Patch Notes #45: Mana Crystals & Valor Adjustments — Shardbound Steam update #580250

New Feature: Mana Crystals We’re excited to add a new experimental gameplay change to the game this week. Players will now be able to collect Mana Crystals during the start of the match, as follows: Player 1 will have a Mana Crystal spawn somewhere within their hero’s movement range. If a friendly unit ends their movement on this tile, the crystal is consumed and the player receives an additional mana for that turn. Deploying a unit on the tile also consumes it. The crystal can be used on Turn 1 or saved for a future turn. If an enemy ends their movement on one of your Mana Crystals, it is destroyed! Destroying an enemy Mana Crystal denies your opponent of bonus mana, but generates NO mana for you. Player 2 receives TWO mana crystals on their first turn, one appearing within movement range of their hero, and a second crystal elsewhere in their deploy zone. These three mana crystals are t...