Dr. Frank arrives in Origins TCG on 4 November: the Legendary of the new boss and eight new cards

Update, 5 November: the eight cards are in the game since the patch of 4 November, and on OriginsMeta they are now game cards: they are in the card database and in the deck builder, no longer in Theory craft. The theory craft decks built with them, and with no other card outside the game, have moved among the single decks. We aligned four English texts with the official cards (It's Alive, Franken Bride, Necromancer and Red Knight); we have not read the eight cards in the game yet, and their pages say so.

Dr. Frank arrives on Wednesday 4 November

"The next boss Dr. Frank is coming to Origins next week, which will feature a deck full of new cards." Koin Games announced it on Steam on 31 October 2026, Halloween, in a post titled "Happy Halloween, Dr. Frank is coming": the date is Wednesday 4 November. Until the patch notes we wrote that Dr. Frank is the boss of mission 12, the next of the missions against the game's AI: the patch notes of 4 November make it clear that the boss is Cyber Queen, boss #11, and that Dr. Frank is the Legendary of her Relentless deck (the patch notes). When we published this article Koin had not yet said at what time the update arrives.

A week early, thanks to the reviews

Dr. Frank was due a week later. On 29 October, on the official Discord, apix of Koin made the players an offer: about 10,000 people had played the day before, but only 200 had left a review on Steam; with 500 reviews by the end of the week, mission 12 would come the following week, "earlier than planned". The goal was reached in less than two days. On 31 October Koin's Studio Head Mawr wrote: "You all did it! 500 reviews! The boss is coming a week early." The Steam graphic says the same: "Because you hit the goal, Dr. Frank drops a full week ahead of schedule."

The eight new cards

On 2 November Koin gave its creators early access to "all eight new Origins cards", with the official images to reveal them: they are the cards in the pictures below. Six of the eight are Evil. All eight were already in our database, among the cards removed from the game, with the same cost and the same stats.

Dr. Frank and It's Alive: the graveyard comes back

Dr. Frank is a Legendary: "Before combat, summon a random character from your graveyard on a random space." It's Alive is a 3-mana spell that does the same thing once: "Summon a random character from your graveyard to a random space." Koin has not said whether It's Alive is the card Dr. Frank puts in your hand at the start of a game: ZulsoiD presents it that way in his video, Robip thinks it likely.

Frank's Monster and Franken Bride: Rebirth

Both have Rebirth, the keyword of Mummy and Phuong Hoang, and both do something when they come back. Frank's Monster, 6 mana for a 5/4: "When I enter play from the graveyard, double my ⚔️." Franken Bride, 5 mana for a 4/4: "When I enter play from the graveyard, heal 4 damage from your barrier here." In the creators' videos the Monster comes back as a 10/1 and the Bride as a 4/1.

Morgan le Fay, Doppelganger and Necromancer: discard

Three cards for discard decks, the ones built around Dracula, Koschei and Aladdin.

• Morgan le Fay, 2 mana for a 1/3: "On Reveal: Discard your right-most card. Add a random spell to your hand and reduce its cost by 2."
• Doppelganger, 4 mana for a 2/2: "When you discard a character, I transform into a copy of that character."
• Necromancer, 4 mana for a 2/2: "On Reveal: Discard a random card to add 2 Zombies [2⚔️/2❤️] to your hand. If you discarded an Evil card, summon those Zombies instead."

Red Knight brings Ongoing

Red Knight, 2 mana for a 4/1: "Trample. Ongoing: The character across from me has Trample." Ongoing marks an ability that is always active while the card is in play, and no card in the game has it today: as long as Red Knight is on the board, the character across from it has Trample too.

A balance patch on the same day

"Balance Patch will be tomorrow when Dr. Frank arrives", Mawr wrote on the Discord on 3 November. The patch notes came out on 4 November: ten cards change, from Obliterate to the three bears, and they are all in our article on the patch notes; MetaShifting shows them card by card, and the stats on OriginsMeta are already the new ones. The other dates of the week, from the roadmap AMA on Friday 6 November to the end of ranked season 1, are in our article of 2 November.

What the creators say

In his video of 3 November ZulsoiD goes through all eight cards. His first impressions, which are opinions and not data:

• Dr. Frank and It's Alive are value for midrange and control decks: bringing back a character that costs 4 or more with a 3-mana spell is already a gain. A character summoned this way does not trigger its On Reveal, so Boogeyman and Asanbosam come back without their drawback.
• Frank's Monster is "right now the strongest Rebirth card": a 5/4 that blocks twice.
• Franken Bride can take Bridge Troll's place in decks that want to slow the damage down.
• Morgan le Fay is worth more for the discard than for the spell, even if an Obliterate for 7 or a Rain of Arrows for 3 are welcome. Play Ugly Duckling, then Morgan le Fay discarding Aladdin: Aladdin enters the board and Ugly Duckling transforms.
• Doppelganger wants characters that cost 4 or more, above all Dracula and Koschei.
• Necromancer convinces him less: today's discard decks play few Evil cards (King Shahryar, Dracula, Koschei), and for one more mana Three Musketeers gives a similar board with First Strike.
• Red Knight is a card for aggro decks that grows with every buff, for example with Glinda, but it can struggle against Baby Bear, Bagheera and Musketeer, all played a lot right now.

Robip has also gone through the eight cards, in Italian.

Try them now on OriginsMeta

Since the update is in the game, the eight cards are game cards on OriginsMeta too: they are in the card database and in the deck builder, and a deck you publish with them goes among the single decks, with its game code. The theory craft decks built with them before the update moved there by themselves. We have not read the eight cards in the game yet: until we do, their pages say so, and their texts in the other languages are our translations with the game's glossary.

What we don't know yet

• How Dr. Frank and his cards are unlocked, and whether they can be used in ranked from the first day.
• Whether It's Alive is the card Dr. Frank gives you at the start of a game.

Sources: the Steam post "Happy Halloween, Dr. Frank is coming" (31 October 2026) and its graphic; the messages of apix (29 October) and of Mawr (31 October and 3 November) on the official Origins TCG Discord; the card images Koin Games gave its creators to reveal the cards (2 November); ZulsoiD's video (3 November). Illustrations: Don Flores (Dr. Frank, It's Alive, Frank's Monster, Necromancer), Alina Kapustina (Franken Bride), Lucas Machado (Doppelganger, Red Knight), Koin Team (Morgan le Fay).