A collaboration between legendary card game designer Richard Garfield and Valve, Artifact is a digital card game that combines deeply-strategic, competitive gameplay with the rich setting of Dota 2. The result is an immersive and visually-stunning trading card game unlike any other.
STRATEGY UNBOUNDED
Wield your deck across three lanes of combat, answer every move of your opponent with one of your own. Unlimited hand size. Unlimited number of units you control. Unlimited mana you can employ.
It’s up to you to decide the best way to navigate the constantly shifting tide of battle.
FUN WITH FRIENDS
If you’ve played card games around a kitchen table, you know the enjoyment that can come with house rules. Artifact allows you and your friends complete control in creating a tournament. Simply select your elimination or non-elimination format and deck constraints; then, challenge your friends to a crucible of your own design.
COMPETE GLOBALLY
Want to test your skill against the world at large? Valve-sponsored gauntlets and tournaments will give players the opportunity to not just play Artifact for the joy of mastery, but to win prizes based upon their level of play.
This week we wanted to talk a bit more about the heroes in Artifact. These have been viewed as one of the strengths in the original game, but also as one of the missed opportunities. The most common concerns we hear are about underwhelming signature cards, lack of abilities, or heroes that fictionally dont fit with their kit.
Our philosophy this time around is different, so wed like to go over some of the factors we use when evaluating hero designs.
- All heroes should have at least one ability.
- You should be excited to draw a heros signature cards.
- Signature cards should avoid being situational.
- Signature cards should generally be at their best when their corresponding hero uses them.
- Bonus if a hero has a small self-synergy.
- Its fine to have two abilities on a hero if at least one of them is a passive.
- Its fine to have strong active and passive abilities on the board. They create interesting threats to play around.
Lets take a look at the basic heroes and see how theyve changed.
Keefe the Bold
- This big body can absorb a lot of punishment.
- Reckless Charge can put this bulk to use, letting him redirect damage from soft targets.
- His active ability, Stop Hittin Yourself, lets him turn his attackers' strengths against them.
- Notes: His health was recently increased, and might be a bit too high.
Farvhan the Dreamer
- Green units tend to stick around in lane, so dont be surprised if you see Farvhan getting up to a big bonus from Pack Leadership.
- Prowler Vanguard makes it easy to create a creep imbalance, keeping your tower safe.
- Placing Prowler Vanguard in slot 2 with Farvhan in slot 3 is an easy way to build pressure in a lane.
- Prowler Vanguard has been feeling a little too expensive, and is likely to decrease to 3 Mana.
JMuy
- Runic Instigation has been a fan favorite. One of our favorites was watching Mirana leap in, get refreshed, then leap back to her original slot!
- Runic Instigation lets you refresh creeps and also items on heroes. This makes JMuy great to splash with any color.
- Wisdom of the Elders can keep your hand full, and is a nice choice for an early runic instigation to start getting the cooldown to 1.
- JMuy is pretty hefty for a blue hero, giving you good deployment options.
Our feedback alias also had many requests for new heroes. We hashed out a few designs based on these requests and figured we would let you decide which one we add to the beta. Note that the color or abilities might change from those listed here based on testing. Anyway, heres the list we have so far.
Huskar, Red
Active: Life Break
Passive: Berserkers Blood
Signature: Inner Fire
Snapfire, Green
Active: Mortimer Kisses
Signature: Snapfire Cookie
Arc Warden, Blue
Active: Tempest Double
Signature: Spark Wraith
Nyx Assassin, Black
Active: Vendetta
Signature: Spiked Carapace
Please select the one you want from This Poll .
Well close the poll on Thursday, then get to work on that sweet temp art!
Minimum Setup
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04 or newer
- Processor: Intel i5. 2.4 Ghz or betterMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Vulkan-capable GPU from NVIDIA. AMD. or IntelNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
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