Summoner Wars Card Updates

This page (last updated July 30, 2025) is the current list of Summoner Wars card updates. After initial publication, Plaid Hat Games occasionally will release card updates. The process for those updates are as follows:

1. First, changes are playtested privately.
2. Then, those card updates are released TENTATIVELY on the public Summoner Wars Online app.
3. After some time on the public app, those changes are adjusted further, or finalized.
4. Once they are finalized, a PDF is made available for the physical game with updated cards.
5. In future printings, the physical card is then updated.
6. And finally, in a future product, the updated cards are included (for players who already own the original cards).

Below are final changes that are in print:

• Sera Eldwyn (Vanguards): 3-strength. (Download pdf here.) Included in all High Elves faction decks.
• Ice Ram (Polar Dwarves): Only triggers after forcing friendly structures. (Download pdf here.)  Can only force a common or champion unit. Included in all High Elves fation decks.
• Kuldak (Fungal Dwarves): 12 life, and Blood Bloom modified to only add boost to cards that "were" within 2 spaces of Kuldak at the time of destruction (e.g. cannot boost a new unit via Infect or Fungal Transformation). (Download pdf here.) Included in all Deepwood Groaks faction decks.
• Queen Maldaria (Phoenix Elves): Momentum ability removed. Call Protection changed not trigger off of boosts, but rather at the end of an attack phase where Maldaria attack an enemy card (not just units). May place any friendly common or champion (not just commons).  Save the Queen ability added: Friendly adjacent units cannot be attacked through or forced. (Download pdf here.) Included in all Deepwood Groaks faction decks.

Below are the in-process card changes and their place in the workflow:

• Hekateia (Deepwood Groaks): Arcane Brew only works during the Magic Phase. New starting setup. On Step 2 (tentatively released in the public app).
• Abua Shi (Savanna Evles): New starting setup. -1 strength. On step 2.

Minor Errata

The following cards have been reworded to better clarify their intended functionality or correct minor errors. These changes have been implemented in Summoner Wars Online and are present in subsequent print runs, but will not receive replacement cards

• Coleen Brighton (Vanguards), Divine Shield: Each time a friendly Citadel unit within 3 spaces of this unit is targeted by an enemy’s attack…
• Renewed Hope (Vanguards): You may summon units during any phase of your turn and at the end of your turn. Units may be summoned adjacent to your summoner.
• Beast Rider (Cave Goblins), Charge: When this unit moves, it may move up to 2 extra spaces if it moves only in one direction. If it moves 3 or more spaces and only in one direction, it has +1 strength until the end of your turn.
• Aerie Gate (Skyspear Avians): After you summon a unit adjacent to this gate, you may force that unit 1 space unless it was already forced by an Aerie Gate.
• Hand Cannon (Cloaks): Place this card under a ranged common:...