Origins TCG playtest 0.7.1 patch notes: ranked counts for missions again, opponent's mulligan shown

A small update for the playtest

On 8 October Koin Games updated the playtest, the separate build of the Demo 2.0 that you join through the official Discord, to version 0.7.1. The team posted the notes in the game-announcements channel of the official Discord at 16:54 UTC and took the build offline for a few hours to push the update. "Nothing major, just a few fixes and QOL improvements", the team writes: there are no balance changes, but several of the changes are things players had asked for. It comes a week after the playtest update of 1 October, whose announcement had no version number.

What's new

The opponent's mulligan

During the mulligan phase you can now see how many cards your opponent replaced. Players asked for it on Discord, and the team says the idea was so good that it implemented it the very next day. Patch 0.6.1 had already added a preview of the opponent's Legendary during the mulligan.

Missions, home screen and the rest

• Missions, Bosses and Rewards get a few quality-of-life improvements, and so does the home screen. The notes don't say which.
• Commanders, as the notes call them, now say a voice line and show their nameplate when you inspect them.
• Board effects: clicking around the board now triggers visual and sound effects. The team says both are placeholders and asks players not to judge them too harshly.
• Intro cinematic: a placeholder intro movie plays, and the team knows it is still very much a work in progress.

Improvements

Ranked counts for missions again

With the 1 October update missions became PvE only, and in that build deck missions could not be completed from ranked: the team had promised to turn that back on in a future build (our article). With 0.7.1, ranked PvP games count toward mission progress again. If you prefer, you can still play the missions as PvE from the Missions section: the choice is yours. How ranked works in the demo is in our ranked guide.

Collection search

The search in the collection now accepts multi-word phrases, and searching for something a card summons also finds the card that summons it. On OriginsMeta, the search in Cards and in the deck builder already looks at card names and card text.

Emotes and voices

• In the emote picker you can now clear a slot, which makes setting up your emotes a little easier.
• Hansel and Gretel, Huck Finn and Christopher Robin have new voices. Players had said they sounded far too old for the characters, and the team writes that internally everyone was saying the same thing.

About 20 bugs fixed

By the team's count, around 20 bugs are fixed. The notes don't list them, and the team asks for feedback and for anything it missed on Discord.

What doesn't change

• No balance changes. Card stats stay those of patch 0.7 of 29 September, the last balance patch before the Crimson Cup: card pages, the deck builder and MetaShifting don't change.
• The playtest is not the main demo. These changes are in the playtest build; the demo on Steam, the one explained in our guide to playing the demo, keeps its own version until Koin updates it.

What we don't know yet

• When the changes of 0.7.1 will reach the main demo on Steam.
• Which bugs were fixed: the notes only give the count, around 20.
• What exactly changes in Missions, Bosses, Rewards and on the home screen.
• When the board effects and the intro cinematic, both placeholders for now, will be final.

Also that week: practice tournament #2

In the same channel the team announced the second practice tournament for Saturday 10 October at 14:00 UTC (16:00 CEST): five Swiss rounds, best of three, nobody eliminated and, unlike the first one, no Conquest, so no decks to submit. Koin announced the weekly practice tournaments on 5 October (our article).

Where these notes come from

The 0.7.1 patch notes the team posted on the official Origins TCG Discord on 8 October 2026, in the game-announcements channel. As of 11 October there is no Steam post about this update: the latest one is from 5 October.