Blood & Nectar Patch Notes
Patch 0.61The Great Artifact Rework
July 10–13, 2026
The relic vault gets torn down and rebuilt. Nine new artifacts and twelve redesigns in one sweep — a team-shield Phalanx, shield-shatter and damage-invert tools for the new duelists, hard counters for the Poison and Secret systems, and a dead relic finally cut. The through-line: fewer always-on passives, more actives you actually choose to press. Every one, introduced below.
2,220 pushes · 854 h
Total so far
Every Artifact, One by One
🛡️PhalanxNew
A pure team-defense active for the new frontliners.
Effect
- Your next attack deals NO damage — its full value becomes a shield spread across your whole team. 2-round cooldown.
🔨Aegis BreakerNew
A tank-buster's answer to shield stacking.
Effect
- Shatter a chosen enemy's shield outright; you pay HP equal to the shield removed (never below 1 HP). 2-round cooldown.
🖤Helm of DarknessNew
Perseus's Shadow-Realm trick, bottled for anyone.
Effect
- Pay 35 Mana, cleanse Poison, and invert all incoming damage into healing until you next use an ability. 2-round cooldown.
🕯️Martyr's BeaconNew
Turn yourself into the lightning rod.
Effect
- Gain 2 Intercept (cap 5) and a shield; each enemy ability has (stacks × 20%) to redirect onto you, feeding you Momentum.
🧪Panacea's DraughtNew
A hard counter to the Poison meta.
Effect
- Every unit on both teams sheds 1 Poison stack.
🔦Hecate's TorchNew
The same idea, aimed at Secrets.
Effect
- Every unit on both teams loses 1 trap / Secret stack.
🩸Lifeblood WardNew
Pay in blood to keep an ally standing.
Effect
- Spend 50% of your current HP to heal a chosen ally; any overflow becomes a shield.
🔮Manaforged BarrierNew
Leftover mana, spent as armor.
Effect
- Convert all your remaining Mana into a shield on yourself or an ally.
⚡Momentum FontNew
Kickstart an ally's turn.
Effect
- Give a chosen ally 40 Momentum, then shield them (if they are at full HP) or heal them.
🗝️Stygian KeyRework
The double-turn engine, now with real risk.
Effect
- Pay 50% Max HP to act again; at end of round it backlashes all the damage you dealt after arming it. Repeatable.
❓Odysseus' TrapRework
Renamed from the Odyssean Secret and rebuilt on Odysseus's own spring resolver — damage never turns into healing anymore.
Sprung effect
- Table: Confusion / Reflection / Reversal⇒Misdirect / Detonate / Ward
- Plants a team-wide trap (2 stacks, cap 5); each enemy action springs one.
🩸Blood RiteRework
Was Shears of Atropos — a passive turned into an active you arm.
Effect
- This round, your abilities cost HP (equal to their Mana cost) instead of Mana. Re-arm each cast.
🐉Blood of the HydraRework
A cleaner poison bomb.
Effect
- 2 Poison to all six units. 2-round cooldown.
⚙️Core of TalosRework
An on-demand guard instead of an always-on tax.
Effect
- This round, redirect 10% of each ally's damage onto yourself. Re-arm each round.
🧵Thread of the MoiraiRework
A darker bargain.
Effect
- Kill a random ally and seize their HP, Mana and Momentum; overflow becomes a shield.
🎁Box of PandoraRework
A gamble either way.
Effect
- Coin-flip: 2 Poison to all six, OR heal all six for 20% Max HP. 2-round cooldown.
🎶Lyre of OrpheusRework
A borrowed turn from the dead.
Effect
- Temp-revive a random fallen ally for one round, splitting your HP and Mana into them; they fall again at round end.
🩸Vial of IchorRework
An escalating field drain.
Effect
- Your team loses 10% Max HP, the enemy 5%; each re-press escalates the bleed. Floored at 10% HP, no cooldown.
🌿Laurels of GloryRework
Snowball fuel.
Effect
- On kill, act again immediately — no limit.
🏮Lantern of HadesRework
Feed on every fall.
Effect
- On any death, either team, seize the fallen's HP / Mana / Momentum; overflow becomes a shield. No limit.
🗿Gorgon's GazeRework
Was the Gorgoneion — a passive turned into a panic button.
Effect
- From: Gorgoneion (passive)⇒Gorgon's Gaze (active)
- Self-stasis for a round — untargetable, can't act, DoTs wiped. 3-round cooldown.
🔑Key of HecateNerf
Removed by design — it summoned an ally ghost through a SUMMON path the v3 engine never wired up, so it did literally nothing. (Not the same as the new Hecate's Torch.)
Status
- Roster: in the pool (non-functional)⇒removed