Scrolls crafting update will let you merge cards into stat-tracking shinies

I do love a good collectible card game, but they have their foibles. The collector will know well the frustration of having duplicates you just can't shift, no matter how many strangers you accost on the street demanding that they just take them please go on TAKE THEM . There are times I've looked down at a few identical spares and wondered " what if? ," pressed them carefully together and hoped that, by some stroke of magic they might fuse in the warmth, and transform from hopeless cardboard wastage into a glittering shiny.

The precise stats recorded will include "the amount of games the scroll has participated in, the number of times a scroll has been played to the board, how many games it's won, and how many times it's been sacrificed." Some scrolls will also track "damage dealt, units killed, idols destroyed, times vanquished, and health healed." There are two tiers of scroll to achieve through crafting, tier two scrolls get stat tracking and a mini-wax seal, tier three cards have the same stat tracking abilities but are shiny and glittery and therefore better in every way.

Here's a helpful diagram showing how that all works, and a picture of one of those shinies. The update's due to go lie in the coming week.

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.