Previous Versions can be found here.
Basics
Artifacts can be chosen in Decks section.
Artifacts are a type of mechanic released in Beta 18.0 that will affect the outcome of battles. Most of these have an effect that trigger once and on the first turn, but others take place either during the entire match or at the end of it.
You start out with the Artifacts Experience, Draw, Health, Poke, and Solidity. The rest cost gold to get:
- 300G for a Normal Artifact
- 1000G for a Legendary Artifact
You can get to pick up to 2 Artifacts, except if you pick an Legendary Artifact, then you can't choose a second one. There are 2 monsters that generate artifacts: Gerson and Chara.
History
Onutrem tweeted on December 24, 2017 that a new mechanic will come in the next season of Ranked. On December 28, it was revealed that Artifacts was the big reveal.
People got to test Artifacts on early December 31 on the test server.
Releases of Artifacts
- Beta 18.0: 12 Normal and 3 Legendary.
- Beta 18.1: Accessible in Ranked Mode and 4 new Artifacts for Gerson.
- Beta 20.0: 4 Normal and 1 Legendary.
- Beta 31.2: 1 new Artifact for Chara.
Regular Artifacts
Beta 18.0
Copycat
- At the start of the game, reveal your opponent's starting hand and shuffle a copy of it into your deck. Those copies cost 2 less.
Draw
- At the start of every 5th turn (except turn 1), draw one more card.
Experience
- Increase XP reward by 50%.
Froggits
- At the start of the game, add a Tiny Froggit to your hand and a Froggit and Final Froggit to your deck.
Health
- At the start of the game, gain +5 HP.
Poke
- At the start of the game, deal 5 DMG to the enemy.
Power
- At the start of the game, give 4 random monsters in your deck +1/+1.
Preservation
- You always overdraw your cheapest card if your hand is full.
Prosperity
- Whenever you play a => 5G monster, heal yourself by 1 HP.
Reinforcement
- At the start of turns 3/6/9/12/15, add a random monster with +2/+2 to deck.
Solidity
- Whenever you play a Taunt monster, give it +1 HP.
Will
- Your monsters with Disarmed can attack.
Beta 20.0
Hourglass
- Your Future effects are triggered one turn earlier. At the start of the game, add a Goner Kid to your deck.
Spy
- At the start of turn 1 and every 5th turn, reveal the enemy's hand and give their first spell +1 cost.
Veteran
- Your monsters with => 3 ATK gain +1 ATK when they attack and kill a monster.
Vitality
- Whenever an ally monster or spell fully heals a damaged monster, give the healed monster +1 HP.
Legendary Artifacts
Beta 18.0
Criticals [REMOVED FROM THE GAME]
- Your monsters have a 20% chance to deal 100% bonus damage.
Mines
- Add a Little Mine, Mine and a Big Mine in the opponent's deck at the start of the game (deal damage to the player when drawn).
Science
- Your Gaster Blasters deal +1 damage. Add 5 Gaster Blasters to your deck at the start of the game.
Beta 20.0
Arcane Scepter
- Whenever you cast a spell (base cost => 2), cast a random spell on an random target.
Generated Artifacts
Gerson
Cloudy Glasses
- Turn start: Give +1 HP to a random ally monster.
Crab Apple
- Turn start: Give +1 ATK to a random ally monster.
Sea Tea
- Turn start: Restore 3 HP to a random damaged ally monster.
Torn Notebook
- Turn start: Deal 1 DMG to a random enemy monster.
Chara
Genocide
- Turn start: Silence and kill a random enemy monster. Deal 1 DMG to you and gain -1 max HP.