Minion Master's Monday - Let's experiment together!

Minion Masters!

How was your weekend? We sure hope amazing! Now, Mondays are usually where we outline the week that lays in front of us internally and set specific goals. And for this week, our Community Management has planned to start a little experiment regarding feedback & suggestions. Interested?

We are listening...

...on multiple platforms. We have the Steam forums, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and Discord plus the in-game chat. That makes for six active communication channels we're watching, already. If we count the Dwarf streams in, we're talking about seven active communication channels every 2 weeks (formerly weekly). Sometimes, catching all the feedback and suggestions can be quite a task, especially in real-time chats like in-game or on Discord.

Just naturally, users start to talk about feedback or suggestions from others. And we appreciate that because discussions can often time lead to even more - or to more detailed - feedback/suggestions. In real-time chats, however, catching your voice can be hard and there's even a chance of overlooking something. How do we solve that? Well, let's experiment first ;)

For the next 4 weeks, we want to invite you to use a platform called STOMT. Okay, okay. Slowly. What is that? Well, STOMT is basically a feedback hub that can help to manage and understand communities and their needs better. It’s kinda similar to Twitter in some way and the appearance is reminiscent of social media networks. There’s a feed where "Stomts" are shown publicly, and users can comment and vote. Basically, a Stomt is nothing else than a post on any other platform, only that you either choose to appreciate something (I like Minion Masters because...) or wish something (I wish Minion Masters would...). You can also attach pictures or share your Stomts easily on other platforms. Ever wanted to create a movement around your ideas? Now's the time ;)

Please note that posting a Stomt doesn't require you to sign-up, nor do votes. Commenting, however, needs you to be registered. We'd like to encourage you to register yourself because we'd like to see at least an alias behind an idea. The full functionality of the platform is another incentive. Also, the STOMT page of Minion Masters is moderated and uses the same rules as the Steam forums and Reddit for that purpose. You can find these rules right here.

The biggest advantage of STOMT – and something we want to test in-depth with you – is to bring the whole community for the purpose of feedback and suggestions together in one place, whereas the current channels are spread and decentralized. That doesn't mean we do not want you to post feedback or suggestions anywhere else! For the purpose of testing this platform though, we'd appreciate being vocal there. An example that came to our minds was that you could suggest changes to the Battle Pass in-depth on the Steam forums - for instance - and write a short suggestion on STOMT, also.

STOMT gives you an easy way to let us know what you wish and/or like, while others can interact with your feedback and suggestions. The platform offers us many useful tools and ways to gather, evaluate and quantify your voices. Currently, the feedback process behind the scenes has to be maintained for single platforms that are not connected with each other. STOMT could become the new main hub for feedback, while we will continue to observe our other communication platforms, of course. There's also the possibility to integrate STOMT in Minion Masters and our Twitch streams, even Discord. But for the purpose of this initial test, we will not do that. We want to keep it simple for now. Now it's up to you, Masters! Give us your feedback and suggestions on STOMT.

https://www.stomt.com/minionmasters

King Puff Cup 25 already announced!

We saw amazing matches last Saturday live on Twitch. King Puff Cup 24 didn't just introduce BOB aka truteo as a new caster, but also - once again - a thrilling and fascinating experience in the battles on the flying arenas between some of the very best Minion Masters players. We had quite some surprises again such as tournament winners not making it to the Top 8. Buuuut, we will not tell you too much this time and let the VOD speak for itself!

Congratulations to all winners and a special thanks to all participants, viewers and the King Puff Cup staff for making these events possible!

In the meantime, we have King Puff Cup 25, scheduled for Saturday, August 11th at 13:00 UTC,  already announced and the race for Circuit points is on! According to the schedule of King Puff Cup Season 3, there's only this one last tournament prior to the King Puff Invitational and the Qualifiers. So better make sure to participate by reading this official announcement and signing up!

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That's all for today, Masters! We will have some nice teasers about the second Battle Pass Season soon and are just as excited as you are. Oh boy, these new skins, the changes, all the value...

Cheers form BetaDwarf

Community Happenings - Creativity & Giveaways

Minion Masters!

Is it already Friday? Well, time passes by so quickly sometimes, we don't even notice it. All of a sudden, we only have a few more hours left to finish important stuff before the weekend. Or to prepare ourselves accordingly for something important. The Dwarves are used to deadlines. Are you, too?

Goodbye Drone Force One

But before we come back to deadlines, let's talk about some interesting community-created content we spotted throughout the week.

With Update 72, we reworked the Drone Force One. Both visually and stats-wise. While the stats were changed simply due to balance reasons and to tackle the poor performance of the unit, the visual overhaul turned the former spaceship into the Harbinger of the Slither Lords, a Snake Spirit, and Herald of Apep.

You, our community, reacted differently to said changes. Some players even miss the old Drone Force One so much, they wish the unit would still be available separately, even more so than more deck slots, eventually. An active Redditor of our community, u/E-308, made the picture above to reflect these feelings of some players. He made sure to especially mention raqyee and Vango, while there are surely more. That's a nice gesture if he wouldn't have forgotten about a very specific detail!

At this point everyone knows that I ONLY wear white cotton gloves when handling my DFO pictures collection!

Vango felt really offended by that little detail. And honestly, who wouldn't use white cotton gloves for their Drone Force One pictures collection?

Here's the thread on Reddit & we want to say thank you to u/E-308 for that little picture that made us really smile. Oh and by the way, Vango wanted to make sure that you visit his stream sometimes, maybe you can spot him handling his DFO pictures collection with white cotton gloves ;)

When Sprites go wild...

What happens when Quality Assurance masochists (aka Bug Busters) try to be creative instead of busting bugs? Well, if that QA masochist is a can of Sprite, the outcome is very unpredictable. The crime scene was Reddit once again, but this time it wasn't the community publishing a piece of art, but our newest Dwarf That Sprite himself.

Under the headline Troubadour Model Rework, That Sprite presented his very best attempt in creativity so far. In the video above, he presented his ideas of a Troubadour rework. We don't want to tell you anything more about this but invite you to see for yourself!

Thanks to That Sprite, our bug buster with a special sense for creativity.

Only 5 more hours until...

...the deadline for sign-ups and deck submissions for King Puff Cup 24 is due. And for you, Masters, that means to hurry up! King Puff Cup 24 is scheduled for Saturday, June 28th at 13:00 UTC and planned to be run with the Conquest format. Wild cards are banned, as usual. No additional card bans.

But something new will happen tomorrow live on stream, anyway. It came to our ears, that the community loves giveaways. It also came to our ears, that the community likes streams with giveaways. We heard you! BetaDwarf's Community Manager Erythais will personally giveaway in-game codes for various goodies during every following King Puff Cup stream & the giveaways will grow as the tournament goes on.

How it works?

All you have to do is to be a) in the Twitch chat of the official King Puff Cup Twitch channel during King Puff Cup 24 and b) talkative. Talkative, as in "getting in touch with the community". What will happen is that in the background, Erythais lets a bot roll every now and then with all active viewer aliases. The alias which is taken gets an in-game code from Erythais in a private message on Twitch and is removed from further rolls. With the beginning of game 1 of the final stage, all active users will be added to the bot's pool again. That means you have the chance to win 2 different in-game codes if you watch King Puff Cup's group & final stage!

Enough talk, watch the clock! Check the official announcement on Reddit with all the necessary information for you to sign-up in time until today, 13:00 UTC.

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That's all for today, Masters! We wish every participant and viewer of Saturday's King Puff Cup 24 good luck & tons of fun with the action on the flying arenas, presented live by the King Puff Cup staff. On a sidenote: That Sprite's idea for a Troubadour rework was rejected and no Puffs got hurt in the process!

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Minion Master's Monday - A new patch on the horizon

Minion Masters!

Another week starts and there's already something to be excited about: Update 72 is around the corner, scheduled for Wednesday, July 25th. We want to take the chance to give you a brief overview of the next patch for Minion Masters, as well as some other useful information.

Huge rework with Update 72 around the corner

We teased it a while back and it took longer than expected between Card Glory, Battle Passes, and new cards every 2 months. Nonetheless, we're proud to announce the Drone Force One rework coming with Update 72! But wait, is it a rework anymore? Well, looking at the unit internally, the appearance changed completely. This time, replacement fits more than rework.

We told you back in the days when we teased the rework, that we aren't happy with Drone Force One's appearance and visuals. On top of that, the unit underperforms due to various changes in the game. That gave us the chance to go a step further than just reworking the unit. So while we did indeed change the visual appearance and animations, we also went for balance changes to the (new) unit to make it less frustrating and overall more viable. Oh, and the unit also got a new name!

Look at this brief preview of the Harbinger: https://gfycat.com/BoldEquatorialCockroach

The stats are not set in stone, yet. Overall, we tend to go for a buff regarding the health and damage, maybe even a mana cost adjustment. Here's our plans, which are subject to change:

• Mana down from 8 to 7
• Health up from 220 to 270
• Damage up from 200 to 300
• Movement speed up from 2 to 3
• Range down from 18 to 14

More on that subject will follow tomorrow live on Twitch. But we have another goodie for you today! As you might already know, we are working on the Minion Masters lore. And for the Harbinger, we want to present a bit of said lore regarding Slither Lords, Snake Spirits and Harbingers of Apep:

"The Slither Lords are a race of Snake Spirits that no one really knows the origins of, but they are cruel and selfish, caring little for other races. Their ultimate goal is to take a physical form, but the vast majority of them inhabit empty armors or trinkets that they animate or corrupt using their Death magic. A Snake Spirit can normally survive for its natural short life cycle only, but they have found a form of immortality by inhabiting inanimate magical objects. When a Snake Spirit gains enough power to take a physical form he becomes a Slither Lord and takes on the mantle of a god in its own mind, and no longer needs a vessel to inhabit. 

Throughout the ages, they have captured and enslaved many species, prime amongst them the human races whom they regularly raid. They make their slaves pray to them as gods and have them build great monuments, adding snake iconography to everything they make. All Snake Spirits believe themselves destined for Godhood as a birthright, and their narcissistic tendencies lead them to fight other Snake Spirits in their own name or make ever-larger monuments to themselves, requiring an ever-increasing supply of slaves. It is said that the more followers who pray to or follow a Snake spirit, the stronger it becomes."

The Harbinger is a Snake Spirit and Herald of Apep. While the lore around Minion Masters is still work in progress, we hope that you enjoyed that little preview about the Slither Lords, Snake Spirits and their relation to the world of Minion Masters.

Best of House Valor standings

Mordar enthusiasts are surely very happy these days. The current standings at the time of writing this blog post (~ 06:30 UTC) where very much in favor of necromantic powers. Mordar and the Wheel of Doom are leading the standings far ahead of everyone else. Here are the current standings:

1. Mordar / Wheel of Doom with 649 votes
2. Stormbringer / Stormy with 377 votes
3. Volco / Taurus with 197 votes

Doesn't look too good for Volco, does it? And even Stormbringer, once the most popular fashion Master, is far away from getting his contestant Stormy to aid him in battle on the flying arenas. But for now, the votings aren't over! The Best of House Valor event will go on until we shut down the live server on Wednesday, July 25th. If nothing changes, the Wheel of Doom will come to Minion Masters as a spell at a later point.

Dwarfday... eh, Dwarf stream on Tuesday!

Our next Dwarf stream is scheduled for tomorrow, July 24th at 18:00 UTC. As we mentioned last Monday, we are in the process of restructuring our stream setting and content, but that's something happening in the background. That means nothing changes for tomorrow and you will be hanging out with our Community Manager Erythais & eSports Coordinator Tengs.

What's on the agenda? Well, we have more insights on Update 72, eSports news, internal news, giveaways, Questions & Answers throughout the stream, and you get the chance to beat the Dwarves in 2vs2 viewer games! Don't wanna miss that? That's what we thought! Make sure to tune in tomorrow at 18:00 UTC live on Twitch.

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That's all for today, Masters! Get ready for the stream tomorrow and have a ince start to the week on the flying arenas ;)

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Community Happenings - Community-created content

Minion Masters! 

How’s it going with your favorite Master and the respective contestant so far? Even if the standings are not in your favor by now, there’s still plenty of time to turn the tides around. Our Best of House Valor event will end no sooner than Wednesday, July 25th. There’s also a lot of time for you to get ready for another, very well known, upcoming event. Of course, we’re talking about King Puff Cup 24. And since this is a Friday blog post, we spotted some more, very interesting community-created content for you.

All that content...

...is coming from dedicated Masters! Recently, we featured raqyee’s Volco deck guide on our blog. He managed to reach Master with said deck and doubts that his former Apep deck could have achieved that in the same amount of time. Now, raqyee's guide is narrowed down to Volco and said deck. Edelweiss, a well-known community member, chose to go a different route with his Minion Masters Deck Collection.

What Edelweiss presents is a deck collection of popular deck templates you can often spot with slight modifications while playing Minion Masters. His collection as of now does feature 1vs1 decks, only. Edelweiss states in the guide that he will keep the collection updated with "good decks that have been tested."

We love that kind of dedication and engagement and want to say thanks to raqyee and Edelweiss for their time and effort! We also want to thank every other content creator for their time, effort and support!

There's only one thing we have an even closer look at than community-created content: Community-created projects. Zgriptor wants to make "sort of a deck tracker" for Minion Masters. While he isn't a programmer, he's good with numbers, data gathering & statistics, and so he had the idea to do a "manual deck tracker" for Minion Masters. How that works? It's best if he describes it in his own words:

"Hey. So I've had this idea for a while - making a sort of a deck tracker for Minion Masters in order to have some data about winrates based on decks, ranks and stuff like that. Now I don't know how to code / program an app to do that, but it can be done manually as well.

What do I mean by manually? Well, if you're interested in this stuff as well and want to help me out, you'd need to track an X number of consecutive matches that you play (see the spreadsheet & instructions for full info) and then, with enough examples I can run the data through SPSS to analyze it. It doesn't matter what rank you are, if you won/lost your games, or that you only could send data from 3 matches. To get accurate results I'll need as many matches as you guys can provide. Even 1000 matches are probably not enough, but they're certainly better than my 40 matches"

We love that idea. And we'd certainly love you to contribute to that project! The results over time will not only lead to a visible meta for everyone but also to improvements from our side to the game we all love playing. Here's the link to the official announcement, where you'll find everything you need to get started tracking your matches.

King Puff Cup 24

After all that amazing community-created content & projects, let's come to a community-created tournament circuit, which happens to be the largest so far in the competitive scene around Minion Master: the King Puff Cup.

Scheduled on Saturday, July 28th at 13:00 UTC, King Puff Cup 24 is planned to be run with the Conquest format. The King Puff Cup staff seems to mix it up for you - as good as possible - between Last Master Standing & Conquest. The rest of the setting is well-known and the tournament comes with a $350 prize pool on top of all the fun & intense matches.

Not only the participants can win something, but viewers also! BetaDwarf Entertainment will run giveaways during the King Puff Cup streams, starting with King Puff Cup 24. All you have to do is tune in, being active in the chat, and patient ;)

There's still a whole week for you to prepare and sign-up, as well as submitting your decks. The official announcement contains everything you need to know. See you at King Puff Cup 24!

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That’s all for today, Masters! We wish everyone an amazing weekend, a lot of fun and success on the flying arenas, and can’t wait to see all of you next week with a brand new blog post on Monday & our Dwarf stream on Tuesday.

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Minion Master's Monday - Valor, Dwarves and winners

Minion Masters!

Sometimes, certain events are taking us by surprise. May it be during our everyday life, at work, while talking to someone we haven't seen in a long time... or in sports! Clearly, we agree with many countries and/or influential individuals that competitively playing video games is sports. And last Saturday, 19 Masters played our video game competitively and some of them truly surprised us.

Best of House Valor event

Update 71 introduced the long-awaited finals of the Tri-Team in-game event we had back in May this year. All of our 9 Masters were split across 3 houses and players were able to pledge their votes for their favorite house. House Valor was the glorious winner back then and last Wednesday, our 3 winning Masters were finally ready to fight it out against each other. Mordar, Stormbringer, and Volco chose their contestants and now they hope to fascinate the crowd enough to vote for them.

It's all about 3 cards, known to many players already from Forced Showdown: the shocking Stormy, the charging Taurus & the Wheel of Doom. The Master with the most votes on Wednesday, July 25th will get his respective card implemented into Minion Masters at a later point. But how are these votings look like at the moment? Is your favorite Master or card currently leading? This will be shown in-game coming Wednesday, July 18th.

By the way: Stormy & Taurus aka The Charger will be units, while Wheel of Doom will be a spell ;)

Dwarf stream on...

Tuesday, July 24th at 18:00 UTC. Yes, there will be no Dwarf stream tomorrow, unfortunately. This is partially a decision based on our latest survey regarding our weekly Dwarf streams. You, our audience, want another setting and a different focus content-wise. There are also some other improvements you want, like more top players on stream and/or Developers. We are listening!

To get the streams where you want them and to have them making the impact we want, we will improve the setting and content of these streams. That process will take some time, though, and will happen mostly in the background until we are ready to present the new setting to you. That means our next undisclosed numbers of Dwarf streams will still use the old setting and content prioritization.

Stay tuned for more information on these improvements over the course of the next weeks!

By the way: We always had some internal news in our weekly Dwarf streams. This week, our Community Manager Erythais will be on vacation starting tomorrow, July 17th until next week's Tuesday, July 24th. His tasks will be handled by various team members or by helpful tools to automate several things like social media, the blog posts, etc.

Reporting toxic players and/or intentional bad behavior in 2vs2 matches, you can use our new in-game report function or the good old email to support@betadwarf.com

King Puff Cup 23 celebrates a new winner

And took us by surprise. Not only that Videogamer77 didn't make it to the Top8. We also missed some other usual players in the final stage, such as ecke the Angry Snail, GReYWolF93, and Jamez28. On the other hand, we saw Nuclear Goo making it to the final stage again. We also saw names like boxes, Dirion & Acesir.

Looking at how the final stage went, there were fewer surprises, but big ones. A little final for us was Memfisto versus RushSecond. Two KPI winners against each others & one of them deciding the match undefeated. In the end, RushSecond rushed to the 8th rank this time losing 0:3 to Memfisto. Another little final for us was katt versus Dirion, which ended in katt's favor with a 3:0 victory.

In the semi-finals, katt met TerraReveene. And we saw yet another 3:0, this time not in katt's favor, though. In the second semi-finals, Memfisto lost to boxes - 3:0. The grand finals was between Terra Reveene and boxes. This time, we saw no 3:0. It was a 3:1 for boxes in the end and how that match went along with all the other matches from the group and final stage can be seen right here!

Congratulations to boxes and all other winners & a big thanks to all participants, viewers, the amazing casters, and the whole King Puff Cup staff!

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That's all for today, Masters! Enjoy the Best of House Valor event and gather the keys for your favorite Master & we wish all of you a good start to the week.

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Community Happenings - Friday the 13th means only one more day until King Puff Cup 23

Minion Masters!

The Best of House Valor tournament is running and our Masters are waiting for your votes to come in. We're just as excited as you are to see the standings by next Wednesday. Looking into the community, we spotted some things that are definitely worth a mention. Such as...

Deckguides

Well, the headline might be slightly misleading, because we will talk about one deck guide. Nevertheless, we had a good time in the office reading through it and trying the recommendations of the author ourselves. Here's the guide!

The author, raqyee, is an active player and community member known for contributing to discussions on the official Minion Masters Discord server. Now, the released guide is for a Volco deck and raqyee introduces readers with the following questions:

Do you have a small card collection? Do you not care about what your peers think of you? Is your primary drive to climb the 1v1 ladder no matter the cost?

Looking at the deck itself, the general direction is clearly aggressive. The deck doesn't contain a lot of "fancy" cards, but stables like Plasma Marines, Cleaver, Scrat Pack & Elite Swarmer. The deck is overall pretty cheap to build, but according to raqyee highly effective. After playing a lot of Apep with a "slightly higher curve", he figured he could do the same with Volco, but winning even more games and - probably - faster. And that assumptions turned out to be true. Once again quoting his own words:

This beauty got my dumb self to Master rank and if I can do it then so can you.

Well, we cannot agree with calling yourself dumb, raqyee, but we can safely agree with climbing ranks is not a matter of having "fancy" cards, but finding an efficient combination of cards and a fitting Master, along with having the experience to beat increasingly better opponents.

Thanks for your guide and we hope that it will help a lot of players climbing, just as it helped you!

King Puff Cup someone?

Two weeks already passed by since we watched King Puff Cup 22 live on Twitch. On Saturday, July 14th at 13:00 UTC, the largest tournament circuit in Minion Masters kicks off KPC 23 with the Last Master Standing setting. Do we need to mention what's waiting for you? Just to make sure: high-quality matches between one of the best players in Minion Masters, thrilling and mind-blowing moments inclusive! The matches will be brought to you live broadcasted on Twitch by Daddy Dip, FFA and the rest of the King Puff Cup staff working hard to keep every tournament on that high-quality for participants in the background.

So far, King Puff Cup 23 has already enough participants to happen, but there is still a bit of time left for you to jump in and participate! In fact, the deadline for submitting your decks and signing up is set to 13:00 UTC today. So don't waste any time, start Minion Masters, brew 4 decks and submit them along with the Masters. All you need to know can be found in the official announcement - and don't forget to hit that sign-up link within ;)

Good luck to everyone participating!

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That's already all for today, Masters! We will be back with another blog post on Monday and until then we wish everyone of you a nice weekend, as well as a good time on the flying arenas.

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Minion Master's Monday - A Dwarvish start to the week

Minion Masters! 

Today, we will keep it kinda short. There's a Dwarf stream around the corner where we will talk about everything Update 71 and therefore today's blog post won't be stuffed with all that sweet details. Nevertheless, we can talk about said Dwarf streams and King Puff Cup 23 scheduled for this Saturday!

Tuesday... eh, Dwarfday streaming!

Every Tuesday at 18:00 UTC, our Community Manager Erythais & eSports Coordinator Tengs are live on Twitch to provide you with the latest news about Minion Masters, the competitive scene around Minion Masters and BetaDwarf itself. Just naturally, some streams include reveals or even leaks, while others will simply prepare you with the final information about upcoming patches.

The feedback you gave us is positive, so far! But we know that it's not enough to rest on that feedback. That's why we are trying to improve the Dwarfstream experience together with you! Who else knows better what to improve than the viewers? To express your wishes and ideas, we'll have a little survey prepared until tomorrow, which we will share during the stream on Twitch. 

Besides working on improving your experience while watching our streams, we have the following bullet points to talk about tomorrow:

• Update 71
• Tri-Team Best-of tournament
• Demon Warrior rework
• Miscellaneous Improvements
• eSports
• House of Nerds LAN recap
• King Puff Cup 23
• Steven Even's Tournament
• SwongoTV's Classic Tournament
• and more
• Internal news

Questions will be answered throughout the entire stream and viewer games are a stable (as long as there is time left). With that being said, we are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow at 18:00 UTC live on Twitch!

Update 71 this week!

There is no new, shareable news about Update 71 at this point. The team is working on various things at the moment, as well as polishing the planned Best-of tournament featuring Mordar, Stormbringer & Volco & the announced Demon Warrior rework.

For an overview of the two main features planned to be introduced with Update 71 on Wednesday, July 11th, please head over to our latest Community Happenings.

King Puff Cup 23 this weekend!

Viewer games are a stable in our Dwarf streams, so is the King Puff Cup in our competitive scene! The next tournament of the circuit is scheduled for Saturday, July 14th at 13:00 UTC and the King Puff Cup staff is looking forward to your sign-ups & deck submissions.

It's the second Last Master Standing tournament including the usual Swiss format group stage and the single elimination final stage. Wild cards are not allowed, 4 Masters and decklists have to be submitted prior to the sign-up deadline on Friday, July 13th at 13:00 UTC.

Here's the official announcement for you. Read the announcement carefully, as it contains vital information and rules. Oh, and don't forget to sign-up after all that reading ;)

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That's all for today, Masters! We hope you will have a pleasant start to the new week & a lot of fun on the flying arenas.

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Community Happenings - New contestants & the Glass Cannon

Minion Masters!

We had quite some reveals about Update 71 in our latest Dwarf stream, hadn't we? Best-of tournament event with 3 new cards for you to vote for, Demon Warrior rework, upcoming tournaments... a lot of stuff going on in and around Minion Masters these days. To get you ready for our next event and changes here's a more detailed version of our stream reveals!

Best of House Valor!

House Valor won the Tri-Team tourney back in May 2018 and now our three Masters are ready to bring their contestants to the Best-of tournament. Mordar, Stormbringer & Volco are ready to fight it out and they need your support! With Update 71 the key collection comes back to Minion Masters and the purpose is nothing else than determining which contestant of the three Masters will make its way to the game at a later point.

You'll have the chance to collect - once again - 15 keys for each of the three Masters. You have the chance to receive a key by just playing with one of the three Masters or by watching streamers. When you collected all 15 keys for one Master, you'll be able to open the Reward Chest and pledge your vote to the respective Master. Please note that you can only vote for one Master per account! However, even if you opened the Reward Chest for one Master, you get to open the other two, as well, if you manage to get all the necessary keys in time.

While we do not want to reveal the card stats at this point, we have some art for you to enjoy:

Mordar loves to cause mayhem. It took some time for him to decide on how to increase his possibilities of destruction, but he finally found a very special tool: the Wheel of Doom!

Stormbringer had an easier time to choose his contestant. Our bow-wielding Master opts for more shock and awe in the flying arenas and brings Stormy to the Best-of tournament!

Now, Volco got a great new axe with Update 68. And while he likes this particular weapon, he still feels there isn't enough raw power on the flying arenas. The obvious choice for him, therefore, was to bring the Taurus aka The Charger for you to vote for!

The Best-of tournament is scheduled to last from July 11th until July 25th. Similar to the Tri-Team tournament, we will release the standings one week after the start of the event. So the first week will once again be a blind pick since you don't know if your favorite Master leads the voting or not.

Demon Warrior rework!

Yes, we know! You had to wait and we honestly don't like letting you wait. But in the case of the Demon Warrior, we wanted to take our time to find a long-term solution, rather than just nerfing the unit into unplayability. After a lot of internal talks and brainstorming, as well as testing, we decided to go for kinda a Glass Cannon design.

Currently, the Demon Warrior gains additional stats each time you play the card during a match. The general consensus is that the unit gets problematic to handle around its 4th play. Upon reaching level 4, the unit comes into play with 1000 HP & 200 Damage. This amount only rises with each further play by 200 HP and 40 Damage. We will stop that kind of scaling per play.

The reworked Demon Warrior will start with 400 HP & 100 Damage baseline. We also increase its movement speed to 4. These stats will not change until the 5th play. Upon using the card for the 5th time, the Demon Warrior will receive a one-time stat increase of 300 HP and 300 Damage, essentially turning the unit into a 700 HP tank with 400 Damage. That's 160 DPS on the field & 700 HP is something that needs to be dealt with in order to prevent that DPS from causing huge trouble. On the other hand, the Demon Warrior will still cost 6 mana and needs to be played 5 times to gain that massive stat boost.

That rework should actually turn the card more into a risk/reward investment, rather than the sole win condition you build your deck around. We're excited about your early opinion and of course about your feedback once Update 71 hit! Plenty of communication platforms are waiting for you: the official and verified Minion Masters Discord Server, the official Subreddit & the official Steam forums.

Sign-up for the Classic!

Masters, this is your last call to sign up for SwongoTV's Classic Tournament scheduled for Saturday, July 7th at 15:00 UTC! The tournament will be run with the Last Master Standing format and features a group stage, as well as a final stage.

All you have to do is to submit screenshots of 4 Masters & related decks here. Don't forget to post your Steam ID, also. The last step is to sign-up via this link. Due to organizational reasons, SwongoTV needs your Masters, decklists, Steam IDs and sign-ups until 15:00 UTC today! So don't waste any time and craft your decks to participate for an exclusive Milloween skin, huge in-game prizes, and a lot of fun.

Did we mention that you don't need any legendary cards, new Season cards, Demon Warriors or Wild cards? The reason is simple: SwongoTV banned them to keep the tournament as classic and new player friendly as possible.

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With that, we're coming to an end for today's blog post! We hope you'll have something to talk about over the course of the weekend & we wish everyone good luck at SwongoTV's tournament.

Have a nice weekend & cheers from BetaDwarf

Minion Master's... Tuesday!

Minion Masters!

No Minion Master's Monday, but Minion Master's Tuesday instead. Okay, let's see. Tuesday means another Dwarf stream is about to happen and a brief look on the weekend reveals that it's going to be crowded with tournaments. So let's jump right into it!

Who needs Dev streams if there are Dwarf streams?

Every Tuesday at 18:00 UTC, our Community Manager Erythais & eSports Coordinator Tengs are streaming live on Twitch for you. These streams are mainly meant to connect you even closer to us & to share the latest information about Minion Masters in general, upcoming patches, competitive Minion Masters, and even internal stuff with you.

These streams are also coming with giveaway codes every week! All you have to do is to stay active in the chat and maybe the RNG gods will choose you amongst others for cool in-game stuff. Another purpose is clearly having fun together. Erythais & Tengs are usually "on air" for 1 hour and they try to squeeze 2vs2 matches against viewers in, whenever the time allows it. Wanna beat them Dwarves? Then better tune in and hang out today at 18:00 UTC or just follow our Twitch channel in advance to get notified when we go live!

Betrayals, classic stuff & an offline event!

Besides King Puff Cup 23 being already announced, we have a crowded weekend regarding competitive Minion Masters prior to the next tournament of King Puff Cup Season 3. On Friday, July 6th at 17:00 UTC, Steven & Edelweiss will kick-off their first fun tournament with a truly unique format. In a nutshell: you bring a friend and play 2vs2 matches, while you will battle your own friend if you advance to the next stage. Sounds interesting? That's what we thought and since there is still time to sign your team up, here's the official announcement with all the information you'll need!

Not even 24 hours later, on Saturday, July 7th at 15:00 UTC, SwongoTV is hosting his first tournament. A fun tournament with lots of bans. SwongoTV seems to aim his chosen rules for the new players specifically because he banned all legendary cards & all Season cards from his tournament. There are more rules to find by following this link & after reading them all don't forget to sign-up!

On Saturday, July 7th & Sunday, July 8th, Minion Masters will be part of an offline LAN event in Stavanger, Norway. Run by the House of Nerds Gaming Café, Minion Masters will be amongst other well-known eSports titles and if you want to meet our eSports Coordinator Tengs live and in person, this is the perfect opportunity to do so!

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That's all for today, Masters! Well, that's not entirely true, but we'll save anything yet sharable about Update 71 for the Dwarf stream today ;) Okay, okay, because the blog post was delayed, one little information at this point: the Best-of tournament of the Tri-Team Tourney is coming! Good luck on the flying arenas everyone and we hope to see you live on Twitch!

Cheers from BetaDwarf