September 1, 2023
Wave 9: Ark Exodus has finally entered beta! What that means is that we feel very confident in its development, but we'd like to get the community's eyes on it before "officially" releasing it. Beta means we're done making any big changes to these cards, and the most we'll likely do is a +-1 here and there.
You can download this new set from our
Downloads page. It's available as a printable PDF and a ZIP of images.
If you'd like to leave us some feedback on the Wave 9 cards, please do so through
this feedback form. That feedback form is one our best sources of data, so please don't hesitate to use it! The other big source of data will be...
To celebrate Wave 9, and to help us test it, signups for the next tournament are open
right now!. This is a Full Constructed event, so use whatever you want. However, we do appreciate people using Wave 9 cards. You don't have to, but throwing a few in your deck does help give us some useful data. The tournament begins in two weeks!
If you know you want to play in the tournament but aren't sure what deck you want you to use, you can still signup now! A new feature added to the site is that you can signup for tournaments and then select your deck later. You'll have up until the tournament starts to edit your deck or re-select one.
When viewing a deck, you now have the option to export it as a PDF. This PDF is formatted to be ready for you to print at home or office supply store. If your printer supports double-sided printing, the character & stratagem pages should match up for you to do that!
August 25, 2023
When viewing a card list, such as
Character Cards or just editing a deck, you'll now see an icon in the top-right.
Clicking it will switch from List View to Image View. Image View is, as you would expect, viewing a list of all the card images.
With the exception of Text Search (when you hover of Card Name), all filters will work when in Image View. When editing a deck in image view, you can hover over a card to add/remove the card to your deck.
August 22, 2023
The time has come. In 10 days, the public beta for Wave 9: Ark Exodus will begin. 55 cards from Ark Wave 1 have made it through alpha testing, and will be joined by 4 additional cards in Wave 9. The breakdown by type is 16 Characters, 15 Stratagems, and 28 Battle Cards.
As many of the cards in this set have been available for some time now, this will be a roughly 6-week public beta, divided into 3 stages, each lasting around 2 weeks. The first will give players time to familiarize themselves with the set. The second will be comprised of Season 2 Encounter 5 to encourage players to search for extremely powerful combos in a competitive setting. The final stage will allow us to test any balance changes that need to be made as a result of the data found in the first two stages. Once this concludes, Wave 9 will be officially released, and estimates put that release in mid-October.
As for how you can participate in the beta, card images for everything in Wave 9 will be made available on this site and in the
Facebook group on September 1st. Print off and test things to your heart's content! During the run of the beta, a feedback form will be open to provide your findings, and this will be invaluable to help the developers get balancing right. That link will be made available on September 1st as well. Finally, we encourage you to join the community discord at
this link to join in on the discussions surrounding the beta.
