# Patch Notes - September 17, 2024
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# PATCH HIGHLIGHTS
## Activate more Activate!
* As previously announced, we’re updating two older cards to now feature the new Activate mechanic: Black Swan and Hellcow. The Balance section below will cover this in more detail.
* **Black Swan**
* [**Old**] 3/5 - **On Reveal:** Until the end of next turn, your 1-Cost cards cost 0.
* [**New**] 2/3 - **Activate:** Until the end of next turn, your 1-Cost cards cost 0.
* **Hellcow**
* [**Old**] 4/8 - **On Reveal:** Discard 2 cards from your hand.
* [**New**] 4/6 - **Activate:** Discard 2 cards from your hand.
## GENERAL UPDATES
* Changes to Gold offers:
* We're evolving our Gold bundles to bring you more frequent, balanced, and exciting deals on the Webshop.
* The current Bonus Double Gold offers will be phased out 30 days after this patch, so if you've been waiting to take advantage of these offers, now's the time!
* While we know these offers have been popular, they've also had unintended effects on the overall balance of the game's economy. That's why we're making this change to ensure a healthier economy moving forward.
* New players will no longer see these offers, but they'll have access to the new offers.
## BALANCE UPDATES
### Black Swan
* [**Old**] 3/5 - **On Reveal:** Until the end of next turn, your 1-Cost cards cost 0.
* [**New**] 2/3 - **Activate:** Until the end of next turn, your 1-Cost cards cost 0.
> *We revealed earlier that Black Swan and Hellcow would be changing to Activate as a bit of an experiment in seeing how the mechanic could be used to freshen up some older cards where On Reveal wasn't quite getting the job done. We didn't reveal that doing so would also come with some stat updates. Making an effect an Activate can be riskier, because it requires playing the card earlier in the game to time it properly. For Black Swan that's extra true, because playing Swan on turn 5 still won't be fast enough to get the Cost reduction–remember, Activate resolves with your other plays, so you can't activate for a same-turn Cost discount. So we're dropping the Cost to ensure more opportunities to get Black Swan into play.*
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> *It's possible this update won't land Black Swan in a better position, and we're open to a reversion in that case. However, the risk seemed appropriate given Black Swan has been languishing on multiple metrics.*
### Hellcow
* [**Old**] 4/8 - **On Reveal:** Discard 2 cards from your hand.
* [**New**] 4/6 - **Activate:** Discard 2 cards from your hand.
> *So if we moved Black Swan down to 2-Cost, why are we shrinking Hellcow? Well, not all effects are created equal! Being able to time the discard on Hellcow makes it substantially stronger than the On Reveal in a couple of key ways, not the least of which is you can now curve Hellcow into MODOK without risking losing your MODOK. To reflect that shift in strength, we weakened Hellcow a little bit while we see how strong it proves to be.*
### Sword Master
* [**Old**] 3/7 - **On Reveal:** Discard a card from your hand.
* [**New**] 3/7 - **On Reveal:** Discard an odd-costed card from your hand.
> *Similar to how we updated Moon Knight, we've decided to create an alternate option with Sword Master. We did debate changing the stats–and yes, it does look weird that Moon Knight is a 3/3 and Sword Master is bigger. However, in addition to discarding an enemy card, Moon Knight just has more and stronger synergies: Apocalypse, Proxima Midnight, Stature, and even Wolverine. Sword Master has X-23, Ghost Rider, and maybe a different kind of Hela deck? Given the gap and our Sword Master decks not feeling too scary, we decided to wait and see rather than preemptively adjust the Power down.*
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Discuss the changes here!:
https://discord.com/channels/978545345715908668/1285615526487265351
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