit type. “Plunder” cards, meanwhile, grant a bonus effect if you play them after damaging your opponent’s nexus. Nice bit of the ol' thematic resonance, there. It’s neat when card games manage to sneak that in to abstract math tussles.
You can check out the new cards for yourselfhere, if you fancy some theorycrafting. Here’s a video highlighting Miss Fortune, and her many rascals.
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And here are the version 1.0patch notesin full.
I’m still dipping into Runeterra,while I wait for Artifact 2.0 to cook. I’ve taken to playing aggressive rush decks, because I am impatient. Trying to beat these new pirates with Draven the aggressive axe man could be interesting.
There are also new emotes, which will hopefully toethe same line of playful rudenessas the starting set. The best part of the new stuff is this good boy, though. He’s one of two new mascots that pootle around in the bottom left. The other is an exploding monkey, which is a decent effort, but can’t top this fella.
D’aww. He doesn’t know he’s evil.
