Origins TCG: balance patch and Dr. Frank on Wednesday, roadmap AMA on Friday

Update, 4 November: the patch notes are out (our article): ten cards change, and the new boss is Cyber Queen, boss #11, who pilots the Relentless deck with Dr. Frank as its Legendary. Below, where we call Dr. Frank the new boss, read: the Legendary of the boss's deck.

Wednesday 4 November: the balance patch

The first balance patch of Origins TCG's Early Access arrives on Wednesday 4 November 2026. On Monday 2 November, in #the-courtyard on the official Discord, moderator Senith passed on a message from Mawr, Koin Games' Studio Head: "I think you'll be pleased with the balance updates coming Wednesday November 4th." That same evening apix, from the Koin team, wrote on X that "the first proper balance patch is around the corner" (his post).

It is the first change to the cards since patch 0.7 of 29 September 2026: update 0.8, which opened Early Access on 27 October, touched no cards. The patch notes are not out yet, so we don't know which cards change or at what time the update lands. As soon as they are published we'll write them up with the before and after of every card, and the card database, the deck builder and MetaShifting will show the new values.

The same day: Dr. Frank and the new boss

Wednesday also brings the next boss, Dr. Frank. Koin announced it on Steam on 31 October ("Happy Halloween, Dr. Frank is coming"): the boss "will feature a deck full of new cards" and arrives one week earlier than planned. The reason is in the post's graphic and on Discord: the community reached 500 Steam reviews, and that night Koin wrote in #announcements that "the boss is coming a week early". On 2 November apix confirmed it on Discord: "new boss on wednesday".

Bosses are the opponents of the Missions, played against the AI. Our database already has a Dr. Frank Legendary, which is no longer in the game: its page shows the last known data, not verified in the game, and the boss may not match it. Koin hasn't said whether the new cards of his deck will also go into players' collections.

Friday 6 November: the roadmap AMA

On Friday 6 November at 21:00 UTC (16:00 on the US East Coast, 22:00 in Central Europe) Koin hosts the "Super Secret Early Access Roadmap AMA", a questions-and-answers session on the Early Access roadmap. It is an event on the official Discord, in the #live-events channel, created by apix. Tim Jooste, founder and CEO of Koin Games, had listed it first under "What's next" in his post in #announcements on 1 November, without further details.

In the same post he announced two more things, still without dates: a "Tell Your Local TCG Shop About Origins Day", with details "coming soon", and an overview of the competitive scene, with tournaments, rewards and formats. The last AMA, on 2 October, gave the ranked dates and the first numbers on new cards (our article); the dates confirmed so far are in our roadmap. We'll write up the AMA after the stream.

Ranked season 1 ends the week of 7 December

One more date arrived on 31 October in #game-announcements: the first ranked season of Early Access ends in early December, "the week of December 7th". Koin explains that it can't end a season yet: the technology for it ships with the major update that will accompany the end of the season, so the exact day may still move. The date will appear in the game soon. How the ladder and Grandmaster work is in our Ranked guide.

What else Koin is working on

In his post of 2 November apix listed the updates in progress: faster animations, more tournaments, the balance patch, new cards ("cards cards cards"), the Collector Pass in the game, the next ranked season and "a lot of polish". He also wrote that about 60-70% of the cards of the first set are available today. Apart from the patch, none of these has a date.

What we don't know yet

• Which cards the balance patch changes, and at what time it goes live on Wednesday.
• Whether Dr. Frank's new cards end up in the collection and in the deck builder.
• What the roadmap AMA will cover, and whether it will be recorded.
• The exact last day of ranked season 1.

Sources: the messages in #the-courtyard (2 November 2026, 18:11 UTC), #announcements (31 October, 01:41 UTC, and 1 November, 00:05 UTC) and #game-announcements (31 October, 22:56 UTC) on the official Origins TCG Discord, the "Super Secret Early Access Roadmap AMA" event on the same server, read on 3 November, the Steam post of 31 October (16:41 UTC) and apix's post on X of 2 November.