Origins TCG patch notes 4 Nov: Obliterate 10, bears nerfed

When it lands

Koin Games published the patch notes on the official Discord on 4 November at 09:08 UTC: the update "should land" about five hours later, so around 14:00 UTC, and it does not need a client update. It is the first balance patch of Early Access, the one Koin had promised for the day Dr. Frank arrives (our news of 2 November).

The cards and the deck builder on OriginsMeta already show the new values.

Boss #11: Cyber Queen and the Relentless deck

The new boss is Cyber Queen, and she pilots the Relentless deck. Its Legendary is Dr. Frank, and its game plan is about bringing characters back from the graveyard: a new archetype, with a handful of new cards to experiment with. We presented them one by one in Dr. Frank's eight new cards.

A correction: until today we called Dr. Frank the new boss. The patch notes make it clear that the boss is Cyber Queen, and Dr. Frank is the Legendary of her deck.

All the balance changes

Format: mana · Power/Health for characters, mana only for spells.

Card	Before	After	What changes
Baby Bear	2 · 1/1	3 · 1/1	costs 1 more
Mama Bear	6 · 6/6	7 · 6/6	costs 1 more
Papa Bear	4 · 4/4	5 · 4/4	costs 1 more
Obliterate	9	10	costs 1 more
Guy of Gisborne	6 · 4/4	6 · 3/4	-1 Power
Dorothy	4 · 1/1	4 · 3/3	+2 Power, +2 Health
Banshee	2 · 1/1	2 · 2/1	+1 Power
Esmeralda	2 · 2/2	2 · 2/3	+1 Health
Genie	6 · 4/4	5 · 4/4	costs 1 less
Searing Light	4	3	costs 1 less

Five nerfs and five buffs. No card changes its text or abilities: only cost and stats. The team says these changes come after "a lot of passionate discussions" around these cards.

The three bears all cost more

Baby Bear, Mama Bear and Papa Bear each cost 1 more mana. All three punish the enemy that damages your barrier where they stand: Baby Bear deals it 1 damage, Papa Bear 3, Mama Bear destroys it.

Baby Bear was the most played card in all four Crimson Cup qualifiers: in Koin's official tables it was in 46% to 50% of the decks. At 3 mana it stops being an almost automatic pick.

Obliterate goes to 10 mana

Obliterate, the most expensive spell in the game, now costs 10. In the Crimson Cup qualifiers it was in 21% to 24% of the decks. The team jokes that, after all the likes on the X post asking for a nerf, they almost set its damage to -12, but the engine cannot handle negative damage.

Dorothy becomes a 3/3

Dorothy, a Legendary, stays at 4 mana but goes from 1/1 to 3/3: she no longer dies to a single point of damage. Banshee gains 1 Power, Esmeralda 1 Health, while Genie (5) and Searing Light (3) cost 1 less. Guy of Gisborne is the only card that loses stats without changing cost: 3/4 instead of 4/4.

What now

If your decks run Obliterate, the bears or Guy of Gisborne, check your mana curve: MetaShifting shows every change patch by patch, and in Theory craft you can rebuild a list with the new costs right away. Koin asks for feedback once you have played a little: too far, not far enough or, as Goldilocks would say, just right.