September 18, 2025

Patch Notes: September 18th, 2025

Sound the trumpets, bang the drums, hang the party banners and get on your finest attire, for a mid-season Balance Patch is upon us! Let’s dig right into these delectable morsels and see what all the changes this patch has to offer.

Card Changes

A Hannibal card.

Hannibal

Since Hannibal was introduced at the beginning of the month on the premium Galaxy Pass, he has outperformed our expectations and the results of every other captain. We are tweaking his countdown from 6 animals KO’d to 7 in an effort to bring him better into parity with our other captains. Not a major change so we expect him to still be a strong captain, but will no longer be so far ahead.

Card Reworks

Loki

This is partly a quality of life upgrade, your spells will do more of what you expect. And a pretty big power up, so we will keep an eye on how he performs.

Mirror Mirror

Major Changes

Parting Gift now only doubles farewell of front row characters

Parting Gift now only doubles farewells in your front row. (We expect this to still be one of the strongest Epic treasures)

Now hits the character with the highest attack rather than random

Shrink Tea now targets the enemy with the highest attack. We considered renaming it to “Herc B-Gone!” but leaving it as Shrink Tea for now.

weird beard now gives treasures based on golds again not silvers and it's base stats have been increased

Weird Beard has been reverted back to only giving treasures based on Goldened Pirates instead of Silver. (Was in just too many of the top performing decklists)

her buff on spell casts now increases +2 attack instead of +1

Morgan Le Fae getting a bit of a power up, should be impactful with spell themes prevalent with Candylar (our first expansion coming in October)

Shanty now buffs the shop +2/+2 by default instead of +1/+1

Shanty getting a pretty meaningful powerup. We didn’t want her to have to combine with Wink or the Pans to make an impact.

Dragon Dice now gives a random common treasure instead of letting you pick 1 of 3

Dragon Dice getting a nerf should leave it in a strong spot for increasing Treasure Hoard while not giving the late game powerful common treasures, as often. It also means Dragon Dice treasures will not eat Lesser Mimic copies which was a common downside before.

Minor Changes

Jack Sparrow has been renamed to Jay Sparrow
Excalibur and KO Star now keep buff during fight (mostly a bug fix)
Happily Ever After and All for One will now wait until the next shop before Buffing (this change in timing doesn’t change how the cards functioned before but does make it clearer the buff is being applied)
Zagreus now waits until the next shop to determine the rarity of treasure given and now works with Smug

Bug Fixes

Charon’s upgrading buff not working correctly on a non-full board has been fixed
Mid-Battle “start turn” button has been fixed
Leaderboard and navbar should no longer overlap

Quality of Life Change

Buffs like the hunt abilities of Hercules and Big Bad Wolf will now trigger before effects like Poison Apple. The result of this change should be that Herc and Big Bad Wolf end up at 1 health rather than them being set to 1 hp and then buffing up again. We are making this change in order to allow effects like Poison Apple to be better counters to large stated lads.

Candylar: The Sweet Set - Meet the New Captain!

New Candylar Spoiler, Captain Goat T, the first time you lose a fight to a captain, get an EVIL clone of that captain

Coming to a Galaxy near you this October!

Well that is a lot of changes! Come sound off in the Discord and the Subreddit to let us know what you think of these changes and also stay tuned to our Twitter, Bluesky and Instagram and your favorite Once Upon a Galaxy content creators for Candylar spoilers over the next several weeks!

‘Til next time, see you in the stars.