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Hello and welcome to a FRIDAY UPDATE!!

Cory here taking the helm…

First and foremost, let’s give a big round of applause to the latest patch! I think it goes without saying that fixing the auction house and mail was critically important and thank goodness it’s done.

Overall, we are off to a smashing start for Primal Dawn, with the new Evolving Sealed Gauntlet taking a fresh twist on limited play and adding some very fun strategy to exploring all the new cards. Speaking of Evo, if you have any friends that haven’t played in a few weeks, you might want to let them know they have a free Evo Gauntlet token sitting in their account!

As fun as Evo Gauntlet is, my first love is draft. How amazingly fun was the launch celebration weekend, with 4/4/4 draft firing off as quickly as you could get in the queue? It’s been very interesting exploring the new draft synergies, and WOW is it different from Armies of Myth. I find myself falling back into old draft habits (naturally after 9 months without new cards) and I have to admit I have lost about 80% of my matches. But slowly but surely I am figuring out what works, and I will say that exploration is the most fun thing about playing HEX for me. I don’t even mind losing.

I would call the technical launch of Primal Dawn a huge success. It was “relatively” bug free in terms of card mechanics and we quickly overcame all the server issues, while simultaneously upgrading our back-end to handle the massive increase of new players from Steam. So far the Steam launch has been a great, we have seen our concurrent players more than triple and our rating is “mostly positive”… most of the time. Plus we have been solidly in the most “popular new release” for free to play chart since our launch. I think we can call it a pretty big success for HEX and I’m happy to have more and more players coming into the game from Steam.

So far this update is kind of boring, just me talking about how great HEX is, you’ve seen plenty of that over the last 3+ years. The least I can do is spoil some upcoming cards, and what better than the Convocation 2016 set (at least a couple of them).

The theme this year is the Pippits partying with their Shroomkin buddies. Nothing is like Pippit party, cause a Pippit party don’t… well you know the rest.

So first up the Alternate Art CHRONIC MADNESS. We all know the Pippits love the chronic.

And the second card is a psychedelic new Shroomkin ready to party…

Hope you like the cards, and stay tuned, I will spoil the remainder in the future, including a card that features some of our favorite characters in Entrath and includes some new tech…See you next Friday!

Love, Cory

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