Legends of Runeterra Patch 1.16 Notes

Source: Legends of Runeterra

New Expansion: Cosmic Creation

Cosmic Creation, the final expansion of Call of the Mountain, has finally arrived! From the outskirts of Noxus, to the laboratories of Zaun, and the furthest reaches of the Celestial Realm, come three new Champions - Riven, Viktor, and Zoe. Cosmic Creation includes these 3 Champions and 40 new collectible cards in total, including Followers, Spells, and Landmarks across all regions.

Cosmic Creation introduces the new keyword - Augment. Followers with Augment get a permanent +1|+0 bonus any time a ‘created’ card is played after they’ve been summoned. Created cards are any cards created by another card - whether it’s invoked, created in your deck and then drawn, or directly created in-hand. Some text has been updated on existing cards to clarify what’s considered as a ‘created’ card.

Two new Challenges are available to introduce you to the new mechanics of Cosmic Creation - Augmentation and Progress, and Reforging the Blade. Three new Daily Quests have also been added that revolve around Cosmic Creation’s new keywords and Champions.

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Prismatic Card Styles & Essence[/b]

Along with Cosmic Creation, Patch 1.16 introduces Prismatic Card Styles - a new way to customize your favorite cards in your collection.

Each of your cards can be upgraded to a Prismatic in a few different ways; the process upgrades all of that card’s copies in your collection, present and future. No need to upgrade 3 copies of each to get a full set:

∙ Prismatic Chests: There are various qualities of Prismatic Chests; opening one allows you to choose one of three cards to upgrade to Prismatic, along with some Essence (explained below). Prismatic Chests can be earned through new Card Styles Quests (separate from current Daily Quests), and they’ll be included as Ranked Rewards at the end of a Season. The higher your rank, the more / better Prismatic Chests you’ll receive - these rewards will be first implemented for the end of Cosmic Creation’s Ranked Season.

∙ Essence: A new resource, earnable from Prismatic Chests, Essence Pouches, and Quests. Shown in the example above, Essence can be used in your collection to upgrade your card of choice to a Prismatic. Essence prices vary based on card type, from Common to Champion.

∙ Coins: Like Essence, Coins can be used to directly upgrade a card of your choice to a Prismatic.

Region Road Updates

Region Roads for Noxus, Piltover & Zaun, and Targon are being extended from 25>30 levels to help fill out your collection of Riven, Viktor, and Zoe-related cards being added in Cosmic Creation. A Zaun Card Back is also being made available on the Piltover & Zaun Region Road at level 29.

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Special Lab: Multilab[/u][/b]

Heimerdinger's Lab has expanded to make more room for science, with three times the experimentation! Each experiment is a new way to play. Try them all, find your favorites, and tell us what you think!

This is a permanent Lab expansion! Moving forward, there will be multiple Labs available at a given time. Every once in a while, one of the Labs on the list will be rotated out for a new Lab, so there’s always something new to discover!

Patch 1.16 brings back three of your favourites from throughout 2020. Look for new Labs joining the lineup soon!

Personalization

Boards

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Expeditions

For Cosmic Creation we’re adding four new archetypes to the Expeditions pool, featuring the new champions and strategies highlighted in this expansion.

Four new Cosmic Creation archetypes added to the Expeditions draft pool.

- Awesome Augments: Viktor and Zoe work together to create lots of cards and potentially (not *always* guaranteed in the archetype!) summon a giant Catastrophe.

- Blades and Buffs: archetype based around enhancing your units featuring Riven and Taric.

- Augmented Assault: bonus archetype based around Riven’s blade fragments powering up Viktor’s Augmented creations.

Vault of Crowns: Garen and Thresh bonus archetype revolving around The Grand Plaza and Vaults of Helia.

Cosmic Creation archetypes will temporarily be three times as likely as they would otherwise be to appear in the initial Champion Picks. We’ll even out these chances in a later patch.

Cards from Cosmic Creation have been added to various appropriate archetypes.

We’re also retiring two bonus archetypes: Cataclysm and Crimson Guard. This means that each region will have exactly two bonus archetypes in the Cosmic Creation format.