- CNC ULTIMATE Beta Test! - 10 August 2025
Good news everyone! Cards and Castles ULTIMATE will have a public beta test the weekend of August 23rd! Our newest Cards and Castles game is absolutely awesome, and has crazy new features like free drafts, ranked wagers, graveyards, a single player story campaign and more. You can find out more about the new game, and request access to our upcoming Playtest, on store our page here:
- New Cards! - 1 September 2024
New City of Gods mini set released! Collect 18 new cards in a convenient bundle. PATCH NOTES Yaarhym Lightning: 3g -> 4g War Elephant: 5g -> 6g End of Days: 8g -> 9g Shiva: 7/7 -> 7/5
- Tournament Annoucement - 11 August 2024
Tournament-Updates August 11th, 2024 1:30 PM PST (in 10 days) will see another new installment in our tournament series! THE AUGUST INVITATIONAL For Signups please follow the instruction on Tourney Bot in tournaments . We will be using this bot for our brackets and scorekeeping so make sure you can also check in on discord during this event! Signups will remain open until the event is underway CHECK-IN WILL BE OPEN FROM 1:00PM PST (in 10 days) TO 1:45 PM PST (in 10 days) IF YOU MISS THIS YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED Format: This tournament is a best of 1, double elimination tournament. The finals between the loser’s bracket and winners are a best of 3, with the winner's tournament player starting +1 set (Super Smash Bros style rules). Matches will be held in a single lobby. Game Rules: There are none! As long as you show up to your match, you can play whatever deck you want, and switch the…
- July Updates - 11 July 2024
We're opening up this season with a reversion of the ranking system and a small but important balance patch. Ranks will now use the original star and medal system for the foreseeable future. This shift back is based on community feedback and our own analysis of the new system. While the point system had some interesting upsides and the leaderboards were cool for some players, we felt we rushed the system overall and didn't give it enough clarity of polish. The star system has much more intuitive incremental goals for all players to strive for, and we love hearing how excited players are when they reach a new division. Unfortunately this revert means that, for now, public leaderboards will not be visible. We will be investigating smaller more incremental changes or upgrades to the existing system in the future rather than an overhaul. Card changes: - Zeus: 8g -> 9g, 6/5 -> 5/4 - Heavencl…
- New Weekly Leaderboard! - 2 June 2024
We just released the weekly leader boards! This is your chance to ego lift and show off to your friends! You can see the top 100 and this will replace the previous rankng system. You can get the badges based on your score e.g. gold badget above 600 points.
- Free Draft Weekend! - 19 May 2024
- May Ranked Season - 2 May 2024
Our ranks have reset, and the new season starts today. Climb the ladder with all new cards from City of the Gods! The meta is still developing and we're exciting to see which decks can best climb the ladder! Join our discord and submit your latest deck ideas or talk with the community to trade builds and archetypes: https://discord.gg/exsWkYQ9 Visit our YouTube or CyberBob's for the latest about the game and our most recent events. https://www.youtube.com/c/CardsandCastles https://www.youtube.com/@RobertDelPapa
- PLIGHT OF THE PANTHEON - 27 April 2024
April 28th, 2024 2:00 PM PST (in 2 days) will see a new tournament for a new era of Cards and Castles 2! Do you have the strength to conquer the PLIGHT OF THE PANTHEON Signup here: https://tourneybot.gg/tourneys/34975?utm_medium=tourneybot&utm_source=register Twitch link: https://www.twitch.tv/redmaster787 Format: This tournament is a best of 1, double elimination tournament. The finals between the loser’s bracket and winners are a best of 3, with the winner's tournament player starting +1 set (Super Smash Bros style rules). Matches will be held in a single lobby. Game Rules: There are none! As long as you show up to your match, you can play whatever deck you want, and switch the deck at any time. There are no bans whatsoever! Rules: Please be timely. We will attempt to reach out to players who do not show, but they will be removed after a 5 minute delay from their match. Don’t be a jer…
- City of Gods Now Available - 18 April 2024
The gods are invading Lyndris! Prepare now for our first major expansion, featuring over 100 new cards to collect! Harness the destructive power of ZEUS, THOR and other gods alongside NEW DRAGONS and other legendary characters! This expansion introduces the new SANCTIFY keyword; sanctify cards can be upgraded in your hand for a price, giving flexibility between cheaper or more expensive plays. New units can also have the REGENERATE combat keyword, allowing them to survive and recover from one source of damage. Log in now to receive free City of Gods card packs!
- 3/7 Major Overhaul + Draft Mode - 7 March 2024
- We've deployed a MAJOR gameplay overhaul! Enjoy a tightly balanced game with more impactful cards and powerful mechanics. - DRAFT MODE has been unlocked! Build a deck on the fly and compete for prizes in this fun new game mode. More details will be posted soon.
- Major Revamp almost complete! - 16 February 2024
We are almost finished testing our major revamp of the game, and we couldn't be more excited! This patch will be our largest redesign ever, making use of all the lessons learned from launch and our previous content update to prepare the game for a strong future with more releases. While full patch notes are not yet finalized, we wanted to explain some key points ahead of the update and what our intent is around them. These changes are within the context of a rigorously tested full game retune and card overhaul, with some significant updates to individual faction gameplay as well. Within that, we've changed a few very important things we'd like to share: Early game aggression has been MASSIVELY nerfed; defensive options are much cheaper and easier to run in a well balanced deck, many early game options now allow you to build board while prepping resources for the future, and most critica…
- Rebalance Preview - Overview - 23 January 2024
What's up gamers! Today I am happy to showcase a high level overview of the upcoming balance and mechanics revamp, which is currently undergoing final testing and will be coming to the live game soon! This revamp is extensive, but do remember that changed non-shiny cards will be refundable for full price for a short time after the patch. In addition, most (but not all) card redesigns are focused on cards that are generally underused or underperforming. Let's take a look at the overarching design and intent behind the changes, because there's a lot! Early Game Rebalance: Our most significant shift lies in how we envision and design the early game as a whole - that is, cards costing between 1 and 4 gold. If you're a long time player, you may recall that at one point we nerfed a lot of draw and card generation in the game, as player's hands were running too hot throughout entire matches an…
- New Deck Builder! - 14 January 2024
- New deck builder! The deck builder has been completely remade, and now has an improved UI, gold curve display, and easier navigation! - End of turn effects now take place before the turn owner swaps. - Cards that are generated by another card now show special text in the history and when played by an enemy. - Fixed a bug where rituals do not count as spell damage.
- Future Roadmap! - 10 January 2024
Hey everyone, we'd like to give a brief overview of what's coming to Cards and Castles 2 this year! We're a small team working very hard, so our roadmap is not going to be super fancy or have specific dates laid out, but we want to give you a general outline of what's in store. - DECK BUILDER REDESIGN: The current deck building UI is not nearly good enough. We are making a new one! Expect it to be completely different, much better suited to the task of deck building, and calibrated for both PC and mobile. - CORE SET REVAMP: While the big card expansions are being worked on, we've realized we need to make a lot of improvements to the core set. Launching the game has been a big learning experience, and we've gradually realized that there are a lot of gameplay weaknesses that need to be addressed at all skill levels. This isn't the sort of thing we can address with new cards. Expect to see…
- Deck Builder Tweaks - 22 December 2023
Increased the number of cards that can be seen at once while deckbuilding.
- Music and UI Tweaks - 21 December 2023
- Updated music selection for various battlegrounds. - Resized several UI elements to reduce graininess of textures.
- Core Expansion Set! - 9 December 2023
Our first expansion set is ready, featuring 41 new cards! One of these cards is available for FREE in the shop. The other 40 new cards can be obtained through crafting, normal card packs, or a special shop bundle. Turn your healing into damage with Andvor the Fallen, available for the Undead faction! Build a city with Realm of the Builder, which duplicates all buildings! Cycle through your deck for powerful, high risk plays with Dig for Treasure! ... and discover many more cool new mechanics! Many basic mechanics have also been added to help flesh out build options for various faction combinations. We're very excited to finally release these cards and really flesh out the game! It'll be at least a few months before more cards become available, as we believe there's plenty for player's to explore with this content set and the base set. Please enjoy the new cards and look forward to more…
- CORE EXPANSION - 1 December 2023
Our first expansion set is ready, featuring 41 new cards! 1 of these cards is available for FREE in the shop. The other 40 can be obtained through crafting or normal card packs. In addition, all 40 cards can be purchased directly in a special shop bundle. An exclusive collection of holiday Castles has also been added to the shop! This is a limited time offer, so pick them up soon! In addition, major revisions have been made to gameplay and card balance. Please see the complete notes on our community Discord! Also note that most changed cards can be refunded for full shard value for a short period of time following the patch. RANKING SYSTEM Players no longer lose stars in Bronze, but the number of stars per tier is increased to 5. This should result in players moving through Bronze more quickly than before. GAMEPLAY Trap Limit increased to 5. Traps now display as different colors to deno…
- Minor Patch - 24 November 2023
Improved card visuals.
- Minor Feature - 18 November 2023
In the friends menu, added a "Join" button to join a friend in their lobby if able.
